After hearing Li Yan ask this question, Li Wuyi pondered for a moment.
"That's... hard to say. In addition to the realm and strength of both parties, fighting also depends on the time, place, and even luck. For example, um..."
After thinking for a while, Li Wuyi continued.
“I once met three monks from the Pure Land Sect while picking fruits in a secret realm. They were good at attacking and encircling enemies. They had profound Zen meditation skills and thick skin. It was extremely difficult for monks of the same realm to break through their defenses.
I was attacked by three people together and failed to break out of the encirclement after several attempts. At the same time, I took advantage of the opportunity to plant no less than forty kinds of poisons and phantom poisons.
Although these monks were eventually poisoned by several kinds of poison, who would have thought that they were carrying treasures such as relics, which are magical weapons that only those above the Jindan stage can possess. In addition to its enormous power, it is also a treasure that can restrain all evil things and detoxify.
This is a rare item that is not within the reach of a foundation-building cultivator. However, it was unexpected that one of the three people actually carried this item. During the fierce fight, the three took turns using the relic to detoxify.
Although I couldn't completely get rid of it at once, it still prevented me from escaping. In the fierce battle afterwards, I was hit by a Zen stick on my right rib, and half of my body was weak, so I basically couldn't escape.
But that time, the battle happened to take place by a river. There was a monster in that river called the Intestine-Eating Fish. This fish was less than an inch long and liked to live in groups. The attack power of a single one was only at the third or fourth level of Qi Condensation.
But once they go out, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. They like to attack all living creatures near the water surface. Once they target a target, they will jump out of the water in the thousands, attack the target, and pierce the body of the creature with their sharp beaks.
The mouth of the gut-eating fish is shaped like a syringe and is sharp and pointed. Even if it is a foundation-building monk, the flesh will be pierced directly if there is no protective spiritual light. This is also one of their talents.
Once punctured, the gut-eating fish will suck hard, and all the blood, flesh, and meridians in the body of the attacked creature will be sucked out piece by piece along with its tubular sharp mouth.
This monster got its name because whatever enters its needle-shaped mouth becomes like a long intestine.
Thousands of gut-eating fish are lying on a person, and within a breath, they will disperse, and then only a clean, crystal-clear skeleton without a trace of flesh and blood will be left standing there. "
As Li Yan listened to this description, the scene of the fight appeared in his mind. Thinking of the thousands of gut-eating fish jumping up around him from time to time, he felt terrified.
Li Wuyi continued to transmit his voice calmly, without any fluctuation in his voice, as if he was talking about something so ordinary that it couldn't be more ordinary.
“When we were fighting in that area, these gut-eating fish were always waiting for an opportunity to attack us, but at that time both sides deliberately stayed away from the river, so they never had a chance to attack.
I was paralyzed on one side and saw that I could not escape, so I quickly moved to the river. When the three monks saw my intention, it was too late to stop me.
But they were unwilling to let me go, and followed me closely. They thought that with the spiritual light shield of the foundation-building period, it would be no problem to resist the schools of intestinal fish for a while, and in fact it was so.
I didn't have the energy to fight anymore, so I released the 'Lingxingcao' powder and sprinkled it into the stream below, and then sprinkled the 'Jiheliu' herb on myself.
The former is stimulating to monsters. Low-level monsters cannot stand the smell. Once they smell or inhale it, they will lose their minds and attack more frantically.
The latter is a kind of ancient willow bark that smells extremely bad. Few creatures are willing to get close to it, and even if they hold their breath, they cannot stop the smell from seeping into their pores.
It will make you emit a disgusting smell for a period of time, so most people are reluctant to carry it, fearing that if a little bit of it leaks out and gets contaminated by it, you will be a bright light in the dark night, and the enemy can easily find you. "
Li Wuyi continued slowly.
"But at that time, I had no other choice and I didn't know whether it would have any effect on the intestinal fish.
If not, I would just die faster. After using these two herbs, I withdrew the protective aura to make it easier for the medicinal power of 'Jihe Willow' to spread.
Then I dived into the river. Countless crazy gut-eating fish in the river smelled the taste of "lingxingcao" and leaped into the sky in an overwhelming manner, almost knocking me back into the air.
But most of the gut-eating fish that jumped up later avoided me and pounced directly on the three monks who were chasing me...
After I fell into the water, although many gut-eating fish tried to attack me, when they pounced in front of me, they hesitated and swam away.
Just like that, I finally swam away, found a place with deeper water, far away from the intestinal-eating fish, and barely performed the "water escape technique" to hide for nearly ten days. The smell on my body slowly disappeared.
As for the three monks, their bodies were covered with intestinal fish, and they were also poisoned by me before. They were no longer able to use the relics to detoxify. They wanted to fly away but they were too exhausted. After resisting for a while, they died there.
So, what did I rely on to win this time? I had the right location, because I happened to be near the gut-eating fish; I had the right time, because I happened to have brought those two herbs with me.
It was mostly luck. The predictions of the two herbs were both correct. If I had missed one of these conditions, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”
Li Yan was silent. Anything could happen on the road to becoming an immortal. Luck seemed to be something that really existed. In fact, immortal cultivators valued luck even more, and there were even cultivators who specialized in this aspect.
