Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 570: Chapter 331: Return_2

Li Shiming had never anticipated that he would encounter trouble once again, and this time it was from a Nascent Soul Ancestor, different from the previous Venerable from Qianye Temple, but an adversarial Nascent Soul Ancestor.

Like the time Li Shiming encountered the Venerable from Qianye Temple, it was impossible for that Venerable to truly harm Li Shiming since Qianye Temple would not engage in actions that could affect the relationships between the two major sects; at most, the threat could be considered a scare.

But this time was different. The messages relayed by Li Shiming, coupled with what Elder Zuo discovered after heading to the battle site, all indicated that a Nascent Soul Ancestor who had concealed their aura had been present there.

Though Patriarch Weng Zhao’s secret technique for concealing his aura was extremely effective, it could not escape detection by another Nascent Soul Ancestor of the same rank.

Even when Elder Zuo was within a certain range of Patriarch Weng Zhao, the two Nascent Soul Ancestors could sense each other, and their understanding of the Heaven and Earth Rules allowed them to manipulate the might of heaven and earth within a certain area.

When two Nascent Soul Ancestors were present within this range, a contention for the might of heaven and earth would occur.

Having arrived at the location where Patriarch Weng Zhao had stayed for a while, Elder Zuo was even more certain of Patriarch Weng Zhao’s identity as a Nascent Soul Ancestor from the aura he had left behind.

Thus, the Sect Protection Array of the Shushan Sect was activated, and not just the Shushan Sect, but all the major sects and the forces affiliated with them received notification from the Shushan Sect, and various response measures were initiated.

“Master, I have caused you worry!” Li Shiming replied, feeling embarrassed.

Elder Su found it hard to say much, and couldn’t express his desire to have Li Shiming stay within the sect.

If Li Shiming, already a Golden Core cultivator, continued to stay confined to the sect without venturing out, he might never have a chance to ascend to the Nascent Soul Stage.

The state of mind is crucial for cultivators, especially the higher-rank cultivators.

Confining a talent like Li Shiming within the sect would be closing off his future advancement possibilities; very few cultivators can achieve progression merely through seclusion.

Cultivators need refinement and combat experience to enrich their experiences, elevate their state of mind, and prepare for advancement.

The bottleneck of the Golden Core Stage is even harder to break through than the Foundation Establishment Stage. Each bottleneck could consume a cultivator’s lifetime of effort. If Li Shiming’s state of mind doesn’t keep up, he might really remain at the Golden Core Stage for life.

“From the sect’s preparations, it is confirmed that that person is really a Nascent Soul Ancestor?” Li Shiming looked at the Sect Protection Array and asked aloud.

His guess about Patriarch Weng Zhao’s strength was based on his own perception of danger from the enemy.

It would be difficult for a Golden Core cultivator to evoke in him a sense of lethal danger.

Especially after his clone, Li Yuanba, had encountered two Great Arhats, he was even more certain that Golden Core cultivators of Great Elder Level would hardly provoke that sense of lethal danger in him.

“Elder Zuo has already confirmed it. It seems to be a Nascent Soul Ancestor sent from the headquarters of Skywalk Trading Company, but it’s unclear what Skywalk Trading Company really intends to do. Could they be planning to attack the Beishu Continent?” Elder Su revealed his thoughts to Li Shiming through a voice transmission.

“What exactly is the background of Skywalk Trading Company? Does the sect know?” Li Shiming was taken aback and then asked.

“I don’t know what force backs the Skywalk Trading Company. Skywalk Trading Company entered the Beishu Continent 300 years ago. The six major sects have always intentionally suppressed Skywalk Trading Company to prevent it from developing smoothly on the Beishu Continent. However, Skywalk Trading Company always manages to bring out some rare resources not found on the Beishu Continent, which is why they’ve managed to establish a foothold here,” Elder Su responded with a shake of his head.

Li Shiming’s status now granted him the right to be aware of some of the sect’s secrets.

