It must be said that Cheng Wenming's talent is truly excellent, otherwise he would not be so valued by the sect and qualified to enter the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower. He has two elements of spiritual roots, which are top-notch even in the four major sects. His real age is only in his thirties, but he has already cultivated to the great perfection of foundation building. As for Ye Xiuwen and Tan Zeshan, they are actually much older than him, but their cultivation is not as high as his. In the world of immortal cultivation, strength is respected, so they call him "Brother Cheng". Cheng Wenming majored in fire-type magical powers, assisted by wood-type spiritual roots, but used the wood-type magical powers that he was not good at to fight a second-level monster, and his combat effectiveness was simply disappointing.
Ye Xiuwen and his fellow apprentice on the side were not noticed by the Snow Spirit Lord for the time being, so they were relatively relaxed. They wanted to go forward and work together with Cheng Wenming to deal with the Snow Spirit Lord several times, but the already furious Snow Spirit Lord had not only attracted hundreds of snow spirits on his way, but also forty other kinds of monsters. Most of the forty monsters here were still level one monsters, but their attack methods were different, which made Ye Xiuwen and his fellow apprentice quite embarrassed for a while, especially with the presence of three level two initial level monsters among them. As a result, the two were trapped in the siege, and even if they wanted to escape, their hope was slim.
The three men never imagined that an easy battle that only required them to set an ambush and slowly hunt down the prey they wanted would end up like this.
Li Yan had been near them the whole time. With his personality, how could he easily believe a stranger who offered him a good deed for no reason? As early as when Cheng Wenming and the other two asked him to enter the Rong Cave together, he had guessed that the other party must have bad intentions. But at that time he was sure that it might be related to the Snow Spirit Lord they mentioned, but he didn't know how the three of them would carry out the specific plan. However, Li Yan also needed to enter the Rong Cave. Even if he looked for someone else, it didn't mean that the person he found would not have bad intentions. So he might as well just agree to it. With the cultivation level of Cheng Wenming and the other two, although Li Yan did not underestimate the enemy, he felt that he could escape without any problem.
On the way to the Rong Cave, he found that the three people seemed to be very concerned about what kind of spiritual roots and magical powers he possessed. Thinking of what Cheng Wenming had said before that he was a cultivator with fire spiritual roots, Li Yan of course knew what to do. After performing the Guishui Sutra, he easily converted the main spiritual power in his body into fire spiritual power. After casually observing the movements of the three people, Li Yan was even more certain that the Yang Fire was a natural inhibitory effect on the Snow Spirit. So after entering the Rong Cave, when he encountered the Snow Spirit hunting in the early stage, although he used the Fire Magic Technique, he did not find anything unusual. Afterwards, Li Yan secretly used the Fire Magic Technique on the Snow Spirit Demon Core he had obtained. Li Yan communicated with the blue ghost fire in the monster core and found that the blue ghost fire seemed to have a tendency to devour the fire spiritual power. Li Yan secretly released a wisp of fire spiritual power into the monster core. The blue ghost fire in the monster core became extremely active and excited after coming into contact with the fire spiritual power. It pounced on it and kept wrapping the wisp of fire spiritual power to devour it. And when Li Yan tried to cut off the fire spiritual power, he was surprised to find that the blue ghost fire had been tightly entangled on the fire spiritual power, and the suction force was getting stronger and stronger, firmly adsorbed on the spiritual power, spreading at a very fast speed, and the blue ghost fire was getting stronger and stronger. In the end, Li Yan could only forcefully cut off the connection with that trace of spiritual power.
So Li Yan got the first-level snow spirit monster, which was not powerful enough and could not release the blue flames in the monster core, so its swallowing ability was extremely weak and could not be discovered without careful observation. But if it was replaced with a second-level monster of the same level, Li Yan calculated that he was not sure that he could forcibly cut off the opponent's blue flames.
Later, when he continued to switch to the other four kinds of spiritual power to test secretly, even if he used the spiritual power of gold, wood, water and earth to transform into flames, because the essence of spiritual power was not the most yang thing, the blue ghost fire in the monster core would not have a strong desire to devour.
This discovery made Li Yan slowly guess the other party's idea. The three wanted to use him as bait and then try to let the Snow Spirit Master devour his spiritual power. As for the purpose? Li Yan himself had the experience of devouring. Judging from the fact that the fragmented poisonous body devoured the poison in the magic weapon of the old ancestor Hu Chen some time ago, it was possible that the other party wanted the Snow Spirit Master to devour his spiritual power and then be in an unstable or weak period, so that the three of them could easily capture a Snow Spirit Master. As a fire cultivator, Cheng Wenming's role might be to be the last straw that broke the camel's back. When the Snow Spirit Master devoured the fire spiritual power of the cultivators of the same level, it must have reached a saturated state. At that time, Cheng Wenming only needed to input another pure fire spiritual power, which might make the Snow Spirit Master unable to suppress the fire spiritual power that could not be integrated in the body, and immediately trigger the violent spiritual power in the body, thus easily taking it down.
Although he knew it, Li Yan thought about how to leave while moving forward. If he suddenly attacked and hurt someone, Cheng Wenming and the other two probably wouldn't be able to stop him. Even if he didn't use force, against the three foundation-building cultivators, just the secret poisoning of the Zhili Dushen would kill the three without them knowing. But how could Li Yan easily let go of the person who was plotting against him
So during the flight, he continued to test the blue ghost fire in the snow fairy core. He kept changing the combination of spiritual power quietly, and then secretly communicated with a snow fairy core. On the surface, he still looked like he was talking to the three people, but secretly he was constantly thinking about how to let the three people suffer the consequences instead of killing them cheaply. It was not until Li Yan added a trace of water spiritual power to the fire spiritual power that he found that this combination of spiritual power, due to the innate attributes of the two, would cancel each other out, and then the blue ghost fire could no longer devour it, and finally gave up.
