The figure of Great Elder Jing Geng turned into a ray of light, drilled a hole in the mountain wall, and fled into the distance.
This talisman is not simple. It was passed down from his lineage. His lineage has a complete inheritance and is the remnant of a great sect that was destroyed in the past.
This talisman has been passed down in their lineage for thousands of years and has always been carefully preserved so that the spiritual energy within it has not been lost.
He was extremely decisive. After sensing extreme danger, he immediately activated the talisman.
He didn't care at all that this talisman had been passed down for thousands of years. This life-saving talisman was meant to be used in the most dangerous moments.
The light he transformed into emerged from the belly of the mountain and escaped at a speed several times faster than that of a Jindan stage cultivator.
The wolf-headed humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast has arrived. His perception is extremely powerful, and this place is his territory.
He immediately discovered the formation at the cliff. Perhaps if the formation had not been set up, he would not have discovered the problem so directly.
The formation arranged by formation master Dong Wei might be useful against big monsters, but it has no effect on a fourth-grade spirit beast, which is equivalent to a Nascent Soul ancestor.
The wolf-headed, humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast smashed the formation with one palm, revealing the formation master Dong Wei and two Jindan monks in the formation.
Formation master Dong Wei maintained contact with Great Elder Jing Geng. He only had time to send out a word with his divine sense before he was swallowed up by the terrifying aura.
The three Jindan cultivators were as powerless as babies in front of the fourth-grade spirit beast.
When the wolf-headed, humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast passed by, the three Jindan monks had already turned into a pool of dirty blood, with no trace of their bodies left.
It was at this time that the wolf-headed humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast discovered that the light transformed by Great Elder Jinggeng was escaping into the distance.
At the same time, the wolf-headed, humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast discovered that the corpse lotus that he had arranged for more than a thousand years had disappeared, and there was a trace of the breath of the corpse lotus in the distant light.
Without any hesitation, he chased after the escaping light.
When Elder Jing Geng escaped, he still had some little thoughts in his mind.
In his opinion, the refined corpse should still be in the space inside the mountain. He couldn't find the refined corpse, but he thought that the fourth-grade spirit beast that came here would definitely be able to find it.
As long as the refined corpse can delay the fourth-grade spirit beast for a moment, he can use the activated life-saving talisman to escape.
As for the matter of the corpse lotus, he was just thankful. If the corpse refiner hadn't been there, he might have even lost his life. What use would the corpse lotus be then?
But just as he was thinking about it, he sensed the extremely terrifying aura behind him.
In other words, the fourth-grade spiritual beast behind him did not want to destroy the environment of the Ten Thousand Mountains, so he did not use his full strength. Otherwise, the aura of the fourth-grade spiritual beast alone would have been enough to make him unable to move.
"What's going on? Why don't you chase the real thief?" He was full of confusion. He didn't know that the wolf-headed humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast had not found any trace of Li Yuanba.
Where is Li Yuanba now?
The place where he was was a place no one expected.
He was inside a corpse underwater, and the corpse was extremely large.
The icy cold water in the pool made it impossible for the Jindan stage cultivator's spiritual thoughts to penetrate, so they could not know the situation in the water.
But Li Yuanba did not use his divine sense, he used his 'divine eyes' to see the situation under the water.
He saw a huge corpse. It was a strange beast that he had never seen before and was not even mentioned in any books.
The body of the strange beast filled up half of the bottom of the pool, and was entangled by countless remaining corpse lotus roots.
When Li Yuanba found out that a fourth-grade spirit beast was coming, he did not have any extra time to think. With the help of Li Shiming's natal magic weapon IBMz15, he got the best solution.
Without any hesitation, he used 'Lotus Steps' to come to the side of the corpse in the pond.
He felt the icy air of the pool water, but fortunately he was in the state of corpse refining. His strong body refining ability plus the defense of the corpse allowed him to resist the erosion of the cold air.
Without any pause underwater, he summoned all his spiritual power to perform the "So Close Yet So Far Away" technique once again.
Since the original body Li Shiming's realm had reached the middle stage of the Golden Elixir and he had learned 'A World Away', what Li Shiming had mastered was naturally shared with him.
However, he was only in the early stage of Golden Core, and it was too difficult for him to perform "A World Away". That's why he needed to appear next to the corpse in the pool and then perform "A World Away".
Even so, the cold spiritual energy in his corpse-refining state was completely consumed.
