Chapter 176: Old friends fade away like leaves in the wind

"All dead."

After stabbing the bodies of the two True Dan cultivators with the black poisonous sword for dozens of times, Li An finally felt relieved. He glanced at the horizon with his peripheral vision. The battle between the Yuanying level was still going on.

He quickly picked up the storage rings and bags of Jiang Rilan and the two True Dan cultivators, and quickly scanned them with his powerful divine sense, discarding all the marked items.

These included several third-grade spiritual medicines, magic tools and other treasures.

"Let's go!"

Then, he put the third-level flying talisman on himself and Xiaoqing.

Cultivators of Jindan can already fly, but the flying talisman can still provide benefits.

One man and one bird left the battlefield quickly.

Just after leaving here, the battlefield was already rumbling. The second third-level formation was directly opened, sweeping away everything. In the formation, the third-level shocking talisman burned with flames!

The first set of formations is used to kill the enemy, and the second set of formations is used to block the perception of the outside world's divine sense and finally clean up the battlefield. After all, the Yuanying's consciousness is too powerful, covering thousands of miles at a time. This place is not particularly far away. If any Yuanying is bored and pays attention to this place, it will be uncomfortable...

However, at this moment, the battlefield is tense, and the Yuanying is fighting at the same level. He dare not be careless. Most of them concentrate on the enemy. Even if he can separate a wisp of consciousness to check this side, his third-level formation can also block it.

...

Li An covered himself with the breath of the life seed, together with the Qingyan Divine Bird, and flew across the battlefield at a high speed.

There were bloody battles everywhere, even he and the Qingyan Divine Bird stopped several times and kept taking detours.

Fortunately, his consciousness was powerful, and the Qingyan Divine Bird was very sensitive to danger, so he never encountered any big trouble.

A few hours later, when the night fell.

"This is the place!"

A dilapidated mountain gate appeared in front.

The broken walls and ruins were overgrown with grass and trees, huge broken stones, collapsed palaces, and corrupted spiritual trees... The glory of the past can still be vaguely seen.

Xuanyang Sect!

Li An identified the direction, and then a flash of light appeared, and the next moment, he appeared in front of the former Lingzhi Mountain.

Lingzhi Mountain had changed a lot, but Li An still found a forest. He landed in the forest. There was a cave in the pile of rocks.

He pulled the divine bird into it.

Then the breath of life quickly covered it.

The divine bird was connected with his mind, and at this moment it had turned into an eagle. He was held in his arms, motionless, like a dead thing.

"Wait."

Li An finally whispered!

Hiding here, he felt a little relieved, and his spiritual aura was completely restrained, while his mind was constantly deducing...

Now the northern part of Dali has become a meat grinder, and more than one Yuanying-level boss has died, and all the real people are falling...

Obviously, Yan State and Dali have already started a real fight. This is a life-and-death battle.

It will not stop until one of the countries is completely destroyed!

Li An speculated that this war may last for several years!

According to his information over the years, Shangguan Shengxian has not been heard from since the battle in Tianyang City hundreds of years ago, and has never appeared in public.

Therefore, he speculated that Shangguan Shengxian was mostly hiding behind the scenes and did not directly intervene in the battlefield.

Otherwise, even the Nascent Soul would not be enough for her to kill.

This may be due to her own cultivation. After all, according to Shangguan Xiaoxiao, Shangguan Shengxian's soul was injured in the past, and now it is attached to Shangguan Xiaoxiao, so it may not be able to attack without restrictions.

If Shangguan Shengxian does not attack directly, then Dali may not be able to destroy Yan in one day.

It took Dali five or six years to completely annex Chen when it conquered Chen!

It was precisely because the war lasted that he chose to hide here first.

Cross the entire battlefield, then leave, and go to Tiansha Mountains? That's too dangerous!

After all, now the Yan army is stationed at the border between the two countries. If you run back, you will be discovered by Yan's tight defense line immediately. Run forward? Isn't that going deep into Dali...

It's best to hide in this battlefield.

And the northern part of Dali, the former site of Xuanyang Sect is the least valuable!

This place has been ruined for hundreds of years, and the spiritual veins are in ruins. No one will come to fight for this place.

After repeatedly replaying the situation in his mind, he still thinks this is the best choice.

