After the short and strong man entered the forest, he also became a little flustered.
He didn't know where he had gotten himself into. There were dangerous places in the "Earth Realm", a place that even the Void Refining cultivators didn't dare to enter easily.
After the initial panic, the short and strong man calmed himself and began to look for a way out. However, the forest was incredibly large and it took him ten years to search.
During the ten years, the short and strong man had never met any monks in the forest, but only some strange monsters that he had never seen before, and these monsters were extremely powerful.
The short and strong man could only fight with these monsters and get injured while fleeing, then hide to heal his wounds and go out to find a way out, and then fight, flee, and heal his wounds again...
During this process, he also picked some medicinal herbs that he had never seen before but which contained extraordinary spiritual energy. This was an unexpected gain for him.
Until today, he went to a place in the forest that he had never been to before, and once again had a fierce battle with a giant turtle that was shaped like a hill.
Finally, he was defeated and tried his best to get rid of the opponent's pursuit. In panic, he plunged into the fog in the forest.
After entering the fog, the mottled sunlight scattered in the sky made him dizzy. He just subconsciously closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them again, he appeared in this inexplicable cave.
"Where... where is this? Have I been swallowed by the other party?"
The short and strong man quickly woke up from his daze. He immediately tensed his whole body, began to infuse magic power into his eyes, and looked around.
There was complete silence all around, and at first he didn't sense any danger approaching.
The cave was not big, and the short and strong man discovered almost instantly that there was a faint light a few feet behind him.
There seemed to be an exit there, which seemed to be blocked by a huge rock.
The short and strong man did not move his body immediately. Years of painful lessons made him still cautious and alert. He first used his magic power to protect his palms and touched the stone wall in front of him.
The stone wall was cold and very hard, just like a real stone wall.
"This... doesn't seem to be inside a monster. I don't feel any spiritual energy flowing. It feels like a real stone wall..."
The short and strong man thought to himself.
After a little thought, he suddenly gathered his magic power and struck the stone wall with one palm.
"boom!"
A muffled sound was heard in the quiet cave, which scared the short and strong man himself and he jumped back subconsciously.
“It’s the stone wall!”
There was some surprise in his eyes.
After confirming, the short and strong man looked behind him again. With full alertness, he moved forward step by step. It took him more than a hundred breaths to walk a few feet.
It's no wonder that he is so cautious. As far as he can remember, he has been encountering various dangers over the years.
There were two times when he was really swallowed by monsters. In the end, he used his secret life-saving technique to severely damage the monster's soul, and then he cut open the monster's stomach and crawled out.
Now he has become a frightened bird!
And every time he encountered danger in that forest, he was almost always seriously injured and barely survived. He couldn't regret it because of a mistake.
He finally reached the entrance of the cave. After standing still, he first sensed behind the pile of rocks. He seemed to hear some wind sounds.
However, there was no joy on his face and his mood was calm.
He had been wandering in this forest for too long. Several times he thought he could get out, but in the end he still appeared somewhere in the forest.
"Damn it, the worst that can happen is that I'll be disappointed again!"
The short and strong man looked at the light coming in, made up his mind, poured magic power into his palms, and pressed hard on the pile of stones in front of him.
“Boom!”
With a loud bang, there was a cloud of smoke and dust flying before my eyes.
Then a large area of dazzling sunlight came through, forcing the short and strong man to stretch out a hand to block his eyes.
But along with it, a fresh breeze blew over.
The spiritual power shield on the short and strong man's body flashed, and he immediately rushed out!
This is a vast and boundless world, with a mountain behind you and a river in front of you.
After taking in all the scenery before his eyes, the short and strong man who had already flown into the air was stunned.
In his impression, after flying out like this in the past, there should still be a dense forest blocking his view, or he would be greeted by a monster rushing towards him.
"That is... the Huiming River?"
After the short and strong man saw the surrounding scenery, he was stunned in mid-air.
He was very familiar with the environment here. This was a place he had passed by many times before, and it was also the place where he entered the clouds and disappeared last time.
"... No... Impossible, No... Can..."
The short and strong man's lips trembled slightly, he simply did not believe what he saw.
