Of course, it would be best to find a cultivator with a water spiritual root. As for whether the other party's main cultivation was a water-attribute method, that was not important. Shi Pozhu would find all sorts of reasons. Then he would offer tempting conditions to lure them into the trap.
The main thing that would move a cultivator was high-grade spirit stones and the treasures in the ancient ruin! Li Yan himself had been greedy for the possible treasures in the ancient ruin, and since it was on the way to the Wind God Continent, he had agreed.
For a cultivator who knew the "Seven Stars Flowing Waterfall Formation," once they felt that they had control of the "Tianshu star" formation eye, their vigilance would be reduced again, and they would be one step closer to death.
It had to be said that this Shi Pozhu's cunning was extremely deep. Even when Li Yan was already standing on the "Tianshu star," and he had judged that Li Yan's "cultivation" was inferior to his, he still had not rushed to act. Instead, he had carefully executed his planned steps one by one, ensuring that no mistakes would occur.
He had continuously consumed Li Yan's magical power in the back, making Li Yan continuously pour in his magical power to "assist" the formation, so that Li Yan's combat power would be greatly reduced. Even when he found that Li Yan was showing signs of fatigue, he still continued to squeeze him. It was not until the end, when Li Yan showed a look of impatience, that he knew he could not wait any longer and decided to act.
But even at this time, Shi Pozhu still did not attack Li Yan directly, but used the "Libei Beast" as a lure to attract Li Yan's attention. At the same time, he was still afraid that his plan would go wrong. He instantly controlled the "Tianxuan star" and shifted the control of the formation over. He wanted to make Li Yan have a brief moment of distraction and lose the last chance to escape.
It was not until this moment, when everything was perfectly presented, that Shi Pozhu attacked with the speed of lightning. However, no matter how fast he was, he could not compare to Li Yan. Now that Li Yan had used the "Phoenix Soars to the Heavens" movement skill, only the Divine Sense of a late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivator could capture his figure.
Shi Pozhu had calculated a thousand times, but he had never expected that Li Yan would see through the problem one step ahead. The moment he approached, Li Yan had already circled behind him. Li Yan had no intention of holding back. The punch he threw was by no means just physical strength. Instead, he held a drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" in his fist. Li Yan had already cultivated this method to the third level.
A drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" weighed more than ten thousand jin. Coupled with Li Yan's already perverted physical strength, the power of his one punch, with the momentum of wind and thunder, had more than doubled. How could Shi Pozhu's physical body have any resistance left? The protective light shield around him was as fragile as paper, collapsing on contact.
A pitiful mid-stage Nascent Soul expert, whose physical body could walk freely in the Chaotic Flow Space, had been instantly turned into a rain of blood and mist by Li Yan's one punch. This made Shi Pozhu, at the moment his physical body was torn apart, think that he had encountered a late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivator. His heart was filled with sorrow.
Li Yan was also surprised by his own one strike. This was only after he had cultivated "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" to the third level. In the future, as this method became more and more profound, the drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" he condensed would only become heavier and heavier, and the magical power in his body would also be compressed to become more and more pure.
The power of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water," just thinking about it, filled Li Yan's heart with anticipation.
Li Yan later also got some information from the soul search. Shi Pozhu, like Ge'ergan, were both cultivators who had been wandering in the Chaotic Flow Space for a long time. Their main purpose was not for training, but to kill people and rob them of their goods, so as to accumulate enough resources for cultivation.
As for Shi Pozhu's claim that he was from the "Wind Calamity Sect" on the Wind God Continent, Li Yan had not had time to search for this information before he had died from the poison. Li Yan guessed that the other had been lurking nearby from the beginning and had seen Ge'ergan's sneak attack being dodged by him. But he had shown himself to be so unfamiliar with the Chaotic Flow Space. Shi Pozhu was ultimately unwilling to let go of a fat fish like himself, so he had been even more careful in plotting against him!
There is no smooth path in cultivation. A single moment of carelessness can lead to a muddle-headed death in the Yellow Springs. No matter how high your cultivation is, or what powerful cultivation method you have cultivated in this world.
Three years passed in a flash. In a certain part of the Chaotic Flow Space, Li Yan, dressed in black, could cross several hundred zhang in a single leap. Due to his excessive speed, the protective light shield around him created a strange arc as it rubbed against the astral wind. And due to the fierce astral wind, the afterimage he left behind was instantly shattered into pieces, as if it were a continuously shattering Li Yan.
