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Chapter 756 - 424: Fortuitous Encounter_2

Chapter 756: Chapter 424: Fortuitous Encounter_2

The owner of this cave abode seems to have left behind nothing but some materials for setting up arrays.

Li Shiming conducted a thorough search of the cave abode but couldn’t find the so-called legacy, which left him somewhat disappointed.

That said, this mid-sized sect’s research in formations was not weak, and the person who had set up this rather innovative spatial formation here while being seriously injured was still worth studying.

He didn’t linger any longer and activated "A World Within a Step" to leave the space where the cave abode was located.

Using "Step by Step Lotus," he moved invisibly towards the location of the legacy.

As for the purpose of the Skywalk Trading Company, he had no intention of sharing it with anyone, but would wait until they actually discovered the Grotto Heaven opened by the Great Power Zhai Ge.

Several hours later, he arrived at the location with the resources.

"Indeed, this mid-sized sect has a unique heritage in the art of formations!" Li Shiming arrived at a valley following the records on the Jade Scroll, and he couldn’t help but express his admiration.

In five thousand years, ordinary arrays set up in the wilderness are very likely to malfunction due to changes in terrain or spiritual energy, or for other reasons.

However, as soon as he entered the valley, he detected an exceedingly faint fluctuation of array energy, indicating that the array here was still effective.

An array set up five thousand years ago that still maintains its concealment function to this day is something even Li Shiming, an Array Master, admires the level of skill of the original array-setting cultivator.

Without needing to break the array, he followed the description in the Jade Scroll and used specific steps to enter deeper into the valley. In a turn, he discovered the marvelous use of the array placed here.

The function of the array was to draw on space; when he moved within the array using particular steps, he was actually walking through a spatial corridor opened by the array. It’s only at the last moment that the changes in space would be triggered.

"If those cultivators holding compasses were to come here, they’d probably detect the spatial fluctuations too!" Li Shiming murmured to himself.

However, the likelihood of this was low. Even if the Skywalk Trading Company mobilized many local cultivators, they were still searching based on the clues left by the Great Power Zhai Ge.

Although the Skywalk Trading Company’s suspected area was somewhat large, there was still some target to it.

If cultivators were to search the entire Beishu Continent, not to mention whether it’s possible, even if it could be done, it would take hundreds or thousands of years.

Such prolonged searching would definitely attract the attention of the six major sects.

Li Shiming sensed a space close at hand, and with one step, he crossed a barrier as described in the Jade Scroll.

Once again, he discovered a space. He surmised that only such a high-level independent space could remain undiscovered near the Thousand Illusion Sect’s mountain gate for five thousand years.

This space was filled with an extremely rich spiritual energy, almost equivalent to that emitted by a Nascent Soul Level Spirit Vein.

However, his Divine Thought did not sense the presence of a Nascent Soul Level Spirit Vein.

The space was not very large, about the size of a fifty-acre spirit field, and he found it somewhat regrettable that except for a bit of green in the center, the rest of the place had largely lost its spiritual essence.

But based on the condition of the spirit field he discovered, it originally had a third-grade potency.

"Eh!" When his Divine Thought reached the small patch of green in the center, he was surprised to find that, although only a portion remained, the grade of the spirit field was fourth-grade.

There, two stalks of Fourth Grade Three Elements Illusion Spirit Grass swayed, which was the main ingredient in a four-grade pill formula from Li Shiming’s alchemy heritage and could be used to refine Fourth-grade Spirit Pills necessary for Nascent Soul Ancestors’ cultivation.

The fact that two stalks of Fourth Grade Three Elements Illusion Spirit Grass were cultivated in such a place was astonishing.

If the Nascent Soul Ancestors from the six major sects knew of this, they would likely fight tooth and nail to seize this treasure spot.

Li Shiming was also stunned, standing there in shock. He had never imagined that he would make such a discovery simply by stepping out to gather information from the cultivators of the Skywalk Trading Company.

Yet it was from a Jade Scroll found in the cave abode of a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator from five thousand years ago that he had stumbled upon this place.

