Advisor Ji looked at Li Yan, who had fallen to the ground and turned over to look at him, and laughed sinisterly.
“Hehehe…, can you run away? No matter what, you will get the same result, or the same fate!”
Looking at Li Yan's silent and indifferent eyes, he thought for a moment and then spoke again.
"But I don't understand, how did you find out that I was going to harm you? And how did you escape from Hong Linying's hands?"
Li Yan looked at him, dragging one leg and slowly moving his body backwards. At this time, blood was already gushing out from there. In just a short while, the blood had already stained the ground red along the corner of his pants.
He struggled to hold on to the tree trunk beside him and slowly stood up. The hem of his tattered black robe was stained with a dark red color.
Li Yan suddenly showed his white teeth and grinned at Strategist Ji.
"Hehehe... Of course it was my senior brother who told me the clues. Why wouldn't Marshal Hong let me go? His target is you, not me!"
Advisor Ji was stunned. He didn't understand for a moment and felt that there was something wrong with Li Yan's words, but he couldn't figure out where the problem lay in a short period of time.
At the moment when Advisor Ji was stunned, Li Yan suddenly slammed the tree he was holding and let out a low growl.
"Then let's die together!"
Strategist Ji's thoughts were still on Li Yan's previous sentence, when he suddenly saw Li Yan's face become ferocious and he slapped the tree trunk with his palm.
Before he figured out what Li Yan was going to do, he felt a chill at the back of his head and immediately cried out inwardly, "Oh no!" He had never imagined that Li Yan had set an ambush here.
This place is a full mile away from the ambush site, which he had never expected.
At that moment, there was no time to turn around, and a light flashed across his body. He waved his hands behind him repeatedly, and then he heard "crash, puff" sounds, followed by a muffled groan.
The sudden loud noise in the middle of the night startled some birds that had just landed on the treetops and flew away again to other parts of the night sky.
Li Yan slapped the tree trunk with his palm and used the force to roll to the side again. He heard a loud noise and a heavy groan in his ears. When he turned over and raised his head again, he saw a scene that chilled his heart.
At this time, Division Master Ji was in a very miserable state. His black robe was torn in more than a dozen places, and his left arm was pierced by two sharp hard wood sticks about the thickness of fingers.
There are some black and crooked things on the tip of the wooden thorn, which are the tendons and veins of the human body!
But what made Li Yan feel disappointed was that Advisor Ji was still alive, his chest rising and falling, and he was staring at him with murderous eyes.
His dark and purple face twitched from time to time because of the severe pain, and then he walked towards Li Yan step by step.
"You are really good, really good, to be able to plot against me again and again! Good, really... good!"
He spoke word by word as he walked, and blood from his elbow was spurting out like several lines of water.
Behind Strategist Ji was a pile of wood chips and broken branches. The seven or eight rows of dense wooden thorns tied together that were originally attacking him were cut into pieces by the wind blade he had just swung behind him.
But in a hurry, he only protected the back of his heart and head and failed to disperse all the attacks. Two sharp wooden spikes instantly pierced his left arm, exposing the blue veins inside, but he didn't know whether the bones were injured.
But at least for now, it is difficult for Master Ji to use his left hand. Even if it recovers in the future, with his current magic power, he may not be able to restore it to its original state.
This is a trap commonly used by hunters to capture large monsters - the "wooden raft thorn".
Use hard branches to carve them into wooden thorns with a base as thick as an adult's finger and a sharp cone-shaped head. Then embed these sharp wooden thorns into a thick wood to form something similar to a mace.
Then tie seven or eight such "maces" together in a large wooden frame, hang it between two trees, and tighten the tree trunk with a rope at one end.
There is a live knot at the other end of the noose and the buckle is tied somewhere. When the noose is touched by external force, the live knot will break instantly, and the raft spikes will rush out with a whistling sound. Usually, the area two or three feet in front of it is within its attack range.
