At that moment, the golden Nascent Soul within his body also erupted with its full power.
Subsequently, to Li Yan's pleasant surprise, as the power of the Five Elements on his Nascent Soul circulated, his internal small world of the Five Elements also began to operate at full capacity.
Although the surroundings were filled with chaotic forces and a terrifying blood mist, his internal small world of the Five Elements began to cycle endlessly. This was what the Great Dao called the undying, ever-generating nature of the Five Elements.
It brought streams of life force to Li Yan's body. However, Li Yan had not comprehended much of the rules of the small Five Elements world, so its power was not very strong. The life force it generated was still not enough to replenish his dissolving body in time.
And at that time, the Essence Blood of the Undead Nether Phoenix also erupted with rays of silver light, ceaselessly repairing Li Yan's body and bones.
After Li Yan reached the late-stage Nascent Soul , the eight drops of Undead Nether Phoenix Essence Blood truly demonstrated their undying aspect.
But Li Yan knew that without the operation of his own small Five Elements law, this Undead Nether Phoenix Essence Blood still wouldn't allow him to last for long.
Just like that, under triple protection, Li Yan forged ahead with difficulty through the blood mist, relying on his own incredible and continuous recovery.
But his condition worsened. The rate of damage to his body surpassed the rate of recovery. The blood mist not only damaged his physical body but also slowly corroded his Sea of Consciousness as it corroded his flesh.
Li Yan's Sea of Consciousness was already on the brink of collapse from using the Five Elements Disarray Mantle against an enemy of a higher realm. At that moment, he was also fully focused on dealing with the surrounding blood mist.
He basically wasn't paying attention to his Sea of Consciousness . By the time he realized something was wrong, it was too late. An extreme pain overcame his entire being.
It was a soul-wrenching, spirit-refining agony. If not for Li Yan's astonishing willpower, he would have likely died from the pain in an instant.
Though he barely managed to maintain his consciousness, he could no longer use his Divine Sense .
Later, even when he started burning his Nascent Fire , he was still surrounded by the endless blood mist.
Finally, the azure water pearl's armor on Li Yan's body was completely corroded and disappeared. Unable to produce any other defensive magical treasures or talismans, Li Yan's physical body became riddled with holes.
First, his flesh peeled away like sand from the ground, blown by the wind, revealing the stark white bones beneath. Then, those bones also began to disappear rapidly, like solid ice meeting a blazing sun.
Li Yan felt that his Nascent Soul was also on the verge of collapse, and the magical power in his body was almost completely depleted.
Just as a skeleton, still flickering with a final silver light, was moving forward, the dazed Li Yan stepped into a patch of white light.
Subsequently, he was pulled in by a force, and the excruciating pain on his body vanished in an instant. Li Yan, who was already on the verge of fainting, felt a wave of dizziness!
Finally, everything faded from his memory...
Sitting before the window, Li Yan sat quietly for a long time, staring blankly at the night sky outside, lost in thought.
Through careful inquiries over the past few days, although he had only obtained fragmented pieces of information, he had shockingly discovered that he had ascended.
The place he was in now was the Immortal Spirit Realm —a place he had heard of countless times in the lower realm.
He had almost died in that blood mist, and the white light he had stepped into at the end was an ascension node that countless cultivators at the Nascent Soul level and above in the lower realm sought but could not find.
Afterward, Li Yan was brought into another realm by the power of the void. The place he fell was called the "Heavenly Demon Prairie," a land teeming with demonic beasts and numerous races.
Fortunately, Li Yan had landed on the edge of the Heavenly Demon Prairie. Li Yan didn't know how long it had been since he fell.
But his physical body, without any external damage, had already begun to repair itself during the ascension process.
Especially after arriving in the Immortal Spirit Realm , the dense, almost tangible spiritual energy that was everywhere here directly covered Li Yan's body and drilled into him...
