Following the river back to Longyu Gorge, the other two cultivators were unaware.
In order to facilitate the action, Li An took the initiative to find the two and proposed to guard different areas separately.
The other two readily agreed, because according to Li An's proposal, the area he was in was the most dangerous.
Just like that, he was caught in waiting.
…
Three days later.
Late at night.
Boom!
A terrifying spiritual power fluctuation erupted in the distance, and a war must have broken out.
Li An did not hesitate and directly activated the protective formation in the retreat.
After all, he was leaving. What if someone really raided from here?
Therefore, if he took the initiative to activate the protective formation, if there were some scattered people passing by here, they would retreat, and this road would be blocked.
Then, Li An left quickly.
…
Arrived at Tianlangtan.
There was a swamp around, with turbid water in the center. Because of the heavy evil spirit, there were no powerful spiritual beasts surviving.
Li An took the divine bird and lurked in the mud.
Although he felt that there was a high probability that he would fail in such a place, since he had already done it, he had to be cautious to the end.
"You are hunting for air here."
Shangguan Xiaoxiao couldn't help laughing.
Li An didn't move at all, as if he had merged with the surrounding mud.
It was late at night, and the sound of fighting continued to come from afar. Li An sensed the fluctuations of the Nascent Soul level or even higher, and the entire Tiansha Mountains were rumbling.
All the four sides were shocked.
Did the mountain master also take action?
After a long time, the fluctuations of the battle weakened. The battle should have come to an end. It was unknown who would win or lose.
It had been a long time since the air was quiet. According to Li An's estimation, the defeated party should have fled long ago.
It seemed that as Shangguan Xiaoxiao said, he had hunted for nothing.
"Huh?"
At this moment, Li An noticed that there was something unusual here, and a cultivator broke in!
"It's over, Master Yaozi, there's so much evil here, we've taken the wrong road--"
A hurried voice was heard faintly.
"Stop... I need to rest."
A hoarse and weak voice sounded, as if seriously injured.
This is... a caretaker, and a spirit beast that has been successfully transformed into a demon?
Li An was slightly startled, this is a big deal.
He originally only wanted to deal with the scattered weak cultivators here, but he didn't expect such a person to come...
The spirit beasts that have been transformed into a demon have a very high status in front of the mountain master.
And their cultivation is also extremely powerful.
He waited for a long time, and the other party seemed to stop not far away. Because the evil spirit here is so strong, the person who came did not use his spiritual sense to scan the surroundings.
"Master Yaozi, if we return the same way now, we will inevitably run into the pursuers of Master Baishan. It's more likely to be dangerous. We can only make a concerted effort and pass through this place. We can't stay here for long..."
The voice of the caretaker continued to come.
"Ahem..."
The demon coughed violently, "My Nascent Soul is almost destroyed, I could die at any time... Do you still have no spiritual blood?"
"No, I used it up all along the way..." The caretaker was very desperate and said, "My Lord, I'll carry you on my back. No matter what, let's rush faster. We can recover when we get home. Just hold on!"
After the words fell, heavy footsteps sounded in the swamp. Obviously, in order to escape successfully, the two men did not dare to take off and escape, fearing that they would be discovered and caught up.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer...
It was at this moment!
Li An suddenly activated the formation he had set up.
Boom!
The formation erupted, and the third-level aura swept out. In the swamp, the faces of the man and the demon changed drastically, and they hurriedly looked around to prepare to resist.
But at this moment, a man jumped out of the swamp in front of them and threw out two hundred third-level talismans directly.
"Ambush--"
An old man with gray hair and beard carried a purple-haired boy on his back. The purple-haired boy had wild eyes, but his chest seemed to be severely injured, and it was all bloody.
The old man was also pale, and he was at the end of his strength, with many scars on his body.
At this moment, he suddenly saw hundreds of talismans bursting, mixed with the killing array attacking. The old man was extremely terrified and tried his best to attack. The light and spiritual power of the magic weapon formed a shield.
