The mark left by the jade parrot on his body finally disappeared completely, and Li An felt relieved.
Being targeted by such a strange existence really made him very uneasy.
After this incident, Li An's understanding of the secret realm was refreshed to a new level.
He also had a doubt in his heart. The Immortal Heavenly Demon Art was the foundation of the Demon Cult. Wasn't it lost after the death of the Demon Emperor? And the Demon Emperor's tomb was in the Emperor Yuan Realm.
But in the eyes of the jade parrot, there was a magic art inheritance in the secret realm, and it was obtained by Li An.
He woke up Shangguan Xiaoxiao and gave Shangguan Xiaoxiao some Dofu Dan.
Before exploring the secret realm, Li An pretended to let Shangguan Xiaoxiao sleep and recuperate first. After all, he didn't want Shangguan Xiaoxiao to participate in this secret realm.
This is his foundation.
"Li Gou, tell me, what do you want me to do for you?"
Shangguan Xiaoxiao ate Dofu Dan and spoke lazily.
"Nothing, I just want to know the origin of our Demon Cult..."
Li An smiled and said, "I heard that the Demon Cult was founded by the Demon Emperor, but I'm more curious, what happened before the Demon Emperor?"
Li An suspected that the inheritance of the magic skills in the secret realm might have existed before the Demon Cult?
Shangguan Xiaoxiao looked at Li An in surprise and said, "What exactly is in your so-called secret realm?"
But she was very smart and knew that Li Gou attached great importance to the secret realm. She stopped asking and said, "There are several theories about the origin of our Demon Cult. The first one says that the Demon Emperor is the fallen incarnation of a certain immortal, or the evil thoughts of an immortal after his death; the second one is that the Demon Cult originated from the Immortal Court. In a battle in the Immortal Realm, the blood-stained Immortal Heavenly Demon Skill fell into the Spirit Realm and was obtained by the Demon Emperor; well, of course there is a third one, the Demon Emperor was originally the apprentice of a certain immortal."
Li An couldn't help but be a little shocked. Although these legends are different, they at least have one thing in common: immortals!
Is the origin of the Demon Cult related to the immortals?
The reason why Li An asked Shangguan Xiaoxiao about the origin of the Demon Cult was because he suspected that the secret realm might be related to the origin of the Demon Cult!
After all, the Demon Emperor died and his tomb was buried in the Emperor Yuan Realm. There was also a magic inheritance in the secret realm, which meant that the magic inheritance in the secret realm might have existed before the Demon Emperor.
Maybe it is related to the origin of the Demon Cult.
If the origin of the Demon Cult is really related to the immortals, does it mean that this secret realm is also related to the immortals?
Li An's heart was pounding!
Why do the cultivators in the world suffer so much? The greatest ambition is to seek longevity and transcend cause and effect, and the destination of all this is to become an immortal.
It is said that some people in super Taoist sects such as the Dao Sect and the Brahma Sect have become immortals and ascended to heaven over the vast years!
If the opportunity related to the immortals is spread out, the whole spiritual world will probably go crazy. The participation of the great powers of the Hedao is just the beginning, and the legendary Mahayana and the old monsters who cross the tribulation will definitely show up.
Li An took a deep breath and suppressed his inner fluctuations.
Even though this secret realm might be related to immortals, Li An was not carried away by it. He knew his own weight very well.
Going to such a place with his little Nascent Soul cultivation?
That would be like sending yourself to death!
Not to mention anything else, a jade parrot could easily kill him.
The secret realm should be put aside for later. When Li An has absolute strength, it will not be too late to explore it.
Anyway, he is not in a hurry.
What's more, in a sense, Li An has already gained a great opportunity from it.
The art of nourishing life and casting immortals!
Even the jade parrot could not see this technique. Li An believed that it must be extremely heaven-defying.
At present, he only needs to practice steadily.
Walking out of the retreat and putting away the formation, Li An finally left, and then entered the human practice city and asked about what happened in the past few years.
