Under his feet was an endless expanse of desolate black mountains. The Pure Land Sect had fewer and fewer sects as he headed north, and the number of cultivators outside the sect that Li Yan could meet was also much fewer.
Although it was midsummer, large flakes of snow could be seen falling from the gloomy sky from time to time. The northern part of the Pure Land Sect was a bitterly cold place, and the spiritual energy was becoming increasingly thin.
Only a very few sects are willing to establish their own strongholds here. Generally, they are very small sects. They do not have the ability to gain a foothold in the south where spiritual energy is rich, so they have no choice but to set up their own bases here.
Life here is a bit hard, but often a small sect can occupy a large area, and no one will compete with it. Usually, a small sect with only 20 to 30 people can mark an area of 100 miles as its own territory.
Li Yan was flying in the air against the wind and snow. He took out a jade map. The map at this time only marked the approximate content, and Li Yan only roughly judged his location based on it.
After a moment, Li Yan put away the jade slip and frowned slightly.
"This place is still more than 100,000 miles away from the North Sea, and there are no sects marked on the jade slip. This map can no longer provide much help. It seems that we can only fly there.
According to the current strength of mana, it will only take thirteen or fourteen days to control the Cloud Piercing Willow." Li Yan thought in his heart.
In this way, Li Yan spent most of the next half day on his journey, and as expected, he did not meet another cultivator in the thousands of miles.
Just when Li Yan thought he was going to continue like this, he suddenly paused while flying.
"There are still monks here."
In Li Yan's spiritual consciousness, a small mountain villa appeared in a valley in the distant black mountains.
There were several powerful auras emanating from the villa, and Li Yanfei did not deliberately hide his figure, so when he discovered the other party, the other party also discovered Li Yan.
Li Yan could feel the golden elixir aura from the other person. There were two auras in total, and both of them were in the early stage of the golden elixir.
Logically speaking, Li Yan should have discovered them long ago, but they would not have discovered Li Yan. It was still the same thing. Li Yan's spiritual sense could not be released over a large range all the time, so he only retained a range of several hundred miles.
At the same time when the other party discovered Li Yan, three people rushed up from the valley and blocked Li Yan's way. In addition to the two Jindan cultivators, there was also a Jiadan cultivator who followed them.
There was no fluctuation on Li Yan's face, he continued to fly forward along the original route.
The journey of hundreds of miles can be reached in a flash according to Li Yan's current speed of controlling the Piercing Cloud Willow. When he was still three hundred feet away from the other three, Li Yan stopped flying and stared at them quietly.
The three people were one woman and two men. The two Jindan cultivators were an older couple. The man was wearing a blue robe, had a rough look, and was about thirty years old.
The woman was voluptuous and attractive, wearing a pink palace dress, dressed as a young woman, and looked to be only in her early twenties.
The remaining fake Dan man was obviously the son of the two. He looked only eighteen or nineteen years old. Although he had an extraordinary handsome face, there was a sinister aura flowing between his brows.
With Li Yan's careful attention, he saw that the middle-aged man's real cultivation level should be very close to the middle stage of the Golden Core. The young woman in pink palace dress looked like she had just formed a Golden Core not long ago. Judging from the fluctuations of her aura, it would take her no more than ten years to form a Golden Core.
Seeing Li Yan staring at the three of them without saying a word, the young man with a gloomy brow flashed a hint of displeasure in his eyes, but he seemed to remember something and closed his already thin lips again.
On the other hand, the two Jindan looked at each other, and the rough-looking man looked at Li Yan, clasped his hands together, and laughed, "Daoyou, please come in. I wonder where you are from?"
His spiritual sense seemed to be constantly scanning Li Yan intentionally or unintentionally. Originally, when he first saw Li Yan's cultivation level, he had no intention of coming up himself.
But then he realized something was wrong. The aura of Li Yan was very strange, giving him a dangerous and dark feeling. Something happened in the manor at that time, and after looking at each other with the young woman, they both felt that they still needed to handle the matter personally.
In fact, it was mainly inappropriate for someone with Li Yan's cultivation level to appear here alone. What they were more worried about was whether there were other people hiding behind.
While the rough-looking man was speaking, the young woman looked at Li Yan with a smile on her face.
Li Yan also bowed. He had already seen the expressions of the other three people. There was no fluctuation in his voice. "I'm just a casual cultivator, just passing by here occasionally!" He didn't seem to want to explain.
Li Yan's appearance finally made the young man, who had kept his lips closed, couldn't help but snort coldly.
"Hmph, you are so arrogant. My father called you 'fellow Taoist', do you really think you are so high-ranking? You have mistakenly entered my 'Beiling Mountain Villa', and you don't know the etiquette when meeting an elder."
“'Bei Ling Villa'… 'Bei Ling Villa'…” After hearing the other party’s impolite words, Li Yan did not show any dissatisfaction or fear. Instead, he repeated it several times in his mouth. Only then, when the young man began to get angry, did he bow to the three people.
