Although the red clouds that formed the flames would reform after twelve shichen, they were limited to a certain size.
Any excess red clouds generated could not remain in the sky for too long and would disappear on their own. This made the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan a somewhat "chicken rib"-like existence for Li Yan after he reached the Golden Core stage, even though he had carefully studied the Blood River.
However, even though he had searched through all the texts he could find, he could not find the origin of the Blood River, nor could he figure out any other functions with his arts.
In addition, Li Yan no longer had any silver pages and no longer needed to use the Blood River to dissolve them. For a time, even the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan was a somewhat useless existence.
It was not until Li Yan successfully formed his Nascent Soul and was sorting out his magical treasures that he picked up the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan again. He had always felt a sense of mystery about the Blood River inside it and wanted to study it more.
But when his Divine Sense entered, he was first stunned. In that Blood River, there were eight figures floating up and down with the waves. It was the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis that had long been forgotten by Li Yan.
Because the Flying Sickle Blood Mantis only had an essence soul and no physical body, and after Zi Kun had reforged his physical body and had the help of thousands of Snow Mosquitos from Qian Ji's clan.
Li Yan had long since forgotten about these few Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment stage Flying Sickle Blood Mantises!
It was just that when he was refining the essence blood of the Undead Nether Phoenix back then, he had seen these few essence souls cultivating in the Blood River, their auras slightly stronger than before, and had not paid them any more mind.
Now, not to mention the time Li Yan had stayed on the Verdant Continent and in the "Hellsoul Clan," just the time since he had returned to the Desolate Moon Continent was another seventy or eighty years.
When his Divine Sense entered the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan again, he was surprised to find that the eight Flying Sickle Blood Mantises had all grown several circles in size. Especially the essence soul of the second-rank Flying Sickle Blood Mantis from back then, which had impressively reached the initial-stage of the third rank.
The other seven Flying Sickle Blood Mantis essence souls, without any intervention from Li Yan, had also reached the initial and mid-stages of the second rank respectively. This was quite a surprise to Li Yan.
When these few Flying Sickle Blood Mantises sensed the appearance of Li Yan's Divine Sense, they couldn't help but surface from the Blood River one after another.
The third-rank Flying Sickle Blood Mantis stretched its blood-red head out of the Blood River. On its triangular head, a pair of protruding eyes shone with a crimson light, staring fixedly at Li Yan.
These Flying Sickle Blood Mantises had been refined by Li Yan along with the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan when he was in the Foundation Establishment stage. They had not signed a blood contract like Zi Kun and Qian Ji, but only had a restriction placed in their Divine Sense.
So when their cultivation had all increased, especially this Flying Sickle Blood Mantis essence soul which had advanced to the third rank, its strength had greatly increased, and it had already broken the restriction left from the previous refining.
Li Yan was still surprised by the self-breakthrough of these essence souls when he saw the fierce light in the other's unfriendly gaze. His Divine Sense immediately transformed into a phantom and stood above the Blood River, and then a powerful pressure swept over.
The third-rank Flying Sickle Blood Mantis essence soul was just judging Li Yan's Divine Sense's position and was about to shatter the other's prying when.
Suddenly, a phantom appeared in the sky, and then it was struck down into the Blood River by a powerful force from above.
The Flying Sickle Blood Mantis essence soul let out a mournful cry. In the Blood River, it was like a drowning insect, struggling constantly, but unable to escape the suppressing force at all.
Although the other seven Flying Sickle Blood Mantis essence souls were not directly attacked, they felt a trembling from the depths of their souls from the pressure in the sky, and their bodies trembled.
Just as the third-rank Flying Sickle Blood Mantis felt that it was about to suffocate and die, its body suddenly relaxed, and the terrifying force covering the sky completely disappeared.
"What, are you looking to die?"
When the third-rank Flying Sickle Blood Mantis saw Li Yan's phantom in the sky again, it found that Li Yan's face was expressionless, and he was looking at it coldly.
The faint connection made it know who this person was. It immediately felt that something was wrong and quickly said.
"Senior has misunderstood. I just sensed a Divine Sense entering here, and did not know it was you, Senior!"
At the same time, it was greatly shocked in its heart. This cultivator who had refined it had now become so powerful.
