Li Yan's mind immediately thought of the top-notch body-building technique, "Qiongqi Purgatory Technique", and the thoughts that had been suppressed for a long time came to his mind again.
A good body-building technique is extremely important to Li Yan. His combat skills have been based on this since he was a low-level cultivator.
Li Yan is more adept at close combat, and the fighting skills have long been integrated into his bones.
After a while, Li Yan calmed down his thoughts. Things still need to be planned before they can be carried out. He has always been a man who plans before making decisions, so this matter cannot be rushed.
Although he refined another complete drop of "Immortal Dark Phoenix" blood essence this time, Li Yan did not gain any new talents or skills, but his "Phoenix Soaring to the Sky" skills were greatly improved again.
Li Yan had only performed it briefly indoors before, and he discovered that "Feng Chongtian" not only increased its speed by about two times, but also gave him the feeling of directly tearing the void during the movement.
Li Yan knew that this was a manifestation of the advancement of the immortal body of the "Immortal Phoenix".
Although the "Immortal Dark Phoenix" does not have the enviable innate spatial magical powers that the Phoenix and the other clans have, it has talents that the Phoenix and the other clans do not have.
That is the incomparable strong body and speed that can easily tear through space.
In other words, at a certain point in time, Li Yan will be able to cross the turbulent space with just his strong body, without being afraid of the turbulent winds or even the cutting of space, and he himself will remain unharmed.
This is something that even Nascent Soul cultivators and even Spiritual Transformation cultivators cannot do.
After sorting out the gains from this retreat, Li Yan's consciousness then entered the "Earth Spot". He has not come out since Qianji entered to recuperate more than 30 years ago.
Later, Zi Kun also used the channel mapped by Li Yan's spiritual consciousness to enter the "Earth Spot" on his own. Since then, he has never appeared in the outside world again and also began to practice in seclusion.
Li Yan's shadow flashed out from the "earth spots" and he soon discovered the Zikun in the far western desert.
At this moment, he was surrounded by purple light, his eyes were slightly closed, and he kept breathing in the fire spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Above his head, the shadow of a purple little elephant was looming.
With each breath, the purple light became stronger and weaker.
Feeling the aura emanating from Zi Kun, Li Yan nodded, feeling quite satisfied. Zi Kun's cultivation had finally broken through again since he came out of the "Soul Prison Clan" and had already reached the late stage of the Golden Core.
Currently, he is in a stable state...
On the top of a snowy mountain, Qianji was also sitting cross-legged in meditation. His previous injuries had long since healed.
At this time, Qianji's body was full of energy, and Li Yan happened to see that he was trying to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage of the Golden Core. Qianji's magic power was flowing, making his skin crystal clear.
Just like the last battle when he fought for his life, maybe he had a glimmer of insight when death was approaching, and he was broken and then rebuilt. After being seriously injured, his cultivation speed did not decrease but increased.
"The Qi is full, the mana is flowing smoothly, and there are not too many obstacles. The hope of successful impact is still great!"
After observing Qianji for a while, Li Yan made a judgment in his mind.
However, it is difficult for a cultivator to help others with his own breakthrough. The most he can do is help him find some treasures to increase his magic power in the early stage.
Once a person enters the stage of cultivation breakthrough, other people can basically not help him at all, unless their cultivation level is several realms higher than that of the other person, then it is possible to forcibly improve his cultivation level, but that would be like forcing things to happen.
Li Yan did not stay in the "Earth Spot" space for long. Since he was sure that the two monsters were fine now, he felt less worried.
Li Yan stood up and opened the long-closed courtyard door. Outside the courtyard, there were green bamboos and blue sky with flowing clouds, as if decades ago were just yesterday.
Li Yan soared into the air and flew towards where Wei Chongran lived!
In Wei Chongran's courtyard, Zhao Zhi and Zhao Min were sitting in the yard, and the three of them were talking in low voices.
Suddenly, Wei Chongran looked up at the gate of the courtyard, a smile appeared on his face, and then he waved his sleeves lightly, and the gate opened silently.
His action stunned the mother and daughter, but Zhao Min reacted quickly.
She had sent a message to Li Yan today. She was just trying to contact him and didn't hold out much hope. Monks usually cut off all contact with the outside world when they are in seclusion.
At the same time, there are not many people who can come to Wei Chongran. The most likely ones are Li Wuyu and Li Yan, or Mo Qing.
But Wei Chongran did not ask Zhao Zhi and Zhao Min to avoid it, so the person who came should not be Mo Qing. Zhao Min guessed that it was Li Yan.
Li Wuyi has been in seclusion for more than 20 years now, and there has been no news that he will come out.
