Li Yan waved his large sleeve, and the dark light around him suddenly expanded, surging and churning.
"Bang bang bang…"
A series of heavy blows sounded continuously. The spiritual light shield around Li Yan swayed, the dark light flickering and wavering.
But Li Yan's figure did not move. He stood there, and then actually closed his eyes.
The sharp, wild wind, after lasting for nearly fifty breaths, suddenly disappeared without any warning again.
The continuously flying fine meteorite fragments, after being repelled by the dark light around Li Yan, once again became slowly drifting objects.
The transition between stillness and motion, motion and stillness, in space was extremely strange. In an instant, those meteorites seemed to have lost their weight again, just floating like clouds.
"Although these meteorites are only about the size of a head, each one has a power no less than a full-powered strike from a late-stage Golden Core cultivator. But what's fatal are those astral winds. A cultivator below the Nascent Soul realm would be killed instantly upon contact…"
Li Yan carefully experienced the attack of the past fifty breaths and at the same time, secretly compared it. The Chaotic Flow Space given by the sect was relatively stable, and the strength of the astral winds there was not much different from the current one. This also meant that the space here was also relatively stable. The place marked by the Wei family was very accurate.
The astral winds in the Chaotic Flow Space were the most common type of fatal threat. They could dissolve bone and melt blood with just a gentle brush. Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator could resist it, they could not resist it for a long time. Once their magical power was exhausted, the physical body of a Nascent Soul cultivator could not last for too long.
But fortunately, the astral winds in the Chaotic Flow Space did not blow all the time, but were intermittent. This gave the cultivators who entered it a chance to rest and recover. Otherwise, apart from the indestructible bodies of the Grand Luo True Immortals, no one would dare to set foot here for too long.
Although the astral winds followed no pattern, as long as one was experienced, one could still find some warning signs and take precautions in advance. For someone like Li Yan, who was not familiar with the Chaotic Flow Space, he could only accumulate experience step by step with caution.
After experiencing the strength of the astral winds here, Li Yan felt that if he encountered astral winds of this level in the future, he could directly charge through them with his physical body.
After the astral wind passed, the surroundings returned to a dead silence, so quiet that one could hear one's own heartbeat. A feeling of loneliness and helplessness arose spontaneously.
After observing for a while, Li Yan slowly flew in one direction…
Forty days later, in the endless dark space, Li Yan's Divine Sense constantly swept around, but his flying speed was not very fast. Every time he encountered some meteorite belts, he would observe for a long time before choosing a direction to go around them from a distance.
In these forty days, even with the route marked on the jade slip, Li Yan was still constantly observing with caution. If Shuang Qingqing or the Wei family ancestor were flying here with him, after forty days, they would have left Li Yan far behind.
In this way, Li Yan felt that his time to go to the Wind God Continent would be delayed. At least in the early stage, he dared not fly too fast.
"They all say there are also demonic beasts in the Chaotic Flow Space, but I haven't encountered a single one these days, nor have I seen any other cultivators. However, I have encountered the legendary black holes five times. If I hadn't been extremely careful, I would have stepped into one. Then I don't know where I would have been swept to. It's hard to say whether I would be alive or dead…"
Li Yan thought to himself as his Divine Sense probed the surroundings.
Every time he thought of those few encounters, cold sweat would break out on Li Yan's back. This made him have to be more and more careful, and his speed also became slower and slower. On the contrary, it was not as fast as when he had just entered.
Later, when his Divine Sense swept toward those black holes, his previously powerful Divine Sense was instantly submerged in them. If not for his quick reaction and immediately cutting off that wisp of Divine Sense, even his sea of consciousness might have been implicated.
There seemed to be a force in the black hole that could pull at one's divine soul. Just a wisp of Li Yan's Divine Sense went in, and his sea of consciousness began to churn violently. And what surprised him even more was that the hun and po souls in his Nascent Soul actually flew out of the Nascent Soul on their own, on the verge of leaving his body.
Fortunately, Li Yan's divine soul had been tempered for a long time in the "Purgatory Clan's" grotto and had encountered all sorts of strange soul attacks. With the circulation of his soul power, he forcibly pushed the hun and po souls back into his Nascent Soul. At the same time, he did not hesitate to cut off that wisp of Divine Sense, which allowed him to break free from the powerful pulling force in the black hole. Li Yan was also filled with lingering fear.
