As for how far they can go in the end, Li Yan doesn't care, as long as they can get benefits, even if the benefits only end today. After all, they have got it, and people should not be too greedy.
Li Yan still had no idea about the situation ahead in the long alley where they were.
Their spiritual sense still only covers an area of fifty feet beyond their current location, and they still don't know how long this alley is.
The "souls" they have encountered so far are basically composed of those in the middle stage of foundation building, and their number has also increased a lot.
Li Yan and his team had also tried to charge together half a month ago. That time, they advanced more than 400 feet before being surrounded by densely packed "souls" that attacked the three of them frantically.
Those attacks fell on the three people like a rain of arrows. Although they could easily kill these "souls", they could not escape the fate of being attacked.
The "soul" could only know the direction of attack when it was close to their bodies, so those attacks were overwhelming and basically fell on the three of them.
If they had not spared no effort to activate all their defenses, and if these "souls" had not been of a relatively weak level, they might have been trapped this time.
In the end, the three of them were attacked countless times and had used up 80% of the soul-healing pills in their bodies before they managed to retreat.
Since that time, Li Yan completely gave up the idea of forcing his way through.
After this battle, the three of them discussed it carefully.
In the end, everyone had a surprisingly consistent opinion. If the disciples of the Soul Prison Clan were to undergo a trial here, they would definitely find other ways to quit midway.
Otherwise, most of the monks who come here are basically here to die.
Now that the souls of the three have been tempered, they can allow up to two attacks to enter their sea of consciousness at the same time, but this is already the limit.
Half a month later, when Shuang Qingqing returned to the Tianling tribe, Bai Rou was waiting for her only lonely figure.
"Master, you didn't find them either?"
Bai Rou's pretty face became paler and paler, a sign of losing color.
“No, but I did get some information. After searching the souls of some cultivators, I discovered from their memories that Li Yan and his companions had indeed entered the secret cave.
They were last found more than three months ago, near the river under the secret cave, where the two seemed to be looking for something.
This is consistent with what Li Yan once said about looking for the "Hao Han Stone". No one has seen them since then.
I searched the entire river from beginning to end, but could not find any trace of them, and the guards there could not remember whether Li Yan had come out. "
Shuang Qingqing paused here. In fact, she had searched the souls of at least twenty people in the underground secret cave, and killed quite a few of them as well.
But there wasn't much news.
The Jindan monks guarding the underground secret cave were even more confused because of the numerous monks coming and going, and they couldn't remember whether people like Li Yan and Zhao Min had gone out.
"Then they..."
There was a sad look in Bai Rou's eyes.
“Don’t worry, unless it’s a Jedi like the crack in the Yinmo Cliff, it’s hard for them to have that kind of luck again.
But that kind of danger doesn't just happen. If someone wants to kill them with their own strength when the two of them join forces, I still say that it's difficult!"
Shuang Qingqing couldn't be comforted in this way.
However, she was already worried on her way back. There were quite a few golden elixirs in the underground secret cave. If many people joined forces, the worst situation might occur.
"Okay, let's wait for a while, maybe we can see them tomorrow!"
Shuang Qingqing looked at Bai Rou's beautiful eyes which were slightly red, and said softly.
Shuang Qingqing was just like Li Yan. She did not expect what would happen next. She waited for three years, but the two never returned.
At the urging of Shuang Fengyan, Shuang Qingqing finally left with Bai Rou in the third year, just like when they first came to Qingqing Continent together.
However, Bai Rou's cultivation had greatly increased at this time, and she had vaguely felt that the opportunity for her to form a pill was slowly approaching.
Similarly, in the fourth year after Li Yan's disappearance, Su Hong also left Qingqing Continent with Mi'er.
"This person is so heartless. Even if you have the ability to leave here, at least you should say something before you go.
I wanted to challenge you, but I haven't seen you in four years, humph!"
Su Hong was dissatisfied when she left. She had made the guess after receiving the news that Shuang Qingqing should have left.
It is not easy to obtain the whereabouts of a Nascent Soul cultivator, unless "Guiqulaixie" actually sends a strong man of the same level to keep a close eye on the other party.
Therefore, it was not until several months after Shuang Qingqing left that they combined some of the evidence they had obtained and concluded that the two elders of the Tianling tribe had left.
After receiving this news, Su Hong immediately confirmed that Shuang Qingqing was most likely taking Li Yan and the others away.
I have helped Li Yan a lot and even helped him pass on messages to the Wild Moon Continent, but the dark-skinned boy didn't even reveal any information to me when he left.
This made Su Hong very unhappy, and she could only leave with Mi'er in anger.
Time will not change because there is one more or one less person in the world. It still flows alternately with the changes of the sun and the moon.
In a blink of an eye, it has been ten years since Li Yan and his companions entered the underground secret cave.
Looking at the unchanging gray alley ahead, Li Yan, who was standing aside and protecting the two of them, sighed helplessly in his heart.
If he and Zhao Min were not both people of strong will, anyone who had seen the same dark and distorted scenes every day and every hour for the past ten years would probably have gone crazy.
Just like Zikun, with his temperament, he eventually entered the "Earth Spot" at some point. He wanted to see the bright world. He would often stay in the "Earth Spot" for a while before he was willing to come out again.
Now Li Yan and his friends have encountered the "soul" of the early and middle stages of the Golden Core.
However, the existence of "souls" of this level is already very rare, and they will not appear in large numbers like in the past when a hornet's nest was disturbed.
