Decades have passed, and Li An is still unable to determine the current location of the Blue Flame Divine Bird. He just roughly guessed that the Blue Flame Divine Bird would not leave Xiling Yuanzhou, so he came here.
According to Lin Fangping's information, Li An felt that the Blue Flame Divine Bird was most likely the one that appeared in the Xiling Secret Realm this time.
"Such a divine object should naturally be visited."
Li An opened his mouth and said, "I'll go over and take a look. How about you stay in the sect?"
Lin Fangping naturally agreed. He wished that Li An was not in the sect. After all, he was looking for the Demon Sect and other things in a very secretive way.
...
One month later.
The Xiling Secret Realm used to be a barren land, but after entering the Spirit Realm for decades, this land has been nourished by the spirit world's aura and has become green and revived, with lush mountains and forests everywhere.
Li An changed his appearance and aura, pretending to be an octogenarian. Thinking of the fierce battle in Huangquan Valley that year, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.
There are many cultivators in the forest. Obviously, the news has spread, and many people want to take a chance.
"Stop!"
Li An was searching in a forest. In the sky, a group of people passed by and stopped Li An immediately.
Some people in this group wore the clothes of "New Dao League", while others were a variety of people, including foundation building and Dan formation.
The leader of the people in the New Dao League was actually a female Yuanying cultivator. She looked at Li An without any hesitation and said, "Who are you?"
Li An said respectfully, "Senior, I am a casual cultivator. I heard that there are some opportunities here, so I came to explore..."
He was only pretending to be in the middle stage of Zhendan now.
"I am Guo Jinglin, an elder of the New Dao League. This is your reward. You are now recruited to work for my New Dao League. If you perform well enough, you may be able to join my New Dao League in the future!"
She threw a storage bag to Li An directly. Li An glanced at it and saw 500 high-quality spirit stones in it!
Li An was still stunned, Guo Jinglin had already waved her hand, "Xue Li, take him with you, quickly go to Qinglin Mountain to set up defenses, and never let the bird escape again!"
"The rest of you follow me!"
Immediately, a middle-aged cultivator behind her saluted, left with seven or eight cultivators, and watched Guo Jinglin leave. After she left, the middle-aged cultivator Xue Li said to Li An, "Daoyou, please follow us!"
Li An frowned slightly. This new Dao League was so powerful and domineering. They didn't even ask Li An for his consent, and directly "recruited" him!
But this is normal. The New Dao League is a new and powerful force. Because the Yuanling Realm and the Diyuan Realm are also adjacent, it has encroached on the western part of the Diyuan Realm. It is said that there may be a big man in the Huashen period in the league, who is powerful in all directions and famous in Xinzhou.
When Li An was in Dao Sect, he saw too many masters, from the strongest ones who had reached the stage of refining emptiness to the strongest ones who had reached the stage of combining with the Dao, to batches of Yuanying of the True Dan, and it was not uncommon to see ... "Brother Xue, you are finally here, come and help!"
"That spirit beast is very strange, it can hide its breath and is difficult to track. The sect finally set up the God-Locking Array, but this array consumes too much energy, we can't hold on..."
The God-Locking Array can lock the fluctuation of soul power!
Seeing this array, Li An was basically sure that this array must be used to target the Blue Flame Divine Bird.
Back then, the Blue Flame Divine Bird followed him in all his cultivation and growth, absorbing his life breath, so it also learned how to hide its breath, but the Blue Flame Divine Bird didn't know how to nourish life and cast immortals, so the fluctuation of the soul could not change.
Xue Li organized people and hurried into the array.
Li An released his consciousness through the array.
Generally speaking, the consciousness of a True Dan Perfection cultivator can only cover a range of no more than two thousand miles, but Li An's thought moved and reached three thousand miles!
This time, the New Dao League had obviously planned to capture the Blue Flame Divine Bird. The entire battlefield was eight thousand miles in radius, and a total of twelve Soul Locking Arrays were set up to monitor the battlefield and prevent the Blue Flame Divine Bird from escaping.
Three or four thousand miles away, a fierce battle was going on, and Li An had already sensed the familiar fluctuations of the Blue Flame Divine Bird!
