In a stronghold of the Holy Ice Sect outside the Tianhai Sect, a Foundation Establishment cultivator was looking at two Qi Refining late stage cultivators.
This base was a permanent base built by Elder Baili of the Holy Ice Sect, specifically for investigating the disappearance of Baili Jinyan.
Normally, the two cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage are stationed here. In the Shengbing Sect, it is presided over by Wei Yun, the direct disciple of Elder Baili who is in the Foundation Establishment stage.
Recently, when Wei Yun was reading the intelligence sent back by Tianhai Sect, he discovered that Li Shiming, who should have been killed, was still alive.
Li Shiming is not important, but the key is that Wei Yun has reported Li Shiming's death to his master, Elder Baili, so Li Shiming must be dead.
You should know that Elder Baili personally investigated Qiu Tan of Changming Island, and sensed the remnants of the mark left by Baili Jinyan on Qiu Tan and his two servants.
Because it took so long, only a trace of residual aura remained from the mark.
But this did not affect Elder Baili's discovery. With this discovery, no matter whether Qiu Tan was related to Baili Jinyan's disappearance, Qiu Tan was the person Baili Jinyan wanted to kill.
Then help your son kill Qiu Tan and his two men, which will also fulfill Baili Jinyan's unfulfilled wish.
After a period of investigation, Elder Baili had many questions about Baili Jinyan's disappearance. The secret technique left in Baili Jinyan's body lost its sensitivity but did not disappear. This was also his last hope that Baili Jinyan was not dead.
After capturing Qiu Tan and his two men, Elder Baili conducted an inhumane soul search on the three of them.
Even in the world of immortal cultivation, soul searching is not a method that is used casually. It is usually only used when there is a deep hatred.
The main thing is that after this method is used, the soul of the person whose soul is being searched will be completely annihilated. The monks' understanding of death is that life can be destroyed, but the soul will enter reincarnation.
The annihilation of the soul means there is no hope of reincarnation and is the most cruel punishment.
In addition, the person whose soul is being searched will suffer extreme spiritual pain during this period, and the person performing the spell will also feel this pain, which is a spiritual torment for both parties.
However, since Elder Baili's realm was much higher than Qiu Tan and the other two, the backlash he suffered was extremely low.
By searching the soul, he found out how Baili Jinyan met the three people and learned the gossip about their conversation.
For the sake of his son, he decided to get rid of Li Shiming, the source of Baili Jinyan's anger. How could Li Shiming get the woman that his son couldn't get?
Yin Shilan has a powerful father and a devilish mother who cannot be provoked, so he can only destroy Li Shiming.
Elder Baili did not personally kill Li Shiming.
The main reason is that Li Shiming's Eagle Beak Island is too close to Jiufeng. At that distance, if Elder Baili dares to get close, he will be immediately discovered by the Tianhai Sect's formation, and then the elders of the sect will come forward.
After being threatened by Old Demon Ren, Elder Baili had no intention of challenging the Tianhai Sect and the Xuanming Sect at all.
For all cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage and most of the Foundation Establishment Stage, the Tianhai Sect and the Xuanming Sect are mortal enemies.
However, only those in the Jindan stage and a small number of foundation-building stage cultivators who have access to the core affairs of the sect understand the true relationship between the Tianhai Sect and the Xuanming Sect.
The fight between the two sects has resulted in both the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators becoming adept at fighting, and the intensity of the battles can be limited to a controllable range, creating an environment conducive to the improvement of the cultivators of the two sects.
If there is no danger for cultivators, they will become useless people who only know how to practice. It does not mean that the higher the realm, the stronger the strength. Only cultivators who have been tempered in countless battles can gain a foothold in the world of cultivation.
When encountering troubles at the Jindan level, the Tianhai Sect and the Xuanming Sect can join forces at any time.
The small matter of killing Li Shiming became a reward task and was assigned to a late Qi Refining cultivator from the Holy Ice Sect to complete.
