In the void, Li Yan had already left that bamboo courtyard. Xiang Yanxiu had arranged with him to set out at midnight tonight. He did not wish to alarm anyone else, and Li Yan also needed to return and inform Zi Kun and Qianji.
Li Yan merely said that Xiang Yanxiu had asked him to assist with alchemy and that he would not be returning for some time. Xiang Yanxiu was himself an expert in the Dao of alchemy, so no one would doubt such a reason. As for why Xiang Yanxiu needed Li Yan's assistance, the less he revealed, the more reasons others could speculate about. For instance, Li Yan was a special human here, and some pills could not be refined using the Demon Race's cultivation arts, thus requiring another's assistance...
Li Yan swiftly flew toward Zi Kun's residence. He currently carried a temporary token. Xiang Yanxiu had not asked Zi Kun to come receive Li Yan; instead, he had given him a temporary token. If anyone checked, it would not cause any trouble.
This was the territory of Xiang Yanxiu's branch. His authority here was practically heaven-reaching. Even the other clan elders had to give him face. "So it was the Blood Soul Black Tiger clan. That truly was rather disappointing..."
Li Yan was still thinking about what had happened earlier. Xiang Yanxiu had seen through his thoughts and told him everything he knew about that clan. The cultivation art Li Yan practiced was related to Qiongqi, and the Tianli Clan had also been searching for Qiongqi's whereabouts all this time. For cultivators who practiced the Qiongqi Purgatory Art, that was simply far too important.
If one could see the ruins of a true Qiongqi clan, even obtaining the slightest fragment of bone or strand of fur