As the sword cultivator retreated, the long sword suddenly shot out from behind and turned into a long rainbow streak, slashing diagonally towards the "Silver Vein Flower" two hundred feet away, as if he was going to cut off the "Silver Vein Flower" and sweep it away. His action was covert and swift, and even Li Yan, who was far away, was stunned at first, and then he reacted.
This is clearly a real veteran in the world of martial arts. He is a very good actor, but also has caution ingrained into his bones. Even though he didn't find anything wrong, he still adopted the strategy of retreating in order to advance.
While protecting himself, he also achieved his goal. If he succeeded, he could pick the herbs. If he failed, he could also find out whether it was a trap. Anyway, he achieved his goal. This method was extremely sophisticated and made it extremely difficult for the ambusher to succeed in one strike.
Sure enough, the sword cultivator's actions made it impossible for the two hiding people to continue their ambush. They immediately appeared and pounced on their opponents without hesitation. When one of them stood up, the dagger in his hand turned into a green light, and in a flash, it came under the long rainbow. Just when the long rainbow was about to touch the stem of the "Silver Vein Flower", the green light arrived first and blocked the long rainbow. With a crisp "ding" sound, the long rainbow was diagonally picked up by the green light.
At the same time, another big man holding a sharp knife also pounced on the sword cultivator who was hundreds of feet away. The sharp knife in his hand flew out like a sword. In the air, the sharp knife turned into a gray giant lizard with bared fangs and claws, and its long tongue quickly shot out at the sword cultivator.
At a distance of hundreds of feet, the long tongue of the gray giant lizard seemed to have crossed time and space. It flashed in front of the sword cultivator and went straight for his right eye, as if it wanted to pierce through the sword cultivator's head in one fell swoop.
All this happened in a flash. Although the sword cultivator's previous actions seemed abnormal, it was just his caution. When he saw the "Silver Vein Flower", he was a little surprised, but his usual caution made him decide to stop.
So he released his spiritual sense more carefully to investigate, and although he still didn't find anything unusual, his years of experience made him feel uneasy, so he retreated and left, but he really couldn't give up the "Silver Vein Flower" no matter what.
The sudden appearance of the two monks was both within his expectations and beyond his expectations, but this was the situation he least wanted to see.
Since he was prepared, the attack of the two big men was naturally no longer a sneak attack in the eyes of the sword cultivator. The moment he saw the big men making their move, his originally indifferent expression became solemn. His retreating figure became blurred for a moment, and the next moment he appeared twenty feet to the left of the gray giant lizard's attack route. When his figure just became clear from blurry, the long rainbow in the distance had also disappeared.
Then, the sword cultivator, holding a long sword, stood suspended several feet above the ground. His body rose and fell, and his sharp eyes were staring gloomily at the two people who had already formed a horn. They temporarily stopped attacking and stood up straight.
"It turns out to be fellow Daoists Hu Hai and Ning Xiong from 'Beast Refining Mountain'. They are planning to ambush Ren."
"Oh, I was wondering who it was. It turned out to be Brother Ren from the 'Bi Xue Men'. Why did Brother Ren say such harsh words? The two of us saw the 'Gintama Flower' first. When we were about to pick it, we were attacked by Brother Ren from a distance. We had to stop him. There has to be a first come, last served order in everything." He pinched a magic formula with his hands to temporarily stop the big man who was about to continue attacking the gray giant lizard from being exposed, but he said something else.
Li Yan heard the conversation between the two parties in secret and frowned. He knew these two sects.
To be precise, Li Yan knew the names of these two sects before coming to the Pure Land Sect. Of course, one has to make some preparations when going to an unfamiliar place.
"Lian Shou Mountain" is a sect that excels at refining the souls of various monsters into magic weapons. This is somewhat similar to the Ling Chong Peak of the Wuliang Sect, but there are some differences. The Ling Chong Peak tames the spirit beasts as their own pets after capturing them to help enhance their own attack capabilities, while "Lian Shou Mountain" will only keep their souls after capturing them, and refine them into magic weapons to enhance the power of the magic weapons.
Li Yan knew that the spirits in magic weapons were usually driven by the souls of powerful monsters, but some magic weapons had spirits of other kinds of alien species, such as a thousand-year-old stone that had become a spirit.
But no matter which type it is, there can usually only be one powerful soul or a group of souls of the same kind of monsters in a magic weapon as the weapon spirit, so that the magic weapon's attack can be unified and driven as desired.
However, "Lian Beast Mountain" pursues a method of refining that can incorporate the souls of multiple monsters into one magic weapon. This practice has been rejected by other sects, as it would only make their own magic weapons impure. However, the monks of "Lian Beast Mountain" have achieved this, and it can indeed enhance the power of the magic weapons. However, they are still looked down upon by traditional cultivators, who think they are just unorthodox practices.
However, "Lian Shou Mountain" went its own way, and through nearly ten thousand years of hard work, it eventually made itself a high-level sect within the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect. There was even a Nascent Soul old monster in charge of the sect.
According to the information Li Yan obtained, although a Nascent Soul was finally born in "Lian Beast Mountain", and this Nascent Soul was said to have a golden stick-like magic weapon, it integrated the souls of seven top monsters in the mortal world, making this person extremely powerful.
It was also because of this magic weapon that he was able to block the heavenly calamity four hundred years ago and advance to the Nascent Soul stage. However, four hundred years later, he is still in the early Nascent Soul stage and has not made any progress. The reason for this is that this old Nascent Soul monster has never obtained a more powerful monster soul since then, and has been unable to improve his own magic weapon in the slightest, and is firmly locked in the early Nascent Soul stage.
