"Go and take a look. Be careful!"
Li Yan quickly transmitted the message, but of course he had to go over and take a look after making a discovery. This was the instinct of a cultivator.
Otherwise, once you miss something, you will only regret it in the future.
The ruined ancient tower was only fifty miles away from them, and the two of them reached the tower in just a breath.
The broken tower is mottled and weathered, the brick and stone surface is bumpy, and the tower body is black and gray all over.
The tower is hexagonal, with the first floor above ground having windows on five sides and a door on one side. The door is mostly covered by yellow sand, and although it is wide open, it can only allow an adult to pass through by bending over.
The spiritual power shields outside Li Yan and Zhao Min had already been activated. The two of them first observed carefully outside the tower for a long time, but did not find any other abnormalities.
Then, they used their spiritual sense to scan the surrounding environment, and then they bent down and entered the tower one after another.
The space inside the tower is not too wide, and can probably accommodate about ten people. The scenery outside can be seen from almost every direction inside the tower.
Li Yan saw at a glance a piece of withered animal bone on the ground, emitting weak spiritual power.
The spiritual power fluctuations they had just sensed were emanating from this piece of animal bone.
It is unknown how long this piece of monster bones has existed. It is yellowish-brown in color with many fine cracks on the surface. The surface of the bones is covered with sand and black spots.
This piece of animal bone is not of high quality. Maybe someone noticed it before, but in the end no one took it away.
Li Yan did not approach the animal bones immediately. Zhao Min and Li Yan had already cooperated very well. As long as Li Yan did not speak, she would not take the initiative to approach.
She stood beside Li Yan and also used her spiritual sense to observe the piece of animal bone over and over again.
After three breaths, Li Yan and Zhao Min suddenly flew up, and they quickly retreated towards the tower gate from which they came.
At this moment, two rays of light flashed "puff" and passed by the place where Li Yan and Zhao Min had just stood.
However, Li Yan and Zhao Min were unable to exit the tower. The scene before their eyes became distorted and the surrounding scenery suddenly changed. Li Yan and Zhao Min's bodies were also blocked back by a force.
The doors and windows inside the tower had disappeared, and the two were standing in a dark stone chamber.
The stone chamber is about fifteen or sixteen meters in size and looks quite spacious. The ground underfoot is black and hard rock, no longer buried in yellow sand.
At this time, on the hard rock ten feet away from Li Yan and the others, there were two deep cut marks, still emitting green smoke.
There were actually three people in the stone chamber, and the space was filled with a strong smell of blood.
"trap!"
Li Yan and Zhao Min stared forward, their magic power surging.
At this time, they had no way to retreat and had been sucked into the opponent's formation. The broken bone was the bait deliberately thrown by the opponent.
"Two... Two Taoist friends, help me, this man is 'Grave Mountain Green Robe Guest' Min Qi, he has been... cough cough cough...
I have been hunting him... and others in the secret cave for many years... I hope you can... can help us. I will definitely thank you... you two with all my... all my wealth..."
In front of Li Yan, there was a man in a green robe with a gloomy face, staring at them with a look of surprise and doubt.
The man in green robe held a three-pronged fork in one hand. The tip of the fork was sharp and long, and on one side of each tip there was a heart-pounding barb that flashed a cold and bite-like light.
He shifted his gaze away from Li Yan and Zhao Min and looked at the two people in the corner of the stone chamber. There were two cultivators, one old and one young.
An old man in a gray shirt was lying on the ground, his body covered in blood. His chest was heaving violently. There was a blood groove on his chest so deep that the bone could be seen, and blood was gushing out. It was a very tragic scene.
Beside the gray-shirted old man was a pretty girl about eighteen or nineteen years old. The girl was supporting the old man with a terrified look on her face.
There was a long tear on the right side of her back, as if it had been cut by a sharp blade, revealing a large area of snow-white tender skin, and even a small white round area could be vaguely seen in front...
The old man in gray shirt was holding a long sword in one hand. Although his breath was weak, he still wanted to struggle to get up. He was the one who had just spoken.
Li Yan's spiritual sense quickly swept over the three people here. The man in green robe was in the middle stage of Jindan, while the old man in gray shirt on the ground was in the late stage of Jindan. The cultivator who looked like a girl was only in the late stage of foundation building.
“Haha, I didn’t expect you had a trick up your sleeve. You actually sent out a distress message before being sucked into the formation. You’re indeed a veteran.
The dry bones left outside were just ordinary monster bones, which did not attract my attention. Humph!
My two fellow Taoists, I have a lifelong feud with this person, and this matter has nothing to do with you.
Just now you just triggered my formation restriction, which caused the formation to attack on its own. I didn't attack you on purpose. It's all just a misunderstanding!"
The man in green robe glared at the old man in gray shirt fiercely, then looked at Li Yan and Zhao Min with a smile on his face.
Apparently two Jindan cultivators had suddenly appeared, so he had to deal with them carefully.
"It turns out that the piece of animal bone was left by the old man in gray..."
Li Yan looked normal, with no expression on his face at all, but his mind was racing with thoughts.
"Two seniors, this guy doesn't even know us. He set an ambush here. My master was ambushed by him. Please save me, two seniors!"
This time, before the gray-shirted old man could say anything, the pretty girl was already crying for help.
Tears were already rolling down their eyes. They just wanted to come to the tower to rest, but they were ambushed by this man. "Two... Two Daoist friends, my disciple and I entered the secret cave this time just to find some second-level medicinal herbs that might be extinct.
I have only heard of Min Qi's name, and I have no grudge against him. He... he ambushed... plotted against me...
