Chapter 1430: A Single Clue

In mid-air, Li Yan remained expressionless. He slowly withdrew his fist. The spot he had struck, although the void had trembled violently, still did not show the spatial crack he had hoped for.

‘This is a small, evolved space, like a sub-formation within a grand formation. Its outer layer has a powerful protective restriction. Even if I break it, the outside is probably not the chaotic flow space!’ Li Yan thought to himself.

In that punch just now, he had simultaneously used the power of the sixth layer of the “Qiongqi Purgatory Art,” the fused power of the “Undead Nether Phoenix” essence blood, and the heavy water droplet infused with all his magical power.

With the three arts combined, Li Yan had condensed all the power of the punch into a single point, preventing it from spreading out.

But in the end, it had only caused the void in front of him to tremble violently and show spatial folds, which had then immediately disappeared.

This was the peak punch of his combined magical and physical power. Even a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator would not be able to withstand it with just their physical defense.

One had to know that people like the Great Elder of the Tianli Clan had only cultivated the Qiongqi Purgatory Art to the sixth layer.

And when they merely used this art, they could often easily tear open spatial cracks with a casual wave of their hand.

The powerful aura on Li Yan’s body quickly disappeared, and he once again appeared ordinary.

Then, a silk kerchief appeared in his hand, and he immediately began to search around…

A quarter of an hour later, Li Yan helplessly put away the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief.

This was not like attacking the void with magical power. In his constant attempts, he had even flown continuously upwards, but he could not find the membrane in the restriction. The Heaven-Stealing Kerchief could not be placed on it, so it was completely useless.

After putting away the Heaven-Stealing Kerchief, Li Yan did not linger and immediately flew straight in one direction.

This was something he had planned long ago. If he could open the chaotic flow space, then he would enter the chaotic flow space and see if he could leave this place through it.

If the attack was ineffective, he would continue to search for clues about this place.

He had flown so far in the past few days and had not seen any cultivators or demonic beasts. Li Yan did not believe that he was the only one who had entered this place.

As long as he could find other intelligent beings, Li Yan could slowly figure out the situation here.

Otherwise, if he was in the dark like this, he would not be able to come up with a better countermeasure.

When Li Yan was leaving this place, he still left some marks nearby, so that he could find his way back here in the future.

Li Yan felt that the place he had come to should still have an exit. With his usual character, leaving marks along the way was the most normal thing to do.

The direction Li Yan chose was opposite to the direction he had come from a few days ago. Anyway, as long as he didn’t go back, without a destination, everything would depend on his luck.

This wilderness was very large, but it was very barren. Li Yan walked and stopped along the way. Without the assistance of his Divine Sense, he could only rely on his extraordinary eyesight to search around.

After seeing some suspicious places, he would quietly fall and approach to search for a while.

The vegetation here was only a few scattered spirit plants, and they were all spirit plants with very little spiritual energy, with no medicinal value for refining.

It was not until Li Yan had flown for another five days that he saw the terrain below gradually change, which made Li Yan feel that he might have left that area.

The reason why Li Yan had this thought was that the surrounding spiritual energy was also getting denser, and it was still constantly increasing.

It was just that as the spiritual energy became denser, the uncomfortable feeling in Li Yan’s heart became stronger and stronger. But no matter how he probed, he could not find the source of the danger.

The gold, wood, water, fire, and earth in the spiritual energy here, as they slowly became denser, were like five spiritual pythons, shuttling back and forth in the air. Looking with the naked eye, there would often be many clouds and mists around.

It was already quite good for a cultivator to cultivate here. In this kind of situation, it should have been a place where cultivators were quite willing to stay.

But Li Yan felt a sense of estrangement between himself and this world. He then slowed down his speed and began to circulate his Magical Power, slowly feeling it.

After a period of time, Li Yan discovered some problems. The five-element spiritual energy here was dense, but it gave him a “stiff” feeling.

The five elements generate and restrain each other, and they will form a perfect and endless cycle, which is a state of being smooth and integrated.

But the five-element spiritual energy of heaven and earth here, although it could also form an endless cycle, it was as if they were independent of each other.

The gold, wood, water, fire, and earth spiritual energy that Li Yan sensed from the outside world seemed to be acting on their own, as if forming invisible fences in the heaven and earth.

These fences would also intersect, but it seemed as if they were forced to do so. At the intersection, there would be a recurring cycle of water generating wood, wood generating fire, fire generating earth, earth generating metal, and metal generating water.

This caused the originally perfect small five elements in Li Yan’s body to become sluggish when they sensed the outer five elements of the outside world, and they could no longer respond to each other quickly.

“There is something strange about the five elements here. If I use my arts quickly in this way, the power will be weakened.”

After discovering this, Li Yan stopped where he was and immediately checked the situation in his body.

