Li Yan withdrew his spiritual sense. He had to take action because according to the current speed of Wang Lang and his men, after passing through two more gates ahead, they would have attacked to a place ten miles away.
However, at this moment he was somewhat shocked in his heart. The Taixuan Sect and other three sects had been plotting for hundreds of years to deal with the Wuliang Sect.
Li Yan also learned that in this world, there really are people with mixed spiritual roots of the five elements who, without any special skills, not only succeeded in building their foundation, but also reached the late stage of Golden Elixir.
Judging from Quan Jiuxing's words, this Jindan senior of the Taixuan Sect who discovered the secret of the blue diamond crystal finally failed in his attempt to reach the Nascent Soul stage.
"I wonder what kind of elixir that Jindan cultivator of the Taixuan Sect swallowed that could allow a person with mixed spiritual roots to cultivate so incredibly. If I could have such an elixir, I think my cultivation speed would be several times faster."
Li Yan couldn't help but licking his lips and thought to himself.
Then Li Yan shook his head in self-mockery. It was impossible for him to encounter such a good thing in the world. Then, he withdrew from the optical band diaphragm...
Li Yan's consciousness sank into the blue diamond crystal. At this time, the second to last door was bright from the bottom to the middle, and the upper half of the semicircular arch also emitted an orange-yellow light, which was a sign of gradual lighting.
Li Yan, standing on the white light band, did not delay any longer. He took a step forward and arrived at the last dark door.
Li Yan stretched out his hands and clapped them, and a new "Ghost Carriage Talisman" appeared on his body surface. Gong Chenying had given him three of her own before. Now, Li Yan had six "Ghost Carriage Talismans" in his hands, which was enough for the time being.
Li Yan quickly passed through the Dark Gate and came to the long iron chain bridge. He used his body skills to quickly move within a ten-foot radius of the place where he appeared, and then hid in the light band membrane layer again at the fastest speed.
This time he took a great risk. Although he had displayed his extremely fast body skills, before he could hide in the light band again, a strange black eagle appeared behind him, stretched out its long sharp beak and pecked at his back fiercely.
Li Yan only felt an evil wind behind him, but he didn't dare to look back. With a flash of green light from the crystal in his hand, he tried his best to crash into the invisible door that didn't exist.
The moment he entered the light band, there was a muffled sound from behind. Li Yan actually felt that this tough membrane was shaking slightly, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
"Hmm? There's movement ahead!"
At the same time, Wang Lang and Quan Jiuxing Huo, who were more than a mile away, looked up and spoke at the same time. They hurriedly expanded their spiritual awareness and spread it out. After a while, both of them had puzzled expressions on their faces.
"Strange, Brother Wang, did you find anything?"
"Why did a strange black eagle appear? Shouldn't it appear when we get there? Could something have happened?"
Wang Lang was also puzzled. According to his previous experience in clearing levels, as long as the team did not reach a certain section of the level, nothing would happen ahead.
So, they just need to pay attention to the situation in front of them and the huge black shadow in the sky behind them.
"Could it be that the level has become more difficult and some of the rules have changed?"
Quan Jiuxing said with a frown, feeling vaguely uneasy deep in his heart.
Wang Lang did not say anything. After scanning the area several times with his spiritual sense, he found that even the strange black eagle had disappeared without a trace. He couldn't help but feel uneasy.
"Brother Quan, this is a strange matter. You and I should be extra careful. We still have more than a mile to go. Be on high alert!"
He said with a serious expression that faced with this unknown situation, they had no choice but to be extremely careful.
In the light band membrane one mile away, Li Yan, holding a blue diamond crystal, was maintaining the green light while thinking secretly.
"They finally found out something was wrong. I must find a set of body movement skills when I go back this time. It took me only one breath to complete a circle of ten feet. Otherwise, I would not have triggered the restriction here at all."
After another two breaths, Li Yan carefully held the blue diamond crystal and shot out a green light, which hit the black semicircular arch, creating a small gap, and then slowly released a ray of spiritual consciousness.
After a moment, Li Yan couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. The strange black eagle had disappeared. Outside, except for the roaring river and the sound of magic exploding from afar, it was quiet for a moment.
After more than ten breaths, Wang Lang and his companions had already arrived within the last mile. However, their speed had slowed down and they protected themselves very tightly.
The black strange eagles in the sky kept screaming sharply, and the golden wire snakes below were endless, like a dense rain of arrows shot into the sky, which broke the wooden boards under their feet one after another, and turned into debris and fell into the river. Only a few empty long iron chains were left leading to the other side ahead.
This caused the Qi Condensation Stage cultivators to become busy. Some of them were barely floating in the air, while others were standing on the iron chains with their feet in a straight line, their bodies swinging violently with the bridge.
But Wang Lang and Quan Jiuxing in front seemed not to see it. They were floating and flying, with serious expressions, and had no intention of speeding up to pass through here. For a moment, the Qi Condensation cultivators in the back were attacked from all directions and were in a very bad state.
Several strange black eagles swooped down from the sky with the power of wind and thunder. Their long sharp beaks rubbed against the air, and arcs of light appeared at the front.
A sword cultivator from the Ten-Step Academy stood on a long iron chain with his body firmly attached to it. He carried a huge sword box on his body, and with every move he made, dozens of flying swords whizzed out from the box behind him.