For example, the Confucians have a righteous spirit, which comes from studying poetry and books for a long time, becoming a great scholar, and naturally giving rise to a righteous spirit that can slay demons and avoid evil;
Buddhism calls it mind power, Taoism calls it will power, these are not the spiritual power of cultivating immortals, but a special kind of existence, whose power is even stronger than spiritual power in some aspects.
Therefore, once you are against great scholars, monks and Taoists, in addition to guarding against their methods of cultivating immortals, you must also be careful of their special methods. Attacks such as righteousness, mind power and will power are strange and difficult to detect with spiritual consciousness.
Li Yan knew that Li Wuyi's words were meant to tell him that he should be mentally prepared and not underestimate any opponent when he does not have absolute strength. Strength may not represent everything. Li Wuyi was not sure who would be able to come out of the secret realm in the end.
At the same time, it also tells him that in the cycle of life and death, he has to rely on himself, stay calm, and make use of the appropriate environment, only then can he survive...
Of the remaining nine days, Li Yan spent eight days on consolidation, and on the last day, everyone stopped practicing.
On the Tianxin Plate, although the people have not come out yet, all the light spots added up are less than eighty, and there are only one hundred and eleven foundation-building cultivators and monsters from the three teams of four sects.
That is to say, even if no one died, more than 150 of the more than 300 cultivators and monsters who had originally entered had already died, accounting for more than 40% of those who had entered.
The monks who came out early have brought a large number of treasures and elixirs to their respective sects or races. These were given to the leaders of the sect or race and recorded in a book. After they return, they will be rewarded according to their merits.
No one here dares to hide treasures privately, unless he is confident that the storage magic device on his body can hide from these old monsters who have lived for hundreds of years. Once discovered, not only will the credit for this desperate effort be lost, but even his life may be in danger.
At this time, the faces of the leaders and elders of each sect were not very good. Although they had to go through such a scene every fifteen years, these cultivators who entered were all elites cultivated by the sect with great effort.
Although it may not be the top one, it is also a major force.
Although there are heavy losses every time they enter the secret realm, no sect is willing to give up this opportunity. The natural treasures brought out are rare or non-existent in the outside world.
Li Yan lowered his head. Apart from the seventeen cultivators from the Wuliang Sect who had already come out, there were only fifteen black spots left on the Tianxin Plate. Through the light spots, he could determine that there were ten people from the Taixuan Sect, twelve people from the Pure Land Sect, and thirteen people from the Shibuyuan Sect.
Among the three teams of monsters, one was in a very miserable state, with only five monsters left alive, but the survival rate of the other two teams was very high. It can be said that in the local combat, the monsters had a slight advantage.
At this time, the silence on the side of the cultivators from the four sects outside the valley was eerily quiet, while roars were heard from the monsters from time to time. They either looked at other monsters or at the cultivators.
There was tremendous anger in his eyes, as if he was ready to attack at any time. It was obvious that he had made a life-and-death feud in the valley.
But under the watchful eyes of the leading third-order monster and dozens of Jindan elders, no battle broke out. If it had happened in another place, the battle would have been a bloody one.
As time passed, the situation outside the valley became more and more depressing and manic, and everyone looked at the Tianxin Plate with tense eyes.
It was already evening, and there was less than half an hour left to the final time. When the time was up, the light spots in the body of everyone in the valley would be automatically activated, and then everyone would be teleported out, making it impossible to stay inside.
Everyone noticed that after noon, the colored spots of light on the Tianxin Plate no longer decreased. It should be that the people inside knew that they were about to come out, so they all stopped attacking and tried to find as many spiritual herbs and treasures as possible.
At the hour of Xu, the sky outside the valley was shining brightly with colorful lights flashing. It was as if a meteor shower was falling at the mountain pass outside the valley, with colorful lights flashing and falling.
After each ray of light disappeared, a human figure would be revealed. After these human figures became clear, they still looked extremely vigilant at first, and the spiritual light shields on their bodies were not removed. After they saw the place clearly, they showed expressions of relief on their faces.
But they usually still keep the spiritual light shield on their bodies and do not remove it. After identifying the direction, they all run towards their own sect area or the monster side. Only after they run in front of the elders will they remove the spiritual light shield outside their bodies and relax their vigilance with a tired look on their faces.
Li Yan also noticed that no matter whether they were humans or monsters, everyone had an expression of nervousness and alertness on their faces. Even after seeing their surroundings clearly, they still did not show the slightest bit of excitement.
Some of them were exhausted, some were covered in blood, some were seriously injured, and some were already unconscious when they came out. No one knew whether they held on to their last breath in there or were attacked by someone just before being teleported.
The transmission process was extremely short, and almost all the light spots appeared above the valley entrance at the same time. But within ten breaths, there was no more flashing light above the valley entrance.
At this time, in each area, no one looked at other sects and races, but gathered together, some were handing over storage bags, some were being treated, or some were talking quickly with others.
All the Qi Condensation Stage disciples did not move. They just stared at the elders, not daring to step forward to watch or ask questions.