The two men did not find any traces in the village, especially the mortals in the village, who had all disappeared without a trace.
The soul tablet of a Jindan cultivator in the sect suddenly cracked. Originally, the death of a cultivator of this level was not a big deal.
However, after investigation, it was discovered that this person was a disciple on duty in the sect. He died while going out to investigate after receiving a warning message.
After his soul tablet was shattered, it was immediately reported to the higher-ups. When the elders above learned the cause, the matter immediately attracted the sect's attention.
It was a big deal when a disciple who went to investigate the evil spirit monk suddenly died.
This shows that there is a high probability that there are indeed evil spirits. The other party must be either large in number or have a cultivation level above the Nascent Soul stage, to be able to do it so efficiently.
So the sect immediately sent two Nascent Soul Realm deacons to investigate the matter. After checking the village where Wu Lei was, the two cultivators immediately determined that the person who came was a powerful evil spirit.
In the village, the most intense fighting took place at the entrance of the village. However, the traces there were only those left by the Qi Condensation Stage.
Finally, they searched the entire village but could not find any other traces of the fight. Finally, they found the underground "Crystal Smoke Land", which they felt was the most suspicious.
But still nothing was discovered, and all the villagers in the village disappeared, which meant that the evil spirits from outside were extremely ruthless.
In order to cover up their whereabouts, they don't care about the other party's identity at all. Their purpose is to completely cover up all traces of their presence.
I have to say that Li Yan's move really bought him some time.
Otherwise, a piece of news about the "evil spirit monk" and the complete disappearance of a Jindan monk would definitely lead to these villagers being thoroughly seen through inside and out.
There is only information about Li Yan, and his appearance and so on have been verified, so there will be a clear target for the subsequent search.
Li Yan never considered himself a gentleman. Although he would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, he would not be polite to anyone who threatened his life.
Immediately, after the two Nascent Soul cultivators had discussed it, one of them quickly returned to the sect and began to report to the sect, deploying the sect's disciples to search everywhere. They were very familiar with dealing with this kind of thing.
The other Nascent Soul cultivator immediately began to search the surrounding area carefully.
Therefore, after receiving the report from the Nascent Soul cultivator, this sect not only sent out its own people, but also immediately passed on some of the information to other neighboring forces.
They began to spread a large net around, capturing foreign "evil spirit monks" everywhere. It was precisely because of the large net that was uniformly exposed to the outside world in the "Earth True Realm" that it was basically difficult for foreign monks to escape.
Their hatred for the evil spirit monks is deep-rooted. It is these people who forced them here and prevented them from enjoying more cultivation resources from the outside world.
Therefore, many monks who were looking for the foreign "evil spirit monks" soon appeared outside, even the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core disciples showed up.
These monks here have long developed the habit of being self-centered, so they are not afraid of foreign monks, and they don't necessarily have to go forward in person, as long as they find any abnormal situation, they will issue an alarm.
Thanks to Li Yan's decisiveness, the other party lost their clear target in the unknown circumstances.
This allowed Li Yan to escape from the most densely combed area at the first possible moment, which allowed him to escape with his life.
Although he was traveling very fast, he still encountered many cultivators when he had flown more than 20,000 miles. Li Yan saw that there were more than five or ten cultivators in total.
And it was obvious that he was searching. After losing his spiritual sense to detect, Li Yan learned the method used by the soul cultivator who was poisoned by the disintegrating poison.
He decided to stay out of the spotlight for the time being, lest he make a move but fail to kill everyone in time with one blow, thus exposing his existence, which would be a big deal for him.
Moreover, in the confessions of Wu Lei and others, they said that the means to deal with foreign cultivators might be to extract their souls and refine their spirits after they were captured.
At that time, Li Yan thought it was just the ordinary soul extraction and spirit refining. Now that he had some judgment, he knew that he might have mistakenly entered the place where soul cultivators gathered.
When thinking of the existence of soul cultivators, Li Yan, who has been practicing Taoism for so long, of course knows that sects like soul cultivators and poison cultivators often practice in seclusion.
You rarely come into contact with this kind of sect in the outside world. They have always been known for their mystery. You basically cannot find the location of their sect, and each of them is cruel and vicious.