After Li Yan made this discovery, he still felt strange at first. The reason for this situation was very simple. It was just that the fire spiritual power became complicated. The blue ghost fire lost its entanglement effect and thus lost the power to devour. If this was the case, then the cultivators with holy spirit roots in the world could be described as rare. However, there were too many cultivators with multiple spiritual roots. They could do this by injecting a trace of spiritual power of other attributes. Why did Cheng Wenming and the other two use this method to lure themselves into the trap
When you think of it, you should try it. After quietly trying other spiritual power attributes for many times, Li Fang helplessly discovered that, in addition to water spiritual power, the combination of fire spiritual power can do this. Fire spiritual power combined with any of the three spiritual powers of wood, gold and earth cannot stop the blue ghost fire from swallowing. After thinking about it, Li Yan finally understood that the three spiritual powers of gold, earth and wood are all very strong and fierce, and even full of vitality. When combined with fire spiritual power, the effect is basically negligible, and it may even make the fire spiritual power more active. In particular, adding wood spiritual power will inevitably make the fire spiritual power more vigorous. In fact, Li Yan has known this truth for a long time, but he just ignored it. For example, an alchemist must have fire spiritual roots and wood spiritual roots to ensure the vitality of the medicinal power in the pill while refining the pill.
However, a cultivator who possesses both fire and water spiritual roots is, in most cases, just a Qi Condensation cultivator with mixed spiritual roots. For this reason, even if some people know that the blue ghost fire in the Snow Spirit Lord's demon core is ineffective against such cultivators, they will not believe that they can meet a legendary cultivator with mixed spiritual roots who can build a foundation.
After this confirmation, Li Yan didn't want to kill the three people immediately. He wanted to let these three people have a big fight with the Snow Spirit Lord, and then he would profit from it. When Cheng Wenming shouted at them to kill the Snow Spirit Lord as soon as possible, and he himself seemed to be trying to attract the Snow Spirit Lord by throwing out handfuls of fire talismans, Li Yan sneered in his heart. Cheng Wenming's behavior was that he was afraid of getting burned after using his fire magic, so he adopted other means of attack, making others think that he had already started a powerful attack.
At this time, Li Yan had already figured out the intentions of the three people, and of course he would not want to pretend anymore. The moment the Snow Spirit Lord began to devour his spiritual power, water spiritual power surged out and seeped into it. After the Snow Spirit Lord's perception weakened, in his surprised expression, Li Yan performed the "Stealth at Night" and had already merged with the surrounding ice and snow to become one with the world. At this time, the "Stealth at Night" magical power was almost unsolvable for the foundation-building cultivators. Unless they practiced special spiritual awareness and immortal methods, they could discover Li Yan's whereabouts, otherwise they would know nothing about it.
However, "Stealth at Night" consumes too much spiritual power. It requires the constant conversion of the five elements of spiritual power to keep oneself in the same spiritual power fluctuation as the surrounding environment and always remain within a fluctuation range. So when he was on the snowfield, when Li Yan saw a large number of snow mosquitoes blending into the wind and snow to attack him, he also wanted to hide at the same time. However, his spiritual power could not support it in that state. In the snowfield of tens of thousands of miles, how could he maintain this form and blend with the surrounding environment all the time? He could not rush in that state, otherwise a certain spatial fluctuation would appear abrupt, and he would be exposed.
Later, Li Yan was not too surprised to see Cheng Wenming and the other two breaking out of the blockade of the Snow Spirit Lord. It was impossible for a foundation-building cultivator to not have some life-saving trump cards. However, Ye Xiuwen's righteous energy shocked Li Yan greatly, and he became more vigilant. This was the first time he saw with his own eyes the righteous energy that was the same as the Buddhist telekinesis and Taoist willpower. Although he was mentally prepared at the sight, he still didn't expect that the righteous energy could be used for escape in addition to attack. Although it was not teleportation, it was also a kind of spatial movement. It's just that the Confucian cultivators were weak and could not withstand the force of spatial impact in a very short period of time. If it was performed by a Buddhist disciple, with the Buddhist disciple's Vajra body, it is possible to move three or four feet away in an instant.
After observing the other three's final means of saving their lives, Li Yan was relieved after he was sure of the magical powers and means they could use in the face of risking their lives. So he stopped delaying. He had been in a state of "stealth and hiding at night", which was not a long-term solution. So he quietly used his magic to make large patches of ice spikes appear in front of Cheng Wenming and the other two. This magic was actually just the most basic small magic, and even the Qi Condensation disciples could use it. If it were at normal times, Cheng Wenming and the other two would have simply disdained it and would have destroyed everything in the blink of an eye. However, under Li Yan's foundation-building cultivation, the power of the magic increased dozens of times and it had become a deadly thing. Due to the delay, the Snow Spirit Lord and the monsters behind him had already come behind him, and what was even more terrifying was that after a short while, other monsters came to reinforce from the depths of the melting cave.
As a result, a great battle started again. Seeing the monsters coming like a wave, Cheng Wenming and the other two couldn't help but reveal despair in their eyes. The next moment, their eyes turned red, and they kept cursing at the air deep in the cave. Although they felt that it was not Jiang Hai who was performing the ice thorn technique, there was no other cultivator who could enter here except him. Amid endless vicious curses and the laughter of the Snow Spirit Lord, the two sides fought each other in an instant. For a moment, the sky was full of ice and snow, and blood and flesh were splattered everywhere.