Li Yan scrutinized Ding Yushan several more times and remained certain that he had not mistaken the man. This person was also skilled in the Dao of formations, and the aura around him was remarkably similar to what Li Yan remembered.
Li Yan immediately thought of one possibility: Ding Yushan must be harboring an earth-shattering secret. A thought promptly arose in Li Yan's heart.
Although Ding Yushan's combat strength was inferior to his own, he had been facing the attacks of two cultivators of the same realm. If not for protecting his wife and daughter, he should have had a chance to escape.
A cultivator from a small sect who had only been at the Foundation Establishment Realm back then had, in the blink of an eye, left even his master Wei Zhongran and the others eating dust. There was clearly something very abnormal about this man.
Naturally, Li Yan also considered himself abnormal, because he carried far too many secrets himself. Thus, he entertained the thought of capturing the other man and performing a Soul Search.
Yet while he continued observing, the battle among those people had reached a critical point. Amid a miserable scream, the Spirit Transformation Realm woman was sent flying by a long spear.
Li Yan did not intervene. He was still considering how he should deal with these people afterward; he had no desire to kill them all.
But if he altered their memories, Ding Yushan's cultivation was so heaven-defying that he had an equally great chance of reaching the Body Integration Realm in the future. Then he might recall what had happened today...
In that brief span of time, one of Ding Yushan's arms was severed. Then the artifact spirit turned its hand against the young, immature-looking girl.
The girl had no combat strength