In his memory, he had thought countless times about escaping from that damn dense forest and returning to the place he was familiar with.
But year after year, all he got was constant injuries and pain, as well as repeated expectations and huge disappointments.
Today, I just broke into a fog in the forest, how come I came out in an instant? Could it be that I was unlucky again and broke into a fantasy forbidden area again
After dozens of breaths, the short and strong man suddenly began to fly rapidly in one direction.
As he flew rapidly, he looked at the scenery around him and kept muttering to himself like a nagging woman.
"This is Xiabei Ridge... This is Tianma River, that, that, that... That is Mingfeng Sect..."
He flew very high, and since he was unable to use his spiritual sense, he could see farther.
Then, one after another, places that were very familiar to him in his memory appeared in his eyes, until he saw a small sect.
He also knew about that small sect, and he had only glanced at it before, with disdain. But today, he felt it was so intimate.
Finally, the short and strong man landed on the top of a mountain.
He looked around and saw some monks passing by, looking at him with strange eyes.
But suddenly, the short and strong man had two lines of tears in his eyes. He finally saw other monks, and no longer those damn unknown monsters. Then, he leaned against a huge rock and sobbed softly, crying like a child without caring about his image...
Not long after the incident, a piece of news suddenly spread in a sect that a disciple who had been missing for ten years had returned!
The other party said that they were involved in a mysterious place, and brought back some things. They were medicinal herbs they had never seen before. Although there were not too many of them, their quality was quite good.
The most important thing is that these are medicinal herbs that have never been seen in the "Earth Realm".
After being questioned by the sect master and the elders, the cultivator checked his body again and was shocked to find that the disciple had suffered serious injuries, some new and some old.
Many of those injuries had damaged the disciple's soul. Although they did not take his life, they were extremely dangerous.
Even after coming out, he still needs to swallow the best elixir and heal his wounds for a long time before he can recover.
Through these injuries, it can be seen that in that mysterious place, there are all kinds of strange and bizarre soul beasts, because most of the injuries suffered by this disciple were caused by soul power.
This is what shocked this sect the most. Even though they had been in the "Earth Realm" for such a long time, they had never seen a soul beast.
According to this disciple, after he entered that mysterious place, he fought almost every day, and then he was constantly healing and getting injured.
Some of those injuries were caused by the attacks of those monsters, and some were the backlash caused by the secret techniques he used.
The external injuries were relatively safe and could be recovered slowly, but the backlash injuries to the soul could not be healed so quickly. In the absence of elixirs, he could only let the injuries accumulate.
When all these things were put together, they immediately attracted the attention of the sect, and they absolutely believed what this disciple said.
When you see herbs you have never seen before, you know they cannot be fake.
Even the Divine Transformation cultivators in the sect could only recognize a few of these herbs, which were some spiritual plants from the outside world that they had seen in classics. This showed that they had found new varieties of herbs in the "Earth True Realm".
There are dangerous places and some unknown places in the "Earth Realm". Even the Soul-Suppressing Palace has not been able to explore them one by one. It is not surprising that such a situation has occurred.
At this point, they immediately asked the disciple to carefully mark the cave where he appeared, so that he could go back and recuperate with peace of mind.
Afterwards, two elders of the sect who had reached the state of transformation went there to find the cave. However, no matter how hard they tried to find the cave, it was just an ordinary little cave.
After trying various methods, they could not find any teleportation exit, and even no trace of the aura of a teleportation formation was found.
Finally, the sect found the place where the disciple had mentioned that he had disappeared.
There, the sect sent out more Jinhua and Yuanying cultivators, almost dispersing all the sea of clouds there, but nothing unusual happened.
Even after they forced the disciple to stop recovering from his injuries and lead the elders of the sect to search for him, they still found nothing. This matter eventually became a mystery...
The Soul-Suppressing Palace is located in the east of the "Earth Realm". It is the core of the entire realm and a holy place in the hearts of all soul cultivators.
The entire Zhenhun Palace was built in a place that was once a dangerous place.
As the power of the Zhenhun Palace continues to expand, the so-called dangerous place here has been hidden deep behind the sect.
