For a year and a half, Li Yan had been constantly looking for a place where he could refine his own magic weapon, which was actually looking for a suitable fire.
After actually looking for it, Li Yan discovered that it was not as easy as he had imagined.
Since he embarked on the path of immortality, except for the initial moment when he was deceived by Strategist Ji and almost died, everything went smoothly in the Wuliang Sect. He never considered the problem of fire when refining magic weapons.
There are several underground fire veins of different grades on Laojun Peak. The best underground fire vein was personally captured from a foreign land by an old ancestor of the Wuliang Sect using magic.
Its grade is even comparable to the lower-ranked strange fires in the world, which is completely enough for Li Yan.
He is not a professional master of alchemy and weapon making. He only needs to refine his own magic weapon for the foundation-building period. Therefore, even if he is given the strange fire of heaven and earth, he may find it difficult to control it.
The refining of Li Yan's natal magic weapon focuses on the training method and the material itself. It is a growth-type magic weapon, and more importantly, it relies on the nourishment of Li Yan's acquired spiritual power.
But having said that, not all flames can be refined.
In the world of Wuliang, Li Yan only needed to spend a large amount of spirit stones and sect contribution points to use different levels of earth fire, but in the demon world, he couldn't get it after searching for a long time.
The demon world’s cultivation world has similarly divided up the Earth Fire Mountain Range that has appeared, leaving very few for individual owners, because you don’t have the ability to guard such a large resource.
Once a sect obtains something, they will usually guard it tightly.
Although this kind of fire vein between heaven and earth can continue to grow, its growth rate is not very fast. If used without restraint, a fire vein will soon be exhausted.
Therefore, after each sect has gone to great lengths to obtain a vein of underground fire minerals, they will try their best to only supply it to their own sect and will not lend it to others.
Even for disciples of their own sect, there will be certain restrictions on their use, such as the number of times it can be opened in a month.
This cannot be compared with the monsters. After all, behemoths like the Four Great Sects of the Wild Moon Continent do not have more than one earth fire vein in their hands. Veins of different levels can be used in turn.
As Li Yan continued to inquire, he even heard about the existence of three strange fire veins. One was in the "Holy Demon Palace", one was firmly controlled by the "Black Demon Clan", and the other was in the powerful Fire Scale Dragon Lizard Clan.
The strange fire has already developed its own consciousness. It is the king of fire and can burn almost everything.
Not to mention that Li Yan couldn't even touch these three places. Even if he could, with his foundation-building cultivation, if a spark of the strange fire touched his body, he would immediately turn into a handful of ashes and disappear.
Li Yan's ultimate goal is to find out about the sects that have underground fire veins. He has to find ways to infiltrate that sect.
Although underground fire veins are also rare, they are still much more numerous than strange fire veins, and the grades among them are also uneven.
The underground fire vein owned by the sect "Falling Star Valley" is considered to be of upper-middle grade. It is said that the "Falling Star Valley" can refine fifth-grade elixirs, and the credit of this underground fire vein is indispensable.
What is particularly crucial is that there are not many human sects practicing immortal cultivation on the Lost Continent. The most important ones are two first-class sects, the "Fentian Sect" and the "Guiyi Sect".
They also have good underground fire veins, but Li Yan didn't dare to go there at all. The requirements for becoming a disciple of a first-rate sect are very strict.
Due to the numerous races in the Lost Continent, the "Fentian Sect" and the "Guiyi Sect" strictly check the identities and origins of their disciples.
The first-rate sects are full of Nascent Soul cultivators. Li Yan did not want to reveal his origins, and he could not explain it clearly.
Because he didn't know what a cultivator from the Wild Moon Continent meant here, and whether it would bring him endless troubles or even kill him.
Although the White Demon Clan seemed to be very nice to human cultivators, Li Yan had a life-and-death battle with the "Black Demon Clan".
After all, the two ethnic groups share the same origin.
Although Li Yan didn't think that his cultivation level would make the demons covet him, Zhao Min was still here and her identity was quite sensitive.
It can directly threaten the master of one of the peaks of the Wuliang Sect, as well as the Wei family of immortal cultivation who has a Nascent Soul cultivator.
If Zhao Min's identity is exposed because of him, what will be the consequences? Li Yan cannot guarantee that nothing will happen. It is possible that Zhao Min will be exchanged for some conditions by the Black Demon Clan and threaten his master and others.
In addition, apart from the human race's immortal cultivation sects, it would be even more dangerous for Li Yan to infiltrate the immortal cultivation sects of other races. As long as he was discovered, he would be killed immediately.
"Falling Star Valley" finally became Li Yan's goal. He came here more than a year ago.
He continued to collect all kinds of information about the "Falling Star Valley" and finally worked out a plan to join the sect.
The disciples of "Falling Star Valley" mainly come from the small sects and immortal cultivation families that are dependent on it from all around.
In addition, there are some mortals who have the qualifications to cultivate immortals, and of course there are some individual human cultivators who have come to seek refuge.
Once mortals have tested that their offspring have the aptitude to cultivate immortality, they will usually take the initiative to send them to the "Falling Star Valley".
But there are also those who cannot give up their family ties and keep them by their side. The human race is not the demon race, and there is no such thing as forced cultivation of immortals. It is more about the so-called "immortal fate". Once the fate comes, everything will come naturally.
Even those mortals who cannot give up their family ties are different from the mortals on the Wild Moon Continent and have broader horizons.
