Just as the dark-yellow swastika seal Hong Yin cast suddenly blazed with light, countless vine branches whipping toward Li Yan and Hong Yin had already come within less than a foot of them.
At that moment, yellow light on the rock wall ahead happened to begin spreading rapidly, and those frenziedly lashing vine branches abruptly gave a jolt, stopping right before the two of them.
But in the next instant, the vine branches began thrashing wildly again. Only now, it was no longer the whoosh whoosh whoosh of whipping sounds; Li Yan faintly heard what seemed to be a muffled roar, and at the same time, the tips of those vine branches all split open at once!
They were like venomous snakes opening their great maws. Several rootlets instantly spat out from within, closing in on the two of them again. When Li Yan even fixed his gaze on those great mouths, he seemed to be able to see red dots appearing behind them—truly strange beyond measure.
At the same time, wave after wave of sky-covering pressure pressed straight toward the two of them. At that moment, from the ground around them, surges of invisible impact force rose up, instantly slowing the pressure coming from ahead.
It was one of the formations Hong Yin had laid that was emitting it. She had long since prepared for the situation that might appear here, and naturally knew what the result would be once she made her move, so she had set up the corresponding defenses in advance.
Li Yan could sense that after those silver vine branches abruptly transformed, even if they did not attack, just the pressure they were collectively erupting with now could crush a whole pile of Spirit Transformation cultivators to death on the spot.
From this, one could