Li Yan, who was sliding, slightly tilted his body, and a crimson long brush flew out from his hand, shooting backward. In the blink of an eye, it was in front of a starfall beast with a head like a porcupine and a body like a horse. The crimson long brush was as fast as lightning. With a flash, it stabbed toward the right eye of this starfall beast…
Six breaths ago, as Li Yan was passing by a meteorite, he had suddenly been ambushed by this starfall beast. Although this beast's mouth was full of fangs, and the two giant fangs turned outwards from its lips looked even more sinister, what left an impression on Li Yan afterward was its pair of small brown eyes.
When this beast had ambushed Li Yan, Li Yan had first noticed the pair of giant fangs turned outwards from its lips. At a glance, they were its main offensive weapon. But as this starfall beast was rushing, two ripples flashed in its pair of small, gleaming eyes. Then, two scissor-shaped ripples appeared in front of it, spreading toward Li Yan in a fan shape.
At first, Li Yan thought it was some kind of divine ability similar to a sound wave attack. He also threw a palm strike, intending to scatter these ripples. But when his palm power touched the two ripples, he felt as if he had hit empty air, and his heart was immediately alarmed.
The two ripples, when they reached Li Yan, had spread to a range of dozens of zhang. But they passed through Li Yan's palm wind without a scratch and came straight for his body.
Li Yan cursed inwardly, "Not good!"
He was already unable to dodge, but a dark red light flashed around him, and a talisman had already appeared on his body. Li Yan did not know the name of this talisman. It was something he had obtained from Shi Pozhu's storage ring. There were a total of eleven of them. When he had tested it before, he had found that this type of talisman could not only defend against the attacks of Nascent Soul cultivators, but more importantly, it had the "fixing" divine ability of an immortal art.
And its effect was quite stable. Even against the various strange suction forces of the Chaotic Flow Space, it had a stabilizing effect for one to five breaths. In this Chaotic Flow Space, this talisman was particularly useful. What Li Yan was most afraid of were those hidden spatial fragments and black holes. The suction they produced would catch a cultivator off guard. With this good treasure for walking in the spatial turbulence, Li Yan was overjoyed. It seemed Shi Pozhu had brought him some benefits after all.
And in the following years, this talisman had indeed given Li Yan a great boost, allowing him to get through six crises, escaping from turbulent meteorite belts and the edges of spatial fragments. This was the seventh time he had used it. The power inside this type of talisman was very strong. Unless he encountered a very special situation that required long-term use, a single dark red talisman would not be used up in one go. Now, Li Yan had a total of eight dark red talismans from Shi Pozhu.
The two ripples instantly hit his body and directly crashed into the dark red talisman, but there was no flash of impact. On the contrary, Li Yan felt his body lighten, and then he lost all weight. His body could no longer borrow any power from heaven and earth. In an instant, his body began to float horizontally.
"These ripples can make a space lose all gravity!"
A thought flashed through his mind. But the porcupine-boar starfall beast's speed did not decrease. It also charged into the ripples, completely unaffected by them. In the blink of an eye, it was in front of Li Yan. With a turn and a lift of its head, its two outward-turned, snow-white giant fangs fiercely hooked toward Li Yan's lower back.
Li Yan, whose body had already begun to float horizontally, suddenly had the dark red talisman on him light up. Then, Li Yan's body, which had just started to rise horizontally, was fixed diagonally in the air, no longer floating like a willow catkin. The suddenly lit red light was so dazzling in the dark Chaotic Flow Space that the porcupine-boar starfall beast, which was already attacking with a swing of its head, couldn't help but squint, its movements pausing slightly.
As Li Yan's body rose horizontally, he fiercely smashed a fist into the nose of the charging porcupine-boar starfall beast. But because Li Yan could not borrow the power of heaven and earth at this moment, and his feet had nothing to push off from, this punch was a bit light and did not bring out the strength of his physical body.
But even so, with a "thud," the porcupine-boar starfall beast was sent flying by this punch. At the same time, two streams of gray blood sprayed from its nostrils. But due to the weightlessness of this space, the drops of gray blood, as they splattered, also floated slowly in all directions like weightless water droplets. And Li Yan, with this one punch, also used the recoil to float in another direction.
It was just that the speed of his drifting was a bit strange. At the beginning, his backward-flying body was a bit slow, as if he were slowly sliding. But the moment he left the area covered by the two ripples, he shot out like a sharp arrow.
