Lord of Bones

Chapter 625 Hiding in Tibet
The mountains are endless, with peaks and ridges rising and falling.

Each mountain seems to be the backbone of the earth, strong and majestic.

They stand there quietly, witnessing the vicissitudes of countless years.

Surrounded by mountains, there are lush forests and towering ancient trees rising from the ground with luxuriant branches and leaves, blocking out the sky.

Even with a clear sky and a blazing sun, the depths of the forest are still dark and deep.

The sunlight penetrates through the layers of branches and leaves, sprinkling across the forest, creating mottled light and shadows.

A blue figure rushed through the dark forest, a pair of huge wings flashing with lightning, flapping in the air at an astonishing speed.

Every time the giant wings flapped, they were accompanied by wisps of lightning, swirling and shuttling between the ancient trees, like lightning cutting through the darkness, becoming the only light in the forest.

Li Yuan had been walking in this deep mountain forest for seven or eight hours, climbing over one mountain after another and passing through dense forests.

.........

The night is deep and everything is silent.

Suddenly, the roars of beasts and the cries of birds were heard, like thunder that split the night sky, deafening.

The roar echoed in the mountains and forests for a long time, making people shudder.

Li Yuan stopped and stood quietly on the crown of a towering ancient tree, overlooking the mountains and forests below.

Through those roars, he was able to determine that there were many late-stage level five monsters hiding in the forest.

For a Yuanshen late stage Yuanshen master like him, although he can deal with ordinary level 5 monsters, he seems to have a hard time facing those in the late level 5 stage.

As for the peak level five monster, Li Yuan felt that such a creature should not appear in this area.

Only in the Wenmang Mountains, which span hundreds of millions of miles and are an area that ordinary Yuan practitioners dare not set foot in, can such powerful monsters be bred.

Those monsters are all preparing for the calamity.

Looking forward to being able to transform into a human and gain more powerful strength.

Even if they fail to survive the tribulation, if they are lucky enough to survive, they will become level six monsters, comparable to those in the Huawen realm.

The sixth-level monster can use its original beast body to move freely in the city where Yuan people gather, exchange cultivation resources, and intersect with the human world.

This place is nearly ten thousand miles away from the Jinglan Feng family ruins, and Li Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Yuan realized that he had reached his limit, and the energy in his body was gradually running out and could no longer support him to move forward.

Night is the peak time for monsters to be active. They are more ferocious and violent than during the day. Continuing on the journey will only increase the risk.

He made a decisive decision to wait until daybreak before setting off.

He quickly and carefully set up several elemental formations, which emitted a faint light and enveloped his figure like a layer of gauze as a temporary protection.

After setting up the Yuan Array, Li Yuan sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to regulate his breathing and practice to restore his Yuan power.

There was complete silence all around, with only the occasional roar of monsters breaking the tranquility.

Li Yuan's mind gradually immersed in cultivation, feeling the Yuan force flowing slowly in his body and gradually filling up.

However, this tranquility did not last long.

About an hour later, a loud roar suddenly came, disturbing Li Yuan's practice.

He quickly opened his eyes, and in a flash, he arrived at the crown of a nearby towering ancient tree.

The tree canopy is dense, with layers of branches and leaves, providing an excellent hiding place.

He looked at the night sky through the gaps between the branches.

The moonlight is like ice, sprinkling in the silent night sky.

The stars are sparse, twinkling faintly.

In the sky a hundred miles away from Li Yuan, several huge Huangxuanyuan boats were hovering quietly.

On the Yuanzhou, the white cloud-patterned flag fluttered in the night wind. The dazzling white color was even more eye-catching under the moonlight, as if lightning was cutting through the darkness.

The cloud emblem represents a powerful force.

In the Jinglan Feng family underground palace, Li Yuan learned from the ring of a dead strong man that there are many forces using cloud pattern emblems, but there are three most famous among them.

Among the seven sects of Wenhe, two sects use cloud patterns as their symbol.

Lingyun Sect, the leader of the top three sects, is famous for its majesty and strength.

The Tianyun Sect, the leader of the four sects, is also very famous.

As for the remaining one, it is the Mishan Yun family, one of the sixteen major families among the 100 families in Wenhe.

However, the emblem of the Mishan Yun family resembles a cloud and a mountain, which does not match the cloud pattern emblems on the three Huangxuanyuan boats in front of them.

Moreover, the cloud pattern of Lingyun Sect is golden, which is slightly different from the white cloud pattern.

"This is the Tianyun Sect..."