After living together for some years, when the children grow up, they will usually give them away. After all, everyone wants their children to be immortal and have supernatural powers.
For those independent cultivators who joined in later, the conditions in "Falling Star Valley" are much more stringent. Not only do they have higher requirements for qualifications, but they will also undergo a long-term secret observation.
For several years, or even more than ten years, the sect’s important skills or resources may not be used on him.
For Li Yan, these two identities were both impossible or unwilling to use. So, in the end, he chose the third way. Every early summer, there would be an opportunity for the affiliated small sects and aristocratic families to recommend elite disciples to join the "Falling Star Valley".
These small sects and families can recommend their own disciples and branches to enter the "Falling Star Valley" in order to obtain more training resources and further strengthen their relationship with the "Falling Star Valley".
No matter which method is used to join the "Falling Star Valley", the condition is that the person must have at least four types of mysterious spiritual roots. People like Li Yan, who have mixed spiritual roots, have no chance of joining at all.
The third type of disciples who join the "Falling Star Valley" are all in the Qi Condensation Stage.
If one succeeds in building the foundation, then for a small sect or family, it will be considered the backbone and it will be basically difficult for them to leave.
After finding out everything, Li Yan made the Snow Mosquito King transform into a foundation-building cultivator one day, and took him to a small family that he had found out in advance.
The Snow Mosquito King found a reason that he had to go out, but he would be in danger of death if he went, so he needed to leave Li Yan, his "disciple", behind.
After spending a considerable amount of spirit stones, the small family finally agreed and made Li Yan a descendant of a collateral branch that had left in early years and returned home.
It is not uncommon for monks to go out for training and not return for many years.
It is reasonable to let his descendants return to the family now.
After doing all this, the Snow Mosquito King, who had transformed into a foundation-building cultivator, left "decisively", leaving behind Li Yan, who was only at the fourth level of Qi Condensation Stage and went by the alias Zhang Ming.
Of course, the family agreed verbally, but did not send Li Yan into the "Falling Star Valley" in early summer last year.
Instead, Li Yan was kept in the clan for another year for observation before being sent out.
According to Li Yan's thinking, he is originally a human being, so he is not afraid of any form of investigation by the other party.
As for other matters, in fact, if Li Yan had any evil plans, it would not be revealed within a year. The thing that family was most worried about was the alien race.
Li Yan was thinking about his own thoughts and had no interest in paying attention to the five people around him. After perfunctorily saying something to the burly young man, he fell silent again.
These five people came from different small sects and families, and they were all the best of the younger generation in their sects.
Their cultivation levels range from the second to the sixth level of the Qi Condensation Stage. In contrast, at Li Yan's age, his cultivation aptitude is quite ordinary.
However, Li Yan did not transform himself into a smaller person just for this reason. It would be enough for him to be admitted as a disciple of "Falling Star Valley" with the most inconspicuous conditions.
The less he attracts attention from others, the more beneficial it will be for his future actions.
Before, the monks who were sent by various families were blocked outside the outer valley of "Falling Star Valley" when they arrived, and were asked to enter the valley alone.
Li Yan thought about the indifferent face of the family monk who sent him here, and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.
The other party ignored him all the way and only said one sentence when he was about to enter the valley.
"If you can't get into the Falling Star Valley, then you'll be fine in the future."
This was to tell Li Yan that the deal between them had ended, and since he could not join the "Falling Star Valley", he could go back to where he came from.
Among the six people, the burly young man and the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl had the highest cultivation base, both at the fifth level of Qi Condensation Stage, followed by Li Yan, and the remaining three were at the second to third level of Qi Condensation Stage.
However, the remaining few people seemed to be only twelve or thirteen years old, which made them look much younger than Li Yan.
After walking for about an incense stick of time, they finally arrived at the foot of a mountain gate. The mountain gate was towering and majestic, with an extraordinary aura. There were three ancient seal characters "Luoxing Valley" written on it.
At this time, sweat was already slightly on the foreheads of several people. Of course, Li Yan was just forcing it out deliberately. He still quietly fell behind everyone else.
At this time, a young man in a green robe was standing in front of the mountain gate, looking at the six people in front of him with a smile.
Li Yan didn't need to release his spiritual sense deliberately, as he had already sensed the other party's cultivation level, which was the ninth level of the Qi Condensation Stage. This was considered a strong cultivator among the Qi Condensation Stage cultivators.
"You all have a solid foundation since you have been able to reach here within one stick of incense. I am Feng Qiyuan, and I may be your senior brother in the future.
I think the family has already explained everything clearly before you came, but you still have to follow the rules here.
Hehe, please take out something that can prove your identity first, and then accept the spiritual root test. I have basically passed it."
Although Feng Qiyuan spoke calmly and his expression was extremely gentle, his aura did not restrained. Instead, he released the aura of the ninth level of Qi Condensation.
When this powerful aura came out, it made it difficult for the six people below to breathe. Their faces turned pale, and the youngest girl even had a gleam of light in her eyes.
However, everyone had been warned before they came here, and still, out of fear, they took out their tokens or other tokens one by one.
Li Yan also said nothing. While breathing rapidly, he took out a small green jade. Several people raised their hands.
Feng Qiyuan did not take it, but after a quick scan with his spiritual sense, the pressure on his body was instantly reduced a lot.
Then he nodded to a few people.
"Well, there is no difference with the family reported a few days ago, so the next step is much simpler. You all step forward one by one, and each of you put your palm on this thing and stimulate the spiritual power in your body."