The battle that happened that year has been spread all over the world and everyone knows it!
First, in the Diyuan Realm, it is said that at that time, a kind of surging and wonderful life energy suddenly surged out of the Fengye Mountains. Everyone thought that some secret realm was about to be opened. The people of the Evil King and Dao Sect broke out in a shocking battle, and there were powerful people at the Refining Void level participating!
A dozen large human cultivation cities such as Luofang City around the Fengye Mountains were directly collapsed, and a scorched earth.
And the saint of the Evil King, Zhan Qingxuan, and the genius of Dao Sect, Li Yunxiao, also appeared. In the end, no one knows who won and who lost.
In the Yuanling Realm, the battle in the Taixuan Mountains was not paid much attention. The battle of the Jiang family caused heated discussions and lasted for a long time. It is said that in that battle, a goddess of Dao Sect, Tan Qingxue, fought against the four evil cultivators in the God Transformation Stage alone and killed two of them. She was amazing and brilliant, and became famous all over the world.
The Jiang family was not defeated!
Now six years have passed, and the evil cultivators have disappeared in the Yuanling Realm. Obviously, in this head-on confrontation with Dao Sect, it is very likely that they still lost. Li An couldn't help but sigh. Dao Zong's foundation was really strong. He thought he could kill someone with a borrowed knife and use the evil cultivator to ruin Li Yunxiao's plan. Unexpectedly, the evil cultivator's knife could not cut Dao Zong's hard bones after all.
But it doesn't matter.
Li An changed his appearance and life breath, and then set off to Qianshui Yunzhou.
His goal was Gao Tai's treasure place!
As a well-known alchemist in Qianshui Yunzhou, Gao Tai's treasure place must be very expensive, which is very important to the poor Li An now.
Soon after, he arrived at Qianshui Yunzhou. He first went to a remote place, took away the red infant flower he put there, and then rushed to "Baiyanzhou".
Gao Tai's cave was in the "Death Miasma Valley", a bad place in Baiyanzhou. The Death Miasma Valley was full of evil air, and ordinary people could not get close at all. Gao Tai relied on the elixir to enter, so he put the treasure place here, which was really safe.
"It's a double blessing..."
Li An was very happy. The Wan'e Gong he practiced was to absorb all kinds of evil spirits in the world. The Death Miasma Valley was also a treasure land for him to practice.
However, he did not enter directly, but carefully observed the Death Miasma Valley for half a year!
After all, although from Gao Tai's memory, no one knew about this place, but he still had to take precautions to ensure safety.
Half a year later, there was nothing unusual here, and no other cultivators came. Li An then sneaked into it, and arrived at the bottom of a cliff in the face of various poisonous miasma. He entered according to Gao Tai's preset method and opened the fourth-level formation to protect this place.
A stone cave on the cliff opened immediately.
Li An waited for half an hour, and entered when there was nothing unusual.
When he entered the cave, he was first hit by an extremely strong spiritual energy. At a glance, Li An was dazzled by the piles of spiritual stones!
A spirit gathering array was set up here, and this gathering array alone used five thousand top-grade spirit stones!
In the center of the spirit gathering array, there is a stone jar, which contains green crystal soil and grows a palm-sized red Ganoderma lucidum. The fragrance is full, and there seems to be a layer of hot flames burning on the edge of the Ganoderma lucidum. There is also a small array around the stone jar to restrain the spiritual medicine and prevent it from escaping.
"Heavenly Fire Ganoderma lucidum!"
Li An was overjoyed!
This is a fifth-grade spiritual medicine.
Fifth grade, a chance for the God Transformation Stage, one of the main ingredients of the Heavenly Return Pill!
If this spiritual medicine alone is sold, it may cost hundreds of thousands of top-grade spirit stones. A Yuanying family cannot afford it even if they empty their family.
Besides, this kind of thing is basically not available in Xinzhou. It is a strategic core resource. Who would sell it?
