Chapter 1408: Dancing with a Clear Shadow

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator, like the green-robed elder, knew she had entered a spatial magical treasure.

Initially, she had also been probing her surroundings, trying to break the restrictions here.

But after half an hour had passed, nothing unexpected had occurred. There were no surprise attacks, nor had anyone appeared.

And she couldn’t leave this small stretch of green grass by the river. She could only fly up a few dozen zhang, and the seemingly soft green grass on the ground was like a single block of ten-thousand-year-old refined iron underneath, making it impossible to use Earth Evasion.

Because of her constant attempts to break the surrounding restrictions, the continuous use of arts had consumed her Magical Power, and the poison in her body had begun to destabilize.

She had no choice but to observe for a while longer. After confirming that it was temporarily safe, she began to set up a formation around her. Then, on the grassy riverbank, she began to circulate her cultivation to heal her injuries.

It had to be said that Li Yan’s Fragmented Poison Body was quite formidable, but the poison body was also related to the growth of Li Yan’s own cultivation. It could probably poison and kill someone one great realm higher.

Initial-stage Spirit Transformation cultivators should be unable to resist it, but the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator, with her Late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivation, had still managed to suppress the potent poison in her body, even trapping these toxins in a small area within her body.

As Li Yan’s strength grew, he increasingly recognized that his Fragmented Poison Body, which could almost run rampant in the lower realm, could be dealt with in the upper realm by high-grade pills or various methods he had never seen before.

What he could rely on was still his consistent caution, which was his greatest trump card.

After the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator set up a set of formations, she carefully sensed the toxins in her body and then took out a few more pills and swallowed them.

Then, she began to close her eyes and fully activate the tide-like Magical Power in her body, directly starting to circulate her cultivation to expel the poison.

Previously, she couldn’t break the restrictions here, certainly because the restrictions were too strong, but it was also because she only dared to use about half of her strength.

After her cultivation was fully restored, she felt she still had the confidence to break the restrictions here and rush out.

It had to be said that the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s cultivation was very formidable. As her cultivation art circulated, the slender jade-like fingers resting on the grass beside her, the nails began to slowly show several colors.

After another period of time, although her expression could not be seen on her face covered by the black veil, on her snow-white and smooth forehead, several vertical lines appeared and disappeared.

At a certain moment, from her fingernails, droplets of water of different colors suddenly dripped down. As soon as these various colored water droplets fell on the green grass, they made a “hissing” sound.

Then, a cloud of smoke of a color corresponding to the water droplets rose from the grass, and the nearby green grass was immediately corroded completely, revealing the dark ground below.

After the surrounding green grass was corroded clean, small holes began to appear on the ground below, like a honeycomb.

And just as the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator was expelling the toxins from her body bit by bit with her formidable Magical Power, suddenly her pair of phoenix eyes, visible through the black veil, opened wide without any warning.

It was just now, while she was circulating her cultivation, her heart had suddenly jumped violently for no reason. This was the natural alertness she had when facing danger.

Immediately, the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator immediately looked up at the sky in front of her. In the air on the other side of the river, a faint shadow was rapidly solidifying.

“Hmph, you’ve finally come!”

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator slowly stood up. She didn’t know why the other party had waited until now to show himself after taking her in here.

But she had the same thought as the green-robed elder. Even if the other party had taken her in here, he couldn’t cause too much damage to her.

The power that a storage space could borrow was always very limited. The most that could affect her here was the formation restriction inscribed in the storage space, which was the most fundamental core that maintained a space.

As long as she could break the formation restriction here, the storage space would collapse on its own. At that time, she would directly return to the real space.

As the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator stood up, her jade-like hand seemed to gently brush over the black veil on her face, and a few more pills were swallowed into her stomach.

These pills were no longer detoxification pills, but recovery pills of extremely high grade. The toxins in her body had already been expelled by thirty to forty percent.

