Li Yan's clothes were also rustling, and for a moment, strong winds blew in his mouth and nose, making it difficult for him to breathe.
"So what do you want?"
Meng Zhiyuan stared at Li Yan, suppressing his anger and speaking word by word.
"This is a situation where you don't believe me and I don't believe you either, so there is no fairness at all.
I am leaving the passage now. After I meet up with my companions, I will give you the pills immediately. How about that?"
"Hehehe... Fellow Daoist Zhang is really good at scheming. You are the one who decides the outcome of everything. Do you really think I am that afraid of death?"
"Friend Meng, I've said that this is an unbalanced situation. After all, you are outnumbered here, and I can't completely give up my trump card.
I also want to stay alive, and I don't want to die with you.
I have another idea. Once we both leave this restricted area, I will give you the antidote immediately.
Fellow Daoist Meng swallowed it and used his Qi to regulate his breathing. Anyway, we are so close, if there is a problem with the antidote, we won't be able to escape immediately, right?"
There was a flickering light in Meng Zhiyuan's dark eyes. He knew that his side's greatest advantage was in this corridor.
Once they got out to the deep sea, the attacks formed by the two-winged "Dark Spirit Bats" could no longer be used. The opponent just dodged and left those guys far behind.
So in the end, the only fighting force left were a few of his fellow disciples.
Although he was injured, the other side also lost one person and one was seriously injured. If they fought, his side would definitely be the winner in the end.
However, if the opponent is determined to escape, if someone stays and delays him for a few moments, it may not be possible to kill him completely.
Both sides fell into a brief silence for a while. Li Yan just floated at the entrance of the passage, holding the pill in his hand, without saying a word.
After forty full breaths, Meng Zhiyuan let out a helpless sigh.
"Okay, I'll do as you say once more. However, if I can't get the elixir later, or if the elixir is fake, then today we will have a fight to the death, and there will be no more negotiations!!"
After the situation repeated several times, Meng Zhiyuan felt that his threats were of little use.
He was extremely depressed. He could have risked his life to keep all eight monks in the corridor.
But when he thought of his master's final message before his death, he could only endure it.
He wanted to bring these people back to his tribe. After enduring so many years of hardship, he couldn't just die like this.
Therefore, today he had to endure humiliation again and again.
"Friend Meng is straightforward!"
After hearing this, Li Yan glanced at the "Dark Spirit Bats" surrounding him and no longer hesitated.
The spiritual power in his hand enveloped the pill, and he had already stepped into the passage.
If he wanted to destroy the pill in his hand, it would only take a thought. Li Yan believed that even if the other party had a backup plan, he would not be able to restrain himself in an instant.
What's more, he already knew that this was the so-called "forbidden land". As long as it was forbidden, he had hope of breaking it. He had already secretly communicated with the "Heaven-Stealing Cap".
If the last resort comes, he will try desperately to see if he can force open the passage and escape from here.
Afterwards, Meng Zhiyuan and four other four-winged "Dark Spirit Bats" followed out.
After just two or three breaths, Li Yan's eyes blurred and he appeared outside the cave where the female cultivator named Yang had broken the ban at the beginning.
In addition to the hazy scene nearby, the seabed in the distance appears even darker and deeper.
The moment Li Yan appeared, two spiritual senses swept towards him. Li Yan immediately identified them as Xing Ming and Feng Moru.
He said no more, turned around and faced the cave, then threw the pill lightly, and a ball of spiritual power wrapped around it floated in the sea, while he spoke loudly.
"Friend Meng, here is the detoxification pill for you. You can try to detoxify it!"
Before he finished speaking, Meng Zhiyuan, who had followed closely behind him, appeared next to the pill.
In order not to arouse the other party's suspicion, Li Yan's body just slowly retreated towards Xingming and the others. His movements were very slow and he did not fly quickly.
Li Yan had already received the message from the Star Moth. He and Feng Moru also set up some forbidden formations nearby, and people hid behind to support him.
Meng Zhiyuan instantly turned into a thin, short, green-faced man. He stretched out his hand, grabbed the pill in front of him, and swallowed it into his stomach in one gulp.
At this moment, whether the detoxification pill Li Yan took out was real or fake, it made no difference to him.
If it is true, you will live; if it is false, you will die.
The deadly poison that Li Yan planted in Meng Zhiyuan's body was still one of the few three antidotes he had - "One Blood, One Branch", which was the one that Li Yan was most familiar with.
The poison enters the body and spreads to various meridians in the body as the blood flows, constantly devouring the spiritual energy in the blood while constantly strengthening itself. It is a very difficult poison to deal with.
Li Yan felt that if he could calm down, he would try to refine some antidotes for the poison again, and then start to practice in seclusion.
In recent years, he has focused too much on external things, but he has no choice.
The group of four-winged "Dark Spirit Bats" that followed Meng Zhiyuan out have all flown out, surrounding Meng Zhiyuan in the middle, staring fiercely at Li Yan who was slowly retreating into the darkness in the distance.
In just a moment, Meng Zhiyuan felt that his spiritual power, which was being devoured, was recovering rapidly, and then he closed his eyes again.
Just as Li Yan was about to approach the place where Xing Ming and the other two were hiding, Meng Zhiyuan suddenly opened his eyes and a hint of ridicule suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth. When Li Yan saw this hint of smile, he immediately felt something was wrong.