No wonder that medium-sized sect was annihilated, Li Shiming even doubted whether they had taken out the Four-grade Three Elements Illusion Spirit Grass to concoct elixirs or to exchange for some resources.

Such Fourth-grade resources were not so easily obtainable without sufficient strength to protect them; they would definitely be targeted by the six major sects and devoured, bones and all.

"No, that’s not right!" Li Shiming was about to pick the two stalks of Four-grade Three Elements Illusion Spirit Grass, but he shook his head with a strange expression, murmuring to himself.

In the five thousand years without cultivators tending to it, the originally planted Spiritual Medicines had all died, leaving only the Three Elements Illusion Spirit Grass, which required lengthy years to grow, to survive.

But the Spiritual Energy here could not explain how, over five thousand years, even with a Gathering Spirit Array present, it could remain so abundant as to be at the Nascent Soul Level.

Moreover, during his investigation, he always felt there was something particularly peculiar about this place.

The fifty-acre spirit field existed like rootless duckweed, floating in space.

Given Li Shiming’s knowledge and understanding, no matter what kind of space it was, it needed something to bear its weight, otherwise how could it exist stably for thousands of years.

This cultivation space had been discovered by the previous medium-sized sect five thousand years ago, and perhaps it had existed even longer than he could imagine.

He released his Divine Thought. The place was not large, and as he probed every inch with his Divine Thought, yet he found no anomalies.

The medium-sized sect that discovered this place must have investigated it too. And it was normal that he too couldn’t find anything unusual.

But the lack of anomalies was the biggest anomaly. With no carrier for the space, it seemed to exist out of thin air.

His life-bound treasure, IBMz15, joined in the analysis, first eliminating the possibility of a Formation. If the space were formed by a Formation, with his level of mastery over arrays, how could he fail to find any anomaly?

IBMz15 constructed a virtual model of the fifty-acre space and then focused on researching the origin of the Spiritual Energy.

On this point, Li Shiming’s ’Divine Eye Skill’ was able to observe the subtleties, and he indeed found the source of the Spiritual Energy: it was flowing in from one side of the space.

Based on the instantaneous inflow, flow rate, direction, and other factors of the Spiritual Energy, IBMz15 calculated complicated formulas and eventually pointed out a location on the previous virtual model; that was where the source of the Spiritual Energy resided.

Curiosity aroused, Li Shiming recalculated several times, and each time IBMz15 arrived at the same conclusion.

He arrived at the location where the Spiritual Energy was flowing and looked into the void.

He assessed his body’s strength, and since he possessed the Divine Foot Skill, even if he encountered any dangers, with the support of Great Elder-level Body Refining defensive power, he could use the Divine Foot Skill to extricate himself from danger.

He drew a deep breath; this was the first time he was using a location in the void as his target for movement, and there were indeed risks involved.

In the past, when he used ’Step by Step Lotus’, even if he was forcefully passing through a Formation, he only did so because he was extremely confident about the interior of the Formation.

But today was different, the target location that IBMz15 analysed was imperceptible to his Divine Thought.

What is unknown is the most terrifying; not knowing what that place is like.

Li Shiming trusted the calculations of his life-bound treasure IBMz15, his curiosity was piqued, and if he were to stop now, it would affect his state of mind.

Of course, he couldn’t just go there directly, so with a wave of his hand, a Silver Corpse appeared beside him.

He activated ’Step by Step Lotus’, his mind entered the Silver Corpse, and he took over the control of ’Step by Step Lotus’.

This operation was extremely cumbersome, and even a slight mistake would prevent the Silver Corpse from taking over the execution of ’Step by Step Lotus’.

The handover of ’Step by Step Lotus’ was slowly underway; such an action would be useless in actual combat, but at this moment, it was very useful for scouting ahead.

The figure of the Silver Corpse was enveloped by the Spatial Energy of ’Step by Step Lotus’ and then disappeared from the spot.

Li Shiming’s physical body suddenly opened his eyes, his consciousness had been forcibly ejected from the Silver Corpse.