But her Magical Power had also been consumed a lot. But she had a plan long ago. She had spent a lot of money to buy these pills later.

They were of extremely high grade, with only twenty to thirty percent impurities. Even without refining, they could quickly restore her Magical Power in a very short time. This was also her life-saving item.

Now, the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator felt that her strength had at least recovered to seventy to eighty percent. For her, as long as the other party was not a Void Refining cultivator, it was definitely enough to save her life.

Although she couldn’t get out for the time being, she had encountered countless dangers. As long as she didn’t die, there would be a time when she could turn danger into safety.

After Li Yan appeared, he quietly looked at the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator below. Her posture was graceful, and under the semi-transparent black veil was a faintly visible expanse of snow-white skin.

The female cultivator, her face covered by a black veil, had a pair of phoenix eyes filled with killing intent, giving her a unique charm.

“Hmm? H… how is it you?”

The moment the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator saw Li Yan’s face clearly, she was slightly dazed, but she quickly recognized him.

At Pure Yang Hall, she had seen all the Nascent Soul cultivators on this trip. Although she wouldn’t deliberately remember everyone’s appearance, a cultivator’s memory was too powerful. Just a glance was enough to remember their faces.

When she first saw Li Yan, she felt that he was very familiar. After a closer look, she immediately remembered that this person was brought by Chen Xingshan.

This sudden turn of events was completely out of her expectation. No matter how she thought about it before, she felt that it should be the old woman surnamed He who had hidden her methods and attacked her.

But the person who appeared before her, how did he suddenly become a person from the Blood Lantern Sect?

This situation, she would not have thought of it even if she had racked her brains.

“Who on earth are you?”

Just as her exclamation fell, her entire body’s Magical Power had already begun to surge on the surface of her body. Before the other party could speak, she immediately asked again.

She also sensed at this time that the other party’s cultivation was only at the Initial-stage Nascent Soul realm. This was very strange. The more it was like this, the stronger the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s vigilance became.

She remembered that among all the Nascent Soul cultivators who had come this time, the worst was at the Mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation. She had not paid attention to Li Yan’s specific realm at that time, but it was definitely not Initial-stage Nascent Soul.

And even if the other party was at the Late-stage Nascent Soul, she clearly remembered that the strength of the Divine Sense that had taken her in before was definitely from a Spirit Transformation realm cultivator.

Therefore, she had mistakenly believed that all the sneak attacks were carried out by the old woman surnamed He.

And now that Chen Xingshan was long dead, why did a small Nascent Soul under his command unexpectedly appear here?

“Die!”

Li Yan quietly looked down. He had no interest in talking much with the other party.

He quickly raised his palm. In the originally calm space, although there were no sun, moon, or stars, there were clouds of white clouds floating in the sky.

Just as Li Yan raised his hand, the sky, which had been clear for thousands of miles, suddenly became gloomy.

The white clouds disappeared one by one, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into clusters of violently churning gray-black dark clouds, all of which surged towards Li Yan.

In just an instant, Li Yan’s hand had formed a black mountain-splitting great axe from the spiritual energy and dark clouds here.

Then, in the somewhat surprised expression of the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator, Li Yan swung the axe down at her head.

Here, he didn’t need any magical treasures at all. With just a thought, everything would differentiate or combine according to his will.

Seeing a black great axe, carrying the momentum of heaven and earth, slashing down at her, the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator also snorted coldly.

A snow-white jade-like palm was raised, and in her hand, a red flower appeared. As soon as the flower appeared, the surrounding spiritual energy whistled and all gathered towards the flower.

Also in an instant, the red flower flew out from her jade-like palm and floated up, beginning to rotate rapidly above her head, instantly becoming the size of a washbasin.

Each petal was like an incomparably sharp red blade. Rotating rapidly, with a sharp whistle, it went up to meet the great axe that was slashing down from the sky.

