The teleportation array of "Qingfeng Pavilion" also has multiple nodes. Of course, the one Li Yan wants to teleport to is the farthest distance, the last node to the north.
When he obtained a large amount of spirit stones from the He brothers and the Blood Hand Flying Scythe, although the cost of each transmission was painful for him, it was still an unexpected gain.
The last node of "Qingfeng Pavilion" is also a temporary stronghold, with about fifty disciples guarding the teleportation array.
When Li Yan stepped out of the teleportation array and began to walk out of the stronghold, he found that there was a cultivator behind him, who had been hanging far behind him.
The monk was a bald old man, short and fat, with a red nose, a big mouth, a cold expression, and a bright red robe, which was particularly eye-catching.
Before, when Li Yan entered the "Qingfeng Pavilion" at the other end of the market town, this person seemed to have arrived there at about the same time.
However, there were many people being teleported at that time. Although Li Yan remained vigilant, he only kept a certain distance from everyone in the teleportation array. He did not take any special precautions against this person.
As the transmission begins, people are continuously being teleported out at each node, and those who remain behind begin to attract more and more attention.
After passing the last three nodes, the only ones left in the entire teleportation array were the red-robed bald old man and Li Yan.
Finally, they both arrived at the end of the teleportation array. Li Yan noticed that when the red-robed bald old man occasionally looked at him, there was a kind of indifference to life in his eyes, as if he was looking at a dead person.
All this made Li Yan alert and he protected his whole body with all his magic power. He could not see through the cultivation level of the red-robed bald old man, but he could feel the extremely dangerous aura from him.
During the teleportation process, he was not too worried that the other party would suddenly attack him. No matter how high your cultivation level is, it is possible to cause chaos in the teleportation array, and the cultivators in the teleportation array will be drawn into the misty turbulent space.
There, you might be killed instantly by the chaos of space flow, and doing so would undoubtedly be seeking death, so in the teleportation array, you just need to stay vigilant.
Of course, there are exceptions here. For example, a cultivator who practices the power of space or the power of time can be confident that he will not be caught up in the turbulence of space.
However, there are basically no cultivators who can cultivate these two powers of the rules of heaven and earth in the mortal world. Only some formation masters have mastered the basics of space power.
They can only use this little power of space to set up magic arrays like teleportation arrays, but they cannot truly drive space.
Of course, if your cultivation has reached the Nascent Soul stage or above, you can rely on your own powerful strength to resist the turbulence of space.
However, there are very few Nascent Soul cultivators, and many cultivators will never meet a Nascent Soul monster in their entire life. Li Yan does not believe that his luck is so bad.
With these reasons in mind, although Li Yan felt that the bald old man in red robe was weird, he was not too worried that the other party would do anything abnormal during the transmission process.
As the two of them looked at each other from time to time, they were soon teleported to the last stronghold of "Qingfeng Pavilion".
When Li Yan left, the bald old man in red robe was hanging behind him, more than twenty feet away from Li Yan. For a cultivator, attacking from this distance would only take a moment, which made Li Yan feel uneasy.
Because he had already used all his spiritual sense and still could not find out the other party's true strength. There was only one possibility in this situation, that is, the other party's strength was far superior to his own.
Li Yan is now at the peak of the initial stage of foundation building. With the power of Guishui Sutra and the first level of Qiongqi Purgatory Technique that he has successfully cultivated, Li Yan is confident that he can deal with a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.
If he is a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building, with the help of his poisonous body, although he cannot defeat the opponent, he is confident that he can escape.
But he couldn't see through this bald old man in a red robe at all, which meant that either his martial arts was equally strange, or he had already reached the Golden Core realm or above. No matter which of these two situations, Li Yan felt that he was in great danger in the unknown situation.
But staying in the "Qingfeng Pavilion" stronghold for a long time would not be a solution to the problem. Li Yan frowned, took a few quick steps out of the stronghold, took out his flying sword and threw it into the air, then flew away at a high speed towards the distant sky!
He was using all his magical powers at this moment and had no intention of holding back anymore.