But he also stays awake. After all, maybe some lunatic will come here, and when he is about to be affected, he may have to run for his life...

"Here it comes again!"

In his spiritual platform, Shangguan Xiaoxiao couldn't help but complain:

"You and this bird, with two golden cores in total, no one can do anything to you unless you meet a Yuanying. Why don't you run away??"

Li An's Yuanling replied coldly: "Safety first."

"Li Gou!"

Shangguan Xiaoxiao was a little autistic, and she closed her eyes and fell asleep directly in his spiritual platform.

Based on her understanding of Li An, this period of time will not be short...she can only sleep.

...

And at this moment. "Rilan!"

The battle of the Nascent Soul level finally came to an end, and Jiang Qingcang fell in a mountain range.

Jiang Rilan was dead, and his body was burned to ashes.

"Investigate, investigate!"

Jiang Qingcang gritted his teeth, "Investigate Wu Qin, and never let him go!"

Although he did not witness the battle with his own eyes, he could roughly guess what happened.

There were only three traces of death of the True Dan cultivators at the scene, and no Golden Dan Divine Bird.

That is to say, Wu Qin and the Blue Flame Divine Bird...most likely ran away.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that I was still careless in the end!"

Jiang Qingcang was very regretful.

After years of constant surveillance of Li An, everyone in the Jiang family felt that Li An had returned and taken root in the Jiang family...

So to a certain extent, he was paralyzed.

He also felt that it shouldn't be a big problem to bring Li An with him, and with the head of the family Jiang Rilan to suppress him...

But he never thought that Jiang Rilan would die directly! !

The loss...is too great.

...

The distant border of Qingzhou.

"Finally escaped--"

In an uninhabited mountain range, Sun Jinxue and Lihua both breathed a sigh of relief.

Since Li An went to war, the two of them immediately opened the brocade bag given by Li An according to his instructions before leaving. (This detail description was added in the previous chapter, and those who read it earlier can go back and read it.)

Only then did they know that the brocade bag did not contain any clever plan to swallow up other elders' industries, but an arrangement for their escape!

Very careful.

At that time, both of them were puzzled for a long time. After all, the war had just started and the two armies were facing each other. Why did they need to escape?

But in the end, they still followed Li An's plan and escaped from Jiang's...

The main force of Jiang's had already gone to the front line, and now the front line was still in a stalemate. No one expected that they would escape directly, and they did not take precautions, so they walked easily.

"It seems that he predicted that Jiang's would lose..."

Sun Jinxue spoke, but in her beautiful eyes, she couldn't help feeling a little empty, and her face was also a little sad.

"We escaped, but he is at the front..."

She sighed. Yuanying had fallen in the battlefield ahead, and the destruction of Zhendan was also common. This time, Li An's life and death was really unpredictable!

"Master will be safe!"

Lihua spoke with certainty. She bit her lower lip lightly, and her beautiful eyes sparkled.

Sun Jinxue didn't know that in addition to the escape plan, there was another thing in the bag Li An gave her...

A small bottle of green pills, unknown grade, unknown origin, but it could repair her Dantian!

Before leaving, the master arranged everything for her...

"Master."

She said softly, and her heart was moved to the extreme. She had an inexplicable urge to cry, but she held it back. She just prayed silently in her heart: "You must return safely..."

...

Time flies.

Li An counted the time silently.

In the sixth month, a small battle did occur in the old place of Xuanyang Sect, but the participants were of low levels, and the strongest was only at the foundation building stage.

Obviously, as he guessed, this area was not worth fighting for, whether for Dali or Yan.

At most, it was affected by the marginal battlefield.

In the tenth month, a powerful divine thought inexplicably swept across the land, but did not find Li An and the divine bird.

…

In the blink of an eye, two years passed.

Li An rarely felt the breath and sound of war.

The surroundings became very quiet, the footsteps of animals running through the mountains and forests were clearly audible, and the leaves fell layer by layer.

The moonlight shone down, and a ray of moonlight penetrated through the leaves at the entrance of the cave. Li An's thoughts could not help but be a little erratic. He inexplicably remembered a night more than two hundred years ago.

At that time, he was also hiding in this cave, pulling another servant from Lingzhi Mountain to avoid disaster.

Two years passed in this way.