"I didn't mean to intrude into your territory. It was really reckless. I hope you will see me!"
It would have been better if Li Yan had not said this. As soon as he said it, the young man could no longer suppress his anger. He did not expect that the other party, a mere late-stage foundation-building cultivator, would be so arrogant and still think of himself as a big shot.
He was already spoiled by nature and bloodthirsty by nature, so how could he endure such humiliation
Just when he was about to dodge and kill Li Yan, the rough-looking man next to him, who had not spoken since he said a word, let out a low shout.
"Mo'er, don't be so presumptuous. No matter where you are from, if you can come to my villa in such a desolate place, you are a rare guest. My friend, what do you think?"
After saying this, the rough-looking man showed a half-smile on his face. The first half of his sentence was addressed to the young man, and the second half was directed at Li Yan, this time addressing him as "young friend".
If someone is familiar with Li Yan, they will be surprised. Today, Li Yan's words have changed from cautious to sharp, which is totally inconsistent with Li Yan's usual low-key behavior.
But Li Yan knew that the other party had already shown murderous intent the moment he discovered him, but he quickly restrained it. However, he could not escape Li Yan's consciousness at all.
Li Yan didn't know why the other party wanted to kill him as soon as they met. Along the way, he would naturally pass by the sphere of influence of different sects or families. As long as he did not accidentally enter the other party's core area, the other party would often give Li Yan an advance warning and let him leave.
What's more, Li Yan was more than 400 miles away from the "Beiling Villa" just now. For a small immortal cultivation family, it should be quite a distance away from the core area.
They only needed to send a voice message to warn, and Li Yan would naturally take a detour, while the other three actually flew out directly.
Li Yan believed that even if he turned around and went around, the three men would block him again, so he simply went forward to meet them.
Feeling the murderous intent in the dark, if Li Yan's first words were to show respect to Jin Dan, the other party might not even say a word and would directly start killing him.
Li Yan's performance made it impossible for the man and woman to figure out Li Yan's background. Although Li Yan's aura was that of the middle stage of foundation building, it was extremely strange.
This Jindan couple, especially the rough-looking man, was about to break through to the middle Jindan stage. He felt a sinister and dangerous aura from Li Yan.
But when he tried to carefully use his spiritual sense to investigate Li Yan, the other party did not resist but allowed him to investigate. However, he always had a feeling that he could not see through the other party's specific realm.
That was why he allowed his own child to provoke the other party with words. If Li Yan was really a cultivator who had hidden his realm, he might burst out with powerful pressure in an instant to teach "Mo'er" a lesson.
Of course, he was also prepared to protect him at any time, but when "Moer" was about to make a move, the young man in black robe remained motionless. He couldn't help but say something, and then showed an appropriate expression to let Li Yan know that he had seen through everything.
Li Yan saw the other party's words and expressions and guessed that the other party still couldn't see through his true colors and deliberately acted sophisticated in order to learn the result from his reaction.
How could Li Yan fall for this? Even if he was facing a late Jindan cultivator, he had a certain chance of escaping. With his personality, his first thought before fighting with someone was often not to defeat the opponent, but to think of a foolproof retreat.
"I am not a guest, I am just a passer-by. I have something important to attend to. Please go back, my three Taoist friends. I will leave now."
Li Yan said calmly, then he stepped on the Chuanyun Willow and moved to the side. Just as Li Yan moved, a sweet laugh sounded in his ears, captivating his heart.
"My friend, don't leave in such a hurry. Our 'Beiling Mountain Villa' is located in a remote place. It's a rare occasion to have a guest here today. We should do our best to be the host. How about we chat in the villa?"
The girl in pink palace dress had arrived in front of Li Yan without him noticing. She was smiling and inviting him. The rough-looking man who did not move at the side also had a smile on his face, but deep in his eyes he was looking at the Cloud-piercing Willow under Li Yan's feet.
His cultivation was the highest here, and he had long seen the extraordinaryness of Chuanyunliu. "It's at least a mid-grade flying magic weapon," he thought greedily in his heart.
Seeing that the other party really stopped him, Li Yan was not surprised. He was just pretending to leave and did not use his full strength to activate the Cloud-Piercing Willow. Otherwise, with the other party's skills, he would not be able to stop him at all, but it was not certain that he could get rid of him completely.
Li Yan sneered in his heart. He, Li Yan, was never a reckless person. Before he made these decisions, as soon as the two sides discovered each other, Li Yan had already released his powerful spiritual sense and directly explored the villa below. He was afraid that there would be other hidden masters in the villa.
After exploring, he unexpectedly discovered that except for one house in the villa where the formation restriction fluctuations were very strong, the formations in other places were ordinary.
Li Yan did not find any more powerful cultivators besides these two. There were more than twenty cultivators in the village, whose cultivation ranged from Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment. Among them there was even a fake Dan cultivator.