But he was weak after all, and he didn't block a wave of attacks at all. He flew backwards and fell into the swamp.
Using the power of the big array to kill, Li An approached again, and the Three Yuan Slash was slashed out, the air was agitated, and the mud in the swamp was shaken away. At the same time, another three hundred talismans were shot!
The old man's cultivation was at the late stage of Zhendan, and the demon he carried was definitely at the Yuanying level. Therefore, even though both of them were seriously injured, Li An still did not dare to be careless and tried his best.
"What?"
The old man who had reached the great perfection of Jindan spoke in a lost voice. He hurriedly stood in front of the demon, swallowed a pill, and used all his strength to activate a certain treasure. A hazy light was released, and the impact of three hundred talismans and the attack of the formation were still blocked.
The old man vomited blood and said with difficulty: "The demon, go!"
His eyes were full of hatred. He saw that the ambush here was only a Jindan stage, but the opponent was too well prepared.
If he had not been seriously injured, even if there was an ambush, it would not matter.
At this moment, he secretly held a hidden weapon, just waiting for the sneak attacker to appear, and he could kill the opponent with one blow!
But in his eyes, he did not wait for Li An's approaching figure, but waited for the more terrifying talisman light -
Eight hundred talismans!
Eight hundred talismans, spread all over the space where he and Yaozi were, and then exploded together!
"No..."
The old man spoke in shock, and he was extremely shocked. Who is this person?
There are thousands of third-level talismans before and after?
He was a little suspicious for a while. Did the Lord of Baishan expect them to escape from here, so he ambushed heavy troops here?
This is not something a Jindan cultivator can do!
Who the hell can carry thousands of third-level talismans on his body? ?
The light of the explosion of eight hundred third-level talismans is like a small nuclear bomb. Mushroom clouds rose in the mud. Fortunately, there was a large formation to block it, and it was in the evil spirit, so it did not cause too much fluctuation to the outside world.
But even so, the entire Tianlangtan was still directly destroyed, a large amount of water was evaporated, and the original mud seemed to have become dry land. Occasionally, there was a water grass that was not directly destroyed, and it was already burning at this moment...
When everything was gone.
The Jindan Dayuan cultivator fell in the mud, motionless, and so was the young demon.
It seemed that both of them were dead.
But the air was only quiet for a moment, and hundreds of talismans were directly bombarded towards the two corpses-
"You fucking..."
Suddenly, the young corpse suddenly exploded, and his eyes were full of anger. Damn, people are dead, and hundreds of talismans are used to whip the corpse?
Who is so cruel!
He directly spit out a mouthful of red blood essence, which turned into a streak of silk, and actually suppressed the fluctuations of hundreds of third-level talismans. Those talismans burned in the air and turned into ashes.
The young demon lord staggered a little, his face became even paler, his eyes were filled with hatred, his consciousness suddenly released, covering the entire Tianlangtan.
But what was extremely strange was that he couldn't find where the enemy was for a while.
——When the violent explosion just now happened, the sneak attacker obviously hid again!
In front of him, dozens of spiritual talismans came to kill him.
"I..."
He was almost furious.
He was already dying, and couldn't even escape. He needed the old man who had reached the great perfection of the Jindan to carry him. Now he was dying, so he had to burn his last breath of blood to fight and save his life.
He originally wanted to take advantage of the other party to show up and kill him with all his strength.
But now it seems that this sneak attacker didn't show up at all. He wanted to use the talisman to use up his last breath of blood?
If this goes on, he will indeed be very passive and will eventually be hunted down.
He coughed up blood and almost fell to the ground. He felt extremely unwilling and hateful. He was a demon boy, but he had to die in such a remote place.
If that was the case, he would take this disgusting attacker with him to death...
"Recognize me as your master, and I will let you live--"
At this moment, a voice sounded.
The demon boy raised his eyes and saw a middle-aged man coming from the front.
Li An!
At this moment, his appearance had changed. He was neither Li An's original appearance nor Lin An.
