In the minds of the cultivators, seeing the poisoned Demonic Cultivators unable to withstand a single blow from Li Yan, they basically concluded that it was a manifestation of the poison taking effect.
Even the six seemingly normal Demonic Cultivators should have been more or less affected by the potent poison, which was why Li Yan had a chance to maneuver.
Wuye , however, was thinking in his heart, 'Although this poison is formidable, his movement skill is far superior to mine. I have never seen such a movement skill in the ancient texts. I am truly ignorant...'
As a Rogue Cultivator , Wuye had always observed his surroundings more carefully. He noticed that Li Yan had clashed head-on with an unpoisoned Demonic Cultivator . Although that Demonic Cultivator was only a junior Demon Lord , they all knew how tough the physical bodies of Demonic Cultivators were.
For Li Yan to be able to make the opponent's arms hang limply with a single blow was an astonishing feat in itself.
Wang Ning and Tantai Dongyue's beautiful eyes, on the other hand, were shining with a strange light. Wang Ning suddenly spoke to Tantai Dongyue .
"This Junior Brother Li of yours is extremely cunning. He sneak-attacked the opponent without a sound earlier, deceiving even us. Later, even his spitting of blood was fake. I have witnessed the assassination techniques of the Malevolent Spirit Sect !"
Tantai Dongyue , however, shook her head. "Although some cultivators in my sect are skilled at walking in the darkness, this is not something the sect intentionally cultivates. It is related to the characteristics of the cultivation methods they each practice. In this battle, including those who died from the poison earlier, he has killed seven Demonic Cultivators of the same rank in succession. This is true strength. Let's go, a few of us will help him!"
"Let's go quickly. Those Demonic Cultivators' eyes have already turned red. Junior Brother Li might not be able to handle it for long."
With the dramatic turn of events on Li Yan's side happening in the blink of an eye, Gong Yuantai and the others had only just reacted. Now, seeing Li Yan fall into the enemy's encirclement, Tantai Dongyue immediately spoke.
The others naturally agreed.
"Be careful of the range of the Demon Lords' attacks. Stay as far away as possible. Our martial uncles and martial elders may not be able to attend to everything," Gong Yuantai added.
The contest between the Foundation Establishment cultivators on the entire battlefield had now changed.
With the fall of some Demonic Cultivators and others healing from poison, the South Sea cultivators that Gong Yuantai and his group had to deal with no longer required much effort.
After the South Sea cultivators regained their senses, their bodily functions were rapidly aging, and their cultivation levels were also dropping sharply. Some had even fallen to the Qi Condensation stage.
However, the opponent's numbers were still far greater than theirs, so more than half of the Windy Cool Mountain cultivators were still engaged in combat.
Many of the Windy Cool Mountain cultivators who had freed their hands responded to Tantai Dongyue's proposal.
Moreover, the key point was that the Golden Core experts from both sides had now arrived. Even if someone wanted to retreat, they wouldn't dare. They had to fight to the end.
Just as a dozen or so people, including Tantai Dongyue and Gong Yuantai , had just taken to the air, the battle a few li away suddenly changed again. This change caused the dozen or so people who had just taken flight to stop dumbfounded in mid-air.
A "buzzing" sound echoed in some people's minds, and they were completely stunned. After a few breaths, Bu Luo finally let out a heavy breath.
"I say, is he a man or a beast..."
Compared to Bu Luo , Wuye and the others were even more shocked. After all, Bu Luo had seen Li Yan fight the monks of the Jingtu Sect before.
Wuye looked at Gong Yuantai . He was usually a man of few words, but this time, he finally spoke up and asked, "Aren't you guys Poison Cultivators ?"
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Seeing the five opponents closing in, Li Yan's eyes narrowed, and the Spirit Power fluctuation from his body suddenly increased again. This time, he did not plan to hold back any longer. For every one of these Demonic Cultivators he could kill, there would be one less.
The passage between the two realms of the South Sea was already severed. The Demon Clan could not get reinforcements , so every Demonic Soldier was precious.
Today, he did not plan to let any of the Demonic Cultivators before him leave alive.
