Five Immortals Gate

Li Yan quietly observed and waited. As time passed, the courtyard in the darkness became even more silent, but he didn't seem anxious at all.

About half an hour later, a door suddenly opened!

Following that, the Taoist priest walked out with a smile, and a middle-aged cultivator with an extraordinary bearing and a tall figure also came out to see him off in the courtyard.

After the two arrived in the courtyard, the middle-aged cultivator exchanged a few polite words with the Taoist priest, then opened the courtyard's restriction and bid farewell to the other party with cupped hands.

As a Dark Night Walker, Li Yan's assassination experience was already superb. Just as the "Luo Gucheng" cultivator was seeing someone off in the courtyard, he unhesitatingly slipped into the other party's room.

At this time, he didn't use his divine sense to investigate, so as not to increase the chance of being discovered. Although Li Yan didn't sense it, the restrictions in the other party's room must have been opened.

Sure enough, like a ghostly shadow, he quietly slipped into the door along the base of the wall, infiltrating the other party's room without any hindrance.

Li Yan's entire action, from decision to instant entry, was completed in one go. By the time he had entered, the middle-aged cultivator was still standing in the courtyard exchanging pleasantries with the other party.

The middle-aged cultivator didn't return to his room until he had reactivated the courtyard's restriction, and then he activated the restrictions inside his room again.

However, what this "Luo Gucheng" Void Refinement Realm cultivator didn't know was that the same actions he had taken in the past had now sealed him in a prison of heaven and earth.

Then, the middle-aged cultivator entered into cultivation, but on the roof above him, there was a person perfectly integrated into the surrounding environment.

Li Yan, like a bat, tightly pressed his body against the roof. His whole person seemed like a mummified bat sealed for millions of years, without a trace of aura.

The middle-aged cultivator's head was right under Li Yan's cold gaze, while the other party was breathing evenly, exhaling and adjusting his breath, slowly circulating his cultivation technique.

In the dark room, the scene of the two people, one above and one below, seemed so strange, as if a life-reaping judge was counting down the other person's death time…

The middle-aged cultivator and Li Yan were in the same room, and Li Yan had entered in advance. It was pitiful that this "Luo Gucheng" cultivator didn't know that he was already in a noose.

"Thump!"

A muffled sound of falling to the ground suddenly came from the dark room.

The middle-aged cultivator had only been meditating for a moment before he fell straight to the ground. A sword cultivator of such power didn't even know what had happened.

One moment he was still breathing, and the next he fell to the ground unconscious without any resistance. Everything happened so suddenly, yet it seemed completely logical.

Li Yan wanted to search his soul to get information, so of course he wouldn't let the other party die, at least not immediately.

After he came in earlier, he quickly wandered around the room like a ghost, laying down a colorless and odorless poison mixed from four kinds of deadly poisons. The other party would quickly fall into a coma after inhaling it.

In order to ensure his own safety, Li Yan decided to use the mixed poison he had carefully researched. In his spare time from cultivation, Li Yan often tested the mixed use of various deadly poisons.

Compared to a single deadly poison, the power of such a poison might not necessarily be absolutely superior, but the composition of such a poison was more complex and chaotic.

Unless the other party had a heaven-defying antidote treasure on them, it would be good enough to be able to解 one of the poisons.

Moreover, it was possible that once they tried to remove one of the poisons, those antidotes would trigger mutations in the other poisons, and then the antidotes would also become deadly poisons that hastened death.

Furthermore, the deadly poisons that Li Yan possessed were originally poisons that had never appeared in the world, so the possibility of immediately detoxifying them was very small.

Li Yan had more than 80% confidence that this kind of mixed poison could make a Void Refinement Realm cultivator of the same level fall into a coma without knowing it.

And Li Yan was sure that the other party would definitely be poisoned, because the environment here was too suitable, it was the other party's daily place for meditation and cultivation, how could they not inhale the spiritual energy here!

The multiple layers of defense inside and out made the cultivator who had been living inside have no precautions at all.

In order to plot against the other party, Li Yan had carefully planned countless times in his mind, simulating every step and various possible accidents…

Since he had investigated for so long and had always been deliberately ambushing to find an opportunity to strike, Li Yan would create loopholes even if there were none, let alone if there were mistakes?

Everything was as Li Yan expected. No matter how powerful a sword cultivator he was, he couldn't resist being secretly attacked by others. The middle-aged cultivator was silently poisoned and fell to the ground.

On the roof, a place that was originally without any abnormalities suddenly seemed to have a piece of wall skin falling off. At the moment it landed on the ground, a black shadow quickly changed from illusion to reality.