Nascent Soul.
The Blue Flame Divine Bird has already entered the fourth level! Equivalent to the Nascent Soul cultivation of humans, and it is probably facing no less than ten Nascent Soul cultivators at this moment!
The New Dao League really spent a lot of money.
Li An pondered for a moment. To act directly? That would be too dangerous. After all, there were many people on the scene, and it would be very likely that the New Dao League would hunt him down.
He carefully sensed this so-called Soul Locking Array.
The fourth-level formation was quite extraordinary, but after studying it for a while, Li An immediately found its flaws.
He had been in Xuangui Peak of Dao Sect for decades and had studied the magic array thoroughly. He was able to set up a fifth-level array in the realm of Tiandao. He was already familiar with the fourth-level array, which was not difficult for him.
He controlled the array, but quietly released Dahei!
This spiritual beast that brought him out of Dao Sect was kept by his side. At this moment, it rushed out directly, suddenly turned into a giant several hundred meters long, and roared towards a corner of the array.
Over there, a cultivator from the New Dao League was trying his best to support the array. Dahei suddenly rushed over. The cultivator's face changed drastically. He hurriedly tried to resist, but was knocked away by Dahei -
The Dahei python rolled its tail, and the array base underground was directly broken!
Suddenly, the entire array was inexplicably disordered, and Dahei quickly escaped from the array in another direction and ran into the mountains and forests!
"What's going on?"
"Damn, where did the snake come from? What should we do..."
"The formation is unstable. Repair it. Repair it quickly--"
All of them were panicking.
However, the fourth-level formation was complicated. Among these True Dan cultivators, there was no formation master of this level. They could only worry.
The soul-searching effect of the formation also collapsed instantly.
--
In the center of the battlefield.
A divine bird that looked like it was made of sapphire gold, flapped its wings, and terrifying spiritual flames surged. It was difficult for more than a dozen Yuanying cultivators to get close to it.
"Perfect Yuanying, this divine bird is equivalent to a perfect Yuanying of humans, we must not let it run away!"
"Be careful, its innate divine flame is amazing, even a fourth-level magic weapon will be penetrated!"
"Don't fight with it, this beast has strong spiritual power, far better than us, entangle it and exhaust its energy!..."
The Yuanying masters around spoke one after another. They have been planning to capture this divine bird for nearly 20 years, but now they really start to find out how difficult it is.
Although it is only a Yuanying, its innate divine flame is invincible, and the spiritual power of this divine bird is incomparably long and strong, and it is gifted.
It can only be entangled!
But, at this moment, the blue divine bird seemed to have sensed something, and it opened its mouth and spurted out a long river of flames. The golden flames burned everything. The three Yuanying cultivators in that direction hurriedly retreated, and the divine bird rushed over directly, with flames bursting out of its body, and its speed increased rapidly.
"Chase!"
"It can't escape!"
"There is a large formation blocking it on the periphery, don't be afraid!"
Several Yuanying followed in pursuit, but after just chasing for a while, they found something wrong.
Because they felt that the breath of the divine bird was changing rapidly, and they were unable to lock it.
"What's going on?!"
"No, there is a problem with the soul-locking formation in this direction!"
"Quick! Don't let it run away!"
A group of Yuanying were anxious, but at this moment the divine bird was desperate, and for some reason it was extremely thirsty, so it was also very fast, leaving them behind -
...
On Qinglin Mountain.
"It's over, this formation can't be repaired at all..."
"What should I do..."
Xue Li and others were very anxious.
"Oh no, what is that..."
At the same time, someone was shocked. When everyone looked up, it seemed like a sun was flying towards them in the sky, very fast-
"Divine Bird!"
"Quick, run!"
A group of cultivators were all shocked and turned to flee-
At this moment, Li An finally made a move!
"Stop!"
He shouted, and used the Soul Devouring Sound Wave and My Lord's Art at the same time. The mental attack immediately made the group of True Dan cultivators sway inexplicably. The two with weaker spiritual consciousness directly hugged their heads and wailed.
And the big black python that had already escaped had also quickly rushed back and swallowed the two cultivators in one bite!
