Li Yuanba looked at the nearest team of Jindan cultivators from Linghe Sect and Wuya Sect and realized it would take several hours for them to arrive.
The sky gradually darkened. Fortunately, the camera of the drone satellite system had been upgraded several times, and by switching between multiple modes, it did not lose the traces of the Jindan team.
He took a deep breath, and with a slight movement of his mind, his body began to change, and his aura also underwent an extreme change.
His body grew taller, reaching four meters, and his aura also changed from extremely yang to extremely yin.
It seems that because the corpse's body is naturally strong, his physical strength in the corpse state even exceeds that of a human.
In human state, he was only one step away from reaching the Grand Elder level of body refining, and in corpse refining state, he was only a tiny bit away. He felt like he could reach the Grand Elder level at any time.
But even this little bit still blocked him for several months.
He sighed helplessly, sighing in a corpse-refining state, making the surroundings even colder in the darkness.
The reason for transforming into the corpse refining state is to conceal the identity.
He didn't know how precious the spiritual object that the Linghe Sect and the Wuya Sect were targeting was. If the spiritual object was really precious to a certain extent, even if he succeeded, but the news leaked out that he had obtained the treasure, he would be in big trouble.
In the absence of major interests, the monks of Senluo Sect will be friendly to him because of the relationship between Elder Jian and Patriarch Lu.
But when it comes to major interests, the cultivators of Senluo Sect will not be so easy to talk to. After all, Senluo Sect is a demon sect and there are a large number of demon cultivators.
The strength displayed by Li Yuanba was indeed very strong, but a large sect like the Senluo Sect would have no shortage of top-notch fighters in the Jindan period.
The secret method of 'Record of Evil Corpses' was activated, and the silver light on his body disappeared into his body. He looked like an ordinary low-level corpse, without the previous ostentation.
He put away the Sumeru Mustard Seed Formation Plate, and his four-meter-tall body blended perfectly into the darkness.
His corpse refining state is extremely special. Corpses that can practice martial arts are extremely rare, and each of them has the potential to become a corpse king.
However, no matter how spiritual the Corpse King is, he is not as good as Li Yuanba, who possesses true human wisdom. Moreover, abilities like 'divine eyesight', 'telepathy' and 'divine feet' can all be used in the corpse refining state, which does not reduce his combat power.
Although he was unable to use the Xingyi Sword and the third-grade sword base, his hands turned into claws in the corpse refining state. His sharp claws were completely comparable to magic weapons. With a body refining strength close to that of the great elder, his claws could easily break the defense of a late Jindan cultivator.
"When will teams three and four arrive?" asked Elder Jing Geng in a deep voice.
Nearly twenty Jindan monks gathered around him. With so many Jindan monks gathered together, the combat power formed was extremely powerful, but there was no smile on his face.
Not long ago, information came from the sect's secret line that the second team was completely wiped out and no one survived.
Most importantly, the original plan to destroy the Senluo Sect's Boundary Mountain Checkpoint was not successfully executed.
This made it extremely difficult for these Jindan cultivators to evacuate from the Shiwan Mountains. The success of their surprise attack this time was due to their surprise attack.
Large sects like the Senluo Sect never expected that medium-sized sects like the Linghe Sect and the Wuya Sect would mobilize all their forces to attack the Jieshan Checkpoint, which led to the success of this attack.
Great Elder Jing Geng thought about Senluo Sect's revenge afterwards, but in his opinion it was all worth it.
No one would know that the two medium-sized sects, Linghe Sect and Wuya Sect, were actually one and the same. On the surface, there was constant friction and confrontation between the two sects, which was why the three major orthodox sects relaxed their supervision over the two sects.
In fact, the six major sects are all the same and will not allow the power of any sect within their sphere of influence to increase too much.
Suppression and resource restrictions are common methods used by the six major sects.
Throughout history, there have been many sects in the Northern Shu continent that wanted to overthrow the suppression of the six major sects, but in the end these sects all became the dust of history.
After many years of accumulation, the combined number of Jindan cultivators in the Linghe Sect and the Wuya Sect exceeded the upper limit allowed by the large sects. If the two sects had not existed in an opposing manner, perhaps a large sect would have suppressed them long ago.
After this incident, both Linghe Sect and Wuya Sect will cease to exist, and the mountain gate that has been in operation for countless years will also be destroyed.
But this is a rare opportunity, and Great Elder Jing Geng is willing to take the risk for himself and for his fellow disciples in the two sects.
"Grand Elder, Team 3 and Team 4 will arrive in one incense stick of time!" A Jindan cultivator nearby contacted Team 3 and Team 4 and continued.
