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Chapter 848: Chapter 470: Decision (Part 2)

These two Fourth-Grade Magical Treasures are quite compatible with the ’Liu Yan Erosion Sun Skill’. They originally belonged to Patriarch Weng Zhao and are indeed fire attribute treasures.

Li Yuanba’s strength improved very little. All the ’Reach Profound Kun Earth Immortal Dew’ was used by Li Shiming. Thirty-six drops of ’Reach Profound Kun Earth Immortal Dew’ merely pushed Li Shiming to the Great Elder Level.

Under normal circumstances, thirty-six drops of ’Reach Profound Kun Earth Immortal Dew’ should have produced more, but who made Li Shiming possess five Golden Cores? To reach the Great Elder Realm, he consumed quite a lot of resources.

The few Fourth Grade Spirit Fruits obtained from Elder Li’s cave mansion were all swallowed by him. Combined with the large amount of Third-Grade resources accumulated before, even if there was some waste, they were all used up, which led to the achievement of the Great Elder Realm.

Li Yuanba took Third-Grade Cultivation Spirit Pills and could not keep up with Li Shiming’s cultivation speed at all. He cannot even think of catching up to Li Shiming’s Golden Core Great Elder realm without more than fifty years.

Unless he can also obtain Fourth-Grade resources like ’Reach Profound Kun Earth Immortal Dew’, but such resources are not easy to come by.

However, Li Shiming was not worried about the matter of his clone Li Yuanba, as long as he could leave the Beishu Continent. With his alchemy ability, he could obtain sufficient cultivation resources wherever he went.

If he could advance to the Nascent Soul Stage, not only would the cultivation resources for his clone Li Yuanba be guaranteed, but even the resources for forming the Nascent Soul would be ensured.

Given Li Shiming’s wealth, he might not even guarantee the advancement of his true self, not to mention that he holds a pile of resources for forming the Nascent Soul.

But these resources for forming the Nascent Soul would be a lot for an ordinary Great Elder. But don’t forget, he has five Golden Cores. He doesn’t even know how much it will consume to advance to the Nascent Soul Stage, how many resources for forming the Nascent Soul would be needed to fill the required advancement of these five Golden Cores.

This is also another reason Li Shiming wants to leave the Beishu Continent. He needs more resources, and hiding like this makes it impossible to gather enough resources.

Li Shiming and Li Yuanba stood together, exchanged glances, and then both used ’Step by Step Lotus’, continuously flickering southeastward over the ocean.

Soon they arrived at the flight path, where they are already far away from the Beishu Continent, beyond the range of the Beishu Continent’s Investigation Array.

Only then did he take out the Meteor Ink Boat and released Venerable Huijing, who sat on the surface of the Flying Boat, while he and his clone Li Yuanba sat inside the cabin.

Under the control of Venerable Huijing, the speed of the Meteor Ink Boat reached its design limit and maintained this speed.

For Golden Core cultivators, this kind of speed of the Meteor Ink Boat is highly consuming and cannot be sustained for long.

But for Venerable Huijing, it was extremely easy, with the consumption not catching up to the recovery speed of his spiritual power.

The Nascent Soul aura of Venerable Huijing was restrained but not revealed, which is a kind of attitude, neither ostentatious nor allowing nearby spirit beasts to sense the existence of the Nascent Soul Stage.

It was not the first time for Li Shiming flying over the sea, but this was the first time he entered the real ocean. He had heard from many cultivators about the terror of the ocean.

There has always been a saying, if you don’t have the strength of the Nascent Soul Stage, don’t even think about crossing the ocean.

Only after he could contact a Nascent Soul Ancestor did he realize that even with the strength of the Nascent Soul Stage, the ocean is not so easy to enter.

The Nascent Soul Ancestors of the Beishu Continent, at most, explore the safe sea areas near the Beishu Continent, as deeper seas are too dangerous for them to dare to enter.

Li Shiming flew according to the flight route of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect, greatly reducing the potential danger.

Especially since Elder Sword explored the route just a few years ago, reducing the risk to a minimum.

Ten days after Li Shiming quietly left the Beishu Continent, a small array plate in the abandoned underwater cave mansion began to flicker with light.

