Beneath a mountain wall, an overhanging shelf of rock cast a broad concave shadow across the ground below. Li Yan's transparent figure was pressed against it.
After flying more than thirteen thousand li, he had reached this mountain wall. The golden hairpin had remained utterly still, and Li Yan gradually began to relax.
Li Yan cast the Stealth Night Concealment technique again. There were no further attacks along the way, nor did terrifying beings like the golden-armored giant appear again.
The reason Li Yan had headed straight here was that, after using the Prison Breaker technique to escape, he had swept the area with his divine sense and discovered mountains in this direction.
This was underground, so naturally it was impossible to see how high any upward-reaching peaks might be. Yet mountains had appeared in this direction, sealing off heaven and earth, while the other three directions continued to stretch outward. This made the terrain seem like the boundary of this underground space.
After confirming that the golden-armored giant had transformed from a golden hairpin, Li Yan still had not sensed any other living auras, nor even a trace of soul-power fluctuations. This was not where the Strength Soul Gu had appeared.
This might indicate that some of Luo Beixi's deductions had been correct. This place could be ruins left behind by some force in the past, or by some powerful cultivator.
Various formations and defenses had been laid here. Now that Li Yan was trapped within them, he had also lost his connection to the Gu insect.
Yet Li Yan was deeply worried. As for whether he should continue searching for the Strength Soul Gu, he was already considering giving up.
There was actually a powerful Integrated Body Late Stage existence here. Li Yan now hoped that the golden-armored