Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 584: Chapter 338: Siege_2

“Why are they all Second-grade Refining Materials?” Li Shiming muttered with a tinge of dissatisfaction as he collected them.

As he spoke, he opened a large wooden box in the corner of the warehouse; his gaze instantly locked onto the Refining Materials inside it.

“Is this Star Fallen Gold Stone?” he muttered in disbelief.

Star Fallen Gold Stone is a Third-grade Metal attribute Refining Material, and metal attributes are the best materials for refining flying swords.

For other Artifact Refiners, flying swords refined from Star Fallen Gold Stone are both sharp and durable, extremely difficult to destroy.

For Li Shiming, Star Fallen Gold Stone is an extremely resilient Third-grade Metal attribute Refining Material. If he used Star Fallen Gold Stone to refine a flying sword magical treasure, he could employ micron-level inscription techniques to add as many different effects as possible onto a single flying sword magical treasure.

Normally, High Grade Magical Treasures can accommodate three effects on a single flying sword magical treasure.

With Star Fallen Gold Stone, he could enable a top-grade flying sword magical treasure to simultaneously accommodate six different effects, making the flying sword magical treasure more offensive while also having a variety of abilities.

Most crucially, the quantity of Third-grade Star Fallen Gold Stone here was enough for him to refine ten flying sword magical treasures.

Star Fallen Gold Stone is extremely rare on the Beishu Continent; Li Shiming had no idea how the Skywalk Trading Company had acquired so much of it, perhaps in the headquarters or a branch of Skywalk Trading Company, Star Fallen Gold Stone is not as rare as it is on the Beishu Continent.

This is also the benefit of transcontinental trade, allowing the adjustment of resources across different continents to earn enormous profits.

It’s only now, with the Skywalk Trading Company having faced significant disruption, with most of its strongholds destroyed by the six major sects, that this warehouse contained so little.

Had the Skywalk Trading Company still been at its peak, Li Shiming wouldn’t have had the power to infiltrate this easily.

After clearing out the Spiritual Objects in the warehouse, Li Shiming found the core of the Formation at a spot inside the warehouse.

What caught his attention the most was a jade plate placed next to the Formation’s core.

Gushing from inside out, the jade plate emitted rich Spiritual Energy, which was the source of Spiritual Energy for the entire stronghold and also the power support for the Formation.

“Is this a vein-locking plate?” Li Shiming had heard of such a treasure; it was a method only the Nascent Soul Ancestors could use.

Nascent Soul Ancestors have various methods for relocating a Spirit Vein, like the Spirit Vein within the Ten Thousand Sword Peak, belonging to Li Yuanba’s clone, which was relocated by a Nascent Soul Ancestor.

The vein-locking plate is one of the methods used by Nascent Soul Ancestors for moving Spirit Veins. It can move a Spirit Vein into the plate, allowing the vein to be transported at will.

The vein-locking plate in front of him, judging solely by the quality of its material, Li Shiming could tell was of Fourth-Grade.

The Spirit Vein inside it was suitable for Nascent Soul Ancestors’ cultivation; even for a great sect, it was an extremely important resource.

However, this too was normal; given the Skywalk Trading Company’s situation, most of the strongholds had either been taken or destroyed, so having a Nascent Soul Level Spirit Vein moved here was not surprising.

With the scale of the Skywalk Trading Company, it surely once possessed Nascent Soul Level Spirit Veins.

At the time of the attack by the six major sects, if the Nascent Soul Level Spirit Veins weren’t relocated, they would have been seized by the sects.

Li Shiming hesitated for a moment but could not resist his greed; he took out one hundred and eight Mid-grade Spirit Stones to form a Spirit Gathering Array, using it to replace the Fourth-Grade Locking Vein Plate as the energy supply for the Formation.

Of course, such a substitution was not long-lasting; at most, the Formation would deplete the Spiritual Energy within the one hundred and eight Mid-grade Spirit Stones in three days.

He collected the Fourth-Grade Locking Vein Plate, as such resources were the most precious anywhere.

Inside Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, Patriarch Weng Zhao was waiting when suddenly his body tensed, and he looked outside.

The Abbot Faren, sitting opposite him, unaware of what had happened, was about to ask when he sensed the piercing alarm coming from their Sect Protection Array.

Under normal circumstances, even if the Sect Protection Array detected something, the alert it sent out wouldn’t be like this, as such an alarm could cause panic within Ten Thousand Buddha Temple.

