Half an hour later, the ice in the cave piled up like a mountain. They were dead snow spirits, and many bloody limbs were reflected in the white snow, which was extremely dazzling. When Ye Xiuwen and Tan Zeshan finally ran out of strength, Tan Zeshan chose to self-destruct in grief and resentment, and died in the explosion along with dozens of snow spirits and a second-level ice scorpion. Ye Xiuwen tried to use the last bit of righteousness to break through, but after using righteousness to kill two other second-level monsters, he also fell to the ground exhausted, and was finally swallowed up by the swarming monsters, leaving only a broken and bloody empty skeleton.
Cheng Wenming was very frightened, a deep fear arose from the bottom of his heart. Ye Xiuwen and Tan Zeshan were already dead, and he was now dodging the attacks of the Snow Spirit Lord in a panic. He could only fight in a mobile way. The reason why the groups of monsters behind him did not pounce on him was because they were afraid that the Snow Spirit Lord would misunderstand that they were trying to steal food from him, so they just surrounded him but did not attack.
"Brother Jiang, no, Senior Jiang, I know you are here. We were wrong about what happened before. Please let me go. As long as you can let me live, I am willing to pay spirit stones, lots and lots of spirit stones, fifty thousand pieces, oh, no, one hundred thousand pieces, is that okay?" Cheng Wenming shouted towards the empty space, changing his previous attitude of joining Ye and Tan in cursing to begging. In his mind, he had long regarded Li Yan as a Jindan cultivator, otherwise how could he leave so easily.
But no matter how he begged, there was no voice of "Senior Jiang" except the strange cries of monsters, which made him gradually become impatient.
When Cheng Wenming spoke, even the Snow Spirit Lord who had been attacking him continuously showed a look of fear on his face. The cultivator who had escaped inexplicably had always made him feel deeply uneasy, but no matter how hard he searched, he could not sense the man's existence. He had previously been more inclined to believe that the mysterious cultivator had some protective magic weapon bestowed by an elder or a sect on him, which allowed him to escape.
But the appearance of those ice spikes just now shattered his fantasy. He also knew that the other party was here and had been observing in secret, but the other party had not made a move and it seemed that he could not be killed, so he did not dare to show up for a while. However, he couldn't help feeling fear in his heart when Cheng Wenming called him "senior" and "you" all the time. Could it be that he really guessed wrong
"That cultivator certainly doesn't have such a high level of cultivation, otherwise, for a Jindan cultivator, killing all the monsters and cultivators here would only take a wave of his hand. Moreover, when I fought with him before, his spiritual power was still flowing, not condensed into a solid state like a Jindan cultivator. This is basically the sign of a foundation-building cultivator. But this person is lying in ambush nearby with bad intentions. He wants to wait for me to devour the person in front of him, and then take advantage of my weakness to capture him. Humph, if that's the case, then I'll capture him as well. Although I can't devour him right now, it would be a good idea to seal his cultivation and leave it for later. But now I have to solve the problem here quickly. It's been a long time, and other Snow Spirit Lords may show up here at any time."
Thinking of this, the Snow Spirit Lord was no longer afraid. After all, he still firmly believed that Li Yan's strength was not that strong, and he was also a cultivator with fire magical powers. Although his escape just now was a bit inexplicable, it was just the work of the amulet. The higher the level of the talisman, the more restrictions on its use. Otherwise, a cultivator with a life-saving amulet could do whatever he wanted among the same level.
So he intensified his attack and began to unabashedly emit blue flames from his body. He also let out a low whistle, emitting a strange syllable. Immediately, the snow elves that had been surrounding him became restless, and they rushed towards Cheng Wenming with blue eyes. Immediately, Cheng Wenming's space to move in the cave, which was not very wide to begin with, became even smaller. After holding on for less than five breaths, he was hugged by a snow elf around the waist. Before he could use his spiritual power to smash the snow elf to pieces, more snow elves rushed up like a cluster. Cheng Wenming's mind was immediately lost, and in his horrified eyes, a large hand had already covered his forehead, and then his eyes went black, and he lost consciousness.
The Snow Spirit Lord looked at Cheng Wenming in his hand, and after glancing around with his sharp eyes, he stretched out his hand and two storage bags on the ground flew towards him. The storage bags of cultivators contained a lot of good things. Then he whistled and flew towards the depths of the melting cave. Behind him, the remaining snow spirits and monsters followed him. As long as he captured Cheng Wenming, it didn't matter whether he used fire power or not. He could just take it directly from his dantian purple bowel. However, until he captured Cheng Wenming, the mysterious cultivator still had no intention of showing up. The Snow Spirit Lord was slightly relieved. It seemed that the other party was just good at hiding, and with the life-saving talisman, he was able to escape from his attack. Now he was afraid of him. This time, that person was lucky. Next, he would go to his secret cave to devour spiritual power. There was no point in wasting time here.
