Secret Orders

When Lin Daqiao and the others had previously swept Li Yan with their Divine Sense, they had already been shocked beyond measure. Judging by cultivation alone, Li Yan had become the foremost person beneath Gong Chenying and Wei Chituo.

Even Yun Chunqu was still lingering at the late Foundation Establishment stage. Aside from Lin Daqiao, every one of them counted as a veteran Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Thus, Li Yan's move just now gave them an intensely unreal feeling.

They had all thought that Li Yan must have encountered some tremendous fortuitous opportunity during this outing for experience, allowing his strength to soar and his cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds.

However, in circumstances like this, cultivators often needed several years of secluded cultivation to stabilize themselves, especially someone like Li Yan, who had crossed several minor realms in less than two years from the early Foundation Establishment stage.

Having already reached the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment, his foundation was unbearably unstable. He would likely need around ten years of secluded bitter cultivation before he could stabilize his realm.

Therefore, while Li Yan's realm was astonishing in their eyes, they had assumed that possessing the combat strength of a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator would already be quite good.

Unlike Lin Daqiao, who had nearly died more than a dozen times before accumulating vast experience, tempering his spiritual power until it was as pure as steel and making his foundation as steady as a mountain.

They had personally experienced the combat strength and physical bodies of devil cultivators. If someone of the same realm could force a devil cultivator to cough blood in a direct clash—

Then that person either had a realm far above their opponent's or was a top-tier body cultivator, like Gong Chenying, Zhao Min, or Wei Chituo.