Li An's movements were extremely fast. The Evil Shadow Art increased his speed and he was directly behind Xue Li. He directly used the Four Deadly Moves, and Xue Li was blown into a bloody mess!
The Blue Flame Divine Bird on the sky has arrived. The huge bird, which is dozens of meters high, landed with its claws, and the other two cultivators were directly pierced. Several cultivators at the original place just wanted to escape in the air, but it just spit out a hot flame, and those cultivators turned into ashes directly!
"Go!"
Li An waved his hand, and Dahei quickly shrank and fell into his sleeves. Then he grabbed the bird and flew over the back of the Blue Flame Divine Bird. While the Blue Flame Divine Bird flapped its wings and flew high, it spit out a flame and burned the entire battlefield to avoid exposing Li An's traces.
One person and two beasts fled quickly.
Without the detection and obstruction of the Soul Locking Formation, the bird soared in the sky and soon left the people of the New Dao League behind-
...
"What's going on?"
"Why did the Soul Locking Formation here suddenly have problems?"
Several Yuanying cultivators stood on Qinglin Mountain, their faces were extremely gloomy.
Failed!
Although there are still a few Yuanying cultivators chasing the bird, it is a pipe dream to catch up.
"Fellow Daoist Guo, we want an explanation."
Someone looked at Guo Jinglin!
The formation here is the responsibility of Guo Jinglin.
But Guo Jinglin frowned and gritted her teeth and said, "I will find out the truth..."
In fact, everything here was burned clean by the flame of the Blue Flame Bird. How can we find out?
...
One month later.
Yuanling Realm, Qianshuiyunzhou.
A waterfall rushed down from the mountain peak, and inside the stone cave behind the waterfall.
"Okay, okay, okay, I'm back..."
The Blue Flame Bird has become the size of an ordinary pigeon, standing on Li An's shoulder, rubbing against him intimately, very clingy. Big Black Pan was on the other side. Seeing that the Blue Flame Divine Bird was so close to its master, a touch of humanized shock flashed in its snake eyes. The master was a little too strong...
It turned out that even the fourth-level beasts recognized the master as their master...
In a month, Li An had checked Xiao Qing's condition. It was now in the early fourth level, but its combat power was so strong that even a late-stage Yuanying would not be able to get away with it.
Xiao Qing proved that it was a perfect Yuanying and awakened the innate fire. This was a light golden flame with great power that could even burn fourth-level magic tools.
Moreover, with the nourishment of Li An's life seed, its vitality and spiritual power had been extremely strong for a long time.
Li An counted the harvest this time again.
After killing more than a dozen True Dan cultivators, he made a small fortune. Now he has more than 300 top-grade spirit stones and more than 40,000 high-grade spirit stones.
In addition, there are some third-level materials, etc.
"It's time for me to break through the Nascent Soul..."
Li An pondered. He could enter the Nascent Soul at any time, but he still had to make some plans.
He put Xiaoqing and Dahei into his sleeves. Dahei was very afraid of Xiaoqing, so he had to hide in his left sleeve. Xiaoqing changed her feather color and lived in the right sleeve.
After leaving this place, Li An thought about where to go.
Yuanling Continent was formed after the original Yuanling Realm ascended. Li An has confirmed that this world is indeed the world where he practiced in his previous life.
Yuanling Realm includes Qianshuiyunzhou, Dahuangyu, Nanfengzhou and other places.
And Li An's previous life's cultivation family was in Qianshuiyunzhou!
However, he did not have the desire to find his previous life family. In his new life, for him, the family he once had was just the past. His children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Li An, the "ancestor", is not going to care about the rise and fall, honor and disgrace.
It's good enough to improve yourself.
There are two main reasons why he chose to come to Qianshuiyunzhou: First, he is very familiar with this place, and he knows the terrain, distribution of spiritual veins, etc.
Second, the entrance to the secret realm he explored in his previous life is in Qianshuiyunzhou.
The former site of Xuanyang Sect, now the Qiyin Sect, is not a place for Li An to stay for a long time. Li An naturally wants to find a place to settle down.
