Li Yan was flying at the fastest speed in the air, and the endless desert below was rapidly receding behind him.
As he flew, he quickly transferred the magic power in his body to his shoulders, and at the same time refined the pill in his mouth.
He needed to heal his broken shoulder bone as quickly as possible. The immortal cultivators' elixirs could make it extremely easy to recover from broken bones and tendons, which were considered serious injuries to mortals.
Just a moment later, Li Yan felt a tingling sensation in the broken bones of both shoulders, which was a sign of recovery.
Li Yan couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had practiced the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique. If he didn't have strong bones and muscles to protect him, his internal organs would have been severely damaged by the attack from the Red Fire Ancestor just now. If he didn't die, he would have been seriously injured and unconscious.
After Li Yan flew more than two hundred miles in one breath, he kept thinking quickly about countermeasures. He knew that the Red Fire Ancestor would definitely track him down soon.
With his flying speed, he could never compare with that of a Jindan cultivator.
After flying for a distance, he suddenly stopped and quickly wiped the "earth spot" on his left wrist. Then something appeared in his hand. It was Qin Chengyi's puppet.
Then Li Yan made a hand gesture and a beam of spiritual consciousness shot towards the puppet.
At the same time, the body of Li Yan, who was standing in the original place, quickly faded. In less than a breath, Li Yan had disappeared from the spot. And in the place where he had originally stood, another Li Yan was looking around. It was the puppet that he had transformed into.
After being given a wisp of spiritual consciousness by Li Yan, the puppet had transformed into Li Yan's appearance. The puppet only paused for a moment, then turned into a ray of light and flew out in another direction.
The place where Li Yan had stood before was blown by a gust of strong wind from the desert, which rolled up a sky full of yellow sand and blew towards the distant horizon.
"Sneaking and Hiding at Night" is the only magic skill in the Guishui Sutra, besides various magical training. At this moment, Li Yan has used it to the extreme and dares not hold back any more.
A feint to the east and attack in the west!
What Li Yan needs to do now is to give himself more time and escape further.
The spiritual awareness of a cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Core Realm is generally within a range of a thousand miles. Li Yan would have a chance to survive only if he could escape from this range.
Of course, this also depends on whether Ancestor Chihuo has practiced and has some secret techniques to enhance his spiritual consciousness.
Although it only took a short time to switch the real thing with the fake one, Li Yan didn't know whether the other party happened to have the spiritual sense to investigate, but he could only take a gamble.
Li Yan also placed his hopes on his "stealth and hiding at night" technique, hoping to deceive the Red Fire Ancestor.
However, with his current cultivation level, he had only practiced the first level of "Stealth at Night". Even if he used his full strength, he was still not sure he could hide it from the Red Fire Ancestor.
Therefore, he had to throw away Qin Chengyi's second-level puppet and separate a wisp of his spiritual consciousness and place it in its body.
By doing this, there is a high chance that Old Ancestor Chihuo will be attracted to this puppet that has his own aura within a short period of time.
The price Li Yan had to pay was the loss of a puppet comparable to a foundation-building cultivator, as well as a wisp of his own spiritual consciousness.
Although he felt extremely sad about the second-level puppet, compared to his own life, this was all he could do.
I didn't expect that after I got this puppet, it was abandoned before I actually used it.
If that wisp of his spiritual consciousness was destroyed, although Li Yan would not be seriously injured, he would still suffer backlash and would need at least some hard training before he could recover.
About fifty breaths later, Li Yan, who was hiding in the yellow sand, felt a heart-pounding pressure coming quickly from behind, accompanied by tremendous anger.
This made him feel cold in his heart. Facing a Jindan cultivator chasing him, Li Yan had no power to resist except to run away.
He could only pray in his heart that the methods he used could delay the situation for a little longer.
Although the poison that "Isolated Heaven and Earth" was not used much before, it still made Old Ancestor Chihuo spend a lot of effort. At the moment of being poisoned, not only was he a little dazed, but the magic power in his body almost stopped working.
The Red Fire Ancestor was startled and bit his tongue hard, then he became much more sober. His body shook and fell directly to the ground.
