After hearing what Li Yan said, Shan Yiyuan was somewhat surprised.
"Thank you for your kindness, Master Immortal. A Master Immortal from the military has been here before. Because you were recovering from your injuries, they did not let me disturb you.
The military master has issued a relevant document. I will exempt the village from providing resources for ten years. This is all your grace."
Shan Yiyuan said with a look of gratitude that when the other party took the order, he did not warn him not to tell anyone, and also said at the time that he did not want to alarm Li Yan who was in the room.
"Oh? Someone from the army has been here? I'm recovering from my injuries, so I didn't know about this. Is their garrison very close to here?"
Li Yan said it seemingly casually.
"This... I don't know that the location of the garrison on the border between the two tribes is not something that we mortals can know.
Whenever something serious happens, the immortal masters have great powers and they come to find us immediately."
Shan Yiyuan said with difficulty.
Li Yan waved his hand as if he didn't care, and started talking about other things with Shan Yiyuan.
But he felt helpless in his heart. It seemed that even in an interface like the Lost Continent where immortals and mortals communicated frequently, there was still an insurmountable gap between the two.
Immortal cultivators should also use formations to conceal their sects or bases, so as to avoid too much contact with mortals. It seems that there are many things that I need to find out bit by bit by myself.
"Do you know Mingdu City?"
“Master Immortal, of course I know this place. It is about a thousand miles northwest of here.
It is the largest city nearby, and it is the place where you can see the most Immortal Masters."
"Oh? So, there are a lot of mortals there?"
"Of course, about 80% of the people in the city are mortals like me. They can run the shop for Master Xian or do some business on their own."
Hearing this, Li Yan recalled the Yuguan City under the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect where he had visited before, where immortals and mortals also lived together in the same city.
“But from Shan Yiyuan’s words, I can sense that Mingdu City is different from Yuguan City. Yuguan City is just nominally where immortals and mortals live together, but in fact, immortal cultivators are still in a separate space.
The mortals in Mingdu City run shops for the immortal cultivators. This is the true coexistence of immortals and mortals."
Li Yan quickly pondered the meaning of Shan Yiyuan's words in his mind, which gave him a new understanding of the Lost Continent.
In the next two days, Li Yan no longer meditated during the day, but chatted with some elderly people in the village with a smile on his face.
Facing these "old men", Li Yan couldn't help but admire that the White Demon Clan was truly a strange race. Those old men in their seventies and eighties were all strong and well-proportioned, with handsome looks and faces as sharp as if they were carved by knives and axes.
The old woman looked to be only about 40 years old, with infinite charm. Her every glance and frown was captivating, and she looked as plump as a beautiful woman.
Only when they are over 150 years old will they begin to show signs of aging.
If Li Yan were to be seen in the village, his appearance could only be described as unsightly.
The demons and mortals in the village knew Li Yan's identity. He was the immortal master who had brought them huge benefits.
When communicating with these people, Li Yan can easily sense the other party's mental fluctuations and roughly know whether the other party is lying.
Li Yan can get more accurate information.
Even so, although these mortals didn't know much about the affairs of immortal cultivators, they were, after all, a native race of the Lost Continent. Li Yan still felt that he had gained a lot of useful information from their few words.
Although Li Yan was anxious about Zhao Min's affairs, he always planned before taking action and thought before doing. Some things simply could not be rushed.
If he was in a hurry, he should have attacked without hesitation when the two Jindan-level demons came a few days ago.
On the second night, in the slanting wind and drizzle, Li Yan quietly left the small village without letting anyone know, quietly and silently.
In the night sky with continuous drizzle, Li Yan flew away and headed west.
Now that he knew he was on the border of the Black and White Demons, he needed to find a safe place to fully recover his strength.
Otherwise, if you encounter an opportunity like the one a few days ago again, there will be no other way but to endure it.
… …
Just as Li Yan was leaving the small village, a beam of white light flashed across the sky 50,000 miles west of him, silently and incredibly fast.
In the white light, seven people were sitting cross-legged on a white jade ruyi that had transformed into a ten-foot-tall object. They were Shanggong Changge and his group.
She had already dealt with the negotiations with the Black Demon Clan yesterday, and was now rushing back to the clan overnight with her trusted followers.
Shanggong Changge sat cross-legged in the front of Yu Ruyi, with six people behind him, three men and three women, all of them were handsome and elegant.
In addition to Zhao Min, the other five people include two women and one man who are also disciples of Shanggong Changge.
The remaining two young men are Shanggong Changge's trusted generals. All five of them have reached the Jindan stage.
Especially Shanggong Changge's only male disciple, whose cultivation has reached the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm. His every move gives people the feeling of being on the edge of an abyss, unfathomable.
No one spoke on the white jade ruyi. Shanggong Changge was cold by nature, so when she didn't say anything, no one else dared to speak either.
On the way here, the other three men and two women kept looking at Zhao Min in surprise. They didn't know why their master suddenly brought a young foundation-building cultivator from outside for no reason and accepted him as a disciple.
This kind of cultivator wanted to be the disciple of the five of them, and they had to examine them before deciding. After all, Zhao Min was not even a fake Dan. And Zhao Min's disregard and indifference to everything around her also made these people feel a little dissatisfied.