The entire sect's exposed area is only 40,000 miles in size.
The most core area of the sect is the Zhenhun Palace on the Lingding Cliff in the rear, where the supreme elder, the sect master, and the guards are all there.
The area in front is managed by Hushitang, Fuchentang and Yiquetang. Each of these four areas is tens of thousands of miles in size.
Except for the northward extension of the Zhenhun Palace into the dangerous area where outsiders are not allowed to enter, the peripheries in the other three directions are dotted with various forces of all sizes.
They have sects and aristocratic families, which extend along the outer perimeter of the Soul-Realizing Palace, stretching outward for hundreds of thousands of miles.
In these three directions, there are dozens of markets alone, which is enough to prove the prosperity and heyday of this place.
On this day, a ray of rainbow light came from the distant sky, breaking through the air. Although its speed was not fast, it was not too slow either.
After sensing the soul power in the rainbow light, many cultivators in the air let it fly by. It was a cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage.
In the rainbow light, Li Yan looked at the scene below with no expression on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking.
He saw many sects while flying here. At this moment, there should be a large market town below him. There were also beams of light passing by quickly around him from time to time.
Even if Li Yan did not release the power of his soul, he could sense in his spirit that where the escape lights flew past, ripples suddenly appeared, just like in a calm lake.
Li Yan could sense the size of those ripples, which was the result of the soul power of these people resonating with the heaven and earth. It indicated that these people were at different levels of cultivation and had different strengths.
As he got closer to the Soul-Calming Palace, Li Yan even sensed that several powerful men in the Void Refinement Realm were flying by, and those people did not conceal the fluctuations of their soul power at all.
Of course, Li Yan, like other cultivators, would go around them as far as he could when he encountered a strong person in the late Nascent Soul stage or above to avoid trouble.
Although the spiritual sense cannot detect here, Li Yan is cautious and still practices the "Ebb Tide" technique from time to time to reduce his cultivation level to the early Nascent Soul stage, which is completely in line with his soul cultivation level.
His Nascent Soul had already been formed, so the soul cultivation technique would not make him form a Nascent Soul again and encounter the Nascent Soul tribulation. Instead, it allowed him to successfully cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage.
After Li Yan brought the short and strong man to the place where he had been captured, he randomly found a cave nearby. After releasing the man, he sealed the cave entrance and left immediately.
This person has been with him for more than ten years, and can be considered a "meritorious minister". After Li Yan modified his memory, he also put some herbs he got from the outside world into the other's "empty shadow".
The opponent has served as his sparring partner every day over the years. If all the injuries on his body were revealed, they would definitely be densely packed with scars.
Li Yan was not the kind of person who would kill the donkey after it had done its work. Not only did he constantly test his various magic skills on the other party, he also learned a lot of application and techniques of magic from this person.
However, even though he obtained a lot of information about the other party through soul searching, Li Yan still did not touch a forbidden area in the short and strong man's memory. When he saw the flashing red light there, Li Yan knew that he was connected to the three souls again.
However, after absorbing the other party into the "Earth Spot", there are too many ways to obtain his information.
In addition to soul searching, Li Yan once again used various illusions on the opponent, and even planted a contract, and then really obtained the opponent's skills and soul techniques.
This made Li Yan very happy. The sect of the short and strong man was also a medium-sized sect, and his skills were naturally a secret that was not passed on.
The skills in the "Earth Realm" are basically the same.
But there are mainly two sources. One is the most original technique of the Zhenhun Palace, which is the most powerful technique in this world. The other is the techniques of some soul cultivators from other sects that were involved later.
But after these cultivators entered here, this place has become the world of the Soul-Calming Palace, and the place where one can advance to the Fusion Realm is also firmly controlled by them.
Therefore, these foreign soul cultivators either joined the Soul-Suppressing Palace or established their own sects.
The Zhenhun Palace would not pay too much attention to these things. The strongest person in the "Earth True Realm" - the combined cultivator was in the Zhenhun Palace.
If those sects allow you to develop as you wish, you will be stuck in the Refining Void Realm your entire life and will not be able to threaten the Soul-Suppressing Palace at all.