When Li Yan finished speaking, his face was extremely gloomy and his tone became even colder.
He also heard from Feng Tao's words that the other party was not asking him to take action alone, and there should be other people participating.
But the fact that she came to ask a cultivator with very low cultivation for help made the meaning of this puzzling.
Li Yan’s first reaction was whether the other party had doubts about his identity. Could it be that he had revealed some flaws
But thinking of Feng Tao's cultivation, Li Yan still felt that he would not make a mistake. This was because Li Yan was suspicious by nature. As long as there was something slightly disadvantageous to him, he would immediately think of many possibilities.
Seeing Zhang Ming's increasingly gloomy expression, Feng Tao began to panic. For the first time, she felt that she had been too reckless in rushing into an unfamiliar environment.
Since she needed help from others, she must continue with the purpose of this trip. She calmed herself down.
"Brother Zhang, your doubts are all correct. If I were to encounter this, I would also be very suspicious.
But I definitely don't have any other bad motives. Everything I said is the truth, and I really came to ask for help from you, brother.
First of all, there are no Jindan cultivators in my family. There are only two foundation-building cultivators, my ancestor and my third uncle. This is known to everyone who knows my Feng family, and it cannot be concealed even if we want to.
This crisis was caused by the appearance of a large number of ghosts from the underworld in the family's area, not by any enemies coming to visit.
The place where my Feng family is located is a place with a very strong yin energy. This is also known to outsiders. Due to the special martial arts practiced by the Feng family, it is appropriate for them to occupy this place.
But this is also the important reason why I left my family and joined the Falling Star Valley."
At this point, Feng Tao paused, a bitter look on his face. The Feng family's cultivation method is extremely yin and cold, and eight out of ten of the family's disciples have yin meridians and extremely cold constitutions.
By practicing the family skills, the Feng family bloodline had already taken shape. The bloodline inheritance was mainly based on spiritual roots such as water, wood, and earth. But when Feng Tao was born, the Feng family was both happy and sad.
The good news was that the Feng family had produced a rare immortal cultivator with natural spiritual roots, but what made them sad was that there seemed to be something wrong with Feng Tao's bloodline.
She has an extremely yang constitution, with fire spiritual roots as the main element in her body and earth spiritual roots as the secondary element. It seemed as if God and the Feng family were playing a huge joke on her.
Although the Feng family's inherited martial arts technique Feng Tao can be practiced, it can only be practiced as an ordinary fairy technique. It is okay for getting started, but the more you practice, the slower the progress will be.
The ancestor of the Feng family loved this younger generation very much, so he still wanted to let Feng Tao try to practice the family skills.
Perhaps it is possible that "harmony between water and milk" can appear in the extreme repulsion between water and fire. Everything will turn into its opposite when it reaches its extreme. This natural law has appeared in the world of immortal cultivation before.
Feng Tao was truly a child of heaven. Although her martial arts skills were totally incompatible with her physique, she managed to break through to the fifth level of Qi Condensation Stage when she was only about ten years old.
This is quite different from the top-notch disciples in the family, which gave the Feng family's ancestor a glimmer of hope.
But despite Feng Tao's hard work and practice day and night, the final "perfect harmony" did not appear.
But her body had already shown signs of rejection, and after four years of hard training she could no longer make any progress.
After repeatedly examining Feng Tao's body, the Feng family's ancestor had to admit this fact. After standing in the dark for a long time, he could only look up to the sky and sigh. He had no choice but to let Feng Tao find another famous family.
"This time the crisis came from the mountain behind our family, where there is a group of ancient unknown tombs. Two nights ago, the Yin energy inside suddenly erupted, and a large number of ghosts from the underworld broke out of the ground.
This kind of situation has happened before, but it was all under control. This time, for unknown reasons, three Foundation Establishment ghosts appeared among these underworld ghosts, and two of them have already reached the late stage.
The ghosts in the underworld are extremely ferocious, with bodies as hard as diamond. When dealing with ordinary cultivators, they can often fight two at once.
This time, just two of the underworld ghosts in the late foundation building stage were enough to overwhelm the ancestor and the third grandfather.
The remaining ghost in the early stage of foundation building brought other ghosts from the underworld and began to kill my people.
Fortunately, the ancestor of the family disregarded everything and forcibly broke free from the opponent's entanglement and activated the family formation, which protected the temporary safety of the clan members.
However, the three ghosts from the underworld led dozens of ghosts outside to continuously bombard the formation, and the formation could not resist for long.
In desperation, he could only use a Wanli Sound Transmission Note, hoping that the 'Falling Star Valley' could come to the rescue. After all, the Feng family was also a vassal of the 'Falling Star Valley'.
Yesterday, the uncle-master who stayed behind in the sect informed me of this matter, but now there is a shortage of manpower in the valley and we cannot send out too many people.
Senior brothers and sisters who are above the seventh level of Qi Condensation will go out for inspections with their uncles and aunts, so there are very few masters even in the Qi Condensation stage in the valley.
The sect finally sent Uncle Fang to deal with the situation. I also wanted to go back with him, and the road was not safe anymore.
The Feng family is about six thousand miles away from the sect. A few days ago, a senior master from the Feng family died there.
It's not safe for Master Fang to go alone, so I want to get some help."
"Uncle Fang? Are you talking about Uncle Fang Guangjun who just joined the sect a year ago? He should be at the initial stage of foundation building, right? There are so few seniors in the sect who are holding back now?"
Although Li Yan heard some things from the Deacon Hall, since his cultivation was not enough and he had not become anyone's disciple, the Deacon would not tell him some things.
He just knew that a number of foundation-building cultivators had appeared in the valley on patrol with a large number of people. With the presence of the Great Golden Core Elder, Li Yan did not dare to use his spiritual sense to explore around.
