Chapter 1407: The Fierce West Wind Scours the Sands
The moment the green-robed elder saw Li Yan, he understood the other party’s intentions. He was now free to come and kill him.
He didn’t know what had become of the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator, and of course, he wouldn’t ask the youth who had appeared. Even if he asked, the other party wouldn’t tell him, and it would only expose his own anxiety.
Moreover, he knew that he was in big trouble now. If this was a magical treasure space as he guessed, then this magical treasure had most likely been refined by the other party.
This meant that if the other party attacked here, the power would be incredibly strange and immense. He might have to face a fierce battle next.
Up to this point, although the green-robed elder had guessed many things based on his rich experience, and it was extremely close to the truth, he had still underestimated the level of the “Earthen Patch.”
If it were just an ordinary storage space, even if Li Yan had refined it, the power he could borrow inside would be limited, and the increase in power would also be greatly restricted.
“How is he an Initial-stage Nascent Soul cultivator? Could it be that because it wasn’t his real body that came in, this magical treasure would weaken his combat power? Then why didn’t he come in with his real body?”
The green-robed elder also saw Li Yan’s condition clearly at this time. The other party should not have entered with his real body, and he could sense that the youth’s cultivation was only at the Initial-stage Nascent Soul realm.
With such a cultivation level, even with the help of the rules and power here, how much could it be amplified?
Li Yan’s Divine Sense had not recovered much at this moment, so even after he entered here, the cultivation level of the figure formed by his Divine Sense had dropped significantly. This was not something he was intentionally faking.
“You can die now!”
Li Yan stood above like a god. He had no intention of wasting words with the other party. He still had many things to consider and plan carefully.
He pointed a single hand at the five colored rings in the air. At the center of the five rings, flames appeared, blood-red on the surface but golden at the core.
In an instant, the flames fell in a dense shower, turning into a sky full of flowing fire, raining down and covering the thousand-zhang desert.
Li Yan already knew that the other party’s main body was the vine in that room. From his observation in the room, the other party was definitely most familiar with the laws of water and wood. The fire-element art should be what countered it.
The green-robed elder in the desert below was still thinking about countermeasures as he spoke. He had been trying to undo the restriction here for a long time, but he just couldn’t leave.
With just a few simple words from the green-robed youth, he felt the surrounding temperature rise more than tenfold. Instantly, it felt as if his chest was on fire, a suffocating, dense heat.
This ordinary-looking youth didn’t even say a single word of nonsense. He didn’t even give him a chance to try to find weaknesses in this place or this person through conversation.
The green-robed elder also let out a deep shout.
“Do you really think that just by refining this place, you can deal with me? Then I’ll smash your magical treasure and see how arrogant you can be!”
As he spoke, the green-robed elder formed a hand seal with one hand. A set of armor made of green branches and leaves immediately appeared on his body, covering him completely.
At the same time, he raised his other hand, and a thick vine shot out. The vine was surrounded by water vapor, exuding a cool air.
His attack was not aimed at Li Yan, but at the center of the fire ring above his head, where a large amount of fire was pouring down.
After observing here for so long, he had already seen that the so-called desert and high temperature here were caused by the five-element light rings above his head.
They used the law of the five elements generating cycle to turn the spiritual energy of the other four elements—earth, metal, wood, and water—into the scorching high temperature here, creating a desert.
Therefore, what he needed to do was to break the magical treasure, to break the five-element rules here, not to attack the youth first.
The fire element of the five elements was prominent here, and there were no sun, moon, or stars. It was just a forcibly condensed five-element rule. He should have a chance to break it.
And just as the vine in his hand shot towards the sky, the flowing fire had already rained down.
The green-robed elder standing in the desert, his entire body’s violent Magical Power surged violently. And just at the instant his defensive and offensive arts were formed, his always calm face suddenly changed drastically.
First, the vine that was facing the rain of flowing fire, upon contact with a few streams of flowing fire, the abundant wood spiritual energy on it, which was originally supposed to be full, was like a block of ice and snow thrown into a furnace upon contact with the first stream of flowing fire.
The spiritual energy dispersed on contact. With a series of “hissing” sounds, a wisp of smoke first rose. In the next moment, the vine could no longer continue to attack upwards and had already begun to burn rapidly.
And at an extremely fast speed, it spread towards his arm.
“How is this possible?”
As the green-robed elder’s face changed drastically, he had already felt the power contained in these flowing fires, which was so terrifying that he couldn’t even reach it.
An attack he had launched with his peak Spirit Transformation cultivation was as fragile as a thin sheet of paper in the opponent’s wave of a hand.
“A… magical… treasure… how can there be such power in it?”
