Chapter 1428: A Strange and Bizarre Land (Part One)

The moment the surrounding water plants and river water vanished, Li Yan’s body was still being irresistibly dragged downward by that powerful force.

After the blinding light faded, Li Yan hurriedly looked around. He found himself in the sky, plummeting rapidly.

White clouds swiftly streaked past his sides. Above his head, there was no longer any river water, but a vast blue sky.

Li Yan could even feel the sensation of the white clouds brushing against his body. It was so real, completely unlike when he had passed through the water plants without any feeling.

All of this was as if beneath the riverbed of water plants lay another world.

Li Yan was first startled by the sudden change in his surroundings, but in the next moment, he immediately realized the strangeness of this place.

After the initial panic, Li Yan, who was accustomed to great storms, immediately knew that he had to calm down.

If he were to be dragged down at this speed, with his already injured bones and meridians, he would probably be left bone-broken and sinew-torn.

But at this moment, Li Yan felt a sudden loosening around his waist. The mist that had been binding him suddenly disappeared, turning into a part of the surrounding white clouds as it flew away.

Li Yan immediately discovered that the Magical Power in his body could be circulated again. Although it was still not very smooth, it was no longer being suppressed by other forces.

Li Yan’s Magical Power roared to life in his body. His body immediately straightened from a horizontal falling position, and his falling speed instantly slowed. In the next moment, he was hovering in mid-air.

Li Yan’s entire body’s Magical Power surged, and the protective light shield on his body flickered with a gloomy light. He had a look of shock and uncertainty on his face. He had been suddenly attacked, and the result of this attack was just to drag him down and make him fall.

After passing through a place similar to an illusion, the attack had vanished without a trace. He himself had not suffered any harm.

But the more it was like this, the more Li Yan felt his heart pound, and a sense of unease immediately arose from the bottom of his heart.

The ropes formed by the mist had rendered him completely powerless to resist, which had truly frightened Li Yan to the point where his soul was about to fly out. This had made Li Yan’s heart fill with a panicked sense of powerlessness.

If there were to be another similar attack, Li Yan felt that his life might be inexplicably lost here today.

Li Yan’s thoughts raced, and he was about to release his Divine Sense to probe his surroundings. But in the next moment, he was shocked. His Divine Sense, which had always spread out like silver water, was actually trapped inside his body.

“What’s going on?”

Under great shock, Li Yan tried to use his Divine Sense again, but it was still as if it was trapped in a cage, unable to leave his body.

His face immediately changed constantly. Without the assistance of his Divine Sense, his combat power would be reduced by thirty to sixty percent.

Li Yan hurriedly looked around with his eyes, fearing that he would be ambushed at this time. But fortunately, at this time, there were only blue sky and white clouds around, and he didn’t even see any birds flying for the time being.

He glanced down. Because the distance was too high, it looked like a wilderness. Large patches of green or yellow wild grass and gray vegetation, as well as some sparse forests, appeared on the ground below.

Li Yan did not delay any longer. He immediately fell rapidly towards the bottom. At this time, his six senses were fully open.

Soon, he had landed in a forest below. Here, Li Yan saw a few small creatures like rabbits and badgers.

After seeing Li Yan, they actually did not dodge, but stayed where they were, staring blankly at Li Yan.

Although Li Yan could not release his Divine Sense for the time being, with his six senses fully open, with a cultivator’s keen perception, he could also see that these few creatures had no magical power fluctuations and should just be some wild beasts.

But he didn’t care about that. He directly attacked the few creatures. With a flick of his fingers, a few points of cold light shot out at the same time.

At the same time, he was also fully prepared in case his perception was wrong.

“Puff! Puff! Puff!”

With a few soft sounds, Li Yan found that the few rabbit-and-badger-like creatures all had a bloody hole that went straight through their foreheads and the back of their heads in an instant. As blood arrows spurted out, they fell to the ground.

They were all killed by him in one blow.

“They really are wild beasts!”

Li Yan let out a long sigh of relief. He had finally confirmed that these were not demonic beasts, but just wild beasts with undeveloped intelligence.

If there were wild beasts, then it meant that even if there were demonic beasts here, it was only an area where low-level demonic beasts were active. Otherwise, under the suppression of their bloodline, the wild beasts would have run as far as they could instinctively.

After temporarily confirming the safety of the surrounding area, Li Yan immediately waved his sleeve. A gentle breeze rolled forward, summoning the few dead wild beasts to his side, and at the same time eliminating the bloodstains.

He first formed a hand seal and placed a few restrictions around himself, temporarily hiding himself.

Li Yan took a deep breath and immediately began to carefully inspect his body.

He didn’t know if it was because the mist that had bound him was strange and had infiltrated his body, or if there was a problem with the spatial environment here that made his Divine Sense unable to leave his body.

After Li Yan had adjusted his breath, he immediately sank his Divine Sense into his body and first checked his meridians and flesh.

He had discovered before that although his Divine Sense could not leave his body, it could pass through his body without any obstruction.

