Li Yan and the other two soon arrived deep in the Shiwan Mountains. Looking back in the direction of the mountain village, they could see mountains everywhere, blocking their view of their hometown.
Li Yan took a deep breath and suppressed the sadness in his heart. When he looked up at the two girls, he saw that they also had complicated expressions and were staring in the direction of the mountain village.
During this month, what they experienced the most was warmth and separation. Although this was not a typical human experience, it was also the side that Li Yan wanted them to see the most.
"We'll say goodbye here. The Blood Leaf Sect's teleportation array is not far ahead."
Li Yan suppressed his slight homesickness and said with a smile.
"Be careful on your journey. If you don't come back within three years, I will go looking for you. I think by then, the sect's affairs will have been settled."
Gong Chenying spoke in a cold and beautiful voice. Although her expression was as indifferent as before, there was a firmness in her words.
Li Yan nodded when he heard this. He knew that Gong Chenying was a strong-willed person and would do what he decided to do, so he did not try to stop her.
When Li Yan turned his head to look at Zhao Min again, Zhao Min's face was as pale as ice, and there was still not much fluctuation. When she saw Li Yan looking at her, she withdrew her gaze from afar and remained silent.
Seeing this, Li Yan also smiled and bowed to the two women.
"Something big is bound to happen in the sect this time. You should put your own safety first. Take care!"
After saying this, his body shook and he quickly rushed away into the distance.
Just as his figure blurred, Zhao Min's cold voice came from behind.
"Don't try to be brave!"
Her words came out of nowhere and were nonsensical, but Li Yan heard them clearly. He knew that she was telling him to be careful when encountering things outside and not to force himself to take the lead.
Li Yan couldn't help but burst into laughter, and the laughter faded away, leaving only two slender figures in the wind, like a fairy and a demon.
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Li Yan's destination is the North Sea. This is the clue Pingtu gave him. He also gave Li Yan an area where "You Wuxian" might exist, which made Li Yan feel a little more confident.
Otherwise, given the boundlessness of the North Sea, with Li Yan's current level of cultivation, it might take decades for him to travel across the entire North Sea. Not only is it boundlessly vast, but most areas are deserted and uninhabited.
According to historical records, there are a large number of sea monsters above level three in the North Sea, and there are even legends about the existence of level four monsters. Even for a Nascent Soul cultivator going there, it would be extremely dangerous.
Therefore, Li Yan had to be cautious and slowly approach the area he wanted to go. Once he found that something was not right, he had to flee immediately and could only wait for another opportunity or go there again when his cultivation level had greatly improved.
Pingtu said that where the "Youwuqiong" tree grows, there is often a companion monster called "Blue Demon Dragon". Its young is a third-level monster, and when it grows up, it can reach the terrifying level of fourth-level.
This monster is ferocious in nature and will hunt all living things around it, often causing the sea area where it is located to almost become a dead sea. Therefore, it has to frequently search for food everywhere, but most of its time, it spends time sleeping beside the "Youwuqiong" tree.
In this situation, Li Yan had a certain opportunity. After waiting for an opportunity to get close to the Blue Demon Dragon, he might take advantage of the opportunity to attack it when the Blue Demon Dragon went out to look for food.
However, since this ferocious beast is the companion monster of "You Wuqiong", "You Wuqiong" is crucial to its every promotion.
Therefore, it has some kind of connection with the "Youwuqiong" tree. As long as other creatures touch the "Youwuqiong" tree, it will be alarmed. This is also one of the reasons why it will kill all the creatures around the "Youwuqiong" tree.
Even when going out to hunt, its range will not exceed ten thousand miles. For it in the sea, a distance of ten thousand miles will only take about ten breaths to arrive. If it is already a fourth-level siren, its return speed will be even faster.
The branches and leaves of the "Youwuqiong" tree are extremely hard. Pingtu once warned Li Yan that even if a Nascent Soul cultivator took action, it would take at least two or three breaths to take it away without any special magic weapon.
If a Foundation Establishment cultivator were to do it, even if he was left alone to cut down the trees, it would probably take about three days. Therefore, special means must be used. This has been recorded in the Guishui Sutra, and Li Yan had learned it early on.
The North Sea is under the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect. It is more than seven million miles away from the Wuliang Sect. For a mortal, this distance is impossible to reach in his entire lifetime.
Although Li Yan has already established his foundation, if he flies over, he doesn't have a good flying magic weapon, and he doesn't know when he will arrive. Therefore, he still needs to use the teleportation array to go there.
At the same time, he was also determined to obtain the "Red Mother Essence" in the "Beiming Demon Suppression Tower" of the Pure Land Sect, so he had to go to the Pure Land Sect first. As for how to enter the "Beiming Demon Suppression Tower", he had no idea now and could only take it one step at a time.
