Li Yan only felt his eyes blur. The light in front of him was no longer yellow, and the air became fresher instantly.
He was currently standing outside a vermilion courtyard wall. The courtyard wall was ten feet high and extended to both sides, but his view was blocked by vegetation on both sides.
Li Yan looked back and saw that most of the ancient inheritance palace behind was blocked by the wall of the Vermillion Courtyard. Some of the walls of a huge palace could be seen upwards, while the rest of the walls stretched upwards into the dark clouds.
At Li Yan's feet, there was a cobblestone path that meandered forward, with a dark blue bamboo forest on both sides.
The entire sky was still that dark color, giving people the impression that it was a sign that the rain was about to come, and the path at this end stopped abruptly at the courtyard wall.
There was also no gate here. After a brief exploration, Li Yan immediately raised his legs and walked forward, and soon disappeared into the dark bamboo forest.
The bamboo forest was rustling in the strong wind, and the bamboo branches were swaying wildly. The sky became darker and darker, as if it would rain heavily in the next moment.
Looking at the ground and the air, bamboo leaves were constantly being blown by the strong wind, and the bamboo forest made a strange whistling sound. Li Yan did not fly into the sky, but kept moving forward along this cobblestone path.
His spiritual consciousness had long since dispersed into the distance. Disciples in the hall had already teleported out, but Li Yan did not see anyone.
The strong wind kept rolling the bamboo branches extending diagonally on both sides towards Li Yan, as if he was about to be submerged in it, and Li Yan's green shirt also made a hunting sound.
Li Yan felt that there were vague fluctuations approaching him in those bamboo forests. They were some thorn bushes that already had spiritual intelligence.
The other party quickly became quiet after sensing the aura on Li Yan's body, which let Li Yan know that this place had indeed been cleaned up and there was no danger to him.
After exploring the surrounding area for a while, Li Yan confirmed that there was no danger, and then he took off into the air...
The space outside the Zhuhongyuan wall was very large. On the first day, Li Yan walked through a snowfield. He discovered three caves one after another among some huge ice cracks in the snowfield.
But after Li Yan entered, he found that the inside was described as a house with four walls, which was considered polite.
Not only are there no treasures inside, many of the walls have been dug through, and there is even only a little bit of debris left on the entire wall...
Ten days later, Li Yan appeared in an endless spiritual field. The place was basically covered with weeds, and because of the soil quality and spiritual energy, the growth was particularly vigorous.
Judging from the distribution height of the weeds, we can still see some of the shape of the original spiritual field, and there are still some spiritual plants growing in it.
But what Li Yan saw were ordinary spiritual plants that he knew, and some of them were only a few decades old. This meant that even the rare spiritual plants that were not very old had already been looted.
Here, Li Yan searched carefully for six days, but there was no trace of Misty Moon Immortal Grass anywhere, and then he had to fly to other areas again...
During this half-month period, Li Yan also met three monks, two Nascent Souls and one monk in the Void Refining Realm.
After seeing each other from a distance, both parties chose not to get close to each other and left quickly.
Here, although the woman in white has said that she is not allowed to kill people and seize treasures, the disciples who dare to appear outside the palace have a certain degree of confidence.
For example, the two Nascent Soul disciples are obviously good at joining forces. Normal god-forming monks may not be able to defeat them easily.
Especially since their time here is limited, so under normal circumstances, they would not take action against the opponent until they find any precious treasures.
After Li Yan met the monk in the Void Refining Realm, he quickly moved away on his own, and the man also saw clearly that Li Yan was a disciple in the Transformation of God Realm.
In the end, perhaps because he didn't notice any strange phenomena nearby, he just watched Li Yan's flight and did not start to pursue him.
Four days later, Li Yan was skimming along the ground. This place was already a hilly area, and the ground was covered with dark thorn-like shrubs, making it impossible to get down.
"The spiritual field found there covers thousands of acres. It should be the place where spiritual plants were planted more intensively in this Taoist sect.
However, I stayed there for six days and searched countless times. Not to mention the Obscuring Moon Immortal Grass, even a few spiritual plants of some value could not be found.
In the past few days, even spiritual plants have not been seen. Is it possible that the inheritance here is only valuable in the ancient palace? Are the resources in other places really exhausted?
Or, as I guessed, only some areas are open here, and rare spiritual plants such as the Misty Moon Fairy Grass are hidden in the core..."
Li Yan kept thinking in his mind while flying close to the ground, but he was not too critical. How could the Misty Moon Fairy Grass be so easy to find?