Li An did not rush to move this Ganoderma lucidum, but checked it again.
There are indeed many other good things in the cave.
In addition to the Skyfire Ganoderma, there are eleven fourth-grade spiritual medicines, all of which are the best among the fourth-grade spiritual medicines, and they are also grown with a large amount of precious spiritual crystal soil.
There are also dozens of fourth-grade recovery pills and infant-assisting pills.
Three fourth-grade refining materials: Skylight Silver, Mysterious Fire Sand, and Earth Bronze.
Two fourth-grade magic weapons, a "Mysterious Light Sword" and a "Spirit Silkworm Clothes". When attacking, the Mysterious Light Sword can trigger the mysterious light of heaven and earth, making the cultivator dizzy and difficult to resist, while the Spirit Silkworm Clothes can reduce damage.
Even the fourth-grade array materials, there are several copies.
All good stuff!
In addition, Gao Tai also stored 10,000 top-grade spiritual stones here.
Obviously, Gao Tai made this place his top-secret base. Even if something happened to him, as long as the Yuanying could escape, he would still have support when returning here, and could rely on the resources here to turn things around.
He also has a strong sense of risk, and can be regarded as a Gou brother.
Unfortunately, he met Li An, the Gou King.
"Thank you."
Li An smiled. He could practice here for a long time with peace of mind!
He planted all the spiritual medicines such as the Red Infant Flower in Gao Tai's spiritual field.
Gao Tai's spiritual field was much more fertile than his. These spiritual crystal soils were very good for spiritual medicines.
As for the Sky Fire Ganoderma, Li An did not touch it and kept it there. He just used Shennong Technique to nourish all the spiritual medicines.
Then he began to practice in seclusion here!
There was a lack of spiritual veins here, and it was difficult for Li An to improve his realm. He mainly practiced the Ten Thousand Evils Technique.
Absorb all the evil air in the Dead Miasma Valley!
"It's time to nourish my natal magic weapon..."
Li An was also thinking about this problem.
Generally, when you reach the True Dan realm, you can actually consider nourishing your natal magic weapon.
Once the treasure of life and death cultivation is successful, it can communicate with your mind and will be more powerful than ordinary magic tools.
Li An has never considered it, mainly because of... safety issues. For example, when Xiang Yuntian was in Tiansha Mountain Range, Li An left a small sword that he had cultivated with his life as a "handle". As long as Li An crushed it, Xiang Yuntian would be seriously injured if he didn't die.
Cultivating with one's life, while giving the magic weapon power, it is equivalent to handing over part of one's life.
But this kind of thing is inevitable, for example, in the legendary period of crossing the tribulation, the magic weapon cultivated with one's life can help to cross the tribulation!
Now he has three fourth-level refining materials, and he has the resources to nourish his life magic weapon.
"Forget it, let's talk about it later--"
Li An finally shook his head.
He mainly disliked that these refining materials were slightly inferior.
In his opinion, the material of the magic weapon cultivated with one's life must be... extremely solid.
The power is secondary. First of all, it must be thick and hard to be damaged.
Otherwise, Li An is unwilling to hand over part of his life!
He concentrates on practicing the Wan'e Gong...
...
One year later
The evil air of the Death Miasma Valley has been absorbed and refined by Li An. The All Evils Skill is very overbearing, and now he has officially set foot on it.
He is very much looking forward to it. When he reaches the next stage of perfection, he can break all kinds of spells with his physical body, and even resist the divine weapons. It will be difficult for others to kill him.
"Zhu Hualu..."
He remembered the ten-year agreement between Gao Tai and this person.
Over the years, the two have also agreed to collect the essence and blood of Yuanying cultivators. This time they meet, the two should refine the human return pill!
Gao Tai's calculations are very shrewd. If there is no accident in the battle of Taixuan Mountains, he will not only make great contributions to the evil cultivators, but the dead Yuanyings will probably be able to gather enough essence and blood for him.