Only then did the green-robed elder have a realization. The magical treasure he had entered might be of a level far beyond his imagination, so that it could contain a power that made him feel fear.
And a magical treasure of this level could only be held by a Void Refining Realm cultivator at least. Otherwise, it would be impossible to crush him.
“Could it be that Pure Yang Hall this time… this time a Void Refining cultivator followed us in…”
Just as this thought flashed through the green-robed elder’s mind, he let out a miserable scream.
The other streams of fire rain instantly covered his body. His body’s defense didn’t even last for half a breath. A burnt smell rose from the green-robed elder’s body…
Twenty breaths later, Li Yan glanced at the green-robed elder lying in the desert. At this time, it should be said that he was a black-robed elder. His entire body was charred black, and much of his flesh and blood was exposed.
But his blood was green, and his flesh was like dry, shredded catkins.
The “black-robed” elder was already on the verge of death. In these twenty breaths, he was beaten by the other party without any ability to fight back. He could only run around in the desert to avoid it, but there seemed to be an invisible barrier around him, and he couldn’t escape at all.
The power of heaven and earth here was so terrifying that he couldn’t accept it. Since the youth in the sky might be an expert from Pure Yang Hall, he then took out the unconscious Chongyangzi to try to threaten the other party.
But the youth was extremely cold. The rain of flowing fire continued to fall. In his despair, the green-robed elder could only muster his Magical Power to resist. He felt that he had guessed the other party’s identity wrong.
In an instant, the rain of flowing fire fell on Chongyangzi’s body. At that moment, the green-robed elder was a little dazed. He didn’t know which force this youth belonged to.
But looking at Chongyangzi blocking in front of him, who was also instantly swallowed by the flames, he immediately threw out Chongyangzi’s “corpse.”
But then his horror turned to shock. After the flames covered Chongyangzi’s entire body, they suddenly turned into the power of the metal element, turning into streaks of golden threads.
With a pull from the youth in the sky, Chongyangzi was easily pulled towards the sky.
Only then did the “black-robed” elder know that he had been tricked. It turned out that the other party really cared about Chongyangzi’s life.
But what made him even more desperate was that the other party’s control over the terrifying power here was already beyond his imagination.
The transformation of power between the five-element rules occurred with a single thought from the other party. Even the Void Refining cultivators he had seen before could not change the power of the rules after it had already taken shape and struck someone.
He felt that the other party’s methods were like an illusion, transforming without any delay. But the green-robed elder didn’t think the other party’s attack was an illusion. He had been beaten to the point of near death…
In the void, Li Yan looked at the green-robed elder in the desert below. His entire body was charred black, and he had been burned to the point of being on the verge of death.
Li Yan’s eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light. He suddenly raised his hand and waved. The rain of flowing fire in the sky instantly disappeared.
In the “Earthen Patch,” he was the god here, the sky here. Not to mention borrowing the power here, even changing the appearance of the heaven and earth here was all within his thought.
At the last moment, Li Yan suddenly changed his mind and did not continue to kill him and completely take his life. This old man’s strength was at the Late-stage Spirit Transformation, and he should be at the peak realm.
And the other party was transformed from a spirit plant. It was unlikely that there would be any demonic beast bloodline or human race inheritance.
Li Yan was still just a guest in someone else’s sect in the Immortal Spirit Realm. His true strength was actually only enough to deal with Initial-stage Spirit Transformation cultivators.
Like the old woman surnamed He, a Mid-stage Spirit Transformation, Li Yan was powerless to fight her head-on and could only rely on sneak attacks to make her retreat temporarily.
Li Yan looked at the unconscious green-robed elder below, then turned and left.
Although he didn’t kill him, he also didn’t take care of him, not even caring about the green-robed elder’s life or death.
He was going to trap him here. A Late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator had a very firm character. It would definitely not be an easy task to subdue him, especially since he was just a small Nascent Soul cultivator.
In the days to come, every few days, he would come over and beat him up. For no reason, he would just come over, beat him up, and leave.
The days of a cultivator were long. Li Yan was not in a hurry. Here, Li Yan could grind the other party to the point of madness.
After leaving here, Li Yan immediately found a place and then began to soul-search the unconscious Chongyangzi.
Although the other party was a Late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator, his cultivation had long been sealed by the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator, and he was already like a mortal.
What’s more, this was inside the “Earthen Patch.” Li Yan had many ways to suppress the other party’s cultivation and perform a soul-search.
After more than half an incense stick of time, Li Yan slowly opened his eyes.
The memory of a Spirit Transformation cultivator was too vast. When he was checking Chongyangzi’s memory, most of the time, he quickly skipped over some seemingly irrelevant information.
