Mingdu City has four gates, belonging to four directions. There are ten Qi Condensation Stage demon soldiers guarding each gate.
But Li Yan felt that there were several powerful auras in the dark who would scan the entire city from time to time.
This was also the reason why he spent two more spirit stones to rent a room with a defensive magic array.
The spiritual consciousness that secretly patrols the city will not force its way into the magic circle, but will just pass by to ensure that nothing major happens in Mingdu City.
Of course, Li Yan could also rent a room without any defensive formations. If he set up a magic formation in the room, the other party would not be able to break through by force.
However, that would attract the attention of someone with ulterior motives, so Li Yan would rather spend more spirit stones.
"The Ming capital city is only about sixty miles in radius. In two hours, we sensed eight extremely strong auras."
Although Li Yan didn't dare to sense it carefully, he could confirm that the owners of these auras were all Jindan cultivators.
Two of them had unusually powerful auras, and to Li Yan, they felt like two dormant ferocious beasts.
Although I didn't dare to investigate carefully, I could roughly confirm that the other party was a cultivator in the late Jindan stage.
Li Yan didn't expect that in a town with a radius of only sixty miles, there might be two people in the late Jindan stage.
But he didn't know whether these people were stationed in Mingdu City or were powerful people who settled in this city.
A town of forty miles is considered very large for ordinary people, but for a cultivator like Li Yan, it is just a matter of a thought.
The distance is dozens of miles. Even if a cultivator in the Qi Condensation Stage does not use a flying instrument, it will not take him too long to run a circle at full speed.
So the Ming capital here is not big at all, but rather very small.
However, Mingdu City is not located in the battlefield like "Zhouyang Town", so the golden elixir here does not release spiritual consciousness to explore and patrol from time to time.
This is unnecessary. Any disturbance in the city can be sensed instantly, almost right under our noses.
Li Yan rubbed his chin with his hand, thinking that this way, he might have a chance to take advantage of.
Li Yan could be sure that there was only one cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building in Baidao Tianbao Pavilion. However, that person was not in the shop in front of Baidao Tianbao Pavilion. His aura appeared in the courtyard at the back.
“The Baidao Tianbao Pavilion isn’t a very famous name. I’ve asked around among ordinary people before, and some people know about it, while others don’t.
The scale of the shops is not eye-catching. Many shops in the city have two or three foundation-building cultivators in charge, and there are even Jindan cultivators.
It is too easy for a store like this to hide the power behind it, and it is difficult to investigate.
Even if the other party is just an ordinary shop, as long as you make an appointment with him in advance, what's the harm in him collecting a jade slip for you
After all, what he came to hand over to Zhao Min was not some martial arts or magic, but just some verbal messages.
Taking so many factors into consideration, it would be difficult for me to find Zhao Min.
I can't use force here. If I'm not careful, the Golden Core will kill me first."
After Li Yan finished comparing the maps, he began to think about some of the things he had discovered about Baidao Tianbao Pavilion before.
Since the sect that Zhao Min belongs to doesn't want Li Yan to know the situation, but also wants Zhao Min to practice with peace of mind, it is normal to create some obstacles for Li Yan.
If Li Yan acted recklessly and ended up dying at the hands of someone else, I think the other party would be very happy to see that.
Not only can Zhao Min's worries be eliminated, but the sect itself will also have no responsibility, killing two birds with one stone.
Li Yan kept calculating his next plan in his mind. He had to go to Baidao Tianbao Pavilion openly, otherwise how could he convey his message to Zhao Min.
But the key is how to find out the other party's background without alerting the other party.
Li Yan also has to consider, if he can’t find the information he wants in the store, what should he do next
Could he knock the other person out with a secret attack, hide him in the "earth spot" and take him away
However, there were too many Jindan cultivators here, and Li Yan was not sure he could do things quietly. The biggest surprise did not happen to Li Yan himself, but to the other party.
Li Yan didn't know whether the other party had any means to save his life, such as a powerful defensive magic weapon or talisman.
With one strike from me, the opponent's magic weapon or talisman would automatically unlock its defenses, which would definitely alert the Jindan monks in the city.
What's more, even if you succeed in taking the other person away, should you kill him or not in the end
No matter which situation, as long as this person is discovered missing, the sect behind Zhao Min will guess that it was her doing. Will it bring any trouble to Zhao Min
For a moment, with so many things in mind, Li Yan felt that he was too restrained and could not let go at all.
After a long time, Li Yan could only sigh in his heart, because he couldn't come up with a better solution without understanding some things.
This time, he really just had to take it one step at a time, which was completely different from Li Yan's usual style of doing things, and it made him feel unsure about this trip.
For more than a day, Li Yan did not leave the house and stayed quietly in the room. He was reading various books about the Lost Continent that he had bought from shops in the city.
These books can help Li Yan learn more about the Lost Continent, which will be very helpful for him to do things, so he would rather spend more time on it.
Nor are they willing to act rashly.
However, when Li Yan saw these classics in the store before, he was also stunned. He didn't expect that there were so many classics about the Lost Continent displayed outside.
In the market of the Desolate Moon Continent, this kind of historical books that carry the history of the world of immortal cultivation are extremely rare. For a moment, Li Yan thought that there were not many genuine books here. Most of them were some unofficial histories used to exchange for some spirit stones.