Li Yuan's heart trembled, and he immediately restrained his breath, even suppressing his vitality to the point where it was almost weak.

Tianyun Sect is one of the seven sects in Wenhe. It is very powerful. If one is not careful, he will get into endless trouble.

At this moment, he seemed to have turned into a cheetah hiding in the darkness, quietly observing the movements around him.

"Wow!"

Sharp bird calls pierced the night sky, rustling the leaves around them.

Li Yuan looked through the gaps between the leaves and his sight was attracted by the giant beasts that rushed out from the three Huangxuanyuan boats.

They are covered with white feathers, have cat-like heads and crane-like bodies, and their appearance is strange and majestic.

These giant beasts are called Cangyun Cat-headed Cranes. Each one is fifty or sixty feet in size, like small hills.

On their backs stood disciples of the Tianyun Sect, each of them looking majestic and emitting the aura of a heavenly king.

These disciples were dressed in the same uniform of the sect, with their sleeves fluttering in the night breeze, looking elegant.

"Level 5 Earth Spirit, Cangyun Cat-headed Crane!" Li Yuan recognized these giant beasts, his pupils shrank slightly, and he felt uneasy.

The Cangyun Cat-headed Cranes were extremely fast and spread out in all directions, each occupying a patch of the night sky, as if they wanted to cover the entire area in their search.

Immediately afterwards, the disciples of the Tianyun Sect jumped down from the ground spirit one after another. Their figures were so dense that they dotted the night sky like stars.

They released the light of their elemental energy, which flickered in the night sky like shooting stars across the sky.

These disciples began to descend in altitude, their figures moving among the crowns of the towering ancient trees, carefully searching every corner.

The monsters around sensed these powerful auras and fled in all directions in fear, not daring to stay for even a moment.

The entire night sky was shrouded in a solemn and murderous atmosphere.

Li Yuan hid in the tree canopy, holding his breath and concentrating, not daring to move at all.

Witnessing the huge formation of thousands of Heavenly Kings, Li Yuan couldn't help but marvel in his heart.

With such a move, I’m afraid they will soon have completely searched the area within a hundred thousand miles.

If he is careless, he may expose his whereabouts and bring unnecessary trouble.

Li Yuan gritted his teeth, moved his body, quietly swooped down from the crown of the ancient tree, and slowly moved to the foot of the mountain not far away.

Hills of rotten leaves form a natural hiding place.

Li Yuan carefully immersed his body in it, making sure his breath blended with the surrounding environment.

He began to practice Pei Yuan Gong. Yuan power slowly flowed through his body, like a trickle of water, nourishing his meridians and internal organs.

As the energy flowed, his body gradually became cold, as if it had lost its vitality.

This was a state of suspended animation, in which his breath completely disappeared, making him no different from the dead leaves around him.

Li Yuan did not use any hidden Yuan formation.

He didn't dare to take the risk because the scale of Tianyun Sect's operation was huge. If he used Yuanbao with a detection array, it would easily expose his position.

He could only rely on Pei Yuan Gong to activate the magical power of the Spirit Pattern Life-Devouring Bone to hide his breath.

As time went by, Li Yuan's breath became weaker and weaker, as if he was really dead.

His heartbeat and breathing dropped to an almost imperceptible level, and his body completely blended into the dead leaves around him.

In this state, he quietly waited for the disciples of Tianyun Sect to leave.

Half an hour seemed like a long time. The exploration team that was originally as dense as a net in the sky gradually gathered and jumped onto the back of the Cangyun Cat-Headed Crane again.

The giant beast flapped its wings and flew high, turning into streams of light, gradually disappearing at the end of the sky and heading towards a new area.

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Li Yuan was lying under the rotten leaves. Although he sensed that the exploration team had gone far away, he still remained in a state of suspended animation and did not dare to relax at all.

The Tianyun Sect's methods are cunning and varied. Perhaps this is just their test, and the real search may not have begun yet.

Two hours later, a faint dawn light appeared on the horizon, and a new day came quietly.

The rising sun casts its warm rays, trying to awaken the slumbering earth.

However, facing the dense forest, the sunlight is somewhat weak and cannot penetrate the layers of leaves.

The forest still retained its dark atmosphere, with the smell of decay mixed with the fragrance of earth permeating the air.

The previous search had caused the area to fall into silence, and the roars of monsters that used to be heard one after another were now gone.

The whole forest was so quiet that it made people feel uneasy.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, bursts of sharp bird calls resounded through the sky, breaking the eerie silence.

Li Yuan's heart suddenly tightened, and he felt a strong sense of oppression.

