After more than half an hour, the spirit stone in Li Yan's hand had turned into ashes. He then opened his eyes, but did not stand up immediately. Instead, he moved his spiritual consciousness into the soil spot. A large area of bright yellow sky and earth filled his spiritual consciousness. There were light yellow clouds slowly drifting in the blue sky, a towering mountain stood tall, and a long river winding around the mountain was covered with green grass on both sides, spreading along the river bank to the distance. The scenery here was still the same, but the sky and the earth were clearer.
Magical weapons need to be nurtured, and the same goes for the earth spot. Although it was refined by a peerless powerful cultivator in the fusion stage, it is only in its initial form after refining. Without a cultivator's dripping blood to recognize it as the master, and without long-term nurturing, it will always be in its original state.
Li Yan soon found thousands of snow mosquitoes in the soil spot. These were the ones he had absorbed from the outside world before. With his current cultivation level, it was not too difficult for him to deal with a first-level monster. When these thousands of snow mosquitoes turned into an ice crystal sword and slashed at him, Li Yan's spiritual sense instantly opened the restriction of the soil spot space and directly took it in.
Li Yan did not take in more snow mosquitoes. Based on the reproduction speed of snow mosquitoes recorded in the jade slips, he believed that if he succeeded in subduing them and making them recognize their master, it would not take long for countless snow mosquitoes to reproduce here. What he had to do was to see if he could really bring these snow mosquitoes out of the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower safely. Perhaps Tuban did not have the absolute space barrier as he imagined. The moment he stepped out of the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower, these snow mosquitoes would be reduced to ashes, so there was no need to think about the subsequent reproduction and domestication.
The snow mosquitoes were not in a very good condition at the moment. Li Yan found this group of snow mosquitoes at the top of the mountain. They landed on the rock wall in a damp cave on the top of the mountain. Their breath was a little weak, and many of them even looked weak. They no longer looked as vigorous and sharp as dragons and tigers as before.
This made Li Yan's heart tighten. "It's only been about an hour. Is it true that he can only survive in the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower? But logically speaking, both places are independent spaces, and both evolved from the five elements..."
These snow mosquitoes seemed to have sensed the arrival of Li Yan's spiritual consciousness. Some of them were still standing on the ground of the cave, with their wings drooping, motionless, while the remaining half of them flew up after sensing Li Yan's breath. They flew unsteadily in the air, looking for the location of Li Yan's spiritual consciousness. After determining the space where Li Yan's spiritual consciousness was fluctuating, although they flew slowly, they still raised their sharp mouthparts and stabbed towards Li Yan's spiritual consciousness, but they missed the fluctuating space.
These snow mosquitoes could not attack the invisible spiritual consciousness. After they tried to fly back and forth several times to sense Li Yan's breath but failed, they once again emitted a whistling sound like cold wind from their mouthparts. However, this sound was much weaker to Li Yan. After hundreds of snow mosquitoes emitted sharp whistles, they gathered together in the space, as if they wanted to condense into a crystal sword again. However, they tried several times and each time they collapsed in the middle, and finally fell weakly on the wet ground.
Li Yan saw that the half of the snow mosquitoes that had just flown were obviously much larger than the ones that were motionless on the ground or on the cave wall.
"These snow mosquitoes that can still attack in extremely poor physical condition are all adults, but they can't hold on for long..." Li Yan took a look and knew the result. He looked at the surrounding environment again, and then his spiritual sense moved. In an instant, the temperature of the sky above the entire mountain top, which was originally warm, suddenly dropped sharply. Soon after, snowflakes floated in the air, and the rocks on the top of the mountain began to harden rapidly, and then formed layers of thin ice.
Li Yan stared at the snow mosquitoes in the cave without blinking. He soon saw that as the sky changed and the temperature dropped, the snow mosquitoes, which had been motionless like old men, suddenly became restless. As snowflakes fell from the sky, they began to flap their wings and flew out of the cave. Then, they headed towards the snowflakes flying in the sky on the top of the mountain and quickly merged into them. For a moment, it was impossible to tell which were snowflakes and which were snow mosquitoes.
Feeling the snow mosquitoes flying through the snowflakes, Li Yan revealed a smile. When he saw the situation of the snow mosquitoes for the first time, he guessed that either the space of the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower was really special, causing the monsters in it to be contaminated with the breath of the evil spirit and be repelled by other spaces; or it was due to the temperature here. After all, this is an earth-based magic weapon, which emphasizes masculine and fierce energy, but the Earth Spot is the treasure of the Five Immortals Sect. The five elements are the most fundamental things, so it makes a certain area change seasons. Although Li Yan's current cultivation level cannot fully drive the Earth Spot, after all, it has been refined through the sacrifice of essence and blood, and it is still very easy for him to condense water spiritual power to freeze and melt snow.
Looking at the space, the mountain that was originally full of yang energy has now turned into a mountain with half of it looking like an iceberg from the top of the mountain to the other half looking like a transition to spring flowers at the foot of the mountain. Li Yan actually felt that it was somewhat exotic.