It was just that at this moment, Li Yan was covered in blood, and the bloodstains on his face were also mottled, making him look very ferocious, but he couldn’t care less…

Half an incense stick later, Li Yan stood in place, looking at the front with a contemplative expression. There was nothing unusual in his body. He had not only carefully checked it several times with his Divine Sense, but he had also circulated his Magical Power for a heavenly cycle. His Magical Power could flow through all his meridians, large and small, without any obstruction.

In the end, he even used several types of Fragmented Body poison to travel throughout his body, and there was still no abnormality. They also showed no tendency to want to devour other toxins, which finally put Li Yan’s mind at ease.

Then the problem must be with the environment here. After repeated tests, Li Yan found two problems.

His Divine Sense was not completely unable to leave his body. It had to be under the full activation of his Divine Sense that his Divine Sense could leave his body by about two inches.

It was simply impossible to go any further. But to do this, he had to go all out every time.

Even if he wanted to save his Divine Sense power and activate it to leave his body by a wisp to an inch, he had to release eighty percent of his Divine Sense.

In this way, if Li Yan wanted to use his Divine Sense to probe as he had before, what had been a matter of a thought was now out of reach.

Even if he pushed his Divine Sense to its limit, it was basically useless.

In addition, if he wanted to communicate with the “Earthen Patch” or the storage and spirit-storing rings, because one was integrated into his skin and the other was worn on his finger, although it seemed that they were only separated by a layer of skin, they were a world of difference.

Communicating with the “Earthen Patch” could be done smoothly with his Divine Sense. But to communicate with the storage space on his hand, his Divine Sense had to leave his body. He could probably only do it once a day, and each time would not be very long.

If the time was a little longer, after one communication, his Divine Sense would be completely consumed.

If there were no pills to help restore his Divine Sense, it might take four or five days to fully recover.

With his Divine Sense in such a state, let alone fighting with others, even if it was useful, how many breaths could he last?

And the real situation was that by the time his Divine Sense sensed the other party’s attack, the other party had already attacked to within two inches of him.

Divine Sense was mostly for early warning. A distance of two inches, in a battle between cultivators of their realm, life and death could be decided in a flash. By the time you sensed it, any reaction would be nonsense.

Without his Divine Sense, not only would he be unable to fight, but he would also be unable to probe the situation in front of him while flying, and he would also be unable to perform a soul-search.

Even if you pressed your palm firmly on the enemy’s scalp, your Divine Sense would enter the other party’s body by two inches, but apart from the thicker skull, you might not be able to penetrate into the other person’s Sea of Consciousness protective layer.

After a cultivator lost these many methods, his strength might be reduced by thirty to fifty percent.

And there was one more thing that made Li Yan feel that this place was extremely strange. The spiritual energy here was not very good, and it was a bit thin.

Of course, this was compared to the Immortal Spirit Realm. But feeling the spiritual energy around him entering his body made Li Yan feel a little uncomfortable, but it was not the kind of dangerous and heart-palpitating feeling.

Here, although his Magical Power circulated relatively smoothly, it seemed to have a certain barrier, as if the transformation between the five elements was no longer as smooth as before.

Apart from these, Li Yan actually had no other discoveries.

“This… is this still the ‘Heavenly Demon Prairie,’ or have I reached some other region?”

Li Yan thought uncertainly in his heart. Everything he had just experienced made him feel as if he had entered a place similar to a secret realm, because he had not felt the power of teleportation.

Now that Li Yan had cultivated “Quaking Cosmos,” he was no longer as ignorant of spatial teleportation as he had been before.

His previous experience was more like passing through a passage similar to an illusion, and then everything changed.

“It might just be some unknown place on the ‘Heavenly Demon Prairie’…”

In these years, Li Yan had also learned a lot about the “Heavenly Demon Prairie.” The territory of the “Heavenly Demon Prairie” was too vast. Apart from some known dangers, there were also many unknown areas on the prairie that were full of dangers. These areas were not only found in the depths of the prairie, but were also distributed in many places after more than a hundred thousand li from the outer perimeter.

It was just that the unknown dangerous places in the outer area and the middle area extending inward were a little less than in the deeper parts.

Those places, even some Void Refining, and even Body Integration and Tribulation Transcendence period old monsters, were not willing to go deep into easily.

Li Yan guessed that he might have accidentally entered some unknown area. If that was the case, then the luck he had been so happy about before had also come to an end.

When things reach an extreme, they reverse. The occurrence of bad luck, this place, definitely still contained other unknown dangers.

He looked at some of the birds flying far away in the distance, chirping. Li Yan looked up at the sky again. There were blue sky and white clouds, and the slanting sunlight was shining down.

Then, with a thought, the “Mo Kai” and “Mirror Flower” formations appeared at the same time. After just a circle above his head, in the next moment, Li Yan’s figure had completely disappeared, and the entire dense forest had returned to its previous calm.

Summoning things from the “Earthen Patch” was no problem at all. It was just that as soon as these things flew out, Li Yan’s Divine Sense could no longer control them.

Fortunately, whether it was magical treasures or formations, it was no problem to control them with just Spirit Stones and Magical Power.