They would often appear only one or two at a distance of hundreds of feet, but they were even more difficult to deal with.
"Go on, Zikun will be the guardian this time!"
A pleasant and crisp sound like the sound of ice cubes colliding was heard.
During the ten years, Zhao Min's appearance not only did not change at all, but because her soul became stronger, Zhao Min's whole body was full of vitality.
Her originally snow-white skin became even smoother, more rosy, and more gorgeous, making people want to hold her in their arms and cherish her.
Li Yan still had short hair, and the muscles under his black robe moved gently with the movement of his body, tightening the robe from time to time, giving the feeling that the muscles under the robe were moving flexibly.
The short-haired Li Yan looks more like a Dharma guardian Vajra. Without concealing his aura, his aura appears strong and domineering.
In just ten years, the two's spirits and souls grew at an astonishing rate. Of course, this was only compared to their previous soul strengths.
If we only look at the overall progress of the soul, it is probably about 20% to 30% higher than before.
If this was used to purely sharpen magic power, with such training conditions for ten years, the magic power would definitely have improved many times more than before.
Li Yan's cultivation has reached the False Infant realm, and Zhao Min is also at the point of breaking through the bottleneck of the late Golden Core stage, and is not far from the False Infant realm.
But Zi Kun used to be a body of spirit and soul, and his soul was inherently powerful, but he was the one who made the slowest progress among the three.
He still has a long way to go before he can break through to the middle stage of the Golden Core, but he has also gained something. His current combat power is no longer comparable to that of an ordinary middle stage Golden Core cultivator.
The soul of the crossbow worm king had also been greatly improved. It was still a second-level monster, but the attack speed and power of the crossbow worm swarm it controlled were more than doubled.
If the crossbow insect swarm were to face an early Jindan cultivator like An Die, although they could not kill him, they would definitely seriously injure him.
Moreover, during the past ten years, Li Yan and Zhao Min have both practiced the concealing technique "Ebb Tide" and have both reached the entry level.
At this time, the two of them suppressed their cultivation, and it was already difficult for anyone among the Jindan cultivators to discover the truth.
Especially since Li Yan himself still had the hidden aura of "Guishui Zhenjing", Li Yan felt that even Shuang Qingqing, who was in the middle stage of Nascent Soul, might not be able to see his true realm at this time.
"Okay, let's continue!"
Li Yan repeated the words he had said countless times.
Then, he and Zhao Min shot out, and soon a huge shadow floated out in front of them. It was a third-level "Ghost-faced Bone Scorpion"...
Three years later!
Li Yan and the other two allowed the opponent's attacks to come at them. Although their sea of consciousness was still painful enough to make them tremble, it was no longer a huge obstacle that prevented them from taking action.
The sky was filled with ice arrows, wind blades and claw shadows. Half an incense stick later, the last three Jindan-level "souls" in front turned into fragments and quickly drifted away.
Upon seeing this, the three of them immediately sat cross-legged on the spot and began to repair the injuries in their sea of consciousness.
After more than half an hour, Li Yan was the first to stand up. A few more years had passed, and the level of his "soul" was still continuing to increase.
The souls of the three of them are also growing stronger. Nowadays, the number of Jindan-level "souls" is even scarcer. Unless you deliberately attract them, many of them will gather together.
Therefore, after killing each other, they no longer deliberately keep people to protect them, but practice together.
"In the past six months, many 'spirits' in the pseudo-infant realm have appeared. If we encounter such beings at the beginning, there is a 70% chance that we will be killed instantly while our consciousness is blurred."
Li Yan thought to himself that as their souls became stronger, their sea of consciousness also became unusually tough.
If they encounter those "souls" in the foundation-building stage again, they can just stand where they are and allow the other party to attack them. At most, their sea of consciousness will be constantly shaken, which is no more than an ant trying to shake a tree!
Now Li Yan and the other two are very familiar with the attack methods of the "soul", and the ghostly attacks of the "soul" of the same level can hardly break through the defense of the three.
The "soul" has a very weak defense without a physical body. This is different from a real soul cultivator who has a physical body. It is relatively easy for Li Yan and his team to kill it.
However, once Zi Kun encounters a "soul" that is higher than his level, it will take more time.
"If the flow of time here is the same as in the outside world, more than three years should have passed by now. If we go further, a Nascent Soul-level 'spirit' may appear. How should we deal with it then?"
Li Yan looked at the unchanging dark alley in front of him, his heart had long been numb. The scene had not changed day after day, and it had become the same picture before his eyes forever.
Even though he was as strong-willed as he was, he felt extremely annoyed and powerless in his heart, but now the problem he had been most worried about finally appeared.
Just as Li Yan was thinking, Zhao Min, dressed in white, also stood up.
"Thinking about the road ahead?"
Now the two of them can be said to be in tune with each other's minds. They can basically know what the other is thinking just by taking a glance.
This is not only because they are together all the time, but also because of a pair of "Heart-Entangled Twins Gu" in their bodies.
Their bloodline has become increasingly compatible with the two people, and their mutual perception has become more acute and connected.
"The vague feeling of uneasiness I feel today is getting stronger. Later, you will use the long spiritual rope to pull me and keep a distance of fifty feet from me.
As soon as I sense that there is a slight problem with the 'spirit' that appears, I will withdraw on my own initiative. Pull and pull me back as fast as you can!"