This time, Li Wuyi's retreat was not to avoid Li Changting and Miao Wangqing, but the last time Miao Wangqing almost died, and the terrified expression on his young son's face made his originally unruly character fade away a lot.
In the days that followed, his mentality changed subtly. After giving careful instructions to Li Changting and Miao Wangqing, he went into seclusion.
This is different from the previous practice of just going into seclusion without even saying hello!
Sure enough, as the gate opened, Li Yan appeared outside the gate, looking at the three people in the yard with a smile on his face.
Li Yan first looked at Zhao Min and found that Zhao Min's aura was still at the False Infant stage, but now Zhao Min's magic power was as strong as a deep ocean. In terms of magic power alone, she was only a step away from the early Nascent Soul stage.
Li Yan took a few quick steps and then stopped, bowing respectfully to Wei Chongran and Zhao Zhi.
"Greetings, Master and Master's Wife!!"
Zhao Zhi was still wearing an exquisite palace dress. Perhaps due to years of seclusion, her face was paler than before, but Li Yan could tell that it was more like pale, not a normal skin color.
Zhao Zhi was still in the False Infant realm, but the aura he exuded was not as solid as Zhao Min's. Li Yan even felt that Zhao Zhi's aura was a little empty, as if it was even weaker than it was decades ago.
"No need to be so polite!"
Before Wei Chongran could speak, a smile appeared on Zhao Zhi's face. She looked at Li Yan, who was as respectful as before, and couldn't help feeling happy. This was the first time they met after Li Yan had conceived a baby.
"Your seclusion this time is not that long. I thought it would take at least 70 or 80 years!!"
Wei Chongran immediately spoke up, and then he looked Li Yan up and down.
He and Zhao Zhike didn't know that Zhao Min had sent a message to Li Yan through the sect token, so Li Yan's sudden coming out was still a bit unexpected.
After hearing this, Li Yan seemed to have thought of something. He stood up but his face remained expressionless.
"Oh, I just finished practicing a magic technique. I feel a little tired, so I want to come out and rest for a few days."
Wei Chongran nodded and didn't ask any more questions about the matter.
After a cultivator has finished practicing a technique or magic, it is sometimes not suitable for him to move on to the next stage immediately.
Moreover, Li Yan is now also an ancestor-level cultivator in the sect, and his power in the sect is no less than his own.
Therefore, Li Yan no longer needed anyone's permission to read any martial arts book or practice any martial arts he wanted. The relationship between him and him was only nominal master and disciple.
After hearing Li Yan's answer, there was a slight fluctuation in Zhao Min's eyes, which were as dark as stars.
So, the four people in the courtyard started chatting in detail.
But they only talked for about a cup of tea before Wei Chongran and Zhao Zhi got up and left. Of course, they wanted to give more space to Li Yan and the other person, whom they hadn't seen for decades.
After Wei Chongran and his wife left, Zhao Min also stood up.
"Junior brother, let's go to the back mountain when you have time!" "Hehehe, everything is up to you!!"
The winding trail on the back of Xiaozhu Peak goes up the mountain. Looking from the sky, the stone path goes through the bamboo sea, vaguely separating the bamboo sea. From time to time, a section of the stone path disappears in the sea and then reappears at the next section...
Above the bamboo sea, white clouds from afar are blowing, passing through large tracts of green bamboo leaves in the breeze, making the entire bamboo sea look like a fairyland. These white clouds are passing through the bamboo tips, and then drifting away in the mountain breeze!
Looking down from a high altitude, through the gaps between the rapidly moving white clouds, two figures, one in black and one in white, slowly ascend along the mountain path as if there were nothing under their feet, just like walking in the clouds.
People are wandering in the painting, it feels like a fairyland.
Li Yan looked at the surrounding scenery and couldn't help but sigh that time is irrelevant in the cultivation of immortals. The scenery here was familiar, but also a little strange.
Although the bamboo sea remains, the small trees will eventually grow into towering trees, and the same goes for the spiritual bamboo.
Although the overall layout of the bamboo sea behind the mountain has not changed, it has changed a lot in the monk's memory, which is able to see through the details.
"If I were just a mortal, how can everything now compare to the past?"
Li Yan thought in his heart.
He and Zhao Min are usually silent people. Even when they are together, there is often a long interval before one of them speaks, and then the other responds with brief words.
After leaving Wei Chongran and his wife's courtyard, Li Yan briefly asked about his master's wife.
Zhao Min spoke calmly. Although Zhao Zhi had been in seclusion for more than half a century, he still could not find the insights he gained after the battle at Yinmo Cliff. What is lost will eventually be lost.
Compared with the smooth sailing she had experienced in her previous practice, this was simply unacceptable to her.