It could only feel that Li Yan was very strong, but did not know the other's realm. In its view, Li Yan was probably a late-stage Golden Core cultivator. Even so, it was still extremely shocked.
Next, Li Yan unceremoniously re-refined these few Flying Sickle Blood Mantises. The Flying Sickle Blood Mantis ranked low among demonic beasts. Li Yan had no interest in signing a blood contract with them.
Although the Flying Sickle Blood Mantises had all advanced, and one had reached the third rank, Li Yan felt that this was all due to the Blood River. If these few Flying Sickle Blood Mantises were placed in the outside world, it would be good enough if they could reach the second rank.
However, a third-rank Flying Sickle Blood Mantis essence soul was still worth driving.
In the days that followed, Li Yan's attention was focused on the Blood River and the patch of red cloud above it.
He used the wisp of the power of the Five Elements rules that he had comprehended in the Nascent Soul stage to repeatedly try to probe into the Blood River. In the end, he really did discover something.
That was, there was a faint wisp of water-system spiritual energy mixed in the Blood River. But this wisp of water-system spiritual energy was not any of the water-attribute spiritual powers he was familiar with.
Even mutated ice, snow, and so on were not in this category. This was a kind of water-system spiritual energy that Li Yan had never seen before. When Li Yan tried to drive these water spiritual energies, he found that he couldn't drive them at all.
He couldn't even separate a trace of this strange spiritual energy from the Blood River.
After a round of attempts, Li Yan could only give up. But he felt that he had finally gotten some clues. This Blood River might be the product of some special space.
As he slowly mastered the power of the rules of heaven and earth, Li Yan believed that one day, he would be able to figure out the function of this mysterious Blood River.
In the end, Li Yan turned his attention to the patch of red cloud above the Blood River.
The reason why the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan was considered a very powerful magical treasure in the Foundation Establishment stage was mainly because of this patch of red cloud.
It was just that the amount of flame that this patch of red cloud could ultimately form was so small that it could not cause much damage to Golden Core cultivators, let alone the enemies Li Yan would encounter in the future.
But even though Li Yan had reached the Nascent Soul realm, he was still unable to drive the Blood River. The red cloud above the Blood River, as if affected by some rule, could only maintain that size.
After studying it for a while, Li Yan could only end up helpless. He simply couldn't condense more red clouds.
It wasn't until a year later that Li Yan, in order to make his cultivation of the True Scripture of Gui Water more stable, began to try to cultivate the Nine Cauldrons Gui Water, and had barely cultivated this technique to the introductory level, but still hadn't broken through to the first layer.
When his Divine Sense re-entered his Dantian and saw that the Dantian sea seemed to be a little smaller, his mind was suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning. He immediately thought of the red cloud above the Blood River, which was just like the one in front of him.
"The Nine Cauldrons Gui Water technique can continuously condense and compress the magical power in the Dantian sea. Then can the red clouds also be compressed and condensed with this technique to accommodate more red clouds?"
Immediately, Li Yan tried to circulate the Nine Cauldrons Gui Water technique to condense and compress those red clouds. The result was that the red clouds, which had already filled to their maximum range, actually began to shrink.
It was just that the shrinking range at the beginning was almost impossible to notice without deliberate attention. Li Yan knew that this was because he had just started cultivating the Nine Cauldrons Gui Water technique.
So in the next few years, Li Yan continuously tried to compress the red clouds, and after waiting for a certain period of time, he would enter the "Earthen Patch" to test the power of the compressed red clouds.
In the end, Li Yan found that with the current effect of the Nine Cauldrons Gui Water, he needed to continuously compress for about four years, and the power of the flames emitted could already cause damage to Nascent Soul cultivators.
This made Li Yan quite happy.
In today's battle, Li Yan had actually wanted to use the fragmented poison to kill Qi Jinghong at first. But when he saw the large patch of red clouds gushing out of the other's great cauldron.
He immediately thought of the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan. But what made him a little uncertain was that because of the last test, the red clouds inside had only been compressed and refined for a little over three years.
But Li Yan still decisively chose to use the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan. However, the target was changed from directly attacking the other party's Nascent Soul in the Dantian to attacking the relatively weak head.
However, the other party's pure yang true fire was indeed powerful. The moment Li Yan was covered by the other party's red cloud, the protective light shield outside his body was melted in an instant.
