Chapter 174: Counterattack

Facing Li An's initiative, the head of the family, Jiang Rilan, pondered for a moment, then smiled and said:

"The fact that Wu Protector can have this intention shows his loyalty to our Jiang family. However, now that the expedition to the Li Dynasty is imminent, the family really cannot do without Wu Protector..."

I am worried!

Over the years, although Li An has "painstakingly" cultivated and treated Jiang Ruoli, and has also owned many industries in the Jiang family, he has already taken root in the Jiang family, but...

After all, he is an outsider.

We need to be on guard.

What if Li An leaves and never returns, where can the Jiang family find the divine bird?

"To be honest with the head of the family, there are many important treasures in my cargo this time, and if Jiang Ribai cannot be killed, my industry in the future may cause panic among the people..."

Li An continued, "It's just that after Wu left, the divine bird has been in seclusion recently, and I may need to ask the head of the family to take care of it..."

Jiang Rilan's heart moved. Does this mean that if Li An goes out, he will not take the divine bird?

It doesn't matter then!

Jiang Clan never cared about Li An at all.

He thought for a while, then said reluctantly: "Okay, since Wu Protector is determined to kill Jiang Ribai, I can't stop him. Wu Protector, if you need anything, just tell me!"

Li An nodded, and then immediately made many requests, taking the opportunity to ask Jiang Clan for two third-level magic tools, a few third-grade pills, and some medium-grade spirit stones.

After all, he was working for Jiang Clan anyway, and it would be a waste if he didn't get the wool.

After returning to Nanling Peak, Li An made some arrangements and sent the divine bird to the retreat place of Nanling Peak.

He was able to leave Jiang Clan.

...

Leaving Jiang Clan's Xingluo Mountain, Li An was quite emotional.

It has been decades since he left Dali and entered Jiang Clan!

Now he is a Jindan Zhenren, far beyond his previous life. Looking at the entire Yan State, he can also be regarded as a figure, with enough strength to dominate one side.

It is not difficult to open up a city for cultivating immortals, or a power, family, etc.

In fact, Li An has considered this.

After all, the cultivation of Jindan cultivators is really too resource-consuming.

Without the support of industry and power, the tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones consumed every month are enough to make him worry.

Besides, the Jiang family is about to be destroyed, where should Li An go?

"First find a place to stay--"

After thinking about it, Li An still buried this idea in his heart and did not consider it for the time being.

Even if he really needs to establish a power to support himself, he cannot be in Yan State, near Dali.

Escape as far as he can.

...

He did not leave directly, but first lived in Beixing City at the foot of Xingluo Mountain for a long time, and then mixed into the incoming truck team of one of his industries and set off together.

Avoiding the eyes and ears of others!

This is not to prevent Jiang family, but to prevent Tan Qingxue.

Who knows if that woman is still eyeing Jiang family?

After all, Li An had offended her to death. Before she left, she had left a vow that she would avenge this hatred in the future. Even though Li An and her were once inseparable, that little bit of affection was probably not worth the huge benefits in the process of cultivating immortals.

Li An thought carefully. Although the things on her body were of extraordinary origin, her current strength should still be below the Nascent Soul stage.

Otherwise, she would not have to run away. She could directly wipe out the entire Jiang family. What divine bird was not hers?

From this point of view, Li An was not so afraid of her. If she really appeared, he should be able to deal with it.

But it is best not to be discovered by the other party. It is better to be safe than sorry.

Even though Li An is now a golden elixir, he is definitely not arrogant and complacent, so as not to capsize in the ditch.

After following his convoy to leave Beixing City for a long time, it is expected that he has left Jiang's sight. Li An found an opportunity to leave. In a mountain forest where no one is, he used magic skills to change his appearance, conceal his breath, and then left quickly.

Flying directly into the air, the light belonging to the true elixir cultivator passed through the sky, and the wind whistled in his ears.

Jindan cultivators can travel thousands of miles a day!

…

Half a month later.

Li An had traveled 100,000 miles and arrived at another area of ​​Xiling Yuanzhou.

In fact, even for Jindan cultivators, it would not be so easy to fly 100,000 miles, especially for those in the early stage of Jindan like Li An, who generally would not travel long distances.

Flying consumes a lot of spiritual power.

But Li An's spiritual power is endless, and the power of Jindan is far superior to ordinary, so it is very smooth.

Moreover, along the way, Li An also visited many countries and cities along the way to analyze the situation.

The main purpose of his trip was to find a safe place to practice. As for where to choose, it depends on the actual situation.

But he didn't gain much along the way.

