Finally, on a certain day in their plan, the Tianlan Clan cultivators revealed their sharp claws. Overnight, they attacked the seven clans, almost completely annihilating the experts in the clans.
But in the end, the Tianlan Clan did not completely wipe out the seven clans. They left behind some Golden Core cultivators, a group of low-level disciples, and some mortals.
Then, that Tianlan Clan Spirit Transformation cultivator used a great divine ability to directly move the remaining members of the seven clans to the extreme north of the Tianlan Prairie.
The spiritual energy here could only be said to be ordinary. If one wanted to cultivate and break through, it would be extremely difficult without the help of pills.
The purpose of the Tianlan Clan doing this was similar to raising demonic beasts. From time to time, they would send some of their clan's disciples here to hunt.
Not only could they temper their own cultivation, but they could also have some fun, humiliating and killing the beautiful women of the seven clans for pleasure.
Of course, these seven clans were unwilling to just wait for death. From then on, they constantly tried to escape the Tianlan Prairie.
But to the west or north, there was a deathly lightning region that they couldn't pass through.
Hearing this, Li Yan finally knew that the lightning between the sea and the prairie was eternal.
He had flown for nearly seven days at a speed almost no weaker than that of an initial-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to break out.
If he and Zhao Min had to force their way through with just their physical bodies, they could probably hold on for a few thousand li with their extreme speed, but they would definitely die in a lightning region of several hundred thousand li.
'Without the protection of a Nascent Soul cultivator, these people would not be able to pass at all.
It seems that the teleportation formation was set up in the sea for this reason as well. It is extremely difficult for ordinary cultivators to reach that sea area.'
Li Yan thought in his heart. He suddenly thought of Meng Zhiyuan's clan again, but the direction they had flown in was different from his.
Li Yan had flown east for more than a month before encountering the lightning region. He didn't know if the direction Meng Zhiyuan was going in would also be covered by lightning.
But at this time, Li Yan only thought about it. If something had happened to Meng Zhiyuan and the others, it would indeed be a pity.
Although A Guxi had never seen a Nascent Soul cultivator, he also knew that only a Nascent Soul cultivator could tear open the void.
He had, of course, seen Golden Core cultivators. The old clan leader had been a Golden Core realm expert.
So he could roughly see that the man and woman in front of him were probably not Nascent Soul cultivators yet. Then they would not be able to break through the deathly lightning region. Naturally, the other party would not have come from the north or west.
A Guxi continued to speak. After their seven clans had died in the deathly lightning region after a continuous attempt, the remaining experts were even rarer.
They had no choice but to consider breaking out to the south or east.
But the Tianlan Prairie was too big. They had tried to break out time and time again for many years, but had almost never broken through the central region of the Tianlan Prairie.
After a large number of their clansmen were killed, they were driven back time and time again.
And sometimes, the Tianlan Clan cultivators would disguise themselves as outside cultivators to lure them out.
They were like acting in a play. When they had raised the hopes of everyone in the seven clans to the maximum, they would suddenly turn hostile and kill them.
They watched as the seven clans went from hope to despair, one by one roaring hysterically. The Tianlan Clan cultivators, however, laughed heartily. It was their great pleasure to play with others in the palm of their hands.
A Guxi and the others had lived on like this for generations, and the other six clans were the same.
According to A Guxi's guess, among the other six clans, there might be less than three surviving now.
They would also often join forces to deal with the Tianlan Clan, but he hadn't seen three of them for forty years.
To this day, the Giant Wood Clan only had three Foundation Establishment cultivators and a dozen Qi Condensation stage cultivators left.
Once the three of them were killed again, the Tianlan Clan would no longer leave the rest of the Giant Wood Clan alive.
After all, the resources here were scarce and the spiritual energy was thin. It would take who knows how long for some Qi Condensation stage cultivators to grow up.
Without any use value, they could all go and die.
And a few days ago, they were suddenly discovered by four Tianlan Clan hunting cultivators. After a fierce battle, the Giant Wood Clan lost another Foundation Establishment cultivator and six clansmen, and two young girls were also taken away.
After they finally escaped, not long after, A Guxi found that there were Tianlan cultivators following them again.
This situation was very different from before. In the past, as long as the Tianlan Clan had killed some and taken away a few women, they would stop the siege for a while to give them time to recuperate.
But this time, they were clinging to them relentlessly. They could only move day and night. Relying on their incomparable familiarity with the terrain, they finally managed to distance themselves from the other party...
Li Yan and Zhao Min listened quietly to A Guxi's narration. Only when they didn't understand would Li Yan ask the other party to repeat.
The rest of the time, the two did not interrupt, which made A Guxi wonder what the two in front of him were thinking.
'My current position is in the northeastern part of the Verdant Continent. A Guxi doesn't have a map of the outside world; they are only familiar with the northern region of the Tianlan Prairie.
Now I have two choices:
One is to get a map from the Tianlan Clan. Since the Tianlan Clan is the overlord of this area, they will definitely have a map of the area around the Tianlan Prairie.
The second is to leave the Tianlan Prairie as soon as possible and find a market. From there, I can buy a map and also ask for news about the Desolate Moon Continent, and then make further plans.'
Li Yan began to ponder in his heart.
"Alright, as for the information you've provided, I won't let you give it for free. You choose."
Looking at the nervous A Guxi, Li Yan flipped his hand, and a storage pouch appeared in it, with three small, exquisite green jade bottles floating beside it.