A group of giant birds were circling in the sky, their figures looking particularly huge against the sunlight.

Immediately afterwards, countless figures jumped down from the back of the giant bird and sprinkled onto the mountains and forests like raindrops.

Their movements were swift and orderly, and it was obvious that they were well prepared.

This time the search was more thorough than before. They not only circled and observed in the air, but also went deep into the mountains and forests to carefully search every corner.

Li Yuan hid under the dead leaves, not daring to breathe.

He could feel the presence of the searchers moving around, and every time they got closer his heart beat faster.

He closed his eyes tightly and tried to calm his breathing, fearing that the other party would notice.

After a long wait of one hour, the search team finally ended their thorough search of the area.

They jumped onto the back of the Cangyun Cat-Headed Crane again, turned into streams of light, and disappeared into the distant sky.

It was not until the afternoon that Li Yuan dared to slowly warm up his body.

He carefully crawled out from the rotten leaves, sat cross-legged, and began to regulate his breathing.

Having just gone through a life-and-death test, he must recover his strength as quickly as possible in case of emergency.

After a long period of recuperation, Li Yuan's body finally gradually recovered.

He sat quietly on the rotten leaves, with a determined light flashing in his eyes, and began to carefully recall and analyze the reasons for all this.

The Tianyun Sect's move this time was too big and completely beyond common sense.

Even if the disappearance of Zuo Feihong was important, it would not be enough to mobilize the entire Tianyun Sect to such a large extent.

He secretly guessed in his heart that perhaps the Tianyun Sect had discovered the disappearance of the Essence-Devouring Demon Vine.

The sperm-devouring demon vine under the Jinglanfeng clan's underground palace is a powerful being at the life spirit realm, enough to shock any of the seven Wenhe sects.

This place is nearly ten thousand miles away from the Jinglan Feng family ruins. The Tianyun Sect is searching so ostentatiously, it is obvious that they will not give up easily.

Li Yuan took a deep breath, a hint of determination flashed in his eyes. There was no way out now.

He stood up, stretched his muscles, felt the power surging in his body, and felt a little more at ease.

"The Tianyun Sect will not give up so easily. It seems we have to prepare for a protracted war..."

Now he had no choice but to hope that he would not be discovered during the subsequent searches.

Once discovered by the Tianyun Sect, he will face unimaginable danger.

"If you can escape successfully, you must stay in seclusion for a period of time. After the storm has passed, you can go to the Ziquan Tan of the Longshan Tan Clan."

Over the next five months, Li Yuan traveled through the vast mountains like a cunning fox, carefully avoiding places that might reveal his whereabouts.

He tried to stay away from the Jinglan Feng family ruins area as much as possible. It seemed to have turned into a huge whirlpool. If he got close to it, he would be sucked into it.

During this long escape, Li Yuan never dared to expose himself to the sun.

He was like a ghost, moving through the dark forests, and only dared to show his head slightly after nightfall to observe the surrounding environment.

He was engaged in a silent game with the Tianyun Sect's team, and every moment was full of tension and excitement.

There has been no sighting of the Tianyun Sect’s troops for more than ten days, and there has been no sign of monsters escaping.

Li Yuan secretly speculated that either the Tianyun Sect had stopped searching, or he had walked out of the Tianyun Sect's search range.

After all, he is now more than 300,000 miles away from the ruins.

This is a long distance for any sect.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the tension in his heart was slightly relieved.

His cultivation had reached the late stage of Yuanshen Realm, and every breath he had revealed the majesty of a strong man.

Coupled with his ability to kill enemies above his own level, he was confident that there were only a handful of people in Qinggu Continent who could defeat him.

However, here, he had to live in hiding.

This was undoubtedly a great irony for him.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan smiled bitterly in his heart.

The bitter smile revealed a hint of helplessness and unwillingness.

He looked up at the distant sky, his eyes flashing with determination, and said fiercely:

"Sooner or later, I will make Tianyun Sect take something to make up for the humiliation I suffered over the past few months."

There was a chill in his words, as if he wanted to vent all the frustration and anger he had been feeling for the past few months.

With a shake of his shoulders, a pair of emerald green thunder wings suddenly spread out behind him.

Li Yuan moved and turned into a flash of lightning, disappearing into the deep forest.

He moved quickly among the trees, lightly and swiftly, as if he had merged into one with the forest.

Li Yuan's figure gradually disappeared into the deep forest, leaving only a trail of afterimages and a faint smell of thunder in the air.

(End of this chapter)