Seven days later, Li Yan, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes, opened his mouth and sucked the purple flag that was spinning in the air into his stomach. During these seven days, he performed the most basic rituals on the "Big Dragon Elephant". It is still difficult to control it as he wishes, but simple control is no problem. At this point, Li Yan did not want to delay any longer in the Rong Cave.
"The Great Dragon Elephant Formation is actually like a life-saving magic weapon. It also needs to be nurtured in the Dantian. This is different from the formations I knew before." After looking up at everything in the cave again, he looked at the dried corpse of Cheng Wenming in the far corner.
Li Yan expressionlessly pinched his fingers and cast a spell. Several "swish" sounds were heard continuously, and several formation flags flew out from the ground and the cave wall respectively. They were put into Li Yan's bag with a roll of his sleeves. They were the other two sets of formation equipment in the cave. Then Li Yan didn't look at them any more. With a flash of his body, he shot towards the entrance of the cave. As he moved at a high speed, his figure became illusory and erratic, until the cave returned to silence.
On the rest of the journey, Li Yan did not plan to hunt any monsters. His purpose of coming here was not to kill monsters for materials, so when he moved forward in the Rong Cave, he would rather walk slower, and at the cost of more spiritual energy, he kept using the "Stealth at Night" technique to move quietly.
This journey lasted for five days. During these five days, he traveled more than 4,000 miles and encountered dozens of groups of monsters. However, they knew nothing about Li Yan who was passing by them.
On this day, Li Yan, while on the move, was practicing the Guishui Sutra with all his strength to maintain the smooth operation of the Five Elements in order to reduce the loss of spiritual power. But even so, Li Yan had to stop after walking about 300 miles, find a secluded place, swallow some pills, and meditate to recover.
Fortunately, he had prepared some pills, and Cheng Wenming and the other two had a lot of Qi-regulating pills in their storage bags, so he was not afraid of such consumption. But more often, Li Yan was willing to use spirit stones to recover. He had more spirit stones, and although they were not as fast as pills, they were better and purer in recovering spiritual power.
As Li Yan was moving forward, his spiritual awareness was fully expanded, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face, which had been expressionless until now. What appeared at the end of his spiritual awareness was no longer the endless deep blue hole, but a white light. Of course Li Yan knew what the white light appearing in front of the melting hole meant.
"That is to say, I will be able to get out of the melt cave in another thousand miles. According to the length, there should be six snow spirit masters in this melt cave. I also sensed two powerful auras when I was traveling before. The rest of the snow spirit masters may be hiding, or I may not sense them for other reasons."
Li Yan did not cause any trouble on the road ahead, and he naturally moved forward quietly on the remaining thousand miles. One day later, Li Yan was standing outside the long wall of ice and snow. At this time, the sunlight was shining outside the cave, which made people feel open-minded and relieved of depression. Looking back, the long wall of ice and snow looked even more majestic.
Li Yan let out a long breath and released his spiritual sense. He found that there were four cultivators standing outside the long wall of ice and snow three hundred miles away. They were also looking around. It was obvious that they had just come out of the Rong Cave. Among these four cultivators, there were three Foundation Establishment cultivators and one Qi Condensation disciple. When the three people's spiritual sense swept over Li Yan, their faces changed several times. They glanced at Li Yan from a distance, whispered a few words, and hurried away with the Qi Condensation disciple.
These three foundation-building monks were not stupid. They did not think of rushing forward to kill and rob Li Yan just because he was alone. On the contrary, they wanted to get away quickly. A monk who just emerged from the melting cave, no matter whether he had companions who broke into the melting cave before, the last person who appeared here alone represented great strength.
Li Yan was unmoved by the reactions of the cultivators next to him. He continued to spread his spiritual sense and scanned the three directions in front, left and right. He then discovered several groups of cultivators. Some were coming towards the long wall of ice and snow, while most were heading towards the south. They came and went with different purposes.
Li Yan withdrew his spiritual sense and shot directly forward.
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What came into view was an endless river, with large and small pieces of ice flowing slowly on the river. In the distance, some icebergs appeared in his consciousness. Li Yan had been traveling in this world for nearly a day.
Half a day ago, he passed the "Burning Wind" Road, which was a somewhat strange narrow mountain stream with endless towering snow-capped peaks on both sides. The monks walked in the mountain stream, where there were columns of silver-white wind rising from the ground, stirring constantly, coming and going from far and near, like jumping balls of silver-white ghost fire.
If this wind blows on a person, even if the clothes on the person are of low-level spiritual weapon level, they will turn into ashes in an instant, not to mention the exposed skin. Only by opening the spiritual power shield can one be spared. But in general, the "burning wind" is not as difficult to pass as the "snow field" and "melting cave". As long as the cultivation base reaches the eighth level of the Qi Condensation Stage, the spiritual power can be formed into a shield to resist it. It's just that during the process of passing, the spiritual power of the Qi Condensation Stage cultivators is often difficult to maintain after traveling for a distance. It is necessary to swallow pills from time to time or use spiritual stones to slowly recover, which is extremely dangerous for the Qi Condensation Stage cultivators.