"Team Two has failed. The monks from the Senluo Sect who are tracking us will arrive soon. The means we set up along the way won't deceive them for long. Let Teams Three and Four speed up!" Great Elder Jing Geng frowned and ordered.
The second team is the Jindan cultivator team that is responsible for attacking the Senluo Sect's Jieshan checkpoint. It is composed entirely of elites from the two sects and ranks second in strength among the six teams.
Even though they arranged misleading means along the way when they were converging on the Nanyuan Mountains, the Senluo Sect had so many strange methods that once they discovered their mistake, it would be impossible to deceive in the same way again.
If all the Jindan cultivators failed to enter the Nanyuan Mountains in time and enter the sphere of influence of the spirit beasts, they would most likely be intercepted by the Jindan cultivators of the Senluo Sect.
The most worried thing did not happen, and two teams, three and four, arrived.
There were as many as thirty-three Jindan cultivators gathered together, especially the presence of the Great Elder, which made Li Yuanba, who was hiding in the distance, feel frightened.
Of course, the thirty-three Jindan monks could not find Li Yuanba. Li Yuanba was more than three hundred miles away from them. Li Yuanba was using the "Divine Eyes" to observe these Jindan monks.
"Form the formation according to the method we practiced before!" Elder Jinggeng waved his hand and ordered.
With a cultivator named Dong Wei as the center, the other Jindan cultivators stood in different directions.
Dong Wei is a formation master. He is responsible for controlling the formation formed by the Jindan cultivators and issuing corresponding commands to each Jindan cultivator.
Even the Great Elder Jing Geng would obey his orders, as this was the necessary method to enter the Nanyuan Mountains.
"It's actually the Xuanwu Secret Formation!" Li Yuanba saw it clearly and recognized the origin of this formation at a glance.
The Xuanwu Secret Array is an expandable third-grade array with a simple layout and a single function, but it has a very high fault tolerance. It is one of the few arrays that can be deployed while moving.
In particular, the concealment effect of the Xuanwu Secret Array will become stronger as more monks join in.
The mysterious mist secret formation formed by thirty-three Jindan monks has a concealing effect that will not be exposed as long as they don't encounter a big monster.
This is probably the reason why these Jindan cultivators dared to enter the Nanyuan Mountains. With such means, safety was greatly increased.
More than thirty Jindan cultivators, under the control of formation master Dong Wei, flew at a relatively slow speed at a low altitude towards the interior of the Nanyuan Mountains.
The mysterious mist secret array made them wrapped in a layer of fog. This kind of fog was very common in the mountains, and it was even more difficult to detect at night.
Li Yuanba also moved. He used the secret method of 'Covering the Sky and Concealing the Secret' and 'Record of Evil Corpses' to restrain all his auras. In the darkness, he did not have to worry about being discovered and could use 'Lotus Blooming Step by Step' at will, making his movements silent and soundless.
One in front and one behind, both sides were flying in the Namwon Mountains, advancing towards the depths.
This time, Li Yuanba did not distance himself too far from the thirty-three Jindan monks. After they used the Xuanwu Secret Array, the drone satellite system could no longer detect them.
That's why it was dark. If it were daytime, we would still be able to track them if we knew they had formed a cloud.
Li Yuanba also discovered another feature of the Xuanwu Secret Array. The Xuanwu Secret Array formed a cold fog to block the cultivators. This also blocked the heat from the cultivators' bodies, making it impossible for the infrared monitoring of the drone satellite system to detect them.
Great Elder Jing Geng's eyes kept scanning the surroundings in the darkness. Suddenly, he waved his hand, and a flying sword flew out from the Xuanwu Secret Formation.
A second-grade khaki earth-dwelling rat was looking at the low-altitude fog with a puzzled look, sniffing with its nose, trying to determine something through the smell.
The flying sword shot over like lightning, and the second-grade earth-drilling gold-sucking rat didn't even have time to react before it was shot dead by the sword.
The flying sword carried the body of the earth-burrowing gold-sucking rat back to the side of the Great Elder Jinggeng, and he threw the body of the earth-burrowing gold-sucking rat to the monk beside him.
The perception of the Earth-Drilling Gold-Sucking Rat is extremely sensitive. Although it is a second-grade monster, since perception is its innate ability, its perception exceeds that of many powerful monsters.
It is also the sentinel of the spirit beast area, and is placed by the spirit beast clan on the edge of their sphere of influence.
Once the Gold-Sucking Rats discover something unusual, they will use their unique voice to notify other spirit beasts. Many cultivators have sneaked into the spirit beasts' territories by stealth to make a fortune, and were inexplicably surrounded by spirit beasts. Most of them were discovered by the Gold-Sucking Rats.