But seeing the shop assistant's indifferent look, Li Yan felt that he might have guessed wrong, and after asking him indirectly for a while, he felt relieved.
The Lost Continent is an interface where many alien races gather.
It is quite normal to sell such books in the shops here. Every cultivator who comes to the Lost Continent for the first time wants to learn as much as possible about this continent as quickly as possible.
The most primitive way is to ask around, or take the opportunity to ask, or even search the soul and so on.
As a result, merchants in the Lost Continent began to engrave their own origins into books and sell them, which became a way to earn spirit stones.
Although some books may only sell for less than half a spirit stone, or even several books together may only sell for one spirit stone, but the number of foreign cultivators is huge, so the total income is very considerable.
Moreover, engraving spiritual classics is not difficult at all, and there is no need to worry about cultivators coming after you.
What is engraved here are things that are almost known to all the native cultivators of the Lost Continent, and they are not afraid of you checking. If it is wrong, it means that everyone is wrong, and you can't blame the seller.
However, you should not expect to find anything too secret in this kind of classics. At most, there will be some anecdotes and interesting stories in the appendix.
But even so, it was like a treasure to Li Yan. The information he learned in the small village of Shan Yiyuan was just the tip of the iceberg for him.
Li Yan read several classics over and over again. He began to ponder over every tiny detail to find answers that were not in the classics.
Gradually, I will plan my next steps based on my current situation.
It was not until more than half a day had passed that Li Yan finally put the classics into his storage bag. He slowly stood up and paced back and forth in the room.
He learned a lot of things from the classics that he had never heard of before, such as that the Black Demon Clan was ruled by the largest sect called "Demon Temple".
The Black Demon Clan is a race that loves killing. The techniques they practice are basically tough and vigorous. These techniques usually require a large amount of demonic energy to support them before they can be practiced.
Demonic energy and demonic crystals are unique cultivation resources of the Black Demon Clan, and are produced by covering spiritual plants that can produce demonic energy.
Demonic crystals are the essence of extremely dense and pure demonic energy. Since ancient times, they have slowly materialized into a type of crystal mountain range in places with dense demonic energy.
A small magic crystal often contains a large amount of astonishing demonic energy.
With long-term use of magic energy for cultivation, the magic source power generated in the magic core far exceeds the source power cultivated with spirit stones. This is also the reason why the Black Demon Clan most advocates the use of magic energy for cultivation.
However, it was criticized by the White Demon Clan, who believed that it defiled the most sacred bloodline of the Demon Clan and that the demonic energy was the evil power emitted by the devil.
The Black Demons are a warlike race that likes to cross borders and invade other continents. They constantly try to expand their territory and invade one interface after another.
And those magic plants that can produce a large amount of magic energy are constantly brought into other interfaces, causing many interfaces to be filled with magic shadows and overwhelming magic energy.
The books Li Yan bought did not record which interfaces the Black Demon Clan had invaded so far, so Li Yan had no way of knowing for the time being.
Combined with the current attitude of the White Demon Clan towards human cultivators, Li Yan was also certain that the White Demon Clan cultivators did not participate in the behind-the-scenes support of the invasion of the Desolate Moon Continent.
At the same time, since ancient times, no one has ever discovered the appearance of White Demon monks on the Wild Moon Continent.
Moreover, in these classics from the White Demon Clan, whenever the Black Demon Clan is described, they all use words such as brutal, greedy, and bloodthirsty to describe this mutant race.
The area under the jurisdiction of the Black Demon Clan is also populated by many other races, sects, and families.
But what is strange is that the Black Demon Clan hates the human race so much that it can be said that they are determined to kill them whenever they meet them.
They also do not allow human monks to establish sects in the east, and they even send people to sneak into the territory of the White Demon Clan in the west to assassinate human monks.
However, the Black Demon Clan was open to absorbing cultivators from other races, which puzzled Li Yan.
As for why the Black Demon Clan targeted the human race in this way, there was no explanation in any of the books that Li Yan purchased, as if these authors were very wary of this matter.
I don’t know if they really don’t want to mention it, or if it is indeed a high-end secret that they know nothing about.
On the other hand, the White Demon Clan is the most friendly with the human race among all other races and sects, as if they are doing so deliberately to target the Black Demon Clan.
This reminded Li Yan of the attitude of the three White Demon monks towards him at the city gate the day before.
"At least this way we know that the human race still has a certain status in the western part of the Lost Continent. I don't have to worry about being hunted down by the demons because of my human identity."
But as time went by, Li Yan saw a very obscure sentence in a newer book. Li Yan had been pondering the authenticity and information in these books.
He finally understood the meaning of the words, which was "The White Demons are now slowly treating the human race on the same level as other races. The human race is slowly losing some of its advantages."
In this regard, Li Yan thought that the human race might have had some connection with the White Demon Clan a long time ago, either a mutual interest or a promise made by the powerful on both sides.
Li Yan felt that this was the only explanation that made sense.
But now, generally speaking, he and Zhao Min have both descended into the White Demon Clan, and it must be said that this is a blessing from fate.
The current White Demon Clan is ruled by the "Holy Demon Palace", which is the oldest and most primitive descendant of the demon clan. Even the Black Demon Clan has to admit this.