Li Yan made a decision as soon as he thought of this. Immediately, two figures, one black and one white, appeared beside him.
"Meet the Master!"
"Owner!"
Qianji and Zikun looked around curiously, and then they were shocked to find that the Shadow Mistress was missing. In order not to disturb Li Yan and the Shadow Mistress, the two demons had been practicing in the "Earth Spot" recently.
“This is the underground of the swamp. There are some ghost-like creatures outside. Some of them have even reached the Nascent Soul stage.
I will set up a formation later, and you will be responsible for guarding the surroundings. If anything happens, just remind me in time. If nothing happens, I will focus on exploring the situation in the cave. "
Li Yan briefly explained the situation here and began to set up the formation.
After a flash of light green light, a formation was set up around the three of them. It was the "Yuanqi Taiqing Formation".
After more branches were branched out from the eight passages, if Li Yan wanted to explore carefully, he would need to continuously allocate more spiritual sense to go deeper. There were even smaller branches in those branches, and it was unknown how far they extended in twists and turns.
In this situation, he had no energy to take care of the situation around him. Although he had some guesses about the situation here, he was still afraid that the two red-robed men with bloody champions outside the cave would suddenly rush in.
Therefore, Li Yan must prepare his defense in advance and be able to withstand at least one attack from a Yuanying realm cultivator. Of course, the "Yuanqi Taiqing Formation" is the best choice.
It would be a safer approach to have Qianji and Zikun come out to assist and provide vigilance.
Before, when Li Yan was retreating, he inexplicably entered into thick black air. There was no guarantee that some changes would not happen quietly in this cave. It was best to do everything in the most detailed way.
After Li Yan gave a brief explanation, Qianji and Zikun asked a few more questions and finally figured out their situation.
The two monsters couldn't help but look at each other, and then looked towards the cave entrance. There were actually two Nascent Soul-level ghosts there, and their attack methods were a bit strange. It seemed that they could make use of the cold ghosts and the power of heaven and earth here to force Li Yan into the cave in one move.
Of course, they knew Li Yan's cultivation level better than anyone else. He was not afraid of fighting against several people of the same level. However, Li Yan did not say that he did not try his best. He was not the kind of person who liked to show off.
After Li Yan finished explaining, he immediately waved his hand and spirit stones flew in all directions, instantly falling to the ground and disappearing. Then he pinched his fingers to perform a magic spell, and the surrounding space twisted slightly before returning to normal.
After the "Yuanqi Taiqing Formation" was activated by him, Qianji and Zikun stood in two directions, one facing the cave entrance and the other observing the surroundings at all times.
Then, Li Yan sat cross-legged on the spot, and his consciousness once again covered the eight passages. This time he wanted to carefully explore all the forks...
Time passed by drop by drop. In the darkness, no one knew how much time had passed. There was only the repetitive whistling sound of the wind coming from the distant deep cave.
About an hour and a half later, Li Yan, who had been sitting still, suddenly opened his eyes. At this moment, his eyes were flashing with a terrifying brilliance. He stood up suddenly, and the two demons turned around and looked at Li Yan at the same time.
Li Yan waved his sleeves, and with a flash of green light, the "Yuanqi Taiqing Formation" was collected by him.
"let's go!"
After he whispered to the two monsters, he lifted them up into the air and flew quickly towards one of the passages.
"Master, have you found Mistress Shadow?"
As they walked forward, Qianji, who was standing beside them, immediately asked.
"Not yet, but there have been other discoveries!"
Li Yan shook his head.
Qianji's words made him regret his misjudgment in his heart. He was afraid that Gong Chenying would be in danger, so he left her in a safer place upstairs, but he didn't expect that he would lose contact with her in the end.
Seeing that Li Yan didn't want to say more, Qianji immediately shut up.
The three of them moved forward quickly in the darkness. Whenever they encountered a fork in the road, Li Yan chose one of the directions without hesitation.
He had left a spiritual mark in the direction he was going, and of course he looked very familiar with it.
After the three of them flew for about half an incense stick of time, Li Yan suddenly stopped.
At this time, a cave appeared in front of them. They were now five hundred feet away from the cave. Fortunately, the road here was no longer winding, otherwise they would not be able to see the end at all.
"Master, that is..."
The two demons suddenly discovered that there was a mass of something in the cave at the end of the road. That mass of thing looked like a person sitting cross-legged. Even at such a close distance, they could not detect any aura fluctuations from the other party.
