"Guarding the valley mouth with two Void Refinement elders—they really spared no expense!"
That was the thought that flashed through Li Yan's mind. He had not expected the guards at the Qianyu Sect's mountain gate to actually be elder-level cultivators of the Void Refinement Realm—and two of them at once, no less. Even a super sect would not be so extravagant on an ordinary day.
Cultivators like these were lofty existences in second-rate sects. How could they possibly serve as gatekeepers? From this, one could imagine just how seriously the Qianyu Sect was taking things.
Li Yan felt that not choosing to sneak into the place where the cultivators guarding the inside of the valley mouth were stationed, as he had last time, was truly a wise decision. Otherwise, with defenses laid down by people like this, he really might not have been able to slip in so easily, let alone subdue the other side in one move!
This was precisely because, after something had gone wrong at Yuanqi Market last night, Sect Master Heng Qing had followed emergency measures and temporarily sent two Void Refinement Realm elders of the sect here, replacing the two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators stationed at this place.
The other Nascent Soul Cultivators secretly guarding the area had not changed. They were still in the hidden chamber even now. Both Void Refinement Realm elders had already shown themselves and launched attacks, yet they were still frozen in a daze, which could only prove how fast everything had happened.
The later collapse of the snow mountain and Li Yan's attack did come one after the other, but they were almost as if they had happened at the same time, right as those two Void Refinement Realm cultivators shouted in startled fury.
Then, with another deafening boom!,