At night, a giant moon—that was the symbol of the Desolate Moon Continent.
Except for rainy and snowy weather, even in this kind of gloomy weather, that giant, round moon would still appear on the horizon.
This was true in any corner of the Desolate Moon Continent, a fact verified over endless ages.
But it wasn't here. In the gloomy sky, there were quite a few stars twinkling in and out of sight.
"Could it be that we, like those demonic cultivators, were teleported to the Demon Realm after passing through the Devil's Cliff Crevice?"
Thinking of this, Zhao Min closed her eyes and floated quietly in the sky, sensing her surroundings. A moment later, her face turned deathly pale.
"There is Demonic Qi in the several hundred li that my Divine Sense can cover. This is definitely not some coincidence. And after staying here for a long time, more uncomfortable symptoms will appear in my heart."
Just now, she had been slowly sensing the Spirit Qi between heaven and earth. In the end, she got an answer that made her despair. Demonic Qi was spread throughout the surrounding several hundred li.
Although it was not too much when mixed with the Spirit Qi, it was widely distributed.
"The Demon Realm... this is... the... Demon... Realm..."
Zhao Min muttered to herself. She was extremely surprised by this, but after calming down a little and thinking about it carefully, it was also highly possible.
If those demonic cultivators could reach the back mountain of Windy Cool Mountain through the Devil's Cliff Crevice, it was not impossible for them to have crossed over as well.
Thinking about the dark yellow space and the seven-colored light she had experienced, all of which were unheard of, they all had similarities to the descriptions of the two-realm barrier in the ancient texts.
Especially the terrifying tearing force in the final dark space and Li Yan's current miserable state. This was how Li Yan had been crushed when they finally crossed the two-realm barrier.
Zhao Min stared blankly ahead for a moment. Even with her stubborn personality, at this moment, a sense of powerlessness rose in her heart.
She carefully recalled the area where she had first appeared. To her dismay, there were no strange phenomena of heaven and earth there, let alone any vortexes or black holes in the sky.
'A temporary spatial teleportation force.'
Zhao Min thought of a possibility, which meant that they couldn't go back.
Soon, Zhao Min laughed at herself in her heart again. Even if there was a place similar to the Devil's Cliff Crevice, could she, with her cultivation, return safely?
The cultivation Li Yan had shown before was clearly much higher than hers, and in the end, he had ended up in such a state, almost perishing on the spot.
After staying like this for a while, Zhao Min finally suppressed the emotions in her heart. This feeling of being alone in a strange place was not unfamiliar to her, and she would not be as helpless as other cultivators.
She turned her gaze back to Li Yan. In her Divine Sense, there was a relatively flat place in a mountain hollow not far ahead.
Within a hundred li of this place, there were only some wild beasts. For now, it was a good choice for healing.
The priority now was to wake Li Yan up. The two of them would probably have to hide like rats crossing the street from now on. If they were discovered by the Demon Clan, the result would be being hunted down.
"I don't know if this place is deserted or for other reasons. After flying for so long, apart from the existence of demonic beasts and wild beasts, I haven't sensed the aura of a single cultivator."
Zhao Min flew quickly towards the mountain hollow with Li Yan. It was a blessing that they hadn't encountered any enemies for the time being. She didn't know how long this luck would last.
The mountain hollow was overgrown with weeds. In the middle was a clear lake. The lake was only thirty zhang in size, and under the night sky, it shimmered with a cold light, with a faint mist of water lingering around it.
After flying over the mountain hollow, Zhao Min found a relatively flat place by the lake. With a wave of her fair hand, a strong wind was born from nothing.
In an instant, a large patch of weeds as tall as a person by the lake was uprooted and swept into the sky. These weeds had already turned into nothingness by the time they reached mid-air.
Below, a large patch of black ground with coarse gravel was exposed at the edge of the lake.
Zhao Min then tossed her hand again, and seven or eight formation flags flew out. In the next moment, they silently sank into the ground.
The moment the formation flags entered the ground, several extremely faint golden lights flashed from the ground and disappeared.
Immediately, the exposed ground at the edge of the lake twisted slightly before returning to normal. At this time, the scene by the lake changed again.
A patch of weeds as tall as a person grew again on the exposed black ground, looking no different from before.
After sweeping her Divine Sense around again, Zhao Min immediately flew down with Li Yan. With a flash, the two of them vanished without a trace by the lake.
The mountain hollow returned to its previous appearance, and it was impossible to tell that there was any difference.
Under the night sky, the surface of the lake was calm and waveless, and the weeds swayed with the wind. Not long after, the sound of insects chirping rose and fell again in the surroundings...
After setting up the Illusion Formation, Zhao Min brought Li Yan into it.
Inside the formation, she arranged the several hundred yellow Gu-insects into a circle, surrounding her and Li Yan.
The yellow Gu-insects were called "Mountain-Breaking Gu." The layer of carapace on their bodies was extremely hard, and ordinary magical treasures could only knock them away, usually unable to shatter them directly.
Once several hundred "Mountain-Breaking Gu" combined their strength to form a shield-like defense, it would be extremely difficult for even a Foundation Establishment cultivator to break through it in a short time.
What's more, the "Mountain-Breaking Gu" was not best at defense, but offense.
The single horn on their heads was indestructible. Even the Spirit Power shield summoned by Zhao Min could at most withstand two to three attacks from over a hundred "Mountain-Breaking Gu."
This was also why Zhao Min had taken out this type of Gu-insect before. It was both offensive and defensive, and in an unknown environment, it could be used for both.
The "Mountain-Breaking Gu" also had a weakness: its flying speed was relatively slow. This was probably a common problem for demonic beasts with strong physical bodies.
The most elite type of white Gu-insect that Zhao Min refined had extremely strong attack power.
