Chapter 2020: Looking Back at the Lake, Green Mountains and White Clouds

Today, Li Yan did not immediately start practicing, but came to the courtyard and released the puppet to take care of the courtyard. At this time every year, he would clean the courtyard, just like before the New Year in Daqingshan Village, every household would remove dust and dirt. Although there would be no steaming dumplings next, Li Yan would clean the courtyard every year to welcome the New Year.

Looking at the puppet in front of him, Li Yan saw that the courtyard was as clean as new, turned around and walked towards the stone table in the courtyard. When he just sat on the stone stool, the ancient ape puppet had already brought a cup of fragrant tea under the control of his consciousness.

Li Yan blew away the layer of tender green tea leaves floating on it, which were either vertical, oblique, or horizontal, and took a sip, then looked at the steaming teacup in his hand, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Gong Chenying had come out of retreat last month. She came to look for Li Yan as soon as she came out of retreat. However, she failed to find him after two attempts. It was not until she left a message and Li Yan saw it when he came back from the secret room that he saw Li Yan, who looked haggard.

Gong Chenying had not seen him for several months. She had lost some weight due to retreat. However, the loose clothes of the sect still wrapped her tightly, especially below her waist. Her amazing fullness stretched the robe tightly. The originally smooth robe had folds on it, which made Li Yan touch his nose constantly. When Gong Chenying saw clearly where Li Yan's eyes were, her face, which was always cold outside, showed the shame and anger that Li Yan had seen several months ago.

After a few dry coughs, Li Yan quickly looked away and chatted with Gong Chenying directly in the courtyard, which made Gong Chenying's shame and anger slowly fade away.

Li Yan learned that after Gong Chenying's half-year retreat, her current cultivation has reached the incredible realm of false pills, which even Gong Chenying herself had not expected. The residual medicine of the pill was not consumed until five months later, allowing her cultivation to reach the level of false pills in one fell swoop. Then she retreated for several months to stabilize her cultivation.

When Gong Chenying came out of retreat, the first message she saw from Li Yan was that he had mastered the first three sentences of Qiongqi Purgatory. This made Gong Chenying unable to believe her eyes for a while. At that time, Li Yan only persisted for three breaths under this mantra and then quit. She had no hope that Li Yan could practice Qiongqi Purgatory. Unexpectedly, Li Yan told her that he had entered the practice. So she wanted to see Li Yan in person and confirm the authenticity. She was a little worried that Li Yan might have practiced randomly when he couldn't do it, and went astray.

The first two times she came to look for Li Yan, Li Yan's courtyard door was tightly closed, and no matter how she tried to send a message, it was fruitless. She was even more worried and began to think about whether to break in directly. Until today, after seeing Li Yan in person, seeing that Li Yan's skin was shining with a hint of the unique luster after practicing in the Qiongqi Purgatory, Gong Chenying was slightly relieved. However, seeing Li Yan's haggard face, she couldn't help but worry, thinking that Li Yan

was greedy for merit and rushed forward, hurting his vitality.

How did she know that Li Yan had just returned after practicing day and night in the secret room for more than ten days.

Gong Chenying's worried consciousness carefully scanned Li Yan, and seeing that there was nothing wrong with his body, she was relieved. Li Yan felt the other party's consciousness, and understood what the other party was worried about, and just smiled at Gong Chenying.

Next, the two talked about some of the situations in the past six months. After knowing each other's recent situation, they were also very happy.

But when Li Yan learned that Gong Chenying had reached the realm of fake pills, his mouth opened wide. He had never thought that the True Yuan Pill would be so amazing and the medicinal power would last so long. Then Li Yan smiled bitterly. He thought that his cultivation speed was already very fast, but he didn't expect that there was still such a huge gap.

When Gong Chenying learned that Li Yan had reached the peak of the first level in a few months in Qiongqi Purgatory, she was no less shocked than Li Yan. You know, even if she practiced this technique, it took her two years to practice from the initial stage to the peak of the first level. Zhao Min took nearly three years, and Li Yan reached this level in more than half a year. This made Gong Chenying begin to doubt whether Li Yan had pretended to see the three breaths of time in the first three sentences of the formula.

At that moment, Gong Chenying was in doubt, so he proposed to try his moves with Li Yan. Li Yan readily agreed. He also wanted to know what level he had reached in the eyes of Gong Chenying, a master of body refining.

The two of them stood opposite each other in the courtyard. Gong Chenying suppressed his cultivation and attacked Li Yan with a punch with the strength of the peak of the first level of Qiongqi Purgatory Art. Li Yan also punched out with a flat punch. The punches of the two immediately blew up a whistling wind in the courtyard, and the aftermath caused the stone tables and stone benches in the courtyard to tremble. When the two fists were still ten feet apart, the air began to emit a series of "bang bang" explosions. Finally, with a muffled bang, Li Yan's figure shook, while Gong Chenying took a step back. It was obvious that Li Yan had the advantage.

This result not only surprised Li Yan, he just stood there with his arms stretched out, looking strange. Gong Chenying on the other side was even more incredulous. You know, although she suppressed her cultivation with a punch just now, she kept it at the peak of the first level of Qiongqi Purgatory without any reservation. She was also thinking that if she found something wrong, she could directly shrink and control the strength with her current Qiongqi Purgatory third level middle level cultivation, which was easy for her. But what Gong Chenying didn't expect was that Li Yan's Qiongqi Purgatory realm had indeed reached the peak of the first level, but his strength had exceeded that realm. How could she believe it?

