After combining all the results of his current investigation with the matter of the map, Li Yan tried to guess the origins of this ancient city of cultivators...
After several strands of Divine Sense encountered the city's formation restrictions in different directions, Li Yan quickly withdrew them.
After his gaze flickered several times in the darkness, one of the hands he had kept behind his back suddenly stretched forward. A battered, mottled hand-carried lantern appeared in his hand.
Yet just as Li Yan intended to carry this lantern, which held no candlelight, and see whether it would react here, his expression suddenly froze.
"It... it really reacted!"
The moment the battered red hand-carried lantern appeared, an inexplicable pulling force suddenly came from its handle.
The entire red lantern seemed to have been tugged upward by that force and actually floated toward the front.
Li Yan felt as though he were holding the leash of a hunting dog, and prey had suddenly appeared ahead. The dog wanted to drag him forward in a mad dash...
This force was not particularly strong, at least not to Li Yan. Yet for an ordinary mortal, it already possessed the power of the Foundation Establishment Realm, enough to shatter mountains and shift peaks with ease. Naturally, it could not move Li Yan himself.
"Is this because the hand-carried lantern is too badly damaged? Is that why it can only unleash power of this intensity..."
As Li Yan pondered this, the spiritual power barrier around his body rapidly circulated, while his Divine Sense spread out to cover his surroundings.
Yet apart from the red hand-carried lantern in his hand generating force and continuously tugging him forward, no attack appeared.
Nor did any of the various senses Li Yan had activated detect even the slightest trace of