But Li Yan's experience in facing enemies was extremely rich. He had long learned from Mo Qing that the other party cultivated pure yang true fire. So in an instant, he circulated "The Five Elements Return to Primordial Genesis."
His entire body's magical power was instantly transformed into the purest yin Gui Water magical power. Under the clash of the two extreme yin and yang, coupled with Li Yan's profound magical power that was not inferior to a mid-stage Nascent Soul.
He immediately blocked Qi Jinghong's ultimate killing divine ability that he had unleashed right from the start.
The moment Qi Jinghong's physical body lost its life force, Li Yan put away the Li Fire Profound Yellow Fan, which had lost all its red clouds.
With a flicker, he was behind him. He produced the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike, which had been being nurtured all this time. Although the magical treasure was damaged, it was enough for a finishing blow.
Unleashing the "Wave-Hiding Soul-Slaying Art," he indeed pinned his Nascent Soul in his body with one blow. But the first layer of the "Wave-Hiding Soul-Slaying Art" simply couldn't pin Qi Jinghong's Nascent Soul for too long.
Of course, Li Yan knew this. He ruthlessly added another blow, which was to attach the most vicious "Nascent Poison!" to the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike.
With such close-range poisoning, not a single bit of the "Nascent Poison" was wasted, all of it was driven into the surface of the Nascent Soul.
This time, the three huns and seven pos hidden within had no chance of escape. With a stir of Li Yan's magical power, Qi Jinghong's soul, with great pain and extreme fear, was stirred into nothingness...
The power of the Gui Water Immortal Sect's cultivation method began to show its edge in this battle. Although it was mostly auxiliary, it could double the power of other arts.
The entire process of the exchange happened in a flash. To an outsider, it seemed that the two had only exchanged one attack and one defense, one advance and one retreat.
However, it was all over just like that. And no one knew how many methods Li Yan had used in this short period of time.
At this time, there were angry curses, roars, and screams everywhere. Although Qi Jinghong's scream was shrill, not many of the Golden Core cultivators in the distance immediately noticed it.
But the Nascent Soul cultivators on both sides all saw this scene. In an instant, this part of the world was terrifyingly quiet. The ten Nascent Souls on both sides were somewhat petrified, all in a momentary daze.
"This... how is this possible? Qi... Fellow Daoist Qi... Fellow Daoist Qi..."
Hang Lin was closest to Qi Jinghong. He looked at Qi Jinghong's lifeless eyes and shouted in shock. He hoped that the other party's Nascent Soul could still appear.
But, there was no sign of Qi Jinghong's Nascent Soul flashing out.
"This... this... Qi Jinghong is a waste!"
"Fool, seven breaths. Even a pig would last longer than you against a jackal!"
The Sixth Sir and the demon cultivators on the other side were not so polite. They had just started fighting with the other party, and one of them was already dead?
"Junior Brother Li, good move!"
"Amitabha, rebirth in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, good... good!"
Several voices sounded almost at the same time. The demon side, after their shock, couldn't help but curse. On Mo Qing's side, one after another, their eyes flashed with a sharp light.
When everyone looked at Li Yan again, their gazes were filled with incomparable solemnity. Regardless of Li Yan's cultivation, what kind of treasure was that speck of blood-red he had shot out?
Qi Jinghong was really not some cabbage by the roadside. He was also a veteran Nascent Soul. Countless people had died at his hands. He had even killed those of the same rank during his cross-realm training. But in a few breaths, he had disappeared from this world...
Li Yan flicked his wrist, and the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike disappeared. At the same time, the storage ring on Qi Jinghong's hand also came into his. Qi Jinghong's body fell towards the ground below.
He quickly looked around and, in the next moment, fixed his gaze on Wei Zhongran's side!
At this time, although both sides had been shocked for a moment, their fighting movements had only paused slightly. On the contrary, in the next moment, the fighting became even more intense.
Wei Zhongran was being forced back continuously by the two Demonic Generals, but Li Yan also noticed that Wei Zhongran's advance and retreat were orderly, and he had not lost his composure at all.
Li Yan felt that if his master was only facing one mid-stage Demonic General, he might even be able to launch a continuous counterattack.
Every time Wei Zhongran struck out with his pair of heavy hammers, the surrounding void would rumble and the earth would shake. Even with the ferocity of the demons, they actually did not dare to take it head-on easily.