Just looking at the attitude of the mortals here towards the foreign monks, they have the mentality of killing them as soon as possible, and you can imagine what it would be like if you were caught.
That is the true meaning of extracting the soul and refining the spirit, not just a metaphor.
"The incident in that village has been discovered, and these people may be looking for the so-called 'evil monk'.
This is an area controlled by secluded soul cultivators. The appearance of foreign cultivators will affect their peace.
Therefore, he did not hesitate to mobilize even mortals, instilling the evil of foreign cultivators into their minds, making them share a common hatred of the enemy, and not fearing the gap between cultivators and mortals at all, and brazenly "attacking" himself.
The soul cultivators here will not allow any small stone to disrupt the peace here, let alone allow someone to leave here and tell others about the discovery of the soul cultivator."
Li Yan kept thinking in his mind that in order to protect their secrets, the hidden sects or tribes would kill all outsiders who knew about it.
Li Yan even felt a little excited in his heart, thinking that he couldn't leave here. This might be a method used by these soul cultivators.
Then in this way, I will have a chance to get out.
Li Yan dodged several waves of searches along the way and passed by these people from a distance in a hidden state, but every time he did so, he felt uneasy in his heart.
Li Yan saw those cultivators holding some magic weapons in their hands, constantly activating them, causing some changes in light and shadow, etc. Those magic weapons also had various shapes.
As they activated their magic weapons and moved them around, Li Yan felt that his soul was becoming uneasy, with a constant feeling of palpitations and disturbance.
When those soul cultivators activated their magic weapons, Li Yan could roughly sense the fluctuations in Qi emanating from their bodies. Most of them were only at the Jindan stage.
Fortunately, his soul is also powerful, and it has been tempered in the underground alleys of the "Soul Prison Clan" for more than ten years, so he has extremely strong control over his soul.
Whenever he encountered this situation, he would stop, stand still, and forcibly suppress all the discomfort in his soul.
Then, seeing some cultivators looking towards the direction where he was hiding with puzzled expressions, Li Yan felt more and more that soul cultivators were terrifying.
"In this strange place, my spiritual sense cannot scan it. These magic weapons must have been made specifically to detect others. This method is a bit scary. Even the effectiveness of my concealment method has been greatly reduced!"
This made Li Yan extremely frightened, because the methods of concealment that he cultivated were all designed to prevent detection by spiritual consciousness.
He secretly thanked his lucky stars that he was not careless and did not fly away desperately without noticing the strong man's situation because he was in a hurry to leave here.
Li Yan's carefulness and decisiveness enabled him to leave the most intensive search area before the other party sent out a large number of disciples to search.
Due to the size limitation of the "Earth True Domain", the place where he is now is already in the sphere of influence of other sects, and there are fewer searching monks.
In this way, he walked, stopped, hid, and encountered many towns, villages, and even some sects along the way.
But Li Yan was careful to avoid them, but because of the appearance of those monks holding magic weapons, Li Yan's speed suddenly dropped, and time passed by quickly...
A day later, he flew another four thousand miles. Although Li Yan met some single monks on the way, he did not take action after careful consideration.
Since he guessed that there were monks nearby searching for him, he decided not to risk exposing himself. If he did that, he would fail to get any information and end up sending himself out...
Li Yan was sneaking quietly along the ground in a field. As he was moving forward, he suddenly stopped in place.
Because the soul in his body suddenly had an urge to rush out of the body, Li Yan immediately stopped and forcibly calmed the fluctuations of his soul power.
But this time his soul power fluctuated greatly, and when he tried to regulate his breathing and calm himself down, it was already a little too late.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the woods on one side.
"Stop sneaking around, show yourself, or I'll beat you to death!"
As the voice fell, a figure jumped down from a big tree. It was a tall old man in a black robe.
The man had a pale complexion, as if he had not seen the sun for years. He had his hands behind his back and his gray hair was tied casually in a knot at the back of his head. He looked quite like an immortal.
While the gray-haired old man was speaking, he had already looked towards where Li Yan was. He was about a thousand feet away from Li Yan.
Li Yan was shocked. After losing his consciousness, he was like a blind man. The other party was just hiding in the tree canopy on the side, so he didn't notice anything at all.