This is exactly what he needs. According to the analysis of his life treasure IBMz15, in front of a fourth-grade spiritual beast, it is best not to have any spiritual power fluctuations, just like an ordinary object to be the safest.
Of course, he couldn't really do without any spiritual power, but when he used "A World Away" to pass through the surface of the giant corpse and enter its belly, the giant corpse could block the rest of the spiritual power fluctuations.
The biggest difference between "A World Away" and "Lotus Blossoms Every Step" is that "A World Away" can ignore obstacles and move in space.
He was successful. When he entered the interior of the huge corpse, Elder Jinggeng did not find where he was hiding at first.
The wolf-headed, humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast that entered later also failed to discover Li Yuanba.
But Li Yuanba was not feeling well. He thought that the predecessor of this huge corpse should be a fourth-grade spiritual beast. He also had a deep understanding of the Nascent Soul stage.
Although his own physical strength has not yet reached the level of a great elder, there will be no problem inside the corpse of a fourth-grade spirit beast.
If an ordinary Jindan cultivator were to get so close to the corpse of a fourth-grade spirit beast, he might be affected by the power of the corpse.
But he never expected that he would be suppressed while inside this huge corpse.
The terrifying power was beyond his imagination. His mind was affected and he couldn't even move.
However, Li Yuanba was not panicked. Although he could not move, his original body, Li Shiming, could take over the control of his body at any time.
And since this takeover can be forced remotely, it will not be affected by this kind of suppression.
He did not immediately ask the main body to take over his body. He knew that under the current circumstances, this was the safest place.
He didn't know where the fourth-grade spirit beast had gone, but as long as he left the mountain, he would encounter a fourth-grade spirit beast.
Li Yuanba remained in the state of corpse refining, in which he could better resist the pressure from this horrible corpse.
He was 100% sure that this was definitely not the corpse of a fourth-grade spirit beast. The corpse of a fourth-grade spirit beast could not suppress him, a Jindan cultivator whose body had been refined to a level close to that of a great elder, into this state.
Through the drone satellite system, he saw the fourth-grade spirit beast chasing after Great Elder Jinggeng.
He thought the time had come and was preparing to ask his original body, Li Shiming, to take over his body so that he could leave.
But the strength of the fourth-grade spirit beast was beyond his imagination. Elder Jinggeng was caught up after only twenty breaths of running. After that, Elder Jinggeng disappeared from the monitoring of the drone satellite system.
It seems that Great Elder Jinggeng may have been torn to pieces, so of course the drone satellite system cannot monitor him.
Afterwards, the fourth-grade spirit beast returned to the Nanyuan Mountains. The whole process only took a few dozen breaths of time.
Li Yuanba truly understood the difference between this fourth-grade spirit beast and the Jindan stage. It can be seen that Elder Jinggeng's movement speed at that time was very fast, so fast that if it were not for the drone satellite system's monitoring from an altitude of ten thousand meters, Elder Jinggeng might have been lost long ago.
He was sure that Great Elder Jing Geng's speed at that time was almost comparable to his 'Lotus Steps'. Theoretically, if the Nascent Soul Patriarch did not use the Nascent Soul Out-of-Body State, he would not be able to match this speed.
But even at this speed, he was soon caught up by the fourth-grade spirit beast.
It seems that this fourth-grade spirit beast is good at speed, and may even have a talent for speed, which makes him even more cautious about acting rashly.
The wolf-headed, human-shaped fourth-grade spirit beast returned to the belly of the mountain. He did not find the corpse lotus on the body of Elder Jing Geng.
He has the racial talents of the wolf clan and is the best among all spirit beasts in tracking.
He took a light sniff and detected an extremely faint scent of corpse refining.
Li Yuanba's body training had not reached the level of a great elder, so he was unable to truly prevent any leakage of his aura. However, the aura was still discovered by a wolf-headed humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast.
But the wolf-headed humanoid fourth-grade spirit beast later discovered that the aura of corpse refining had disappeared.
He used his ability in disbelief and started checking the surrounding area. No matter how he checked, the result was the same: the aura of the corpse had disappeared out of thin air.
He let out a roar, and the arrangements of more than a thousand years were lost.
He looked at the pond water again, thought about it, and prepared to go look for corpse lotus seeds again. That corpse could not be consumed by just one corpse lotus.
Without hesitation, his figure flew out of the mountain and went away into the distance.
Li Yuanba heaved a sigh of relief and was about to let his original body, Li Shiming, take over and move his body away from the huge corpse.
