'This…'
It wasn't just Cao Li who was surprised. Even Yi Chen himself was surprised by the results.
Seeing the approaching sword, he had used his spiritual energy on it to forcefully deviate its direction, but he had not at all expected that, in his attempt to deviate the sword's path, he would end up gaining complete control of it.
'…Doesn't that mean that my spiritual sea is vaster than hers? But how…she's already at the Ninth Qi Absorption Stage.'
An intense frown formed on his forehead as he tried to reason things out.
'Could it be…she had let go of her control at the last moment?'
It wasn't just him who was trying to rationalise things. Cao Li was also doing the same at this moment.
'No, I must be overthinking. Even if he possesses spiritual energy, there's no way that he would have a vaster spiritual sea than I. That must have been a fluke!'
