Once the investigation reaches this point, it is no longer something Liang Yan can solve.
If you want to track down the spiritual beast hiding in the dark, you must rely on a monk like Liu Changshou who is good at controlling beasts.
After some discussion, Liang Yan said goodbye and left, returning to his cave.
In the days that followed, although he continued to train as usual, he secretly began to collect intelligence from all parties.
Especially Wei Wuming, who calls himself "the disabled guest of Tianshui".
This man has a deep scheming mind. Although he ranks last among the "Four Young Masters of Nanxuan", compared to Tianxie Demon Lord, Su Muyun and others, he is the one that Liang Yan can't see through the most.
Soon, the information about Wei Wuming was sent to Liang Yan.
It turns out that this person is a Confucian monk who was born on an isolated island overseas. His natal skill is the "Dong Xuan Sutra". He likes to travel around the world and is especially good at deductions. However, he has done very few deductions for others, so he has a far-reaching reputation. Far inferior to Shen Sanchi.
There is actually not much information about him, and it seems very mysterious, but one of the records caught Liang Yan's attention:
"I was taught by someone in Cangnan Mountain, and my temperament changed."
"Cangnan Mountain?"
Liang Yan frowned slightly and thought to himself: "Isn't this in the Wushuang Realm? Being instructed by someone? With Wei Wuming's level of cultivation, apart from Wu Ci, the only person who can enlighten him is probably the city lord."
This discovery surprised Liang Yan.
From the time he entered the Antarctic Fairy Continent until now, although he has only met Linghu Bai a few times, he always feels that there is the shadow of this city lord behind many things, and everything related to him is not simple.
"It's hard to say whether this person is an enemy or a friend. I'd better not inform him about the spiritual beast for the time being. I'll make plans after I find out the truth."
Liang Yan had a plan in mind and did not make a premature judgment. He just let the ANBU monks continue to collect information.
Time flew by and seven days passed in the blink of an eye.
That evening, Liang Yan came back from the martial arts field and was about to teach Li Xiran, Cang Yueming and other disciples to practice swordsmanship. Suddenly he heard someone coming to report, but it was a message from Wanshou Mountain, inviting him to come over tonight.
"good."
Liang Yan sent the monk who delivered the message and sat quietly in the cave until midnight, when he turned into a wisp of smoke and quietly left the cave.
Half an hour later, in Wanshou Mountain, in Luoyun Cave.
A ray of rays of light shot out from the void, turned slightly on the spot, and revealed a human form, it was Liang Yan.
"Haha, Fellow Daoist Liu, I've been waiting for a long time."
As soon as he appeared, Liang Yan bowed his hands to an old man sitting in the cave.
"It doesn't matter, Taoist friend came at the right time."
Liu Changshou smiled slightly, took out a transparent ball from his sleeve, and inserted several mysterious spells in succession.
After a while, gray-white mist appeared inside the bead, billowing erratically.
"Do you know anything about Fellow Daoist Liu?" Liang Yan asked.
Liu Changshou nodded, "In the past few days, I have been secretly tracking down this master of beast control. He seems to be alert and his actions have become much more cautious. Fortunately, I still found clues tonight, so I sent Liang Shuai in advance. Please come and see if we can catch this cunning man."
As he spoke, the mist inside the bead surged even more violently, and after a moment, it actually shrank inward, finally condensing into a gray thread.
The thread points downward
"It seems that our friend finally couldn't hold it any longer and is about to take action." Liu Changshou looked at the thread floating in the ball and said with a smile.
"Underground?" Liang Yan's eyes showed a hint of surprise.
"good!"
Liu Changshou nodded, and then cast a spell. White light burst out, enveloping Liang Yan and himself, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Half a quarter of an hour later, deep underground about eight hundred miles away from the ground, the figures of Liang Yan and Liu Changshou appeared at the same time.
"Did you see it?" Liu Changshou pointed to the soil in front of him.
Liang Yan looked at it intently, and his expression couldn't help but change slightly.
I saw that the front was densely packed with countless holes, each hole was as thick as a finger, and behind it was a long tunnel, which seemed to be drilled out by some kind of insect.
"It turns out that the spiritual beast we are looking for is a kind of spiritual insect, and there is more than one." Liang Yan said in surprise.
"Yes, according to my guess, the reason why the spirit beasts of the Wuchen Army went crazy is because they heard the crawling sound of these insects underground. This kind of sound is almost silent, and even high-level spirit beasts cannot hear it.
Only spiritual beasts raised with the 'Secret Technique of Sky Spider' can sense it."
After Liang Yan heard this, a solemn look appeared on his face.
