Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 989: Chapter 541: Puppet

Li Shiming’s divine sense swept over the Skywalk Trading Company’s long-distance flying boat, and the terrifying divine sense instantly destroyed the souls of all the cultivators within the flying boat.

He truly witnessed the gap between Nascent Soul cultivators and Golden Core cultivators; nearly half of the over a thousand cultivators on the flying boat were Golden Core cultivators, yet they couldn’t even resist his divine sense for a moment.

Within the long-distance flying boat, he discovered a vast amount of third and fourth-grade resources from the Beishu Continent, an amount so large it even surprised him.

This could definitely not have been obtained through any normal means; it seems like they cleared out the treasuries of multiple forces to gather so many third-grade resources.

Judging by the resources produced by the Beishu Continent, the number of third and fourth-grade resources here would take several hundred years of accumulation by numerous medium-sized forces.

This is why he felt no psychological burden for killing so many Skywalk Trading Company cultivators; all these cultivators were bandits involved in plundering, and as a cultivator from the Beishu Continent, he couldn’t attack them there, but upon encountering them, he would naturally slay them.

Li Shiming’s divine sense forcibly entered the core of the long-distance flying boat, claiming ownership of this long-distance flying boat.

Very soon, this fourth-grade long-distance flying boat was imprinted with his spiritual mark, becoming his private property.

At the same time, he sensed the previous navigation records inside the flying boat, which exposed the Skywalk Trading Company’s route from Beishu Continent to Dongqi Continent—an alternative route to that of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect.

Li Shiming stored away the fourth-grade long-distance flying boat, so he now had two long-distance flying boats available for when he needed to travel far.

He also retrieved the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction Array Plate; this Heaven and Earth Net Restriction Array Plate was very effective, having helped him ambush enemies multiple times with no escape for them.

His divine sense entered Jin Kai’s Mustard Seed Ring, which belonged to a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner, and he was very interested in the spiritual objects inside.

The Mustard Seed Ring indeed had a lot of spiritual objects; just the fourth-grade early-stage demon cores alone numbered fifteen, along with two bottles of fourth-grade middle-stage spirit pills and three fourth-grade mid-stage spiritual medicines.

Additionally, there were a few fourth-grade refining materials and several fourth-grade magical treasures of decent quality.

These spiritual objects would be deemed treasures by other Nascent Soul Early Stage practitioners, but Li Shiming was indifferent upon seeing them.

In truth, if he wanted such spiritual objects, he could obtain them at any time.

Take the fourth-grade demon cores, for instance; when he goes back to refine pills, he needs to hand over only one demon core out of four to refine into fourth-grade spirit pills; the remaining three fourth-grade demon cores would be his own.

The fourth-grade spirit pills handed over would have their refinement quality intentionally suppressed, while the rest would be refined for himself, utilizing his entire alchemy skills.

This is probably just a portion of the fourth-grade demon cores held by sect cultivators; as the spirit beast tide continues, more fourth-grade demon cores will be sent to him.

Thus, in terms of cultivation resources, he was not lacking; at least, he didn’t have to worry too much about resources for Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivation.

As for fourth-grade refining materials, unless they were of fourth-grade high-stage quality, he wasn’t interested in working with them.

He’s now just missing materials for a fourth-grade high-stage flying sword. His five ’Flowing Light Star Meteor’ swords are long outdated, waiting to be replaced.

Li Shiming’s divine sense kept searching randomly in the Mustard Seed Ring; the spiritual objects inside were a bit disorganized, and many miscellaneous items he didn’t recognize.

The levels of the multiple cultivation techniques were generally average, but they could serve as references.

He then saw a jade scroll which unexpectedly contained a record of Skywalk Trading Company’s routes.

This was indeed unexpected, but thinking about it, it isn’t surprising; as a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator of Skywalk Trading Company, it’s quite normal for Jin Kai to have a backup of the route records on him, isn’t it?

It was quite a comprehensive map, recording the routes across the Beishu Continent, Dongqi Continent, West Yan Continent, South Zhao Continent, Central State Continent, and the major islands in between.

Li Shiming finally showed a smile on his face; this route alone was worth the risk he took to deal with Jin Kai.

One must know that by ambushing Jin Kai, he took a huge risk; as a Nascent Soul Early Stage practitioner ambushing a Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioner, even though the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Jin Kai was gravely injured, who could foresee any unexpected events?

With this map and route, he could now venture to these continents.

Especially the Central State Continent, where the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion is located on an island close to the Central State Continent.

Originally, Li Shiming had planned to wait until he stabilized his realm in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and traveled to the Central State with the sect’s own flying boat.

However, he hadn’t heard of any long-distance voyage plans within the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

The time for Nascent Soul cultivators is counted in years, and a few decades pass in the blink of an eye, so the affairs of Nascent Soul cultivators generally experience long delays.

”This is a puppet!” Li Shiming’s divine sense discovered a completely black Fourth Grade Metal Puppet.

This was precisely the Fourth Grade Xuanjia Puppet in which Jin Kai had made great contributions in the Zhao Ge Great Ability Cave Heaven; it was not summoned in the battle because, in the previous fight, the Fourth Grade Xuanjia Puppet’s defense had suffered significant damage.

Jin Kai had used up all his replacement parts for the Fourth Grade Xuanjia Puppet, so to repair the puppet, he would need to return to Dongqi Continent to gather the materials.

Li Shiming had obtained the Puppet Mechanism Technique inheritance, but due to the limited materials for fourth-grade puppets at hand, he needed to take a long time to gradually collect them.

Now that he had a complete Fourth Grade Xuanjia Puppet, what he needed to do was much simpler; he only needed to refurbish based on this Fourth Grade Xuanjia Puppet, reducing a lot of time and effort.