In Li An's view, since Shangguan Shengxian is expanding his power, these countries' cultivation forces may not have the ability to resist.

"Tiansha Mountains!"

In front of him, a vast mountain range has appeared in front of him.

Just landing in this area does give people a sense of chaos. The spiritual energy in the air is very chaotic and mixed, and there is a faint evil spirit!

The Tiansha Mountains are endless, and it is said that the depths are connected to the old land of the demon clan. Regarding the old land of the demon clan, there is a blank on all the maps that Li An knows.

Almost no human cultivator can go deep into it.

This mountain range is extremely dangerous. The chaotic spiritual energy is not suitable for cultivators to practice. It is also connected to the old land of the demon clan. Although the demon clan has been silent for many years, no force dares to come here to establish a cultivation tradition.

It is precisely because of this that this place can become a vacuum zone!

This is also Li An's key alternative place.

First, this place is the farthest from the major forces, and Shangguan Shengxian will not touch this place when he attacks and conquers cities.

Second, compared with the cities and countries formed by humans, the resources here are not occupied by powerful forces, and there may be some opportunities.

Of course, there are dangers.

After all, if Li An wants to find a suitable place to practice outside, it is almost doomed to repeat the process of entering the Jiang family, and he is not trusted.

Wherever there are good spiritual veins, they are all occupied by others!

In addition, there is a third benefit. The evil spirit here is extremely harmful to ordinary cultivators, but for Li An who practices magic, this is an excellent source. Demons and evil spirits are connected, and he can absorb evil spirits and transform them into magic spirits.

But this is just a preliminary consideration, and Li An is not sure. If it is really too dangerous here, then forget it...

Life is more important.

Li An is thinking about how to get in.

His goal is the "Tiansha City" inside the Tiansha Mountains.

Tiansha City is a city built by cultivators hiding in the Tiansha Mountains. The outside world's understanding of the Tiansha Mountains is almost all obtained from this city.

After all, where there are people, there can be benefits and business. The cultivators in the Tiansha Mountains also have the need to trade with the outside world, and Tiansha City was born in this way.

But it is not easy to enter the Tiansha Mountains. The road in the middle is very dangerous.

"This fellow Taoist!"

Li An was deep in thought when suddenly a group of people came from a distance, and the leader greeted Li An.

This team was escorting supplies. The old man in the lead, who was pretending to be a Dan cultivator, walked up to Li An, bowed his hands and smiled, "Daoyou, are you going to Tiansha City?"

Li An did not answer: "Who are you?"

"I am Song Chaozhong of the Song family in Tianling City, Yue Kingdom. I was ordered by my family to escort a batch of supplies to Tiansha City."

The old man introduced himself, "Daoyou, you should also go to Tiansha City, right? Why don't you join us?"

"The road to the Tiansha Mountains is rugged, and there are many ferocious spirit beasts in the mountains. Even third-level ferocious beasts often appear. If you are alone, it will be very dangerous."

Li An heard this, but shook his head, "Thank you - but I am not going to enter Tiansha City."

Seeing his cold and repulsive look, Song Chaozhong did not say much, but bowed his hands, turned around and left with his people.

Li An saw this, but he was slightly silent, then quickly followed, "This Taoist fellow——"

"What, Taoist fellow, have you changed your mind?"

Song Chaozhong smiled.

"Yes, I changed my mind."

Li An smiled, "How about I go to Tiansha City with you? Thank you very much."

Song Chaozhong nodded, "That's great! To be honest, the reason why I invited you to go with me is that more people means more safety. The road to Tiansha City is extremely difficult to walk. There are powerful robbers, bandits and fierce beasts. Every trip is unpredictable..."

He sighed, but before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt something, his face changed, and saw a fire python suddenly burst out and attacked him.

At the same time, his team was killed by a third-level gas explosion talisman.

"You..."

Song Chaozhong tried his best to resist the fire python talisman, and the light of the magic weapon in his hand lit up, but at the same time, the two flying swords in Li An's hands had already slashed out.

Song Chaozhong blocked the attack of the Fire Python Talisman, but failed to block the cold air of the Ice Sword. A burst of frost condensed on his body, and the Black Poison Sword slashed down with one sword.

Dang!

With a metallic collision sound, the Black Poison Sword did not cut in. Song Chaozhong had a third-level protective magic weapon on him!

And Li An had already slashed out with one palm-

Three Yuan Slash, cut the Yuan Body!

The spiritual power wave seemed to have turned into a 40-meter-long sword, cutting down with a bang. The old man tried his best to resist, but the clothes on his body, including the third-level protective armor, were directly chopped into pieces by Li An.

Bang!