As a result, Zhao Zhi had problems with his mentality during his subsequent practice, and he had the urge to force himself to break through the bottleneck.
As a result, four years ago, when she was practicing Zhou Tian Gong and forcibly impacting an acupoint, something went wrong and she fainted on the spot, and no one knew about it.
When she woke up again, she found that her tendons and veins had been severely damaged. Under such circumstances, she had no choice but to come out.
Wei Chongran was shocked when he saw it, and quickly used a spell to help her stabilize her tendons and dantian.
Afterwards, Wei Chongran spent a huge amount of spirit stones to buy a sixth-grade "Mianjin Pill", and finally Zhao Zhi's injuries were healed.
However, Zhao Zhi's cultivation level still declined and he almost fell to the late Jindan stage.
If she wanted to cultivate to the peak of the False Infant Realm again, she didn't know how many years it would take. In addition, her confidence was hit the hardest this time, so her hope of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm next time was even smaller.
After listening to Zhao Min's brief narration, Li Yan remained silent. Cultivating immortals, cultivating immortals, how many people can truly go through all the journey without any obstacles
Just like Zi Kun, his bloodline is already extraordinary. Logically speaking, as long as the monsters with high-level bloodline do not die, it is actually much easier for them to advance than humans.
But he is different and is still struggling in the Jindan stage.
Since Zhao Zhi’s injuries have healed, Li Yan’s “Bodhi Pill” is of no use.
Then, Li Yan changed the topic and asked Zhao Min about her own cultivation progress.
It has been eleven years since Zhao Min came out of seclusion. She has not encountered any obstacles in her practice of "The Heavenly Demon White Jade Plate". Instead, she seems to feel a light in the dark.
But no matter how Zhao Min meditated, she could not find the exact location of the light, nor could she grasp or touch it.
Li Yan knew that Zhao Min had reached the same situation as when he first returned to the Wild Moon Continent.
Although his magic power was abundant and had reached the level of being able to impact the Nascent Soul stage, his state of mind was not enough, and he had not comprehended any of the rules of heaven and earth to guide him.
This is no longer something that can be achieved through hard work. What is needed more is to sharpen one's mind and look for opportunities, just like what one did when he first entered the mortal world.
As they walked slowly forward, they unknowingly reached the familiar platform and sat on the edge of the cliff again.
Zhao Min still left her pair of slender and round legs hanging in the air below the cliff, swaying gently.
Her body swayed slightly in rhythm, and the ponytail of her shiny black hair brushed against her rounded petals from time to time...
"After you come out of seclusion this time, are you planning to go to the Wind God Continent?"
Zhao Min's profile was as beautiful as ever with a three-dimensional feel. From Li Yan's perspective, it looked like a piece of the finest carved white jade in the world.
"I can't go there in the short term. There are still some things that are not completed. It may take some time to deal with them!"
Li Yan is no longer shy about the issue of "Wind God Continent".
He had thought about when to go to Fengshen Continent before, but he felt that before going to Fengshen Continent, it would be best to visit the few red dots on the map left by Qi Jinghong that were not crossed out.
This matter has been delayed for more than 30 years. Now that his strength has increased a lot, it is time to find the silver paper.
But Zhao Min didn't ask him what was the matter. Instead, she said something that made Li Yan stunned.
"Then let's become Taoist couples as soon as possible!"
Zhao Min said this in a calm tone, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her.
While she was speaking, she didn't even look at Li Yan, her eyes were still fixed on the undulating line of mountains in the distant sky.
"Master... Senior Sister..."
Li Yan looked at Zhao Min in astonishment, his mind went blank for a moment.
Zhao Min sensed Li Yan's surprised gaze staring at her, and her snow-white face finally turned red.
"I... I don't think Senior Sister Ying will blame me!
My mother's mental state has become very problematic, and her life span is not very long.
If I go into seclusion again next time, it will probably be a death seclusion. I don’t know if we will have the chance to meet again!
So... the one she finds the hardest to let go of is me, as if it is the debt she owes to me when she was little.
I know she still has some concerns in her heart. If...if we become a Taoist couple, it will be good for her state of mind. Maybe she can break through successfully after the change!"
After Zhao Min said this, she looked at Li Yan with a blush on her face. Under the sunlight, her skin was as white as snow and the plum blossoms reflected the winter.
For a moment, Li Yan was stunned by Zhao Min's words and slightly shy gaze.
Zhao Min and he are already engaged, but Li Yan thinks that Zhao Min might not agree until she has conceived a baby.
Zhao Min has a very noble character. What she wants more is to be with him on the immortal journey forever and never leave him. Li Yan knows this, so he will not rush her.
Zhao Min was stared at blankly by Li Yan, and she frowned slightly.
"you are not willing?"