And besides the black holes, Li Yan also encountered a huge meteorite belt. Those meteorites covered one part of the sky. The large and small meteorite blocks and meteorite mountains were layered on top of each other, slowly moving forward as they squeezed against each other. It was like an endless mountain of gravel moving slowly, carrying with it a sky-covering black shadow, pressing down.
Li Yan could only retreat to the side of the meteorite belt while flying. After nine days of detouring, he finally saw the edge of that meteorite belt and went around it. During this period, the most difficult thing to guard against was meteorites suddenly hurtling in all directions on the astral wind. Also, the movement of the meteorite belt would affect the invisible cracks and black holes in the surroundings, turning a previously safe route into a dangerous hell.
"To think that I thought it was dangerous for Senior Shuang to lead the three of us back to the Desolate Moon Continent, but with her cultivation, she should have been able to get through it safely. How ignorant I was!"
Since arriving in the Chaotic Flow Space, the few ordinary storage pouches and spirit-storing pouches hanging from Li Yan's waist, which were originally used to conceal his identity, had all exploded after only four days. In the end, only the Nascent Soul level storage magical treasures he had obtained from Qi Jinghong and Chan Master Dajing, as well as the spirit-storing pouch given by Meng Zhiyuan, were left.
When Li Yan had trained in the Chaotic Flow Space before, because he had at most only stayed for a day or two, he really hadn't known that this would happen. This was also an important reason why some people were unwilling to enter a spirit-storing pouch in the Chaotic Flow Space. If the rank of the spirit-storing pouch was slightly lower, the people inside might not even know how they died.
Li Yan had not paid attention to this problem before, because the rank of the "Earthen Patch" on him was too high. A magical treasure refined by a Body Integration cultivator, Li Yan had never encountered such a problem.
If Shuang Qingqing didn't have a high-rank spirit-storing magical treasure, she would definitely have had to rely on her strength to carry them with her. In that case, the danger would not have been directed at the three of them, but would also have implicated Shuang Qingqing. From this, it could be seen that when Shuang Qingqing had promised to send them back to the Desolate Moon Continent, although it was a casual promise, it was actually a willingness to risk her life.
Li Yan, who was moving forward, suddenly tilted his body. A gray light brushed past his chest. Because it happened so suddenly, by the time Li Yan sensed it, it was already a bit late. The gray light scraped across the protective light shield on Li Yan's chest. In an instant, a long trail of flames erupted in the dark space. Li Yan's protective light shield was instantly cut open with a crack. Half an inch deeper and it would have broken through Li Yan's clothes.
Li Yan immediately broke out in a cold sweat. His Divine Sense had been released all this time, but he had not sensed a single trace of a living being in the surroundings. And here, he could not keep his protective light shield at its maximum at all times. No one could sustain that. His magical power would soon be exhausted.
"Eh?" A soft sound of surprise came from the darkness.
Then, a long, grayish-white bone spear appeared like a poisonous snake. The tip of the spear trembled and swayed, and a dot of gray light silently stabbed toward Li Yan's soft ribs, its movements as fast as lightning.
The moment someone attacked, Li Yan immediately sensed the other's presence. In his Divine Sense, a long-faced young man clad in blackish-brown armor appeared behind him to his side. Although there was a hint of surprise in the man's eyes at this moment, his face was a sheet of coldness. The two attacks were seamlessly connected. It was clear at a glance that he was an extremely experienced fighter.
Normally speaking, the bone spear's attack was already close at hand. Besides taking it head-on with his protective light shield, if he had a defensive magical treasure that could be automatically activated, it would also be activated instantly. But the dot of gray light had broken through Li Yan's protective light shield before, and no other defense had appeared.
The long-faced young man had already judged that Li Yan was not wearing any defensive magical treasures. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and the gray light on the bone spear in his hand intensified. He had waited for so long. Once he attacked, it would be a full-powered strike. He had to kill in one blow and not give the opponent a chance to act.