"Just the sound of squirming makes those low-level spiritual beasts go crazy and explode, and even bite their masters? What is the origin of these bugs?"
"I don't know this either." Liu Changshou shook his head and sighed: "Although Wanshou Mountain is a beast-controlling sect, there are so many spirit beasts in the world, and the methods of controlling beasts are also all kinds of weird. There are always some things we don't know.
.To figure out this problem, the only way is to track these insects, and then follow the clues to find out the insect controller."
"It makes sense." Liang Yan nodded.
Liu Changshou raised his hand to cast a spell. After a while, the gray-white silk thread in the ball twisted and determined its direction again. It was the direction of movement of these spiritual insects.
"Walk!"
The two of them used the earth escape technique at the same time and chased after him in the direction pointed by the gray and white silk thread.
But he said that those spiritual insects were very strange, and they didn't know their origins. They seemed to be like fish in water underground and moved extremely fast.
Even ancestors like Liang Yan and Liu Changshou could not catch up in a short time. The two of them tracked underground for about a quarter of an hour. They still only saw dense holes and tunnels, but they could not catch up with these spiritual insects.
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The more this happened, the more solemn their expressions became.
These spiritual insects are extraordinary. We don’t know what purpose they have lurking underground. We must find out today!
With this idea in mind, both of them activated their escape techniques with all their strength, increasing the speed of Earth Escape to the extreme.
After another half-quarter of an hour, Liu Changshou transmitted a message: "The soil in front seems to have been turned over just now. It seems that we are very close to these spiritual insects."
"Um."
Liang Yan nodded, spreading his consciousness while hiding his aura.
The same is true for Liu Changshou.
The two continued to move forward, but they were much more cautious than before.
However, after tracking for dozens of miles, something strange happened.
I saw the round bead in Liu Changshou's hand vibrating inexplicably, and the gray-white silk thread inside the bead also broke into several pieces, then dispersed and turned into gray mist again.
Looking at the tunnels and holes again, they all stopped here, as if the insects had disappeared out of thin air, leaving no traces.
"How could this happen?" Liang Yan frowned slightly.
Liu Changshou remained silent, pinching the magic formula with both hands, and suddenly shouted through the voice: "No! This person seems to have discovered our existence. He divided his breath into several strands, attached them to the spirit insects, and fled in different directions.
!”
After hearing this, Liang Yan's expression changed slightly.
Tracking this person relied entirely on Liu Changshou's unique secret skills. He was completely unable to help, so he could only place his hope on the other party.
"Is it possible to identify his true identity?"
"Why don't you ask me to try my best?"
Liu Changshou's expression was solemn, his eyes were slightly closed, and he kept making calculations.
After a while, he opened his eyes again and pointed in two directions.
"Most of the auras are fake. I have excluded them all. Only the last two auras are left. It is really difficult to distinguish the authenticity. Even I can't identify them."
"This is easy to handle, we can just split up and chase each other." Liang Yan said without hesitation.
"But" Liu Changshou stopped talking.
"Are you worried that I can't handle it alone?" Liang Yan understood the other party's thoughts instantly and said with a smile: "Don't worry, fellow Taoist, have you forgotten Liang's methods? Even if he is not as good as the Nine Great Ya Saints, he will not be far behind.
Too far. Even if this traitor has all the tricks, Liang should be able to protect himself."
Liu Changshou was also a decisive person. He only hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "Okay, fellow Taoist, please remember not to be impulsive. There may be more than one person on the other side. If you feel troublesome, you can deal with it first, and then make a big fuss, and fellow Taoist Nanxuan will be there."
Come to meet us."
After speaking, he pointed his hand, and a wisp of gray mist flew out from his magic weapon and floated in front of Liang Yan.
"It will guide you."
"good!"
The two briefly communicated for a moment, and then each chose a direction. Liu Changshou chased toward the southeast, while Liang Yan followed the wisp of gray mist and chased toward the southwest.
The two of them were drifting apart at extremely fast speeds, and it didn't take long before they could no longer sense each other's breath.
However, Liang Yan had that wisp of gray mist to guide him and he would not lose his direction. Although his earth escape technique was not as good as Liu Changshou's, it was not slow either. In the blink of an eye, he had already chased him hundreds of miles away.
Suddenly, the wisp of gray fog stopped, and the fog kept rolling. It seemed that it was disturbed by something, and it actually rose straight into the sky like blue smoke.
"Up there!"
Liang Yan's pupils shrank, and he immediately changed direction and fled to the ground.
