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Chapter 181: Chapter 137 Confrontation

After killing four maidservants, Li Shiming’s palms were devoid of blood, save for his robe being pierced; he looked calmly at Yun Ze, just as he had when he first arrived.

“Kill me!” Yun Ze slumped onto a stone stool, rendered weaker than a maidservant due to the seal on his Spiritual Power, and had given up resisting completely in his late-stage Qi Refining condition.

Li Shiming walked up to him and lightly patted his chest.

The seal couldn’t restrain Li Shiming’s Spiritual Thought; in this situation, Li Shiming still had many cards up his sleeve.

Spiritual Thought entered Yun Ze’s body—what appeared to be a simple strike became a medium to deploy a Jade Sword made of Spiritual Thought into Yun Ze’s Spiritual Energy Vortex.

The Spiritual Energy Vortex, restrained and unable to resist, was struck directly at its core, causing it to collapse immediately.

This blow did not take Yun Ze’s life but made him spit out blood; however, his injuries were many times more severe than they appeared.

Because Li Shiming’s strike had completely destroyed his foundation as a cultivator, the collapse of the Spiritual Energy Vortex, especially under the state of restrained Spiritual Energy, left him totally powerless to resist, affecting his spirit root seeds.

With damaged spirit root seeds, only the most superior Spiritual Medicine could heal his injury.

But not only was Yun Ze unable to get such a medicine, even a Golden Core Elder would find it difficult to obtain it.

“You’ve destroyed my path!” Yun Ze screamed at Li Shiming, shaking his finger tremulously, unable to accept the situation.

A cultivator can die, can be killed, but cannot become incapacitated.

A being powerful enough to traverse the world reduced to someone who needs help even for eating—how could a cultivator accept this?

“You’re a sect cultivator, I’ll hand you over to the sect for punishment!” Li Shiming said coldly.

He grabbed the storage bag from Yun Ze’s waist and hung it on his own without any hesitation.

No longer paying any attention to Yun Ze—now a cripple—he looked beneath the stone table.

He was very curious to know what kind of Formation could generate an effect that seals Spiritual Energy.

Formations generally operate on Spiritual Energy, and effects such as sealing Spiritual Energy aren’t typical for formations, at least the Intermediate Array Master like him had yet to come across such knowledge.

What intrigued him more was what could possibly escape detection by Spiritual Thought.

Having mastered Spiritual Thought, his use of it had almost always been unrivaled.

Underneath the stone table, an unassuming metal box was open, revealing a dark cube emitting a black light.

The metal box was very small, and the cube inside it was even smaller, no bigger than a fist.

Mere sight alone clarified his earlier misjudgment.

This wasn’t a Formation; if he had to describe a Formation, there had been an isolation and concealment Formation here originally to make this metal box undetectable by sight.

When Li Shiming had used his Spiritual Thought, he indeed detected the isolation and concealment Formation, but beyond that, there seemed to be nothing, so he disregarded it.

In the cavernous dwellings, encountering multiple isolation and concealment Formations was normal; many such Formations existed within his own dwelling.

Upon using his Spiritual Thought again, although the metal box and the cube were right in front of him, in his perception of Spiritual Thought, it was like a dense fog, obscuring everything ahead.

This was simply because Li Shiming’s lack of knowledge in this particular area left him unaware; otherwise, he would have noticed this anomaly when using his Spiritual Thought.

After studying it a while, Li Shiming discerned that the terrifying effect of sealing Spiritual Energy appeared to be emanating from the cube, and the external metal box, which was made of a mysterious metal he couldn’t identify, seemed to be containing and sealing its effect.

When he had entered the courtyard earlier, Yun Ze had activated a mechanism that opened the metal box, exposing the cube within the courtyard.

He lightly pressed on a spot on the metal box, which noiselessly closed, and then he felt the Spiritual Energy Vortex within him stir back to life, and the Spiritual Energy in the surrounding void reappeared.

“What is this?” Li Shiming asked, picking up the metal box.

Yun Ze, with a dead-grey complexion, did not respond to his question.

Li Shiming shook his head, took out the Identity Jade Disc, and contacted Junior Master Xu at the Law Enforcement Hall, explaining the situation here.

He didn’t leave immediately but chose to wait for the arrival of the Law Enforcement Hall at this spot.

Far outside the courtyard, two pairs of eyes were fixed in the direction of the courtyard.

These two were spies from the Yun Family, tasked with monitoring Yun Ze.

Owing to Yun Ze’s prior behavior, the higher-ups of Yun’s Trading House did not place much trust in him, reflecting the operational style of Yun’s Trading House.

“That’s a Law Enforcement Monk, something’s wrong—report it quickly!” one Yun Family cultivator whispered in alarm.

From Central Peak to Gen Peak was but a moment; upon receiving Li Shiming’s report, Steward Xu immediately brought twelve Law Enforcement Monks with him.

On the Yun Family’s side, realizing that an unexpected situation had arisen, they too started making contact with their own supporters.

Among the sect, the Yun Family had two Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and the one available at the moment was Junior Master Yun Gang.

Outside the courtyard, Steward Xu was preparing to exercise his authority, planning to forcefully break through the defensive Formation at the courtyard’s entrance.

The Law Enforcement Hall had significant powers—under reasonable suspicion, forceful actions could be taken.

Such as now, with an Intermediate Array Master in trouble, the sect authorized the Law Enforcement Hall to employ strong measures to resolve the issue.