After thinking about it, Li An decided to take action.
After all, Gao Tai has a Tianhuo Ganoderma lucidum, and Zhu Hualu must have a chance to become a god. This kind of thing is also very important to Li An.
And, most importantly, Li An has a great advantage in taking action now.
Gao Tai is dead!
He could use Gao Tai's identity to catch the other party off guard.
After thinking it over, Li An immediately began to prepare.
He collected all the spiritual medicines in the valley, changed his appearance, concealed his life energy, and turned into an old Zhendan cultivator, and went to the city where the headquarters of the New Dao League was located - Xindao City.
Xindao City is now the largest city in the Yuanling Realm. Many major forces have gathered here. Even the Huashen cultivator Wu Juelun is practicing in seclusion here. It can be called a holy place for practicing in the Yuanling Realm.
Gao Tai and Zhu Hualu agreed to meet in this big city.
There is no other reason. Both of them are more cautious and afraid of being plotted against by the other party.
But if it is in Xindao City, there will be no such concern. There are many masters here. If anyone wants to take action, it will inevitably attract the attention of the New Dao League. At that time, their plans will be in vain, which is not in the interests of both of them.
So, it is safest here!
"After Gao Tai and Zhu Hualu meet, they will further decide where to go to make alchemy." Li An thought about it. This was a more troublesome point. The location after the two left the New Dao League was random! Li An could not prepare in advance. If Zhu Hualu was a little more cautious, he could even suggest going to other big worlds to find alchemy locations. There were so many places... This meant that Li An could only fight head-on! However, the Blue Flame Divine Bird, Gao Tai's puppet, and Li An himself were equivalent to three against one... Facing the Nascent Soul Stage, the chances of winning were still very high. He temporarily stayed in the New Dao City and continued to increase the storage of formations and talismans on his body. ... In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed. Li An currently had two fourth-level formations and more than two hundred fourth-grade talismans on him, and his wealth was very rich. In the past six months, he also found out more news. The New Dao League was vaguely unstable. In the battle that year, Wu Jue Lun led people to support Jiang Clan, but he was seriously injured. Although Dao Zong helped, he was still alive.
The Li Clan and Tianwu Sect formed an alliance, and Wu Jue Lun's daughter married Li Chengwang, which stabilized the situation.
The Jiang Clan was in its heyday, and it was getting more and more prosperous. Nanfengzhou gathered a large number of cultivators, and vaguely it could compete with the New Dao League.
He also heard some news about the Evil Spirit Lake. Because "Gu Dao" died in Taixuan Mountains, the Evil Spirit Lake took a sharp turn for the worse. In the first year after Gu Dao's death, it was said that a Yuanying master proposed to take over, but the Evil Spirit Lake had always opened the protective formation left by Li An, and no one was allowed to enter...
But Li Shuangshuang's stubbornness was useless. Two years ago, the Evil Spirit Lake was officially annexed by the Li Clan!
Li Shuangshuang had finally escaped from the Li Clan, and now she is back.
Of course, her situation is better now. After all, Li An has changed her appearance and life breath for her, and Li cannot recognize her true identity.
Li An did not have much fluctuation in his heart. Whether he can survive depends on Li Shuangshuang herself.
…
"Wangyue Tower."
At sunset, Li An walked to a restaurant. His dress had changed completely. Now he looked like a rich man, wearing brocade clothes, with a big belly and a rosy face.
Gao Tai did not use his real name when dealing with Zhu Hualu, but used the pseudonym "Tai Xuanzi" to get along with him.
After eating and drinking in the restaurant for three consecutive days, Li An found a place where the last ray of sunset could shine today.
Just as he sat down, a traveling doctor holding a sign came to him. He wore a tall hat, his clothes looked dirty, his face was thin, but he had a green beard. He sat opposite Li An, smiled slightly, and said:
"When the sun sets, it's just right to drink a pot of spiritual wine, and you will have the opportunity to live forever, and this will be intertwined in a moment."