Song Chaozhong was directly cut in half by Li An.

"Ah..."

Song Chaozhong fell to the ground, his face full of horror, screaming.

The dozen people he brought with him were also killed by Li An's third-level gas explosion talisman, leaving only a few seriously injured people.

"You, you robber cultivator... you are so bold!"

Song Chaozhong spoke in fear, his intestines were everywhere. Seeing Li An approaching, he subconsciously supported himself with his hands and tried to escape.

Li An kicked him to the ground.

"I robber cultivator?"

Li An sneered, "You didn't pretend to be like this this time, don't be so stupid in the next life."

After that, he directly activated the magic power and refined Song Chaozhong into a puppet.

He needed to get Song Chaozhong's memory!

"No...you, you...hehe..."

Song Chaozhong trembled all over, but he didn't move after all, and soon his eyes became numb and empty.

Li An thought for a while, and after getting the memory he wanted, he killed the puppet with a knife.

Turning around, he refined the remaining several seriously injured cultivators into puppets, searched their memories, and compared them with Song Chaozhong to avoid missing important information.

Then he killed them all.

"It's really a group of robber cultivators,"

Li An's judgment was not wrong.

When Song Chaozhong came to him, he was already alert and sensed the evil spirit on Song Chaozhong and others.

In fact, they were also very smart and experienced. They used some things to cover up the evil spirit. Ordinary cultivators really couldn't sense it, but they couldn't escape the keen perception of Li An's magic skills and life-nourishing immortal art.

How could people from ordinary sects and families have such a strong evil spirit?

He refused, and Song Chaozhong turned and left. Li An had two judgments at that time:

First, Song Chaozhong and others gave up his goal out of caution.

Second, if it was an ordinary person, even if they were cautious, if they really wanted to enter Tiansha City, they would most likely follow them quietly and find a way in, and Song Chaozhong and others would lead the people who followed them into the ambush circle.

No matter what the purpose of Song Chaozhong and others was, it showed that they were just the lead!

The ambushers were still behind.

So, in this case, Li An would just eat the lead!

Anyway, he had magic skills and could get the information he wanted directly.

Song Chaozhong and others never expected that Li An would be so cruel that he would attack and kill them.

After searching the memories of Song Chaozhong and others, Li An's idea was verified.

The real name of this fake Dan cultivator is Chen Cai. The real "Song Chaozhong" has been killed by them, and then they pretended to be Song Chaozhong to find their target.

This group of robbers specializes in ambushing and robbing on the road leading to Tiansha City, led by two real Dan cultivators!

Chen Cai is mainly responsible for exploring, leading the way, and leading people into the ambush circle.

"Tiansha City is really a lawless place..."

Li An couldn't help but sigh. Tianling City in Yueguo is only a few thousand miles away from Tiansha City. The Song family is also a big family in Tianling City, but the troops sent out were directly intercepted and killed.

And this group of robbers has been full of evil for a long time. This kind of thing is normal in Tiansha City.

Li An quickly cleaned up the battlefield, destroyed the corpses, and collected the storage bags of this group of people along the way.

The total amount of spiritual stones and all good materials is about 110,000 low-grade spiritual stones!

110,000 low-grade spiritual stones are equivalent to 1,100 medium-grade spiritual stones.

Enough for Li An's monthly expenses.

Li An put all of these into his "storage ring".

This storage ring is a second-level space magic weapon. He got it from Jiang after becoming a guardian elder. The space is as big as seven or eight rooms, far better than a storage bag.

Although it is only second-level, it is also very precious. Because it involves space, ordinary second-level refiners cannot refine it, and its price is similar to that of third-level magic weapons.

Generally, only real people are qualified to wear this kind of storage ring.

In order to conceal his identity, Li An hid the storage ring in his arms and hung a few storage bags around his waist to hold some unimportant things.

Then, Li An began to walk into the forest.

It still takes two days to enter Tiansha City from the outside world. There were many dangerous places along the way, and the robbery cultivators had ambushed them. If the enemy was strong, they would stay put. If the enemy was weak, they would be eaten by them.

Li An was not afraid of confronting two True Dan cultivators head-on, but he was still unwilling to waste resources and energy. Besides, who knew if these two True Dan cultivators had any background?

If you can avoid fighting, don't fight!

Be steady first.

…

According to the memories of robbery cultivators such as Chen Cai, Li An avoided dangerous places along the way. It took him five days to finally cross the mountains and see Tiansha City surrounded by mountains.

This famous chaotic city does not even have a city wall. It is just that many buildings are concentrated together. Most of them are rough in style and built with huge stones.

"No wonder no force has come here to gain a foothold..."

