A short and sturdy monk next to the handsome young man shook his head after hearing the handsome young man's question, looked around, and when he saw that no one else was paying attention to this place, he replied in a low voice.
At this time, a monk who looked to be about thirty years old and was standing on the other side of the handsome young man pursed his lips, looked at Hua Siwang who was standing in front of him like a mountain with two horses on his back, and suddenly his lips moved slightly, and he spoke to the handsome young man and the short and sturdy monk.
"Old Six is right. Before I left, I heard the headmaster tell the eldest brother who stayed behind in the sect a few words. One of them was that the master and the elder would go to the crack of Yinmo Cliff soon. The direction of Yinmo Cliff crack is southeast, which is similar to our direction..."
"No way, I heard that place has been the most brutal place where humans and demons fought each other since ancient times..."
"Yes, Fifth Brother, please don't scare us..."
Although they used the secret art of transmitting sound, Li Yan's spiritual awareness had already reached a level that was unattainable by his peers. He deliberately eavesdropped and of course heard everything clearly.
Li Yan even felt another powerful spiritual consciousness, which was looming over everyone here, including himself. That was Hua Siwang's spiritual consciousness.
So Li Yan knew that all the words of Huang Xuan Valley's disciples that they thought were secret were under Hua Siwang's surveillance. Li Yan could even see the sneer on Hua Siwang's lips from the side.
However, Hua Siwang did not interfere with the secret conversations of the monks from Huangxuan Valley behind him. In his mind, these monks would go to where they were supposed to go soon anyway, and everything could not be changed by their will.
After hearing this, Li Yan's idea of waiting for an opportunity to escape changed in an instant.
Even if he escaped from Hua Siwang's clutches, what could he do next? The Pure Land Sect was too vast. If he wanted to avoid the so-called "recruiting envoy" like Hua Siwang, he could only fly all the way back by hiding here and there. It would take him who knows how many years to get back to the Wuliang Sect.
Otherwise, how could he borrow the teleportation array from other sects like before? I think all the sects have already strictly controlled this. I guess as long as he shows up, he might be targeted.
Even if he didn't meet the "recruiting envoy" or the patrol and guard teams along the way, he still needed to deal with them one by one. The "gray copper coin" could not guarantee that he could pass smoothly.
This is why he never took out the "gray copper coins" before. Even if he did, it might not have much effect, as it would lead to a series of inquiries anyway.
From what we overheard from the cultivators' conversations, it seems likely that the destination of this trip is heading to the cracks in the Yinmo Cliff, where in addition to cultivators from various sects on the Wild Moon Continent, the four major sects will also be in charge.
In this way, Li Yan felt that it was entirely possible for him to meet a cultivator from the Wuliang Sect. When they met, he would show his real token, and things would be much easier afterwards.
Having said that, even if these Huangxuan Valley monks guessed wrong and were not heading to the Yinmo Cliff Crack, they were still heading south, which was the same general direction as theirs.
The most important thing for me now is how to reach the area under the jurisdiction of the Wuliang Sect. Once I get there, I can use my identity.
After making the decision, although Li Yan had several chances to escape on the way, he simply gave them up one by one and stayed on the giant sword with his eyes closed to rest.
The situation encountered on the road afterwards was just as Li Yan had guessed. There began to be more and more patrol teams of all sizes. Most of them were monks who stayed behind in various sects and were ordered to form patrol teams.
Moreover, he also met many "recruiting envoys" like Hua Siwang on the way. From the way Hua Siwang greeted them, as well as the anxious and fearful faces of the Foundation Establishment Monks behind them, Li Yan concluded that they were all recruited from various places just like himself.
What made Li Yan even more overjoyed was that these teams became more and more numerous. They slowly gathered together, and in the end there were twelve Jindan leaders leading the team, forming a team of more than a hundred people.
This not only ensured their safety, but Hua Siwang and the others then began looking for a teleportation point, teleporting southward one after another.
All these teleportation spirit stones were taken out by Hua Siwang and others, which made Li Yan feel quite proud. His decision not only saved a large amount of spirit stones, but more importantly, the teleportation array could be easily used.
As long as Hua Siwang and the others took out the tokens, all the sects agreed respectfully. It seemed that these teleported spirit stones were not Hua Siwang and the others' own, so they did not seem to feel any pain in spending them. They must have been distributed uniformly from above.
Li Yan and his team were also growing during the journey. Every time they were teleported to a place, Hua Siwang would take out a jade slip and carefully stick it on his forehead. Then, with a whistle, he would separate from the other teams and take Li Yan and his team to a certain place.
Soon, they will bring another group of foundation-building monks from somewhere and head south again. On the way, they may meet, merge, teleport, and separate from other teams again...
Just like that, after only seven days, more than sixty people were densely packed on Hua Siwang's giant sword. As the number of people increased, the private exchanges between these foundation-building monks gradually increased, but they did not dare to speak loudly.
Hua Siwang let everyone do as they pleased, unless some people started talking about the invasion of the demons, or when they heard that those places might have been lost, he would sternly rebuke them and make them dare not say a word about the demons anymore.