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator could feel that the power coming from the other party’s great axe was really only at the Initial-stage Nascent Soul, but given that the other party had appeared too strangely, she would not be careless because of this.

The other party clearly knew her cultivation realm, so how could he possibly dare to attack her in such an ignorant manner?

In the sky, a hint of mockery curled up at the corner of Li Yan’s mouth. He didn’t even use a hand seal, and another thought was attached to the great axe.

“Boom!”

The great axe and the rotating red flower collided in an instant, creating a deafeningly loud noise. The entire space seemed to tremble slightly.

The river water below, because of this blow, the originally gurgling river water also shot up into the sky, creating a monstrous wave.

In the sky, Li Yan’s body did not shake at all. He just quietly looked down.

But the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator below, her delicate body shook violently. Her whole person was as if struck by lightning, and she was sent tumbling backward in an instant.

At the same time, her jade-like face also turned red. A sweet taste rose in her throat, and she was about to spit out a mouthful of blood, but she immediately suppressed it.

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator was now horrified. At this moment, like the green-robed old man, she finally realized that the other party could borrow the power of heaven and earth here, and it was ridiculously strong.

She finally understood the other party’s real trump card for daring to come over with his Nascent Soul realm strength.

“This… this is a supreme treasure that can only be refined by a Void Refining or higher cultivator!”

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s heart beat violently. She could no longer tell Li Yan’s identity.

Because she had a guilty conscience, at this time, she no longer believed that the other party was a cultivator brought by the Blood Lantern Sect.

She even felt that perhaps news of her and Spirit Subduing Manor’s actions had already been leaked in secret. Had Pure Yang Hall secretly sent a Void Refining cultivator?

But in the next moment, she felt something was wrong again!

If that was the case, why didn’t the other party show up when she took down Chongyangzi? And let her control the flying boat first and kill so many people. Was the other party just watching in secret all along? This didn’t make sense at all.

Several contradictory thoughts rose in her heart at the same time. The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator felt a little dazed, but more than that, she felt fear.

“Who… who on earth are you?”

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s voice was filled with disbelief as she looked sharply at Li Yan.

But Li Yan would not give her any more time to think. The great axe, after sending the red flower and the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator flying, followed like a shadow, and the booming sound once again resounded around…

After only about ten breaths of time, the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator had already been beaten to the point of vomiting blood. She had no more strength to resist and fell directly onto the green grass.

Li Yan sighed in his heart. His Divine Sense had not fully recovered after all. Even with the power borrowed from the “Earthen Patch,” he still let the other party hold on for ten breaths.

Here, even a Spirit Transformation cultivator became quite weak. But with Li Yan’s Divine Sense power damaged, he could not fully exert the true power here.

Although the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator was shaken and kept retreating, she still held on and had not yet perished.

Looking at the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator who had fallen to the ground, Li Yan once again raised his hand, and the wind and clouds beside him gathered once again.

Some black dark clouds, in just a blink of an eye, condensed into a great bow and a giant arrow.

Then, in the flickering fear in the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s phoenix eyes, Li Yan had already drawn this great bow.

And soon, it had already formed a full moon great bow!

“This fellow daoist, please wait. You and I have no enmity between us. We have never met before, have we?”

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator who had fallen to the ground, seeing this, her entire body’s Magical Power had already been scattered by the beating. She was already like a startled bird. She fell to the ground and hurriedly said.

It was just that the young man on the other side of the river had no change in expression on his face. The black glow on the great bow was getting more and more dazzling.

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s phoenix eyes suddenly showed a pleading look, and her voice also became mournful and bitter.

“Fellow Daoist, Fellow Daoist, if you can let me go, I… I am willing to be your slave, at your disposal… and… and control…”

Just as Li Yan was about to deliver the fatal blow to the other party, his body suddenly shook violently.

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s phoenix eyes no longer had indifference, but were filled with pleading, and then a hint of charm appeared.