For Li Yan, this was undoubtedly a superior restorative elixir, greatly increasing the speed of his physical body's recovery.
On the edge of the Heavenly Demon Prairie, where mostly low-rank demonic beasts roamed, the unconscious Li Yan was taken back to its cave by a third-rank initial-stage Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf.
However, no matter what the Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf did, it couldn't even budge Li Yan's physical body.
The yellow-robed elder who appeared later was an elder from a sect called the "Broken Army Sect," named Yu Banjiang, at the Pseudo-Nascent Soul Realm .
He had entered the Heavenly Demon Prairie in search of a plant called "Illusion God Grass," which often grew in symbiosis with the Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf.
However, due to the Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf's suspicious and extremely cautious nature, and its habit of having multiple dens like a cunning rabbit, it was very difficult to know where it lived. Thus, tracking it down was not easy.
However, further into the Heavenly Demon Prairie, it was said that high-rank Demonic Eye Illusion Wolves were not so cautious when they appeared, but with Yu Banjiang's cultivation, he didn't dare to go there.
So, after a great deal of effort to find a Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf, he began a long period of stealthy tracking. Although Yu Banjiang's cultivation was higher than that of the Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf, he didn't dare to make a move rashly.
Making a move on the prairie, if one couldn't capture or kill the opponent in time, would attract more danger.
Moreover, Yu Banjiang's goal was to obtain a single "Illusion God Grass." This grass typically grew in any of the Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf's dens, so he had to capture it alive.
Only then could he obtain the exact information through soul-searching.
After long and careful preparation, Yu Banjiang did indeed silently bypass the opponent's cave restrictions, then sneak in and capture the Demonic Eye Illusion Wolf.
Unexpectedly, however, he also saw the unconscious Li Yan.
After obtaining the "Illusion God Grass," he was in a good mood. Plus, seeing a human cultivator so miserably imprisoned by that demonic beast, he didn't attack Li Yan...
But after investigating, he was unable to wake Li Yan at the time, so he simply put him in a spirit-storing pouch and brought him back.
The main reason for this was that Yu Banjiang was already at the end of his lifespan. He had consistently failed to break through to the Nascent Soul realm and had already come to see life and death with a certain detachment.
His search for the "Illusion God Grass" this time was to refine the "Illusion Spirit Pill." The main effect of this pill was to induce a certain kind of illusion in one's state of mind, similar to a hallucinogenic pill.
But it could also allow a trace of spiritual rhyme to enter the cultivator's Sea of Consciousness , allowing them to maintain a final thread of clarity and not be completely lost in the illusion.
The only function of this pill was that when a cultivator was unable to break through, after taking it, there was a certain chance it would produce a belief-like state of being able to break through, without being deeply trapped, thereby seizing the opportunity to break through the barrier.
However, while this pill had a certain chance of producing the desired change in one's state of mind, there was an even greater possibility of encountering illusions like being attacked by a Nine Serenities demon or being trapped in endless bloody slaughter.
Although that trace of spiritual rhyme entered the Sea of Consciousness , one might still be unable to struggle free, leading to cultivation deviation and irreparable damage to one's state of mind.
Therefore, the "Illusion Spirit Pill" was usually a last resort for cultivators stuck at a bottleneck.
After taking this pill, they might achieve immortality in a single leap, but they could also become a demon with a single thought.
Therefore, most sects managed the use of this pill very strictly. Before purchasing or refining it, the sect had to be notified.
And when finally using the pill, the person would be sealed in a reclusive space to consume and refine it, so as not to harm others.
It was precisely for these reasons that Yu Banjiang's state of mind held a lingering attachment to the past, and he had recovered a trace of his humanity.
He knew that once the "Illusion Spirit Pill" was successfully refined, everything would become uncontrollable. Now, watching the sunrise and sunset every day felt like the most beautiful thing in the mortal world.
Once he took the pill, everything would become unknown.