Li Yan could guess that this might be because they were afraid of affecting morale. Li Yan knew at this time that the jade slip in Hua Siwang's hand should be the roster map assigned by the Pure Land Sect to each "recruiting envoy". Hua Siwang and his men only needed to follow the map and be responsible for some sects.
In addition to urging, Hua Siwang also forcibly took away those Foundation Establishment cultivators from the sects who were hoping for a lucky break, and told the cultivators above the Golden Core stage where to gather.
In this way, Hua Siwang led the growing team forward and continued to teleport. At the same time, all the foundation-building casual cultivators they met on the road were forcibly included in the team by Hua Siwang without exception. Whether you are willing or not, you must join the team, otherwise, Hua Siwang will arrest you without hesitation.
Of course, if he met a Jindan cultivator, Hua Siwang would politely step forward to check the other party's identity and record the other party's information in detail. Since Hua Siwang had been constantly merging and separating with other teams along the way, the Jindan cultivators he met, although reluctant to be checked, had no choice but to accept the travel expenses since there were several Jindan cultivators on Hua Siwang's side from time to time.
As a result, these Jindan monks who were being escorted were either carrying out missions under orders, or had left messages with Hua Siwang and were asked where to gather. As for whether they would go or not, someone else would supervise them afterwards.
But Hua Siwang and his companions were also quite discerning. Once they encountered a cultivator in the late Jindan stage or above, they would sometimes pretend not to see him and simply ignore the other party, and the group would whiz past.
Of course, apart from those cultivators from large sects or families who dared not escape, the most likely to try to escape were independent cultivators and some cultivators from third-rate sects.
It goes without saying that a wandering cultivator always travels alone. If he could escape, the world is so big that he can hide there.
The highest level of cultivation in a third-rate sect is generally just the Foundation Establishment cultivator. Once they are recruited, the entire sect is basically disbanded. What's the point of keeping those Qi Condensation cultivators? So they will try to escape and find a place to hide. As long as they are alive, the sect's inheritance will still exist.
In this way, the seven or eight monks who tried to escape were all caught up by Hua Siwang without exception, and then killed on the spot without any hesitation.
Li Yan also saw five other people who escaped when Hua Siwang was chasing after the other escaped monks. These five people may have felt that their opportunity had come, so they immediately flew away when Hua Siwang walked far away.
Li Yan looked at these people's way of escaping, and their speed was not very fast, and couldn't help but smile helplessly in his heart. He knew that if a cultivator like Hua Siwang didn't even have this little control method, how could he be called a Jindan cultivator.
As early as when he flew onto the giant blade, he discovered that Hua Siwang had left a trace of spiritual mark on the corner of his clothes. This kind of spiritual mark was the best way to track and locate monks.
Of course, if there are too many cultivators, Hua Siwang’s spiritual sense will not be able to be divided into so many at the same time and leave one on each of them, even if he is in the middle stage of the Golden Core.
But if there were only two or three hundred people, Hua Siwang could do it easily. Li Yan could still remove this small trace of spiritual consciousness. After all, his spiritual consciousness was not inferior to Hua Siwang's, and he would not leave so blatantly.
With these factors in mind, when Hua Siwang went to chase after the other escaped monks, he did not use any formations to trap Li Yan and the others, nor did he place any restrictions on them. This caused some monks who thought they had a chance to escape to flee immediately.
They thought that by the time Hua Siwang came back from hunting down the others, they would have already escaped to somewhere unknown.
But the Jindan cultivators were not what they could imagine. They killed people too quickly. It took Hua Siwang less than ten breaths to hunt down the first group of people.
No matter how many directions they fled in, they could not escape from Hua Siwang's grasp.
Hua Siwang returned in twelve breaths, and then his figure flashed again, and more than a dozen phantoms shot out from his body at the same time, chasing after the second group of escaping monks, in less than twenty breaths.
In the distance, more than a dozen phantoms returned one after another, each of them holding a bloody human head in their mouths. After those phantoms stood still, many people discovered that they were actually "earth bears".
Then Hua Siwang shook his sleeves, and the eight human skulls rolled to the ground. Each head had a distorted face and a look of fear before death.
Using Hua Siwang's methods to kill some small foundation-building cultivators would naturally not leave any trace of the other party in the world, but he left behind the hideous heads of the other party and brought them back. The intention of deterrence was self-evident.
His move really frightened the remaining monks so much that their faces turned pale, and they lost the idea of escaping from then on.
Just like this, Li Yan and his team continued to move south. Li Yan looked around at the flower on the corner of his robe and completely ignored it. Anyway, he would not leave the team now, so where could he find such a free teleportation
Along the way, there were many cultivators like Li Yan who were recruited alone. They either sat alone on the corner of the huge blade like Li Yan, or began to consciously distance themselves from the cultivators of some large sects with disdainful eyes.
Some independent cultivators also began to gather in groups of three or two, showing some signs of banding together. They talked to each other, including Li Yan, but his purpose was of course to find out more information.