The alley is not deep, about two hundred feet. It goes straight to the end, with high walls on both sides and no residential gates. Only at the end is there a courtyard gate facing the alley.
Li Yan and Lin Daqiao walked behind Wen Xinliang. The moment they entered the alley, Li Yan felt something different.
The moment he entered here, the noisy sounds from the outside world suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving him with a feeling of mental disorientation and sudden weightlessness.
It was as if one foot was in heaven and the next foot stepped into hell. This caught Li Yan, who was always cautious, off guard and he released his spiritual sense at the first moment.
After a period of solid cultivation, Li Yan's realm stabilized at the tenth level of Qi Condensation. His spiritual power increased a lot. With Li Yan's current knowledge, he has learned some differences between the Guishui Sutra and other exercises, and he is more and more amazed by the Guishui Sutra.
Li Yan's current magic power is three to four times that of the cultivators of the same level, and he can convert it into different single attributes or multiple attribute combinations at any time during a fight, allowing spells of different attributes to exert greater power. His combat power is extremely strong among cultivators of the same level.
As for the spiritual consciousness cultivation effect that comes with the Guishui Sutra, Li Yan has never seen related records in any classics. The classics he has read record that spiritual consciousness can only grow gradually with the improvement of realm, but this process is very slow.
Spiritual awareness is the most relied upon means by immortal cultivators. Whether it is ordinary observation or fighting, immortal cultivators with strong spiritual awareness can often predict the opponent's attack behavior and path in advance.
The powerful spiritual consciousness can also control many immortal arts, even puppets, mechanisms, etc., which makes the spiritual consciousness occupy an extremely important position. It can be said to be the most basic and most commonly used method for cultivators.
For this reason, every cultivator tries every possible way to enhance their spiritual awareness. The most common way is to improve their own cultivation and enhance their spiritual awareness through realm breakthroughs, allowing their spiritual awareness to have a wider range of exploration and more detailed control.
In addition to the normal growth of spiritual consciousness with the state, there are two other situations in which spiritual consciousness can grow:
One is to cultivate spiritual consciousness alone, which requires special techniques for cultivating spiritual consciousness, so that it is possible to make spiritual consciousness grow faster. However, techniques for cultivating spiritual consciousness are extremely rare.
As far as Li Yan knows, a sect as large as the Wuliang Sect may not have a complete book on the cultivation of spiritual consciousness. Even if it does, it is probably just a fragmentary copy handed down from ancient times.
At the same time, the cultivation of spiritual consciousness is extremely painful. It is not like cultivating magic power, which requires only breathing in the spiritual energy of the weather.
The cultivation of spiritual consciousness is a kind of tempering of the soul, just like a mortal martial artist who constantly does splits and bends down in order to increase his body's toughness. In the process, he has to endure the intense feeling of tearing of muscles and ligaments.
The art of cultivating spiritual consciousness is to tear the soul apart repeatedly. This kind of tearing is painful deep in the soul. It cannot be grasped or touched, and there is no way to smooth out and relieve the pain. It can only be relied on perseverance and constant suffering and polishing.
Often, one wrong move can cause a practitioner to lose his mind and become an idiot.
Therefore, those who can practice the art of spiritual consciousness have always been people of great perseverance. This also led to the decrease in the number of spiritual consciousness techniques, and they were gradually lost.
The other type is people who are born with strong spiritual awareness. As long as this type of people practice a technique, even if their spiritual awareness improves to a small level through practicing the technique, it can increase, and is often about 10% to 20% higher than that of practitioners of the same level.
Li Yan knew that Li Wuyi and Baili Yuan might be such people. It was extremely rare for a sect to have two such people. This was also the reason why Li Wuyi and Baili Yuan were wary of each other.
When the two of them fight with others, they often rely on their powerful spiritual sense to predict the opponent's attack method in advance and take advantage of the enemy. However, when the two of them fight at the same level, the chances of winning are 50-50, and they have no advantage at all.
The growth of Li Yan's spiritual consciousness is a special growth method that does not exist in this world. While practicing the Guishui Sutra, it will drive the growth of Li Yan's spiritual consciousness.