Not long after the Snow Spirit Lord left, a blurry figure slowly emerged three hundred feet away from the place where the battle had taken place. Although it was just an illusion, it was undoubtedly Li Yan. He propped his chin up with his hand, looked at the few remaining bone fragments on the ground and the glaring blood foam from Tan Zeshan's self-explosion on the cave wall, then looked in the direction where the Snow Spirit Lord disappeared, and said to himself, "This Snow Spirit Lord is really very strong. Even if Cheng Wenming didn't lose his composure, he probably wouldn't be able to hold out for too long in a one-on-one fight with him. The key is that Cheng Wenming doesn't dare to use his fire magic, so failure is inevitable. Then let's see if there's any bargain to be made."
As his words disappeared, the figure, which was already illusory, became vague again, and then floated towards the direction where the Snow Spirit Lord had escaped deep into the melting cave. Although "Stealth at Night" was good at hiding the body, with Li Yan's current cultivation level, if he just moved slowly, he could still maintain the best condition. But if he flew quickly, the spatial fluctuations would be different from the surrounding areas. However, all the monsters here now followed the Snow Spirit Lord, and Li Yan just hung far behind, so his figure just didn't need to be too conspicuous.
Li Yan followed behind and flew forward for seventy miles. Although many snow spirits and other monsters left or stayed along the way, with the cultivation of these first-level monsters, when Li Yan passed by them, they just felt a breeze blowing through the cave passage and didn't care at all. In the end, only the snow spirit master was left in front. He carried the unconscious Cheng Wenming in one hand, and his body became faster, turning into a flash of white light, silently, almost blurring into one with the surrounding cave walls. Obviously, he increased his speed to the extreme, trying to avoid something.
Soon, he deviated from the main passage of the cave and drilled towards a diagonal crack on the side. The crack was extremely small. Compared with the huge body of the Snow Spirit Lord, it seemed so tiny that even his arm could not fit in it. However, the Snow Spirit Lord disappeared in a flash. After a while, a faint shadow appeared here, floating in the air, looking at the diagonal cracks that appeared and disappeared on one side.
These narrow slanted cracks are actually everywhere in the melt cave. They are thin cracks that have cracked through the thick snow on the cave wall. Some are straight, while others are slanted downwards. When the thin cracks reach the end, they may branch out into even thinner slanted cracks.
Li Yan stretched out a finger and pressed it towards a thin slanted crack. With just a light touch, his finger turned the crack into a finger hole. After a slight rustling sound, his finger sank into it until the snow reached his forearm. Only then did he feel the hard coldness on his fingertips. That should be the hard wall of the cave.
Then, he pulled out his arm and looked at the oblique crack where the Snow Spirit Lord had just disappeared. It was a crack among four cracks in the snow. This time Li Yan did not touch it with his fingers, but closed his eyes, quietly released his spiritual sense, and slowly explored the oblique crack.
After a moment, Li Yan slowly opened his eyes. "Mixed in so many cracks in the snow, it is easy to overlook it even if you use your spiritual sense to check carefully. But why would the Snow Spirit here use the formation restriction?" Li Yan couldn't help but sigh at the creation of nature. People have their own paths, ghosts have their own paths, and the monsters here use the conditions of heaven and earth to hide themselves. If he hadn't been tracking them just now, there would be countless thin slanted cracks on this side. There would be tens of millions of them along the way. Who would deliberately explore them one by one? What puzzled Li Yan was that when he used his spiritual sense to explore the cracks on the wall of the cave where the Snow Spirit entered, he found that there was a formation restriction. If he hadn't reacted extremely quickly, he might have triggered the restriction in the thin slanted crack just now.
This snow spirit master is really cunning. When others set up restrictions in their caves, they will cover the area dozens, hundreds of feet outside the cave, or even the entire mountain. As long as someone steps into these ranges, the cave owner will know. However, this snow spirit master did the opposite and only placed the restrictions in a thin slanted crack. Even if someone touches the snow a few inches away, the restrictions will not be triggered. The disadvantage of this is that if the snow spirit master in the cave does not pay attention to the outside world all the time, he will not know even if he is bullied at the door. This is a taboo for cultivators.
But another advantage of doing this is that there are too many thin slanted cracks in the snow here. If someone really passes by here and uses spiritual sense to scan it intentionally or unintentionally, it will be difficult for them to detect the fluctuations of the formation on this thin slanted crack and thus just sweep it past.
As long as there are restrictions in the cave, it will be difficult for anyone to enter. Therefore, under such circumstances, setting up the formation inside will make it more concealed. Li Yan couldn't help but sigh at the cunningness of the Snow Spirit Lord.
Now the question is how to enter the main cave of the Snow Spirit. Only a master of formations can break it quietly. Another possibility is that the cultivator's realm is too high and he can ignore the existence of the formation and force his way in. However, all of this is impossible for Li Yan. However, he has the ancient treasure Stealing Heaven Cloth, so it is still possible to break the prohibition of this cave formation quietly. However, the fact that the monster here knows the formation is what surprised Li Yan.