The physical bodies of their Demon Clan were naturally strong. After stepping onto the path of immortality, they were tempered by Spirit Qi and became even tougher than vajra.
But the white-robed young woman's physical body was even tougher than his own. This was due to her having specifically cultivated some extremely powerful body refining art.
At this moment, Yan Tantuo actually wished that the other party's physical body wasn't so strong, so that he could capture his enemy quickly.
After a stalemate for most of the night, Yan Tantuo finally watched in helpless bewilderment as the other party disappeared from his Divine Sense's perception. He was so angry that his face turned ashen.
He had capsized his boat in a ditch. If he had gone all out from the beginning, how could the other party have had the chance to take out that emerald gourd?
This time, not only had he failed to capture the other party, but he had also lost face. A dignified Mid-stage Golden Core cultivator had actually lost a Pseudo-Core cultivator in a chase.
When the time came, that small family naturally wouldn't dare to say anything, but they would definitely laugh at him in private for being a poser who fished for fame.
After returning to the sect, the other elders and guest elders would also sneer at him in secret.
However, after he finally calmed down, he began to feel that this matter was more and more unusual.
"Those Gu-insects are all rare, and even some are of a type I've never seen before. At the same time, her flying magical treasure is at least a third-rank or above among refining artifacts, and she also possesses a powerful body refining secret art that makes me green with envy..."
Any one of these things, if taken out, would make even a great sect green with envy. This was definitely not something that the sect Yan Tantuo was currently in could compare to.
Considering all these factors, in the void, the light in Yan Tantuo's eyes began to flicker more and more unstably.
He had already thought that this young woman should have come from an extremely strong sect, or even a reclusive cultivation sect. As for why she was plundering medicinal pills everywhere, he didn't know for now.
But just from her style of doing things, she was someone who was thoughtless and lacked experience. This further confirmed the possibility that the other party was a disciple of a reclusive sect.
After thinking for a long time, Yan Tantuo finally decided not to return to the sect he was currently hiding in. He wanted to get far away from here.
Since he had already offended this person, and had failed to kill her in time, then what would happen next would be extremely bad for him.
The white-robed young woman acted with a bit of recklessness, so she should be an elite disciple of some reclusive sect out for experience.
This time, he had injured her. When she called for backup from behind her, his fate would be miserable. Thinking of this, Yan Tantuo's figure flashed and disappeared into the night sky.
And Yan Tantuo's unprovoked disappearance later added to Zhao Min's mystery.
Many people thought that even the Mid-stage Golden Core Yan Tantuo had died at her hands, which caused many families to be terrified for a time.
Zhao Min circled outside for another several thousand li. It wasn't until noon the next day that she flew back to a place six hundred li from the family she had attacked last night.
Li Yan was hidden by her in a remote place overgrown with weeds. It was a large plain area with only some very weak, low-level demonic beasts. After Zhao Min had set up an illusion formation, it was considered safe.
She also did not have a Spirit-Storing Pouch. How could she dare to bring Li Yan with her every time she went out to attack a cultivation sect?
In that illusion formation, she had left sixty percent of her Gu-insects to guard, which had reduced her own combat power by a lot.
Zhao Min did not mind this. Keeping Li Yan safe was her biggest concern now.
After circling outside for most of the night, she became more and more careful as she approached the illusion formation in the weeds.
She knew how large the range of a Golden Core cultivator's Divine Sense was, but she had to come back. If she was away for too long, the probability of something happening to Li Yan would increase infinitely, and he could die at any time.
The range of her escape before had been a repeated circling within a thousand li of where Li Yan was hiding.
From time to time, she would quietly leave a Gu-insect somewhere. At this time, she had no more than seventy Gu-insects on her.
With Zhao Min's cultivation, her Divine Sense range was only about five hundred li. She couldn't sense anything beyond that range.
The purpose of all this was to let the Gu-insects act as an extension of her Divine Sense, to sense a larger area.
These Gu-insects had all been refined by her. Although she still couldn't sense them from five hundred li away, if a Gu-insect died, Zhao Min would know immediately.
The order she had given the Gu-insects was to attack any cultivator who appeared there. This would undoubtedly bring her more danger.
But on the other hand, with Gu-insects appearing in all directions, it would also confuse the enemy's line of sight.
However, it might also harm innocent passers-by, but Zhao Min couldn't be bothered with that anymore.
The connection between her and the Gu-insects was also limited, with the longest distance being about two thousand li.
But at that distance, the connection was already very weak. Even with the fluctuation or decrease of the Gu-insect's aura, she would think it was dead.
But she only needed to basically maintain a distance of about a thousand li from the enemy.
With the flying speed of the emerald gourd, even if she encountered a Golden Core cultivator like the one last night, she would still have enough time to escape without meeting them.
In the end, everything was fine. When Zhao Min returned to the illusion formation, everything was as before, which made her let out a big sigh of relief.
Several hours later, when Zhao Min opened her eyes again, her injuries had already recovered a little. To be hit by the fist wind of a Golden Core cultivator and not die was already considered a great fortune for her.
The reason she had woken up so quickly was because Li Yan's aura in her Divine Sense had shown signs of declining again.
Enduring the pain in her body, Zhao Min flashed to Li Yan's side and quickly released her Spirit Power to probe his body. A moment later, her face became even paler.
The Spirit Power that was still slowly flowing in Li Yan's body was actually beginning to recede back to his Dantian in many places.
And this phenomenon was slowly happening all over Li Yan's body, as if all the Spirit Power was going to retreat back into his Dantian's Purple Mansion.