Fortunately, he was hanging in the air less than ten feet high just now. With the physique of a Jindan cultivator, he could withstand a fall from such a height.
Even so, he still fell hard and knocked unconscious. However, no matter how he used his magic power, it seemed as if it was stuck in a deep quagmire.
It takes a long time to move forward an inch, which makes Old Ancestor Chihuo a little flustered.
In this situation, if any Jindan cultivator passed by, he would be killed with a wave of his hand. There was no sympathy among cultivators, and there were many people who would take advantage of others' misfortunes.
As for the cultivators below the Jindan level, as long as their magic power can still function, he is confident that he still has some means to kill those low-level cultivators who want to take advantage of the situation.
Fortunately for him, his spiritual sense was not affected. Under the coverage of his spiritual sense, he did not detect the presence of any powerful cultivators nearby. He then breathed a sigh of relief.
He hurriedly opened his storage bag, took out the detoxification pill, swallowed it, and began to refine it immediately.
However, the poison of "isolating heaven and earth" had already entangled with the magic power in his body. Even for Old Ancestor Red Fire, who had such a high level of cultivation, it took him nearly a hundred breaths to recover most of it.
How could he not be furious? If this matter were to be spread out, he would be extremely embarrassed, especially since he almost became a Jindan cultivator who was killed by falling.
This made him, who originally just wanted to complete a small task for the Ye family ancestor, become a great shame and humiliation for the Chihuo ancestor.
However, after he was poisoned, he saw that Li Yan did not take the opportunity to attack him, but fled far away into the sky, which made him think more highly of Li Yan.
If Li Yan wanted to come and kill him at that time, he would kill Li Yan on the spot. Every cultivator has his own life-saving trump card, but usually the cost of using it is too high.
The life-saving trump card of a Jindan cultivator is not something that a mere foundation-building cultivator can afford.
After a hundred breaths, he felt that although his magic power was still not flowing smoothly, it was enough for him to perform most of his magic. The Red Fire Ancestor did not delay any longer and jumped up to chase after him.
At this moment, he was even more vigilant. As long as he got close to Li Yan, he would not give the other party any chance at all. He would directly use powerful magic from a long distance to kill Li Yan.
Just now, because he was trying hard to recover quickly, the Red Fire Ancestor's consciousness was not always on Li Yan.
Therefore, he really didn't notice Li Yan's strategy of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. So when he stood up, his spiritual sense quickly scanned around, and soon after, he found that Li Yan was desperately fleeing in one direction.
He snorted coldly, swung his sleeves, took a step forward, and chased after him.
Li Yan felt a wave of palpitations, and he felt that the Red Fire Ancestor who was approaching him suddenly changed direction.
The direction he was heading was exactly where the puppet controlled by his spiritual consciousness was going. He felt a little relieved and focused his mind with all his strength, following the rolling sand in the desert.
The speed of the puppet controlled by Li Yan's spiritual consciousness instantly reached more than a hundred feet, which was three times faster than when Li Yan himself flew at full speed.
That’s because all the spiritual power slots inside the puppet are now filled with spirit stones by Li Yan.
Although Qin Chengyi's puppet is not as powerful as the giant ape puppet given by Bai Rou, it also has forty spirit stone slots inside.
At this moment, under the control of his spiritual consciousness, he is activating the spirit stone within it at all costs, and he does not even worry about the excessive amount of spiritual energy passing through it, which will cause irreversible damage to the internal structure of the puppet.
In this way, although it only took a few dozen breaths, the puppet had already traveled more than sixty miles.
In addition, at this moment, the Red Fire Ancestor was not used to the speed of the magic power circulating in his body, and could not act as he wished.
In this way, they chased after each other, and when Old Ancestor Chihuo caught up, the puppet had been separated from Li Yan by a distance of a hundred miles, and the spirit stones inside the puppet were almost exhausted.
Ancestor Chihuo stood in the sky above a desert with a livid face.
Just now, when he was getting closer to the puppet, he had begun to realize that something was wrong, but the residual poison of Li Yan's "Isolation from Heaven and Earth" was still there, making his consciousness a little groggy and unable to concentrate on thinking.
Finally, when he was still a hundred feet away from the puppet, he directly used the "Fiery Gold Burning" magical power to attack it. At this time, he no longer thought about keeping Li Yan to search his soul.
