People like Zhuo Lingfeng and Duan Weiran, who are independent cultivators, have extremely advanced means of preserving their lives, otherwise, when they are helpless and alone, they would not be able to reach the stage of fake elixir.
In this world of immortal cultivation where people are eaten without leaving any bones, just being able to survive for so long requires certain means, and it cannot be explained by so-called luck.
Li Yan arranged Sun Guoshu to carry out the first reconnaissance alone. On the one hand, he wanted to verify his own ideas and determine what Sun Guoshu's methods were, so as to avoid misjudgment in the execution of the mission later;
Secondly, Li Yan had participated in several missions in the Ninth Team and admired Yan Feijun's concealment skills very much, but it was obvious that as a scout, Yan Feijun was not qualified.
When Yan Feijun was cooperating with the other two scouts, they paid too much attention to hiding themselves and lacked speed and judgment. It would often happen that the two had advanced a long distance in another direction while Yan Feijun was still observing from the spot.
Of course, the first requirement for being a scout is to hide yourself, which is true, but too much is as bad as too little.
As for whether arranging Sun Guoshu to carry out the scout mission today would expose the entire team in advance, Li Yan was not very worried about this. He had a powerful spiritual sense that was unmatched by anyone here.
That is a spiritual sense that is comparable to that of the Jindan period. After he releases his spiritual sense, the other four people will not be able to detect it at all, and he will discover the situation at the first time.
After receiving the order, Sun Guoshu did not delay and flew forward directly, disappearing into the darkness in an instant.
Except for Li Yan who was already prepared for his move, the other three only paid attention to it when they knew that Sun Guoshu was going to take action. However, after sensing a very weak breath fluctuation, Sun Guoshu disappeared in front of them.
This surprised all three of them, especially Yan Feijun. He had been a scout for quite some time and knew what it meant for the aura to disappear in such a short time.
Then several people hurriedly followed, but each person had a different appearance. Li Yan seemed to have no hiding, and just slid forward on the grass tips.
Bai Rou was like a wisp of black smoke, almost blending into the surrounding night.
King Hu Xiao's body also shook and then became illusory.
Yan Feijun was as elusive as a ghost in the night, making it impossible to tell where he would appear next.
At the same time, after the four of them released their spiritual sense, they deliberately paid attention to the front. After scanning with their spiritual sense, although they still discovered the sneaky figure of Sun Guoshu about four miles ahead, their expressions changed.
Sun Guoshu's posture is actually very ugly, like a rat hiding from the light, and his body movements are not that good either.
But there is a characteristic: every time he lands, the place where he is least likely to be discovered is in the surrounding area, and the aura fluctuations on his body are constantly changing with each landing.
Sometimes he would even deliberately reveal his aura, but then some small wild animals with similar aura to his would pop their heads out. It was almost impossible to distinguish the real aura from that of these small wild animals, and they almost treated Sun Guoshu as one of their own kind.
After seeing these in his spiritual consciousness, Li Yan couldn't help but laugh in his heart. This Sun Guoshu really had an extraordinary way to save his life.
As for the other three, although Yan Feijun was disdainful in his heart, thinking that Sun Guoshu did not have any advanced physical skills at all, he was just relying on some small tricks.
But I still have to feel deep down that Sun Guoshu has some skills, and he is not as useless as he seems.
In this way, during the journey that night, Li Yan discovered abnormalities in his spiritual sense twice, but they were avoided each time.
Once when Li Yan discovered that it should be a team from Fengliang Mountain, Sun Guoshu noticed the abnormality after just three or four breaths, and then quickly sent a warning behind him, almost as slow as Li Yan's spiritual sense.
After Sun Guoshu carefully removed all traces he had left behind, he changed direction and left. This shows that the alertness of independent cultivators cannot be compared to that of cultivators from large sects.
Sun Guoshu and his companions were able to achieve all this without any advanced skills or magic. This must have been honed through countless life and death experiences. This is an instinct engraved in their bones and integrated into every drop of their blood.
When Li Yan and his group of five reached daybreak, they had traveled more than a thousand miles through the mountains and forests. If it were a mortal army, even the most powerful scouts and troops would not be able to do it.
It would take an unknown amount of time just to cut through the thorns along the way. The reason why cultivators are so powerful is that, apart from having to remain vigilant, the wild beasts, vines, and thorns in the mountains and forests are of no hindrance to them at all.
As long as they determine the direction, they can easily fly across even if there is a deep abyss ahead.
After daytime, although the cover of darkness was gone, in this jungle that blocked out the sun, unless there were people willing to expend a great deal of spiritual energy to carefully search this vast jungle, otherwise they still could not be easily spotted by relying on eyes and senses.
As they continued to move forward, even Yan Feijun had to admit from the bottom of his heart that Sun Guoshu really had some tricks up his sleeve. Why hadn't he discovered that before
There were several times, including when he encountered several waves of spiritual scans, and he didn't notice anything before. However, this casual cultivator was like a frightened rabbit, always hiding himself in advance and sending out early warning information at the same time.
In this way, they were able to evade several spiritual detections. Of course, these spiritual detections included both enemies and me.
Not only Yan Feijun and the other two thought that Sun Guoshu had cultivated some magical powers, even Li Yan almost thought that Sun Guoshu was practicing some secret method. However, he had been locking his eyes on Sun Guoshu but did not see him perform any magic.
