Buzz!
With a shudder, earthen-yellow chains appeared across the bars. The next moment, they began winding over them like yellow dragons.
They were the pure earth spiritual energy within Tuban. As Li Yan nurtured Tuban over the years, they had helped it grow stronger while advancing toward becoming an Artifact Spirit themselves.
After Li Yan's long years of nurturing, Tuban had yet to give birth to an Artifact Spirit, but its rough beginnings had already taken shape in that pure earth spiritual energy. There was not much of it, and all of it was here.
Li Yan was wary of the Yellow-Dressed Girl. The reason was simple: he remembered the being who might have been her twin sister. Whatever her strength, she had appeared in a space beyond the Three Realms, a place where even mighty cultivators could perish.
Yet this Yellow-Dressed Girl had appeared in the Cangxuan Realm. Unable to make sense of it, Li Yan could only use his strongest seal.
He had never used such a seal even on the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief, whose nature he had never managed to fathom. The kerchief was mysterious, and Li Yan had judged more than once that it was an incomplete ancient treasure.
More importantly, since he had obtained it, it had never caused him trouble. Instead, it had helped him time and again, whether by letting him escape with his life or by helping him succeed in an assassination.
Even now, with his cultivation at the Void Refinement Realm, the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief remained useful. Though Li Yan was wary of it, it also felt deeply familiar to him.
Besides, he still needed to use the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief from time to time. He had therefore merely sealed it in the cave, where it was convenient to use while still kept under