Just now… just now he was tempted by my beauty and wanted to do something bad to my disciple, but I… I was defeated, and I… I hope you two Taoist friends can help me, ahem… "
Having said that, the old man in gray shirt coughed again, and blood oozed out of his chest again, obviously as if his internal organs were injured.
After hearing what the pretty girl and the old man in gray said, the man in green robe just curled the corners of his mouth. When he looked at the old man in gray, a hint of sinister murderous intent flashed across his eyes.
Then he glanced at the pitiful girl whose slender body was constantly trembling. There was a lustful light in his eyes, but he suppressed it immediately.
All of this fell into the eyes of Li Yan and Zhao Min, who had been silent the whole time.
Especially when Zhao Min saw the lust hidden in the eyes of the man in green robe, she felt boundless hatred in her heart.
The man in green robe had also used the same gaze to examine Zhao Min when she first came in. Perhaps after seeing that Zhao Min looked ordinary, he stopped staring at her.
Li Yan and Zhao Min just listened in silence, which made the man in green robe dare not attack casually for a while. He had no idea whether the other party would take action or not.
Li Yan and the other two understood the general meaning. The man in green robe should have launched a sneak attack on the old man in gray shirt.
Otherwise, how could a late Jindan cultivator be easily injured by an enemy whose realm is not as high as his? But this gray-shirted old man also made the most correct judgment before being trapped in the formation.
He threw out a piece of monster's bone and hastily tampered with it. As the spiritual power in the monster's bone was thin, the green-robed guest was eager to kill him and failed to discover it in time.
However, Li Yan and his team sensed something unusual and rushed over.
By this calculation, Li Yan and Zhao Min also fell into the trap of the gray-shirted old man, and Li Yan felt very depressed.
Seeing that Li Yan and Zhao Min had not said a word since they came in, just looking at this place quietly, a glimmer of hope appeared in the eyes of the pretty girl, but in the end her face became paler and paler.
She was well aware of the ruthlessness of the world of immortals, but survival was everyone's instinct. Moreover, if she fell into the hands of a male cultivator, she would most likely become the most miserable cauldron.
Seeing this, the gray-shirted old man stared at the green-robed man opposite him, tightly grasped the long sword in his hand, and with his other hand, with some difficulty, pulled out three storage bags from his waist.
"This is all my wealth... my entire fortune, and I... I hope you two fellow Taoists can take my disciple away!"
The old man in gray knew that it would be difficult to ask the other party to kill Min Qi, so he hoped that Li Yan and the others would take their disciple away for the sake of their own interests.
This time he did not mention saving himself, but held the storage bag and looked at Zhao Min. He felt that Zhao Min's cultivation was higher, so of course the two of them should focus on her.
Zhao Min still didn't speak, and Li Yan finally spoke softly at this time, his eyes also looking at the magic weapon "Sharp Fork" in the green-robed man's hand.
"Is the attack just now really an attack by the formation itself?"
The man in green robe felt disdainful after hearing this. Of course he wanted to plot against the other party just now, but these two were too sensitive and reacted in advance.
But on the surface he showed a sincere smile.
“Of course, I don’t know the two fellow Taoists at all, and I can’t be so arrogant as to attack two cultivators of the same level at the same time, right
I was fighting this old ghost just now, so I didn't have time to pay attention to the outside world..."
"Senior, he is lying. I clearly saw him attacking outside the formation just now. You can tell at a glance that the two cuts on the ground were not caused by the formation attack..."
Without waiting for the man in the green robe to finish speaking, the pretty girl squatting in the corner of the stone room, regardless of the tears in her eyes, immediately retorted, her voice revealing a cry for help.
"Little girl, you really have never been tamed by a man. You are talking nonsense out of shock. How could you see clearly the attack of a Jindan cultivator like me? It's a joke!"
The man in green robe interrupted the other party without any courtesy, and his aura became colder.
At this time, Li Yan and Zhao Min looked at each other. After a moment of silence, Li Yan spoke again.
"We don't know who is right and who is wrong between you, and we don't want to know. Can this Taoist friend open the formation and let us out?"
When the man in green robe heard this, he was stunned at first. He didn't expect that the other party would let it go so easily.
Then his face was filled with joy, for he knew that there were no fools here, and the other party should be able to tell at a glance that the traces of attack left on the ground were not caused by the formation.
However, it is obvious that these two people know that they are in someone else's formation and do not want to cause trouble. As for whether the other party will settle accounts with them in the future, that will have to wait and see.
So he waved his robe sleeve lightly, and a small patch of dim light came in from a corner of the stone room not far from the old man in gray, and some scenes outside the tower could be vaguely seen.
Zhao Min frowned. She herself was not a warm-hearted person. On the contrary, she was cold and indifferent to people other than her relatives.
But as a woman, she felt uncomfortable when she thought of the lustful look the man in green robe gave her just now.
"Senior, please save me!"
"Fellow Daoist, these things are all yours. Here is a magic weapon of high grade, several exercises that I have collected over the past thousand years, and more than 60,000 spirit stones. Please... please help... help!"
Seeing this, the gray-shirted old man no longer dared to hesitate. He struggled to stand up and salute, and hurriedly threw the storage bag in his hand over.
Just now he wanted to wait for the other party to make a promise before giving the thing to him.
Now seeing that Li Yan was so cold-blooded and heartless and didn't care at all, he could only take one last gamble.
If Li Yan rolled up the storage bag and left, he would also detonate the spiritual mark left on the bag opening, but in that case, he would really lose hope completely!