This is also the pros and cons of the so-called unconventional method. Although the early stage progresses rapidly, the later stage practice is either extremely dangerous or extremely difficult to advance. For example, the "Beast Refining Mountain" method focuses on the cultivation of the natal magic weapon. If the natal magic weapon is strong, the method is strong. If the natal magic weapon is damaged, it will even directly cause the cultivator to die on the spot. Non-traditional cultivators rely on internal skills to advance, and the natal magic weapon is just a helper.
This is the case with Li Yan. He does not have his own magic weapon, but he can almost dominate the Foundation Establishment Stage. However, if he refines the Gui Yi Fen Shui Thorn, it can only make him more powerful in combat, but it will not help him much in his advancement. At most, it may be helpful in resisting the heavenly calamity.
From this, Li Yan guessed that since the two cultivators were disciples of "Beast Refining Mountain", there might be more than one kind of monster spirit in the knives and daggers they used, and there would be many changes in the attack, and this kind of change is also what many cultivators do not want to encounter.
You may be dealing with the heavy attacks of earth-type monsters in the last moment, and suddenly there will be sharp attacks of gold-type monsters mixed in, which will make you feel completely out of place.
Of course, this kind of attack is just a minor trick when facing a truly powerful monk opponent, no matter how you change it. However, the chance of encountering a powerful monk is still extremely small, and this kind of monk is extremely difficult to deal with.
As for the "Bixue Sect" where the sword cultivator is from, it is also under the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect. It is a first-rate sect, second only to the "Lian Beast Mountain" in power. This sect is an orthodox sword cultivator sect.
Logically speaking, this kind of sect should be affiliated with Shibuyuan, but this sect looks down on Shibuyuan. They believe that controlling the sword with Qi, turning the sword into silk, nurturing the sword in the purple bowel, and ultimately achieving the dual cultivation of sex and life and the unity of man and sword are the orthodox ways of practicing swordsmanship.
However, the Shibuyuan has an Inner Sword Academy, and regards the Inner Sword, which only practices sword balls, as the sect's strongest support. This is clearly discrimination against the Outer Sword, which makes the "Bixue Sect" disgusted with the Shibuyuan, so they would rather stay in the Pure Land Sect than go to the Shibuyuan.
As for the area under the jurisdiction of the Wuliang Sect, they sneered at it, saying that it was just a group of evil heretics who used low-level methods and would never compete with others in an open and aboveboard manner. The Taoist priests of the Taixuan Sect did have sword cultivators, but their methods were all mixed up, and they also mixed in methods of exorcising talismans and killing ghosts, which they did not like.
Although the "Bi Xue Sect" gives people a feeling of being arrogant, it is true that all the disciples of this sect have good combat capabilities. They are dedicated to sword training and it is rare for cultivators of the same level to be able to compete with them.
It's just that the life of an orthodox sword cultivator is extremely hard, and the advancement speed is slow, so although the overall strength of the "Bi Xue Sect" is not weak, there are too few disciples in the sect. The entire sect has only five or six hundred people in total. Compared with the "Lian Shou Mountain" which has tens of thousands of people, it is still inferior.
Li Yan had never expected that he would meet masters from the two major sects of the Pure Land Sect shortly after arriving at the second floor. He also did gain some experience from the brief fight between these three people. Both sides had changeable minds and were experienced. They were obviously fierce characters who had been walking on the edge of life and death for a long time. They were extremely sensitive to unknown dangers and attacked decisively.
These are by no means comparable to the present-day Li Yan. Li Yan knows that he can make it here alive only because he is so cautious and treads carefully.
"Hehe, Brother Hu, do you really just want the 'Gintama Flower'? Then just take it." Upon hearing what the swordsman wielding a sword said, the sword cultivator named Ren from the Bixue Sect sneered and said.
Although he said this, he launched the attack without any warning. He spread his hands and a long sword instantly turned into two swimming fish. He was not afraid of the two men's late foundation building cultivation at all. With the strength of a man in the middle stage of foundation building, he brazenly attacked the two men. He was really powerful.
On the other side, the two big men had worked hard to set up an ambush, but in the end they encountered a difficult sword cultivator. Moreover, the sword cultivator was notoriously vindictive, and they could not help but feel angry. This ambush was a complete failure, but the two of them had nothing to fear. Even if one of them was here, they would dare to fight with this man, let alone two against one.
The sword-wielding man named Hu Hai snorted coldly, put one hand behind his back, and pointed the other hand like a sword, and tapped the air continuously. The gray giant lizard's body stirred and turned into a black light that wrapped around You Hong who was coming to chop it. As soon as the gray giant lizard's body swung, three five-colored rays of light suddenly shot out from its body and went straight to the face of the Taoist named Ren. Upon closer inspection, these three five-colored rays of light were actually three five-colored birds, with beaks like thorns and claws like hooks, and they were moving very quickly. In the blink of an eye, they were already on top of the Taoist named Ren's head.
On the other side, the big man called Ning Xiong suddenly circled with his green dagger, and a small dark green snake appeared in the low sky, with fierce eyes, bared barbed fangs, and twitched its tail, biting towards the waist of Taoist friend Ren from one side, with an extremely tricky and swift angle.
At the same time, Ning Xiong raised his left arm, and a yellow light flashed again at the wrist guard on the front of his bare forearm. A giant bear with shaggy hair appeared in front of him. With a deafening roar, it opened its big hands and grabbed Changhong who was attacking it.
As for the sword cultivator named Ren, his eyes were filled with a fierce light and his spiritual power was like a tide. He did not give in to the two men at all.