Looking at the map in his hand, all kinds of speculations emerged in Li Yan's mind.
He knew that this map must have been drawn by Qi Jinghong after careful confirmation. At the same time, he also developed a strong interest in this map.
Moreover, Li Yan noticed that any red dot without a cross was either the location of a first-class sect, or some small sects or small families close to the big sects.
Even Nascent Soul cultivators have to be careful when passing through these places, as they will be discovered by other high-level cultivators if they are not careful.
“There are nine places on this map that are not marked with red crosses. These are probably the places that Qi Jinghong has not been to or has not succeeded in obtaining.
If even one of these places contains the silver paper, it would be the best outcome for me.”
For a moment, Li Yan just stood there with his eyes flickering.
With this map, he was more confident than the information he got from Bro, but he knew that one should not be too greedy. It would be good enough to get one, as it was better to have one than nothing.
In fact, he wanted to set off immediately. After a long while, Li Yan finally let out a long sigh and calmed his turbulent emotions.
“We can’t go there now. Because of the demon cultivator incident, the defenses of the major sects have increased several times. This is not the best time.
Moreover, I still have a lot of skills that I haven't even reached the minor level of. This matter is mainly based on stealing. Once discovered by others, I will definitely have to fight with them.
Now my strength is still a little bit lacking, at least I should be able to escape successfully without leaving any handle even if I can't win.
Although it is urgent to get the silver paper, the prerequisite is that I must be sure of it. I would rather not get it than act so rashly.
Once this matter is exposed, the silver paper will surely attract the attention of many Nascent Soul cultivators. In that case, the possibility of the secret of the Immortal Dark Phoenix's blood essence being exposed will greatly increase.
Besides, it would be hard for the sect to explain why I stole the item… "
Li Yan kept thinking in his mind, and quickly rejected his own idea.
At the same time, he could judge that Qi Jinghong had the same idea, which was to keep the secret he had discovered. Drawing this map was nothing more than wanting to act accurately and make his goal more targeted.
Li Yan's guess was basically consistent with the facts.
Not long after the great war with the demons, Qi Jinghong accidentally killed a short-sighted monk on his way to Shibuyuan to do some business.
Naturally, he would not take the storage bag of this young foundation-building cultivator seriously. With a casual strike, the other's body turned into nothingness.
But as a cultivator, everyone has a habit, that is, no matter how high or low the other person's status is, he usually opens his storage bag to check.
Because the truth is that small cultivators can also have great opportunities, and this is common in the world of cultivation.
Qi Jinghong just shook the contents of the bag casually, and they fell to the ground. After taking a look, he found nothing that surprised him, so he punched the ground.
With this attack, the storage bag was instantly shattered, but a page of silver paper floated out, which surprised Qi Jinghong.
He was very clear about how powerful his attack was. Even a mountain could be easily turned into powder.
In doubt and surprise, he took the silver paper in his hand and examined it carefully with his spiritual sense, but after looking at it for a while, he could not see any clue at all.
But he felt vaguely that this piece of silver paper was extraordinary. Because he was in a hurry to deal with something, he put the piece of silver paper away.
A few days later, when he flew out of the Shibuyuan Office, he remembered this incident on his way back, so he found a place and began to study the page of silver paper carefully.
As his research deepened, Qi Jinghong became more and more surprised. Not only had he tried many methods but failed to discover the secret in the silver paper, he was unable to even damage it in the slightest.
However, in the end, due to the special practice of his "Yuan Yang Gong", he had cultivated pure Yang fire in his Dantian. When he used this fire to calcine the silver paper, he sensed a power that made his heart palpitate.
This shocked Qi Jinghong at the time. What a powerful force that could shock him. He wanted to find out the secret of the silver paper even more.
After that, even when he continued to calcine it for more than a month, the page of silver paper did not undergo any further changes.
Although Qi Jinghong felt discouraged by the result, he also knew more and more that this item was definitely a treasure.
Since this page of silver paper appeared on a young Foundation Establishment cultivator, he could roughly guess that other Nascent Soul cultivators had not noticed this item yet.
