Meng Zhiyuan shook his head slightly.
"It doesn't matter. So what if they could break the restriction and enter from the very beginning?
"Although I have never entered the cave residence, Master did say some things about it before he perished. The formations in the cave residence are actually a combination of 'attack and trap.'
"This complements the 'Shrinking the Land to an Inch' formation. Those powerful cultivators would rather trap and kill their enemies inside the cave residence than let them see the situation is bad and escape.
"If I'm not mistaken, even though the restriction formation here has lost most of its power over the years, it would still be very difficult for even a Nascent Soul cultivator to walk out of the cave residence.
"Back then, with their cultivation, Master and Martial Uncles knew that there might be leftover treasures in the cave residence that could help us cultivate, but they never dared to enter. It's not that they couldn't get in, but that they were afraid they couldn't get out!
"After those three entered the cave residence just now, they will most likely be killed by the formation inside when they try to forcibly break the restriction to get out!"
Meng Zhiyuan's Divine Sense swept over the interior of the mountain again and again. Seeing that there was still no movement after such a long time, he was relieved.
It seemed the other party didn't even have the ability to cause the cave residence to vibrate. They might have already died inside. As for what the formation restrictions inside the cave residence were like, he had only heard about them and had never seen them personally.
"Bring me all the storage pouches you've obtained. I'll see if there are any pills for mending the soul. I also need a lot of spirit stones for cultivation.
"After I've checked the storage pouches and taken out the pills and some spirit stones I need, Old Third, you come to the outside of my cultivation chamber and take the storage pouches. Then you few can distribute some among yourselves and leave the majority for the clansmen."
Meng Zhiyuan said with a tired look on his face. This time, they had obtained the storage pouches of several Golden Core cultivators, which was a considerable harvest. At least those spirit stones solved a lot of problems.
The assets of a Golden Core cultivator were very rich.
After a pause, Meng Zhiyuan added another instruction.
"Old Second, Old Fourth, Old Fifth, you will guard the forbidden land, the sub-cave residence, and here respectively. Hmm... guard for at least two days to ensure no accidents happen!"
After hearing this, the few four-winged Dark Spirit Demon Bats all nodded in agreement and then handed over all the storage pouches they had obtained to Meng Zhiyuan.
They did not feel it was inappropriate for Meng Zhiyuan to take all the storage pouches at once. They knew Meng Zhiyuan's character.
If it weren't for his serious injuries, he would probably have taken only a few pills and spirit stones and then thrown the storage pouches to them.
"Big Brother, don't worry. Although Master and the others are gone, we've guarded this place for countless years without incident.
"You just focus on healing your wounds. Leave the rest to us to guard. We are still waiting for you to lead us back to the clan."
Meng Zhiyuan nodded and turned to leave. But the moment he turned, he sighed deeply in his heart.
'Really no incidents? Just that one time, and Master and three Martial Uncles all perished in an instant...'
Mu Guyue let out a long breath of turbid air. The stream of air formed a ball of pale pink mist in front of her.
Mu Guyue's body then surged with Demonic Qi. With a "bang," the somewhat dark red sweat stains on her skin, along with the pale pink mist in front, were instantly annihilated by the blast of air.
Mu Guyue, somewhat tired, lifted her long eyelashes, feeling a wave of emptiness and weakness inside her body.
The lustful poison planted by the Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon was very difficult to deal with. It had filled almost her entire Sea of Consciousness.
Compared to those deadly poisons that harmed the physical body, this kind of lustful poison was much harder to clear.
Especially in the early stages, the sensitive parts of Mu Guyue's body itched unbearably, and her consciousness was flooded with numerous obscene thoughts that made her feel ashamed and desperate. She had to spend more energy to forcibly suppress them.
Her whole person was tossed about in a sea of desire, sometimes lucid, sometimes sinking...
Mu Guyue looked around. Everything in the Spirit Plant Garden was as before. Once the poison was removed, her mind immediately cleared up.
After sensing the injuries on her body, her pretty face suddenly changed. Her original injuries had already recovered by sixty to seventy percent after a period of recuperation in her clan.
After this battle, many of her old wounds had split open and relapsed.
Clashing head-on with a Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon that was of a higher rank and had a stronger physical body than her, many cracks had appeared on both her skin and internal organs.
Previously, under the effect of the lustful poison, her senses had been replaced by other thoughts, so she hadn't felt that her injuries were too severe.
Now, with old injuries on top of new ones, and having consumed a large amount of Divine Sense and Demonic Origin Power, Mu Guyue felt that her realm was already showing signs of instability.
"Although the situation here is unclear, that Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon has not appeared. I can't wait any longer."
Mu Guyue once again confirmed the formation restrictions she had set up before and found no signs of them being attacked, which calmed her heart a little.
Immediately, she managed to lift her right hand and brush it against her waist. More than ten formation flags immediately appeared in front of her.
These were all the formation tools she carried with her. Regardless of their strength, in the next moment, she arranged these formation flags around her according to a certain defensive hierarchy.
She certainly did not dare to go out now. This place seemed safe for the time being. If she went out and ran into that Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon, she would have no strength to escape, which was no different from seeking her own death.
After some thought, she decided to stay here and heal her wounds first.
After doing all this, Mu Guyue immediately activated the surrounding restrictions. In an instant, the Spirit Plant Garden returned to a desolate scene, empty of any people.
Mu Guyue held a demonic plant that emitted a black-gold luster in her hand. The demonic plant was a foot long, with slender leaves like willow sabers. A wave of scorching heat emanated from it upon touch.