But when Li Shiming took over the body, he found that the body was stuck and could not get out of the huge corpse.
When Li Yuanba entered the huge body, he used the spatial movement method of "close yet far away".
But at this time, the spiritual power in Li Yuanba's golden elixir was almost exhausted and could not be replenished in a short time.
Li Shiming took over Li Yuanba's body and wanted to use his body refining ability to force his way out of the huge corpse, but he soon realized that it was futile.
The strength of the huge corpse was far beyond what Li Yuanba could break. Even if he used the third-grade sword base, he could not hurt the corpse even a little bit.
Li Shiming was a little embarrassed. He didn't expect to encounter such a situation.
Of course, as long as he is given some time and Li Yuanba takes the third-grade elixir to replenish his spiritual power, he can use "A World Away" again when his spiritual power is restored.
He took out a third-grade elixir from Li Yuanba's space ring and swallowed it.
What follows is a long wait. Without practicing the main technique, relying solely on third-grade elixirs to restore spiritual power would result in an extremely slow recovery rate.
The third-grade elixir cannot be taken continuously. Taking too much will cause elixir poison in the body, which will have a very bad impact on the body.
Time passed little by little. Li Shiming didn't feel anything at first, but after a while he discovered that a trace of cold energy was flowing into the body of Li Yuanba who was in the corpse refining state.
He hurriedly checked Li Yuanba's condition. The corpse of such a horrible creature was very likely to be contaminated, causing damage to the cultivator's body.
What surprised Li Shiming was that Li Yuanba's physical condition was very good. The cold energy flowing into his body was strengthening Li Yuanba's corpse body.
An idea came to his mind, and he began to practice the corpse-refining technique 'Evil Corpse Spirit Record'.
Just as the "Evil Corpse Spirit Record" was operating, more Yin and cold energy flowed into Li Yuanba's body from the huge corpse. These Yin and cold energies followed the operation route of the "Evil Corpse Spirit Record" and continuously transformed this corpse-refining body in the body.
With a loud 'boom', Li Yuanba's corpse pill in the corpse refining state was affected by this cold and gloomy energy and actually broke through directly.
He broke through from the early stage of Silver Corpse to the middle stage of Silver Corpse, and the cold and yin energy flowing from the huge corpse into the corpse refining body showed no sign of decreasing. In fact, due to the improvement of his realm, the effect of practicing "Evil Corpse Spirit Record" also increased, and the cold and yin energy flowing into the body also increased.
"A breakthrough already?" Li Shiming and his clone Li Yuanba were both stunned.
Li Yuanba was not as lucky as Li Shiming. After observing the spiritual power in Venerable Hui Jing's body, he gained some insights. Coupled with the improvement of his state of mind after returning home, Li Shiming broke through without being stuck in the early stage of Jindan for long.
However, Li Yuanba practiced the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky', and his main focus was sword cultivation. The spiritual power of Venerable Hui Jing was not the same as the sword cultivation system, so the insights he gained were relatively much less.
He had been stuck at the peak of the early Jindan stage for more than seven months. If it weren't for this opportunity, it would have taken who knows how long it would have taken him to break through.
In the world of immortal cultivation, it is common for cultivators to remain at the bottleneck of the Jindan stage for decades, and there are also many cultivators who cannot break through in their entire lives.
After Li Yuanba's Tai Chi Taoist body breaks through the corpse refining state, his human state will also break through after it is restored to a human body.
What surprised Li Shiming even more was that Li Yuanba's body was constantly being strengthened, and soon his corpse-refining body reached the level of a great elder.
The body of the corpse did not stop strengthening after it reached the great elder level of body refining. It is not known whether there is still room for improvement in the body refining realm of the corpse, or because the cold and yin energy of the huge corpse is too special.
The cold and yin energy of the huge corpse was indeed special. It was the first time that Li Shiming encountered cold and yin energy of such quality.
According to his judgment, the quality of this cold energy has probably reached the Nascent Soul level. This is also related to his vision. He has never seen energy quality above the Nascent Soul stage, so he can only make this judgment.
The 'Evil Corpse Spirit Record' was still running. Because Li Yuanba had just been promoted to the middle stage of Silver Corpse, the Yin and cold spiritual power in the corpse pill was only a small part.
However, this tiny amount of Yin-cold spiritual power was transformed from the Yin-cold spiritual power in his previous corpse pill, and it was the Yin-cold spiritual power of the middle stage of Silver Corpse.