Li An couldn't help but be awed. He crossed the mountains for five days. Even with the memory of an old fox like Chen Cai, he still encountered many dangers.

He brushed shoulders with a third-level beast twice!

Fortunately, he used the Life-Nourishing Immortal Art to conceal his own aura and avoided it.

He couldn't help but start to wonder, could anyone really survive in the Tiansha Mountains?

Walked into Tiansha City.

What made Li An feel a little relieved was that the order in the city was much better. After all, a trading environment was good for everyone. Several masters in the Tiansha Mountains had set up rules. If you kill people and rob goods in the city, you can't stay in the Tiansha Mountains.

That's why many forces from the outside world have also set up points here, so the city as a whole looks similar to the outside world.

The news that Jiang Shi got from Jiang Ribai was spread from the point set up here by the "Yueling Sect" of Yue Country.

In fact, under normal circumstances, Li An should go to the shop of Yueling Sect,

Inquire about Jiang Ribai's situation, but Li An did not do so.

First, Li An did not know the details of the store. What if the other party cooperated with Jiang Ribai and deliberately waited for Jiang's people to come to the door, and then killed people to steal treasures?

Second, Li An did not really come to find Jiang Ribai. What does Jiang Ribai's life or death have to do with him?

The most important thing is to find out the news and understand the rules here.

Li An wandered in the city for a day, but the news he got was relatively basic.

After thinking about it, he thought that attending a small Zhendan-level trade fair would probably get the most useful information.

...

Li An's appearance has become that of a middle-aged man. According to Chen Cai's memory, he first walked around and then walked to a huge stone temple.

This stone temple is not guarded by anyone, but it is a trading point!

Generally speaking, only Zhendan-level cultivators can come here to trade.

Li An stepped into it and waited silently. In the evening, several people finally entered this place.

A bearded man, with a strong evil spirit, did not hide it.

An old man with shifty eyes, a pair of red peach blossom eyes, and a faint smile on his lips.

There is also a middle-aged man in purple robe, with a dignified face.

All three are masters of true elixir!

"A new Taoist friend has arrived,"

The old man with peach blossom eyes glanced at Li An, smiled slightly, and said nothing.

Several people are still waiting.

Finally, another beautiful woman with a black veil and a black dress walked into the stone temple, and the transaction officially began.

"I'll go first, Madam She, have you refined the Qingsha Pill? I can't wait!"

The bearded man spoke directly, staring at the woman in the black dress.

The lady in black dress chuckled, "Don't worry, everyone has... Well, this new Taoist friend, you didn't come last time, so there are no extra pills."

Li An bowed his hands, "No need, thank you."

He was slightly startled in his heart, these people seemed to have a special liking for Qingsha Pills.

Qingsha Pills can remove the evil spirits accumulated in the body of the cultivator.

These people should have lived here for a long time, so they have to clean up the evil spirits regularly?

Li An guessed.

Everyone traded one after another, and soon it was Li An's turn.

"I have a third-grade recovery pill and a third-level talisman, but I just want a message."

Li An said: "Where is the ownerless third-level spiritual vein?"

Everyone was slightly silent after hearing this.

Looking for a third-level spiritual vein?

It seems that this is a newcomer...

"Third-level spiritual veins are so hard to find, but I do know one, hehe..."

The old man with peach blossom eyes spoke, whispered, and told Li An a location.

Li An nodded and said, "Fellow Daoist, can you swear an oath to prove that this news is true?"

The old man with peach blossom eyes smiled and swore in public.

Seeing this, the others also sent secret messages to Li An.

Li An knew that these places should be real, but there must be something wrong!

But these people didn't say anything.

Li An fulfilled his promises one by one. He got the third-grade recovery pill from Jiang's family, and he had no shortage of third-grade talismans, so he gave them out directly.

Soon, the trade fair was over.

Li An got up and left.

Just not far from the stone temple, he found that the "Mrs. She" had been following him.

"Fellow Daoist She?"

Li An took the initiative to speak.

Madam She smiled, "Fellow Daoist, you are new to Tiansha Mountain Range and have entered a dangerous situation. Don't you know it?"

Li An said, "Please teach me, fellow Daoist She."

Madam She said, "The places Gao Yi and the others told you are nothing more than Shayue Valley, Zilang Peak, and Tieshatan, right?"

Li An was slightly startled and nodded.

"Although there are indeed third-level ownerless spiritual veins in these places, you can't use them. All your elixirs and spiritual talismans are fed to dogs."

Madam She smiled sweetly, "I can tell you the way to what you want."

Li An said, "What does Madam She want?"

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