Li Yan immediately confirmed that his guess was correct.
The death of a Nascent Soul cultivator is extremely painful even for a super sect like the "Holy Demon Palace".
It is estimated that this matter will take more than three to five years and it will be difficult to be over so quickly. The "Holy Demon Palace" will not let go easily without getting the desired results.
So, next, Li Yan chose to lie dormant and began to practice in seclusion...
Every day, monks come in and out of the "Holy Demon City". Some people never leave after they come in, and some people disappear after they leave...
Flowers bloom in spring, leaves are swept away by the autumn wind, and the clouds and the sky are like the passing of time...
Time flies, ten years have passed, and Mu Gu Yue is sitting in the garden.
Her belly was already bulging, and she looked at the colorful flowers in the garden swaying gently in the wind.
She gently stroked her belly with her hand, her slender fingers slowly drawing irregular lines through her black skirt, but a scene in another spiritual plant garden flashed through her eyes.
The demons have a long lifespan, so even a mortal can live for one or two hundred years without any problems.
Therefore, even the mortals of the demon clan do not have to be pregnant for ten months, but rather a year before giving birth.
Once the mortals of the demon race embark on the path to immortality and become cultivators, they will begin to go against the will of heaven.
Therefore, under the rules of heaven and earth, it is already very difficult to have bloodline descendants.
They will take longer to conceive and are more likely to have a stillbirth, usually taking ten years.
Although Mu Guyue recovered from his injuries after returning to the clan from the "Demon Swallowing Abyss", he was still often troubled by what happened.
At that time, after a period of confusion, she came out of the original love and often felt boundless murderous intent in her heart.
She no longer had any reluctance to leave Li Yan. She just wanted to find this man and kill him immediately, or turn him into an unconscious puppet and keep him by her side.
Whenever he thought of that man doing whatever he wanted to him, Mu Guyue always felt inexplicably disgusted and felt dirty for no reason.
He was of noble demon blood, while that person was just a weak human who was only worthy of being enslaved by other races.
Her filthiness must be washed away with the other party's blood to relieve her humiliation.
But even with her identity, she had no chance of finding a human cultivator in the vast territory of the White Demon Clan.
The result was indeed as it turned out. She sent many of her trusted followers to distribute the jade slips engraved with Li Yan's appearance to inquire, but in the end they did not get any useful information.
She even used secret agents to search the "Holy Demon City" where monks gathered, but still did not get an answer that satisfied her.
All this is due to Li Yan's low-keyness. Even though he had a fight with Jiao Wuxing on the street in the "Holy Demon City", he only showed up once.
After that, every time Li Yan went out, he would deliberately cover up so as not to draw attention to himself.
Mu Guyue spent a year in anger, and during a training session a year later, she discovered that there was something wrong with her body.
She actually found a trace of life in her body. Surprised, she used her spiritual sense to investigate and immediately understood the reason.
Mu Gu Yue was even more angry at that time. How could she be pregnant with the blood of a human cultivator
Immediately, his spiritual sense swept over angrily, wanting to directly shatter the life that had just been born and awakened.
But when her spiritual sense swept over, the life that was almost not even the size of a fingernail actually gave her a sense of joy.
She also felt the vigorous power and a sense of connection with her own blood from this tiny life.
For a moment, Mu Gu Yue's murderous intent was mostly extinguished, but a voice deep in her heart kept scolding her.
"Kill him (her), kill him (her)! This is the bastard of inferior bloodline, kill, kill him (her) quickly!"
She gritted her teeth and summoned her magical power several times in an attempt to shatter the opponent, but the waves of joy coming from her consciousness prevented her murderous intent from condensing into a needle.
A feeling of care arose in her heart that even she felt was ridiculous.
Once this emotion appeared, Mu Guyue became more hesitant, and this hesitation lasted for several days.
In the end, she still remembered the appearance of that hateful human cultivator on her body, her demands and her shyness in joy, which made Mu Guyue want to kill again.
She closed her eyes and once again focused her consciousness on her abdomen, intending to kill it with one blow, without any mercy.
The moment her spiritual consciousness penetrated her lower abdomen, she froze in shock. In just a few days, that life breath had become several times stronger.
Apart from the fact that there was not much change in size, as soon as her consciousness descended, the other party seemed to sense something and his abdomen began to beat even more happily.
Mu Guyue seemed to hear a sound of "Ah!" in his consciousness.
In this hallucinatory voice, her coldness and ruthlessness turned into confusion and helplessness...
Afterwards, Mu Guyue went to the deep sea several more times, but even though she had recovered to her peak strength, she still could not break through the sub-cave called "Tianling Cave".
Every time she passed by, she would stay there for a while, but the aura of the human cultivator never appeared again...
The flowers in front of Mu Guyue's eyes were suddenly blown by a gust of wind, and the swaying of the flowers brought her thoughts back from a long time ago.
Her hand was still gently stroking her abdomen, her slender fingers occasionally circling it.
This life has that person's blood. When she is promoted to a god one day, she will be able to use the fetus's essence and blood to go to heaven and earth to find that human being, and then kill that person with her own hands.
Mu Gu Yue hasn't been out for several years. Apart from practicing, she just sits quietly like this, and occasionally subconsciously uses her spiritual sense to check the fetus in her belly.
