At this time, Zhang Kanwen's clothes were ragged, and he was sitting on a stone slab with his eyes closed.
I examined him and found that he was already at the early stage of Yang God Realm.
He was the successor of Wen Shan's bloodline, and he had a Morality spell. Coupled with his talent, it was only natural that he had reached the early stage of Yang God Realm in just over a year.
However, his aura was weak, and he was clearly injured.
To be able to take someone from the hands of Yang God Heavenly Master and injure him, it was clear that the monster he encountered was not easy to deal with.
While I was thinking, Zhang Kanwen opened his eyes. When he saw us, a smile appeared on his pale face. "You're finally here."
Then, he got up.
Seeing that he was struggling, I quickly went to him and helped him sit down. Then, I placed my hands on his back and circulated my Dao energy to help him recover.
After about fifteen minutes, Zhang Kanwen's injuries were eighty to ninety percent healed. Then, I retracted my hands and adjusted my breathing.
Now that the Mountain and Sea Realm had opened, the ancient Desolate Qi filled the air. When I adjusted my breathing, the Dao and Magus Qi in my body seemed to circulate much faster. After a short while, I recovered my cultivation and opened my eyes.
At this time, Zhang Kanwen clasped his hands to thank me, then asked me what method I had used to heal him, and how it was so effective. In just a short while, his injuries were completely healed.
"Using Qi of the Way to heal people is the most basic method in the cultivation world. However, this method can only stabilize people's injuries. It is very difficult to make people recover. However, the evil spirit taught me a healing method that can help people recover quickly. After I reached the Ascension Realm, my body produced another spiritual force. When I heal, I can use that spiritual force to supplement my Qi of the Way, and the speed at which my injuries recover is even faster.
I didn't know what that spiritual power was, so when Zhang Kanwen asked, I briefly explained it to him.
Zhang Kanwen didn't care about the details, but when he heard that I had reached the Ascension realm, he was shocked. After a while, he calmed down and said with a smile, "You have the talent of four meridians, and you've had many fortuitous encounters over the years. It's reasonable for you to reach the Ascension realm."
After exchanging pleasantries, Zhang Kanwen got down to business.
He told me that after little Wang Li was taken away, he had been tracking it all the way, but after the monster arrived here, there was suddenly no trace of it, so he stayed here to heal while waiting for me.
Then, he worriedly asked me, "A few days ago, there was a big disaster in Shenzhen. Communication and transportation were all cut off. Then, the monster beasts started to wreak havoc. What happened?"
Not to mention Zhang Kanwen, everyone in the world had the same doubts.
After a moment of thought, I told him everything I knew about the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Now that the mortal world was facing a great catastrophe, and the Mountain and Sea Realm was no longer a secret, there was no harm in telling him about it.
After listening to this, Zhang Kanwen was stunned. After half a minute, he asked with his eyes wide open, "The human world … is like this?"
I sighed and nodded.
Zhang Kanwen's face was still filled with shock, and he kept repeating, "How could this be … how could this be?"
After a few minutes of digesting the information, Zhang Kanwen's expression finally recovered a bit. He seemed to have accepted the current situation, and didn't ask any more questions about the Mountain and Sea Realm. Instead, he told me about the appearance of the monster that had taken little Wang Li. He also told me that the monster had deliberately taken little Wang Li away for a reason. From that, it seemed that little Wang Li's life wasn't in any danger for the time being.
His analysis was the same as mine. Of course, all of this was just our conjecture. Things like monsters can't necessarily be judged by common sense. Just in case, we had to find the monster's whereabouts as soon as possible.
I sent out my Spiritual Sense to search the area, and found that the wild and ancient energy here wasn't very strong. However, I was surrounded by a dense forest, so it would be very difficult to search bit by bit.
Fortunately, my Spiritual Sense could cover a very wide area, and the dense forest wasn't a hindrance to me.
After a while, I found a strange place. After sweeping it with my Spiritual Sense, I couldn't go through it, but I could faintly sense a weak energy fluctuation.
After memorizing the location, I continued to search. Soon, I had searched the surrounding fifty kilometers. Apart from finding a few more monsters with cultivation bases below the Heavenly Master level, I didn't find anything else out of the ordinary.
