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Chapter 954: Chapter 523: Trouble (Part 2)

Li Shiming received a communication technique from someone named Yuan Xun, and he was quite surprised, as he didn’t know Yuan Xun.

He didn’t immediately meet Yuan Xun, but instead sent a message to Feng Lanxin, inquiring about Yuan Xun’s background.

To his surprise, Yuan Xun was a cultivator of the Dragon lineage, and also the second disciple of Master Ding.

Although the Ten Thousand Beast Sect is divided into many factions, the Great Cultivators do not participate in such factional disputes, leaving the competition to the younger generation.

These internal faction disputes are also to maintain the sect’s vitality; there is motivation through competition.

Li Shiming was a cultivator of the Phoenix lineage, whereas Yuan Xun was from the Dragon lineage, and a disciple of a Great Cultivator. Why would he seek him out?

He didn’t know the reason, but he understood that it was best not to refuse.

In the pavilion, he met with Yuan Xun.

”Congratulations, Junior Li, I heard you were accepted as a disciple by Grandmaster Hu.” Yuan Xun said with a warm smile that seemed sincere.

Thanks to Li Shiming’s ’Telepathy’, Yuan Xun was a Nascent Soul Early Stage Peak Cultivator; though Li couldn’t hear Yuan’s inner thoughts, he could sense Yuan’s emotions.

In his perception, Yuan Xun’s emotions weren’t as they seemed.

Yuan Xun’s emotions were very peculiar, having anger, schadenfreude, sympathy, and other complex feelings.

”Senior Brother Yuan, your information is very timely, I was just accepted as a disciple by my Master!” Li Shiming replied with a smile.

”I came here under my Master’s orders, to inquire about something from you!” Yuan Xun said, staring at Li Shiming.

”Please go on!” Li Shiming sensed Yuan Xun’s emotion changing again, as if preparing for a full-force strike.

Of course, this full-force strike wasn’t a real attack, but a psychological tactic, suddenly posing a question to obtain an answer.

Li Shiming didn’t sense that Yuan Xun had used a mental secret technique.

”It was you who killed Chen Zhou!” Yuan Xun activated the mental secret technique, speaking loudly.

He didn’t use a question but a statement; if it truly was Li Shiming who killed Chen Zhou, he would surely slip under the sudden mental secret technique.

Of course, this mental secret technique didn’t have much attack power, and he didn’t dare use an aggressive mental secret technique on Li Shiming’s mountain.

He mainly wanted to see Li Shiming’s reaction, to determine if Shiming was the murderer of Chen Zhou.

But what he didn’t expect was that when he used the mental secret technique to launch an attack on Li Shiming, Shiming’s ’Human Dao Reincarnation Technique’ automatically protected and countered.

Li Shiming’s mind was extremely strong; his spirit was composed of five mental cultivation methods and the mental capacity from 190 CPU cores from his life treasure IBMz15, and the sum total of all these formed his total mental capacity.

To launch a mental attack on him would not affect him unless the intensity surpassed the limit that 191 brains could withstand.

Yuan Xun felt a sudden pain in his head and nearly toppled over.

Only because his cultivation was strong enough did he manage to stabilize himself.

”Senior Brother Yuan, you actually attacked me mentally!” Li Shiming shouted loudly.

With his shout, the mountain formation immediately activated, and it also automatically sought assistance from the Sect Formation, mobilizing its might.

This kind of mountain formation was arranged by the sect; even if the cultivators residing within strengthened it themselves, they wouldn’t alter the formations placed by the sect.

Because in the sect’s mountain formation, there are parts linked to the Sect Formation.

Once the mountain formation detects that its master is under attack, it immediately launches, suppressing the attacker with the formation.

If Yuan Xun’s mental attack hadn’t been countered, the mountain formation wouldn’t have detected it, but after the counterattack, and with Li Shiming loudly raising the issue, the formation activated to protect its master.

Yuan Xun felt a weight on his body, the might of the formation acted on him.