Just as Li Yan threw the flying sword, the bald old man in red robe paused as he looked at the flying sword Li Yan took out.
The direction Li Yan was heading to was the northern part of the Wild Moon Continent. The Wild Moon Continent was vast and there were many places that even cultivators did not dare to enter at will.
Therefore, as Li Yan traveled north, he would choose to use the teleportation array from time to time. Sometimes it was not entirely for the purpose of saving time, but because he needed to directly pass through some extremely dangerous places. As a last resort, he had to use the teleportation method.
The stronghold of "Qingfeng Pavilion" was built on the edge of a desert. Li Yan had already learned about this from the jade map.
The desert is nearly ten thousand miles wide, and Li Yan needs to cross it. There is no teleportation array to continue to the north. It may be that the power of the nearby sects has reached its limit.
Therefore, Li Yan had to fly there by himself.
According to the description in the jade slip, this desert is sparsely populated, with chaotic spiritual energy and several dangerous places, so ordinary cultivators passing through here more or less travel quickly in groups.
Li Yan's jade slip contains several routes through the desert.
Li Yan flew more than three hundred miles in one breath, but when he looked back, he felt his scalp tighten and was shocked.
Because just now he kept looking back, and whether in his vision or in his consciousness, the surroundings were vast and empty, with no one there.
At this moment, only fifty feet behind him, a man was slowly appearing in his sight. It was the short and fat bald old man in a red robe.
His face was cold and expressionless, except for a slight curling of the corners of his mouth, as if he was giving a silent sneer to Li Yan who was looking back at him.
Li Yan's face became increasingly uglier, and he could not help but shout in a deep voice.
"Sir, what do you mean by this? Why are you following me?"
Although he said this, the flying sword under his feet did not stop at all, but instead accelerated a little.
"Are you a cultivator from the Ten-Step Academy? But the way you control the flying sword doesn't seem like that of a disciple from the Ten-Step Academy?"
The bald old man in a red robe took a look at the flying sword under Li Yan's feet and finally spoke. His voice was hoarse, like the sound made when two pieces of dead wood collided with each other.
"What does this have to do with you? Why are you so persistent in pursuing me? It's as if you and I don't know each other."
Li Yan saw that the other party ignored his questions and seemed curious about his identity.
“Hehehe… You don’t want to tell me? That’s okay. I will capture you in a moment anyway. I will know the answer with just a quick soul search. Don’t think that the monks in the Ten-Step Courtyard can sit back and relax. This is the territory of the Wangliang Sect. You can only blame yourself for choosing the wrong place when you came out to train.” The red-robed bald old man continued in a hoarse voice.
Li Yan was furious after hearing this. The man wanted to search his soul as soon as he opened his mouth, but he was really afraid of the other party's strength, so he spoke in a deep voice.
"I am not a monk from the Ten-Step Academy. I just bought this flying sword in a market as a flying magic weapon."
“Hehehe… Are you scared? But I tell you, it doesn’t matter whether you are a monk from the Ten-Step Academy or not. What matters is that you must die. This place is already very remote. Even if you are a monk from the Ten-Step Academy, there will be no way to find out afterwards.”
As he spoke, the bald old man in red robe suddenly disappeared from behind Li Yan.
But the next moment, Li Yan's figure fell straight to the ground below like a meteor.
At this time, the bald old man in a red robe appeared on Li Yan's route, less than ten feet in front of him. If Li Yan continued to fly forward, he would have faced the bald old man in a red robe head-on.
Li Yan fell to the ground with an extremely solemn expression.
Just as he was flying forward, he suddenly felt a crisis of facing death, which was exactly the same feeling as when he faced Division Ji.
Without even thinking, his body fell straight to the ground like a meteor. The sudden outburst of the red-robed bald old man just now made Li Yan finally sense the terrifying aura of the other party.
"A cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Core?"
Li Yan just felt dry mouth and tongue, which was something he could not resist at all.
This person's origin is mysterious, and he didn't give any reason at all. However, the bald old man in red robe suddenly exploded just now. Although Li Yan dodged it, he knew that the other party had not yet used his full strength.