Thus, I took Fatty and Zhang Kanwen with me to the place where I had first discovered the strange place.
The three of us flew through the air, and soon arrived.
After landing, I wasn't in a hurry to enter. Instead, I carefully observed my surroundings and quickly discovered that there was a restriction here. Previously, my Spiritual Sense hadn't been able to go through this place because of this restriction.
Since there was a restriction here, there must be a whole other world inside.
It was highly likely that little Wang Li and the monster were inside this restriction.
Given my current cultivation base, I naturally didn't care about the monster. However, I was worried about little Wang Li's safety, so I didn't dare to break the restriction by force. After thinking for a moment, I asked Fatty if he could break the restriction.
Hearing my question, Fatty observed the restriction for a while and nodded. "I can give it a try. I should have a fifty to sixty percent chance of success."
It was worth a try if there was a fifty percent chance. Thus, I nodded and asked Fatty to act as soon as possible.
While the fatty was fiddling with the formation, I told Zhang Kanwen to stay outside with the fatty after the formation was broken.
On one hand, the situation inside was unclear, and their cultivation bases were slightly low. If there was an emergency, I might not be able to take care of them. On the other hand, I had to leave someone outside to prevent other situations from happening.
Zhang Kanwen was also a person who cared about the overall situation. After listening to my arrangements, he nodded without hesitation. He only told me to be careful.
Just as I finished speaking, I heard Fatty exclaim, "It's done!"
I turned to look and saw that there was a gap in the restriction.
Fatty's restriction breaking method was indeed extraordinary. He didn't directly break the restriction, but instead created a gap in it. This way, he could ensure that he wouldn't alert the enemy.
At that moment, there was an extremely dense Ancient Savage Aura coming from the gap in the restriction.
Seeing this, I reacted. No wonder the Ancient Savage Aura wasn't that dense. It was most likely that the monster had gathered all the Ancient Savage Aura in the surroundings here for its own cultivation.
I slightly frowned. Previously, when I saw the restriction, I guessed that the monster's cultivation base shouldn't be too high. However, from the density of the Ancient Savage Aura, I didn't dare to be so sure.
Time was of the essence, so I didn't have much time to think about it. Since I was going in alone, even if the monster's cultivation base was higher than Rush and I couldn't defeat it, I could at least protect myself.
As for the Rush Great Monster, it wouldn't appear so easily.
As I thought about this, I leaped into the hole.
After landing, I hid my aura and carefully took a few steps forward. Then, I stopped and started to check the surroundings.
This place was a cliff. There wasn't even a blade of grass growing in the surroundings. The dense Ancient Savage Aura was mixed with a fishy smell. Once the fishy smell entered my nose, it made my head feel heavy.
I held my breath and sensed a trace of energy coming from the bottom of the cliff.
As far as I could see, although the surroundings were desolate, there was a dense forest under the cliff. The monster should be hiding in the forest.
To be cautious, I didn't fly over. Instead, I followed the small path behind the cliff and entered the forest.
After searching for a while, I quickly discovered the existence of a monster in front of me.
The monster's appearance was exactly the same as what Zhang Kanwen had described. It looked extremely strange. Its torso was no different from a human's. Only the few antennae on its head revealed its identity as a monster.
Although its appearance matched Zhang Kanwen's description, I didn't sense Little Wang Li's aura around it. Thus, I couldn't determine that it was the monster that had kidnapped Little Wang Li.
Judging from its aura, the monster's cultivation base shouldn't be higher than Rush Great Monster. I originally planned to capture it and interrogate it. However, the monster seemed to be in a hurry to rush somewhere.
At the moment, I didn't know how many monsters there were. If I suddenly attacked, it would be fine if I could successfully capture the monster. However, if it struggled and caused a commotion, it would expose my whereabouts. That wouldn't be good.
After weighing the pros and cons in my mind, I decided to follow the monster to see where it was rushing to.
I didn't dare to get too close, so I followed it from a distance. After walking for a quarter of an hour, the monster finally stopped in front of a cave.
However, it didn't immediately enter the cave. Instead, it suddenly turned around and looked behind it.
I immediately bent down in the grass to look. The monster stood in its original position. After a few seconds, it turned around and entered the cave.
I heaved a sigh of relief and quickly followed.