Li Yan first placed the Stealing Heaven Cloth in front of his eyes and observed it carefully. Although he knew that the function of the Stealing Heaven Cloth was somewhat against the will of heaven, he only knew that it was a very powerful magic weapon. However, since he learned that there was a magic weapon called "ancient treasure" in this world, Li Yan developed a strong interest in it.
The Sky-stealing Handkerchief was as smooth as water. It slid in Li Yan's hand like water. Li Yan immersed his consciousness into it and found that there were still crystal silk threads intertwined. They were entangled irregularly and then spread in other directions. In the center of these white jade silk threads, there were also many crystal clear red silk threads. These were the positions of the red maple leaves embroidered on the Sky-stealing Handkerchief. Looking from the inside with his consciousness, these red crystal silk threads were intertwined with each other, like a ruby firmly occupying the center of the Sky-stealing Handkerchief, reaching the sky and the earth, like a red silk curtain hanging from the sky.
Li Yan's spiritual consciousness was only carefully observing the vicinity of the red silk threads. He wanted to determine from these red silk threads whether they were ancient materials. After a long while, without finding anything special, Li Yan carefully controlled a trace of spiritual consciousness to touch a red silk thread. Li Yan suddenly felt a sharp pain in his spiritual consciousness.
"As expected, it seems that it is because my cultivation is too shallow. The silk thread embroidered with red maple leaves may be the ancient or prehistoric material for refining this magic weapon. What it is is not something I can find out now."
Li Yan frowned and endured the severe pain to retract that trace of spiritual consciousness. He had known this result long ago. Looking at the white jade silk thread in the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief for too long with his spiritual consciousness would make him dizzy and nauseous, and every time he touched the red silk thread in the center, he would suffer. It was just that he didn't know much about the ancient treasure before, so he guessed that it should be the core formation of the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief, and it was also a forbidden protection made by the refiner.
Now that he had roughly heard about the origin of the ancient treasure, Li Yan guessed that although the red silk threads should be the core formation of the Stealing Heaven Cloak, they were also an ancient material from ancient times or even earlier, and they should have the function of ignoring restrictions. In this regard, the Stealing Heaven Cloak might have other uses, but he just didn't know it.
Even knowing this little bit made Li Yan very excited. As his cultivation continued to improve, he believed that one day he would figure out the origin and function of the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief. If it weren't for the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief, he might have died in the strong wind or been captured by the Red Fire Ancestor, and he wouldn't have met Shuang Qingqing.
Li Yan had already refined the "Heaven-Stealing Scarf" before, but he always felt a little unfamiliar with using it. Now he understood the reason. Perhaps the Heaven-Stealing Scarf had its own set of separate practice and control techniques to truly drive it.
After confirming that the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief might be an ancient treasure, Li Yan felt even happier. He looked at the folding fan again and after thinking for a while, Li Yan did not open the folding fan. Instead, he waved his hand and put away the Chuanyun Willow, Stealing Heaven Handkerchief and the folding fan. He had more important things to deal with now.
Li Yan's consciousness sank into his body, and the next moment he appeared in the purple bowel of his Dantian. Looking at the five spiritual power cauldrons filled with water vapor, Li Yan was a little dazed, thinking back to when he first started practicing the Guishui Sutra, there were only five very small spiritual power tanks in his Dantian, and the weak spiritual power inside could dissipate at any time. But now, not only has the entire Dantian lake expanded dozens of times, the five large cauldrons floating on it are flashing with a textured dim light, and the spiritual power is endless like the tide. For a moment, Li Yan was filled with emotion and his thoughts were like the tide.
After a long while, Li Yan took a deep breath, and after quickly forming an ancient and complicated seal with his hands in front of his chest, a look of pain appeared on his face, and then colorful lines that made people's scalp tingle appeared on his exposed skin. They kept wriggling under his skin, as if they were about to break out of his body, giving people a creepy feeling at the sight of them.
Li Yan had a painful expression, but the magic seals on his hands were not disordered at all. His ten fingers flew like flowers, forming seals one after another. As the seals were formed, five-colored runes, either black, blue, or red, continuously flew out from between his ten fingers. After these runes flew out, they circled around Li Yan's body, and finally formed groups of five to form larger runes. Then, as Li Yan breathed, they were absorbed into his body one by one according to the pattern of black, blue, red, yellow, and white.
As Li Yan quickly formed seals on his hands, the pain on his face did not ease, but became even more distorted, making his originally ordinary face appear extremely hideous. His whole body was flickering as more and more five-colored talismans were reflected on it. He was like a flickering fire cocoon in the dark cave, weird and ghostly.
At this time, Li Yan was unsealing the seal that contained the deadly poison. The poison was obtained by consuming the rare poisonous aura in the magic weapon of Ancestor Hu Chen and the venom from rare monsters. It seemed easy when it was sealed, but once the release and absorption began, the process would make Li Yan suffer unbearable pain.
Li Yan had to use these poisonous spiritual energy and venom to allow himself to reach the middle stage of foundation building. Originally, he had entered the foundation building period for less than half a year. According to normal practice, it would take several years or even more than ten years to reach the middle stage of foundation building. However, with the heaven-defying practice method of Guishui Zhenjing, the five elements promoted each other, which could shorten this process to about three years. Similarly, in the future, when he breaks through to the late stage of foundation building and false elixir, Guishui Zhenjing will also have this effect. However, when it comes to forming elixir, it will be the same as Li Wuyi and the others. It depends on chance. It is normal for it to take dozens or hundreds of years from false elixir to forming elixir.
