Although the red clouds that formed the flames would reappear after twenty-four hours, they were restricted to a certain size.
Any additional red clouds generated could not linger in the sky for long and would dissipate on their own. After reaching the Gold Core Realm, Li Yan had carefully studied the blood river.
But even after poring over every ancient text he could find, he had discovered nothing about its origins, nor had his experiments with various spells revealed any other functions.
Moreover, Li Yan had no silver paper left and no longer needed the blood river to dissolve it. For a time, even the Li Fire Mysterious Yellow Fan had become something of a chicken rib—too meager to savor, yet a pity to discard.
Only after successfully completing Nascent Soul Formation, while sorting through his magical treasures, did Li Yan pick up the Li Fire Mysterious Yellow Fan again. He had always felt there was something mysterious about the blood river inside it and wanted to study it further.
But the moment his divine sense entered, he froze. Eight figures were bobbing with the currents in the blood river: the Flying Scythe Blood Mantises he had long since forgotten.
Since the Flying Scythe Blood Mantises had only spirit essences and no physical bodies, once Zi Kun had reconstructed his body and thousands upon thousands of Snow Mosquitoes from Qianji's clan had joined them to help...
Li Yan had long forgotten these few Flying Scythe Blood Mantises in the Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment Realms!
Only when refining the Undying Underworld Phoenix's blood essence had he noticed these spirit essences cultivating in the blood river. Their auras had grown slightly stronger than before, but he had paid them no further attention.
Leaving aside the time Li Yan had spent on