As soon as the other party appeared, a weak and powerful pressure emanated from his body. After the pressure spread in the air, Li Yan also felt the strength of the other party's aura.
He was startled and thought that the other party's cultivation should be at the Nascent Soul to Spiritualization stage.
As for the cultivators of the Refining Void Realm, after Li Yan came to the Immortal Spirit Realm, due to the remoteness of the Pojun Gate, he had only seen one person from the Chunyang Hall.
He felt that he should not be so unlucky to meet him by chance, but this was just his expectation. However, at least at the moment, the pressure emanating from the other party made Li Yan feel that it would not exceed the range of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
Seeing that he had revealed himself, but the other party was still hiding, the gray-haired old man sneered. "It seems that you are the evil spirit monk who appeared recently. It turns out there is only one person!"
The gray-haired old man stared coldly in the direction where Li Yan was hiding, his hands still behind his back.
While he was speaking, Li Yan, who was in a hidden state, suddenly felt his hair stand on end. At the same time, he felt a chilly wind appear behind him.
His body suddenly slid to one side, and his stealth state was cancelled at the same time.
Since his whereabouts had been exposed, hiding was meaningless. Especially in the hidden state, Li Yan could not exert his full strength.
He did not show up at the first moment, but was quickly observing the surrounding situation. It seemed that there was only this cultivator here. Li Yan also had murderous thoughts in his heart, and he wanted to end the battle quickly.
It seems that we can't go east anymore. We should change direction and try again. We have only flown 20,000 or 30,000 miles when we were discovered.
But he didn't know that if he hadn't escaped immediately and destroyed all traces, he might not have been able to get out even ten thousand miles.
This was because the sect whose cultivators he had killed, after guessing that the enemy had a large number of people or was very powerful, had already dispatched their Divine Transformation cultivators, and he was almost trapped.
These thoughts quickly arose in Li Yan's mind as he was observing, but the opponent's attack had already arrived silently behind him.
Just as Li Yan dodged, a faint shadow suddenly appeared where he was originally standing. The shadow floated past that position without making any sound.
If it weren't for the human soul among the three souls in Li Yan's heart that suddenly shook violently, he might not have known that the other party had already made a move.
This made Li Yan, who dodged the attack, feel shocked. This old man was too insidious. He attacked him quietly while still talking to him.
The phantom failed to hit Li Yan. It just floated about ten feet away and then turned around and faced Li Yan again.
At this time, Li Yan also saw the face of the phantom clearly. It looked exactly like the gray-haired old man on the other side.
Just as Li Yan was quickly observing the other party and wondering what that phantom attack was, his pupils suddenly shrank and a chill rose from the soles of his feet.
It was almost noon at this time, and the phantom did not even have a shadow under the scorching sun. Moreover, the body looked very thin from front to back, like a paper man.
"Is this his soul?"
Li Yan was a little bit unbelievable. After guessing what was going on here, he immediately thought of a means of attack.
However, the gray-haired old man opposite maintained his expression. His eyes did not look dull or as if he was in a state of panic. His gaze even shifted towards himself who had just appeared.
This made Li Yan feel that the opponent's attack did not seem like a sacrifice of souls.
"What do you mean, sir?"
Although Li Yan was shocked, he pretended not to understand.
The other party had been hiding in a big tree before, and he used some kind of skill to cause his soul power to fluctuate, but why did the other party think that he was an outsider cultivator
Just from the fluctuation of soul power? This doesn't make sense. Even soul cultivators have their own soul power, which can be strong or weak. It can't be said that those with weak soul power are not soul cultivators...
The gray-haired old man was a little surprised when he saw that his attack was dodged by Li Yan in an instant. This meant that the other party sensed his attack.
But even those foreign gods could not escape his sneak attack. How did this guy discover his attack
He had set up a formation nearby, and this guy rushed in. He immediately discovered that someone was hiding and sneaking around.
He was a cultivator from a nearby sect called "Huangquan Dao" and a hall deacon in the late Nascent Soul stage.
After receiving the news, he dismissed some disciples in the hall and set up a formation here himself.
"snort!"
The gray-haired old man snorted coldly. After the opponent displayed his magic power, he turned out to be a Nascent Soul cultivator. However, his behavior was very suspicious, as if he was completely afraid of being seen by others.