The flying sword danced up and down, protecting himself in it. Whether it was the strange eagle in the sky or the golden snake in the river, they were all chopped into black feathers flying, or they were broken into several golden corpses and fell into the river. It was really sharp and invincible. A black strange eagle rushing down in the sky saw him at a glance, and immediately showed a fierce light in its eyes, and rushed towards the Ten-Step Academy Sword Cultivator.
This monk from the Ten-Step Courtyard was in the middle of a fierce fight when he suddenly felt a fierce murderous intent coming from behind his head. He turned his head hastily, only to see a dark cloud-like thing coming straight at him, arriving in an instant.
He couldn't help but be shocked. This strange eagle was at least twice as big as the surrounding ones, and it swooped down from the sky. It was really powerful. He hurriedly clasped his hands together, and four big swords suddenly appeared above his head.
As he raised his hand and pointed, the four big swords hummed and merged into a giant sword about three meters long. The sword tip was shining brightly and it instantly came straight forward.
Seeing this, the strange eagle did not dodge, but pecked at the giant sword with its beak. The next moment, everyone heard a series of loud noises, "clang clang clang". In a flash, the long giant beak struck out continuously like a woodpecker.
Each peck hit the edge of the giant sword. In an instant, several gaps appeared on the extremely sharp edge of the giant sword.
The swordsman outside the Ten-Step Courtyard below suddenly turned pale, and his body swayed on the chains. The next moment, he spit out a large mouthful of blood, and his expression suddenly became listless.
As he was shaking, one of his hands inevitably reached out to the iron chain of the guardrail on one side. At the same time, the giant sword in the sky had already disintegrated and turned into four big swords again, but the spirituality had been lost.
The huge "I"-shaped claws under the strange eagle were flashing with a faint light and cut towards the monk's neck like a sharp knife.
The outer swordsman wanted to dodge, but it was too late and he was about to die!
At this moment, a cold snort came from his side. Another monk raised one hand, put his index and middle fingers together, and pointed forward. A sharp sword shot out in an arc from the sky, and in a blur it appeared under the body of the strange eagle, and slashed it fiercely with its sharp claws.
This is an even more powerful inner sword cultivator. The sword ball from the Niwan Palace is more powerful, and the trajectory of the sword is erratic and the speed is amazing.
This series of actions seemed long, but from the outer sword monk forming the giant sword to slash at the strange eagle, to the inner sword monk drawing the sword to rescue, it only happened between two breaths.
A cold light flashed in the eyes of the Inner Sword Monk. He had been refining this sword pill for more than ten years. He was also one of the few Inner Sword Monks among this group of Qi Condensation Monks who had cultivated a sword pill.
Although they were all cultivators with mixed spiritual roots, they were trained with the sect's massive resources. Among the more than one hundred cultivators, several of them actually cultivated sword pills, which was truly amazing.
They are endowed with sword balls, so even if they are defeated by ordinary cultivators in the early stage of foundation building, they should be able to escape. Their fighting power is extremely strong.
This inner swordsman believed that with this strike of his sword, the sharp claws of the strange eagle would be cut off.
However, just as he was confidently looking at the sharp sword that was about to chop off the huge eagle's claws, the eagle suddenly tilted one of its wings and its entire body mysteriously disappeared from there.
Just as he was filled with astonishment, the figure of the strange eagle suddenly reappeared, approaching him from behind, and a pair of sharp claws cut his right arm. The inner sword cultivator was suddenly horrified and hurriedly lay on his side, lying on an iron chain.
The sharp claws of the huge monster eagle brushed past his shoulder and sleeve. There was a loud bang, and the sharp claws missed the air and cut into the iron chain on one side of the chain bridge, causing the entire chain bridge to shake.
Everyone on the bridge was standing unsteadily, some reaching out to hold on to the chains, some quickly floating into the air.
After the strange eagle missed its attack, it slid sideways again and rushed over again. The inner sword cultivator just stood up while swaying, and saw at a glance the place where the strange eagle's claws had hit just now.
The iron chain was extremely hard, and had not been damaged at all by their previous magic. However, after the attack from the strange eagle, it was left with a deep dent. He could not help but groan inwardly.
Seeing that the strange eagle was attacking again rapidly, it was too late for the inner sword cultivator to control the flying sword in the air. At this moment, a loud shout was heard, and another sword light came like a meteor in the sky.
In a flash of light, it struck the body of the strange eagle. The next moment, the huge strange eagle was torn into pieces. At this time, Wang Lang's faint voice came from the front.
"How dare the evil beast to be so rampant!"
The inner sword cultivator and the outer sword cultivator who had just stabilized his body, breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the handsome young man in front of them with gratitude. But at this moment, the two of them felt dizzy and had a sharp pain in their stomachs.
At the same time, all the monks who were holding the iron chains began to scream miserably.
Some of them began to have festering hands and ooze pus, and they screamed as if they were drenched by rain. Their entire bodies turned into a pool of pus and dripped into the surging river below.
Some monks were covered in red, with black smoke spewing out of their seven orifices. They wanted to shout out in pain, but every time they opened their mouths, more smoke spewed out of their mouths and noses. Their faces were extremely distorted, and their entire bodies turned into a handful of flying ashes.
As the pus dripped, the golden snakes below that got touched by a drop of it instantly turned into pus and fell into the river.
The flying ashes rose up, contaminating some of the strange sculptures, as if they were melted by the high temperature, and before they could even scream, they turned into black smoke that filled the air...
In just a few breaths, more than twenty people from both the Shibuyuan and Taixuan Sect had died. Some of them were suddenly poisoned, while others were contaminated by the pus or black smoke from the people around them and disappeared along with them.