Li Yan's path to immortal cultivation is different from that of normal Five Immortal Sect cultivators. He also possesses a fragmented poisonous body, but he can make breakthroughs with the help of external objects. In fact, it is a common path for poison cultivators to make breakthroughs in their own realm with the help of external objects. The path of poison cultivators is off the beaten track, and their advancement speed is often many times faster than that of normal cultivators. They either devour poison pills or absorb poisonous insect venom, using the poison to forcibly stimulate the meridians in their bodies or mutate their spiritual power in order to seek alternative breakthroughs. Disciples like those from the Lingchong Peak and Buli Peak of the Wuliang Sect use more extreme methods that make people shudder. They often merge with their companion monsters or poisonous insects, allowing these extremely poisonous creatures of heaven and earth to parasitize in their bodies. When they practice, the monsters and insects in their bodies also practice, and the monsters and insects in their bodies grow and develop, which will also increase the strength of their masters. They complement each other. When
When the practice reaches the highest level, the cultivator and the demonic beasts and insects in the body have become one. If one dies, the other will die as well. It is extremely vicious.
Although the amount of poisonous spiritual energy and venom that Li Yan swallowed this time was not huge, the poisonous spiritual plants and monsters in the magic weapon of Ancestor Hu Chen were all rare species, and the toxins contained in them had reached a chilling level. If Li Yan released all the poison he swallowed this time, he could poison a town of 100,000 people in less than half a day. This was not an empty talk.
It is precisely because there is such a huge amount of poisonous spiritual energy in his body that Li Yan has the confidence to reach the middle stage of foundation building. Moreover, he cannot suppress it for too long, otherwise once the seal is broken, it will be fatal to Li Yan. The toxins that erupt instantly are unbearable even for him with his fragmented poisonous body. Therefore, he has to put everything aside and practice in seclusion, releasing the terrifying power in the seal bit by bit for refining.
This process was complicated and painful. Li Yan first had to refine the poisonous spirit and venom, which were not of the same attributes, into his own five elements spirit, and then do the Zhoutian cycle again and again to purify the spirit that was not from his own practice. When the final purification was completed, he needed to rebalance the spirit in the five spirit tripods. If there was a certain attribute of spirit that was redundant, it would be wasted and must be expelled from the body. The five elements must be balanced. Only then, after quietly recuperating, could he make the final breakthrough to break through the bottleneck. Li Yan estimated that it would take three to five months to complete.
The place Li Yan was looking for was one he had searched in many places before he found this one, a deserted mountain with no trace of human beings. There was not a single spiritual energy here, but Li Yan was refining the poisonous spiritual power in his body, so he didn't need to breathe in the spiritual power between heaven and earth. This deserted mountain had lost its spiritual energy, so there were very few monsters and beasts, and cultivators kept their distance from it. Usually, only some wild beasts with undeveloped intelligence roamed there, and they were simply unable to break through the several layers of formations set up by Li Yan. It was quite safe here, and Li Yan slowly released the seal in his body while pinching his fingers.
Two million miles north of the barren mountain where Li Yan was, there was a medium-sized city called "Daning City". It was under the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect. The population of the city had exceeded 500,000, of which 70% were secular people.
The Pure Land Sect is somewhat similar to the Taixuan Sect. Most of them are immortals and mortals living in the same city. This is very different from the Wuliang Sect and Shibuyuan. The reason is actually related to their respective inheritance. The Pure Land Sect and Taixuan Sect are the two major Taoist sects that believe in Buddhism and Taoism. In the two sects, whether monks or Taoists, in addition to cultivating spiritual power, they also need to cultivate mind power and will power. This is actually a unique power that is not in the five elements and belongs to the power of faith.
Buddhism and Taoism are firm practitioners of the power of faith, while thought power and wish power cannot be obtained through one's own practice. Temples need to be built, and then people need to continue to worship and believe. Over time, the statues in the temples and Taoist temples will produce Buddhist thought power and Taoist wish power. These thought power and wish power can be absorbed by monks or Taoists, and even Buddhas and Taoists with profound cultivation can devour them through the golden bodies built for them. Neither thought power nor wish power is the spiritual power of immortal cultivation. In some aspects, its power is even stronger than spiritual power. Therefore, when fighting against monks and Taoists, in addition to guarding against their means of immortal cultivation, you must also be careful of their other means of attack. Generally, the most difficult to defend against are attacks such as thought power and wish power. Their attacks are weird, and it is extremely difficult to detect with spiritual consciousness. Once they are used, few people who are hit survive.
In view of this characteristic, the Pure Land Sect and Taixuan Sect not only intervened in the mortal dynasties, but also established temples and Taoist temples in the secular world to spread the benefits of Buddhism and Taoism, so that more people would believe in them and worship them in order to gain more power of mind and will. Although there are many temples and Taoist temples in the Pure Land Sect and Taixuan Sect, the places where immortals appear are often only a few larger cities. The rest of the places will only send people to build temples and Taoist temples, but immortals rarely appear there, after all, immortals and mortals are on different paths.
In the several larger cities under the jurisdiction of these two major sects, although immortals and mortals coexist, the cities are divided into areas. Some places can only be entered and exited by immortals. Most mortals will never be able to know the situation inside in their lifetime, let alone enter, but they know that there are immortals on land.
However, Shibuyuan and Wuliangzong only control the dynasties under their jurisdiction and rarely appear in mortal cities. This is the biggest difference.
Daning City is only 300,000 miles away from the Pure Land Sect, which is not too far for some cultivators.
On this day, in a secret room in Daning City, there were gasps and white waves rolling in the room. A naked man was hugging a beautiful woman in a red array, gasping heavily. The beautiful woman grabbed the man's strong back tightly, her face was red, and her eyes were like silk. With a roar from the man, the beautiful woman's snow-white body stretched straight and trembled a few times before she lay back on the bed weakly.