In that split second, a scene that the long-faced young man had not expected appeared. Just as his magical power was surging into the long spear, he clearly saw the tip of the spear pierce into the opponent's waist, but he did not sense any blood spurting out. And there was no tactile sensation in his hand. Just as he was slightly stunned, a streak of black light, so fine it was almost imperceptible, shot toward him.
This streak of black light was also incredibly fast. It flashed and was already in front of his face. In his haste, the long-faced young man ducked his head. With a "clang" of metal on metal, the streak of black light scraped past the top of his helmet. The black light scraped against the helmet, also creating a long, slanted trail of fire. Another bright light flashed in the darkness.
And at this time, Li Yan's figure had just reappeared. He was still standing in his previous position. The moment he had sensed the bone spear stabbing toward him, a few muscles in Li Yan's waist had contracted and deformed at a speed that could not be captured by Divine Sense. His entire body had twisted at an extremely small and strange angle. It was the method of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art. The bone spear had stabbed past Li Yan's side, but it had only passed through an afterimage.
At the same time, as Li Yan twisted his waist, he gently waved a hand, and a Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike disappeared into the void behind him. In a fight here, Li Yan was not very experienced.
In fact, the long-faced young man who had ambushed him was not too far from him. Li Yan's Divine Sense had already locked onto him. Just now, he could also have used the "Phoenix Soars to the Heavens" movement skill to dodge, and with a sliding retreat, he could have flashed to the opponent's side.
Now that he had refined six drops of "Undead Nether Phoenix" essence blood, the speed of his "Phoenix Soars to the Heavens" had reached an incredible level. Unless the opponent's Divine Sense was particularly strong, or he had cultivated a special cultivation method, it would be impossible for him to track Li Yan's movements. But Li Yan did not use this divine ability. The reason was simple: he was not familiar with the Chaotic Flow Space. He dared not use his ultimate speed to advance here. If he made a mistake, he didn't know where he would end up.
Li Yan had already sensed that the opponent was an initial-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, the same as his concealed realm. But he still adopted a defensive approach.
Seeing that his own attack had also failed, Li Yan was about to recall his Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike to attack again, but something unexpected happened. That long-faced young man suddenly flickered and quickly pulled away from Li Yan. With another flicker, he was behind a few meteorites.
Li Yan had just subconsciously dashed out a short distance before he forced himself to stop. Although that long-faced young man was only an initial-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, it was clear that his familiarity with the Chaotic Flow Space, or rather, his familiarity with this vicinity, far surpassed Li Yan's.
His figure was as fast as lightning. After another flicker behind the meteorites, he was already a thousand zhang away. After one failed strike, he didn't even look at Li Yan again and immediately fled. And his landing positions and so on seemed to have been calculated long ago.
When Li Yan saw the other's speed, he scanned the surrounding environment with his Divine Sense. He could only give up with some reluctance and did not dare to increase his speed to chase.
And just at this moment, Li Yan suddenly turned his head and looked to the left. In that direction, there was a small dot like a star, bouncing and leaping on the meteorites. And its direction of travel was toward him. In the blink of an eye, that small dot had become the size of a fist. After another leap, it had already jumped onto a meteorite five hundred zhang away from Li Yan.
Li Yan narrowed his eyes. It was also a person in a black robe similar to his own. In the Chaotic Flow Space, cultivators would mostly wear dark-colored clothes to avoid becoming a conspicuous target in others' Divine Sense.
The person in the black robe was a middle-aged man. He was very burly, and the bulging muscles on his body stretched his robe taut. He had a square face, a pair of thick, black, sword-like eyebrows that reached his temples, and a pair of black and white eyes. His stubbled cheeks had a sense of righteousness, giving people a very rough and hearty feeling.
This person's cultivation was also at the initial Nascent Soul stage, but under Li Yan's powerful Divine Sense scan, he found that this person should also have used some secret art to conceal his cultivation. His true realm should also be a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
After the black-robed middle-aged man stood still, he crossed his arms over his chest. He first looked around and, after sensing for a moment, his expression moved slightly and he looked at Li Yan, but did not speak immediately.
Seeing that the other did not speak, Li Yan also did not speak, but once again spread his Divine Sense to the surroundings.