Originally, when she was in the ancient palace, the woman in white described the situation outside the ancient palace very clearly, but of course many monks who came here for the first time felt that they needed to go there themselves.
This is also the normal mentality of people. Unless they see it with their own eyes, they will always have some expectations in their hearts. It is even more impossible for Li Yan to stay in the palace.
The area outside the ancient palace has not yet been explored, so Li Yan naturally can only continue to search.
Just as Li Yan was flying over, his expression suddenly changed slightly, and then he stopped where he was.
He was already a faint shadow, but the moment he stopped, he completely disappeared out of thin air.
Not long after, several equally illusory figures also flew past the ground close to the ground.
The speed of these illusory figures is not very fast, and they occasionally stop for a while. When they stay, they seem to be observing the surrounding environment, but no one makes any sound.
When Li Yan stopped before, they also made the same move, but they soon flew here.
In an instant, they flew directly over from where Li Yan had disappeared, and at the same time, they also swept the spiritual consciousness that had quietly emerged further forward.
But these phantoms were not noticed at all. Just after they flew away, there was an aura that they were not aware of, quietly following behind.
And that person was naturally Li Yan, who had just stayed here. After Li Yan suddenly noticed an unusual aura, he originally only paid a little attention.
During these days, Li Yan sensed the appearance of more monks one after another. They should be some monks in the ancient palace. Maybe for various reasons, they also wanted to come out to see what was going on outside the ancient palace.
But that time, Li Yan was discovered by a Void Refining cultivator because he did not cover up his figure while searching for the Misty Moon Clear Immortal Grass in the spiritual field.
After that, when Li Yan left, he used the method of hiding and tried not to meet others.
But after Li Yan discovered those people just now, he immediately changed his mind, because in his consciousness, he saw four extremely faint figures.
Moreover, the other party also flew close to the ground, allowing the black shrubs on the ground to better integrate their shadows into it.
Li Yan was too familiar with this approach.
"The strength of these four people should all be in the realm of god transformation. Judging from the faint fluctuations, this strength is already extremely strong among this group of disciples. Why should the four of them be so careful when they join forces?
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Li Yan's spiritual consciousness felt several fluctuations of mana, which were emitted by the other party during the flight. Although the four people's concealment skills were very exquisite, they did not hide it from Li Yan's spiritual consciousness.
Li Yan quickly judged the cultivation level of the four people, and they should all be in the middle or late stages of becoming gods.
However, he only glanced with his consciousness and found that the four people were also constantly exploring the surroundings, so Li Yan immediately withdrew his consciousness.
The other party looked like he was clearly looking for something and didn't want others to know about it. Li Yan immediately decided to follow him.
These four people are very cautious. They often stop suddenly without warning after flying for a certain distance.
Then, it will carefully detect it before continuing to fly forward.
Once you meet other monks, if you find that their cultivation level is very low, they will fly quietly from one side.
If they find that the other person has good cultivation, they will hide in place and wait for others to leave. At least during the time that Li Yan is following them, these four people have not been noticed by others.
It was also their good luck that they did not meet a strong person from the Void Refining Realm. However, if you think about it, there were only a few monks from the Void Refining Realm who came this time.
The chance of encountering someone like Li Yan is already very bad for him, not to mention that the space outside the ancient inheritance palace is very vast...
Li Yan followed these four people. Although he found that the other party would cast a series of spiritual glances at his position, Li Yan knew that the other party did not notice that he was following him.
Therefore, those spiritual consciousnesses did not stay and gather together. The other party was just exploring normally, but he did not dare to get too close to the other party.
The techniques in the fairy world are wonderful, and some magic weapons that sometimes appear on the market are also surprising.
It is not uncommon in the fairy world to find magic weapons hidden by monks in the realm of refining the gods.
Li Yan is not a top cultivator, he can only be regarded as the best among the same level, but he never dares to say that he can defeat the same level.
For example, Li Yan has no confidence that he can defeat his senior brother Pei Buchong.
Pei Buchong spent much more time out training than he did. Without the two actually meeting, Li Yan didn't know what the other party's methods were.
But just when he returned with his master Dong Fuyi, he heard his master say more than once that Pei Buchong was very strong.
If you can tell from your master that a junior is very strong, it means that he is second to none at the same level, not to mention that Dong Fuyi also clearly understands Li Yan's strength.
The four figures stayed close to the ground and kept flying forward. Although Li Yan had never been here before, the terrain they were flying on clearly felt that it was becoming more and more remote.
If Li Yan were to pass by the place where he is now, he might leave after a little exploration.