'In this situation, without the nourishment of Spirit Power, after a long time, this physical body will be completely destroyed and will slowly degenerate into a mortal's physical body. If one day Li Yan's Divine Soul suddenly awakens, the powerful Divine Soul of a cultivator is not something this physical body can withstand. It will completely explode in an instant. At that time, Li Yan's Divine Soul will quickly dissipate and disappear!'
Zhao Min thought to herself. A physical body that had lost its Spirit Power would also be unable to continue nourishing Li Yan's soul.
She still had one more method she could try, which was to find a magical treasure that could preserve the soul, forcefully draw out Li Yan's soul, and let the magical treasure continue to nourish it.
But a magical treasure that could preserve the soul was something that even a Spirit Transformation cultivator might not have, let alone a Foundation Establishment cultivator like her.
All in all, Li Yan's cultivation was too low. If he were a Golden Core cultivator, she would only need to preserve his Golden Core. For a cultivator at the Nascent Soul level or above, she would preserve their Nascent Soul.
In the future, she could just find a suitable physical body for him to possess.
Zhao Min stood there in a daze. She couldn't think of any way. Now, she could only use her own Spirit Power to nourish his flesh and blood from time to time, but that was not a solution.
At the same time, it also took time for her to recover her Spirit Power, not to mention that she was still injured.
A day later, in the sky, Zhao Min sat on the emerald gourd. After embedding several Spirit Stones in it, she let it fly on its own.
At the same time, she also activated the isolation formation on the emerald gourd. A thick fog enveloped the emerald gourd and the two of them, making it impossible for anyone to see the situation inside.
Li Yan lay in front of Zhao Min with his eyes closed, motionless. Zhao Min held a Spirit Stone in one hand, and the other hand had a fair finger suspended an inch above Li Yan's forehead.
About every ten breaths, a drop of ice-blue liquid formed from Spirit Power would condense at the tip of her finger. The moment the ice-blue liquid condensed, it immediately emitted an astonishingly rich aura.
It was a drop of very pure Spirit Power liquid. In the next moment, the Spirit Power liquid quickly entered Li Yan's forehead.
A layer of light blue immediately spread from Li Yan's forehead to his whole body, and a vibrant look reappeared on his skin.
Zhao Min's face showed an abnormal paleness. To condense this kind of Spirit Power liquid, she had to consume a great deal of Spirit Power.
So, she had to hold a Spirit Stone to supplement her energy on one side, while refining the Spirit Power liquid on the other.
Even with Zhao Min's Pseudo-Core realm cultivation, without supplementation, the Spirit Power in her Dantian could at most condense no more than twenty drops of such Spirit Power liquid.
And if she condensed it for a long time, it would damage her Foundation Establishment foundation. At best, her realm would become unstable and would require a long time to consolidate her cultivation. At worst, she would directly drop a small realm.
But after discovering that the Spirit Power in Li Yan's physical body was beginning to dissipate, even though Zhao Min had repeatedly guided it with her Spirit Power, she found that the Spirit Power retained in his body could not be maintained for too long.
His life force would quickly disappear again. So, after some thought, she decided to try condensing Spirit Power liquid to infuse into Li Yan's body.
The result was that the maintenance time was indeed increased several times. Zhao Min chose this method without hesitation. As for what consequences it would bring her, she only thought about it for a moment before casting it to the back of her mind.
After considering it in the illusion formation in the weeds, she still felt that taking Li Yan to find a market would be a much better hope.
A method like plundering medicinal pills could no longer be done.
She had now attracted the attention of the nearby sects. The possibility of being ambushed like last night would become more and more frequent. She was not invincible, and her demise would come quickly.
Moreover, searching for pills to treat Li Yan in this way was also a matter of luck.
Going to a market to find pills, with a clear purpose, would probably be easier.
Before, she had been thrown into disarray by Li Yan's coma, so she had only been thinking of waking him up as soon as possible, which was why she had used the most direct and violent means.
After daybreak, Zhao Min had retrieved the dozens of Gu-insects scattered outside. At this time, another twenty or so of the Gu-insects had already died. That was due to cultivators appearing within the range of the Gu-insects and the two sides fighting.
Originally, without subsequent replenishment, the Gu-insects that Zhao Min had sent out were of varying strengths and types, and she was just making do.
But to her surprise, apart from these dozens of Gu-insects, another one hundred and forty or so Gu-insects appeared in her mind.
Those were the Gu-insects she had left behind two nights ago at that family's residence to block the pursuing Foundation Establishment cultivators.
In the end, some of the Gu-insects had been scattered and had flown away. Then, based on the faint connection in her mind with Zhao Min, they had slowly flown back.
But she had released more than six hundred at the beginning, and now only these had returned, which made Zhao Min feel a pang of heartache and helplessness.
When collecting these Gu-insects, Zhao Min was extra careful. She was afraid that a certain Gu-insect had been secretly tracked by the other party and had been deliberately released.
But strangely, until she had collected the last Gu-insect, not a single cultivator had appeared.
This abnormal phenomenon made Zhao Min even more careful and on guard, but in the end, it was all for naught.
How could Zhao Min understand the reason? After her Gu-insects had flown away, there were indeed a few cultivators who had followed them.
But because Zhao Min, in order to escape from Yan Tantuo, had already flown out of the range of the Foundation Establishment cultivators' Divine Sense with her magical treasure.
After that, Zhao Min had deliberately made a few big circles, and the Gu-insects had also been flying in circles. Those cultivators were turned around and around until they were dizzy, discovering that they had just been flying in circles for most of the night.
In their hearts, they already felt that these strange insects were flying around in a mess, in complete disarray, like a swarm of headless flies without any plan.
As time went on, they also received voice transmission talismans from the family behind them, asking if "Senior Yan" was with them.
A Golden Core cultivator had lost contact, which made the people of that family behind them extremely anxious!