"Fenfeng" is an excellent place for Qi Condensation cultivators to grind. It is a kind of experience for the condensation of spiritual power and the toughness of the cultivators. Therefore, Li Yan saw many Qi Condensation cultivators in the tower, either in teams or under the protection of foundation building cultivators or even rare Jindan cultivators, marching in the mountain stream. Although the mountain stream is narrow, it is still wide for the cultivators in it. However, with Li Yan's spiritual sense, he can still find out in advance where there will be Jindan cultivators. He will avoid them early to avoid getting into trouble accidentally.
The "burning wind" road is also three thousand miles long. For a foundation-building cultivator like Li Yan, it is possible to fly through it quickly. During this period, Li Yan even wanted to release the spiritual power shield and let the pure physical body resist, because when he removed the spiritual power protection from his hands and exposed his hands to the "burning wind", his skin felt a sharp pain like a needle. Although that was all, Li Yan also felt that this was actually a kind of polishing of the physical body, which could be regarded as another practice of the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique.
But this idea was reluctantly dismissed after a moment. Although this place looked spacious, he would still be discovered from time to time when walking under the cross-scanning of cultivators' spiritual sense. Li Yan couldn't walk away naked like this. If he used spiritual power to cover his body, it would lose the effect of grinding the flesh.
Li Yan could only sigh in his heart and move forward with all his heart.
After leaving the "burning wind", an endless river appeared in front of him. After carefully examining several icebergs in the distance with his spiritual sense, Li Yan quickly locked onto a mountain because there were many cultivators coming and going there.
"The entrance to the second level of the southern glacier peak is so easy to find. If I had been teleported to the word 'ao' at the beginning, I would have saved a lot of trouble." In Li Yan's consciousness, the cultivators who flew out from the glacier peak included monks and laymen, men and women. All of them had a strong aura. In just a short moment, Li Yan felt nine powerful auras, almost more than the total number of foundation-building cultivators he had met along the way.
After guessing the entrance to the second floor, Li Yan no longer hesitated, and headed straight for the target in a flash. This time he did not conceal his aura. After hundreds of miles, in just half a cup of tea, he had arrived in front of a large iceberg. The reason why it was called large was that the mountain was a thousand feet wide and was covered with a thick layer of ice, making it look a bit huge and "bloated".
In the process of approaching the iceberg, he had already taken a rough look at the mountain, so he landed on a place on the mountainside. The mountain in front of him reflected dazzling colorful light in the sun, and icicles were crossed and covered on the mountain, either obliquely or vertically, making Li Yan's vision full of a crystal mountain.
Not far from where Li Yan fell, there were two thick icicles standing crosswise on the surface of the mountain, as if thrown from the sky by a giant. Below the intersection of the two icicles was a dark cave, as if leading to the interior of the wide mountain, with an unknown depth. This was completely different from the ice house that could be left on the first floor of the tower. Those places were blocked by doors similar to a layer of blurry mirrors, and it was obvious at first glance that they were places for teleportation.
Li Yan looked at the dark cave indifferently. He had discovered before that the cave entrance would occasionally twist, and then monks would walk out of it. Most of them looked extremely tired, and as soon as they came out, they looked alert. After seeing the glacier scene in front of them, most of them relaxed a little, and then flew away quickly.
There were also monks who flew from afar and landed in front of the dark cave, then dived in without any hesitation.
All of this was the same as described in the jade slip. Li Yan was alone at this time, and this was the time he had chosen on purpose. He arrived in front of the pitch-black cave in a few steps, and with spiritual light shining on his body, he stepped in.
There was only a flash of light before his eyes, and Li Yan had already appeared in a small space. It was pitch black all around, but all this did not affect Li Yan's judgment of this place. This was a separate space, only two meters in size. It should be like entering the first floor of the tower. He was casually teleported to a temporarily safe place. This should also be the place he needs to enter when he wants to leave the second floor and return to the first floor in the future.
Smelling a faint rotten smell in his nose, Li Yan's eyes gradually adjusted. In the dark space, a place in front of him was flickering with a faint gray light. Li Yan thought to himself, "After several months, I finally arrived at the second floor of the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower. Now it all depends on my luck."
Li Yan was walking in a dense jungle, neither fast nor slow. The air here was humid and hot, and the trees were lush and green. Even if Li Yan spread out his spiritual sense, he could not find the end. He could only judge the direction through the sunlight between the leaves and the growth direction of the tree branches and leaves. All of this was very familiar to Li Yan. He grew up at the foot of the Daqing Mountain and had many years of experience in hunting in the mountains. For Li Yan, the jungle was several times better than the first floor of the tower.
In addition to flying high in the sky at the beginning and making detailed observations, Li Yan quickly descended back into the jungle. If he flew very high over the jungle, the monsters would naturally not be able to attack him, but he would usually be easily sensed by the spiritual consciousness of nearby cultivators, and the danger would naturally be much greater, so Li Yan was still willing to shuttle through the woods.