This morning, after a month of repeated exploration with divine thoughts, Li An finally got out of the cave with the divine bird.

Walking slowly through the once familiar woods. The end of this forest was originally the spiritual field of Xuanyang Sect's Lingzhi Mountain, but now there are no spiritual plants, only wild grasses growing wildly, as tall as a person.

Li An identified the old traces with great interest, matching the weeds here with the spiritual fields in the past, remembering that he had cultivated a certain spiritual field, there was a ditch somewhere, and he had stolen spiritual rice...

He walked across the dense weeds, many weeds brushed against his sleeves, and the grass residue stained his body, but he didn't care, and walked straight to the halfway up the Lingzhi Mountain.

On the halfway up the mountain, between the weeds, two mounds stood side by side.

He searched carefully and found two broken monuments in the soil.

"Zhang Susu's..."

The word tomb disappeared.

"...Zilin's..."

The other one was even more broken.

"Zhang Susu, Wang Zilin..."

Li An whispered and read out two long-lost names.

In an instant, scenes from the past at Lingzhi Mountain flashed through his mind:

At that time, the three of them were all menial workers, fighting and calculating for the quality of the spiritual fields, and trying their best to get one or two more spiritual stones every month...

At that time, Fan Jie ruled the three of them, occupied Zhang Susu, and Wang Zilin's leg was broken by Fan Jie...

Later, when the Beast Sect attacked, Li An killed Fan Jie and survived with Wang Zilin, but Zhang Susu died in the chaos.

...

Now, hundreds of years later.

The old friends have turned to yellow earth.

Their graves stand side by side, buried by weeds.

Perhaps only Li An in the world knows and remembers that two poor lonely ghosts on the road to immortality are buried here.

How many old friends have passed away along the way?

There are more than just these two lonely ghosts on this road?

Mu Wanqing, Zhao Xianchuan, Wang Dazhu, Xu Qiuhui... Now only Tan Qingxue is still alive, but she is neither human nor ghost, and it is hard to predict what she will become.

Things in the world are unpredictable.

I envy the endless Yangtze River, and mourn the brevity of my life!

He suddenly took out a pot of precious spirit wine from his ring and sprinkled it in front of the two graves.

"Thank you for accompanying me. When I live forever, I will come back here to pay tribute so that you two will not be forgotten forever."

He drank the remaining wine in the pot, then dusted off the grass residue on his sleeves, cleaned it up, and strode away.

...

Leaving the old place of Xuanyang Sect.

Li An sensed that his puppet Zhao Yi was dead.

Perhaps he was affected by the war between Dayan and Dali...

He changed his appearance, made Xiaoqing the size of a small bird, hid in his sleeves, and then found a nearby town to learn about the situation.

The war ended three years ago!

And the ending was far more tragic than Li An had imagined...

When the two sides were in a stalemate, Dali's first-generation Yuanying strongman Baihu Shangren made a strong move, and alone, he killed the five Yuanying masters of Dayan in one battle. Even Jiang Qingcang's fourth-level divine bird was destroyed in that battle!

The situation turned around, and Yan was defeated.

In just six months, Dali flattened Yan, and also took over Zhao and Luo next to Yan.

Now, the territory of the Dali Dynasty is ten times larger than it used to be!

It is known as the first country in Xiling Yuanzhou.

In Xiling Yuanzhou, perhaps only a few giant forces such as Xueyuan Sect and Taiyi Sect can barely suppress Dali.

According to legend, the White Tiger Master who killed five Yuanying in one battle was naturally the White Tiger True Man of the past. Obviously, she had become a follower of Shangguan Shengxian...

"Shangguan Shengxian..."

Li An couldn't help but feel a little complicated. This woman was really scary.

At the same time, he became more and more anxious.

There was no need to go to other countries and forces in Xiling Yuanzhou. They would be swallowed up by Dali sooner or later. It was unstoppable!

He thought for a while, then set off and headed for the Tiansha Mountains.

There was still a temporary place to stay there, and Dali's expansion could not reach there, so it was relatively safe.

