However, Li Yan had already formed a judgment about this place. There was no one here, and that was the greatest piece of good news he had received.
First, although he had only seen three rooms, every arrangement within them gave off the feeling that people had gone and the building stood empty. No valuable treasures had been left behind.
Second, the basis for Li Yan's judgment came from Meng Zhiyuan's earlier introduction to this place's origins, which Li Yan had compared against other information.
Everything here was clearly arranged like a cultivator's cave abode. Li Yan did not need to inspect anywhere else to be certain.
Besides the three rooms he had visited, there were surely beast-rearing chambers, alchemy rooms, spirit herb gardens, and other layouts most commonly found in cultivators' cave abodes.
At that thought, Li Yan's figure flashed, vanishing from the sitting room.
The next moment, he appeared inside another room and looked at the deep marks on the floor.
"Left by an alchemy furnace or great cauldron. An alchemy and artifact-refining room!"
Li Yan knew his judgment had been correct. The opponent's final killing move had been to send people into the cave abodes of several powerful experts. If an expert truly had been here, he would undoubtedly have died.
But now, he knew that he was safe for the time being.
Even Meng Zhiyuan could not enter and leave this place freely—or rather, he was unwilling to enter it, because once inside, it was difficult to get back out.
The reason Li Yan knew so much was not entirely because Meng Zhiyuan had told him. Earlier, Li Yan had performed Soul Search on two two-winged "Dark Spirit Demon Bats."
Though their levels were low, and Li Yan had expected that they could not possibly know