"Flames Burning Gold" is his most outstanding skill among his magic powers. He once used this skill to kill a cultivator of the same level in the early Jindan stage.
Therefore, it was no surprise that the puppet that was still flying in front was turned into powder with one blow. Even Li Yan's consciousness did not have a chance to escape and was turned into ashes.
After the attack, Old Ancestor Chihuo had sensed something unusual in his magic power. Even though his mind was groggy at the moment, he understood that he had fallen into the opponent's trick of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west.
Ancestor Chihuo stood in mid-air with a grim expression on his face. He spread out his spiritual sense again and carefully scanned the sky and the ground in all directions.
"Boy, no matter where you are, I will find you. I will extract your soul and refine your spirit to relieve my hatred."
Having been escaped by a younger generation several times, the Red Fire Ancestor now hated Li Yan with a vengeance, and had no other thoughts except wanting to tear him alive.
He also believed that Li Yan must not have escaped very far. Unless Li Yan had a top-level flying magic weapon that could match the flying speed of a Jindan cultivator, he would not be able to fly thousands of miles away in such a short time and escape the range of his spiritual awareness.
Just as the Red Fire Ancestor used his magical power of "Flames Burning Gold" to destroy the puppet with one blow, Li Yan, who was running fast, suddenly felt a piercing pain in his head.
The severe pain almost made him reveal his true form directly from the "stealth and hiding" state.
He has always been a man of great perseverance, but even so, the state that had originally merged with the yellow sand was separated and stagnant for a moment, and there was even a stream of blood in his mouth, which he sprayed directly into the yellow sand.
"He...he finally caught up with the puppet!"
Li Yan thought rapidly in his mind about what might happen next. Enduring the severe pain in his consciousness as if his flesh and bones were being torn apart, Li Yan became a little more solid.
In the yellow sand, an almost transparent body slowly emerged. He waved his hand, grabbed the blood-stained sand, and put it into the storage bag. He could not leave any trace.
Then he hesitated for a moment and looked up at the sky. It was still some time before dark, but the unique sight of the sun and the moon shining together on the Desolate Moon Continent had already appeared.
A huge full moon has risen in the sky in the east, and the setting sun in the desert is still hanging on the horizon in the west, making the entire desert still well lit.
Li Yan, who was in a state of emptiness, had an expressionless face. He took out another object from the "soil spot", pinched his fingers, and threw the object into the sand under his feet.
Then some more solid bodies merged with the yellow sand again and were blown away by the strong wind.
The Red Fire Ancestor's spiritual sense swept across with all its might, covering an area of a thousand miles in radius.
After a dozen breaths, the Red Fire Ancestor withdrew his spiritual sense and knitted his brows together. He did not find any trace of Li Yan within a thousand miles. Even the hundred feet underground he scanned one by one. With the cultivation level of a foundation-building cultivator, his earth escape technique would not be able to go beyond a hundred feet underground.
Even Li Yan himself was unaware of this situation. Even if he only had one of the Five Immortal Sect's magic arts, "Stealth at Night and Hiding", its power would be astonishing even if he had just started practicing it.
“Just now, within a thousand miles, there were more than 38,000 birds and beasts with life breath. They were all ordinary wild beasts, without any spiritual energy fluctuations on their bodies.
Even if the cultivator has some magic skills to transform, he is only a foundation-building cultivator after all. It is impossible for him to not reveal any spiritual fluctuations at all. So where is this guy hiding
Could it be that he really possessed a top-level flying magic weapon? But the Ye family ancestor said that he was not a disciple of a big sect...
Moreover, if there really was a magic weapon with this speed, he wouldn't have needed to use the earth escape technique before. When he saw that the situation was not good, he would have directly used the magic weapon to fly away. Even if I chased him, it would be a 50-50 chance."
The Red Fire Ancestor frowned and thought, then suddenly his eyes narrowed and he thought of the scene that he had just sensed with his spiritual sense.
It was a large area of yellow sand blown up by strong winds, forming tornado-like sand columns that reached the sky and the earth, and then rolled in different directions. Thinking about it now, one of the sand columns seemed a little different.