Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 140: Chapter 116: Living in Peace_2

But upon hearing he was to guard the Heavenly Sea shoreline for twenty years, Xu Peiran’s face completely changed, and he looked at Yu Sect Leader incredulously, thinking Yu Sect Leader was joking.

Yu Sect Leader opened his mouth, and this time he did not speak aloud but used a sound transmission technique to say a few words to Xu Peiran.

After hearing these words, the resistant look on Xu Peiran’s face faded. At this point, he wished he could immediately head to the Heavenly Sea shoreline, where though dangerous, it was much better than being troubled by an Elder after coming out of seclusion.

Moreover, dealing with Elder Yin was somewhat bearable, but if Evil Elder Ren from the Xuanming Sect made a move, he was afraid he wouldn’t even know how he died.

Sending him to the Heavenly Sea coastline was Yu Sect Leader’s way of protecting him.

“I know my mistake and accept the punishment from the Sect Leader!” Xu Peiran said while taking out the Identity Jade Disc, and quickly purchased Eagle Beak Island and transferred it to Li Shiming’s name.

Li Shiming stood stupefied as he watched everything unfolding before him. Was Yu Sect Leader’s style of handling matters always this swift and decisive? From the present situation, it seemed he had clear and thorough control over the entire matter.

This intelligence capability was simply too terrifying. He wondered if the little things he had done had also not escaped Yu Sect Leader’s intelligence.

Junior Master Zhuge, however, saw the signs. Yu Sect Leader knew even more than him. It seemed he was just waiting for Li Shiming to come over.

Han Tianlei was brought back by the Law Enforcement Hall, this time as a prisoner.

Dealing with Han Tianlei would have to wait until after all matters were investigated, but he shouldn’t think of living, he could only pray that the sect wouldn’t let his spirit and body be destroyed, completely disappearing from the world.

Li Shiming thanked Junior Master Zhuge and returned to Eagle Beak Island with a Foundation Establishment Master from the Law Enforcement Hall named Xu.

Junior Master Xu arrived at Eagle Beak Island, first surveyed the murder scene, and recorded all the information he could.

“The Sect Leader instructed, this is a small-scale Mountain Protection Array, consider it compensation from the Law Enforcement Hall. The original defensive formation will be repossessed by the Sect Formation!” Junior Master Xu said after finishing everything and collecting the bodies.

After Junior Master Xu left, Li Shiming still looked incredulously at the storage bag in his hand.

The reason for using a storage bag for the small-scale Mountain Protection Array was because it was not in the form of an Array Plate but consisted of multiple Array Flags and a Spiritual Object rich in Spiritual Energy as the base of the Array.

This was still a small-scale Mountain Protection Array. If it were a medium or large-scale Mountain Protection Array, higher grades of Spiritual Objects would be required, and the formation would be even more complex.

It could be said that the small-scale Mountain Protection Array was the best formation to protect a mountain peak, and could be used by smaller sects as a Sect Protection Array.

Li Shiming took out a Jade Scroll from the storage bag, which contained the diagrams for the small-scale Mountain Protection Array.

Normally, such a Mountain Protection Array requires a professional Array Master to set up, but he also counted as a professional Array Master, plus he was setting up his own dwelling, needing to minimize the involvement of other Cultivators as much as possible.

“Yu Sect Leader is such a good person!” Li Shiming felt grateful in his heart.

What he did not know was that during the investigation, Yu Sect Leader did not believe it was Han Tianlei who killed the Qi Refinement Realm Disciple.

Yu Sect Leader suspected Eagle Beak Island had been invaded by a Cultivator of his sect, who killed the Disciple.

The Qi Refinement Realm Disciple, a Junior Spirit Plant Cultivator, had been invited by Han Tianlei to take care of the Spirit Bamboo and spirit field. Han Tianlei had no reason to kill the Disciple.

Yu Sect Leader guessed that Li Shiming and Yin Shilan had some kind of relationship; otherwise, Yin Shilan, who never approached him, would not have come to him over Li Shiming’s matter.

For Li Shiming’s safety, plus the fact that the Law Enforcement Hall really made a big mistake this time, the small-scale Mountain Protection Array was provided by the Law Enforcement Hall.

Setting up the small-scale Mountain Protection Array took Li Shiming a whole day.