Because the spiritual energy here is getting thinner and thinner, it is not a place where spiritual plants can grow, and there is no trace of any monk's cave.
The terrain here is descending along the high hills...
Five days later, at the foot of a low hill, the shrubs here became denser and filled with clusters of sharp black thorns.
After the four human phantoms flew here, they stopped again. Li Yan knew that the other party was investigating as usual.
But this time, Li Yan found that he had guessed wrong. After about a few dozen breaths, the four phantoms no longer continued to fly by, but solidified in an instant.
Li Yan, who was at the rear, also saw the faces of the four people, three men and one woman, for the first time after following them for several days.
The moment he saw the faces of the four people clearly, Li Yan was a little surprised to find that these people were actually people he knew.
The four people were the ones who often appeared around Yan Qingchen, including Liu Siyu who was in the middle stage of divine transformation and one of the monks who was in the late stage of divine transformation. Li Yan was familiar with these two people and they were the monks who participated in the internal selection.
As for the other two monks, Li Yan had seen them when he was at the Huangqi Valley Lake. Their cultivation levels were also in the late stages of becoming gods.
Li Yan had already judged at that time that he should be a disciple who entered the core elite earlier.
But the moment Li Yan saw the faces of these four people clearly, Li Yan suddenly felt that the hair on his entire back stood up in an instant.
Because at the moment when these four people solidified their bodies, a fifth figure suddenly appeared among the four people.
Li Yan, who was hiding in the dark, could clearly see with his eyesight that at the moment Liu Siyu's figure solidified, a person seemed to step out from her shadow.
That man was handsome, extremely handsome, and he was the one with extremely powerful alchemy qualifications - Yan Qingchen!
In the scene before his eyes, even though Li Yan had a calm mind, his aura was almost unstable. Finally, it was his profound concentration that prevented unstable fluctuations from escaping from his hidden state.
"This... this person has been flying invisibly? Or was Liu Siyu put into the spirit storage bag?"
Li Yan was already very shocked. He had experienced too many storms and waves, and more than once, he had encountered people who were more than a step stronger than him.
And he had thought more than once that there must be more monks of the same level who were more powerful than him, but even after he returned to the sect, he had never really met one because of Pei Buchong's seclusion.
Although Li Yan had two guesses in his mind at this moment, he was still 90% sure that Yan Qingchen was not received into the spirit storage space by Liu Siyu.
Because he only sensed fluctuations in the Five Elements Law nearby, but there were no spatial fluctuations. There should be no one using the spatial magic weapon.
Li Yanqiang suppressed the discomfort in his heart. He had been following the other person for more than five days, but he never discovered that there was another person... hiding among them.
If you want to intercept and kill four of the other party, you will definitely be attacked and killed by the other party. Even if you don't die, you will be seriously injured.
Fortunately, the other five people probably didn't notice him, otherwise Yan Qingchen wouldn't have been exposed at all, but would have set a trap for him.
"I have met Yan Qingchen more than once, and I have carefully determined his cultivation level, which is the state in the late stage of divine transformation.
Could it be that he is a strong person above the Void Refining Realm, or does he also have a treasure similar to Guarding Wings in his body?"
Li Yan's heart was filled with ups and downs for a moment. He was now completely unable to determine Yan Qingchen's true cultivation level, but the other party could only be a Void Refining Realm monk at best.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to hide it from the other party. Could it be that a strong person in the Fusion Realm couldn't detect his own aura?
After thinking of this, Li Yan's shocked mood calmed down a bit. If an old monster from the Fusion Realm appeared in front of him, he would not even have a chance to escape.
But Li Yan also knew what the rules of Huang Qi Valley were, so he was more confident that the Yan Qingchen in front of him would not dare to hide in with the cultivation level of the Fusion Realm.
At the same time, Li Yan also remembered something. When he met these "four" people a few days ago, the moment he hid, his spiritual consciousness explored the location where he was hiding.
Now that I think about it, it must have been this Yan Qingchen who sensed it for a moment, and then he stopped to check and search. However, he didn't find him, so he gave up.
And if this is the case, Li Yan can basically be sure of one thing. Even though Yan Qingchen has the strength of the Void Refining Realm, his spiritual consciousness is not as good as his own.
"He has also practiced some very clever concealment skills, or has some kind of hidden treasure, which makes him unable to detect it!"
Li Yan's thoughts were racing and he finally began to calm down.
After having this speculation, Li Yan immediately gave up his plan to leave because of the mysterious behavior of these five people.
Needless to say, it also has some unknown purpose!
At this time, after Yan Qingchen appeared, he immediately looked around, with a vigilant look on his face!