But it also has a disadvantage, that is, in order not to affect the impact route of the raft's own spines and increase inertia, it is usually half-suspended in the air, one or two feet above the ground. If it is a skinny animal, it only needs to lie on the ground and the spines will whiz past its head.
However, Advisor Ji was confused by Li Yan's words. He didn't know what he meant. While he was thinking about it, he was caught off guard.
In addition, he had always been searching for immortals in the deep mountains, and the ones he encountered were either monsters or immortal cultivators. If a mortal hunter went there, let alone setting traps, the immortals would be eaten by the hunters before they could go deep into the mountains for many miles, and would be killed by the hunters' swords.
In the end, Advisor Ji never expected that Li Yan was so cunning that he could set ambushes in different places while on the run.
It's a pity that a martial arts master in the secular world, a cultivator who has just entered the world of immortals, was deceived by this.
Li Yan propped himself up with his elbows, half tilting his face upwards.
"Hehehe... What a pity!"
"I never thought that a half-grown child like you could be so cunning. I wonder how many tricks you have? How about letting your master see them again?"
Advisor Ji had walked a few steps in front of Li Yan before he stopped.
Only at this time did he raise his right hand and quickly tap his left elbow and arm several times, and immediately the blood stopped spilling.
"This time, it's really gone!"
Li Yan half-supported his body. At this time, he had calmed down and even chuckled.
As Li Yan chuckled, Advisor Ji looked around, and after carefully observing the area around Li Yan for a long time, he slowly walked closer.
As soon as he walked in front of Li Yan, he suddenly attacked, and pointed out with his right hand repeatedly in a dazzled manner. When he stopped moving, Li Yan had fallen on his back.
"This is how it really ends!"
Division Master Ji stood in the woods, looking at Li Yan lying on his back. Li Yan said nothing, but his eyes moved occasionally, and the blood from the wound on his leg stopped flowing.
Strategist Ji subdued Li Yan in an instant, and also sealed the major acupoints near the wound on his leg to stop the bleeding. He didn't want Li Yan to die from excessive blood loss yet.
Division Master Ji raised his head and looked around again. Dense trees stood in the night, interlaced in the distance, like eerie ghosts. In the woods, only some moonlight shone through the branches and leaves.
He carefully checked the surroundings with Li Yan as the center, and sure enough, he didn't find any other traps, so he felt relieved.
Then he glanced at Li Yan on the ground, and after making sure that he was restrained and unable to escape, he flashed towards the platform halfway up the mountain.
After a few breaths, he came to the platform where Li Yan had ambushed him just now, and the huge rock on the ground was no trace.
All that was left was a pit, several water bags, two stone pillars as thick as a baby's arm, and a small section of a monster's blue veins.
He picked up the monster's veins and looked at them, then picked up a few water bags and shook them. After standing there thinking for a while, he quickly walked to the cliff behind the giant pine and looked down.
It seemed pitch black in the night, like the mouth of a giant beast covered with fangs, and Strategist Ji felt a chill in his heart just looking at it.
His physical body is only slightly stronger than that of ordinary people, but he is still a mortal body after all. If he falls down, he will become a pile of meat paste or be pierced into several pieces by the huge rocks at the bottom of the cliff.
After watching it, he basically understood how Li Yan set the ambush. Although he was not a hunter in the mountains, he was the prey in the trap just now and knew the process of the ambush. Looking at these, with his experience in the world, he could guess the general idea.
After a few flashes, he disappeared from the platform and disappeared into the forest at the foot of the mountain.
Advisor Ji came to where Li Yan was lying on his back. A trace of pain suddenly flashed across his face, and black blood actually flowed from the corner of his mouth. He quickly sat down cross-legged.
He hurriedly took out a translucent crystal from his arms with his right hand, slowly closed his eyes, held the crystal in his hand, and began to breathe in and out. He had not rested for several days and had just suffered a serious injury, so his body was in extremely bad condition.
An hour later, Strategist Ji slowly opened his eyes. At this moment, his spiritual power had recovered about 70% to 80%. He looked at the crystal stone in his hand that had turned from translucent to turbid, and a trace of pain flashed across his face.