Just as he snorted coldly, the human soul in Li Yan's body fluctuated again, making his mind suddenly uneasy. Then, a burning sensation came from between his eyebrows.
Li Yan instinctively turned his head to the side, and at the same time, a faint black line appeared on his forehead.
As soon as the black line appeared, it caused ripples. Among these ripples, a purple needle as thin as a hair was stuck in the middle.
At this moment, Li Yan's body flashed and flew to the side. The black pattern that remained in place also broke. The purple needle passed through and disappeared again in an instant.
Li Yan's face had turned pale at this moment.
"Hmm? You are not an evil spirit cultivator, you are a soul cultivator. Which family or sect are you from?"
When the gray-haired old man saw the black line on Li Yan's forehead, his cold expression froze for a moment, and he immediately stopped attacking.
Li Yan, who was far away, was enduring the pain in his soul after dodging the opponent's second wave of silent attacks, but he immediately used the "Feng Chongtian" body movement and launched an attack.
He dodged quickly, bent his body and shot towards the gray-haired old man, leaving a trace of his figure there. He had taken the opportunity to attack, and he couldn't just keep taking the beating passively.
Otherwise, he might have died here today. Feeling the opponent's two sharp and strange attacks, Li Yan dared not let the opponent continue to attack.
However, soul cultivators fear close combat the most...
"die!"
Just as the gray-haired old man was in a daze, a cold voice suddenly appeared in his ears.
"ah!"
The gray-haired old man's face suddenly showed shock, as he was a thousand feet away from the opponent, which was the normal distance that soul cultivators usually maintained during their attacks.
Moreover, he was a monk who was born and raised here, and in fact he had only fought with monks from outside three times.
Although those cultivators also wanted to attack those around him, within the range of his soul power, he could keenly sense that there was a strange soul power approaching.
Every time, he made his opponent hold his head and wail in pain during the attack.
Today, this hidden cultivator is still in the formation he set up, under the dual induction of his own body and the formation.
But just as the gray-haired old man noticed the abnormal fluctuation of soul power in the formation, the other party's voice appeared in his ears. It was so abrupt and close, almost sticking to his ear.
This frightened the gray-haired old man to death. He had never known that such a speed existed in the world.
Li Yan's palm was covered with scarlet light, and he had already slashed towards the gray-haired old man's neck with one palm. His physical strength and the poison were running wildly at the same time.
At the same time, his other hand was not idle either. He suddenly made a hand gesture and the "Five Elements Cloak" was immediately summoned. As soon as he made a move, he used all his strength.
The soul cultivator's attack was so terrifying that it didn't give the opponent any chance to breathe, and the two sides were only a thousand feet apart.
This distance, which the gray-haired old man felt was safe, was so fast that even a Jindan cultivator could not sense and keep up with Li Yan even if he could use his spiritual sense.
The gray-haired old man felt a great sense of alarm in his heart. This was the first time he was attacked at such a close distance. With the magic power surging in his body, he quickly dodged to the side, and at the same time, his soul power was activated again.
However, although the gray-robed old man knew that there were physical cultivators and that physical cultivators had appeared in the "Earth True Realm", he himself had never fought against a physical cultivator.
I have no idea what the consequences of letting a physical cultivator get close to me are.
So, just as he stood up.
"boom!"
Li Yan's palm slashed down, cutting the back of his neck firmly.
A white light just appeared from the protective light shield on the gray-haired old man's body, and the magic power that was in operation suddenly became disordered.
The defensive shield on his body surface suddenly became like a mirror, and instantly turned into white light points, which dissipated in the air. At the same time, an inexplicable corrosive force instantly entered his body.
A numbness seeped into the neck and spread throughout the body in an instant.
The soul power condensed in the gray-haired old man's body also stagnated. His eyes rolled back and he fell down without even making a sound.
Li Yan grabbed the other person and immediately fled in one direction.
The gray-haired old man never dreamed that he, a dignified Nascent Soul cultivator, would be captured by the opponent in an instant after two unsuccessful attacks.
The two sides fought back and forth, but the fight ended in a brief conversation. Li Yan did not dare to delay at all and fled away!