But he was not a real god, and his mind was racing for a moment, and he didn't realize where he had made a mistake.
“Hehehe… You can’t just come and go as you please here! Second brother, open it!”
As Meng Zhiyuan's ridicule was heard, Li Yan suddenly heard a series of roaring and surging sounds of the sea around him.
He also saw a four-winged "Dark Spirit Bat" floating beside Meng Zhiyuan. Its four wings flapped rapidly and a series of obscure spells came out of its mouth.
From a distance, curses were heard from Xing Ming and Feng Mo Ru, followed by two figures rising into the sky.
At this moment, the surrounding sea water rolled up into water columns that reached the sky, one next to the other, densely packed, like a whirlwind swirling in the space.
In an instant, huge, fast-moving water columns filled Li Yan's entire field of vision.
Even though he had the "Feng Chong Tian" body skills, in this overwhelming deep sea, with water columns like the sky and the earth supporting it, he had nowhere to escape in a short period of time.
Li Yan saw two black shadows rising into the sky in the distance, and the next moment, they were both swept into a sky-high column of water.
At the same time, Li Yan's consciousness was instantly cut off, and he was swept into by a column of water while dodging. In a hurry, he only had time to thicken the spiritual power shield outside his body layer by layer.
In an instant, he was swept up by a force that swept away the heaven and earth.
Although Li Yan was a little frightened in his heart, not knowing what means the other party had used, his face remained calm. This was not the time to panic.
The huge waves on the water column hit the spiritual power shield outside the body, and except for the squeezing force, there was no other unusual phenomenon.
Moreover, if these squeezing forces are directed at foundation-building cultivators, they will have some destructive and lethal power, but for Jindan cultivators, they are just like the water of a lake hitting the shore.
This made Li Yan feel a little relieved, but also made him extra alert.
This situation is not a good sign. Since the other party has activated the ban, how could he not be aiming to kill us
"The water column doesn't have much damaging power!"
Li Yan made a quick judgment in his mind. At this moment, his consciousness was trapped in this sky-high water column and he was unaware of the surrounding situation.
Li Yanmeng punched the water column, and he felt that his punch had no force at all, as if he hit the air and did not even touch the sea water.
Before he could react, the water columns around him suddenly disappeared, and a bright light appeared in front of his eyes, and his body was falling rapidly from the air...
At the entrance of the underwater mountain cave where Li Yan appeared before, the four-winged "Dark Spirit Bat" had stopped chanting spells, and its rapidly flapping wings returned to slowly flapping.
“Brother, it’s OK, they have all been teleported into the cave.
It’s a pity. If only those powerful monks could set this technique to move back to the forbidden area. Not only could they kill these three people, but they could also increase the operation time of the formation in the forbidden area!
At the same time, we can also eat more of the monks' flesh, which tastes really disgusting!"
Meng Zhiyuan was looking at the dark seabed in front of him. It had turned back into a dead sea again. He sneered in his heart.
"That human cultivator really thought that he could control me at will. It's just a matter of endurance, hahaha..."
Meng Zhiyuan had long guessed that those monks were not so easy to talk to. He was just waiting for this final opportunity and had been acting along with them.
He didn't turn his head, but just stared blankly at the sea in front of him, as if muttering to himself.
"The reason why those powerful monks made this thousand-mile radius into the range covered by the 'Shrinking the Earth into an Inch' formation is of course related to the place we are trying to protect.
Those who were able to come here in the first place were at least at the Nascent Soul stage. If there were enemy Nascent Soul or even God Transformation cultivators coming here, it would be normal for them to travel thousands or even tens of thousands of miles in one breath.
Therefore, to deal with such people, of course the way to deal with them is to directly shrink the place where they are standing into the cave of the powerful monk himself.
First, there are more powerful formations there, which can better leverage the opponent's power;
The second is to ensure that the enemy directly faces the powerful monk. If we deal with an enemy of that level, if we shrink and teleport them into the forbidden area guarded by us, the result will be heavy casualties for our clan.
Even if Master and Uncle-Master were still alive, I think they might not be able to capture the invading enemy.
Besides, we are just serving a few powerful monks and doing some simple guarding work."
Meng Zhiyuan paused.
“These foreign monks have discovered this place, and we cannot let them escape no matter what.
Once this place is exposed, we will face increasingly powerful enemies. In our current situation, we will not be able to face so many strong enemies.
Therefore, these monks had to be kept here. This time, the restriction of "Shrinking the Earth into an Inch" was used, and the power to maintain the formation here was consumed for at least a hundred years.
Although three Jindan cultivators were killed just now, their Jindan and blood essence could not make up for the consumption.
We don't have much time left. If no one from our tribe comes to rescue us, maybe... maybe in about forty years, we will all die here!
Forty years is still a hope. We cannot let outsiders know the existence of this place. If a Nascent Soul or stronger cultivator comes, do we still have a way to force him into the final passage… "
"Brother, the restraining power of the two sub-cave residences is getting weaker and weaker.
Otherwise, this group of tiny reptiles would be killed instantly if they even took a step closer to the cave gate, not to mention breaking the restriction and entering."
A clear female voice came from the side. It was the fourth sister that Meng Zhiyuan mentioned. But if Li Yan and the others were here, they would be confused.
When the other party talked about breaking the ban, it was obvious that they were referring to the actions of Jiang Baibi and the others before.
But what she said was "two sub-caves", not the three caves they had seen before!