Now that the war was over, Dali was very stable, but Li An still disguised himself, concealed his cultivation, and did not expose himself. He traveled for half a year before he barely reached the border of Dali and flew away-

During the whole process, he did not return to Yan State once. The Jiang family has been destroyed. Whether Sun Jinxue and Lihua survive depends on their own destiny. Li An has done everything he can for them. From now on, they are no longer on the road to immortality! This is also the reason why Li An dared to arrange their escape and help Lihua repair her Dantian. Li An will change his identity and leave. Even if someone finds them, it is impossible to find Li An's whereabouts. ... Half a month later. Li An finally arrived outside the Tiansha Mountains. He did not rush in, but hid at the entrance for more than ten days. Finally, he encountered a team of robbery cultivators. Like Chen Cai and others in the past, they were doing things to lure people into a trap. When this group of robbery cultivators passed by him, he suddenly attacked and killed them by surprise. He refined a fake Dan female cultivator who was the leader into a puppet and read the other party's memory. "Chen Cai's wife, Gu Yue..." Li An couldn't help but be surprised that this fake Dan cultivator and Chen Cai, who was killed by him in the past, were actually husband and wife. The two of them were like a couple who had returned home in his hands.

"Nothing has changed,"

Li An then quietly entered the mountains. Just like before, he avoided the robbers and waited several times in the middle to avoid any intersection with the powerful spirit beasts in the mountains.

Eight days later, Li An saw Tiansha City.

He changed his appearance again, becoming a middle-aged man, and concealed his own breath to the level of fake pills. Xiaoqing was completely covered up, so that people could not see its strength.

"The recognition of the Blue Flame Divine Bird is too high..."

Li An simply concealed Xiaoqing's life breath, and it looked no different from an ordinary spirit pet.

He then entered the city.

His current appearance is ordinary, and it is different from when he entered the city that year. He has completely changed his identity.

Tiansha City is crowded and mixed. There are many people who do not want to reveal their identities living here. Moreover, he has the experience of Chen Cai and his wife, and behaves no different from the people in the city. Therefore, he blended into the city effortlessly and found a place to live.

"According to the rules, the rent must be paid in full in advance. How many years do you want to rent for?"

A steward in blue clothes led Li An into a small courtyard.

After Li An checked the situation of the courtyard, the blue-clothed steward asked.

This courtyard is in the south of Tiansha City, relatively close to the city.

After all, Tiansha City does not even have a city wall. Although there are rules in the city that people are not allowed to kill and rob treasures, in the end, life and death are at your own risk, and the central area will be safer.

The monthly rent is as high as two thousand low-grade spirit stones!

"Two years..."

Li An's purpose of coming here is the third-level spirit vein in the Tiansha Mountains!

However, he is not a reckless person. Although he met Madam She when he came here, Madam She owed him a favor and gave him a token and promised to take him to see the "mountain master" to ask for a spirit vein for cultivation, he is also wary of Madam She.

First, stay dormant in the city for a while, observe carefully, and slowly inquire.

After all, he is unfamiliar with the place, and if he makes a mistake, it will be bad.

After paying the rent.

Li An immediately set up two second-level magic arrays and a third-level magic array around this courtyard!

After closing the door, Li An breathed a sigh of relief, finally settling safely.

He first took stock of his current situation.

Before going on the expedition, he had already frantically prepared various resources in Jiang's family.

After the battle in the northern part of Dali, his resources were consumed, but he also supplemented them from the storage rings of Jiang Rilan and two True Dan cultivators.

Currently, he still has about 1,200 third-level runes left.

Five or six hundred second-level runes.

Four third-level formations!

Six third-level magic tools, the Ice Sword, the Black Poison Sword, and a heart-protecting mirror and a golden armor obtained from Jiang's family, all of which are protective magic tools. The other two are a war hammer and a silver net, all of which are spoils of war in that battle.

Three bottles of third-level elixirs and seven or eight spiritual medicines.

Various heterogeneous metals, two third-level ones and more than a dozen second-level ones, all of which are the support for the kidneys in the future practice of Jinzang Jue.

There were also a lot of spiritual food that he had specially asked Sun Jinxue to prepare. After all, this kind of thing seemed to be quite precious in Tiansha City.

Of course, there were also the most important spiritual stones!

Before he went on the expedition, he almost emptied the warehouse of Nanling Peak, and most of it was exchanged for medium-grade spiritual stones. In addition to the spoils of war and looting, he now had a total of 62,000 medium-grade spiritual stones and 30,000 low-grade spiritual stones.