Although he was also amazed by Zhao Min's appearance, there was no shortage of such stunning women in the White Demon Clan, so Zhao Min's coldness did not amaze anyone.
During the past few days, when they were not in contact with the Black Demon Clan, even when they asked Zhao Min to go out for a walk together, Zhao Min coldly refused.
Although several of them were dissatisfied, they did not dare to show it on their faces. They were all smart people and they knew very well what kind of character their master had.
This time, not only did he accept a young foundation-building cultivator as his disciple, but the key point was that the other party was a human cultivator.
What did Shanggong Changge's series of strange behaviors mean? This made everyone imagine a lot.
Although the reason is unknown, it is certain that this woman's physique is very different from that of a normal human cultivator. She is an anomaly who can practice both human and demon techniques at the same time.
"Your junior brother should be fine now. We will get the news soon after we get to the clan."
Zhao Min closed her eyes, and suddenly the pleasant voice of Shanggong Changge came into her mind.
After they set out directly from the Black Demon Tribe yesterday, they never returned to the garrison camp.
Therefore, if one wants to get news from the front, the usual long-distance sound transmission notes are no longer effective.
Shanggong Changge needed to go back and use other means to contact the front. Since Zhao Min followed her, she would not say a word to her except bowing to show respect when they met.
This made her mistakenly believe that Zhao Min was still worried about her junior brother's life, and she couldn't help but feel nervous.
"The relationship between her and that boy is not what we call a fellow disciple. We must find a way to cut off all her thoughts."
But Shanggong Changge also knew that this matter could not be forced. Although it was only a few days, she had already gained a lot of understanding of Zhao Min's character. This girl was very stubborn in her bones.
After listening to Shanggong Changge's message, Zhao Min's long eyelashes trembled slightly. She did not open her eyes, but just lowered her head slightly.
Seeing this, Shanggong Changge could only shake his head helplessly in his heart.
At the same time, a voice muttering to herself was heard in Zhao Min's mind.
"Of course he's alive. Is he dead? When did he die? As long as we're on the same continent, I know better than any of you. I just hope I won't get involved with him in the future."
… …
Li Yan did not go directly to the northwest capital city of Ming, but instead flew straight west on the "Cloud-Piercing Willow". At dawn, Li Yan landed on a barren mountain.
The Lost Continent is vast and sparsely populated. He flew for more than 10,000 miles and only saw six towns of varying sizes, and some scattered villages.
In these towns, Li Yan indeed discovered some human cultivators in his spiritual sense, as well as cultivators of other races with different appearances, but Li Yan avoided them from afar.
Under the dim and gloomy sky, Li Yan stood on a barren mountain, letting the drizzle around him slide quietly outside the invisible shield and fall into the barren soil beneath his feet.
Li Yan said to himself after feeling the surrounding spiritual energy again.
"As expected, the further west we go, the purer the spiritual energy in the air becomes. Here, there is no trace of demonic energy at all. Although the spiritual energy here is very thin, it is also a place that cultivators do not like."
For now, I have to let go of everything and make sure to completely heal my injuries.
Moreover, he couldn't rush into Mingdu City right now, because he didn't even understand the meaning of Zhao Min's message. If he went there in a hurry, he might bring trouble to Zhao Min.
He would make a long-term plan after he recovered from his injuries.
Since those demons have found Shan Yiyuan, Zhao Min will definitely know about her situation, so she won't be too worried about her current situation.
He was seriously injured this time. When he was flying along the path before, although he saw and sensed the aura of other monks in some towns, he could only fly away from them at a distance.
After Li Yan scanned the barren mountains with his spiritual sense several times, he chose a relatively secluded place and flew over with an expressionless face.
Li Yan flicked his sleeves, and several flying swords circled out and turned into streaks of silk. Like cutting tofu, they soon opened up a cave on the rock wall.
Then, he waved his sleeves again, and a column of wind suddenly appeared. The next moment, after it quickly rotated around in the cave, the cave was spotless and as clean as new.
Now, opening up a simple cave has become a piece of cake for him.
He didn't plan to live here for a long time, so he only set up a separate training room of twenty meters in size.
As he took a step and swung his sleeves, a small purple flag sank into the ground, and Li Yan stepped into the cave.
The entrance to the cave twisted a few times and then disappeared, returning to its original shape of a cliff.
Li Yan walked straight to a place at the back of the cave, looked down, then chose a flat place and sat cross-legged on the spot.
He first sank his spiritual consciousness into the "earth spot" and quickly found a cave at the foot of the mountain.
This cave was blocked by Li Yan's prohibition, and the snow mosquitoes on the top of the mountain could not enter at all.
Inside the cave, Li Yan sighed as he looked at the little purple dragon elephant with its eyes closed. He had already explored this when he just woke up a few days ago.
The figure of the little purple dragon elephant is now very illusory. One can even see through its body the densely packed evil spirits imprisoned behind it.
This time, the little purple dragon elephant's soul almost collapsed and died because the power of the seven-colored space was too strong.
Until now, Li Yan still hasn't figured out what that place is. He can only roughly estimate that it is a special barrier space.