The entire demonic plant was like a piece of supreme-yang warm jade, smooth and with a flow of fire turning within it, dazzling and eye-catching.
On the demonic plant, there were specks of black-gold light like sparks constantly emerging. The black-gold specks emitted waves of heat.
As soon as these black-gold specks left the demonic plant by about an inch, they were immediately sucked back into the demonic plant, repeating in a continuous cycle.
Looking at the demonic plant in her hand, Mu Guyue carefully sensed it with her Divine Sense for a while, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Although the Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon had poisoned this grass, it should be a genuine "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" of three hundred years.
In order to let Mu Guyue lower her guard, the Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon had also taken out a real demonic plant.
In the Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon's view, he was just letting this "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" pass through the other party's hands. Later, everything, including Mu Guyue, would be his.
Unexpectedly, an unforeseen accident occurred, and this medicinal herb ended up in Mu Guyue's hands after all.
After sensing it for a while, Mu Guyue began to concentrate and regulate her breathing. Immediately, she made a hand seal, and the "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" in her hand hovered in front of her out of thin air.
She extended a palm, facing the demonic plant that was emitting specks of black-gold light.
Then, an invisible suction force was generated from her palm. Those black-gold specks that had been emitted and then reabsorbed were immediately pulled over by the suction force from Mu Guyue's palm.
The body of the "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" in the air swayed crazily, as if someone had snatched its beloved possession. For a moment, its entire body shone with a brilliant black-gold light, attempting to suck back those few black-gold specks.
But it was in vain. The five black-gold specks flashed and entered Mu Guyue's palm. As her Spirit Power circulated, they disappeared without a trace.
Mu Guyue only felt a few thin lines of warmth extending from the meridians in her palm into her body.
As this warmth extended and spread through her body, wherever it passed, some of the stinging wounds first became hot, then scalding, and then the stinging pain in those wounds quickly diminished by a few degrees.
It was just that this warmth was too weak, and it disappeared without a trace in less than a breath.
"'Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass,' that's right. If only it were over five hundred years old!"
Mu Guyue thought to herself. After confirming that there was no problem with this demonic plant, she also felt it was a pity.
She judged that this "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" could not increase her cultivation after absorption, but it should be able to heal all the injuries on her body.
Thinking of this, she immediately closed her beautiful eyes. Although this trip was not entirely satisfactory, at least it could finally heal all the old injuries she had accumulated over the years. This could also be considered achieving the goal of this trip.
...
Li Yan was surrounded by a bright light. The light of the Spirit Power shield on his body shone even more brightly, and his pair of Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spikes hovered and circled around his body, sometimes visible, sometimes hidden.
The next moment, his Divine Sense was no longer obstructed, and he could see everything around him clearly.
His feet landed gently on the ground. Li Yan looked around warily.
The heaven-piercing water pillar that had enveloped him just now had already disappeared without a trace. He had appeared in a room.
The room had two windows and one door, all tightly closed.
The room was almost empty. The reason it was "almost" was that there was a prayer mat commonly used by cultivators for meditation on the floor in front of Li Yan, and there was an empty wooden shelf against one of the walls.
There was nothing else anywhere else, as if it had been ransacked.
However, the faint spiritual light emitting from the wooden shelf and the prayer mat on the ground still attracted Li Yan's attention.
"A cultivator's cave residence?"
Looking at these two simple furnishings, Li Yan's first reaction was that this was a cultivator's cultivation chamber. Soon, his Divine Sense moved away from the two items.
"The Spiritual Energy within them has been greatly lost, but it can be seen that these two items were probably quite high-grade magical treasures before.
"But now their rank has fallen too drastically. To be able to refine even a prayer mat into a magical treasure, the master of this place must have had a very high cultivation.
"At the same time, it shows that no one has been here for a long time..."
Li Yan judged in his heart. At first, thinking of the cultivation of the master of this place, he was extremely shocked.
But after carefully sensing his surroundings and finding no signs of any living beings, his heart calmed down a little.
"Meng Zhiyuan's purpose in teleporting us here was, of course, to kill us. This place either has an extremely powerful formation restriction, or it has a high-level cultivator or Demonic Beast..."
Immediately, Li Yan seemed to think of something, and his expression changed. The next moment, the aura on his body had completely disappeared.
Suddenly, Li Yan used the "Stealthy Night Art" and hid himself.
After about seven or eight breaths, the door of the room opened silently.
Six breaths later, in another stone chamber, Li Yan's illusory figure slowly solidified again. He stood in mid-air, his face grave.
"A cultivation chamber, a reception hall, a rest chamber. This is indeed a cultivator's cave residence. Is it the cave residence of that Venerable Duanmu, or some other expert?"
In a short time, he had already entered two other stone chambers and quickly determined the use of these rooms. He had now roughly guessed where he had been teleported.
The place he was in now was a large reception hall, but there was only a stone table and a few stone chairs. Other than that, "the house was bare."
The first place he had appeared should have been a cultivation chamber. Thinking of this, Li Yan felt a chill run down his spine.
"That Meng Zhiyuan's methods are truly vicious. To be able to teleport an opponent into the cultivation chamber of a possible Spirit Transformation cultivator, this is a dead end.
"If not for the fact that there is no one here, the moment the spatial fluctuations started, I might have been easily shredded in the chaotic flow of the teleportation space with a casual wave of the other party's hand. That would have been both effortless and trouble-free."
Li Yan thought to himself. No matter how high your cultivation was, over such a short teleportation distance, as long as the other party knew your arrival spatial node, they could easily shred you inside.
All they had to do was wave their hand and disrupt the balance of the teleportation space.