Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1230: Chapter 661: Extermination of the Sect

He ignored the Nascent Soul Devil Cultivator and the accompanying Golden Core Demon Cultivator, viewing all these devil cultivators as already dead in his eyes.

He watched these devil cultivators return to the mountain gate, and with a slight movement of his mind, a tall monstrous figure appeared beside him.

This was the Asura Puppet, which possessed the strength of a Fourth Grade Middle Stage.

Alongside the appearance of the Asura Puppet, a huge drum ’Asura Drum’ also materialized.

The Asura Puppet held a pair of bone drumsticks in its hands, standing in front of the Asura Drum.

Li Shiming waved his hand again, and from the Ghost Bracelet on his wrist, an illusory figure flew out. This was a Fourth Grade Mid Stage Ghost.

He didn’t want to leave any battle traces he had used before, believing that with the investigative abilities of the Yuqing Sect, any method of battle he employed would be known to them.

This time he planned to destroy a sect without arousing any suspicion among cultivators that it was his doing.

He nodded slightly, and the Asura Puppet raised the bone drumsticks high, striking the surface of the Asura Drum and producing a muffled drumbeat.

As the Asura Puppet appeared, the sect defense formation of the Ruyi Sect triggered an alarm.

The Ruyi Sect was not originally a sect here. Being part of the Demon Sect, it possessed relatively weak strength among medium forces, and in a conflict with another medium force, it nearly faced annihilation.

Thus, they relocated the entire sect here, choosing to do so quietly without public announcement to avoid detection by hostile sects.

As a Demon Sect itself, Ruyi Sect naturally wouldn’t widely publicize their move, and as this region lacked particularly important resources, the news of Ruyi Sect’s relocation didn’t spread.

Of course, this was also related to the fact that Ruyi Sect had only settled here for a little over thirty years, and had they stayed longer, they would have been discovered and recorded on maps.

Currently, the Ruyi Sect had only one Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner, who was their Supreme Elder.

At this time, the Supreme Elder was handling sect affairs when he sensed the warning from the sect formation.

According to the alarm, he learned that there was Nascent Soul Middle Stage aura fluctuations appearing outside the sect, immediately thinking of their adversary force, suspecting the enemy had come to their doorstep.

Just as he was preparing to respond, something hair-raising occurred.

The sect formation rebuilt from years of gathered formation materials, though not matching those of truly older medium sect formations, was at least supposed to withstand several hits from a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.

However, just as the information about the attack arrived, the sect formation was broken through.

Following the breach of the sect formation, wave after wave of drumbeats came through.

The Supreme Elder only felt his Nascent Soul trembling within, and with every drumbeat, his Nascent Soul would quiver once, and the aura of the Nascent Soul would also become disorderly along with the tremors.

Terror flashed in his eyes. This definitely wasn’t the hostile force. If the adversary truly possessed such means, how would the Ruyi Sect have had a chance to survive?

He wanted to resist, yet at this moment couldn’t even mobilize his Nascent Soul.

Even a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner struggled thus, let alone the other cultivators of the Ruyi Sect.

Cultivators below the Nascent Soul had their souls destroyed and died instantly with the first drumbeat.

Nascent Soul Early Stage practitioners could struggle to withstand the first drumbeat, but upon the second, their Nascent Souls collapsed, followed by their bodies.

The Asura Puppet inherently had the Fourth Grade Middle Stage strength, and the Asura Drum was an extremely special magical artifact, a war drum of the Asuras. It not only boosted Asura’s combat power but also targeted enemies with soul attacks.

A Nascent Soul Middle Stage soul attack was not something a sect like the Ruyi Sect with Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners could contend with.

Without corresponding defenses against the soul and without specialized spiritual cultivation techniques, they were essentially defenseless against soul attacks.

The Supreme Elder didn’t last much longer, and after listening to more than ten drumbeats, his Nascent Soul could no longer hold together and collapsed with a bang.

From the sound of the drumbeats to the fall of the Supreme Elder, it took only about ten breaths, with one drumbeat resonating each breath, obliterating an entire sect.

Throughout the battle, Li Shiming did not move an inch, calmly observing.

As he was about to venture into the Ruyi Sect to uncover the treasure of Qiu Hengyi, he abruptly paused, noticing numerous phantoms flying towards the Asura Puppet.

Those phantoms were the souls of Ruyi Sect’s demon cultivators. The cultivators attacked by the Asura Drum had their souls as the primary target, and the remnants of their soul energy couldn’t escape even in death.

Countless soul phantoms flew into the body of the Asura Puppet. Li Shiming, having a contractual link with the Asura Puppet, could perceive the increase in energy within the Asura Puppet as these soul energies entered.

This was something Li Shiming never knew; normal puppets lacked such a feature, whereas the Asura Puppet was a puppet capable of growth.

Yet such a growth method was far too sinister.

Devouring souls in the Cultivation World was not deemed a good act; once discovered, it earned an evil reputation like that of a devil cultivator’s fate.

Cultivators widely believed in soul reincarnation. In reality, events like forced body seizing by a Nascent Soul for rebirth actually existed, affirming the possibility of soul reincarnation.

Cultivators believed that after death, a soul would be transformed by heaven and earth, then reintroduced into an infant’s body to reincarnate as a new life.

Yet soul devouring would completely obliterate a cultivator’s soul, denying the chance for reincarnation.

Li Shiming couldn’t help but shake his head; he didn’t want the Asura Puppet to absorb souls, as that would make him appear as an evil entity.

Fortunately, this time it was devil cultivators being dealt with, so it was merely waste utilization. Such devil cultivators should precisely be deprived of the chance for reincarnation.

He had no intention of boosting the Asura Puppet through such massacre. The risk was too great; he might become a public enemy of the Cultivation World, where numerous Great Cultivators would leave him nowhere to run.

He waved to retract the Asura Puppet, as the Fourth Grade Ghost had long flown into the Ruyi Sect to ensure no special existences survived.

The Fourth Grade Ghost possessed a particularly useful ability, to search for life within a certain range.

Additionally, as an energy form, it could bypass most walls. Tasking the Fourth Grade Ghost with retrieving the Ruyi Sect’s treasures ensured nothing was overlooked. Regardless of the hiding methods, the Ghost’s traversal through and beneath the buildings would make everything clear.

Li Shiming didn’t bother with the Fourth Grade Ghost, maintaining a mental connection with it, controlling all its movements.

The Fourth Grade Ghost might feel somewhat aggrieved; as a Fourth Grade Middle Stage Ghost, aside from a few cultivators with specific methods to counter ghosts, most Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners had no means to counter it.

Yet such a Fourth Grade Middle Stage Ghost had been relegated to merely scavenging the battlefield.

But to Li Shiming, the strength of a Fourth Grade Middle Stage Ghost was indeed insignificant. Take a look at Li Shiming’s various methods; many exceeded the Ghost’s capabilities.

Not to mention Li Shiming’s own combat strength, Little Feng and Illusion Spirit Dragon, though still at Fourth Grade Lower Stage, possessed extraordinary fighting potential and immense potential.

The three ’Silver Winged Spirit Gu Insects’ were opponents even a Great Cultivator should cautiously face, and the Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng combined with the ’Thunderous Mysterious Bow’ achieved nearly Great Cultivator level attacks, while the four Fourth Grade Puppets’ ’electromagnetic cannons’ could eliminate most Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators.

The ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ of the Golden Corpse Nanming, coupled with its speed, was a daunting presence for Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators to handle.

Only the unadvanced Golden Corpse Black Shield was notably weaker than the Fourth Grade Ghost.