If someone had really come here to hunt for treasure, like Jiang Baibi and his group before, and had spent a great deal of effort to enter only to find nothing, they would probably be angry enough to have the thought of completely destroying this place.
After all, with nothing inside, what was the point of setting up so many restrictions outside? To protect an empty cave residence?
Li Yan now, of course, knew some of the reasons. It was "Venerable Duanmu" and the others who had taken all their own things when they left. It had nothing to do with the Dark Spirit Demon Bat clan.
"The most mysterious cave residence that the Dark Spirit Demon Bats have been guarding should be uninhabited. In their memory, that mysterious expert entered and then quietly came out very quickly. There should not have been any major battles?"
Li Yan quickly thought about his own situation in his mind, and guessed what was in the cave residence the Dark Spirit Demon Bats were guarding. Was it a person? Or a treasure?
After thinking for a while, Li Yan had no clue.
"Never mind all this for now. I'll find Xing Ming and Feng Moru first!"
Li Yan had already looked in several places but hadn't seen anyone. All he saw were empty houses.
After leaving the pill-refining chamber, he began to fly elsewhere. Although there was no one here, Li Yan was still very cautious.
The cave residence was very large. Li Yan found four beast-rearing chambers alone, and the courtyard corridors were winding and twisting.
Although he was deep under the sea, the sky above was an illusion. The blue sky and white clouds it created were so realistic that he could even feel a gentle breeze brushing past from time to time, watching the white clouds drift lazily away...
The light was bright, illuminating the courtyard outside the room, but it lacked a round sun overhead.
The black-gold light specks on the "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" in front of Mu Guyue had already been mostly absorbed into her body. Rolling waves of heat, like a tide, continuously washed over her various meridians and flesh.
Mu Guyue had the urge to moan. Some of her chronic old injuries were rapidly recovering under the searing heat.
"If this were a five-hundred-year-old herb, and I swallowed its fruit, I might have a chance to break through to the mid-stage Nascent Soul."
As Mu Guyue absorbed the black-gold light specks and felt the changes in her body, she couldn't help but feel joyful.
But seeing that the "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" had already lost more than seventy percent of its black-gold light specks, a trace of regret appeared in her heart.
And just at this moment, her right lower abdomen was scalded by a warm, spring-like heat flow, causing the Spirit Power in that area to suddenly gather.
That injury had been sustained on her return journey. Once, when forcibly tearing open a two-realm barrier, the moment she flashed out, her lower abdomen was pierced by a chaotic stream of spatial energy that flew in from the side.
It had missed her Demonic Core by only a finger's breadth. Her entire cultivation could have been instantly destroyed. Even though she had survived that ordeal, there was already a problem with her Dantian's Purple Mansion.
Although she had later healed with medicinal pills, a small crack remained on it.
This caused a slight leakage when Mu Guyue condensed her Spirit Power. This sliver of Spirit Power was nothing compared to her vast Demonic Qi in normal times.
But once she encountered an expert of the same rank as the Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon, a slight stagnation in her Demonic Qi would cause a deviation in control, and the result that awaited her would be unpredictable.
The heatwave refined from the black-gold light specks was like the scorching sun of May, brushing over that area with a slightly strong temperature. A heat flow, like a bolt of lightning, streaked across.
Mu Guyue's body couldn't help but tremble slightly, and a soul-stirring moan escaped from between her pearly teeth. The sound she made was somewhat unusual, and her crossed legs couldn't help but tighten.
At this moment, she was not aware that her breath was as fragrant as an orchid, but was immersed in the comfort of her entire body being bathed in sunlight.
Even though Mu Guyue had always been a very cautious person, she had never experienced being poisoned with a lustful poison.
The "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" she had obtained had been nourished by the aura of a fourth-rank Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon. Its medicinal properties were already extremely domineering, containing an extremely dense and vigorous Demonic Qi, like a blazing red sun.
It had an unparalleled marrow-cleansing effect on the physical bodies of Black Demon Clan cultivators. Not only could it temper the muscles and bones, but it could even recast flesh and blood, and burn and purify the Demonic Qi in the body.
All of this was also built on the foundation of the Black Demon Clan's formidable physical body. Otherwise, even if a White Demon Clan cultivator directly refined these black-gold light specks, their physical body would likely suffer irreversible damage.
With Mu Guyue's cultivation, her physical body had already reached a terrifying level. Normally, she could of course directly swallow or absorb it.
It was just that she had overlooked one point. Her body had just been poisoned by the "Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon's" lustful poison. The other party was a minor realm higher than her, and it had come from its own lustful sac.
Although Mu Guyue had relied on the formidable physique of the Black Demon Clan and her own super-high cultivation to expel the poison, her blood had still fused with some of the lustful poison.
When she had already recovered her clarity, she naturally wouldn't care about these things when circulating her Demonic Qi normally.
And these toxins would also be completely purified by the circulation of her Spirit Power not long after.
It was just that she was eager to heal her injuries and had absorbed the "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" at this time.
Besides the pure yang qi of this grass, it also contained some of the "Heaven-Confounding Profound Gold Dragon's" aura.
The mixed lustful poison in her blood, spurred by this, actually began to quietly grow and spread.
Mu Guyue was still immersed in the pleasure of the waves of heat soothing and flowing through her body, and the rapid recovery of her various injuries, and did not notice at all the difference in a few of the faint heat waves.
Li Yan flew for five or six breaths, but still hadn't found Xing Ming and Feng Moru in his Divine Sense.