Sixty-two thousand medium-grade spiritual stones were enough to supply him with seven or eight years of cultivation.

And the various materials he seized had not been converted yet. If all were added, he could practice with peace of mind in the next ten years without asking about anything else.

"It's a pity that Jiang sent me out..."

He felt a little regretful.

If he had not gone to the front line at that time, but stayed with Jiang, he could have taken advantage of the chaos to rob Jiang, and maybe he wouldn't have to worry about spiritual stone resources for thirty or fifty years.

...

In the following period of time, he began to carefully understand the situation of Tiansha City and Tiansha Mountains. He sold some second-level resources from time to time, which was not noticeable, and he also got to know some people in the city. Through understanding, he proved what Mrs. She said that year.

There is indeed a "mountain master" in Tiansha Mountains!

There is more than one mountain master, but they are all powerful and have unpredictable origins. They control all the resources in Tiansha Mountains.

Generally speaking, second-level spiritual veins are available in the city, but third-level spiritual veins are in the hands of the mountain master. If you want them, you can only "rent" them from the mountain master.

Therefore, the true dan and above cultivators who can settle in Tiansha Mountains can almost be said to be the "tenants" of the mountain masters.

Mrs. She is the same!

Moreover, Tiansha Mountains are not short of third-level spiritual veins, but they lack pure third-level spiritual veins. Most of the spiritual veins are full of evil spirits. It is said that this is related to a war in ancient times. Too many people died in that war, and Tiansha Mountains was the battlefield.

Some of the places he obtained when he participated in that transaction, such as Zilang Peak, are places with extremely heavy evil spirits.

...

"Evil spirit can indeed be absorbed by magic skills and turned into demonic energy!"

That day, Li An bought a few pieces of "evil crystals". After trying to absorb them, he was very happy.

Evil spirit and demonic energy are common!

Originally, if Li An wanted to practice the Immortal Heavenly Demon Art, he would have to plunder the lives of others to produce demonic energy.

And the strength of the demonic energy determines the strength of other magic skills.

For example, the Immortal Heavenly Demon Armor he is practicing.

The stronger the demonic energy, the stronger the armor.

But now that evil spirit can be absorbed and turned into demonic energy, he doesn't have to fight and kill, and take risks...

For a while, Li An inexplicably yearned for it. Those third-level spirit veins containing evil spirits are difficult for others to use, but for him... it's a double blessing.

First, his magic skills can absorb the Taiyin energy in them to prepare for his condensation of the purple palace for the birth of the Nascent Soul.

Secondly, the evil spirit can be transformed into magic spirit, which can increase his magic power.

But it is a pity that even if it is an ownerless third-level evil spirit vein, it belongs to those mountain masters... It must be approved by those mountain masters.

It seems that sooner or later, he will have to deal with the so-called mountain masters.

Next, Li An lived in seclusion in the city while paying close attention to several shops!

The first one to bear the brunt was, of course, Mrs. She's "Zhen Dan Zhai".

If you want to find those mountain masters, you still need someone to introduce them.

The real Dan cultivators who can run from the outside world to the Tiansha Mountains to practice are definitely not ordinary people. If you are not careful, you may be killed...

Therefore, before contacting, Li An did not hesitate to spend a few more years to keep a good eye on them and learn more from the side... Don't fight an unprepared battle.

In addition, in addition to "stalking" Mrs. She, Li An also participated in several other trade fairs and was also thinking about other ways.

"Jiang Ribai!"

After stalking for half a year, Li An unexpectedly found an old friend.

One of the former powerful figures of the Jiang family has ended up here... From a distance, Jiang Ribai is in good condition and should be doing well in the Tiansha Mountains.

It's just that it's already evening now, and Jiang Ribai's coming at this time seems quite secretive...

Jiang Ribai walked into Madam She's Zhendanzhai.

"Jiang Ribai and Madam She are probably close friends..."

This is the most useful information he has obtained after following her for so long.

...

In the blink of an eye.

Two years have passed.

For two years, Li An has been lurking in the city, repeatedly asking and comparing through various channels.

"The Baishan Lord controls the largest territory, and Madam She has some credibility..."

On this day, Li An finally decided to take action.

He still decided to find Madam She, but he changed to a new identity and did not use the token he got from Madam She that year, so as not to let people guess anything.

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