"This storage pouch contains a thousand spirit stones. Two of the three jade bottles contain healing pills, which can be taken internally or applied externally. The other bottle is for restoring qi.
You can choose either the three bottles of pills or the spirit stones.
I suggest you choose the pills. After all, you have many injured people here. Whether they are mortals or cultivators, they only need a small amount of the pills dissolved in clean water to apply externally and take internally for a quick recovery.
And the last bottle of qi recovery pills is much faster than spirit stones for restoring magical power in a battle!"
Li Yan glanced at the dazed A Guxi, and at the pairs of eyes below that were originally filled with a deathly aura but had suddenly become fiery. He said suggestively.
A Guxi, and Ai Sang and Ai Ni below, were all stunned on the spot.
Spirit stones, pills—these were things that were already extremely distant to them. Just the storage pouch containing the spirit stones was a supreme treasure to them, let alone life-saving pills.
Now, in the entire clan, only A Guxi still had a storage pouch, which contained some food and drinking water for mortals.
They had already lost one expert after another in the Tianlan Clan's hunt, and the clan's possessions had become fewer and fewer.
Seeing that the other party did not speak for a long time, Li Yan thought that the other party had not quite understood his meaning. He pointed at the few items.
"Spirit stones, pills, choose one. I suggest choosing the pills. Or I can tell you in which direction you can temporarily avoid the approaching enemy's encirclement. Choose quickly!"
A Guxi, who was closest to them, trembled violently and immediately woke up from his daze. He suddenly knelt down in the pouring rain.
"We don't want any of these. We just hope that you two seniors can save us. If there is anything we can do, the three of us juniors will not dare to disobey..."
Before he could finish his words, Li Yan had already flicked his sleeve and put away the storage pouch and the three jade bottles. His face had turned grim. The other party's words just now, he had understood them very clearly.
"What exactly are your intentions? You want us to deal with a clan, and a group of cultivators with a Spirit Transformation cultivator at that. Do you really think this one is a kind-hearted person!"
At this moment, Li Yan was a completely different person from a breath ago. He turned hostile in an instant.
He had just arrived on the Verdant Continent, and this old man actually wanted him to go up against a clan of cultivators. Wasn't that just sending him and Zhao Min to their deaths?
"Senior, Senior, this junior's clan is already at its wit's end. And the Spirit Transformation cultivator of the Tianlan Clan had already ascended after wiping out the Nascent Souls of my seven clans.
The two strongest Nascent Soul cultivators in their clan were also seriously injured in a great war with the 'Tingyun Kingdom' three hundred years ago and have been in seclusion ever since!
If this junior has spoken half a false word about this matter, may my clan suffer the pain of soul refining!"
Li Yan's expression changed uncertainly upon hearing this. Although it had improved slightly, it was still gloomy.
"Since you have been sealed off by the Tianlan Clan long ago, where did you get this information?"
"Senior, we are cultivators from seven clans who were driven here. We have always been in contact with each other. When the time is right, we will join forces to raid some of the Tianlan Clan's towns to obtain the necessary means of survival.
Otherwise, we could barely survive by absorbing spiritual energy, but these mortals would have starved to death long ago.
Every time we raid a Tianlan Clan town, we will try our best to get some information from the captives.
And at that time, there were still a few Golden Core cultivators in our seven clans. They could perform soul-searching techniques, so the information we got was very accurate!"
A Guxi was already kowtowing in the void like pounding garlic, his messy hair flying, his appearance extremely sorrowful and miserable.
But Li Yan would not change his mind because of the other party's actions. He had only been on the Verdant Continent for a little over a month.
He hadn't even figured anything out here. The result of any random decision could be that he and Zhao Min would perish, beyond redemption.
"Even so, I will not pursue this matter further. I will ask again, do you want the spirit stones, the pills, or a temporary escape route?"
Li Yan was completely unmoved. He was already about to take Zhao Min and leave this place quickly.
That team of green-robed guards was now less than five hundred li from here. They were also riding a flying spirit artifact.
Although Li Yan was not afraid, if he was discovered by the other party, now that he knew that this Tianlan clan might be a very exclusive race, would he kill them to silence them, or would he be chased by the other party?
Li Yan did not want to see either of these situations happen.
Just as Li Yan was about to flick his sleeve and leave, a female voice came from below.
"Senior, the other party is pressing very hard this time. We are already in a desperate situation. Although all of this has nothing to do with you, and may even implicate you, even ants cling to life, let alone us.
Especially those Tianlan Clan cultivators who are worse than pigs and dogs. Today, they captured two of our young girls. They are still mortals, but they will surely have to endure the physical impact of powerful cultivators.
That kind of pain is something they would rather die immediately than endure. The next time we see them, they will only be corpses that have been humiliated in a hundred ways.
Four children were also taken away. Regardless of whether they have spiritual roots or not, they will become a delicacy for the Tianlan Clan to disembowel.
They will drink blood wine from the children's heads with terrified eyes, and take their thin arms and bite them raw..."
With a "plop," water splashed on the grass. The thin woman, Ai Ni, also knelt down straight on the ground.
Tears streamed down her eyes, and she let the heavy rain beat down on her body. Her voice was choked with great sorrow.
Remembering the heart-wrenching screams of her clansmen and the corpses of her clansmen that she had seen, which had long since rotted, Ai Ni buried her entire forehead in the deep water and grass, sobbing uncontrollably.
A group of Giant Wood Clan members listened to Ai Ni's weeping. Their bodies trembled even more violently in the cold wind. Their gazes towards Li Yan and the two of them were filled with fear and a trace of hope!