This process does not have the inhuman pain of polishing spiritual consciousness, and with every bit of growth in cultivation, spiritual consciousness will slowly increase. It is not like those who are born with strong spiritual consciousness, who still need to increase their realm to bring about the enhancement of spiritual consciousness.
Generally speaking, the range of the spiritual awareness of a cultivator at the tenth level of the Qi Condensation Stage is only about six or seven miles.
As the realm increases, the range increases almost several times. After the initial stage of foundation building, the spiritual consciousness is about fifty miles. In the middle stage of foundation building, it can detect a range of two hundred miles.
By the late stage of foundation building, the range of spiritual awareness has reached 400 miles. For some extremely talented people, it can reach a terrifying range of nearly 500 miles.
Imagine that a person stands in one place and can see everything and everyone within a radius of 500 miles. What a terrifying thing it is.
Moreover, the spiritual consciousness ignores everything except prohibitions. It can pass through walls, courtyards, mountains and seas. It is beyond the reach of the naked eye. In the eyes of cultivators, most things are no secret at all.
Li Yan's current spiritual power has reached seventy miles, even exceeding the limit of the initial foundation building stage. No one in the sect knows this.
After entering the alley, Li Yan was startled by the sudden change in the environment and instinctively released his spiritual sense. By the time he reacted, his spiritual sense had reached the end of the alley.
But then he felt relieved. This alley was only two hundred feet long. Even if he could find his way into the other party's courtyard, with his level of cultivation, it was reasonable for him to be discovered at this distance, and it would not expose his true identity.
But he was a cautious person, and his own carelessness still made him instinctively startled.
Li Yan's spiritual sense was projected extremely quickly and covertly, which was also the result of his deliberate practice in daily life. His understanding of spiritual sense was that the more covert the better, so he always projected it quietly during daily practice.
He was confident that he could even use his spiritual sense in front of the initial stage of foundation building without being detected. Wen Xinliang in front of him and Lin Daqiao beside him did not notice Li Yan's actions just now.
Although Wen Xinliang and Lin Daqiao had never been to this place before, they knew it.
However, as disciples of the Wuliang Sect, they don't have to worry about coming here. Every time they leave the sect, they will report to the main hall. If anything happens, they can investigate accordingly.
The spiritual sense that Li Yan released just now was extremely fast and directly reached the end of the alley. By the time he reacted, the spiritual sense covered the front.
In his spiritual consciousness, he could clearly see that the young man in the light yellow robe had arrived at the gate of the courtyard. The gate was not big, but it had two doors, which looked very delicate and could only accommodate two people.
At this time, the young man in the light yellow robe just stepped in front of the courtyard gate. When he was about to report, Li Yan's spiritual consciousness had already reached the gate before him, and was about to go in through the door.
At the same time, the exquisite courtyard door creaked open, and a sincere middle-aged voice appeared in the alley.
"You are quite cautious, kid. With the reputation of your Wuliang Sect, are you afraid of someone plotting against you in Peiyang Market?"
This voice startled Wen Xinliang and Lin Daqiao, and the moment Li Yan's consciousness touched the gate, it was directly bounced away by a strong force, causing him to step back involuntarily, and his body had retreated to the edge of the alley. As Li Yan retreated, Wen Xinliang raised his eyebrows, and Lin Daqiao quickly retreated, and instantly came to Li Yan's side and asked in a low voice.
"Junior brother, how are you, are you okay?"
When Li Yan's spiritual consciousness was bounced back, the space here had a slight fluctuation. Three people, including the young man in the light yellow robe, had already felt the existence of Li Yan's spiritual consciousness.
Li Yan had already steadied himself by now. Seeing that his seventh senior brother had come to his side, he couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Fortunately, it was just bounced back by the restriction on the door, and Senior did not take any action."
After hearing the conversation between the two, Wen Xinliang in front relaxed his expression and spoke loudly.
"The three of us, the juniors, greet all the seniors. This is my first time going down the mountain, and I'm sorry to make you laugh."
"Junior brother? Well, this spiritual consciousness is... You three can come in first. Chen Tian, you can go back to guard the city gate."