Abbot Faren had almost forgotten what this shrill alarm meant, but thanks to the memory of a Cultivator, he quickly remembered the reason.

This alarm signaled the approach of Nascent Soul Ancestors of unknown identity, and based on the volume of the alarm, it was clear that the number of Nascent Soul Ancestors exceeded two.

The host of the Array turned to Patriarch Weng Zhao, the only one here who could attract multiple Nascent Soul Ancestors.

“Fability, no wonder you wanted to delay for six hours, you actually betrayed me!” the killing intent in Patriarch Weng Zhao’s eyes flashed as he spoke angrily.

It wasn’t unreasonable for him to suspect Fability. With his strength as a Nascent Soul Ancestor, he would have definitely noticed if a cultivator were tracking him.

Before coming to the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, he had contacted Fability, and judging by the speed at which these Nascent Soul Ancestors had arrived, it was certain that he had informed Fability who then set them in motion.

Considering there were six Nascent Soul Ancestors, the first thing that came to his mind were the six major sects, and matching the distinctive aura of the surrounding Nascent Soul Ancestors to each sect only strengthened this belief.

That is to say, the six Nascent Soul Ancestors outside had come from the six major sects.

All signs pointed to Fability, and only he would have had the opportunity and ability to betray Patriarch Weng Zhao.

“Elder Weng, our temple absolutely would not betray a client!” Fability hastily explained.

As he explained, he also activated the Formation, hoping it would protect him.

Patriarch Weng Zhao had no intention of talking more with him; he no longer concealed his own aura, the secret technique suppressing his cultivation base was lifted, and a terrifying Nascent Soul Aura filled the room.

Patriarch Weng Zhao flicked his finger, and a fireball flew out. The Formation that Fability had hoped would protect him was easily penetrated by the fireball.

The seemingly slow but actually swift fireball landed on Fability’s body. His defensive magical treasures, his own Spiritual Power defenses, or any other life-saving techniques he might have had, became meaningless in the face of absolute power.

Fability’s body, starting from where the small fireball struck, was engulfed in flames. His screams did not last even half a breath and stopped immediately; within a single breath, his body turned to ashes.

The small fireball didn’t disappear; after Fability’s death, the fireball turned into countless sparks, landing on the walls, windows, and furniture, and the blaze spread rapidly.

Patriarch Weng Zhao paid no mind to the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple; situated within, he knew that a single fireball was enough to erase everything there without requiring too much effort.

What he had to face were the enemies outside, six Nascent Soul Ancestors, and this lineup made it clear to him the danger of today’s events.

He flew up above the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, with his body at the center, a massive Nascent Soul Dharma Form appeared, protecting his true body within it.

Upon its appearance, the Nascent Soul Dharma Form turned into a fiery figure, corresponding to the great blaze beneath the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple as if the Nascent Soul Dharma Form were standing atop a lotus of fire.

The six Nascent Soul Ancestors naturally were Elder Zuo, Venerable Huike, Ancestor Lu, and the other Nascent Soul Ancestors from the six major sects.

They formed the Six Harmonies Formation from six different directions, encircling the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple.

Regarding the great fire that had started in the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, they had no intention whatever of lending a hand to save it.

The Ten Thousand Buddha Temple had chosen a path to death by having dealings with Patriarch Weng Zhao of the Skywalk Trading Company.

The Six Major Sects had long issued a manhunt for Patriarch Weng Zhao, and the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple could not have been ignorant of this fact.

Even if the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple hadn’t caught fire, the Six Major Sects had no plans to let it off the hook.

Besides, with the six Nascent Soul Ancestors planning to set their battlefield here, the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple stood no chance of surviving.

“Still dare to resist!” Venerable Huike, thinking of the terrible destruction at his own temple and seeing the situation at the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, couldn’t help but draw parallels, and he shouted in anger.

Though the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple had courted its own destruction, as another temple of the Buddhist Sect, the sight of it being consumed by flames drew inevitable comparisons with the burning of Qianye Temple, prompting him to consider further connections.

He became even more certain of a link between the attack on Qianye Temple, Patriarch Weng Zhao, and the Skywalk Trading Company.

Looking at the style of the arson, it was definitely the work of an old offender.

Upon Venerable Huike’s angry shout, six Nascent Soul Dharma Manifestations simultaneously rose, six colossal figures facing the giant flaming Dharma Manifestation of Patriarch Weng Zhao.