The various images that flooded into Li Yan's mind had already let him know what had happened to him.
"She... she used a l... lust poison on me. Why?"
The moment this thought arose, Li Yan immediately circulated the Spirit Power in his body.
Soon, he found that apart from some loss of vital essence, there was nothing else wrong with his body. This made him even more confused about what had happened.
However, once he discovered that he had not been imprisoned by the other party, Li Yan no longer bothered to think about the reasons.
As the Spirit Power in his body circulated, he had already grabbed the three storage pouches and two spirit-storing pouches on the ground and quietly appeared several dozen zhang away.
A black glow flashed on his body, and a black robe had already covered him. At the same time, his Divine Sense was firmly locked on what was behind him.
After doing all this, and seeing that the woman on the ground was still lying on his green robe, sleeping soundly, he was somewhat surprised. His movements just now had actually not woken her.
Although he didn't know for a moment why it had ended up like this, he didn't dare to stay in this place for long.
The killing intent from the other party before had been real. Who knew what would happen to him once this woman woke up?
Li Yan looked at the corner of another storage pouch exposed on the side of the green robe. He didn't dare to go over and retrieve it.
He usually wore several storage pouches and spirit-storing pouches on his waist to deceive others. Now, there was still one pressed under that green robe.
Although Li Yan would not put his most valuable treasures in his storage pouches, he would still put his commonly used things in them.
Li Yan quickly swept his Divine Sense over the three storage pouches and was relieved. Although there were magical treasures and spirit stones in that storage pouch, fortunately, they were not particularly important.
Li Yan no longer dared to stay. He turned to leave. His gaze then moved away from the spread-out green robe on the ground, and his expression froze. He was shocked to see a patch of dark red.
After years of fighting, he could tell at a glance that those were somewhat dried bloodstains.
Li Yan's Divine Sense quickly swept over his own body. He was not injured.
Looking again at the other's perfectly flawless, unobstructed naked body, a clap of thunder roared in his mind. Even if he had never been with a woman before, at his age, he already knew everything.
But facing a powerful cultivator who could wake up at any moment, how could Li Yan dare to stay any longer? He fled somewhat frantically towards the cave residence gate.
Ten breaths later, Li Yan looked at the faint, illusory, head-sized hole in front of him. Li Yan grabbed the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief" in one hand and dived in.
Li Yan's vision blurred. A spiritual light flashed around him, and his feet had already stepped on solid ground.
At the same time, a pair of "Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spikes" had quietly hidden in the void above his shoulders, ready to attack at any moment.
As his Divine Sense swept out rapidly, Li Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It was indeed the plaza he had been to before. At this moment, it was empty all around.
And the several tunnels that had appeared before had all disappeared, leaving only one passage with a bright light inside, facing the plaza. It was precisely the place where the four of them had hidden before.
As Li Yan's Divine Sense scanned the area, the Spiritual Energy on the cave residence gate behind him twisted slightly and had already returned to normal.
The place he had come out of was one of the three sub-cave residences. This was not too different from Li Yan's previous guess.
Seeing that he had already escaped the cave residence and that there was no movement from inside, the stone hanging in Li Yan's heart finally fell.
He was really afraid that the female Demonic General would suddenly wake up.
At this moment, the aura on Li Yan's body was almost non-existent, and his body was also in an illusory and transparent state.
Unless it was a cultivator like Mu Guyue who could discover his existence, otherwise, it was rare for a cultivator of the same rank to see through his true form.
He had used the "Stealthy Night Art" from the very beginning of his escape from the cave residence.
If the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief" couldn't work, then he could only use this art to its extreme and see if he could escape that female Demonic General's search.
Fortunately, this mysterious magical treasure had once again allowed Li Yan to escape with his life. Now, Li Yan had many questions in his heart, but he knew this was not the time to think about them.
He had to leave this place in the shortest possible time. Various thoughts flashed through his mind. Li Yan had already seen clearly the name above the cave residence he had come out of—"Jade Balance Grotto."
It was precisely the middle one of the three sub-cave residences. He was currently in a hidden state, and using the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief" was also silent, his aura extremely weak.
For a moment, no one from the Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan appeared here. The other party had not discovered that someone had appeared before the three sub-cave residences.
Li Yan, without hesitation, stealthily moved to the "Celestial Spirit Grotto" on the right side and once again quietly deployed the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief."
After synthesizing and speculating on the information he had obtained from the soul-search, Xing Ming and Feng Moru should have also been teleported into these few cave residences.
Although he hadn't completely searched the "Jade Balance Grotto" he had just come out of, nine times out of ten, the two of them were not in the same cave residence as him.
Thinking of the might with which that female Demonic General had tried to kill him before, if there were other people, they would have already been alerted. Not to mention that he and that female Demonic General had later fallen asleep...
Thinking of this, Li Yan's head throbbed. He gently shook his somewhat heavy head, as if he wanted to shake all of this out.
All of this had come too suddenly. Even though he knew there must be some reason for it, Li Yan was still unwilling to think about it now.
In Li Yan's gaze, the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief" quietly covered the gate of the "Celestial Spirit Grotto." As he had expected, it did not trigger the restriction.
Everything happened silently.
However, to Li Yan's surprise, after a full five breaths, although the gate of the "Celestial Spirit Grotto" did not produce a restriction attack, it also remained completely still.
The mysterious "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief," which had always been invincible in breaking formations, had actually failed this time.