The moment Li Yan left the weightless area, the dark red talisman on him began to disintegrate. This made Li Yan even more surprised by the two ripples. After several uses of this dark red talisman, he could already estimate how much power was inside. This dark red talisman had at least forty percent of its "fixing" power left after he had used it last time. Just now, the dark red talisman had only fixed his body for an instant, but all the power inside had been exhausted. This showed how strange those ripples were.
But this was not the time for him to think too much. He could not let those ripples get close to him again. Before his body had adjusted, Li Yan used the strength in his waist, and his entire person drew an arc in the air…
The crimson long brush in the porcupine-boar starfall beast's eyes rapidly enlarged. This time, only a ripple flashed from its right eye, and it instantly enveloped the tip of the crimson long brush. The tip of the brush immediately burst into a ball of flame, but after being covered by the ripple, the flames of that scorching fire all became slow and wavering.
And at this time, the ripple had only just flown out from its eye and had just begun to spread, covering a range of about a palm's width. The moment the tip of the brush entered the ripple, a strange change suddenly occurred. The tail of the crimson long brush suddenly exploded, and dozens of specks of golden light flew out.
The golden light spread out, flying in several directions, up, down, left, and right. Apart from more than a dozen specks of golden light whose speed dropped sharply after entering the oncoming ripple, the rest of the golden specks of light slid past both sides of the ripple in an instant. Because it happened so suddenly, the porcupine-boar starfall beast had no time to react. The golden specks of light crisscrossed, drawing a rain of fine lines in the air as they shot toward the starfall beast's body.
At this moment, in the eyes of the porcupine-boar starfall beast, the golden specks of light that had slowed down in the ripple revealed their true form. They were golden nails, sharp at the tip and thick at the tail. And at the same time, it felt that the space around it had been firmly sealed by a force, as if there were countless invisible railings. And these "railings" were what the remaining golden lights had left behind as they had streaked through space. The starfall beast immediately felt that something was wrong. It let out an angry roar and its body slammed into one side.
"Buzz buzz buzz…"
With a series of resilient sounds, the porcupine-boar starfall beast felt as if it had crashed into a series of extremely elastic small "railings." Its heavy body was bounced back.
"Prison space," this was caused by the "Demon-Sealing Needles" that Li Yan had used. As soon as he acted, he first sealed the space around the porcupine-boar starfall beast.
The porcupine-boar starfall beast suddenly felt a chill under its skin. It felt as if its body had been "stung" by something in at least seven or eight places. It turned its head to look and saw that golden fine nails were nailed to its back and abdomen. These fine nails had not been able to completely penetrate its surface defense, and the tails of the nails were still shaking with its movement.
The porcupine-boar starfall beast let out an angry roar, and demonic power was about to erupt from its body, wanting to shake off these golden fine nails. But just as the demonic power in its body was circulating, the area under its skin where the golden fine nails were nailed suddenly could no longer feel the existence of its meridians, let alone the rushing demonic power in the meridians.
The originally continuous demonic power in the porcupine-boar starfall beast's body suddenly became intermittent, as if it could take one breath but not the next. Its body instantly became weak. The ripple it had shot out also lost its subsequent power when it had crashed into the small "railings" on its side.
The crimson long brush, after a period of slow flight within the ripple, broke free. With a sudden acceleration, it struck the thick neck of the porcupine-boar starfall beast.
"Bang!"
A ball of flame exploded on the neck of the porcupine-boar starfall beast. A burnt smell immediately spread out. After losing the support of the demonic power in its body, the starfall beast's defense became fragile. A roar that soared to the heavens erupted…
A few breaths later, Li Yan inserted one hand into the head of this starfall beast. With a pull and a tug, and with a splash of stinking blood, he took out a brown beast core. Li Yan glanced at it and then put it into the storage ring on his hand. The beast cores of these starfall beasts were much more valuable than ordinary demonic beast cores. People like Ge'ergan and Shi Pozhu were here, besides killing and robbing, to hunt these starfall beasts for spirit stones.
Then, Li Yan took out a short saber. If Shi Pozhu were still alive and saw this short saber, he would definitely shout loudly, "Mine, that's mine!"
A large amount of internal organs and blood continuously fell under the saber. Soon, Li Yan had cleanly removed some bones and a piece of fur and put them away.