Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 596: Chapter 344: Return to the Clan_2

Overall, Patriarch Weng Zhao’s recovery of strength will be a difficult journey.

Patriarch Weng Zhao missed his Space Ring, which contained all his wealth; he just hoped that the person wouldn’t be able to open his Space Ring in the short term.

Once his strength was recovered, he would be able to sense the location of the Space Ring based on his connection with it and try to retrieve it.

Of course, that was his most optimistic fantasy; when he was in the Nascent Soul State before, he couldn’t sense not just the Space Ring, but even his own body.

He didn’t know what the problem was, and his situation didn’t allow him the leisure to investigate.

Patriarch Weng Zhao couldn’t contact Skywalk Trading Company; nor could he return to the headquarters of Skywalk Trading Company, as only with the recovered strength of a Nascent Soul could he cross the ocean.

He could only stay, honestly, on the Beishu Continent, and he needed to be cautious around the six major sects, preferably staying away from them.

The six major sects had means to discover cultivators like him who used a Nascent Soul for Body Seizing, and he didn’t want to be discovered by them in his current state.

“Master Li Shiming has returned to the Shushan Sect!”

“Shiming didn’t encounter any trouble this time?”

“Shiming returned without any issues?”

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For some reason, the news of Li Shiming’s return to the Shushan Sect caused a huge reaction among many cultivators within the sect, some shocked, others questioning.

When Li Shiming left the sect, almost all informed cultivators were guessing what would happen to him this time.

In the end, he returned to the sect safely without encountering any fortune.

Elder Su and Elder Ma, his two masters, were extremely pleased; this safe trip indicated that Li Shiming’s fortune wasn’t always accurately descending upon him every time.

If they knew that Li Shiming had nearly swindled a Nascent Soul Ancestor to death on this trip, they wouldn’t have thought so.

Li Shiming returned to his cave dwelling on Sword Holding Peak, and it was only then that he entered the space of the control room with his mind.

Inside the control room space, three living dead sat cross-legged, appearing extremely eerie.

The weakest of the three living dead was at the Great Elder Level Body Refining Golden Core; their bodies alone could withstand a full-force attack from Li Shiming.

The next was the Fake Infant Body, and then the Nascent Soul Body.

Especially after the Nascent Soul Body entered the control room space, the Spiritual Energy began to be insufficient.

Li Shiming had set up a Gathering Spirit Array in the control room space, but the role of the Gathering Spirit Array wasn’t to generate Spiritual Energy, but rather to gather the Spiritual Energy from the void.

The Nascent Soul Body, having suffered injuries, had an immense need for Spiritual Energy. Even though the Nascent Soul Body couldn’t autonomously operate to heal its wounds, its instinctive absorption of Spiritual Energy was not something the Gathering Spirit Array could support.

Li Shiming thought for a moment and placed the Fourth-Grade Vein-Locking Plate into the control room space.

The Fourth-Grade Vein-Locking Plate contained a Nascent Soul Level Spirit Vein; the Spiritual Energy emanating from the vein was sufficient for the Nascent Soul Body and the Fake Infant Body to absorb.

He began to check the Nascent Soul Body; it was very similar to the Fake Infant Body, but Patriarch Weng Zhao’s Nascent Soul Body contained very singular patterns, all engraved with fire elemental patterns.

Li Shiming wanted to copy these patterns, but just as he began to replicate them with his Divine Thought, he felt an excruciating headache.

He immediately ceased copying, and the headache vanished on its own.

Indeed, the fire elemental patterns within the Nascent Soul Body, which are part of Heaven and Earth Rules, were clear to him only because of his micron-level control in the control room space.

For him, a Golden Core Early Stage cultivator who hadn’t touched upon the Heaven and Earth Rules, attempting to copy the Heaven and Earth Rules only gave him a momentary headache, which was already letting him off easy.

It was also because his spiritual power was incredibly strong, and he had the help of his life-bound Magical Treasure, the IBMz15.

Thinking of the life-bound Magical Treasure IBMz15, Li Shiming couldn’t help but check whether it had recorded the fire elemental patterns from earlier.