Perhaps even among the Jindan cultivators, not many knew the secret contained in the silver paper, otherwise the young cultivator would have died countless times, and it would not be his turn to encounter it by chance.
Since this is a piece of silver paper, Qi Jinghong feels that the fact that it has been refined into such a shape means that there may be other silver papers like this one.
So when he returned to the Huoyun Sect, he immediately gave secret orders to several of his trusted disciples, asking them to secretly investigate the news about the silver paper.
Finally, four years later, he received a report from his disciple.
It is said that the silver paper appeared on the second floor of the Pure Land Sect's Beiming Demon-Suppressing Tower more than ten years ago, and many cultivators fought for it at that time.
And the number of silver papers that appeared was about ten.
After receiving this news, Qi Jinghong was overjoyed. He had not been idle in the past four years, but used more means to study this silver paper.
But no matter whether it was corroded by various poisons, tempered in the earth's fire for more than a year, or refined by the sect's ancient formation, the page of silver paper did not change at all.
By this time, he had roughly come to the conclusion that this piece of silver paper was a treasure refined by a cultivator whose cultivation level was many times higher than his. Its preciousness far exceeded his imagination.
So, after receiving the report from the disciples, Qi Jinghong decided to go search for it himself.
With his means as a Nascent Soul cultivator, even though the incident happened more than ten years ago, he was able to restore 70% to 80% of what happened on the silver paper after three years, and finally drew a map.
At the same time, he also found out the names of many cultivators who entered and exited the second floor of the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower during that period.
In fact, the name of Pure Land Sect was originally marked on this map, but it was later erased by him.
The reason was that according to the information we received at the time, several monks from the Pure Land Sect also participated in the robbery of the silver paper.
Therefore, Qi Jinghong found an excuse to go to the Pure Land Sect and stayed there for a while, ostensibly to preach and discuss the Dharma with several Arhats.
He would occasionally wander around the temple, and he had also secretly approached several young monks in the news, but he did not get any clues from them. He did not dare to take action in the Pure Land Sect, and he had no reason to stay in the temple for a long time. In the end, he could only let the Pure Land Sect go.
Qi Jinghong was afraid that this map would be leaked inadvertently. The Pure Land Sect was powerful, and once someone saw the name of the Pure Land Sect, it might bring endless trouble, so he modified the map again.
However, other small sects were not so lucky. Either their entire sect was slaughtered or some of their cultivators were killed.
Anyway, during that period, the remnants of the demons were still there, and many people were causing chaos everywhere. Many people died, and no one knew the real reason...
Among those lists was also a person from the Hu Chen family whom he had inquired about, whose name was Hu Chen Jianghai.
After confirming the other party's identity, Qi Jinghong did go to the Hu Chen family, but the ancestor of Hu Chen had not left the family for a long journey at that time. After hiding for a while, he did not dare to sneak in without permission.
However, Qi Jinghong's luck suddenly changed. While wandering in a market thousands of miles away from the Hu Chen family, he found a young monk on the street.
The man used magic to conceal his illusory face, but Qi Jinghong saw through the other party's illusion with just a casual glance.
What surprised him was that the man was actually Hu Chen Jiang Hai whom he was looking for.
So next, poor Hu Chen Jianghai was still implicated by Li Yan nearly twenty years after escaping from his family.
After Qi Jinghong captured Hu Chen Jianghai, he would naturally not be polite to him.
They searched his soul as soon as he left the market town, but what made Qi Jinghong angry was that in Hu Chenjianghai's memory, there was no experience of going to the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower.
Qi Jinghong was extremely depressed by such a result, and he knocked Hu Chen Jianghai to pieces with one palm.
Poor Hu Chen Jianghai had no idea until his death why he had offended a Nascent Soul cultivator. It can be said that he died with his eyes open!
Although Hu Chen Jianghai had no memory of going to the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower, Qi Jinghong did not believe such an outcome.
Instead, he thought that there was something fishy going on. It might be that the ancestor Hu Chen had discovered the secret of the silver paper from Hu Chen Jianghai, and not only took the silver paper away, but also modified his memory.