Things may be complicated, or they may be very simple. Li Yan did not spend too much effort to temporarily solve the problem of the snow mosquitoes in the soil spot. The next critical moment will be when he goes out of the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower. There is no need to say anything if he dies. If he can conceal the truth, he can sacrifice these snow mosquitoes in the future.
After this experience, the following snowfield journey was still not easy, but after the previous experience, it was safe. One day later, Li Yan rushed into the willow with a tired look on his face. Looking at the snow mosquitoes blown up by the wind behind him, Li Yan could only shake his head slightly, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. The group of snow mosquitoes he encountered just now stretched for 2,000 miles. Even though Li Yan was prepared, his scalp was tingling.
During the day, Li Yan encountered four populations of snow mosquitoes, two of which had a range of two to three thousand miles. Thinking back now, Li Yan definitely did not want to experience it again. Thinking that the first level of the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower was so difficult to pass, the level of the monsters above would be higher, and the danger was unpredictable.
The next journey, although still a snowfield, was close to the edge of the snowfield. While moving forward like this, although there were no more snow mosquitoes, there were still other monsters. For example, Li Yan encountered a "split-face rabbit" half an incense stick ago. This monster was covered with white fur and looked very cute, but its head was three times the size of a normal rabbit, and its face was hateful. Its pair of red eyes would shoot out two red rays, which were depressing. If the spiritual power was only that of the Qi Condensation Stage, the cultivator would be fixed in one encounter, and then hunted calmly. However, these were not too threatening to Li Yan. With his current spiritual power, he could easily suppress the opponent's soul and often killed them at will.
Along the way, Li Yan also discovered some herbs growing on the snowfield or under the snow under his spiritual sense. Although none of them were rare species, they were also good raw materials for refining some pills. Of course, Li Yan picked them up without hesitation.
Looking at the snowfield on the ground, it was no longer flat and endless, but began to have evenly cracked ice and snow gullies. Li Yan knew that this was the area close to the "Melting Cave". Li Yan carefully thought about the various descriptions of the "Melting Cave" area in the jade slip in his mind, but suddenly his eyes narrowed. In his consciousness, from behind him, a ray of light was breaking through the air, and it was in his direction.
"Cultivators, and there are three foundation-building cultivators appearing at once. They are also coming from the snowfield." Li Yan narrowed his eyes and thought to himself. This was the first time Li Yan had encountered cultivators since he entered the Beiming Demon-Suppressing Tower. The three cultivators were only about three hundred miles away from him. Most of Li Yan's spiritual sense was focused on the front before, and the back was just observing the range of about three hundred miles at all times. At this distance, it can be guaranteed that no one can easily sneak attack him.
After Li Yan confirmed the cultivation levels of the other people, he did not deliberately speed up to avoid them. Those people clearly saw him and flew towards him on purpose. A distance of three hundred miles does not take too much time for a cultivator. After a short while, Li Yan felt the aura of the cultivators behind him getting stronger as they approached. Finally, Li Yan simply stopped flying, turned around, stood facing the wind, and looked quietly to the side behind him.
A red light streaked across the sky like a meteor, and disappeared in a flash before arriving a hundred feet away from Li Yan. After the light faded away, three figures were revealed. All three of them were around twenty years old, but the age of the cultivators could not be judged based on their appearance.
Li Yan had a cold expression on his face and just kept staring at the other person without saying a word.
After the brilliance of the three people faded, the leader smiled and clasped his fists to Li Yan, "Fellow Daoist, please come in. Meeting is fate, and fate is elusive. I'm Cheng Wenming from 'Gutan Gate', and I'm honored to meet you." The three people were standing on a boat-shaped flying magic weapon. The person at the head of the boat was a fat man. He was wearing a purple gown that seemed a bit tight, faintly revealing the faint horizontal lines of flesh on his abdomen. He had a round face and big ears, and when he spoke, his eyes occasionally flashed an undetectable gleam of brilliance that appeared and disappeared. Behind him were two young men dressed like scholars wearing scholar's scarves, one tall and one short, and they had been smiling and looking Li Yan up and down. The three men seemed to have a disordered breath and a slightly tired look, as if they had just experienced a fight.
Li Yan could feel from the other party that the fat guy in the lead who called himself Cheng Wenming had the highest cultivation level, having reached the realm of great perfection in foundation building, while the two behind him were both in the middle stage of foundation building. Such a group of three was already extremely strong, but such cultivation level no longer posed much of a threat to Li Yan now.
Facing the three foundation-building monks, Li Yan didn't have a good face, but said coldly, "I don't know why Fellow Daoist Cheng followed me here. I don't know you all, and we haven't had any contact before, so..."
Li Yan stopped talking after finishing his words. When the three heard this, the two young men who looked like scholars looked a little gloomy. They saw that Li Yan's cultivation was only the middle stage of foundation building. He actually had no awe at all for the three people who came together, as if he didn't take it to heart at all, and didn't even have the slightest intention of being polite. They felt a little embarrassed and looked at Cheng Wenming in front of them with an unhappy look on their faces, and did not immediately ridicule Li Yan.