A hint of murderous intent flashed in the demon boy's eyes, but he suppressed it and took a deep breath: "Who are you?"
Li An smiled slightly, "You don't need to care who I am. You just need to know that you either become my slave or die!"
"Choose one."
"It's not easy to transform from a spirit beast into a demon. You shouldn't choose death so easily, right? Follow me, and you will still have a chance to reach a higher realm in the future!"
Li An persuaded him patiently.
The demon gnashed his teeth, full of hatred, but seemed to be hesitant at this moment.
"Okay!"
He agreed, and his breath was relaxed. Then he spat out a ruby-like blood from his mouth and handed it to Li An.
Li An was overjoyed, and immediately stepped forward to take his life blood, ready to refine it and turn the demon into a servant.
But the demon suddenly roared, took a step forward, and suddenly hugged Li An. The teeth in his mouth instantly turned into fangs, and bit Li An's neck fiercely-
His head had turned into a huge leopard head.
The demon's spiritual power had been completely exhausted, so he tricked Li An into getting close to him and fighting Li An with the natural advantages of his spiritual beast.
The flesh of a spiritual beast is far stronger than that of a human cultivator, not to mention that he is still in the Nascent Soul stage!
But Li An was instantly covered with dense black armor, and at the same time, Li An's spiritual power burst out, and the cultivation of the early stage of the Golden Core was instantly released, trying to shake the demon away.
But the demon held him tightly. Although the fangs did not bite his neck, they still pierced his shoulder, causing Li An to scream in pain.
The dagger in Li An's hand had already appeared, and he stabbed the demon fiercely.
The black poison sword and the ice sword!
The demon's movements suddenly became a little slow, but he still showed his true fangs and claws angrily, and actually broke through Li An's immortal demon armor, leaving Li An covered with wounds.
Li An's face was pale and he was already seriously injured, but he held the demon tightly and stabbed into the demon's body with his knife again and again.
The poison and cold air spread rapidly, and even the demon was finally unable to move at this moment, dying.
Li An was also seriously injured and unable to control the formation anymore, and was about to die.
"Do you think I will die?"
The demon's mouth was full of blood, but he grinned, and a light flashed in his Dantian Purple Mansion, and a white little leopard flew out of it!
That was the demon's Yuanying!
Even if the body dies, the Yuanying can still leave. As long as the Yuanying is still there, the cultivator is not considered dead, and he only needs to find another body.
Just now, the demon had never let the Yuanying escape, because the Yuanying was too fragile. Once it left the body, it could not resist danger.
Now Li An is seriously injured and dying, and the formation has disappeared.
His Yuanying can leave safely!
As soon as the Yuanying left, the demon's body slowly stiffened, and the Yuanying turned and flew away, ready to escape-
But at this moment, a huge divine bird flew out of the darkness, at a speed of several points, with its wings spread out for dozens of meters, and light flowing on its body, and it directly spit out a blue flame-
"No!"
The white little leopard was terrified. It never thought that the ambusher had a backup plan?
It was still a spirit beast in the middle stage of the golden elixir!
It turned back suddenly and wanted to pierce back into the body, but the blue flame had already arrived in an instant.
The Yuanying had no self-protection ability and was directly annihilated!
It turned into a puff of green smoke.
The divine bird folded its wings, and its body quickly shrank, returning to the appearance of a small red bird, and landed on Li An's shoulder.
Until this moment, Li An finally breathed a sigh of relief and propped up his seriously injured body.
He was indeed seriously injured!
If it were an ordinary person, he would most likely be in danger of death at this moment, and the chance of survival would be slim.
But his vitality was too strong, and spiritual factors flowed out of his three internal organs, kidneys, liver, and lungs, repairing his flesh and blood, and the green breath of life seeds roamed throughout his body, allowing him to gradually recover.
"Fortunately..."
Li An was still a little scared!
In fact, the reason why he showed up, fell into the trap, and was approached by this demon was intentional.
There was no other reason, he was most worried that this demon would self-destruct!
What does it mean for an early Yuanying to self-destruct?