The sincere middle-aged voice came again, with a hint of surprise at first, and then returned to normal.
The first half of his sentence was addressed to Wen Xinliang, while the second half was addressed to the young man in a light yellow robe who was standing in front of the courtyard gate with a look of surprise on his face.
The sudden scene surprised the young man in the light yellow robe. He didn't expect that among the three people, someone would dare to use spiritual sense to explore this place.
After hearing the words again, the young man in the light yellow gown relaxed his expression and bowed deeply towards the gate of the courtyard.
"Disciple obeys your command!"
Then he turned around, looked deeply at Wen Xinliang and the other two, smiled slightly, and quickly left towards the alley.
Seeing that Li Yan was fine, Wen Xinliang's lazy expression returned to normal a little, and he said to the two of them.
"Let's go in."
After saying this, he walked deeper into the alley. Li Yan and Lin Daqiao stopped talking and followed him.
The alley was not long, and the three of them reached the end in just a dozen breaths. Looking at the exquisite courtyard gate, Wen Xinliang stepped onto the steps without any hesitation. After a flash of his figure, he disappeared into the gate.
When Li Yan stepped onto the steps in front of the door, a faint wave appeared in the space. Li Yan felt as if he was stepping on the water, and ripples were already forming under his feet.
"Formation!"
This thought immediately came to Li Yan's mind, and before he had time to think about it, he felt a flash of light in front of his eyes, as if he had entered a curtain of water.
Lin Daqiao in front of him also disappeared in an instant, and he was left alone in a curtain of water, with the sound of rushing water all he could hear.
Li Yan looked intently, but before he could see the surroundings clearly, a light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and all the images and sounds disappeared.
Li Yan found that he was already standing in a house, and there were two figures standing in front of him. They were Wen Xinliang and Lin Daqiao who had entered earlier.
This is a spacious and bright lobby. In front of Wen Xinliang and the other person, there are three people sitting, one fat and two thin.
Sitting in the middle was a short and fat man with a curly beard, about forty years old, with fair skin and a broad body.
On his right sat a young man in a white robe, and on his left sat a thin old man. The aura of the three of them was obviously that of Jindan cultivators. At this moment, the three of them were looking at Wen Xinliang and the other two who were standing in the middle of the hall with sharp eyes.
"Are you three disciples of Fellow Daoist Wei Chongran from Xiaozhu Peak?"
After seeing the three people appear here, the sincere middle-aged voice sounded again. Li Yan heard the voice and recognized that it was the person who spoke in the alley just now.
Looking up, I saw that the voice came from the short and fat man with curly beard in the middle, but the voice seemed somewhat inconsistent with the appearance of the curly beard.
At the same time as the short fat man with curly beard spoke, the middle-aged man in white robe and the thin old man on both sides also looked at the three people at the same time, but their gazes stayed on Li Yan for a moment, and there was interest in their eyes.
"Xiaozhu Peak Wen Xinliang and two fellow apprentices are here to greet the three seniors."
As soon as Wen Xinliang entered the lobby, he saw the three of them. He just glanced at them and immediately lowered his eyes.
Although all the immortal sects nearby were under the jurisdiction of Wuliang Zongzha, he was still very polite when facing the three Jindan cultivators. He did not show the domineering attitude of some disciples from the big sects, but was very humble instead.
As soon as he finished speaking, he bowed with a very respectful attitude. Li Yan and the other two behind him also bowed according to his instructions.
The behavior of the three of them made the three people at the top very satisfied. After all, if the other party had a very arrogant attitude, they would at most make Wen Xinliang and the other two suffer a little. In any case, they would not dare to kill them.
Seeing the attitude of the other three people, I felt relieved for a moment. Otherwise, the following things would be difficult to carry out.
After Wen Xinliang saw the faces of the three people, he didn't recognize any of them. He glanced at Lin Daqiao who was a little behind. There was a gleam in Lin Daqiao's eyes, and he shook his head slightly. It was obvious that he didn't know the three Jindan cultivators either.
"My three junior brothers, please excuse me and sit down first."
The fat man with curly beard in the middle relaxed his expression, smiled slightly, and pointed to a few chairs in the lobby below.