"dead body?"
Qianji and Zikun looked at each other, neither of them sensed any signs of life.
"Stand here first, don't move, I'll go over and take a look!"
While Li Yan was speaking, he had already strode forward, but when he was still a hundred feet away from the cave entrance, he was blocked by an invisible barrier.
When Li Yan's spiritual consciousness reached here before, it was also blocked by this barrier, so he did not show any surprise.
There was a man sitting in the cave. He also had short hair and was wearing a black robe. He was tall, but the black robe seemed to be several sizes too big, as if it was put on a tall frame.
At this moment, he was making a strange seal with his hands, his eyes were closed, and his cheekbones were raised high. Even Li Yan could hardly detect the aura on his body, as if he was a dead person.
"Not a weak formation restriction!"
After observing carefully for a while, Li Yan suddenly took a step back and stood in a bow stance. Then, a faint light flashed on his body, and he punched the invisible restriction in front of him.
Although this attack did not utilize too much power from the Immortal Dark Wind's essence and blood, nor did it unleash the full power of the "Qiongqi Purgatory Technique", it was still extremely powerful.
"boom!"
Two balls of light, one yellow and one black, burst out from under Li Yan's fist. A loud bang shook the entire cave, and a lot of ice chips and rocks fell.
Qianji and Zikun in the distance were horrified and could not help but step back a few steps. Li Yan now was no longer someone they could predict.
After Li Yan threw the punch, he immediately withdrew his hand. Then he stood where he was and looked forward.
At the moment when Li Yan was about to stop, the person sitting cross-legged within the formation restriction suddenly opened his eyes, and the aura on his body emerged.
When he saw a figure standing in front of him, he stood up suddenly, followed by a powerful spiritual sense that instantly swept towards Li Yan.
At this time, Li Yan had already clasped his hands in his sleeves, but his previously hidden cultivation suddenly burst out, and the powerful strength of the middle Nascent Soul stage was revealed without reservation.
The man's spiritual sense quickly swept over Li Yan, and when he saw Li Yan clearly, the originally vigilant expression on his face suddenly froze.
“Huh? Middle Nascent Soul stage, you… you are a human cultivator??” “Greetings, Chief Clan Leader Gong!”
Li Yan leaned forward slightly and saluted.
His words, coupled with the courtesy he performed, made the tall man in the formation even more stunned. He spoke with hesitation.
"Hmm?? Fellow Daoist, do you... do you know Gong? Who are you and why are you here?"
Although the man was extremely thin and his aura was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, his eyes contained a domineering look that looked down on the world.
Although the tall and thin man only showed a dazed look on his face, his heart was already surging with waves at this moment. It had been a long time since he had seen any living creatures here. To be precise, all he had seen were ghosts and wind beasts.
How come a human cultivator suddenly appeared today, and brought two monsters with him
He was certain that the man and two monsters in front of him were definitely not illusions created by ghosts or wind beasts. He had fought against them for so many years, and he believed that he would not make a wrong judgment.
Moreover, the person in front of him was obviously a powerful cultivator of the same level as himself, so why did the etiquette he performed seem subtly respectful and humble, which would never happen among cultivators of the same level
What surprised him even more was that the other party actually recognized him. However, after he looked at the other party carefully, he had no impression of him at all, whether in appearance or aura.
Li Yan had stood up straight again. He looked into the tall man's eyes and said nothing more.
"I am Li Yan, a cultivator from the Wuliang Sect of the Wild Moon Continent, and the junior fellow of Gong Chenying of Xiaozhu Peak. I wonder if Clan Leader Gong has heard of him?"
Li Yan looked at the man opposite him calmly. Although the man in front of him was extremely thin, when Gong Chenying came, he still engraved the portraits of Gong Shanhe and the Sixth Elder on a jade slip and let Li Yan take a look.
In order to avoid encountering any extremely dangerous situation in the swamp, Li Yan put her into the spirit storage bag. If she met her father and the others again, it would be bad if they took action due to misunderstanding.
"Li...Yan, Ah Ying's...younger brother?"
The tall man who Li Yan recognized as Gong Shanhe was still thinking and analyzing everything that was happening in front of him. He thought countless times that there might be human cultivators appearing here.
But that should be a member of the Tianli tribe, but today a strange cultivator came.