At the same time, her seated body was also trembling slightly, and her voice became fawning. A jade-like hand actually lifted the black veil on her body.

In just an instant, Li Yan only felt a vast expanse of white before his eyes, so bright that he felt a little dizzy. Then he saw a snow-white figure.

It was a flawless jade body, with a flat abdomen without a trace of excess flesh, like the most beautiful white jade in the world, smooth and with a lustrous texture. Above it were snow-white peaks, round and sacred…

As she spoke, she actually lay down slowly, lying on the green grass. Beside her, a few black veils were scattered on the ground, contrasting with the snow-white expanse on the green grass.

After slowly stretching out into the shape of a person, she, lying on the grass, once again reached out her hand and removed the black veil on her face. It was a beautiful face that could topple cities and countries.

There was still some residual blood at the corner of her mouth. With her phoenix eyes half-closed, she looked even more poignant and beautiful…

Her pretty face and neck had already turned crimson. Her snow-white and delicate body trembled slightly as she looked shyly at Li Yan in the sky.

After a jolt, Li Yan’s body was silent for a few breaths. Then, the great bow beside him also slowly returned to a crescent moon shape from its full moon shape, and the black long arrow on the bow also dissipated…

The female cultivator lying on the green grass below, seeing this, a hint of joy appeared in her eyes. The higher her cultivation, the more she didn’t want to die just like this.

As long as she could survive, she would definitely find a chance to kill this black-skinned brat. And she would make him wish he were dead, make him neither male nor female… every moment, he would have an infinite desire for death.

She stuck out her pink tongue and slowly licked away the blood at the corner of her mouth. At the same time, her ten toes, as white as lotus roots, slowly rubbed against the green grass, and her body simultaneously bent and twisted slightly.

Her mouth also let out a series of murmurs and low moans. In just a moment, the atmosphere here, which had been filled with killing intent, turned into a scene of warm fragrance and soft jade…

But in the next moment, a sudden change occurred. Under the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s snow-white and plump body, the riverbank grass, which had originally been like a cushion, suddenly split open to form a huge chasm.

The chasm was pitch-black, as if the nine serenities underworld had opened the gates of hell.

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s pretty face, which had been charming and moving a moment ago, suddenly turned into a look of astonishment. Then she let out a shrill scream.

But just as the scream had just been transmitted, from the pitch-black chasm below, a suction force that she could not resist was generated, directly pulling her snow-white and delicate body down.

“Ah… you can’t…”

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s phoenix eyes showed a look of horror again. Looking at the rapidly shrinking Li Yan in the sky, she let out a pleading cry in unwillingness.

But before she could finish her plea, the huge chasm, like the giant mouth of a fierce beast, suddenly slammed shut with a “crack.”

The shrill plea instantly disappeared from the world.

“Hiss… hiss… hiss…”

And at the instant the huge chasm closed, from the crevice in the ground, streaks of blood arrows, like thin, blood-red blades, were squeezed out and shot high into the air…

The earth below, with a thought from Li Yan, was the strongest prison in this world.

Not to mention a Spirit Transformation cultivator, even a Void Refining cultivator who fell into it would have no place to escape and could only watch as he was flattened.

Pitiful Yuan-surnamed female cultivator, even if her Nascent Soul had instantly left her body, it was like an egg smashing against a stone when it hit the soil below, which was as hard as ten-thousand-year-old refined steel.

The “Earthen Patch’s” greatest strength was its defense, and defense required unbreakable solidity.

The Yuan-surnamed female cultivator’s delicate and snow-white body was instantly squeezed into a crimson pulp. Her Nascent Soul, in the indestructible earth-element power, wanting to teleport away was something she couldn’t even dream of…

In the air, Li Yan’s expression was calm. He just quietly looked at the closing earth below.

In just two breaths, even the crack on the ground had disappeared. The riverbank once again returned to a stretch of green grass. The lively and fragrant scene of the naked body, as well as the scattered black veils and clothes, had also disappeared…