In a newly created document, there was a file exceeding 1 TB that contained records of fire attribute patterns.

After accessing this 1 TB file, he understood the detailed information of the fire attribute patterns. What seemed to be just a pattern was actually made up of countless fine lines, each bearing strange powers of rules.

He could only review the fire attribute patterns in this way. When he attempted to draw them, even just starting would lead to backlash.

He gave up on researching the fire attribute patterns, as they clearly surpassed his current realm.

Turning his focus away from the Nascent Soul body of Patriarch Weng Zhao, Li Shiming noticed the Space Ring on the patriarch’s finger and the robes on his body.

A Nascent Soul Ancestor is truly extravagant, wearing a third-grade robe that wasn’t even crafted into a magical treasure but simply made from third-grade silk threads.

Li Shiming, without any hesitation, took the third-grade robe off the Nascent Soul body with just a thought. To not leave the Nascent Soul body too indecent, he dressed it in a set of ordinary robes.

Firstly, he carefully inspected the third-grade robe inside the server room space.

There were no spiritual imprints on the third-grade robe, which wasn’t surprising since the robe was not turned into a magical treasure.

The third-grade silk threads used for the robe came with a dust-repelling effect; as long as it wasn’t destroyed, the robe would always remain clean and never get old.

Even more importantly, the robe bore no marks and had a very common design.

Li Shiming felt no aversion to wearing something that had been worn by Patriarch Weng Zhao, as a robe of this quality would never retain any stains.

Upon wearing the third-grade robe, he immediately felt its benefits. The third-grade silk threads even had a calming and clarifying effect on the mind.

Unbeknownst to him, this was merely a spare robe for Patriarch Weng Zhao.

“Extravagant, it’s simply too extravagant!” Even though Li Shiming was an Alchemy Master with a hefty income, he couldn’t help but sigh at the third-grade robe he wore.

The third-grade silk threads had two functions: repelling dirt and clarifying the mind. If used to create a magical treasure, at the very least, it could produce a high-grade treasure with four to five functions.

And that was just the robe. Li Shiming’s attention then shifted to the Space Ring.

This Space Ring was different from the others he had obtained; it had a more ancient design and more subtle spatial fluctuations.

When his Divine Thought tried to enter the Space Ring, he found it locked by an ancient prohibition.

It was only because the ring was in the server room space that Patriarch Weng Zhao did not sense his attempt.

Of course, even if the patriarch were to notice now, he would be helpless. Patriarch Weng Zhao’s current strength was merely at the Qi Refinement Realm and despite having Nascent Soul Stage experience, there was nothing he could do from such a vast distance.

The prohibition on the Space Ring had been set by a Nascent Soul Ancestor, so one could imagine its complexity and strength.

Li Shiming did not shrink back. At the Foundation Establishment Stage, he indeed had no countermeasures.

But after achieving the Golden Core and acquiring his personal magical treasure, the IBMz15, he could do many things that other Golden Core cultivators couldn’t imagine.

With his Divine Thought probing the Space Ring’s prohibition over and over, the structure of the Array appeared within his personal magical treasure, the IBMz15.

Li Shiming’s spiritual power wasn’t strong enough to forcefully break the prohibition set by a Nascent Soul Ancestor, but there was always a way to open a prohibition.

Just like a lock, it could be easily opened with the right key.

What the personal magical treasure IBMz15 needed to do was to find the method to open it, which required extensive calculations, precisely the specialty of the IBMz15.

The reason for this complexity primarily stemmed from Li Shiming’s lack of research into such prohibitions.

Prohibitions were not within the knowledge of Golden Core cultivators but were something that only Nascent Soul Ancestors could master, involving the Heaven and Earth Rules.

If Li Shiming used his spiritual power to forcefully collide with the prohibition, he might weaken the spiritual imprint within the prohibition over a long time, but that would also cause trouble in the spatial dimensions of the Space Ring.

Without relevant knowledge, having the personal magical treasure IBMz15 calculate the correct opening method was the best choice.

Li Shiming certainly did not want any problems to arise in the internal space of the Space Ring; he was very curious about what kind of surprises would await him inside the Nascent Soul Ancestor’s Space Ring.