Li Yan waved his hand and shot out several red talismans, which instantly turned into three red stars and were nailed to the other party's upper, middle, and lower dantian, firmly sealing off the other party's divine soul, mana, and nascent soul.

Then, Li Yan in the dark was silent. Even after solidifying, his body was still blurred, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

He not only changed his appearance with the Chaos Illusion Pill, but also concealed himself again at this moment. Learning from his mistakes, Li Yan had learned about "Luo Gucheng's" methods.

Last time, even though he was careful enough, they still found out his origin. Although he didn't know what method the other party used, he would definitely be extremely careful this time.

Like a cloud of black mist, Li Yan raised a blurred arm, and the unconscious middle-aged cultivator's body floated up and was sucked into his palm.

Then, in the room, Li Yan unceremoniously searched the soul of this cultivator, and Li Yan quickly obtained the basic information of the two people here.

The middle-aged cultivator's name was Lin Chaoming, and the person next door who was still cultivating was Elder Zhang of the sect. The two were indeed the strongest cultivators guarding this place.

The Taoist priest who came earlier was an acquaintance of Lin Chaoming. Their relationship could only be said to be good. The other party had approached Lin Chaoming many years ago for a three-thousand-year-old spiritual plant rootstock on his body.

That was exactly what the Taoist priest had been looking for. After learning about it, he communicated with Lin Chaoming several times, and finally reached a deal.

However, the conditions that Lin Chaoming offered were also harsh. He didn't want spirit stones, but wanted to exchange items. The Taoist priest also searched for a long time before finally finding what Lin Chaoming wanted.

Today, he rushed here overnight from another place. After transmitting a message to Lin Chaoming, the two completed the transaction, and then exchanged some other things before leaving…

The moment he saw the appearance of the silver-haired old man and the young cultivator, all of Li Yan's guesses disappeared. The two were the two Body Integration Realm cultivators who ambushed him.

After obtaining this important information, Li Yan's heart was greatly relieved. This information was too important.

Since that Zhu Hongyi had not returned, then there was a high probability that he had died in that void river.

Even if there was a small probability that he was alive, he would be trapped outside the Three Realms, and he might only be able to wander around there for the rest of his life.

Li Yan learned another important piece of information during the soul search: all the disciples of "Luo Gucheng" would not leave behind anything like soul lamps in the sect. This was related to their cultivation techniques.

Sword cultivators emphasized a strong will, moving forward without hesitation, without any attachments, cultivating a fearless sword heart, and would not allow themselves to have any fetters. They would not leave behind anything that could be controlled by others.

Therefore, even if Zhu Hongyi and Yan He had died, "Luo Gucheng" would not be able to know through this method at all, which immediately removed another worry from Li Yan's mind.

But later, when he saw the reason for Zhu Yihong and the two leaving, as well as the memory of Amuer's attack on him last time, things were greatly beyond Li Yan's expectations.

In Lin Chaoming's memory, "Luo Gucheng" indeed did not find the real culprit. The Supreme Elder just found a scapegoat.

The Supreme Elder quickly took action and destroyed the entire family, mainly to give an explanation to the outside world, and secondly to satisfy his own face.

The reason why the two Supreme Elders went out was to find the real culprit, and that's why they went out together to search.

In the information that Lin Chaoming knew, the two Supreme Elders should have had some clues, but the clues were not revealed to these Void Refinement Realm Elders.

But Lin Chaoming guessed that the clues in the hands of the two Supreme Elders should not be too many.

Because the sect also sent out four Void Refinement Realm Elders, and each of them brought a group of disciples. It was said that they were also to investigate the matter of the last time at the market. This clearly meant that the enemy had not been locked down at all.

However, the Supreme Elder had never explicitly stated this matter, and these Void Refinement Realm Elders did not dare to ask or guess randomly, lest the Supreme Elder transfer his anger to them if they could not find the real culprit.

Currently, three of the four teams that went out to search for clues have already returned. It is said that they have not found any important clues either.

In this regard, Lin Chaoming felt that those people seemed unwilling to reveal the truth. The specific matter should only be known to Elder Yuan Zhen who stayed behind, that is, the Golden-Eyed Flying Squirrel.

After getting this news, Li Yan couldn't help but sneer in his heart. That Zhu Hongyi and Yan He valued the news of the Five Immortals Sect too much.

They did indeed hide it from their subordinates, and even the four teams of disciples who were sent out were also told to the sect to investigate the culprit who made a big disturbance in the market last time.

Li Yan felt that Zhu Hongyi must give some known clues when sending people out to investigate, at least the four Void Refinement Realm Elders leading the team should know. He must also verify this point.

Otherwise, he would have to kill everyone in these four teams.