When another twenty-odd breaths had passed, Li Yan, who had seemed to be sitting with lowered eyes without making any move, suddenly raised his head. He pressed a hand against the humanoid stone block before him, and his spell began circulating again in an instant.
In Li Yan's senses, the Five Elements laws of heaven and earth around him seemed to contain only earth and fire flowing through them, while the water, metal, and wood laws had always been faintly discernible, as though they were there and yet not there.
If Li Yan had not cultivated a Five Elements technique, the circulation of those three laws of heaven and earth would have felt as though they were separated from him by a mountain.
Whenever the Five Elements of heaven and earth generated one another, only a little water, metal, and wood law seeped through the cracks in that mountain. Though those laws existed, they were suppressed by the other two laws.
As a result, cultivators with water, metal, or wood primary spirit roots could still use related spells within Black Flame Mountain, but their spiritual power would drain at a far faster rate...
The fingers of Li Yan's other hand, concealed within his wide sleeve, rapidly formed hand seals. Yet as the spell took shape, the humanoid stone block before him remained completely motionless.
But at that moment, Li Yan abruptly turned and flew toward a certain direction—the very place Mu Guyue had left earlier.
Just as Li Yan departed, the humanoid stone blocks scattered across the open ground suddenly seemed like people whose bones and sinews had been pulled out. Amid a chorus of "clatter, clatter...," they crumbled into heaps of rubble and scattered across the earth...
After cautiously searching, Mu Guyue soon found another trapped Black Devil Race