Li An raised his eyebrows and said, "What longevity? It's best to drink a pot of tea in this world. Sir, please!"
The secret code matched.
This person is Zhu Hualu!
"Brother Taixuan, your things are well prepared.
What's wrong?" Zhu Hualu asked in secret. Li An also replied: "Don't worry, everything is ready... It's just that the Nascent Soul blood is still missing. I would like to ask you to join me and kill two or three more..." Li An tried. This is a way he thought of. In order to smoothly advance the alchemy, Zhu Hualu will most likely agree. When the two set out to find the Nascent Soul cultivator, Li An can create an opportunity for a sneak attack, for example, release the puppet Gao Tai to pretend to be a Nascent Soul cultivator, and then catch Zhu Hualu off guard... Li An didn't know Zhu Hualu's background, so it's better to think carefully and try to pull everything to your advantage! "Huh?" Zhu Hualu glanced at Li An and said: "Since it's not enough... There's no need to make up. I was just about to talk to you about this." "I already have a drop of God Transformation Blood! "
A drop of blood of the God of Transformation!
Li An was shocked. How did Zhu Hualu get it?
When refining the Human Return Pill, the higher the blood level, the better the effect. A drop of blood of the God of Transformation is better than ten basins of Yuanying blood.
"That's great!"
Li An was very happy. "Daoyou, what conditions do you have? Just ask--"
Zhu Hualu smiled. This Taixuanzi is really a smart man. He controls the blood of the God of Transformation. In the matter of refining pills, he has a lot of say!
"I will pick the refined Human Return Pill first, and I will get two-thirds!"
"In addition, Daoyou needs to give me 50,000 top-grade spirit stones!"
"Isn't this too much? "
Li An's face was a little ugly, and he said helplessly: "Brother Zhu is right, it should be so, but 50,000 top-grade spirit stones are really too much. I can only take out 20,000 at most..."
Zhu Hualu frowned, and the two bargained again. Finally, it was decided that Li An would compensate Zhu Hualu with 25,000 top-grade spirit stones, plus ten fourth-grade spirit herbs.
"Okay, then let's discuss the location of alchemy. Does Brother Taixuan have any ideas?"
Li An said: "What do you think, Brother Zhu?"
Zhu Hualu said: "How about Nanfengzhou? In recent years, the Jiang family has developed rapidly, and with Dao Zong as a backer, there are countless spirit veins emerging there. This is the best! "
Li An pondered, wondering if Zhu Hualu was trying to lure him in.
Could he be trying to trick him in and kill him?
But Li An thought again, it shouldn't be.
First, "Tai Xuan Zi" and Zhu Hualu have been working together for many years, and the level of both of them has not yet reached the level of a true fifth-grade alchemist. To refine the Ren Huan Dan, they must work together.
For this reason, Zhu Hualu and Tai Xuan Zi have been studying the method of refining the Ren Huan Dan over the years.
If Tai Xuan Zi is killed, Zhu Hualu will not be able to support it alone!
Second, Nanfengzhou has been In a sense, this is now the territory of Dao Sect, and Dao Sect has strict laws and regulations. It is unforgivable to use human lives to make elixirs. Back then, Lin Fangping was a genius in Dao Sect, but he was abolished and expelled from the sect just because he made two spirit girls.
If Zhu Hualu dares to mess around, Taixuanzi only needs to expose it, and this person will not be able to make elixirs, and he will die!
Perhaps, Zhu Hualu is also worried about being calculated by Taixuanzi, so he proposed to go to Nanfengzhou.
After all, there, the two have the same interests, and no one dares to betray the other easily.
"Okay! "
Li An agreed immediately.
The two of them left Xindao City and flew all the way to Nanfengzhou.
In fact, Li An wanted to take action several times during the journey, but he held back. Now the two of them didn't know how strong they were. If the other party had any tricks and escaped, then all the efforts would be in vain.