Great Elder Jing Geng waved to Dong Wei, indicating that he should continue to move forward and everything would be safe.
Li Yuanba saw the flying sword flying out of the fog and killed the ground-drilling gold-sucking rat with one sword.
"It seems that this great elder is not easy to deal with!" he thought to himself.
This Great Elder Jinggeng must have practiced some secret perception technique. The Earth-Drilling Gold-Sucking Rat was born with the ability to hide, but it was still discovered by Great Elder Jinggeng first and killed in one fell swoop.
But this made Li Yuanba feel much more relaxed.
Although he also has methods to conceal his breath, spiritual beasts like the Burrowing Gold-sucking Rat, which have special perception talents, cannot be concealed by simply hiding their breath.
Any scent from a cultivator that does not belong to a spiritual beast or nature will be detected by the earth-drilling gold-sucking rat.
Li Yuanba's corpse-refining state also has the smell of a corpse-refining, and it cannot be completely hidden.
He didn't need to worry, as there were these Jindan monks leading the way ahead, and he could just follow behind and benefit from it, without having to worry about being discovered by the spirit beasts.
The travel routes of the Jindan monks ahead were somewhat special, and they often bypassed some mountains. According to Li Yuanba's observation, these mountains were all peaks with rich spiritual energy, and there was a high probability that there were great monsters in them.
Although this slowed down the Jindan cultivators' progress, they did not encounter any trouble other than Elder Jing Geng taking action several times to deal with a few spirit beasts.
A total of thirty-three Jindan cultivators traveled in the Nanyuan Mountains for several hours. This was an incredible thing.
It can be seen how much preparation these Jindan monks have made in order to enter the Nanyuan Mountains.
Finally, after walking for more than four hours, the sky gradually brightened.
The sky brightened a little, revealing the low-flying clouds.
This cloud mixed with other clouds and passed through the mountain peaks, seemingly ordinary.
However, clouds and mist always fly with the wind. Today, the wind direction is wrong, and the clouds and mist formed by Elder Jing Geng and others using the Xuanwu Secret Array are flying against the wind.
Ordinary wild beasts and first and second level spirit beasts have limited intelligence, and the clouds are in the air, so there is no problem.
But this is the Nanyuan Mountains, and there are a lot of big monsters.
The spiritual beast clan can share the living space with human cultivators in the Northern Shu Continent, so their strength is naturally not weak.
High in the sky, a demon-level golden eagle with iron wings was flying in the air at an extremely fast speed. The golden eagle had extremely strong eyesight and discovered something unusual when flying above the clouds.
A great demon-level spiritual beast has intelligence almost as great as that of humans, so it naturally discovered the abnormality of the cloud.
The iron-winged golden eagle let out a sharp cry, retracted its body, and swooped down into the clouds.
"Change the formation!" Dong Wei said in a deep voice.
Thirty-three Jindan monks changed their positions, and the mist of the Xuanwu Secret Array spread out, allowing the Iron-feathered Golden Eagle to fly into it.
At the moment when the Iron-Winged Golden Eagle entered the Xuanwu Secret Formation, the spiritual power gathered by thirty-three Jindan monks, with the help of the formation, locked up the Iron-Winged Golden Eagle at the same time.
The Iron-Winged Golden Eagle is the king of the sky. Its flying speed is so fast that even Great Elder Jing Geng cannot match it.
Therefore, to deal with this kind of flying beast, you have to lure it into the trap.
They must not allow the Iron-winged Golden Eagle any chance to escape, otherwise their whereabouts will be exposed. If they reveal their whereabouts in the Nanyuan Mountains, they will be attacked by countless spirit beasts.
The strength of the Iron-Winged Golden Eagle is about that of the middle third rank. Although the combat power of a big monster is comparable to that of several human cultivators of the same level, it has no room for resistance when facing the simultaneous attack of thirty-three Jindan cultivators, including a super master like Great Elder Jinggeng.
After the Iron-Winged Golden Eagle's body was locked, Elder Jing Geng killed it with one strike.
There was no joy on his face for having killed a big monster in an instant. They had been on guard against encountering a big monster since entering the Nanyuan Mountains, and they did not expect to encounter one so early.
"Master Dong, let's find a place to rest first, and then move on at night!" He calculated the time, thought for a while, and then gave the order.
Dong Wei would not object, nor did he have the power to object to the opinion of Great Elder Jing Geng.
Under his command, the Xuanwu Secret Array descended to the ground. After reaching the top of a mountain, he took out many formation flags and set up a formation on the top of the mountain.
The formation arranged by the formation master easily concealed the figures and auras of the thirty-three Jindan monks. Even if a big monster approached, it would not be able to detect their presence as long as it did not come into contact with the formation.