The formation that Li An had set up was completely useless. The entire Tianlangtan, and even the surrounding area of tens or hundreds of miles, would be turned into a scorched earth. All living things would be destroyed, and he and the divine bird might not survive.
Even if he could barely maintain a glimmer of life, Lord Baishan's people would definitely rush over immediately.
Wouldn't Li An be exposed by then? And he might die!
So, from the moment he took action, he established a principle: he must never really force this demon into a dead end, and let him despair and self-destruct.
So, when the demon was really at the end of his strength, he took the initiative to appear.
Give the other party a ray of hope.
And deliberately fell into the trap and approached the other party.
Fighting in close combat.
What he wanted to do was to destroy the other party's body!
So, he risked being bitten and scratched, and was seriously injured, and used poison and cold air to make the other party's body completely stiff.
At the same time, he also extinguished the formation.
In this way, the other party naturally had one way left - the Nascent Soul flew away.
This is the only way.
So, the demon really let the Nascent Soul leave the body. After all, it is not easy to cultivate to the Nascent Soul, and it is even more difficult to transform into a demon. The demon also cherishes his life.
Li An was waiting for this moment!
The Nascent Soul is still in the body, so it can communicate with the flesh and blood and potential at any time, and explode to be invincible, but once it leaves the body, it will become like a baby out of the mother's womb, and the threat will be greatly reduced.
The lurking divine bird is to kill the other party's Nascent Soul!
Now... it really succeeded.
"Too risky!"
Li An still couldn't help but sigh. In fact, he only had 80% or 90% confidence when he started.
If it were in the past, he would never take action, just lurk and let the other party go.
But now he is too poor, and the enemy must be very rich.
So, don't mess with poor ghosts. Once people are extremely poor, they can do anything.
After recovering a little vitality, he stood up and looked at the two corpses. Without hesitation, he directly operated the magic power and devoured their flesh and blood crazily.
——If you want to refine it into a puppet, you need to invade the other party's spiritual platform with your spiritual consciousness before it is completely dead. Now both of them are completely dead, and their spiritual platforms are closed and dim, so they can no longer be made into puppets.
The prototype of the demon is a giant red leopard, weighing more than a thousand pounds. Li An devoured it crazily, and blood and qi entered his body, continuously producing magic energy, which was converted into nutrients by the life seed, and the fourth bud swelled rapidly...
His breath was also rising.
When the giant red leopard was finally sucked dry, Li An's cultivation level broke through the early stage of Jindan and directly promoted to the middle stage of Jindan. At the same time, the life seed actually grew a fourth branch!
"It's worthy of being a magic skill..."
Li An couldn't help but eat
Shock.
In fact, if it weren't for his life seed converting a large amount of demonic energy to promote the growth of his life seed, he could have reached at least the late stage of the Golden Core with this demon child alone!
No wonder Shangguan Xiaoxiao said that it was a shame for a natural demon body to form a pill in three hundred years.
It is indeed possible for people who practice this kind of magic to become a god in three hundred years.
This is indeed very tempting!
But Li An took a deep breath and kept his heart calm.
No matter how good the magic skill is, he believes it is not as good as the Life-Nourishing Immortal Art.
Compared to the Immortal Heavenly Demon Art, the Life-Nourishing Immortal Art is more like the orthodox immortal family, steady and steady.
Li An believes that the current persistence will definitely have corresponding cause and effect in the future. He has never thought about becoming a demon cultivator.
The demon child's body has shriveled. He put away the other party's ring, cut off the teeth, claws and several pieces of precious bones, and then burned the body cleanly.
Then he devoured the cultivator who had reached the great perfection of the Golden Core according to the law, and his cultivation in the middle stage of the Golden Core was close to perfection.
He carefully checked the storage bags and rings of Yaozi and the old man, and his eyes became more and more satisfied. However, he had to destroy several marked treasures and elixirs, which made him feel very painful.
He carefully cleaned up the scene, removed the formation, and then quickly rushed to Longyu Gorge.
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