He could only search while probing, in case there were any other restriction formations here that had isolated his Divine Sense and trapped the two of them.
"A Spirit Plant Garden!"
Li Yan glanced over. He had now arrived at the back of the courtyard. He could see at a glance that this place should have originally been a Spirit Plant Garden, but now only a patch of weeds remained.
The weeds were growing very vigorously. Originally just ordinary weeds, they had already taken on a faint aura of Spiritual Energy.
"Although the spirit plants here have been moved, the soil that was irrigated with spiritual liquid has given the originally ordinary weeds here a trace of spiritual charm.
"Perhaps in the long years to come, as long as no one removes these weeds, it's possible that one or two of them will develop spiritual intelligence."
After a glance, Li Yan thought with some emotion in his heart. Hadn't he been like an ordinary weed back then, unintentionally falling into spiritual soil?
The Spirit Plant Garden was very large. It would probably take an ordinary mortal half a cup of tea's time to run a lap around it. Li Yan just swept it with his Divine Sense, and everything was in full view, but he found nothing.
Just as he was about to leave and continue exploring places he hadn't been, suddenly, his figure came to a sharp halt.
An extreme sense of heart-pounding dread washed over him. This was an instinctive feeling from years of walking the edge of life and death.
This feeling came very abruptly. Li Yan had always been very confident in his perception. His face remained impassive, but his Divine Sense had already been quietly released to its full extent.
But what made his heart turn cold was that he found nothing at all.
At the same time, the feeling of dread in Li Yan's heart grew stronger and stronger, as if someone nearby was staring at him intently, ready to give him a fatal blow at any moment.
"Is there some profound formation here? Have I accidentally triggered a restriction?"
While being vigilant, Li Yan's Divine Sense continued to probe inch by inch, but his body did not dare to move another half-step.
Mu Guyue, who was healing, had already absorbed the last few black-gold light specks from the surface of the "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass" into her body.
Later, she only needed to swallow the "Black Jade Profound Dragon Grass," which had lost most of its efficacy, and refine it along with the last black-gold light specks she had absorbed, and her internal injuries would definitely recover completely.
And just at this moment, her pair of delicate ears twitched slightly. She felt someone approaching her.
She was startled at first, but then she relaxed, not even opening her eyes, because she sensed that it was a Golden Core cultivator, and the weakest kind, an initial-stage cultivator.
The other party simply couldn't see through the formation she had set up. No matter where this place was, or who that person was, she of course had to fully recover from her injuries first.
And let this person approach. Even if that Golden Core cultivator personally measured this place with his own feet, he would not be able to break the illusion formation she had set up.
The other party should be a cultivator from here. After seeing nothing unusual, he would just leave.
"What sect is this? The place I'm in should be a secret place of this sect, otherwise it wouldn't be so desolate!"
Mu Guyue had already checked this place. The restriction formation on the gate of the cave residence was very powerful; even she could not break it at will.
She had checked before that there were no other living beings here.
And this Golden Core cultivator had entered without any unusual noise. It was obvious that he was a disciple of this sect and should be holding some kind of opening token.
"Should I capture him, and then get the token to open the cave residence here? It would be much more convenient to go out then..."
Mu Guyue's mind raced. At the same time, she was considering whether there would be any accidents after capturing the other party.
After all, she herself didn't know where she was. It just looked like an abandoned place of a sect.
This place was blocked by a formation restriction, and she couldn't sense the outside world. She didn't know if there would be any Nascent Soul cultivators outside.
If there were, and a disciple suddenly came to this desolate cave residence, it was very possible that he had been ordered to enter this place to retrieve something.
If this little cultivator didn't go out for a period of time, it would be troublesome if he attracted another, or even more, powerful enemies to her.
For a moment, Mu Guyue weighed the pros and cons in her heart.
She had already guessed that this was not the "Demon-Swallowing Abyss." There was not a trace of Demonic Qi in this cave residence. Although the Spiritual Energy was not dense, it was very pure.
But fortunately, the Black Demon Clan could also cultivate with Spiritual Energy, so it didn't affect her much for the time being.
Therefore, Mu Guyue suspected that she might have triggered a teleportation and been sent to the territory of the White Demon Clan.
In that case, she had to be careful. This had long been her unfailing means of preserving her life.
Just as her thoughts were racing, and that little Golden Core cultivator was about to turn and leave after a glance.
Suddenly, Mu Guyue's still-closed phoenix eyes snapped open.
An extremely sharp gaze pierced through the illusion formation and looked at Li Yan. The thought of wanting to capture the other party just a moment ago had completely disappeared at this moment.
Her phoenix eyes stared fixedly at Li Yan's back. The other party seemed to feel it as well, and immediately stopped, looking around warily.
Mu Guyue once again saw the other party's face clearly, and a tempestuous wave surged in her heart.
Following that, her body actually began to tremble uncontrollably. The aura emanating from this person was so familiar.
"How is this possible? How could a minor Foundation Establishment cultivator come to the Forsaken Continent and even advance to Golden Core? Is it him? It is him... this aura is his..."
She had once been tricked by a human cultivator's trap. That person had poisoned Zhong Mengyin and used it as an opportunity to destroy all the "Heaven-Shaking Thunder" bombs she was guarding.
She had followed the faint trace left by the other party and finally found a desperate little Foundation Establishment cultivator, and had also seen his face clearly.
And just as she was about to kill him, the great war broke out, and the Nascent Soul cultivators of the South Sea pounced to attack the Black Demon Clan together, so she had no choice but to let him go.