Finally, Gong Chenying made another move. When

She only tied with Li Yan when she reached the middle stage of the first level of Qiongqi Purgatory Art. This made Gong Chenying confused for a while. She had never heard of such a situation in the clan. She couldn't help but feel a little confused. She was worried that Li Yan had problems with his practice, and then asked Li Yan in detail about the whole process and symptoms of his practice.

Li Yan looked at Gong Chenying's worried face, which was still a little cold, and felt warm in his heart. So he told her about his practice process, except for the secret room, and took this opportunity to ask a few questions. After listening to Li Yan's narration, Gong Chenying thought about it, but didn't find anything wrong, so she slowly put her mind at ease. She could only attribute this strange thing to the disintegration poison again. After that, it became Li Yan's questioning time. Li Yan's occasional "Aying" would make Gong Chenying's heart tremble. She didn't think Li Yan had a lot of problems, but half a day passed unknowingly.

In the following days, Gong Chenying came twice. She notified Li Yan in advance and came to Li Yan's place at the time. Every time she came, she just sat in the yard and never went into the house. She never even stepped into Li Yan's living room. She also never let Li Yan go to her yard, which made Li Yan a little depressed. But Gong Chenying's gradually increasing little girl's demeanor every time she came made Li Yan feel the joy of the feelings in youth.

Similarly, in the past few months, when Li Yan went to the back mountain platform to practice immortal arts and fragmented poison body, he also met Zhao Min twice. One time was in the evening. Zhao Min was still sitting on the edge of the platform in a white dress as white as snow, and her slender legs were still swinging on the cliff outside the platform. She looked at the huge moon in the sky with a dazed look. That night, the two chatted casually until the full moon set in the west, the dew was full of the platform, and Zhao Min left beautifully.

Another time, after discussing the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique with Gong Chenying in the afternoon, Li Yan left the courtyard to practice the afternoon experience on the platform in the back mountain, but he also saw Zhao Min in white clothes there again. This time, Zhao Min was standing on the edge of the platform, facing the wind, looking at the last ray of light in the sky in the twilight. When Li Yan saw her, he slowly walked to a place not far from her. Zhao Min seemed to sniff, and then turned her white jade face carved like a goddess to look at Li Yan from top to bottom, without saying a word, and flew away directly. Li Yan was left staring at the figure in the sky with fluttering sleeves, which was getting farther and farther away. After standing on the platform for a while, Li Yan lifted his sleeves, which seemed to still have a faint body fragrance left by the fight with Gong Chenying in the afternoon...

Li Yan looked at the green tea in the teacup in his hand, and the Guishui Sutra started to run involuntarily. Li Yan's Guishui Sutra had already reached the point where his mind moved at will, especially since water was his main attribute. Usually, as long as he was close to a water source, the Guishui Sutra would speed up involuntarily. Li Yan had already gotten used to it.

r>  Li Yan took his eyes off the tea and slowly raised his head. He saw the huge ancient ape standing beside the stone table in a daze. Li Yan, who was about to calm down and devote himself to cultivation, didn't know if it was an illusion. The moment he raised his head, he seemed to see the ancient ape puppet's eyes move. At that moment, it seemed to have spirituality. When Li Yan looked carefully again, the ancient ape puppet didn't seem to move at all and still stood there. This startled Li Yan's heart, and he couldn't help but scan the ancient ape puppet with a powerful sense. After a while, Li Yan's eyes were still full of doubts.

"Could it be that I have too many thoughts today and I really have hallucinations?" Just now, his sense repeatedly scanned several times, including the body of the ancient ape puppet, but he didn't find anything abnormal. Li Yan has always been very thoughtful. Even with this thought, he still scanned it several times with his sense until he confirmed that he had an illusion. Only then did he feel relieved.

He now values ​​this ancient ape puppet very much, and he also sent a message to Bai Rou about the level of the spirit stone embedded in this puppet some time ago. Bai Rou's answer was that the 80 spirit stone slots of this puppet were made for low-level spirit stones. If you fill them with intermediate spirit stones, you only need to put in one-third, but it can only be used for daily use. If you fill the 80 slots with intermediate spirit stones and let the ancient ape puppet attack with all its strength, it will only have one attack, and it should be a strike that can reach the middle stage of foundation building. However, after this strike, this ancient ape puppet will be scrapped, and the formation inside will collapse directly, and it will be impossible to repair it. So I hope Li Yan must think carefully before using it.

Bai Rou's words revealed a pleading, and her meaning couldn't be clearer. She didn't want Li Yan to let the ancient ape puppet play that strike in the middle stage of foundation building. As for high-level spirit stones, Bai Rou had never seen them, but according to her guess, as long as one high-level spirit stone was used, it should instantly destroy all the formations inside the puppet, and it would be impossible to launch any attack at all.

After hearing Bai Rou's message, Li Yan did not reply to any message. If this puppet was in normal times, he would naturally use low-level spirit stones, but if Li Yan really had mid-level spirit stones in the future, and it was a matter of life and death, he would not consider anything else and would directly use this method. Even if the ancient ape puppet collapsed on the spot, it would be better than losing his life. Li Yan certainly knew which was more important. After Li Yan did not reply, Bai Rou did not send any other messages to disturb him, as if this thing really belonged to Li Yan and she was just reminding him.

Li Yan looked at the puppet in front of him, rolled up his sleeves, and the puppet shrank at a very fast speed. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a miniature ancient ape wood sculpture and sank into Li Yan's left wrist.

Li Yan sorted out his mood and was about to take out the round diamond crystal to teleport to the secret room. At this moment, suddenly, the sky above his bamboo courtyard changed suddenly.