When he saw at a glance that the other party was a human cultivator, he wondered if the other party was just like him, and might have discovered something unusual in the swamp, and therefore entered underground, or accidentally entered here.
But Li Yan's next words made him open his eyes wide.
Even for a man as calm as him, even though he had been trapped here for a long time, even though he suddenly saw that the person who came was a human cultivator, he was only surprised and confused before.
And now, Li Yan's words, all the information before added together, were not as shocking as the meaning contained in his words.
Although the name Li Yan was unfamiliar, he had heard of it before. When he went to pick up his daughter, Wei Chongran had told him that his daughter Zhao Min and his young disciple Li Yan had fallen into the cracks of the Yin Demon Cliff during the decisive battle with the demon clan, and it was unknown whether they were alive or dead...
With the memory of a cultivator, and the fact that Li Yan added a series of specific titles after introducing his name, Gong Shanhe immediately remembered who the other person was, the little disciple of Wei Chongran.
"But...but...wasn't he just a junior foundation-building cultivator when he fell off the cliff?"
Although Gong Shanhe was shocked, he was the head of the clan after all, and he reacted quickly. However, he did not speak immediately, but quickly thought about what Li Yan had just said in his heart.
Seeing that the other party fell into silence for a moment, Li Yan waved his hand casually, and a token appeared in front of him. He raised his palm and pushed forward lightly, and the token floated quietly outside the restriction of the formation.
"This is my sect token!"
The moment Gong Shanhe saw the token, a strange light flashed in his eyes.
Of course he recognized the Wuliang Sect's token, especially since the item the other party took out was the Xiaozhu Peak token, which was exactly the same as the one his daughter had.
He didn't even need to take it. After a careful scan with his spiritual sense, he confirmed that the other party's token was the real Wuliang Sect token and it couldn't be fake.
The shock in Gong Shanhe's eyes quickly disappeared, and his mind was also quickly making judgments, but he still did not immediately remove the formation restrictions.
“Weren’t you killed in the battle with the demons
The last time I went there, Master Cen told me about this. Why did you suddenly come here today? ? "
Gong Shanhe asked with a puzzled look on his face, and Li Yan smiled softly when he heard it.
“Master Wei Chongran, Senior Sister Min and I fell into the cracks of the Yin Demon Cliff and were trapped somewhere. We didn’t escape until more than a hundred years ago.
This time, I came here because I was asked by Senior Sister Gong and the First and Third Elders to try to find out the whereabouts of you and the Sixth Elder.
Now in the outside world, the three tribes of wind beasts are still fighting with your tribe. It’s not too late to talk about the details later when we have time! "
Li Yan briefly explained the purpose of his visit, and seemingly inadvertently, he also "corrected" some of the other party's "mistakes".
He certainly wouldn't think that Gong Shanhe had remembered it wrong, or that the person in front of him was a wind beast transformed and was talking nonsense here.
If Li Yan himself was an imposter and he was only vaguely familiar with the Wuliang Sect, then he might have fallen into at least one of its traps.
In Li Yan's case, with Li Yan's current level of cultivation, his master should be at the same level as Da Cen and Mo Qing.
This time, Li Yan did not call her "Sixth Senior Sister" but "Senior Sister Gong!", just wanting to explain the situation as quickly as possible.
As he spoke, Li Yan raised his hand to call back the sect token and put it away.
After hearing what Li Yan said, a gleam of light flashed in Gong Shanhe's eyes again, but his expression was also slightly relaxed.
Li Yan not only "saw through" his own "lie" just now, but also deliberately pointed out the first elder and the third elder, but did not mention the other elders in the clan at all.
This also illustrates a situation from another perspective, that is, the other party also knows the distribution of power within the Tianli tribe, and Li Yan may have come from the Tianli tribe.
After a few breaths, Gong Shanhe waved his hand, the space in front of him twisted slightly, and then everything returned to normal.
He clasped his fists towards Li Yan and then bowed.
"The wind beasts here are also good at transforming, so you have to be careful. I hope Brother Li won't be offended!"
Li Yan saw that Gong Shanhe was a seemingly rough man, but he was actually a very meticulous person and was also very decisive in doing things. Gong Chenying's personality was very similar to his.
But seeing him and Gong Shanhe bowing to him like this, he couldn't help but touch his nose.
This is my father-in-law. Once I explain the situation to him, I don’t know how he will think about the current situation.