Besides preventing soul power from coalescing was another effect the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak could achieve, because soul cultivators were also spell cultivators, albeit a special kind.
Their souls were exceptionally powerful, so affecting them with the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak required a deeper mastery of the technique. Only then could it shake their laws of life and make their soul power waver and become unstable. In essence, this was still a contest of strength.
When Li Yan had used the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak on the Wind God Continent at the nascent soul late stage, the most he could do was cause some trouble for Xue Longzi, who was at the early stage of spirit transformation. Against an even stronger enemy, Li Yan would have been an ant trying to shake a tree!
The Five Elements Chaotic Cloak could also affect body-refining cultivators. Although they cultivated their physical bodies, the vast majority of their strength still relied on borrowing the power of heaven and earth. In truth, they were still drawing upon the laws of heaven and earth. Once disrupted, they could no longer borrow that power.
These identical or closely similar principles were precisely why, the instant Li Yan discovered that none of his powers could coalesce, he immediately thought of his sect's Five Elements Chaotic Cloak. The two were simply too alike.
After recognizing it as a kind of spatial vibration, Li Yan also discovered that the physical strength within his body could barely coalesce either. That was where it differed from the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak.
A body-refining cultivator's own physical strength had also been tempered through the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Even without drawing upon the laws of heaven and earth, they could still unleash astonishing, terrifying power, but it was extremely easy