Thinking of this, Li Yan, who was flying in the air, couldn't help but shook his head. He decided to prepare a good flying magic weapon in the future so as to reduce unnecessary waste of time.
Although Gong Chenying and Zhao Min had wanted to give him their white jade boat and emerald green gourd before, those were items that had been signed with blood, and it would take Li Yan several months to refine them, so it was not cost-effective.
The point is that Li Yan feels that something big is going to happen when the two girls go back this time. How can he take such a life-saving thing
At this moment, Li Yan was flying above the Ten Thousand Mountains. He was already wearing a green shirt and had long since changed out of the sect uniforms of the Wuliang Sect. After practicing the Guishui Sutra, his realm was suppressed to the late tenth level of the Qi Condensation Stage.
In the Pure Land Sect's territory, although the four major sects appear to be on good terms with each other, killing each other in private happens frequently and is not uncommon. They are all trying to weaken each other's strength in secret.
Therefore, Li Yan changed his attire and went there. Even though he was still within the territory of the Wuliang Sect and millions of miles away from the border of the Pure Land Sect, Li Yan still did not want others to recognize his identity.
But in this way, Li Yan would lose many privileges of the Wuliang Sect, but he believed that disappearing from the source was the best way to hide.
Moreover, his identity had already been thought out beforehand. He had the Blood Leaf Sect token on him, so after suppressing his cultivation, he could just say that he was a disciple of the Blood Leaf Sect.
Even though it was a higher-level grey token, people who were familiar with the Blood Leaf Sect might seem a little suspicious, but they would still think that he was just the direct descendant of the sect's elders.
There are many inner disciples and direct descendants holding the sect's high-level tokens in the world of immortal cultivation. What's more, the Blood Leaf Sect is just a small sect, so how could it have so many acquaintances
However, the problem still lies in cultivation. Li Yan's idea is to retain the initial stage of foundation building. He is confident that with the power of Guishui Sutra and the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique, he will be able to kill even a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.
As for if he encounters a cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage, he will definitely not fight the opponent head-on if he cannot win the battle quickly. Instead, he will use his Poisonous Body. He thinks he will have no problem escaping in the end.
However, once his cultivation level remains at the initial stage of foundation building, if he meets someone familiar with the Blood Leaf Sect, it will be a big flaw. There are only three foundation building cultivators in the Blood Leaf Sect, which will easily arouse suspicion from others.
After much thought, he had no choice but to suppress his cultivation to the Qi Condensation Stage.
However, this would also cause trouble. That is, every time he went to a place to find a teleportation array, as a Qi Condensation stage disciple of a small sect, he would have to take out a large amount of spirit stones every time to teleport continuously. It would be strange if he did not bring trouble upon himself.
After Li Yan thought about it for a while, he could only say that he would take a few more detours on the road. Every time he teleported to a place, he would not continue to teleport, but would fly a distance as far as possible and then find another teleportation array.
Although it might still attract the attention of someone with ulterior motives, as long as he acted extremely heartbroken and had to teleport, others would think that he had to do it because he had no other choice. Another method was to change his appearance after leaving the teleportation array and enter the teleportation array again, but this could only be done when there were no Jindan or higher cultivators nearby, so that Li Yan could be sure to conceal it.
His plan now was to fly north for a few days and then look for a teleportation array. This way he would be far away from the Blood Leaf Sect and would know fewer people, making it easier for him to get around.
Two days later, looking at the sun setting in the west and the birds returning to the forest, Li Yan stood on a mountain peak, took out a few jade slips, and sank his spiritual consciousness into them one by one.
After a while, he raised his head and whispered to himself.
"More than a thousand miles from here is the 'Xuanqing Temple'."
The several jade slips in his hands were all maps. The one with the most intricate carvings and the widest scope was the one given by Wei Chongran. It should be the place that Wei Chongran had visited.
Many places are marked in great detail, and even many places in the other three major areas are marked, but the gaps between the lines are much larger. Obviously, there are no detailed topography there.
The other jade slips maps in Li Yan's hand came from the sects he passed by on his way home this time. Every time he arrived at a sect, Li Yan would deliberately collect the jade slips maps that the other party knew.
He felt that there were some places Wei Chongran might not have been to, but someone from these small sects might have been there.
However, these maps are extremely important to every sect. It is impossible for ordinary people to carve a copy, let alone borrow one.
However, the identities of Li Yan and the other two scared those sects, so they finally took them out one by one and asked Li Yan to carve a copy.
After Li Yan used his spiritual sense to explore the jade slips in his hand one by one, he indeed found many differences between them.
Moreover, the maps provided by some small sects even went as far as the territories under the jurisdiction of the other three major sects. Although there were only a few markings, Li Yan could not help but sigh.
Never underestimate any sect. Since they can survive, they must be extraordinary. There are also many outstanding cultivators in these small sects, and the areas where they go out for training are no less than those of the disciples in the four major sects.