After the others had a rest and gathered together, Yan Fangjun could no longer suppress his curiosity and started asking. In fact, he was just trying it out. The other party probably wouldn't tell him about this kind of personal life-saving method, as it would be like handing his life over to someone else. But Sun Guoshu didn't get angry after hearing this. Instead, he smiled bitterly and said, "I don't have any advanced skills or magic. It's just a sense of life-threatening situations.
Whenever danger is approaching, this kind of warning will arise in my heart. It is simply an instinct formed after escaping death time and time again.
Moreover, these minor skills are still somewhat useful against enemies of the same level. If I encounter a cultivator with a high level of cultivation, such as a Jindan cultivator, I guess when I become alert, I will not have time to react, or I will not be able to sense it at all, and will be strangled directly by the opponent. "
Sun Guoshu's words may not sound surprising, but they reveal more bitterness and helplessness.
Anyone can tell that only those who have been walking on the edge of death for a long time and doing their best to live for tomorrow every day will develop such beast-like instincts.
Yan Feijun didn't expect Sun Guoshu to answer this question, but when Sun Guoshu really answered it, he and the others looked at each other and actually felt a sense of sympathy.
They couldn't learn this kind of early warning function, unless they left the sect and traveled around, and experienced long-term life and death trials. Maybe they would have the same instinct as Sun Guoshu, but in that case, they would be dancing on the edge of a knife.
Of course, there are still many such ascetic people in the Wuliang Sect.
Just like that, in the following day, Li Yan and his companions had become accustomed to this way of travelling, and they had long since avoided the direct battlefield between Fengliang Mountain and the demon army, and deliberately detoured west for two thousand miles.
Although this would invisibly require them to walk a lot more, it was proven that this would allow them to travel more safely. After avoiding the main battlefield, the number of monks here was reduced by more than half.
But even so, when the second night came, an accident still happened.
As they walked forward, Li Yan suddenly sensed in his consciousness that two powerful spiritual powers were sweeping towards them.
Maybe it was because things had gone too smoothly in the past two days. Although Li Yan was on guard, the simultaneous appearance of two powerful spiritual powers caught Li Yan off guard.
When he sensed the other party, he only had time to whisper "Not good..." and then, subconsciously, he disappeared from the spot without a trace.
However, Bai Rou and the others, as well as Sun Guoshu who was several miles ahead, were just stunned for a moment. When they reacted, two powerful spiritual powers had already fallen on them.
Then there was a strange laugh. "A cultivator actually came here and tried to attack us by surprise. You rat, die!"
Then, an extremely sharp divine consciousness transformed into countless sharp swords and slashed fiercely towards the sea of consciousness of Bai Rou and the other three. This person turned out to be a powerful Jindan cultivator.
If Bai Rou and the other three were attacked by the Jindan divine consciousness on their sea of consciousness, they would probably not only become idiots, but their sea of consciousness would also be severely damaged, and it would take more than ten years for them to recover.
Just when Bai Rou and the other three felt the stinging pain in their sea of consciousness, they suddenly shouted, "Demon child, do you think I don't exist?"
Then Bai Rou and the other three felt their sea of consciousness relax, and an extremely sharp spiritual consciousness rushed towards the opponent's spiritual sword, followed by a series of rumbling sounds of air waves.
It turned out that the other person in the two spiritual consciousnesses was a Jindan cultivator from Fengliang Mountain. He had already taken on the other party's spiritual consciousness attack with a loud shout.
It was not until this moment that Li Yan appeared from behind a big tree. When he sensed the two spiritual senses, he instinctively used the "Stealth at Night" technique to hide himself.
From this point of view, Li Yan is not a qualified leader. He is used to riding alone and subconsciously does not consider others at all.
"Huh? There is actually a foundation-building cultivator who has escaped the divine sense of a certain family. It seems that you have some secrets. Then stay here for me!!"
The demon cultivator who had laughed so strangely before discovered that another cultivator appeared under his spiritual sense. This surprised him greatly and he couldn't help feeling angry.
If this matter got back, where would his face be? He immediately wanted to take Li Yan's life.
But he was still thousands of miles away from here, and his real body could not arrive immediately. Just when his spiritual consciousness condensed into a long thorn again and was about to pierce through Li Yan's sea of consciousness.
The Jindan cultivator from Fengliang Mountain also laughed strangely, "Hehe, you are quite interesting!"
In fact, he was the Jindan cultivator sent by Wei Chongran to protect Li Yan and the other four. He would only sense whether there were any Jindan cultivators on the other side and would not disturb Li Yan and the others at all.
It's just that the spiritual consciousness of this demon cultivator appeared suddenly just now. When he discovered it, the other party had already swept towards Li Yan and the other four, so he could only rush to meet him.
But just now, Wei Chongran's disciple strangely disappeared from his consciousness, which shocked the Fengliang Mountain Jindan. However, although he was shocked, he would not let the demon cultivator hurt Li Yan and the other four.
At the same time, this Fengliang Mountain Jindan cultivator thought Sun Guoshu's performance along the way was okay. Sun Guoshu and Li Yan, who were originally the weakest in the five-man team, now seemed to have hidden their methods.