Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1961: Chapter 1027: Withdrawal

Li Shiming’s perception was unable to analyze the membrane; it seemed this membrane had an evasive effect against the perception of Great Powers.

He could only sense the state of the membrane through the touch of his hand, and IBMz15 analyzed the membrane based on the data obtained from the touch.

Of course, if he really wanted to forcibly break the membrane, it wouldn’t be difficult; with his strength, it was nothing more than releasing a single strand of Sword Intent.

But he didn’t want to destroy this membrane. There was still time anyway, and he was very interested in the membrane and the things within it.

It didn’t take long before IBMz15 gave a method to break it.

He lightly struck the membrane with several consecutive spells, and the effects of these spells caused the originally invisible membrane to reveal itself.

A membrane like a transparent curtain of water appeared in front of him, forming an oval sphere about the height of a person.

After the membrane manifested, Li Shiming’s “Divine Eye Sight” finally had a use; through observation with “Divine Eye Sight”, IBMz15 obtained more data.

Not long after, when he again cast several spells, the membrane drew back.

Li Shiming reached out and grabbed a silver fish. The fish was not a living creature but a treasure made from some unknown material.

The membrane just now was the transformation of this silver fish. The other important reason he had been able to break the silver fish’s defense was that the silver fish was an ownerless item.

At this moment he had already shifted his attention away from the silver fish and onto the corpse the silver fish had concealed.

Inside the membrane was a corpse sitting cross-legged. Even after an unknown number of years, there was still a terrifying Sword Intent pressure emanating from this corpse.

“Sword Cultivation Great Power!” Li Shiming sighed softly and muttered.

He himself possessed Great Power–level Sword Intent Rules, so he naturally could sense the aura of his own kind from this corpse.

He guessed that this Sword Cultivation Great Power should be a certain senior Great Power of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, who had unfortunately perished while exploring this ancient ruin.

This ancient ruin was extremely unfriendly to Great Powers. A Great Power’s greatest life-saving method—the way of returning to their Grotto Heaven for self-preservation—was sealed by the restriction of the ancient ruin.

This meant that when Great Powers encountered danger, they could only forcibly resist; they couldn’t even use Space Movement, and if they were overmatched, the result would be death.

The Sword Cultivation Great Power before his eyes had met exactly such an end.

Li Shiming bowed toward the corpse. Though he himself was not a Disciple of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, his avatar was, so this bow could be considered as making it on behalf of Li Yuanba.

Of course, after bowing, he had no intention of leaving the corpse behind or returning it to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Any corpse of a Great Power was of extremely high value to him.

At present, the Great Power corpses in his hands included one corpse of Great Power Leng Luo, and one that might or might not count as a corpse—the living dead Great Power he had found in a previously explored ancient ruin.

In addition, there were two Great Power–level “Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers”; these were all the fifth-grade corpses he currently possessed.

After confirming that in the short term he could not raise his Half-step Fifth-grade Corpse Refining to the fifth-grade, fifth-grade corpses were the crucial future resource for fifth-grade corpse refining.

He was preparing to put the corpse away, but discovered there was a soul crystal ring inside the corpse, preventing him from storing it in his own soul crystal ring.

If he were outside, and encountered a corpse carrying an energy-formed soul crystal ring, under urgent circumstances he would have stored it into his Grotto Heaven.

It was just that in this environment, he could not open his Grotto Heaven.

His perception entered the corpse and located a soul crystal ring and a fifth-grade Lifebound Spirit Treasure Flying Sword.

A fifth-grade Lifebound Flying Sword, after long-term refinement by a Sword Cultivation Great Power, needed no Cultivator to control it; it possessed a terrifying power on its own.

Li Shiming glanced at it and didn’t have much interest in this Lifebound Flying Sword, mainly because the Sword Intent he mastered was somewhat stronger than that of this Sword Cultivation Great Power.

His Great Power–level “Chaos Sword Intent,” although still a bit inferior to the Sword Intent contained within the “Sword Intent Stele,” was in the same realm far superior to the Sword Intent of Sword Cultivation Great Powers of the same tier.

Under identical cultivation conditions, with IBMz15’s help he could reach a level in Sword Intent that other Sword Cultivators could not.

Just like in his research on the “Sword Intent Stele,” he could comprehend “Chaos Sword Intent” from it, whereas at best the other Sword Cultivators could comprehend only “Void-breaking Sword Intent.”

Even if these Sword Cultivators, after advancing to Great Power, greatly strengthened their “Void-breaking Sword Intent,” its foundation was still “Void-breaking Sword Intent.”

The Lifebound Flying Sword in his hand was refined with Great Power–level “Void-breaking Sword Intent,” which did not match him and wasn’t even worth Li Yuanba refining.

So he merely took a look, then tossed this Lifebound Flying Sword to the Heavenly Ghost.

He had decided that, once he returned, he would hand this Lifebound Flying Sword back to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion as his repayment to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

After putting away the corpse, Li Shiming looked ahead with some hesitation.

The fall of a Sword Cultivation Great Power made him realize there must be dangers here that he did not yet know of.

After obtaining the Sword Cultivation Great Power’s Lifebound Flying Sword, he learned that this Sword Cultivation Great Power cultivated “Void-breaking Sword Intent.”

Even if a Sword Cultivation Great Power could not draw on Cave Heaven Energy, with “Void-breaking Sword Intent” he should still have been able to carve out a bloody path and break through the encirclement.

“Void-breaking Sword Intent” could almost break through everything, having initially reached the level of one sword breaking ten thousand techniques.

Judging from the condition of the Sword Cultivation Great Power’s corpse, the Great Power’s soul should have suffered heavy damage, leading to his fall here.

What could heavily damage the soul of a Sword Cultivation Great Power had to be a ghost. Li Shiming was worried that this ghost was not a Half-step Fifth-grade, but a true fifth-grade.