Li Yan looked at the blue diamond crystal in his hand, his eyes full of thought, and looked at it over and over again.
"Walk!"
A cold voice sounded in his ears. Li Yan looked up and saw a heroic face, looking at everyone, but there was a hint of fatigue in the voice.
While Gong Chenying was asking everyone to quickly clean up the battlefield, she also quickly walked into the field. In the battle with the monster just now, seven of her people were killed and two were injured. Fortunately, the injuries of those two were not too serious and they still had their fighting power.
She quickly put the seven bodies and body parts into the storage bag. Whenever the Wuliang Sect was able to do so, they would take away the bodies of their fellow disciples.
When she looked up, she saw that the others had already cleaned up the battlefield. But when her eyes fell on Li Yan, she saw that Li Yan did not go into the battle center like the others to collect the spiritual weapons or demon cores scattered on the ground.
Instead, he walked to the earthen platform where the second-level monster had stood before, picked up the blue diamond crystal that was thrown on the ground, and was observing it in his hand.
Li Yan woke up from his thoughts and saw that there were only three or four people left around. He smiled at Gong Chenying, and with a flash of light in his hand, the blue diamond crystal had been collected by him. He then followed them out in a flash.
After Li Yan went outside, a bone-chilling wind blew, causing him to shiver.
They were now in the center of an isolated cliff on the top of a mountain, surrounded by howling winds and surging dark clouds, as if they were standing on an isolated island on a cliff amidst the crashing waves.
On the ground more than ten feet in front of them, there was a black hole emitting red light. The black hole actually extended infinitely downward into the interior of the mountain.
Looking closely, the red light in the black hole flickered. It was actually a bright and surging magma. High-temperature magma emerged from the black hole, but when it encountered the cold air in the air, it turned into wisps of smoke, making the cliff on the top of the mountain even more ethereal.
A path winds its way through the black hole, splitting the magma into two halves, and the other end disappears deep into the cave.
Li Yan could see that the red magma was emitting bubbles of varying sizes, which would explode and splash everywhere, hitting the black hole wall, emitting bursts of black smoke and a constant hissing sound.
"Hurry up and recover!"
After the pale-faced Gong Chenying finally came out of the ball, he glanced at the sky with howling dark clouds, then looked at the black hole in front of him. After observing the situation inside the black hole for a while, he immediately gave instructions to everyone.
Then she assigned five monks who were in better condition to be on guard. This time she used the golden axe, which consumed more mana than the previous level, and also consumed most of her physical strength. Now even her bones were a little sore, which was a sign of overexertion.
Li Yan's energy consumption during this level was quite high, and now his body has less than 40% energy left.
He originally wanted to enter, quickly distance himself and then find a chance to poison and launch a sneak attack to avoid a head-on fight with the powerful monster, but he was unexpectedly attacked by Bulifeng and Mi Yuanzhi.
The two of them hurriedly released the poisonous insects when they were only a dozen feet apart. Li Yan was speechless.
The poisonous insects were originally designed to attack from a long distance, but I don't know if those two wanted to show off or what, they didn't even dodge to the side to create distance, but released a large number of poisonous insects, and immediately lost a lot of advantages.
At such a close distance, although the monsters were covered by the poisonous insects, they could not take their lives immediately. Several extremely ferocious monsters quickly broke through them and killed three people on the spot.
This is not the fighting style that Li Yan likes. He likes to deal with his opponents in the most labor-saving and fastest way. He never uses his hands when he can use his brain, and never uses brute force when he can use his hands...
Half an hour later, the magic power in Li Yan's body was circulated wildly through the mutual generation of the five elements, and it was recovered to at least 80%. Even if he did not meditate next, the remaining 20% would recover by itself within an hour. This space made the five elements of the Guishui Sutra circulate faster and faster.
Although Li Yan consumed a lot of energy, he is the one who recovers the fastest here!
Judging from the recovery time given in the previous level, this level should take at least two hours to recover, and now there is almost one and a half hours left.
Li Yan opened his eyes and saw five monks looking around vigilantly, their expressions revealing fatigue.
"You guys meditate and recover, I'll be on guard!"
Li Yan immediately sent a message, and when the five cultivators looked at Li Yan, there was a look of surprise in their eyes. Li Yan was in good condition at this time, but when they thought of Li Yan's identity, they were not surprised.
They can use spirit stones and the rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth here to recover. The other party may have better elixirs. His master is a Jindan cultivator.
After a brief discussion among the five people, three of them began to recover, while the other two continued to stand guard with Li Yan, obviously not trusting Li Yan to be on guard alone.
Among the two people left behind to guard, there was one who was more familiar to Li Yan, that was Mei Bucai from Laojun Peak. There was a deep bloodstain on his left arm, but it was not bandaged.
Li Yan remembered that when he first came out, he also used his spiritual sense to scan the cultivators here, and saw that Mei Bucai was injured at that time. The extent of his injuries was quite shocking.
But now it seems that blood scabs have actually begun to form. It should be due to the use of good healing medicine. Laojun Peak is indeed worthy of its reputation.
Mei Bucai just smiled at Li Yan and did not come over. He and the other person dispersed a little, forming a triangle with Li Yan and encircling the rest of the cultivators in the middle.
Li Yan couldn't help but admire him in his heart. He didn't expect that this man, who looked like a rich young man, could have such a mind. He was indeed a talent. Li Yan sat cross-legged with his back to the crowd, looking at the dark sky outside the cliff. It was pitch black there, but it was not a huge black shadow, but rolling black clouds.
Gray clouds were rising from the bottom of the cliff. Li Yan couldn't see clearly what was below. He used his spiritual sense to detect for a while, and his face changed slightly. He heard a strange, rhythmic sound.