But when she was rescuing Wei Zhongran in the Devil's Cliff Crevice, most of them had been sucked away by the powerful suction generated in the abyss. This had caused Zhao Min to suffer a heavy loss.
That type of white Gu-insect was very troublesome to cultivate, and its growth rate was not fast. It had taken Zhao Min more than eight years to cultivate that batch.
Although she had lost more than twenty percent of them in the battle with the demonic cultivators, they had also devoured more than six demonic cultivators at the same time. Their combat power was formidable.
But heartache was heartache. Even if she had to choose again, Zhao Min would still use the white Gu-insects without hesitation.
When she saw the "Mountain-Breaking Gu," these thoughts only flashed through Zhao Min's mind, and there was not much change in her expression.
Inside the formation, Li Yan's body lay quietly, suspended in mid-air.
On one side of his body was a calm lake. The reflection of the starlight on the lake gave the half of Li Yan's body facing the lake a bit of tranquility, and a bit of strangeness.
After sitting down cross-legged in her white clothes, Zhao Min's expression was as usual. Her pair of flawless, white jade hands drew changing trajectories in the air.
As her hands danced, a series of light blue silk threads were brought out from between her ten fingers, and her long ponytail swayed from side to side with her body.
Her entire person had a rhythmic beauty. Under the illumination of the light blue silk threads, she seemed to be in a dreamlike space.
As these light blue silk threads danced, they shot towards Li Yan's body one by one. In the next moment, they had sunk into his body.
But the speed of the cultivation manuals Zhao Min was casting was too fast, and there were too many light blue silk threads appearing, like layers of floating blue mist.
They were constantly pouncing on Li Yan's body. Before the front threads could merge into Li Yan's body, the light blue silk threads from behind had already followed and wrapped around him.
Coupled with the fact that Li Yan was motionless, for a time, Li Yan looked like a thousand-year-old ice corpse frozen in eerie, extremely cold blue ice.
Time passed bit by bit. After a stick of incense had burned, Zhao Min finally stopped the movements of her hands.
Her pair of full, round breasts heaved continuously under her white clothes, and a layer of dense sweat had also appeared on her smooth, jade-like forehead.
Under her well-groomed pair of black eyebrows, her clear, water-like eyes also showed signs of fatigue.
But at this moment, she didn't care much about her own state. She gently furrowed her beautiful brows and looked at Li Yan, who was suspended in mid-air.
"Although his aura has stabilized a lot, there is still no sign of him waking up. In this situation, his body's ability to absorb the medicinal power from before will be much worse..."
Li Yan's physical injuries were too serious, and some of his major internal organs were almost completely destroyed.
If these injuries were on another cultivator, Zhao Min felt that the other party's physical body would have collapsed long ago, and their Divine Soul would have mostly dissipated.
But Li Yan, perhaps because he had cultivated the Qiongqi Purgatory Art, after Zhao Min had slowly fused his internal organs with her magical power, they actually began to heal.
And Li Yan's strong bones seemed to have the ability to lock the soul. After a shocking number of cracks appeared, not only did they not collapse, but they had firmly locked his Divine Soul within his body.
This was what had helped Li Yan hang on by a thread, giving Zhao Min time to treat him.
The cultivation manuals Zhao Min had cast before were to carefully stimulate the various medicinal pills and sacred liquids that had been applied to Li Yan's body. In the jungle before, in her haste, she could only roughly apply the pills to the different injured areas.
Now, she had to first remove the trouble caused by some of the pills. This process was very complicated. She couldn't just pour all these pills and sacred liquids into Li Yan's body.
Some pills had excellent healing effects on flesh and blood, but they were a potent poison to the internal organs. So, she had to carefully wrap the different pills and sacred liquids with the blue silk.
Then, she had to apply them to Li Yan's corresponding injured areas one by one. If there was a single mistake in the process, the result for Li Yan might be a completely different world.
The pills Zhao Min carried were not something that could be casually bought in a market. Some were high-grade healing pills refined by Lord Lao Peak of the Chimei Sect, which Zhao Min had purchased herself.
Some were life-saving pills given to her by Wei Zhongran and Zhao Zhi. This type of pill was extremely precious even to the couple. The quantity was not large, but the grade was very high.
There was even one type of pill that had reached the fourth rank. In the mortal world, this type of pill was a true immortal pill, almost at the level of growing flesh on white bones and bringing the dead to life. Of course, it was still targeted.
The other pills were some that Zhao Min had brought out from the Wei Family back then.
With Li Yan seriously injured, Zhao Min didn't hesitate at all. She directly used a few of the life-saving pills her parents had given her for both external application and internal consumption, carefully fusing them and gently stimulating the medicinal power with her Spirit Power.
But even so, Li Yan still showed no signs of waking up.
Zhao Min looked at Li Yan. With her eyesight, even in the night sky, she could see the flesh slowly writhing at some of his exposed wounds. That was the medicinal power constantly stimulating the regeneration of his flesh and blood.
Although Li Yan's aura was weak, it had stabilized. Logically, under the stimulation of these high-quality pills, he should have some reaction by now, such as his eyeballs trembling, or groaning in pain, or unconsciously frowning from the itching.
But apart from breathing and a heartbeat, Li Yan was almost no different from a dead person.
'Could it be that his Divine Soul has been severely injured?'
Zhao Min's brows furrowed even tighter, and a strange look appeared on her beautiful face for the first time. She could detect the presence of a Divine Soul.
But determining if it was safe and sound was something that only a cultivator at the Golden Core stage or above could do. She had no way of judging.
If that were the case, the consequences would be serious. She had already used the best pills she had on Li Yan, but she didn't have any pills to treat the Divine Soul.
In the night sky, a shooting star streaked across the horizon...