His theory was solid, but his practice was lacking. Setting up such a complex formation greatly solidified his theoretical knowledge and greatly improved his hands-on skills.

The experience of setting up the small-scale Mountain Protection Array this time would greatly benefit him in setting up other complex formations in the future.

Of course, his speed of setting up the formation was not slow. Setting up such a formation required exploring every part of Eagle Beak Island, according to the terrain, distribution of Spiritual Energy, magnetic fields, etc. The more it matched Eagle Beak Island, the more effective the small-scale Mountain Protection Array would be.

During the process of setting up the formation, it was Noon, and he sent a message to Yin Shilan, telling her he had returned.

On the other hand, Yin Shilan looked at the message transmitted through the Identity Jade Disc and was slightly annoyed.

When Li Shiming found Yu Sect Leader, she knew he had returned and had been waiting for Li Shiming to message her.

However, Yin Shilan took out her pocket watch, glanced at the time, and the original scowl on her face disappeared, replaced by a slight curve on her vermilion lips.

“You still remember the agreed time, I forgive you!” she thought to herself, but she sent out a message asking if the trip was smooth.

Li Shiming did not discuss the troubles he encountered on this mission, instead, he told Yin Shilan about the customs and characteristics of Nanshan Country as if he were telling a story.

Both of them had self-control, so at the end of their conversation, they stopped communicating.

Li Shiming, after setting up the small Mountain Protection Array, still had a lot of tasks to attend to.

While setting up the small Mountain Protection Array, he incorporated surveillance cameras into the array. With the array masking them, no one could spot the surveillance cameras that emitted no trace of Spiritual Energy.

The four surveillance cameras covered the inside and outside of the island, mainly because Eagle Beak Island itself was not very large.

After implementing the safety measures, he began to plan for his upcoming cultivation.

He went to the underground space, which he had not visited for some time, and found everything there as usual.

Han Tianlei, who occupied this place, had not discovered the existence of the underground space.

In some ways, this underground space was not within the range of Eagle Beak Island.

This time, while setting up the small Mountain Protection Array, Li Shiming intentionally increased its range to include the sea surface above the underground space as well.

He planned to build a dock on that patch of sea, partially to cover for the underground space and partially to prepare for future shipments of mundane items to the island.

He caught two spirit fish from the water. Recently, having been away, his ‘Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill’ had not improved at all.

As he prepared fish soup from the spirit fish, he thought of Ren Fei’er who loved the Spirit Food he cooked and chuckled softly.

He took out his communication jade disc, only to find it flickering continuously.

“Big brother, have you come back?”

“Big brother, why are you so slow?”

“You bad guy, didn’t you throw the communication disc away, did you?”

“I just threw a little tantrum, because a little cat made me angry.”

“I really want to hear a story.”

…

Li Shiming sensed the messages in the communication jade disc, which started three days after they parted.

It seemed that at that time, Ren Fei’er’s family had taken her home, yet Li Shiming wasn’t someone who wasn’t aware of Li Shiming’s speed; he had not delayed his return at all.

However, Li Shiming realized that he seemed to have been delayed by one day due to the issues involving Han Tianlei and the setting up of the small Mountain Protection Array on Eagle Beak Island.

“Fei’er, I just finished dealing with some issues. You know, when I came back, Eagle Beak Island had been seized, but luckily, the Sect Leader dealt with Han Tianlei, and now Eagle Beak Island belongs to me completely!” Li Shiming shared with Ren Fei’er what had happened upon his return.

“That big villain Han Tianlei is so despicable, we must not let him off lightly!” Ren Fei’er, united in anger, supported him.

Both of them denounced Han Tianlei together, Li Shiming for the troubles he had faced this time, and Ren Fei’er because she had almost been captured by Old Monk Du Yuan—but in any event, it all stemmed from Han Tianlei.

“Big brother, I found the records for modifying Corpse Refining, activate your communication disc’s location, and I will send it to you!” Ren Fei’er, recalling something important, hurriedly said.

Li Shiming glanced at his surroundings, only after leaving the underground space and returning to his cave dwelling did he activate the location on the communication disc.

He was curious about how Ren Fei’er was going to send the records, was she in the sect all this time?

Just as he was pondering, he sensed an alert from the small Mountain Protection Array that it had been touched.

He put on his eyepatch and saw a small bird striking the formation.