He really didn't know the details that Feng Tao mentioned.
Of course Li Yan knew this foundation-building cultivator named Fang Guangjun. A cultivator of this level was enough to catch Li Yan's attention.
Fang Guangjun arrived not much earlier than Li Yan and the others. He was a wandering cultivator who had traveled all over the world. He succeeded in building his foundation when he was over 50 years old. Perhaps he understood the hardships of being a wandering cultivator, or perhaps he wanted to find a sect to rely on and see if he could make further progress. Finally, he entered the "Falling Star Valley" and became a deacon elder.
"That is Uncle Fang. There are indeed only three uncles and uncles left in the sect who have established their foundation. Of course, it is mainly because of the Grand Master, the Grand Master, that we can suppress those villains in the dark."
Li Yan didn't say anything, but just listened quietly, thinking secretly in his heart.
“The foundation builders left behind in Luoxing Valley are either good at refining pills and making tools, or their cultivation is not yet strong enough to stand on their own, so it is not easy to send out a person in the early stage of foundation building.
However, it seems that this Fang monk is still quite capable, at least he is better at fighting than those who only know how to refine pills and weapons."
At first glance, it seems reasonable for "Falling Star Valley" to send this person.
The main problem with the Feng family is that there is an additional ghost from the underworld. As long as Fang Guangjun can entangle the ghost, the situation may be reversed.
But in fact it is still inappropriate. Just as Feng Tao said, the ghosts in the underworld are not easy to deal with. Among cultivators of the same level, they may not be their opponents.
What's more, there are dozens of other ghosts present, which can entangle Fang Guangjun and others for a while.
The best approach would be to send at least a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.
"Uncle Fang went alone and encountered an accident on the way. It might be easier for him to escape alone. Junior Sister insisted on going back with him. To put it bluntly, she is just an extra burden.
Even if you ask a few more Qi Condensation disciples to go back, the help they can provide will be extremely limited."
Li Yan said coldly.
This time Feng Tao gave an answer quickly.
"Brother, there is actually one thing I haven't explained yet. This matter shouldn't be told to outsiders, so please keep it a secret for me.
But since I came here to ask for help from my senior brother, I naturally intended to tell you the truth.
The Feng family's practice is special, and it follows a path of extreme yin and coldness, so they are bound to deal with ghosts from the underworld and extremely yin monsters all year round.
Therefore, the ancestors passed down a magical weapon that is specifically used to restrain evil things. When combined with the family's skills, it does have a certain restraining effect against some powerful ghosts.
It’s just that my magical power is too shallow, and I haven’t practiced the family skills well enough, so I can’t bring out their full effectiveness.
However, this magic weapon can also be used as an ordinary magic weapon. After all, it is much more powerful than ordinary spiritual weapons.
This time, because I joined the 'Falling Star Valley', my family grandfather was afraid that something might happen to me on the way. He and my third uncle were in charge of the family. Given their level of cultivation, this magic weapon would not be of much help to them, so he gave it to me.
But now, the opponent happens to have a powerful ghost from the underworld. If this magic weapon was still in the hands of our ancestor, we would have a better chance of dealing with those ghosts from the underworld.
If Uncle Fang joins us, our chances of winning will basically be certain.
Of course, this thing cannot be asked to be brought back by outsiders. I think my senior brother can understand this.
Therefore, in addition to Senior Brother Zhang, I also made an appointment with Junior Brother Tian Denghu, as well as Senior Brother Tang Tian and Senior Sister Wu Yizheng who are from the same school as me, who are also willing to take action.
Senior Brother Tang Tian has already reached the great perfection of Qi Condensation, and Senior Sister Yizhen has also reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation. They just came back from their inspection yesterday and happened to have a day to rest.
After hearing about this, he took the initiative to help his younger sister. After obtaining the consent of the senior uncle who stayed behind in the sect, he agreed that they would not have to patrol for the time being and could go to assist the Feng family.
With your help, we will have more manpower to deal with those ghosts that are equivalent to the Qi Condensation Stage, so as to give Uncle Fang and our ancestors time to kill the three Foundation Establishment Stage ghosts.
Secondly, if we are harassed by someone on the way, the magic weapon I have can still help Uncle Fang.
But I have already said the reason before, my sister's cultivation is too low, and it takes a certain amount of time for her to activate the magic weapon on her body, so of course someone is needed to delay the enemy for a while.
If something happens to Uncle Fang, it would be hard to say whether our Feng family can wait for the next assistance. After all, the sect itself is in crisis now.
Otherwise, I would just need to ask my master for help, why would I have to go to this extent.
As for why I came to find Senior Brother Zhang, it was because I had just joined the sect and didn’t know many disciples.
Although Senior Brother Zhang’s realm is slightly lower than mine, I can feel that Senior Brother Zhang’s magic power is much more condensed than mine.
I also heard that Senior Brother Zhang and his former master had experienced training together. If we really fight, Junior Brother Tian Denghu and I are probably no match for you. This is the reason."
Feng Tao quickly explained what happened, and as Li Yan listened, his eyes began to narrow, with a hint of hostility in his eyes.
He didn't expect that even though he was so low-key, the girl still noticed him, even though he had lowered his realm and cultivation.
However, he did not adjust his spiritual power to the state of weak foundation. Because everyone's practice method is different, the final performance is also different. If you don't check carefully, you won't notice it.
Therefore, Li Yan felt that there was no need to do so. Unexpectedly, the girl named Feng Tao also noticed the condensation of his spiritual power.
"Are you investigating me?"
Li Yan tapped his fingers lightly on the stone table a few times and said expressionlessly.