After quickly changing the position of the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief," Li Yan covered it again, but the result was still the same.
Li Yan did not waste any time. He flashed and arrived at the gate of the "Flowing Wave Grotto" on the far left, which was the cave residence gate that the female formation master had tried to break before.
He once again covered the cave residence gate with the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief." It also did not trigger the restriction.
But this time, in just the blink of an eye, an illusory hole appeared on the cave residence gate.
Li Yan was somewhat surprised by this. A trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes, but then he still dived in.
With a casual tug, he pulled away the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief." He didn't want the Dark Spirit Demon Bats to discover the problem.
After Li Yan entered, his Divine Sense quickly swept his surroundings. He immediately judged that the layout here was indeed basically the same as the cave residence he had entered before.
Afterwards, he immediately sensed two familiar, faint auras. Li Yan was delighted in his heart. He had guessed correctly.
The two of them had not discovered him because he was still in the "Stealthy Night Art." Li Yan did not go over immediately.
Instead, he directly immersed his Divine Sense into the "Earthen Patch" space, instantly descending into a cave on the mountaintop without any concealment.
The "Snow Mosquito King," who was cultivating with its eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Its eyes were filled with excitement. It had been a long time since anyone had paid attention to it. This damn scoundrel Li Yan had finally remembered it.
But before it could speak, Li Yan's somewhat annoyed voice entered its mind.
"In a moment, I will hand the 'Heaven-Stealing Kerchief' to you. When I give you the transmission, you immediately cover the cave residence gate with it.
"That's all. After you go out, do not wander around. Wait for my transmission on the spot!"
After saying this, the Snow Mosquito King's vision blurred. It found that it had already left Li Yan's mysterious space and was standing behind a cave residence gate. Then, a brocade kerchief appeared before its eyes.
The Snow Mosquito King still knew the use of this magical treasure. It had followed Li Yan for so many years, and Li Yan had not hidden some things from it.
It opened its mouth, about to ask about the situation, but Li Yan's body had already turned into a wisp of gentle wind and disappeared without a trace, giving it no chance to speak at all.
"You... you... you're being too... too... a little strange. You seem to be in a very bad mood..."
For a moment, the Snow Mosquito King, whose mouth was agape, didn't know what to say. The other party hadn't summoned it out for many years, and it had long since grown tired of staying in that mysterious space.
Besides cultivation, it was just reproduction. It was already tired of all of this.
Occasionally, it could only go to the west, outside that desert, to see if that "remnant soul" had woken up.
But because Li Yan had set up a restriction there, besides Li Yan himself, even the Snow Mosquito King could only sense it from a distance, stopping in mid-air and talking to itself for a long time.
After so many years, besides the fluctuating aura that indicated it should still be alive, that "remnant soul" had shown no other reaction at all.
Today, this scourge had abruptly summoned it out, without explaining the reason, just telling it to wait on the spot.
And what made it feel even stranger was that the usually calm and inhumane scourge was in a very irritable mood today, both in his expression and tone.
"Could it be that he's run into some danger again? It's been a long time since I've killed a cultivator..."
The Snow Mosquito King held the "Heaven-Stealing Kerchief" in its hand, but its small eyes were darting around, beginning to explore its surroundings. Ever since Li Yan's cultivation had reached the Golden Core stage, its usefulness had become less and less.
Xing Ming and Feng Moru were carefully searching the courtyard inch by inch with their Divine Sense. They had been here for more than two days, going from initial panic to their current calm.
Later, they discovered that this was just an ancient cultivator's abandoned cave residence. It was empty inside; let alone treasures, there wasn't even a ghost.
The two of them had been swept in by the wind pillar together. After their initial tension, they began to look for an exit and for Li Yan.
But to their disappointment, Li Yan had not been swept in with them.
Unlike Li Yan, the two of them couldn't guess that this was one of the three cave residences, so they found the cave residence gate and wanted to break the formation to get out.
But to their frustration, even after spending a whole day, the two of them couldn't open the cave residence gate, and they were almost killed by the restriction.
If not for the two of them joining forces, at least one of them would be seriously injured or have perished by now.
Afterwards, they could only try to find other exits everywhere, just like some cave residences would have hidden secret escape passages.
But to their disappointment, after searching for a long time, they still couldn't find any other exit.
However, fortunately, the formation here would not be triggered as long as you didn't try to break it, so their lives were not in danger for the time being.
Just as the two of them were constantly searching, a voice suddenly entered their minds.
"Senior Brothers, come quickly towards the cave residence gate!"
Xing Ming and the other man were both startled, then they looked at each other with suspicion.
"Did you hear Junior Brother Zhang's transmission?"
"Did you get Elder Zhang Ming's transmission?"
The two spoke almost at the same time, and at that moment, Li Yan's transmission came again.
"Hurry, we need to leave this place as soon as possible..."
Six breaths later, Xing Ming and the other man met the rapidly flying Li Yan in a corner of the courtyard.
"It's really you, Junior Brother. Have you been here all along? How come we didn't find you?" Xing Ming asked with both surprise and joy.
"This is not the place to talk. Let's leave here first!"
Li Yan said rapidly. He was anxious in his heart, not because of the Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan here, but because of a more terrifying existence.
Once that person escaped, everyone here would not be enough for her to kill alone.
"How do we get out? The restriction on the exit here can't be broken!"
This time it was Feng Moru who spoke. As a sect leader, in that instant, a thought stirred in his heart.