Linshui City, 8,000 miles away from Xuanqing Temple, is a city built by independent cultivators. It was originally a temporary base built by independent cultivators for the convenience of exchanging acquired items.
Later, as their popularity continued to grow, some powerful independent cultivators gradually united together and formed an alliance called "Piao Ling".
They gradually began to build a city here, and the alliance headquarters was also set up in the city. They were free, but when encountering problems, the alliance members would unite and face the outside world together.
As a result, many independent cultivators came to join. However, the "Piaoling" alliance did not accept everyone. For example, those with a bad reputation and those hunted by the four major sects would not be allowed to enter.
Linshui City is quite large, with a radius of about thirty miles. There are markets and businesses, and even some immortal sects and families that have set up businesses here.
Therefore, there are always people coming and going here every day, and it is very lively.
It was precisely in view of this situation that Xuanqing Temple spent a huge amount of money to purchase a plot of land in the city and built a teleportation formation to facilitate the monks here to travel between the towns and cities.
Li Yan only felt dizzy, as if he had traveled through a long time and space, but it also seemed like just a moment. The white halo in front of his eyes gradually dissipated, and the feeling in his body returned to normal.
Li Yan had experienced this feeling several times a few months ago, some of which were even more severe than this time. Even with his level of cultivation, he needed a long time to circulate his magic power to recover after the teleportation.
A soft light appeared in front of Li Yan's eyes, and this was a spacious room.
At this moment, there were soft night pearls emitting light on the walls of the room. Li Yan looked around and saw that just as the white light of the teleportation array had just dissipated, two figures had jumped directly out from the teleportation array.
In just a blink of an eye, they disappeared at the door in front. They were the young man in purple and the hunchbacked old man, who seemed to be in a hurry to get on with their journey.
At the moment when the purple-robed young man disappeared, Li Yan heard a sneer in his ears. It turned out that the two men in black robes also walked down the teleportation array and walked towards the door slowly. One of them was uttering the same cold laugh just now.
These four people didn't even look at Li Yan, and disappeared outside the door one after another.
When Li Yanzi was in Xuanqing Temple, he noticed some situations. It seemed that the two groups were chasing and fleeing, but he didn't care about other people's affairs.
Looking around the room, there was only a teleportation array. On one side of the door, there stood a middle-aged Taoist priest wearing the Taoist robe of Xuanqing Temple. He was looking at Li Yan with a smile on his face.
It seemed as if he didn't even bother to look at the four people just now, and didn't take them to heart at all.
When the middle-aged Taoist saw Li Yan looking at him, he smiled at Li Yan.
"My fellow Daoist, if you need to be teleported again, please come back tomorrow. The formation needs to be maintained today. Please forgive me."
When Li Yan heard this, his mind raced and he understood what Xuanqing Temple meant.
This is to wait for the Jindan monk to return tonight, so all transmissions have been stopped.
However, judging from what Taoist Gong had said before, even if the teleportation array is opened again tomorrow, Xuanqing Temple will focus on checking the people who go there. But this has nothing to do with him anymore.
Li Yan also smiled in return and walked out the door.
When he walked out of the room, he found that there was a courtyard outside the room, as if he was in a room in the backyard.
After passing through a small courtyard, the house in front is a street-facing shop. Outside the shop is a bustling street, creating a lively scene.
Li Yan had already found out about the situation in Linshui City before coming here, and today he got a more detailed introduction from Gong Dao. He knew there was a market here, so he wanted to go and take a look, maybe he could find what he needed.
A few hours later, Li Yan appeared at the gate of Linshui City. He walked towards the gate with an expressionless face, but sighed in his heart.
The materials for refining Guiyi Fenshui Ci are indeed not so easy to find. It is definitely not something you can easily come across as soon as you go out.
However, he also got news about a main ingredient here. Just a few years ago, "bitter-free powder" appeared here and was later bought by a middle-aged woman.
Although the news came a little late, it ignited hope in Li Yan's heart. It seemed that except for the "You Wuxian" tree which was extremely difficult to find, the other four main materials could occasionally appear.
Li Yan thought as he followed the crowd and walked out of Linshui City. He planned to fly north for a day and then look for the next sect with a teleportation array, which was still under the jurisdiction of the Wuliang Sect.
Linshui City, as its name suggests, is a city built on water and with water beside the city. The city is surrounded by rivers on three sides. The three rivers meander into the dense jungle outside the city. There are countless swamps and small rivers in the jungle.
After leaving the city, Li Yan identified the direction and looked at the lush jungle outside the city under the setting sun. Li Yan flashed and disappeared on the spot.
Li Yanfei was in the sky, with undulating forests under his feet.
After leaving Linshui City, there were still a lot of lights passing quickly in the sky at first, but as we moved away from the city, the world seemed to become more vast. Even if there were occasional cultivators flying by, they would sense each other and avoid us from afar.
Li Yan still maintained his Qi Condensation Stage cultivation, and stepped on a flying sword as if in real life. Although his flying speed was not weak, it was still much slower than flying with real strength.
Li Yan was feeling depressed and was considering returning to the initial stages of foundation building after traveling tens of thousands of miles away.
Just now during the flight, several groups of cultivators saw that Li Yan was alone and there were only cultivators in the Qi Condensation Stage, and they all seemed to be approaching.
However, they were relatively close to Linshui City before, and Li Yan deliberately showed an arrogant look, which made those auras hesitate after seeing Li Yan like this.
It was obvious that he thought Li Yan was the descendant of a nearby sect or a powerful cultivator in the city, so he gave up in the end.