Just an instant before the several magical treasures and arts hit his body, a faint silver light flashed across his skin. His entire person seemed to be grazed by a silver shadow. At the moment the various attacks reached him, his figure actually disappeared from the five-person encirclement.
This speed was not something a Foundation Establishment cultivator could cultivate. Before, Li Yan's movement skill was strange, but it was still within an acceptable range for others.
But this time, when the various attacks had already touched his clothes and hair, under the Divine Sense lock of five Demonic Cultivators , he had vanished.
With a series of loud "rumbles," several arts and magical treasures smashed directly onto the mountain wall behind where Li Yan had been standing. Sand and stones flew in the middle of the area, and flames shot up into the sky.
And at the same time, an untimely scream was heard. To the side of the magical treasure attack, Wu Lu, whose arms were hanging limply and who had taken the opportunity to fly out, had met a vicious end.
Wu Lu saw the detestable human who had intended to attack him finally being engulfed by the magical treasures. As he flew back, a hateful expression appeared on his face.
Then, his body was suddenly split in two. A figure shot through the middle of the two halves of his body, with traces of blood still on Li Yan's ten fingers.
With his Spirit Power and movement skill fully unleashed, he had caught up with the Demonic Cultivator who was trying to escape from behind. With a fierce exertion of force from both hands, he had stabbed directly into his back.
Wu Lu hadn't even felt a trace of pain before the famously tough physical body of a Demonic Cultivator was torn in two by Li Yan's hands pulling to the sides. Only then did an immense pain assail his brain, and a scream had just begun before it was cut short.
After grabbing the Demonic Core that flew out, Li Yan's momentum did not decrease. While everyone was stunned, like a ghost, he had appeared at the side and rear of one of the five Demonic Cultivators who had besieged him.
Li Yan's speed was so fast that in others' Divine Senses , he had become a faint straight line, disappearing in a flash. His right hand formed a claw and clasped the throat of that Demonic Cultivator from behind.
That Demonic Cultivator's attack had just hit the stone wall in front, and Li Yan was already gone. He was about to search when he felt his throat tighten. Only then did he feel it difficult to breathe.
This Demonic Cultivator had been in the army for a long time, and his reaction was also extremely fast. In his great alarm, his actions were faster than his thoughts. The power in his hands erupted, and his long, black nails flashed with a cold light as he reached back to grab Li Yan's wrist. But as soon as he raised his hand, he felt a sharp pain in his throat, and then his head turned to one side at a strange angle.
In his line of sight, several streams of blood shot up into the sky from his neck, dyeing his entire vision a bloody red. Then, endless darkness occupied his consciousness.
He hadn't even let out a single groan before he died. His entire neck seemed to have been cut by five sharp blades. The neck on one side had disappeared, connected only by a bit of flesh on the cervical spine. His head hung down heavily.
Before the blood had even spurted from this Demonic Cultivator's neck, Li Yan had already left. And at this time, the miserable howl of the Demonic Cultivator he had torn in two from the back just now was heard from a distance.
Some of the remaining four Demonic Cultivators' gazes had just turned to the Demonic Cultivator who had been split in two. Some had just released their Divine Senses to search for Li Yan and had not noticed that their companion who had been besieging Li Yan with them had already perished.
"Damn it, watch your backs!"
An angry shout from a Demon Lord came from the sky. But his reminder was a little too late. Li Yan had already stuck to the back of another Demonic Cultivator who was besieging him.
They were almost pressing against each other. A silver light flashed on Li Yan's hand, and a palm slapped onto the opponent's lower back. That Demonic Cultivator was still forming a hand seal, controlling the magical treasure that had just missed, ready to attack at any time.
His Divine Sense was already searching for the disappeared Li Yan, but he did not know that the real demon was already behind him with a butcher's knife raised. With a "peng!", this Demonic Cultivator's body paused, and he felt the power in his body that could move mountains and shake the earth rapidly disappearing.
He stared blankly down at the large hole that had been blasted in his lower abdomen. His Demonic Core and colorful internal organs flew out from the front.
His Dantian's Purple Mansion had been shattered by a palm strike to his lower back. The force of this palm strike was unimaginably great. With the tough physical body of a Foundation Establishment Demonic Cultivator , just this one shockwave had created a hole in his lower abdomen.
