But the fat man Cheng Wenming smiled bitterly and said politely, "Oh, that's right. According to your cultivation level and the direction you are going, if I'm not mistaken, you should also be going to the second floor. The three of us entered the Beiming Demon-Suppressing Tower the day before yesterday, but our luck was very bad. We were actually teleported to the northwest corner, which is the opposite of the entrance to the second floor. The three of us either went diagonally to the west, then flew over the continuous snow-capped mountains from the west, and finally turned to the south; or we went east and then went straight from north to south through the vast snowfield. Obviously, the three of us chose the latter, but it was very difficult all the way. Those snow mosquitoes made us embarrassed even when the three of us joined forces. We were in extreme danger several times and almost died in them. We just got rid of the snow mosquito population of more than a thousand miles half an hour ago, and saw you not long after we rushed out. You must be a man of great magical powers to be able to get here alone, hehe!"
At the end of his speech, Cheng Wenming actually complimented Li Yan a few words and smiled again, but Li Yan did not respond after hearing what he said. It was unknown what these three people had in mind when they caught up with him so abruptly. He just looked at Cheng Wenming quietly.
Cheng Wenming saw that Li Yan didn't take his compliments to heart and still looked like he was keeping people at a distance. He also felt that the two people behind him seemed impatient, so he quickly spoke again, "The two Taoist friends behind me are from the 'Chengxin Sect'. The three of us joined forces and we are in such a situation, which shows how strong you are. But I wonder if you know how to get through the 'Rongdong' ahead? Even for a fake Dan cultivator, it would be difficult to get through there alone, so the three of us would like to go with you, what do you think?"
After hearing this, Li Yan glanced at the three people with a cold gaze, thinking, "These three people are from two different sects. They suddenly came forward to meet each other on the same road. It's not as simple as wanting to borrow my strength."
"Friend Cheng, I'm used to being alone, so there's no need for me to travel with anyone. Goodbye!" Li Yan didn't want to say more. He nodded slightly and was about to turn around and leave.
"Hey, hey, hey, fellow Daoist, please stay..." Cheng Wenming said anxiously when he saw that Li Yan had no intention of listening to what he said. He saw Li Yan walking here alone. Although he didn't know where the person in front of him started from, he had been here several times and knew that the nearest entrance nearby was within three thousand meters of the snowfield, which was very close to the southern edge of the snowfield. But even at this nearest entrance, he could walk here calmly by himself. This person must be a master of fire attribute.
Li Yan turned his head suddenly and looked at Cheng Wenming with cold eyes, "What? Do you want to force me to stay?"
This time, before Cheng Wenming could speak, the tall monk behind him spoke, "Brother Cheng, he is a master, why bother..." But before he could finish, Cheng Wenming glanced at the man intentionally or unintentionally. The man immediately swallowed the rest of his words, but his face looked a little gloomy.
This time, Cheng Wenming shook his hands repeatedly, and then spoke faster, "It's like this. If you think you already know what I'm saying now, then consider it as us disturbing you. If I'm not mistaken, this should be your first time to come to the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower, otherwise you wouldn't go straight into the 'Rongdong' area alone."
After Cheng Wenming said this, he stared at Li Yan, wanting to see his reaction. This time it was not beyond his expectations. Although Li Yan still had a blank expression, he did not leave immediately.
"Haha, it seems to be true. What I said before was not alarmist. The danger levels in the North Ming Demon Suppression Tower are not clearly divided according to the first and second floors. Have you heard before coming here that even for foundation-building cultivators like us, we may not be able to reach the second floor?" Seeing this, Cheng Wenming knew that his guess was correct, and he was even more certain about Li Yan's next move.
"Oh, I'd like to hear the details!" Although Li Yan did not admit it, this sentence also meant admitting that this was his first time entering the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower. Although Li Yan had collected a lot of information about the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower before coming here, he could not get into every detail. Even the family jade slips given by Hu Chen Wuding only recorded the places where important herbs appeared and dangerous areas.
Li Yan had heard of the "Melting Cave". After passing the snowfield, there would no longer be a large sky and earth between the ice and snow world, but a wall of ice and snow that stretched from the sky to the ground, covering the sky and the earth. It was as if there was a wall blocking the end of the sky. The wall was tens of thousands of miles deep, surrounding the southernmost glacier in an "concave" shape from east to west. No matter where you went from the east, west or north, you had to penetrate this thick wall, and you could not fly over it from the sky.
Li Yan had learned from the people on the Blood Leaf that the place was very dangerous. There were countless entrance passages on the "concave"-shaped thick wall of ice and snow, like melted caves on the ice. These passages extended endlessly upward or downward inside the thick wall of ice and snow. They did not intersect inside the wall of ice and snow, but the distance from each passage to the glacier at the final southern end was very different. It was said that some people took a year to reach the glacier area, while others only needed a few days. The reason for this was that the routes in these caves might be going up, up, and then up, or down, down, and then down at a certain turning point. But what made the cultivators most helpless was that after entering these passages, no matter which way the passage went, people in them could not feel whether the entire passage was going up or down, but could only see the ups and downs of the terrain in the passage, but could not judge the direction of the entire passage based on this.