We have to wait!
"Brother Taixuan, there are many spiritual veins under the Jiang family now. I joined the Jiang family as a guest official a year ago. Now I have obtained a spiritual vein with earth fire. I can use it to make pills with half the effort. It is at Nuanyan Peak. What do you think?"
Nuanyan Peak is about 50,000 miles away from the Jiang family, which is not too close.
Li An was quite worried and said, "Brother Zhu, you didn't tell me about this before you came..."
"Sorry, please forgive me, Brother Taixuan, I am also for the sake of insurance..."
Li An pondered for a while and said, "Well, it's okay at Nuanyan Peak, but for safety, the formations here need to be rearranged by me... What do you think, Brother Zhu? "
Zhu Hualu frowned slightly, but he still nodded and said, "Well, that's it!"
After all, Li An followed him to the place he chose, which was enough to show Li An's honesty. Now he naturally had to give Li An some control, otherwise Li An would not be at ease.
Nuanyan Peak, large areas of bare brown rocks, emitting steaming hot air, and some indigo occasionally exposed on the rocks, the scenery was quite peculiar.
As soon as he arrived here, Li An immediately released his spiritual sense and scanned the whole place to ensure that all the formations set by Zhu Hualu were removed, and then laid two fourth-level formations.
After doing all this, the two entered the cave where Zhu Hualu was.
Before refining the elixir, the two still needed to do a lot of preparation.
The most important thing was to refine the essence and blood of the spirit. !
This is the main medicine!
The two sat opposite each other on both sides of a "fire eye". The fire eye was dug out from the earth veins, which could arouse the earth fire and help the cultivators to make pills.
On the fire eye was a copper furnace as tall as a person, which was between the fourth-grade and fifth-grade magic tools. It seemed that Zhu Hualu had really made a lot of preparations for people to make pills.
"I have gone through a lot of hardships to get this drop of blood. Brother Taixuan, you and I must refine this main medicine first--"
Zhu Hualu took out a jade bottle, and in the jade bottle was a drop of bright red blood. He opened the bottle cap, and a strong evil spirit and blood spirit gushed out.
Li An immediately understood that Zhu Hualu This drop of blood must have come from evil cultivators, and it might be related to the battle that happened in the Jiang family that year.
Li An nodded and said, "Okay--"
The two began to work together to continuously refine this drop of blood!
The fact that Zhu Hualu could get this kind of thing shows that this person is not simple. If you want to deal with him, you need enough patience.
It will take a year just to refine this drop of blood!
The refining of the fifth-grade elixir is too troublesome!
"Brother Zhu, you and I have to speed up..."
Two months later, Li An opened his mouth and handed Zhu Hualu a fourth-grade nourishing spirit pill.
In fact, refining medicinal materials mainly consumes his Their spiritual consciousness.
For two months, Li An had been working with him to refine medicine. Zhu Hualu had already trusted Li An. At this moment, he took the pill given by Li An, just glanced at it, and took it, nodded, "Yes, it's time to speed up the progress. In the future, we will take turns, one day each, so that we can do it uninterruptedly..."
For the past two months, because they were afraid of making mistakes, the two of them worked together.
With the increase of proficiency, one person can do it.
...
In the blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed.
This day, it was Zhu Hualu who refined medicine.
The time had come, Li An immediately entered the medicine refining room and said, "Brother Zhu, what's going on?"
"Almost... In another half a month, we can finish refining!"
Zhu Hualu spoke loudly, a little tired, and said, "Brother Taixuan, you continue to refine. "
Just as he finished speaking and turned to leave, he suddenly felt a bang in his ears, as if his soul was attacked. He was shocked and subconsciously realized something. He wanted to fight back, but he felt as if countless insects and ants suddenly exploded in his body, causing him unbearable pain.
At the same time, a huge blue divine bird had already spewed flames at him, and a humanoid puppet was coming from the side -
...