Zhang Lie waved a hand. "Launch your attack!"

"[Shadow and Light]!" Fang Yi's appearance blurred into a hundred clones. The spear thrusts and strikes came toward Zhang Lie from every direction.

"You're even faster than before!" Zhang Lie praised, though he still didn't move.

The spear thrusts pierced Zhang Lie, revealing him to be an illusion, but that illusion continued to talk. "You've made very good progress on the technique you intuited from the twelve stelae."

Fang Yi's forehead beaded with sweat. Sweat drenched his clothing and beaded down his back. He had tried his...