Of course, he could also choose to refine it secretly, but firstly, he was not a grandmaster alchemist. The "Illusion Spirit Pill" was a fifth-rank initial-stage pill, and he was not confident he could successfully refine it, so he still needed to ask his master.
Secondly, once the sect found out that he had secretly refined this pill without reporting it, the consequences were something he was unwilling to face. Severe punishment meant little to him, a dying man.
But he had been brought into the sect by his master since childhood, and he felt the "Broken Army Sect" was like a home. Now, he was unwilling to see his master again.
Every time he saw the trace of sorrow in his eyes, Yu Banjiang knew it was for his own reluctance to part. He and his master were closer than father and son.
Therefore, he would never secretly refine or take the "Illusion Spirit Pill." If he did, how would his master manage the sect in the future?
Similarly, he didn't know that if he had attacked Li Yan, he would have found himself completely unable to harm his opponent in the slightest. Only then would he have known how powerful Li Yan's physical body was.
Li Yan stared out the window, slowly digesting the information he had gathered over the past few days.
Everything had happened too suddenly. He hadn't wanted to ascend to the Immortal Spirit Realm so soon, because Li Yan valued relationships, especially family. He hadn't even said goodbye to his loved ones before being separated, which caught him completely off guard.
"I wonder how Sixth Senior Sister and the others are doing? Xue Longzi finally unleashed his Spirit Transformation stage cultivation, so he probably can't return to the Wind God Continent ...
It's been many years since I parted with Zhao Min. Has she also broken through to Nascent Soul ? Even if she has, according to the sect's rules, she still needs to guard it for three hundred years..."
For a moment, a myriad of thoughts flooded Li Yan's mind.
"Fellow Daoist Li!"
Just then, a voice came from outside.
"Oh, please come in!"
Li Yan quickly turned his head. As his voice fell, the door was gently opened.
A yellow-robed elder pushed the door open with one hand and leaned a broom against the door with the other. Then, with a smile, he walked in slowly.
Li Yan glanced at the broom. Such a cleaning tool was something one would only see in the mortal realm.
"Fellow Daoist, are you finished sweeping?"
"Finished, hahaha..."
Yu Banjiang laughed. After entering the room, he casually picked up a teacup from the table, poured himself a cup, sat down casually, and then took a light sip. Li Yan smiled at him.
"Fellow Daoist Li, although you are awake, your injuries remain. What are your plans from here?" Yu Banjiang asked casually.
By now, Yu Banjiang also knew Li Yan's general origins: a cultivator who had ascended from a lower realm.
In fact, even without probing into Li Yan's origins, he could sense the repulsive force of the realm's laws on his body. Therefore, he had no doubt about Li Yan's origins.
"I must still thank Fellow Daoist Yu for saving my life. But I wonder, how can one obtain that 'Immortalization Liquid'?"
Li Yan pushed aside his personal matters. The other party had also been continuously confirming his identity over the past few days, so he had naturally taken the opportunity to ask about some things.
Especially right after he woke up, during his confusion, after a brief conversation with the other party, he was shocked to find that the other party had guessed his origins, or rather, after Li Yan learned of his environment, the other party had revealed his "identity."
It wasn't just that Li Yan discovered a problem with his language; he also had a problem with his soul. Li Yan felt his soul drifting within his body, as if it wanted to fly away.
At first, it had scared him quite a bit, but Yu Banjiang had immediately spoken.
"Fellow Daoist is an ascended cultivator?"
Those four words had left Li Yan in a state of confusion at the time. He didn't know where he was then.
With Li Yan's shrewdness, he quickly regained his composure, but at that moment, a certain speculation had already formed in his mind. The white light he had entered had teleported him to another unknown place.
But the words "ascended cultivator" from the old man's mouth made Li Yan's mind buzz.
As he realized this, he simply couldn't believe it. He was more willing to believe that he had been teleported to another realm similar to the Verdant Continent .