Fortunately, the entire Xinzhou is now a blue sea. Under the influence of the power of heaven and earth, the spiritual veins are also growing rapidly, so there are many resources in this area.
"Evil Spirit Lake."
Li An thought of a place and set off immediately.
Evil Spirit Lake is located in the territory of Ji State in Qianshuiyunzhou. Li An remembered that it was a third-level spiritual vein, but because there were evil spirits distributed in Mingzhu Lake and miasma was rampant, no sect was established.
For Li An, miasma, evil spirits, etc. are not a problem, but a great benefit.
...
Ten days later
Li An finally arrived at Shuiyuezhou of Ji Country. The Evil Spirit Lake was here. The lake was covered with mist. The lake area was more than 200 miles in radius. There was an island in the middle of the lake, which looked like it was shrouded in mist.
Li An carefully investigated and found that no one had come here. It was still an ownerless spiritual vein!
After all, there are good spiritual veins everywhere in the world now. Who would be crazy to come to such a place to cause trouble?
After Li An carefully checked the senses, he asked Dahei to lead the way to avoid any danger. Dahei looked at Li An with resentment, but still swam in with the water in an orderly manner.
When approaching the island in the middle of the lake, a battle broke out. Dahei suffered a huge loss. Three third-level evil spirits appeared and Dahei was almost beaten to death.
After confirming that there were no higher-level evil spirits, Li An suddenly descended. When the Soul Devouring Sound Wave Power moved, the three third-level evil spirits were all shaken and frightened by Li An's sound wave power. Li An directly caught them!
Having studied under Tuoba Wanzhong, the great elder of the Ten Thousand Souls Sect, and possessing the Immortal Heavenly Demon Art, a mere evil spirit was nothing but a meal for Li An.
After rescuing Dahei, Li An finally landed safely on the island in the middle of the lake.
The island was not large, with a radius of only about seven or eight miles, but because it contained a third-level spiritual vein, it was lush with green forests and many spiritual beasts. Li An sensed that there were two third-level spiritual beasts, and the others were second-level spiritual beasts, so there was no danger.
Except for the dense miasma, the scenery was quite good.
"This is it."
Very satisfied, he opened up a cave on the highest stone mountain on the island in the middle of the lake, from which he could overlook the entire island in the middle of the lake and the entire view of the evil spirit lake outside.
"The spiritual vein has changed a lot, and the spiritual energy is very rich. Within fifty years, the third-level spiritual vein here will definitely be promoted to the fourth-level spiritual vein.
Veins!"
This is why Li An chose this place.
If you want to break through the Nascent Soul, you must first have a fourth-level spiritual vein as a place for cultivation, but all fourth-level spiritual veins have owners. Even if Li An has the strength, he doesn't want to go to the bloody storm to rob.
It's unnecessary, he doesn't want to attract attention.
Just wait for a while.
Anyway, Li An still has a lot of preparations to make.
Now that the spiritual land is there, at least a fourth-level magic array needs to be made for protection, and then with the protection of the Blue Flame Divine Bird, the Big Black Python, etc., you can break through the Nascent Soul with peace of mind.
He hasn't gathered the materials for the fourth-level magic array yet.
"Go and capture all the second-level and third-level spiritual beasts on the island for me. "
Li An gave an order, and Dahei and Xiaoqing left. Li An buried his head and began to make a third-level magic array.
The resources he got from Xue Li and others were enough to make two third-level magic arrays.
Soon after, more than a dozen spirit beasts were driven to Li An, trembling. The strongest among them were a tall spirit leopard and a light golden lynx, both of which were third-level. Under the power of the Blue Flame Divine Bird, they knelt on the ground and dared not move.
"From now on, follow me and guard my house. I will not treat you unfairly. "
Li An completed the beast taming and recognition ceremony for the leopard, lynx, and other second-level beasts with good talents, and then gave them some life seeds.
These beasts were originally very scared, but now they were excited and became more intimate with Li An.
In fact, the number of beasts that each beast tamer can control is limited, and generally no more than three can establish a master-servant relationship.
But Li An's consciousness is too strong, and his soul power is not comparable to that of ordinary beast tamers, so there is no problem in controlling these.