And he also got some information that he urgently needed to know at the moment, such as the scene of how the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator had sneak-attacked him, and all the various scenes just before she began to soul-search Chongyangzi.
There were even some of Chongyangzi’s own speculations, the speculation that Heavenly Mountain Garden and Spirit Subduing Manor had already been bought by Heart-Refining Valley…
In addition, he also obtained a lot of information about Pure Yang Hall, such as the location of some secret realms that even the Blood Lantern Sect didn’t know about, as well as the opening method, the distribution of experts in Pure Yang Hall now, and so on…
In Chongyangzi’s personal memories, there were many places he had been to, including the situation in the deeper parts of the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” and many secrets and legends in the “Heavenly Demon Prairie.”
Li Yan needed to go back and sort out these things. At that time, he could even expand his jade slip map.
But in Chongyangzi’s Sea of Consciousness, at least forty percent of the area was a restricted zone. That was a restricted zone that he had long since protected with his divine abilities. There might be extremely important information inside.
Li Yan guessed that it should be the cultivation method and pill recipes that the other party had cultivated, or his personal important feelings, the core of the sect, and other top-secret things.
These restricted areas in the Sea of Consciousness, even the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator did not immediately touch them. Of course, Li Yan also guessed the reason, that is, she was also afraid that she could not break the seal in Chongyangzi’s Sea of Consciousness.
There was only one result. Chongyangzi would die immediately, and then Pure Yang Hall would immediately know that an accident had happened and would definitely send other people over to investigate.
Looking at the unconscious Chongyangzi floating in mid-air, Li Yan’s eyes flickered constantly. He had originally planned to kill Chongyangzi after leaving the “Great Nothingness Tree” area.
Anyway, no one knew that he was in the hands of the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator. But if he did that, Li Yan might have to make up more lies because of this one lie.
And in the world, the more lies, the more loopholes!
What’s more, on this giant boat, there were also Donglin Tingyue and Jia Fugui. Li Yan was not really reluctant to kill these two people, it was just that killing them would not be of much significance to him.
He couldn’t be the only one left alive in the end. In that case, he was destined to be unable to show his face in the Broken Army Sect again.
As soon as he showed his head, even without Pure Yang Hall taking action, sects like the Blood Lantern Sect would come looking for him. The cultivators who had appeared this time belonged to dozens of sects. Unless Li Yan could completely leave this place.
But after Li Yan soul-searched Chongyangzi, he found that the other party’s last memory only remained before he was soul-searched by the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator, and the inhuman pain during the soul-search was deeply imprinted in Chongyangzi’s memory.
That was when the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator was deliberately torturing the other party, making him full of pain during the soul-search, but not letting him scream.
From this point, it could be seen that the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator was also full of hostility towards Pure Yang Hall, full of resentment.
After Chongyangzi was captured, he didn’t even see the deaths of Chen Xingshan and the others later. This also meant that Chongyangzi was completely unaware of Li Yan’s later attack on the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator and the other.
After Li Yan got this news, he felt that some of the plans he had thought of before were no longer necessary, and there was no need to secretly kill Chongyangzi.
In this situation, he could instead use Chongyangzi’s hand to let them return to the sect openly and honorably.
The later matters, he no longer had to explain why Chongyangzi died, why the three of them were able to survive, why those Spirit Transformation cultivators were all dead, and so on.
Moreover, in the eyes of Pure Yang Hall, your explanation was not necessary at all. The most direct way for the other party was to soul-search. Of course, Li Yan absolutely did not want this.
At this point, Li Yan felt that the later matters would be much easier to solve.
Soon, a new plan was formed in Li Yan’s mind…
The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator was currently sitting cross-legged at the foot of a mountain. The grass here was like a cushion, and a long river wound around, extending along the foot of the mountain. The water flowed gently, and the birds sang and the flowers were fragrant.
In the first half an hour here, the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator had been exploring the surrounding situation. She also saw the giant peak rising into the sky not far away, and the white snow on the top of the mountain.
But from the halfway point of the mountain down, it was a scene of spring warmth and blooming flowers. But she had only walked a thousand zhang before she found that she was trapped on this grassy area by the river. She could not use the Earth Evasion Art, nor could she fly out.
And the green-robed old man who had come in with her had been separated from her the moment they entered, and he had long since been teleported to some unknown place.
Here, she had also used various arts to bombard or break the invisible restriction around her. But to her shock, after she had used dozens of restriction-breaking arts and forcibly bombarded it, she still couldn’t leave this riverbank at all.
Even those arts couldn’t do much damage to the green grass and flowers.
And after this tossing and turning, the potent poison that was suppressed in her body had already begun to stir.