Li Yan felt that the other party was like a cat playing with a mouse. The bald old man in red robe just wanted to stop him. Otherwise, based on his speed just now, if he attacked directly, it would be hard to say whether he could dodge his attack.
"Oh, you are in the middle stage of foundation building? Well, it doesn't look like it. I guess I was wrong."
The bald old man in a red robe was suspended in the air, looking down at Li Yan. There was a hint of surprise in his eyes, but it was just a hint of surprise.
He just thought that he could easily stop Li Yan. With Li Yan's cultivation level at the initial stage of foundation building, before Li Yan could react, he could just point a finger at him and solve everything easily.
But the result surprised him a little. When Li Yan was on full alert, his consciousness had already surpassed the false elixir realm and was infinitely close to the consciousness range of the early golden elixir realm.
Therefore, as soon as the red-robed bald old man disappeared, Li Yan's spiritual sense sensed it. Although his magic power was not as strong as the other party's, the distance was so close that he finally reacted.
Li Yan swept his spiritual sense around and groaned in his heart, because this was an endless desert and he had no good way to hide.
He calculated quickly in his mind.
"It's still evening, and there's still an hour before dark. After dark, although it still doesn't have much impact on spiritual awareness, it reduces visual observation, which does increase the chances.
Therefore, we must wait until dark anyway to have a better chance of escaping."
All these thoughts raced through his mind, but he spoke with an unwilling look.
"Senior, I don't think I have ever offended you. Why do you want to kill me?"
The bald old man in red robe looked around. There was nothing but desert all around, and endless space in front and behind. Li Yan had no chance to run away at this moment. Seeing that Li Yan looked unwilling, he said lightly.
"You have offended others, so you can only blame yourself. But don't blame me when I search your soul later. It's just that someone wants to know your true identity, so I can only use the soul-searching technique."
When Li Yan heard this, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through his mind, and he said in a cold voice.
"You are from the Ye family."
Li Yan was so smart that he immediately realized that if he offended anyone, during these days, apart from the He brothers and the Blood Hand Flying Sickle, the only one who was offended was the Ye family.
The first three were already dead, and he had done it quietly.
He also believed that Zhuo Lingfeng and Hu Chen Wuding would not tell this matter to anyone. The only thing left was that he took the final test for Hu Chen Wuding, which ultimately led to Hu Chen Jianghai's failure.
If there was anyone who hated him the most, it should be Ye Luoyan.
Moreover, after Zhuo Lingfeng left the Hu Chen family, he had some abnormal perceptions. This should be a kind of perception that Zhuo Lingfeng had developed after walking on the brink of life and death for many years.
I think it was this person who was monitoring nearby at that time, but because he was too close to the Hu Chen family, he did not take action for a long time.
Li Yan's mind raced and he suddenly came to his senses.
In fact, just as Li Yan guessed, the bald old man in red robe was not a cultivator from the Ye family, but a guest elder of the Ye family.
In addition to the Ye family ancestor who is a false infant cultivator, the Ye family also has another elder who is in the early Jindan stage. In order to further strengthen the family strength, they spent a huge amount of spirit stones to worship a Jindan early stage cultivator, who is the bald old man in a red robe in front of them.
This person was originally a casual cultivator named Jiang Mingyuan. By chance, he obtained the inheritance of an ancient cultivator and also obtained a large number of elixirs from there. In the end, he actually became a Jindan cultivator.
But when he finally condensed the golden elixir, all the cultivation resources left by the ancient cultivator were consumed by him, and he could no longer make further progress.
In order to continue his practice, he began to kill people and rob people for their property. In order to ensure that his whereabouts could not be discovered, he never left anyone alive. He was bloodthirsty and regarded human life as grass.
But this person was also extremely cunning, and the prey he chose were not disciples of major sects, so for a while, he did not attract the attention of the old monster in the Nascent Soul stage, and he was able to live a carefree life.
Because he is good at using fire-related skills, he is called the "Red Fire Ancestor" and is a one-legged giant in the underworld.