"Senior.... I was just greedy for wealth and honor and called myself a cultivator in this mundane world. Although I might have been a bit presumptuous, I have never knowingly offended anyone... If I have unintentionally offended you, I ask for your guidance," Xiao Nan also transmitted his voice.
However, he did not stop, but instead fully activated his magical treasure and fled into the distance.
No one would willingly put their lives in the hands of others, and Xue Pan was no exception to entrusting his life and death to a stranger.
A hint of cold light flashed in Ding Yan's eyes.
The next moment, the fist-sized infant-like immortal yuan power hidden in his dantian began to circulate and merged into the elemental power. Then, a very faint and thin immortal yuan power emanated from Ding Yan's body! Immortal yuan power, a power possessed only by wandering immortals, and although Ding Yan had not been a wandering immortal for long, the immortal yuan power within him was no less than that of other wandering immortals.
Under the operation of the immortal power, Ding Yan's speed instantly increased several times, and in a few breaths, he caught up with Xiao Nan who was escaping ahead.
Feeling the breath behind him, Xiao Nan was scared out of his wits.
Without hesitating, he spat out a mouthful of blood directly onto his magical treasure.
It was the legendary Blood Escape technique!
Blood Escape, a form of Dao technique, although it was a low-grade technique, due to its special effects, it had become a skill that almost all cultivators had to learn.
"Still trying to escape!" Ding Yan grabbed forward with his right hand.
The void grip!
Using the same elemental power, Ding Yan deployed it in his hand, and its power was almost ten times greater than Xiao Nan's full effort. This was the difference in realms, and there was no way to resist it at all.
A glint of despair flashed in Xiao Nan's eyes.
He could not understand why there would be wandering immortals in the mundane world!
Most cultivators who became wandering immortals were people with extremely strong minds. Such existence was basically impossible to be attracted by the prosperity and wealth of the mundane world, so for wandering immortals, there was basically nothing else attractive in the mundane world besides tempering their state of mind and taking in disciples.
Could it be to take disciples?
Xiao Nan quickly dismissed this thought because the people who came to the mundane world to take disciples were either from sects or wandering immortals who were about to reach the end of their lives. Ding Yan did not seem like the latter, and he did not seem to be from a sect either. Since the time when sect wandering immortals take disciples was basically fixed, after so many years in the mundane world, Xiao Nan had gained some insights. It would be several years before those wandering immortals come to take disciples.
Xiao Nan felt as if he were trapped in a marsh, every step he took felt extremely difficult, and countless fine threads seemed to be pulling at his body, making him move at a speed almost as slow as an ordinary person walking.
Xiao Nan gave a bitter smile and simply stopped, sitting down on the ground.
"Why aren't you running?" Ding Yan descended from the void and looked around curiously behind him.
His uncle, who was once powerless, had suddenly become a celestial who could fly and traverse the world. For Ding Chen, this was like a dream come true.
"In the face of senior's methods, my efforts to escape would be in vain," Xiao Nan said with resignation.
"Since you know that, why did you still run?" Ding Yan didn't pay attention to Xiao Nan's flattery and asked.
After just one encounter, the other party ran away without any hesitation or even used the Blood Escape technique. Ding Yan was certain that there must have been a reason behind it.
"I want to capture your disciple. Would your senior let me go so easily? If not, then why not try my best to see if I can win a chance to live?" Xiao Nan touched his nose and said.
In his opinion, Xue Pan should have been directed by Ding Yan, and capturing his disciple would basically be seen as oppressing Ding Yan's disciple. Such behavior was a contempt for wandering immortals, and with the pride of wandering immortals, it was strange that a Qi Refining cultivator like Xiao Nan did not place himself in Ding Yan's eyes. When Ding Yan was in Hai City, Hua Jiu did not question the reason and directly wanted to kill Ding Yan, for this reason.
"Who said that person is my disciple?" Ding Yan frowned and didn't say much, and then changed the subject, asking, "I'm not a crazy killer. Since you have stopped, then I will ask you a few questions. After you answer them, you may leave. Of course... if you lie to me, then it's a different story."
Xiao Nan was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted and exclaimed, "Senior, please ask, this junior will certainly tell all!"
"I ask you, do you know where Dayan Mountain is located?" After finishing his question, he looked at Xiao Nan and noticed any change in his expression.
Originally, after hearing that Ding Yan would not kill him, Xiao Nan involuntarily showed a flattering smile.
However, upon hearing about Dayan Mountain, his face involuntarily trembled, although very faintly, it was still noticed by Ding Yan.
"Dayan Mountain is located near the Jiulong Mountain Range. If you go from the Zhao country, it will take about three months to travel, but at your speed, it will probably only take half a month," Xiao Nan said.
"What's inside Dayan Mountain?" Ding Yan continued to ask.
In his opinion, Xiao Nan must know something.
Sure enough, when Xiao Nan heard the question, a hint of fear appeared on his face.
"I don't know," Xiao Nan shook his head.
"Don't know?" Ding Yan frowned, evidently not satisfied with this answer.
"Dayan Mountain is an extremely dangerous and sinister place. Very few people who enter Dayan Mountain can come out alive. When I entered the mundane world, I once unintentionally entered with nine of my senior brothers, and that time, all of my nine senior brothers died there, leaving only me to escape..."
"Oh?" Ding Yan's eyes flashed, not saying much.
"This matter is not a secret among us cultivators. Not only my senior brothers, but also many cultivators have died inexplicably in Dayan Mountain," Xiao Nan said.
"What killed them?" Ding Yan asked.
"I don't know," Xiao Nan paused for a moment, then continued, "When we entered Dayan Mountain, it was like entering another world, with fog everywhere. I was at the back, and I saw my nine senior brothers gradually turn into mummies ahead of me, until all signs of life disappeared."
Ding Yan nodded.
After that, he asked many more questions.
Xiao Nan was also bold enough to speak. Seeing that Ding Yan really did not intend to take his life, he opened up and told everything, and even occasionally flattered Ding Yan in his words.
Half a day later...
Ding Yan, who obtained the information he wanted, disappeared into the sky with Ding Chen, like a streak of light.