If it were just this, it would be fine. The danger levels in all the passages were different. If you were lucky, you might be able to fly all the way through without being attacked. If you were unlucky, you might die after walking a few steps. Moreover, once someone entered these passages, the entrance to that end would be closed until the person inside walked out or died. Then it would be revealed again. However, the entrance would not necessarily appear at the original location on the ice and snow wall next time, so no one would know that a certain passage was safe.
Li Yan knew all of this, so all he had to do was leave it to fate and choose a random ice and snow passage to enter. Cheng Wenming continued, "First of all, if a fellow Taoist enters the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower and is directly teleported to the southernmost glacier, that is, the 'concave' shape, then his luck is beyond words, and it is much easier to enter the second floor entrance. However, there are more people like us who are teleported to the east, west and north. Then the 'melt cave' is a natural moat. Unless you don't want to enter the second floor and only stay on the first floor to explore, you must enter the melt cave anyway to reach the southern glacier.
Qi Condensation cultivators, for example, would only stay on the first layer, either exploring the east, west, and north, or entering from the south glacier and only staying there to explore. However, for Qi Condensation cultivators, even if it was a glacier area, the abundant resources and materials there would be enough for them. These Qi Condensation cultivators were incapable of breaking through the 'melt cave', so they could not detect the four areas of the first layer at the same time. Of course, if there were help from cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage or above, it would be possible to reach all four areas.
Secondly, it takes at least three cultivators in the early stage of foundation building to open a melting cave, but you don’t seem to know this.” Cheng Wenming looked at Li Yan meaningfully.
Li Yan frowned. He knew most of what Cheng Wenming said, but he really didn't know why it would take at least three cultivators in the early stage of foundation building to work together to open a passage. Li Yan thought that it would take the attack power of at least three cultivators in the early stage of foundation building to open the melting cave, but it didn't seem to be a difficult task.
"Could it be that even with Fellow Daoist Cheng's foundation-building great perfection, he can't open it alone?"
It is easy for a person who has reached the great perfection of foundation building to deal with ten people who have reached the early stage of foundation building. Li Yan asked this question. With the cultivation level of this person, he should have no problem opening the melting cave by himself.
Although Li Yan asked this, he knew the answer should not be that simple.
Sure enough, Cheng Wenming and the other two looked at each other and confirmed a message from each other's eyes, that is, the person in front of them was indeed a newcomer in the North Ming Demon Suppression Tower. However, they did not guess Li Yan's identity. With the fame of the North Ming Demon Suppression Tower, just for the monks of all sizes within the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect, only a small number of them can enter. They either have the support of big forces or big sects behind them, or they get the Xuanming Order by chance, or they spend a huge amount of money to buy the token to enter. The people who enter are also varied, and there is no point in guessing.
"I believe you know the origin of the North Ming Demon Suppression Tower, right?" Cheng Wenming suddenly changed the subject, which made Li Yan vaguely know something, and he nodded.
"So what was the original purpose of the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower? I think you are also clear about this. It suppresses millions of evil spirits and then refines them and converts them into parts of magic weapons. This is all known.
However, some of these restrictions were made by fierce souls. I think you don't know that the entrance to the 'Rongdong' is a restriction made by fierce souls. The so-called need for at least three early foundation-building cultivators to crack it together does not refer to cultivation, but requires the souls of three people above the early foundation-building stage to condense and attack together to crack it. I think after this explanation, you understand. If you go to the 'Rongdong' alone, even if you get there, you still have to wait for two more foundation-building cultivators to join forces to enter. That's why we invite you to go together. Of course, unless your soul is strong enough to be above the golden elixir stage, then it will be considered as my recklessness, haha! ! "At the end, the fat man Cheng Wenming obviously still had a slightly sarcastic smile.
The strength of a person's soul also increases slowly with the level of cultivation, but the cultivation of the soul is not much easier than the cultivation of spiritual consciousness, and it is also an extremely difficult thing. It is possible to say that the soul of a Jindan cultivator is stronger than that of several foundation-building cultivators. However, even if they are both foundation-building cultivators, even if they are false dan cultivators, their souls will not be much stronger than those of cultivators in the early stages of foundation-building. To be twice as strong is already considered a person with extraordinary talent.
Of course, there is another kind of cultivator in this world, called "soul cultivators". Their souls are much stronger than those of the same level cultivators, but these cultivators specialize in soul cultivation, and their bodies are very fragile. Although their souls are strong, when they are facing the tribulation, the probability of their death is also very high. However, this does not mean that soul cultivators are weak. On the contrary, in the same level battle, their long-range attacks are particularly sharp, and they can also use their souls to control puppets and monsters to resist the tribulation, but there are not many puppets and monsters in this world that can resist the tribulation.