After Li Yan compared the map in the jade slip and re-marked the differences one by one, a more detailed map jade slip was gradually formed.
"Xuanqing Temple" is a second-rate sect. There is a middle-stage Jindan cultivator in the temple, and it is also affiliated with the Wuliang Sect.
There is a teleportation array in the sect that can transmit data up to 8,000 miles, and this is exactly what Li Yan needs.
For a high-level Qi Condensation cultivator, he would occasionally use this kind of teleportation array when there was something important, which was in line with his identity setting.
A teleportation array like that which covers tens of thousands of miles is definitely not something that a Qi Condensation Stage cultivator can use.
Li Yan planned to look for the Wanli Teleportation Array when he got close to the Pure Land Sect. That place was close to the border between the two sects, and he heard that there were many independent cultivators there. He would recover to his foundation-building level and then disguise himself as an independent cultivator.
Looking at the dark forest, Li Yan put away the jade slip, turned into a faint green light, and flew towards the distant sky at a high speed...
One day later, in the early morning, four people were walking towards the gate of Xuanqing Temple from afar. One of them was fat and three were thin, and they were talking as they walked.
The fat man was about thirty years old. His loose Taoist robe was unbuttoned, exposing much of his fat. He had a ferocious look, and his cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building was spreading wildly.
As he spoke, his pair of fat hands kept waving.
"Third Master, I actually had a good idea of the cards in that round, but I never thought that Song Bo would be the one to take advantage of the three bamboo sticks. Otherwise, I would have won more than just the Lingshi... I also wanted the 30,000 yuan in one round, but it was taken away..."
The man called Song Bo was a skinny Taoist priest with the cultivation base of an early foundation building stage. He made a bitter face and interrupted the fat Taoist priest's eloquent speech.
"Luo Sanpang, you had good luck last night. Overall, you won more than you lost. But I ended up losing everything and had to be a guest."
"Speaking of entertaining guests, Senior Brother Song and I were both like that. I failed in every way. In just one night, I spent all of my spirit stones from several months.
In the end, even the few spirit stones I had used in my cultivation were counted as half a piece and taken away, which was completely considered as a night of fun with the brothers."
A young Taoist among the three spoke indifferently. This man had regular features, a face as white as a mirror, and was wearing a Taoist robe. He looked quite immortal, but his cultivation was only at the tenth level of Qi Condensation. Yet for some reason, he called these two foundation-building cultivators "senior brothers".
"Qin Chengyi, although what you said is true, how can I compare with you? You can receive spirit stones from your family every month, but I only have this little bit of dry goods from the sect."
After hearing this, the skinny Taoist priest Song Bo curled his lips.
The young Taoist Qin Chengyi couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"After entering the sect, although the family resources are still there, the supply has been reduced by 70% to 80%. If you don't believe me, you can ask Senior Brother Liu. He was the one who introduced me to the sect, and he knows everything."
As he spoke, he looked at the young man beside him who had not spoken and had a gloomy face.
The young man was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with a long hooked nose and cold eyes. He also had the aura of foundation building, but his aura was much stronger than that of the fat Taoist priest, and he was already at the peak of the middle stage of foundation building.
Along the way, he just watched the other three people talking, but he never said a word.
The Taoist priest called Senior Brother Liu spoke coldly after hearing what Qin Chengyi said.
"If everyone is as gambley as they were last night, Master will definitely not forgive us if he knows. I was dragged away by the three of you last night just for fun, but in the end, we had to spend the night together.
Junior Brother Qin, although you are only Master's registered disciple, you have excellent aptitude, which is why Master values you. You have also been admitted as an inner sect disciple for the time being, and it is just around the corner for you to establish your foundation. Don't be greedy for gambling and lose your chance to practice Taoism."
When Qin Chengyi heard this, sweat immediately broke out on his forehead and the bitterness became even stronger. He didn't dare to speak for a moment, but he said in his heart.
"You think I want to gamble like this, but Master is not in the temple. Senior Brothers Luo and Song are addicted to gambling. I have the lowest cultivation level, so how dare I go against their wishes? Aren't you also being entangled?"
After hearing this, Fatty Luo curled his lips and snorted heavily, but he no longer looked at Senior Brother Liu.
After listening to what Senior Brother Liu said, Song Bo still put on a smile and did not refute, but he felt contempt in his heart.
"When you won the spirit stones last night, why didn't you say it was over? Who was waiting for the next round with shining eyes
The brothers in the temple all say that Brother Luo and I are good at gambling. I think you are the silent gambler. In the end, you said a lot of good things to me and passed them on to Master. Isn't it Brother Luo and I who are carrying this bad reputation? You are really a mean person. "
As the four were talking, they had already arrived at the gate of Xuanqing Temple. Just as they were about to step in, unexpectedly a group of people flew out from the side and stood directly in front of them.