This array plate automatically activated ten days after Li Shiming’s departure.

After the array plate was activated, a strand of spiritual power entered the communication device on the array plate through the Formation, which had been set up long ago, sending a message far away upon being energized.

”Lan’er, wait for my return!”

Yin Shilan, who was in a temporary cave mansion on the peak of Patriarch Ge’s mountain, excitedly took out a communication device.

This communication device was dedicated to her and Li Shiming, and the message could only have been sent by Li Shiming.

Years had passed, and she had been worried all along.

Had her master, Patriarch Ge, not told her that no force had found Li Shiming, she wouldn’t know what to do.

Seeing the content of the message, a huge stone was lifted from her heart.

She felt both helpless and happy. Helpless because if not for the incident that led to Li Shiming being wanted by various forces, with her stabilized Golden Core cultivation, she could have already become a Daoist couple with Li Shiming.

She was happy to receive the message from Li Shiming, knowing he was safe, which was more gratifying than anything else.

”I will wait for you!” She replied with a message to Li Shiming’s communication device.

No matter how much she waited afterward, there was no further response.

Yin Shilan did not know that not far away, on another mountain peak, Ancestor Zhan was contacting the Beishu Trading Company.

Although Patriarch Ge protected Yin Shilan, it did not deter the intentions of other Nascent Soul Ancestors.

Ancestor Zhan did not want to confront Patriarch Ge directly, but he had his own means. Using the grand formation of the Thousand Illusion Sect and the cooperation of the Beishu Trading Company, he had been monitoring the communication information sent from Patriarch Ge’s mountain peak.

The messages Yin Shilan received and sent were all captured by Ancestor Zhan, and in coordination with the Beishu Trading Company, they found the general location of the other end of the communication device.

”Finally showing up!” Ancestor Zhan said, appearing to have everything under control.

He hesitated slightly but still contacted the Nascent Soul Ancestors of the other five major sects.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to monopolize Li Shiming’s Grotto Heaven, but having used the cooperation of the Beishu Trading Company, even if he didn’t inform the other five major sects, he couldn’t hide the leakage of this news.

It would be better for all six major sects to go together, in case of trouble, they could cooperate to handle it.

After receiving Ancestor Zhan’s message, Patriarch Ge was in an extremely bad mood. Ancestor Zhan’s actions were disrespectful to her.

But she also felt a deep powerlessness since Ancestor Zhan was acting for the sect and the Beishu Continent, making it hard for her to blame him.

If the Heavenly Inquiry Sect or Skywalk Trading Company captured Li Shiming first, whoever acquired the Cave Heaven Inheritance would bring unknown dangers to the Beishu Continent.

The only thing Patriarch Ge could do was to seal this news, keeping it from her disciple, Yin Shilan.

The six major sects did not send all their Nascent Soul Ancestors, as that would create too much commotion.

As usual, one Nascent Soul Ancestor from each sect set out, and after gathering, Shen Huike Venerable used ’Space is an Illusion’ to speed towards the target location.

Their actions were extremely fast, reaching that area six hours after the communication device message was sent.

Because each communication Array on the Beishu Continent covered a vast range, the location determined by the communication device was still very large.

However, the six Nascent Soul Ancestors who arrived this time possessed strong investigative abilities, and they soon made a discovery through cooperation.

”I did not expect Li Shiming to hide underwater; what a genius idea!” Ancestor Lu said as he gazed at the sea.

Elder Zuo just stared deeply at the sea, saying nothing.

Since Li Shiming’s disappearance, Shushan Sect had experienced significant changes.

Having lost a top-tier Alchemy Master, the status of Shushan Sect among the major sects declined, and the Nascent Soul Ancestors felt deeply disheartened.

Originally, they had hope that as long as they obtained Fourth-Grade Spiritual Medicine, Li Shiming could refine Fourth Grade High-level Spirit Pills from them, thereby enhancing their cultivation significantly.

But this hope faded with their greed, and they couldn’t decide what was more important — a top-tier Alchemy Master or the Cave Heaven Inheritance.

As they were about to find Li Shiming, each Nascent Soul Ancestor present harbored different thoughts.