Forces like Skywalk Trading Company, arriving on the Beishu Continent, would naturally draw the attention of the six major sects.

Keep in mind that only a Nascent Soul Ancestor has the capability to cross the ocean.

A Skywalk Trading Company with a Nascent Soul Ancestor, entering Beishu Continent as an external force, would have faced even more severe strikes had they not only revealed Supervisor Feng Yi with a Fake Infant Body.

However, it was only after Li Shiming had managed to plant spies within various major sects and collected their intelligence for Skywalk Trading Company that the company truly became a target for full-scale extermination by these sects.

Li Shiming shook his head. He was not interested in these power struggles between forces, and had it not been for his own safety being involved, he would not have even bothered to ask.

“You need to be more careful when you go out in the future. I fear that the Nascent Soul Ancestor will not let you off!” Elder Su still couldn’t hold back and added one last comment.

Li Shiming returned to Sword Holding Peak and felt the pressure. This time, his feat of killing twelve Golden Core cultivators in one go would surely make him famous across the entire Beishu Continent if word got out.

But after returning to his sect, he did not tell his master, and as long as Skywalk Trading Company kept quiet, he decided to keep this news to himself.

His enemies were no longer Golden Core cultivators but Nascent Soul Ancestors. No matter how famous he could become, it would not affect a Nascent Soul Ancestor. Instead, it would make the opposing Nascent Soul Ancestors even more determined to kill him quickly.

In fact, he had always been considering creating super weapons to deal with the Nascent Soul Ancestors.

But he had not discovered any uranium mines in this world. It might be that this world was completely ignorant of uranium, or perhaps he had not explored enough places, or maybe this world did not have uranium at all.

If it was the latter case, then his idea of creating a massive weapon was likely hard to achieve.

By his judgment, besides this type of super weapon, weapons from his previous life would hardly cause any damage to a Nascent Soul Ancestor.

Just consider the Fake Infant Body of Supervisor Feng Yi, who had the strength of a Fake Infant. When his Fake Infant left his body, Li Shiming used various methods but could not breach its defenses. If the stronger Nascent Soul Body was considered, its defensive power was beyond his imagination.

While thinking all this, Li Shiming walked into the underground factory area, where the equipment was usually turned off, only to be activated upon his arrival.

In one corner of the factory area, there were ten rockets, each twenty meters long.

Previously, when he escaped from Sky Sea Island, it was by using a rocket to come to the Beishu Continent.

Now, the rockets he manufactured had been greatly improved from the original, switching from liquid fuel to solid fuel. Whether it was the shell, the interior, or the engine, all were made using a combination of Artifact Refining and technology.

Most importantly, the rocket’s navigation system could connect with unmanned drones at ten thousand meters, achieving precise targeting.

With a stock of ten rockets, these were no longer merely his means of escape but had become a consumable for him, a method to attack enemies from a distance with his substantial wealth.

If not for the fact that a lot of the rocket work required his personal involvement, there would have been more than just ten rockets.

His relationship with Beishu Trading Company assured that he didn’t need to worry about raw materials.

However, after he obtained his life-bound magic weapon, the IBMz15, the speed of his rocket production had greatly increased. Even if he used all ten rockets in his hand, he was confident he could quickly produce another batch.

Of course, the most important thing now was not making rockets. In the future, he needed to make more drones and have his drones cover the entire sky of the Beishu Continent.

The drones that could hover below the Thirty-Three Heavens at ten thousand meters were actually the most meticulously made machines by him.

Spirit stone motors, micron-level machining techniques, a combination of Array Masters and Artifact Refiners, micron-level Array Formation Inscriptions engraving, micron-level lens polishing, and even the core CPU were handcrafted by him in the cleanroom facility with micron precision.

This was all thanks to his life-bound magic weapon; otherwise, he could never achieve the capability to manually craft a micron-scale CPU.

If not for the one hundred ninety-one brains working simultaneously with unparalleled computing power and micron-level control in the cleanroom space, even with the structure of the CPU, it would still be impossible to accomplish this.