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Chapter 697 - 395: Surprise Attack

Chapter 697: Chapter 395: Surprise Attack

Jiang Pu had left first, he needed to inform the other Golden Core Elders.

"Junior Li, seeing you’ve reached the peak of the Early Stage Golden Core, are you looking for an opportunity to break through?" Brother Qi Jin looked at Li Yuanba and hesitated before speaking out.

He didn’t know how to repay Li Yuanba, so he started from another angle.

Seeing that Li Yuanba had reached the peak of the Early Stage Golden Core, he still had some insights on breakthroughs.

"Yes, I’ve been stuck at the peak of the Early Stage Golden Core for seven months now!" Li Yuanba shook his head helplessly in response.

Although he wasn’t particularly anxious, his original body had already advanced to the Middle Stage Golden Core, and if he continued to delay, he feared that the gap between his avatar and his original body’s realm would widen.

His combat power was already far behind that of his original body, and if the realm fell behind further, the use of the avatar would become increasingly marginal.

"Junior brother, you are a Sword Cultivator, and when reaching a bottleneck, what you need to do is battle, not meditate in seclusion!" Brother Qi Jin reminded him with a smile.

Li Yuanba’s eyes lit up, he had almost forgotten the true nature of Sword Cultivators. Sword Cultivators are combative, and their reputation for being first in offense certainly wasn’t built through cultivation alone.

He was truly blinded by his involvement. Mainly because his master, Elder Jian, was in seclusion, without his master’s guidance, he took a wrong turn.

"But where can I find the right opponent?" Li Yuanba started to feel a headache coming on.

Battles naturally require fighting enemies with comparable combat strength to be meaningful. If the enemies could be easily dispatched, it wouldn’t have any sharpening effect at all.

Brother Qi Jin heard his question and also scratched his head, equally unable to find a good solution.

It’s not that enemies at the peak of the Early Stage Golden Core were hard to find. As for Li Yuanba’s true combat power, Brother Qi Jin knew it well; Li Yuanba simply couldn’t be regarded as a typical Early Stage Golden Core peak cultivator.

Li Yuanba’s Body Refinement strength was only a hair’s breadth away from the Great Elder Level, only opponents close to the peak of the Late-stage Golden Core could match him.

But in any power structure, such strengthened Golden Core cultivators were dignified in status and would not readily act.

"Junior brother, I will ask friends from the sect to keep an eye on this matter, and I will notify you immediately once there is news!" Brother Qi Jin finally said.

He owed Li Yuanba a rather large favor. This time he was ready to use some connections to try and find suitable opponents for Li Yuanba.

After Brother Qi Jin left, Li Yuanba made a trip to Jieshan Mountain Pass and personally delivered a storage bag to Li Shiming’s Silver Corpse within the territory of the Righteous Path forces.

The materials this time were somewhat precious, and they were also related to Brother Qi Jin’s injuries.

Speaking of Li Shiming’s Silver Corpse, it was quite a tale at the Shushan Sect.

Li Shiming had applied for an entry certificate for his Silver Corpse from the sect, and the sect had surprisingly agreed.

An unusual event occurred in the Shushan Sect, a Silver Corpse moving freely in and out of the Righteous Path’s Shushan Sect, receiving guests at Sword Holding Peak, and handling Spiritual Medicine with the Beishu Trading Company.

However, there was no objection from the cultivators of the Shushan Sect to this matter, as they agreed to make an exception for Li Shiming.

Three days after Li Yuanba returned to Jieshan City, his Identity Jade Disc received an urgent message.

He took out the Identity Jade Disc and discovered that it was an alert from Jieshan Mountain Pass, with cultivators attempting to break through the Jieshan Formation.

Without any hesitation, he turned into a beam of sword light and headed towards the Jieshan Mountain Pass.

The relationship between Jieshan City and Jieshan Mountain Pass was one of mutual help, especially as in recent years, all miscellaneous tasks had been taken over by the Mountain Pass, allowing the Guardian Cultivator of Jieshan City, Li Yuanba, to be completely free.

If there hadn’t been a major issue, Jieshan Mountain Pass would not have issued an alert.

As he flew, he contacted his original body, Li Shiming, and used the unmanned satellite system to check the situation at Jieshan Mountain Pass.

His first priority was to confirm that no Nascent Soul Ancestor had appeared there.

Of course, he had already set up multiple safeguards against the possibility of a Nascent Soul Ancestor breaking through Jieshan Mountain Pass and launching an attack on Jieshan City.

Contacting the unmanned satellite system was also to doubly confirm, since he was truly scared by the Nascent Soul Ancestors.

Upon reviewing the situation at Jieshan Mountain Pass through the unmanned satellite system, he couldn’t help but inhale sharply.

In the buffer zone near the Senluo Sect’s Jieshan Mountain Pass Formation, six teams were assaulting the Jieshan Formation, each team consisting of more than six cultivators.

Only Golden Core cultivators would dare to do such a thing,

Li Yuanba had been at Jieshan Mountain Pass for a long time, yet this was the first time he had seen so many Golden Core cultivators acting together to breach the defenses.

"Brother Jiang, what has happened?" he connected his Divine Thought with the Identity Jade Disc and sent a message to Jiang Pu.

"Junior Li, come help quickly! I’m not sure of the specifics, but these Righteous Path Golden Core cultivators have gone mad, all Mid Late Stage Golden Core cultivators attacking the formation, and it looks like it can’t hold much longer!" Jiang Pu’s voice sounded urgent.

Li Yuanba knew the Jieshan Formation at the Jieshan Mountain Pass, although it could block Golden Core cultivators, was not impenetrable.

If there were enough Golden Core cultivators, they could break through the formation.

The purpose of the formation was to detect and alert against enemies; it could block a few enemies for a while, but with a larger number, it would only hold out for a time while waiting for support from the sect.

"I’m almost there!" Li Yuanba answered solemnly.

Unable to use "Step by Step Lotus," he could only use Sword Escape, which was already the fastest speed he could openly use.

He also understood the Righteous Path Golden Core cultivators definitely had a plan, attacking from six directions simultaneously; even if he were to block one team, the other teams would still have time to break through the formation.