But this made things difficult. Ancestor Hu Chen's poison technique was unrivaled in the world, and Qi Jinghong was extremely afraid of him and was not willing to fight with him easily.
He had no choice but to wait for the opportunity, but while he was waiting, the old man Hu Chen disappeared.
After he got the news that ancestor Hu Chen had left, he was determined to go to the Hu Chen family to search again, but at that time he was visited by a demon cultivator.
He was required to continuously provide various information about the world of immortal cultivation and be on standby at all times.
Only then did Qi Jinghong realize that he had already betrayed the human race. He was so worried that he no longer had the energy to go out to look for the silver paper.
This delay made it time for the infant-forming ceremony, and in the end it was a good thing for Li Yan.
Everything can be said to be a play of fate, and the fate of immortality is predestined by heaven.
Li Yan first put away the three pages of silver paper. He planned to refine these three pages of silver paper during his next retreat.
Afterwards, he reclassified the things in the patched bag and storage ring and put them into the "earth spot", and he also collected the storage magic weapons.
This is a magical storage space for Nascent Soul cultivators and is very valuable.
After doing all this, he took out a sixth-grade elixir - Bodhi Pill, divided it into three parts, and while communicating with his spiritual consciousness, he first sent one part into the "earth spot".
He woke up Qianji who was meditating to recover, and told him to take the medicine and refine it well.
Then he flashed out of the courtyard and appeared in front of Li Wuyi when he reappeared. He also took out the two Bodhi Pills and told Li Wuyi the uses of these pills. Li Wuyi was overjoyed.
Miao Wangqing had been in a coma, and he couldn't calm down at all. He took the pill and left in a hurry.
As for people like Wang Tian, Li Yan didn't care. Their lives were no longer in danger. He only had one pill of this kind left. He was not their master, so as long as he was not dead, he had to rely on himself to heal his injuries.
… …
This is a boundless dark space. The endless silence makes it seem like an eternal death place. People in it will feel lonely and helpless.
Li Yan stood in the middle, holding a small gray stone in his hand, and was looking around carefully.
At this moment, a pair of gray wings were wrapping around his body. Li Yan felt the surrounding strong wind constantly hitting the gray wings, but he could not feel any strong wind on his body at all.
This was after he left the sect and tried to use the "Sand Star Stone" to break through the void and entered the turbulent space, but he didn't know that this thing was called "Sand Star King Stone" by the Great Master and others.
Li Yan's current cultivation level is enough to tear the void with his bare hands. In order to test this "Sand Star King Stone", he decided to consume some of its power.
After entering the turbulent space, Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the meteorites passing quickly nearby. The entry point he chose was quite good, and there were not too many meteorites around.
Standing, Li Yan looked at the huge meteorite thousands of feet in the distance that looked like an ancient giant beast, slowly drifting in the void, and the small meteorites around it that occasionally passed by as fast as shooting stars.
Li Yan felt the breath of death in the turbulent space.
He stopped at the space crack where he had just entered, and only after making sure that the surrounding environment was correct did he retract his gray wings.
The gray wings were consuming the power of the "Sand Star King Stone" all the time, and Li Yan certainly didn't want to waste it.
The moment the gray wings were retracted, the faint light on Li Yan's protective shield flickered two or three times continuously. Now, the strong wind that made people shudder could no longer cause any harm to him.
After observing for a while, Li Yan discovered that although the strong wind in the turbulent space was fierce, it was not continuous, but came in intermittent waves, which gave the cultivators time to recover their magic power.
Li Yan's consciousness once again swept towards the "Sand Star King Stone" in his hand, and soon he sensed a faint connection from this "Sand Star King Stone" that was floating in the distance...
Thirty breaths later, in the clear blue sky, the white clouds in the sky suddenly shrank, as if they were pulled inward by something, and suddenly a large piece of white clouds disappeared.
A crack suddenly appeared in the calm sky without any warning, and a figure quickly flew out from it. It was Li Yan holding the "Sand Star King Stone" in his hand.
As soon as Li Yan's figure appeared, he scanned the surroundings with his spiritual sense, and finally looked at a certain place on the ground. The crack behind him had healed at an extremely fast speed.