He was afraid that he might be slowly eroded by some inexplicable power without his knowledge…

Half an incense stick later, Li Yan slowly relaxed. There was nothing unusual in his body, and his Fragmented Poison Body did not have that restless feeling.

He cultivated a five-element cultivation art, so in a fierce and rapid battle here, a cultivation art like the “Five Elements Disarray Mantle” would be affected by the rapid switching.

But a normal cultivator who used an art would basically be a single-attribute cultivation art, so there would be no problem.

“What kind of ghostly place is this? It’s full of an inexplicable danger everywhere!”

Li Yan was also helpless in this situation. He increasingly wanted to find out where he was!

He could only continue to fly forward. Not long after, Li Yan, who was flying, suddenly dodged to the side.

“Hiss!”

A sound of breaking through the air rose from the dense grass on the ground below and shot towards him.

At the same time, Li Yan had already disappeared from the air.

In the grass, a creature that looked like a civet cat had a dazed expression on its face. The figure that was flying in the air just now, under its own blow, was… was blown up?

However, in the next moment, it only felt a tightness in the back of its neck, as if it had been lifted by someone. Before it could react, its head tilted, and it passed out.

Li Yan looked at the demonic beast in his hand, feeling a little helpless. When he appeared behind this demonic beast at close range, he had sensed that its level was not high, only about the first rank.

Li Yan brought the other party close to his left wrist, and immediately activated his Divine Sense with all his might. With a flash of faint light, the demonic beast disappeared. And at this time, his Divine Sense power, with just this one consumption, was only about twenty percent left.

In the “Earthen Patch,” the small amount of Li Yan’s Divine Sense that was left had turned into a faint shadow and was soul-searching the demonic beast. Here, he could be unscrupulous.

This was also because the “Earthen Patch” space already had a complete five-element law. If it were a common spirit-storing magical treasure, the law power that could be borrowed would be pitifully small.

Without the help of external forces, a wisp of Divine Sense trying to soul-search a physical body, unless the cultivation of the two was too disparate, otherwise, there was a high probability that the wisp of Divine Sense would be destroyed, and the main body would also suffer a backlash after the other party’s Sea of Consciousness collapsed.

After a round of soul-searching, Li Yan really did get some information. This was a region called “Autumn Creek River,” and the strongest demonic beast here was only at the first rank.

Apart from the rich spiritual energy, other cultivation resources were still not very abundant.

In the memory of this demonic beast, Li Yan also saw some figures of human cultivators, but not many. But this was enough to make Li Yan’s heart fill with joy.

It was just that the cultivators who could come here were often not of high cultivation, and were only at the Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment stages. Even Golden Core cultivators rarely came over.

“Another remote place, what a headache!”

Li Yan thought to himself. In this way, it would still be very troublesome for him to get more information.

However, being able to see these demonic beasts, and then getting the news that there were indeed human cultivators here, still made him breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

If there were no intelligent beings here, Li Yan would really be panicked.

“Autumn Creek River? This place name, I have never seen it in the jade slips and classics I have read…”

Even though he had gotten the name of the place where he was now, Li Yan’s brow was still furrowed. He had never heard of this place.

There were only two possibilities for this situation. One was that the amount of information he had read, compared to the vast “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” was still too little, which was why he did not know of this place’s existence.

The other situation was very bad. He had really entered an unknown dangerous place. There was either very little or no information recorded about this kind of place in the outside world.

Li Yan’s Divine Sense withdrew, and he sighed helplessly. He had to choose a suitable place again and meditate to restore his Divine Sense. Now, his Divine Sense had been almost used up after just a little bit of use.

And after he got some information about this place, he still wanted to capture a few more demonic beasts to investigate the situation, but his Divine Sense was already at rock bottom.

Using his Divine Sense here was a luxury, but he still decided to do so. Even if it took more time, it was worth it…

Thirteen days later, Li Yan once again opened his eyes from his meditation. In these days, he had knocked out two more first-rank demonic beasts and brought them into the “Earthen Patch” to soul-search them.

He had learned from the memories of these demonic beasts that this was already the edge of “Autumn Creek River.” If he went southwest from here, he would leave “Autumn Creek River.”

There should be human activity there. Among those humans, there were not only cultivators, but also ordinary mortals.

After Li Yan got this news, and after his Divine Sense had recovered again, he was unwilling to stay here any longer and immediately set off and flew in a southwest direction.

In these dozen or so days, as Li Yan learned more and more about the situation here, he was even more unwilling to use those pills that could help restore his Divine Sense.

When Li Yan had flown for another day, he saw a long river that stretched across the land. The river water was surging, like a roaring dragon, and the waves it stirred up were high, as if they were about to devour this part of the world.

This long river was vast and mighty, rushing downstream. The river was a hundred li wide, separating “Autumn Creek River” from the continuous mountain range on the other side.