After this Demonic Cultivator looked at the large hole in his lower abdomen, his life was rapidly dissipating. When he struggled to turn his head to look behind him again, it was already empty.
Li Yan had already grabbed the flying Demonic Core and had disappeared again like a ghost.
"You actually sent a Golden Core cultivator with profound aura-concealing abilities to sneak-attack junior disciples! You truly have no shame!"
"To think that they, human cultivators, call themselves noble, yet they attack juniors! Utterly shameless!"
Li Yan's series of attacks had attracted the attention of the fighting Demon Lords above. And what shocked some of the Demonic Generals the most was that even their Divine Senses could not lock onto this person's position below.
At this time, they had realized that this person below was a Golden Core cultivator who had just hidden himself too well. So many Demon Lords had not noticed anything amiss, and only now did they come to their senses.
And at this time, several Demon Lords , ignoring the entanglement of the Windy Cool Mountain cultivators behind them, took a blow from their opponents and simultaneously attacked Li Yan.
"You are the shameless ones! He is not some Golden Core! For you to join forces to attack a junior, the Demon Clan, who has rampaged across several realms, is nothing but a joke!"
"You ignorant brat! He is a true Foundation Establishment cultivator! You crude fellows, how could you have seen the power of the Four Great Sects' cultivation methods?"
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The Windy Cool Mountain cultivators, seeing these Demon Lords desperately trying to kill Li Yan even at the cost of being injured themselves, also shouted out one after another. At the same time, many of them had firmly placed Little Bamboo Peak in their hearts.
Li Yan's fierce and calm attacks made them extremely satisfied with this young cultivator.
But how could the Demon Lords believe the shouts from the Windy Cool Mountain side? A Foundation Establishment cultivator killing a Demonic Soldier of the same rank with every blow, and regardless of whether the opponent was a junior or late-stage Demonic Soldier —no one could believe it.
In their hearts, they were even more certain that the so-called righteous aura of these human cultivators was nothing but a sanctimonious facade. They were extremely furious.
And Wei Zhongran , who was about a thousand zhang away from Li Yan in the air, looked down.
'His strength has actually reached the initial-stage of Golden Core. Even Wuyi might not be confident of defeating him. I have underestimated him after all. How many more secrets does this disciple of mine have?'
Being locked onto by the auras of several Demon Lords at the same time, this time Li Yan had no choice but to turn and flee. The attacks from above had a great impact on him after all.
Li Yan's Divine Sense strength was not inferior to some of the Demon Lords in the air, so he had reacted as soon as he sensed it. In addition, the Windy Cool Mountain Golden Core cultivators had subsequently intercepted many of the opponent's attacks and had also interfered with the Demon Lords' attack power.
This allowed Li Yan to escape after being hit a few more times in the attack of several Demon Lords , but his face had turned extremely pale.
In this way, the Demon Lords above were even more certain of Li Yan's identity as a Golden Core cultivator.
If he were just a Foundation Establishment cultivator, even if they were affected, how could he be so at ease? With their cultivation, even if the aftershock of their attacks hit the opponent, he would be heavily injured if not dead.
Because they had seen that in the wave of attacks just now, two aftershocks had indeed hit Li Yan.
No matter how fast Li Yan's movement skill was, under the joint attack of several Demon Lords dancing in the air, the attack range was frighteningly large. It was very difficult to dodge, unless he could escape fifty li away in one breath.
But after being hit by the aftershock, that kid actually used the force to escape outwards. In the eyes of the few Demon Lords , it became another case of the human cultivators saying one thing and doing another, extremely hypocritical.
Seeing that this little cultivator from the Malevolent Spirit Sect had not died after taking two blows from Golden Core cultivators, this finally made the few Windy Cool Mountain Golden Core cultivators above breathe a sigh of relief.
Just now, under the desperate attack of several Demon Lords , they were also unable to stop them.
'But it's a good thing this kid has a very high-grade defensive magical treasure on him. After taking two blows, he finally managed to withstand it. The Four Great Sects are really willing to equip their core disciples.'
This was what the few Golden Core cultivators who had witnessed this scene were thinking.