He dared not make any attacking moves again; any further attack would confirm his assault on Li Shiming’s mountain.

In that case, first would come punishment from the sect, and then Grandmaster Hu would come after him - even Master Ding couldn’t protect him.

Requesting entry to Li Shiming’s mountain with a communication technique was essentially agreeing to peaceful coexistence within Li Shiming’s mountain.

This is an unwritten rule in the Cultivation World, one that all cultivators abide by.

”Junior Li, wait, this is a misunderstanding!” Yuan Xun loudly declared.

His earlier probing could be explained, but if he truly attacked, it would be difficult to justify.

Li Shiming halted his actions, looking at him, waiting for what he would say next.

”I care about Junior Brother Chen Zhou; I heard you were also in the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave Heaven at the time, so I couldn’t resist testing you, without any intent to attack!” Yuan Xun quickly explained.

”Please leave my mountain; I will report this to the sect!” Li Shiming said with a stern face, pointing beyond the mountain.

Yuan Xun left the mountain in disgrace, knowing his reputation was severely damaged.

Who would have thought this Li Shiming, just advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage, would possess such strong spirit power, able to counter his mental secret technique.

”It’s still a bit troublesome!” Li Shiming muttered to himself with a helpless shake of his head.

However, he wasn’t too worried; now he had Grandmaster Hu as a significant backing, and without evidence, the agency of Master Ding within the sect couldn’t act against him.

As for outside the sect, unless Master Ding personally took action, few Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators could defeat him; even among Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners, he could escape using his Divine Foot Skill.

Thinking of Chen Zhou, he realized he hadn’t examined the body after storing it.

Chen Zhou’s body seemed to have cultivated some kind of Body Refining Technique; unfortunately, his Nascent Soul did not have rune marks of the Body Refining Technique, thus unable to display its power in the Nascent Soul Dharma Form state.

If such a body were to be refined into a Corpse Refining, the effect would be optimal, making the Corpse Refining one of the top in its peer level.

But to refine the body into a Corpse Refining, its appearance would need to be altered, otherwise, it would cause trouble.

He then dug through the server room space and found Chen Zhou’s Mustard Seed Ring; inside, Chen Zhou’s wealth wasn’t as plentiful as expected.

Chen Zhou’s Fourth-Grade Magical Treasures were all there; regardless of their power, they could only be stored away in the server room space, never to see daylight.

Li Shiming sifted through the space of the Mustard Seed Ring, looking for spiritual objects that piqued his interest.

”The Illusion Spirit Dragon would like these!” he mused to himself with a smile when he found a pile of spiritual objects imbued with the Dragon Clan’s bloodline aura.

These spiritual objects were collected by Chen Zhou for his Dragon lineage Spiritual Pet, with the intention for it to absorb them all at once for maximal resource utilization.

These spiritual objects were beneficial for enhancing the bloodline of Chen Zhou’s Dragon lineage Spiritual Pet, but for the Illusion Spirit Dragon, they were just snacks.

”Dragon Dance Nine Heavens Secret Technique, what an unexpected gain!” When inspecting the jade scrolls, he discovered one contained the ’Dragon Dance Nine Heavens Secret Technique’.

The Contract Secret Method of the Dragon lineage, which he previously obtained, was only considered ordinary within the Dragon lineage.

This ’Dragon Dance Nine Heavens Secret Technique’ is the top-tier secret technique of the Dragon lineage, detailing many advanced ways to control Dragon lineage Spiritual Pets, even allowing borrowing of the Spiritual Pet’s power for oneself.

Other spiritual objects in Chen Zhou’s Mustard Seed Ring weren’t of much interest to Li Shiming, not due to lack of value, but because they were Fourth-Grade quality tools, unsuitable for him to use openly.

”This is rather troublesome!” Li Shiming murmured with resignation, shaking his head.

In truth, he had wrongly blamed Chen Zhou. Chen Zhou had originally been quite wealthy, but in order to enter the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave Heaven, he had to expend most of his assets, drastically reducing his wealth.