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Chapter 755 - 424: Fortuitous Encounter

Chapter 755: Chapter 424: Fortuitous Encounter

Li Shiming flew into the pool, and the spiritual power from his Water Attribute Golden Core formed a spiritual power barrier around him, allowing him to move through the water without any restraint, much like a fish.

Having learned that there was a space beneath the water, his curiosity to explore this area was piqued.

After observing for a moment, he couldn’t help but slap his forehead.

Perhaps overly confident in his formation abilities, he had forgotten the capability of "Divine Foot Skill": "Inches Apart, Worlds Away".

If formation ability was a method to decrypt a formation, then "Inches Apart, Worlds Away" was essentially a cheat for breaking through formations.

He took a step and activated "Inches Apart, Worlds Away"; his vision brightened, and he found himself within another space.

This space was an ancient cave mansion, where the array formation patterns on the walls and floor emitted a faint light, illuminating the inside of the cave mansion.

He carefully extended his Divine Thought but soon realized this was unnecessary.

This cave mansion had no additional defenses; it was simply concealed from the main world by a spatial formation, making it an independent space.

If one lacked the means to detect spatial fluctuations or the ability to decode the mansion’s formations, even if they knew of the cave mansion’s existence, they would be unable to find its location.

After inspecting the cave mansion, Li Shiming quickly lost most of his interest in it.

Judging by the size and the methods used to arrange it, it was unlikely that its owner had been a Nascent Soul Ancestor; at best, it was the abode of a Golden Core cultivator.

A Golden Core cultivator’s cave mansion really wasn’t something that caught his attention; he also knew that the mansion posed no safety threat to him.

Even if the owner, a Golden Core cultivator, were still alive, they wouldn’t be able to harm Li Shiming, the Body Refining Grand Elder, let alone with such an inanimate object as the mansion itself.

Upon entering the front hall of the cave mansion, he saw a stone table with a skeleton sitting beside it, and next to the skeleton was a Jade Scroll.

Li Shiming shook his head; from the skeleton’s bones, he immediately speculated that the owner’s cultivation level had been at the Golden Core Middle Stage.

The bones of a cultivator typically changed with their cultivation level unless they had cultivated body refining techniques.

He picked up the Jade Scroll and his Divine Thought entered it.

Soon, he withdrew his Divine Thought from the scroll, looking at the skeleton he shook his head slightly.

An all too familiar story unfolded: the skeleton was the last cultivator of a mid-sized sect from five thousand years ago, which, having accidentally discovered a resource land, saw rapid growth.

But as the mid-sized sect’s power swelled, it fell under attack from the Thousand Illusion Sect.

The Thousand Illusion Sect produced evidence that the mid-sized sect had connections with the Demon Sect, using it as a pretext to annihilate the sect.

The owner of this place managed to escape with the sect’s legacy and hope but was gravely injured along the way. He set up this cave mansion to treat his wounds, but unfortunately, succumbed to them in the end.

The owner left the sect’s legacy, hoping that a person of fate might rebuild the sect and, if powerful enough, seek vengeance on the Thousand Illusion Sect.

If one agreed, they would need to kneel to the skeleton and swear an oath to receive this legacy.

Li Shiming tossed the Jade Scroll aside, feeling no sympathy for the destruction of the mid-sized sect.

The Cultivation World was a world where the strong preyed on the weak; without sufficient strength, a mid-sized sect that acquired resources beyond its capabilities would suffer backlash.

Not just this mid-sized sect, even the six great sects tread carefully and keep secrets when they discover important resources.

As for kneeling to the skeleton and swearing an oath, that was even less likely.

Li Shiming’s "Divine Eye Skill" activated, scanning over the skeleton, and he discovered a small array underneath it—a Vow Feedback Formation, a peculiar type among arrays.

The function of a Vow Feedback Formation is to determine whether an oath made by a cultivator matches pre-designed conditions by the Array Setter, and if so, it would trigger a preset outcome.

After discovering the Vow Feedback Formation, the matter became simple.

He released a wave of spiritual power, easily infiltrating the Vow Feedback Formation, bypassing its judgment mechanism and forcibly triggering the intended result.

With a "click," the stone table split apart, revealing another Jade Scroll within.

He seized the second Jade Scroll with his Divine Thought and began to examine its contents.

This time, he was indeed surprised; this was the location of a land rich with resources, precisely what the mid-sized sect had discovered five thousand years ago.

Despite the Thousand Illusion Sect annihilating the sect, knowledge of this resource land was incredibly scarce. Once the key members were slain, the land was once again obscured by time.

Li Shiming pulled up the drone satellite system’s map and quickly located the place where the resource land lay.

"So close to the Thousand Illusion Sect?" He was surprised to find that the resource land was only about thirteen hundred Baili away from the Thousand Illusion Sect’s headquarters.

He knew that the vicinity of a major sect’s headquarters would have been explored countless times, watched over intentionally or unintentionally by Nascent Soul Ancestors; any resource land would surely have been discovered long ago.

However, the Jade Scroll contained detailed records on how to enter the resource land, which seemed unlikely to be a fabrication.

Yet, with five thousand years passed, whether the resource land still remained or if it had already been discovered and claimed by the Thousand Illusion Sect or other cultivators was uncertain.

He searched the cave mansion further but only found a single damaged treasure of mediocre quality, with no other spiritual objects worth noting.