No one would suspect her for not showing up in the clan. It was normal for a cultivator to not show up in public for fifty or a hundred years, let alone ten years. Especially for a Nascent Soul cultivator, it was normal for him to be in seclusion for hundreds of years.
Today, the fetus kicked more and more violently during her practice, disturbing her so much that she had to quickly end her breathing exercises.
Calculating the time, it seems that the birth is just a matter of days.
"Ten years already? Human boy, you better not die!"
Mu Guyue said softly, her mood was extremely complicated at the moment.
During the ten years, the fetus of spiritual consciousness grew day by day, and her thinking also gradually changed with the changes of the fetus.
Is she really willing to carry out the plan she made at the beginning? Use this child's blood essence to pursue the human cultivator! !
As she thought about it, Mu Guyue's consciousness naturally sank into the life force beating in her abdomen. Some of her obsessions were still there, but she didn't even notice that they had faded a little...
The dark clouds and the flowing wind came from the sky and returned to the other side of the sky. Another thirty years passed in a hurry.
On this day, in a courtyard in the "Holy Demon City", a light suddenly flickered violently in a room for a few times, and the house began to shake. After a few breaths, it slowly returned to normal.
Not long after, the door of the room opened gently, and a smell of decay rushed out of the room.
Then, a figure slowly walked out of the room.
He looked up at the sky, and spots of sunlight were shining through the dense leaves, shining on his body, making him squint his eyes unconsciously.
He was wearing a green robe, with long black hair hanging down, covering most of his face.
Even though this man was very tall, his long black hair still dragged on the ground.
His long, thick black hair was scattered in front of his forehead. Between the hair, his half-closed eyes slowly adapted to the light and returned to normal after a breath. They were a pair of pitch-black pupils, as bright as stardust.
The man in green robe looked at the sky above that was blocked out by dense leaves. He took a deep breath of the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and suddenly a dark light flashed on his body.
With a "bang", a gust of wind suddenly erupted outside his body, causing the branches and leaves of several large trees in the courtyard to sway wildly, and dust on the ground exploded into the sky.
The next moment, the man in green robe raised one hand, and with a roll and wave of his sleeves, all the smoke and dust that had just risen was thrown away.
In an instant, the courtyard was restored to a clear and bright scene.
At this moment, the man's long hair had disappeared, leaving only an inch of short hair as black as ink, like a monk who had returned to secular life for more than a month.
His long hair was gone, revealing an ordinary face and a pair of dark eyes, which made him seem as deep as the ocean and impossible to look directly at.
This person is Li Yan, who has been in seclusion for decades.
At this time, his appearance had not changed at all compared to forty years ago.
The fluctuation of spiritual energy on his body was barely noticeable, and apart from his deep eyes, he looked more and more like an ordinary person standing there.
He looked around. Everything was the same as it had been decades ago, without much change. There was a magic formation operating in the courtyard, and there was no dust or leaves covering the area.
Li Yan walked slowly to a big tree in the courtyard and sat down on a stone bench.
For forty years, he entered the room and never left.
Before he went into seclusion, he told Su Yuan two things. One was that if his seclusion lasted more than nine years, he would send a jade bottle to the sect leader Xing Ming using a small teleportation array.
The jade bottle was sealed by his magic power, so Su Yuan definitely couldn't open it.
Li Yan left behind a total of six jade bottles. He asked Su Yuan to send a jade bottle back to the sect every nine years as long as he did not come out of seclusion.
If all six jade bottles are used up, you can come and try to wake him up.
Li Yan left two antidotes in each jade bottle, both for Shuang Wuyan. Together with the one originally given to Xing Ming, the total amount was seventy years.
Li Yan felt that it was enough and he should come out of seclusion by then.
He did not let Su Yuan pass all the antidotes to Xing Ming at once. Although Xing Ming was experienced, Li Yan had always been more meticulous in doing things.
Shuang Wuyan has been in the "Falling Star Valley" for a long time and is familiar with everything, so it is better to be on guard.
Another thing was that he requested that the attic room where he originally lived should not be allowed to be occupied by anyone else.
Su Yuan went over to check every once in a while to see if there were any sound transmission notes or the like.
If there is, it must be delivered to him as soon as possible, even if it means disturbing his practice.
Because the location of Zhao Min's sound transmission note was right there at that time, and I never got in touch with Zhao Min again, so I couldn't change the location.
Su Yuan was very experienced in Li Yan's arrangements. He didn't ask the reasons at all and just did as he was told.
Li Yan sat on the stone bench and thought. This time he had refined two and a half drops of "Immortal Dark Phoenix" blood essence, but he did not reach the expected late Jindan realm.
This was beyond Li Yan's expectations. He broke through to the middle stage of the Golden Core after about seven years of seclusion, and then spent a lot of time to consolidate it.
He continued to refine the remaining essence and blood power during the rest of the time, while practicing the "Guishui Sutra" assiduously. However, he still failed to break through the late Jindan stage and fell into a bottleneck period.
He had also cultivated the "Qiongqi Purgatory Technique" to the third peak level and could not make any further progress.
His physical body is now at least twice as strong as it was forty years ago. At that time, Li Yan's physical body was no match for the fake infant cultivator.
If he were to face the "Old Man Dragon" again now, and both sides would fight with their physical bodies, Li Yan would easily beat him into several pieces.
Of course, this was a head-on confrontation without any tricks. If the opponent used spells or poison, Li Yan might not be able to defeat him easily.