Such people usually have life-saving items on them, and as soon as they take action, they will immediately send a message back, and soon someone will come to rescue them. As Li Yan flew, he began to think again in his mind.
“It seems that the previous plan is not going to work. From now on, every time I’m close to the teleportation point, I will transform into a Qi Condensation cultivator and use the Blood Leaf Sect’s identity.
When walking around everyday, you need to change your appearance and restore to the foundation-building stage, which will save you a lot of trouble."
Just like this, Li Yan quietly released his spiritual sense while flying, tried his best to avoid the crowd of cultivators, and then flew forward for several hours.
Suddenly, Li Yan's expression changed while flying. He turned his head and looked to the side in the distance. There was a fluctuation of spiritual power coming from there. Obviously, someone was fighting there.
Li Yan didn't want to get into trouble, but he couldn't fly over here so brazenly. So he stepped on the flying sword and fell into the jungle below.
After falling into the jungle, Li Yan spread his body and began to fly through the jungle, but after he flew forward for dozens of miles, he suddenly stopped.
Then, the aura on his body quickly subsided, and soon even his figure turned into a very light smoke, floating towards the woods, and vaguely blending with the faint mist on the streams in the woods. It was exactly the "stealth at night" in the Guishui Sutra.
Li Yan has already cultivated this magic to the first level. He can already use objects to transform into objects. However, if you observe carefully, you can still see some clues in the form.
But it was already dark at this time, making him almost one with the surrounding environment, making it difficult to distinguish.
If he cultivates to the second level, even this wisp of faint smoke will become more similar. At that time, it will be difficult for anyone in the same level of foundation-building cultivators to discover his existence.
Just now, when Li Yan was flying, he suddenly sensed a familiar aura in his consciousness, but this person should not be here.
The man seemed to have sensed something strange in the forest, and after circling, he flew towards him.
After Li Yan turned into smoke for a few breaths, a sound of breaking through the air approached quickly from afar, and soon a blurry figure appeared above the jungle where Li Yan was.
As the figure stopped, the man's face gradually became clear. This man was a Confucian scholar in a moonlit white robe. He stood in the air, released his spiritual sense for a moment, and after scanning the area, he couldn't help but frowned slightly.
"Perhaps I really sensed it wrongly. Could it be that Xi was a low-level spiritual beast just now, so there was a slight fluctuation of spiritual power.
I have been looking for them all the way here. According to the Taoist priest who is guarding the teleportation array of Xuanqing Temple in the city, those people just arrived here this morning, so they must not have walked far..."
The Confucian scholar seemed to be whispering, then looked up at the place where Li Yan had sensed the fluctuation of spiritual power before.
After scanning the area once more, he opened the folding fan in his hand halfway, tapped it on the palm of his hand, and it turned into a beam of white light and shot out. However, as he opened the folding fan halfway, a strong smell of blood was left in the air.
Just a dozen breaths after the scholar left, Li Yan's figure slowly emerged from the mist above the stream. He looked in the direction where the scholar disappeared and narrowed his eyes.
"It's actually the Blood Hand Flying Scythe monk named Lin. Didn't he teleport eastward yesterday? How did he end up here again? From what he said just now, it seems like he's tracking us. Could he also be related to that mysterious force, just like Qin Chengyi?"
Thinking of this, Li Yan stood there and pondered. After a moment, he made a decision.
"If there are clues about the mysterious force here, we can pass them back to the sect. The direction of the Blood Hand Scythe is exactly where the spiritual power fluctuated just now.
When I was exploring there before, if I sensed correctly, it should be the foundation-building cultivators fighting. I can follow them, but if the situation is not good, I will flee immediately. "
After making the decision, Li Yan became even more cautious. He simply used the "Stealth and Hiding at Night" technique, turned into a wisp of smoke, and quickly shuttled through the woods.
The speed was not much slower than his flying speed, but it consumed a lot of his magic power when he used it in this way.
Half a cup of tea later, Li Yan arrived at a place dozens of miles away. He saw from afar that the Confucian scholar named Lin with the bloody hand and flying sickle was hiding on a big tree, staring at an open space in the forest without blinking.
Li Yan also looked over and was stunned.
Because he didn't want to alarm the monks who were fighting here, so he just took a quick sweep with his spiritual sense and left.
Now that we are tracking the scholar named Lin at a close distance, we can see the scenery ahead clearly.
At this time, four people were fighting in the open space in the forest. Li Yan actually knew all four of them. They were the purple-robed young man and his servant and the two black-robed men who were teleported here with him.
The purple-robed young man was holding a foot-high white jade bottle in his hand and was standing behind the hunchbacked old man with a nervous look on his face. The hunchbacked old man was fighting one against two, against two black-robed monks.
At this moment, the hunchbacked old man no longer looked dull. His body was straight, the old look on his face was gone, and his eyes were full of brilliance.
Even though he was outnumbered, he was not at a disadvantage at all.
At such a distance, Li Yan could clearly feel the hunchbacked old man's cultivation level. He should be at the peak of the foundation-building stage, or even higher. It is also possible that he has already stepped half a foot into the false elixir realm.
The cultivation realm emanating from the two men in black robes were both in the late stage of foundation building. For a cultivator who had reached the great perfection of foundation building, this meant that he could easily defeat the enemies even if he was fighting ten, let alone one against two.
However, these two men in black robes were obviously proficient in the art of combined attack. Their attack and defense were connected through formations, and the hunchbacked old man also had to take care of the young man in purple behind him.
For a moment, the two men fought the old man in black robe to a draw.