The higher a cultivator's cultivation, the more he usually treasured his life and the more he hoped to set foot in the ethereal immortal realm and touch the path to immortality.
That was why few Spirit Transformation cultivators were willing to fight a battle of mutual destruction in the lower realm. Yet the Tianli Clan's High Priest had chosen precisely that extreme path, taking two Spirit Transformation Wind Beasts down with him in one stroke.
Even Gong Shanhe's visit to the Desolate Moon Continent had been more than a hundred years ago. No one knew whether anyone in the Tianli Clan had since broken through to Spirit Transformation. Though the odds were slim, Li Yan still wanted to be certain.
"Neither the three Wind Beast clans nor the Tianli Clan has produced another Spirit Transformation cultivator. But the Wind Goose Clan has a Wind Beast at the peak of the fourth rank, and the Tianli Clan's Great Elder is at the Nascent Soul Late Stage. They're the most likely to reach that level!"
Zhuo Lingfeng understood what Li Yan was thinking. Li Yan was weighing the strength of both sides, along with what he himself would need to watch out for when he went there.
And Li Yan had asked only about Spirit Transformation cultivators. That stirred a thought in Zhuo Lingfeng's mind, though he knew the Wangliang had strange methods and a deep store of resources.
Li Yan had crossed between realms. Perhaps he had a treasure capable of dealing with a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, but Zhuo Lingfeng was not about to pry.
Relief washed through Li Yan when he heard this.
"Thank you for the explanation! Fellow Daoist Zhuo, there's one more thing I've never understood. Would you mind telling me?"
Though Li Yan had decided