Waving his hand to let these beasts disperse, Li An looked at the big black python with a resentful look next to him and said, "Don't look, it's your share. "
This big black python is actually a little silly and cute. Li An gave it more life energy, second only to Xiao Qing.
After all, this guy brought him out of Dao Sect, and he worked hard.
After doing this, Li An released three third-level evil spirits. These three evil spirits were eager to get away, but under Li An's control, all this was in vain.
"Recognize me as your master and serve me, otherwise, die--"
Li An used the soul control method of the Ten Thousand Souls Sect to frighten the three evil spirits. Spirit...
Ten days later.
Two third-level magic arrays were deployed, covering the entire 200-mile range of the Evil Spirit Lake, indicating that this place already has an owner.
On the lake, three third-level evil spirits led other evil spirits to patrol and guard the island in the middle of the lake. The spirit beasts on the island were all under Li An's control.
Now, a large amount of fourth-level items, including array materials, talismans, etc., must be prepared, and time must pass for this spirit vein to grow...
Let Dahei stay behind On the island, Li An took Xiao Qing away from the Evil Spirit Lake and headed for Fengling City, the capital of Ji State.
Fengling City is the largest city in Ji State and the most prosperous place in Ji State.
Cultivators come and go, but in the capital, in addition to the royal flag of the Ji State royal family, there is another big flag - the flag of the New Dao League!
Obviously, as a major force in Yuanlingzhou, the New Dao League has also joined the Ji State royal family.
As the central city of a region, Fengling City has many major forces opening branches here, etc., which is very prosperous. Li An focused on visiting the "Ji Zhen Pavilion" opened by the Ji State Royal Family and the "New Dao League Treasures" of the New Dao League.
There are fourth-level formation materials, but they are quite expensive.
On this day, Li An disguised himself and walked into the New Dao League Treasure Pavilion. After stating his intention, someone soon led him into the Pavilion Master's room. Not long after, a middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes walked in with a smile on his face: "This Taoist friend, I heard that you want to buy fourth-level formation materials? "
Li An hid in his cloak and nodded calmly.
"I don't know what you are called? Are you a fourth-level formation master?" The middle-aged man was quite curious, but he immediately explained: "It's not that Zhang wants to investigate fellow Taoists, but there is an order in the alliance that the arrival of a fourth-level formation master must be treated as a distinguished guest!"
"You can call me Wu Ming. I am not a fourth-level formation master. This item was bought on behalf of my master."
Pavilion Master Zhang nodded, "I understand."
He waved his hand, and a maid came up with a fourth-level formation jade. Pavilion Master Zhang said: "This item is priced at 23,000 high-grade spirit stones. The distinguished guest only needs to pay 20,000 spirit stones!"
Li An raised his eyes, "Please let Pavilion Master Zhang know if there is anything I can do? "
"Fellow Daoist Wu is really a quick-witted person. To be honest, our New Dao League is recruiting talents. We are eager to recruit talents like Fellow Daoist Wu and Master. If Master is willing to come to our New Dao League, our League will definitely treat him with great courtesy--"
A fourth-level formation master is a strategic resource anywhere!
There are only a handful of such talents in the entire New Dao League.
Li An said: "Thank you very much, but my master travels around the world and doesn't like to be bound. Thank you for your kindness, Pavilion Master--"
Li An handed over a storage bag, which contained 23,000 high-quality spirit stones, not a cent less.
Then Li An left.
"Pavilion Master, do you want to follow?"
An old man next to him asked.
"Don't mess around!"
Pavilion Master Zhang said coldly, "If you accidentally offend a fourth-level formation master, it will be more trouble than it's worth!"
"Even if you can't recruit him, you should make friends with him. "
...
Li An still needs fourth-level talisman pens, talisman paper, etc., but he is not going to buy them all at once, so as not to be targeted.
It is enough to get the fourth-level array materials first.
What he lamented was that the inflation in this spiritual world... was a bit too severe. A fourth-level array material could not be sold for so many spirit stones in the lower world.
"Hmm?"
When he was about to leave, he suddenly found a shop on the corner.
"Li's Talisman".
Seeing these four words, Li An couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
...