There is no spiritual energy here, so he can only rely on this crystal to recover. This crystal was left to him by the previous leader of his "Xunxian Lineage", who also told him.
“If he can embark on the path to immortality in the future, this crystal stone will definitely help him.”
For so many years, although he had already embarked on the path to immortality, he had always been reluctant to use it. But today, he used it under such circumstances.
The crystal stone is called spirit stone, which contains spiritual energy and can help cultivators in their practice. This is what Master Ji heard from the seniors in the sect. They only have this one crystal stone, and it has been passed down for more than ten generations.
He could have returned to the inner valley of the Military Advisor's Mansion and used the spiritual energy emitted from the pool to recover, but nearly half of the spiritual energy in his body had already been consumed, all of which was the result of forcibly using the Wind Blade Technique.
Normally, with his current level, he could have used all his strength to release eleven or twelve wind blades, but just now, in order to deal with Li Yan, he cut off the huge rock on his feet and broke the "wooden raft thorns", and he released a total of six wind blades.
Just as he was returning from the cliff, the fire poison in his body had already broken out. If he did not suppress it, he would have died before Li Yan. The spiritual power left in his body was not enough to suppress the fire poison. In a hurry, he had to use the sect's precious treasure.
Advisor Ji looked at the turbid spirit stone in his hand, lost in thought for a while, then put the spirit stone back into his arms.
He raised his right hand and pressed hard on his left elbow and upper arm. With two "hissing" sounds, he groaned again.
At the same time, two wooden spikes as thick as fingers shot out from the flesh and shot away into the distance, leaving behind a series of blood beads...
Strategist Ji was in so much pain that his forehead was covered in sweat. He endured the severe pain and quickly tapped the wound with his right hand to stop the bleeding. Looking at the several black veins on his left arm that were either drooping or broken and exposed outside the body, he couldn't help but frown.
After a few breaths, he shook his head, stood up, and quickly flew around the forest...
Half a cup of tea later, he appeared at the same place in a flash. Looking at Li Yan who was lying on the ground with his eyes closed, Master Ji pointed with his right finger, and a gust of wind flew out and penetrated Li Yan's head.
“I know you’re not asleep, and now I don’t want to know how you knew my intentions.
Now you know it or not, it's the same result for you. I just didn't expect that you, a 15 or 16-year-old kid, could be so vicious. Every trick you use is a good way to trick people. I really underestimated my apprentice!"
Military Advisor Ji looked at Li Yan with a resentful gleam in his eyes.
It turned out that his plan was to suppress the fire poison in himself for another half a year. By then, Li Yan would be able to cultivate to at least the middle of the first level of Qi Condensation Stage, and he would still have a 50% chance of reaching the fourth level.
But now, not only has the time been advanced, Li Yan's magic power is still far from his minimum requirement, and he has also used his fundamental magic power, causing the fire poison in his body to break out prematurely.
Moreover, his Qi and blood were also severely damaged, but he had no choice at this time. Qi and blood could be replenished slowly. Could Li Yan wait for him for half a year? Could the fire poison in his body be restored to its previous state
When he thought of this, Strategist Ji was extremely angry. Several years of planning had ended up with such an unpredictable result because of this person.
"Am I vicious? Don't you want to use my life to exchange for your own?"
Li Yan, who was underground, suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Oh? It seems you know it. I really want to find out how you know it, but now I don't want to waste any more time.
With your character, even though I couldn't see the loophole, you were able to persevere in kicking over the water bag and splashing water on the veins of the monster. If I hadn't been poisoned, I would have really accepted you as a real disciple."
Li Yan, who was lying on the ground, had a strange look in his eyes. He would not be surprised if Master Ji could see how the trap was set after he went up to the platform to check.
But he was a little surprised that Master Ji could infer that he had kicked the water bag many times.
"Oh, you can even see this. The teacher is really amazing."
Li Yan said lightly, and thought to himself at the same time.
"You still don't see the other problem!"