After dying and coming back to life.
Li Chang'an had decided to keep a low profile.
He had to act discreetly!
The Far North was far too dangerous.
This time, he had simply been unlucky. He had happened to wander into an Ice Jade Scorpion gathering place, and the Ice Empress had happened to be there as well. Otherwise, even if it had been an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Scorpion, even if he could not defeat it, he could still have escaped using the majesty of his bloodline. He would not have lost a life, no matter what. It had purely been terrible luck.
But this encounter had also reminded him that his current strength was still very weak. There was an enormous gap between him and Soul Beasts like the Ice Empress, who possessed cultivation measured in hundreds of thousands of years. At the very least, he needed cultivation equivalent to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast before he could fearlessly face those Ferocious Beasts.
So before then, if he encountered those Ferocious Beasts, he should avoid them whenever possible. There was nothing shameful about protecting oneself while weak.
Li Chang'an did not believe that having nine lives meant he could recklessly throw them away. After all, his resurrection mechanism was not invincible. If someone could foresee or sense where he would revive in advance, they could kill him directly while he was still reconstructing his body and remained in an egg embryo state.
Then they could wait at the location of his next rebirth and kill him again the moment he revived!
If that cycle continued, forget nine lives—even ninety thousand lives would not be enough.
Moreover, even if an enemy could not know his revival location, they could simply choose not to kill him. They could seal him away