Five hundred miles, one hundred miles, eighty miles, thirty miles. Just when Liang Yan was about to return to the ground, a white light suddenly flew above his head, followed by a cold air that froze the bone marrow, surrounding him.
The soil was frozen into ice cubes.
The sudden change occurred, but Liang Yan was well prepared and slashed out with his sword without hesitation!
brush!
The purple thunder sword light burst out from the ground, like a divine thunder that tore through the darkness and rushed into the white light above the head. The sword energy roared and the thunder exploded, instantly smashing the white light into pieces.
But the white light that was chopped into pieces did not dissipate. Instead, it seemed to be alive, twisting and squirming in the soil.
At this time, Liang Yan moved a few miles closer to the ground, his consciousness spread out, and he finally saw clearly the true face of these white lights.
It turned out to be small gray-white snakes! They burrowed in and out of the soil, and cold air spewed out from their mouths, forming an invisible giant net that trapped the surrounding soil in it.
"receive!"
Above his head, a low shout suddenly came.
This giant net composed of cold air closed in an instant. Wherever it passed, the space froze and everything turned into ice crystals. Even Liang Yan felt that his blood seemed to be frozen.
"snort!"
Liang Yan snorted coldly, a ray of light flashed from the Taixu gourd around his waist, and a white civet cat appeared on his shoulder.
After the civet cat came out, it did not take action immediately. Instead, it yawned first and seemed to be dismissive of the ice net.
But the next moment, she opened her mouth wide, and five-color flames rushed out, and soon spread in all directions!
The cold and cold air around him was like a spring breeze turning into snow when it came into contact with the five-color flames. It only took a few breaths before being burned to the ground.
After the cold air is broken, the ice net naturally ceases to exist, the surrounding space returns to normal, and escape techniques can also be used.
Squeak! Squeak!
Countless screams came from the raging flames.
Looking around, one could see the tiny white snakes, twisting and struggling in the flames. The ice air on their bodies could not withstand Li Xiaosong's flames, and they were burned repeatedly, and soon turned into puddles of white pulp and disappeared.
In the soil.
Seeing that all the white snakes were about to be burned, a simple bell suddenly appeared above the head, and with a slight vibration, all the remaining white snakes were included in it.
Jingle Bell!
The bell broke through the soil and flew to the ground.
How could Liang Yan let it escape? With a pinch of the magic formula in his hand, he raised his escape light and galloped upward.
In just a moment, Liang Yan caught up to the ground, and the surrounding soil exploded, rising into the sky.
But just as he came out of the ground, a golden light fell from above his head, and a powerful force fell from the sky, seeming to drive him into the ground again.
When he looked up, he saw that it was a demon fish eight feet in length, with eyes as big as copper bells and golden scales all over its body.
"go!"
Liang Yan pointed his hand, the purple thunder sword light pierced the sky, and slashed the demon fish with one sword.
Zheng!
Fire broke out in the dark night, and the purple thunder sword energy flew in all directions, scraping off the scales of the devil fish, turning it half bald in the blink of an eye.
However, although the sword light broke through the demonic fish's scale defense, most of its power was neutralized, so it was not seriously injured.
The monster fish screamed again and again, and in just a moment, scales grew on its body again. Then it opened its mouth and sprayed out purple magic fire, which descended like a dark cloud.
"This fish is interesting, it looks like it should be delicious!"
Before Liang Yan could take action, Li Xiaosong on his shoulder had already jumped out.
The white civet cat quickly grew in size in mid-air, with flames attached to its sharp claws. It slapped the devil fish on top of its head, making stars shine in the devil fish's eyes, and even the magic fire was sprayed in the wrong position.
"Haha! Let your aunt have a great time!"
Amidst the laughter, the civet cat pounced the devil fish from mid-air and pinned it to the ground. The fish's tail was swaying wildly, and its two fish eyes were wide open. It seemed that it wanted to turn over and escape, but it could not escape from this fish.
cat claws
"My 'Fish Scale Golden Umbrella'!"
A cry of surprise came from the distance, and it could be heard that the owner of the devil fish was in great pain.
"Brother, don't panic, we are here to help you!"
There was another low shout, and two powerful auras burst out in the dark night. One person was holding a pair of black axes, coming from the north, and the other person was pushing a magic mountain, and was coming from the south.
Two auras arrived in front of him in an instant. Liang Yan hurriedly activated his sword skills, drawing out purple and green swords and drawing two arcs around himself.
Bang! Bang!
Amidst the loud noise, the two people who were besieging were knocked away by the sword light and involuntarily retreated several hundred feet back.
At this time, the moonlight shone down on everyone, making Liang Yan's eyes narrow slightly.