The sound was similar to that of a woman sobbing softly. After listening carefully, Li Yan's mind began to waver. He seemed to want to stand up, and he had the urge to jump off the cliff.
Li Yan bit his tongue hastily, and immediately his mind became clearer. He quickly withdrew his consciousness and dared not continue to explore. As expected, it was best not to try to explore the places outside the specified roads in each level, as those were definitely the most dangerous places.
He looked around and carefully felt the magic power in his body. There was no abnormal fluctuation at all. The five elements were circulating in a joyful alternation and mutual generation. Only then did he feel relieved.
After thinking about it, Li Yan stretched out his hand and slapped his waist. With a flash of blue light, a blue diamond crystal appeared in Li Yan's hand.
The blue diamond crystal in Li Yan's hand is different from the one in Gong Chenying's hand. The core color is black. When this thing just appeared at the entrance of the spherical mountain passage, Li Yan sensed a familiar aura and he had an urge to hold it in his hand.
However, only the captain of each team can possess it. At the end of the first level, Li Yan had searched for the yellow sphere, but unfortunately, the monk Zhizhong had crushed it into powder and did not leave any of it.
Of course, he would not ask Gong Chenying for a look, as that was the lifeblood of their team, and Gong Chenying would definitely not agree.
Li Yan placed the blue diamond crystal in front of his eyes and observed it carefully. Soon, a strange color flashed in his eyes. At that moment, the magic power in his hand quietly surged and was quietly injected.
In just a moment, Li Yan was so horrified that he almost cried out in surprise.
At the moment when he injected his magic power, the blue diamond crystal in his hand shone brightly, and the magic power in his body burst out involuntarily, completely out of his control.
In just half a breath, one tenth of the strength in his body was drained away. Li Yan was so scared that he quickly tried to cut off the magic power, but something horrifying happened. No matter how hard he tried, the magic power in his body still poured out uncontrollably.
Li Yan couldn't help but secretly groan in his heart. If this continued, it would only take about ten breaths for him to become a dried corpse.
But at this time, the other two had their backs to him, and the rest were practicing with their eyes closed. In order not to disturb others, Li Yan leaned his body against the edge of the cliff.
Although the blue diamond crystal was emitting a very strong blue glow at this moment, it could not be noticed unless viewed from the other side or the front.
As his magic power was draining away, Li Yan even found it difficult to open his mouth, let alone call for help.
Li Yan's mind was working rapidly, but after a few breaths, he was extremely frustrated and could not think of any solution at all. He felt that the magic power left in his body was less than 20%.
Li Yan didn't know that even a powerful foundation-building cultivator like Gong Chenying could only last less than two hundred breaths when injecting magic power into the blue diamond crystal.
Even if the magic power of a cultivator who has reached the great perfection of the Qi Condensation Stage is compared with that of a cultivator who has reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, the difference is as great as that between heaven and earth; one is just a small ditch, and the other is a huge lake.
Just when Li Yan felt death approaching and became anxious, something strange suddenly happened in his body!
Originally, Li Yan could hardly activate the Guishui Sutra by force, but at the moment when Li Yan was about to die, the water-attributed spiritual power tank seemed to boil, and an unrivaled suction force was generated.
The little remaining spiritual power in the other four tanks was madly sucked in, and instantly a pool of shallow black water was formed in the water-attribute tank. Since there was not much spiritual power left, the pool of black water did not appear very large.
There is only a shallow layer at the bottom of the water tank. Due to its scarcity, it has become translucent. To be more precise, it is a pool of gray water.
But it was this pool of gray water that, while the blue diamond crystals from the outside were madly absorbing it, actually generated a repulsive suction force, and the shallow layer of gray water seemed to have taken root at the bottom of the tank, firmly adhering to it.
At the same time, these two mutually repulsive forces slowly stirred up a whirlwind column in the spiritual power tank.
At first, the two opposing forces in this wind column were deadlocked and unable to pull at each other. Gradually, the black water whirlwind column in the spiritual power tank slowly rotated in the opposite direction.
As it began to spin, its speed gradually increased. Later, the wind column became faster and faster. As the changes in his body occurred, Li Yan, who was already somewhat desperate, slowly brightened up.
As the black water whirlwind column in his body rotated, it actually began to pull out a lot of spiritual power from the blue diamond crystal, and then poured it back into the purple palace dantian in Li Yan's body.
The reason why it is said to be a lot is because Li Yan felt that the spiritual power transmitted included not only the spiritual power that had just been extracted from him, but also some spiritual power that did not belong to him was also sucked in.
This made Li Yan feel a little uneasy, but he was unable to stop this change at the moment. These spiritual powers that did not belong to him seemed a little out of place in his body.
Li Yan had read a large number of classics in Xiaozhu Peak. There were some evil cultivation techniques in this world that were practiced by absorbing other people's spiritual power for one's own use. This kind of cultivation technique could make rapid progress in a short period of time.
Just like the soul-sucking technique that Strategist Ji had intended to use against him before, this type of technique had one major drawback: the spiritual powers of different people had to be assimilated in the end. Otherwise, the mutual repulsion between different spiritual powers would become extremely chaotic, making it easy for the cultivator to go astray.
Li Yan could not have imagined that this situation would occur in his body at this moment. He felt that the spiritual power was too complicated and the inside of his dantian began to become disordered. These spiritual powers wanted to break out from the purple palace in his dantian.
If that had happened, Li Yan would have died from the reversal of his blood flow. The situation had been turned around, but now Li Yan was plunged into another life-and-death situation.