The late Qi-refining cultivator from the Holy Ice Sect also completed the assassination mission very easily and received a reward from Elder Baili.
The person in charge of supervising the assassination mission was Wei Yun, who was in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
"Falsely claiming rewards, do you know the consequences of this?" Wei Yun scolded with a gloomy face.
The two late Qi Refining cultivators looked pale, as they naturally knew Elder Baili's methods.
"Uncle Master Wei, who would have known that the spiritual plant husband on the island was not Li Shiming!" A cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage explained helplessly with a bitter face.
Yes, the mission location is correct, and the mission target is a spiritual plant husband in the middle stage of Qi Refining.
They used the talismans given by the sect to break the formation to enter Eagle's Beak Island, and saw the monks who were casting the Lingzhifu spell.
The descriptions of the mission location and mission objectives were correct, and they did not expect to kill the wrong person.
In fact, not only them, but even Wei Yun did not do any investigation. How could a mere Qi Refining Level 4 cultivator be worthy of excessive attention from the Foundation Establishment cultivators? If he died, he died.
If the intelligence this time had not mentioned that a junior formation master had gained some fame in the Tianhai Sect, and the junior formation master's name was Li Shiming, Wei Yun would have forgotten about this matter.
"Here is a talisman for breaking the formation. You two go again and clean up the matter. Don't leave any trace behind!" Wei Yun instructed in a deep voice.
Wei Yun also felt a little distressed. He paid for a formation-breaking talisman, but this time it was not Elder Baili who reimbursed him. Instead, he paid for it himself.
Of course, the two late Qi Refining monks did not receive any mission rewards. They had already received them last time, and they did not dare to accept the same mission again.
"Uncle Master Xie, don't worry, we won't make any mistakes this time!" The two Qi Refining cultivators assured him.
Li Shiming had no idea that there would be a follow-up to Baili Jinyan's incident. More than half a year had passed, and he thought that the investigation by the Holy Ice Sect should have been completed long ago.
Besides, Eagle's Beak Island has never encountered any trouble and everything is peaceful.
At this moment, he was using his spiritual thoughts combined with his consciousness to conduct a full body examination of his clone.
The clone's aura has completely changed. There is no trace of Baili Jinyan anymore. Coupled with the change in facial expression, it is like a completely different person.
But when Li Shiming put his consciousness into the cloned body and practiced the 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique', he always felt the presence of some kind of spiritual energy in his body.
When the clone's spiritual power was not very strong at the beginning, he did not pay attention to it. But as the clone's spiritual power grew, this feeling became more and more obvious.
Furthermore, when the clone was practicing the 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique', the speed at which his spiritual power improved was a bit too fast, even exceeding the speed at which the original body's spiritual power improved.
Li Shiming divided the clone's body into dozens of areas and explored it bit by bit using micron-level inspection methods.
He knew that his realm was too low, so his search was very slow, perceiving little by little at the micron level and exploring little by little with his spiritual thoughts.
Finally he found something suspicious, which was a drop of blood in the heart.
The reason why I suspected this drop of essence and blood was that it seemed normal, but when I used my spiritual sense to investigate it, I sensed a hint of abnormal aura.
If the aura of the clone was still the same as the original one, then Li Shiming would not be able to sense anything unusual about the aura of this drop of essence blood.
The problem is that the aura of the clone has completely changed. Although the aura of this drop of essence blood is extremely weak, it is incompatible with the aura around it.
Apart from the aura of this drop of essence and blood, he wanted to sense the special spiritual energy within this drop of essence and blood but failed.
Li Shiming considered it for a while and decided to let his clone practice the 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique', because every time he sensed spiritual energy, his clone was in the state of practicing the 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique'.
At the same time, he also let his spiritual thoughts and consciousness pay attention to this drop of essence and blood, so that any abnormality in the essence and blood would be discovered.
The 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique' was activated, and this drop of blood essence emitted extremely pure spiritual energy into the clone's body, increasing the strength of the spiritual mind.
Li Shiming finally understood what the spiritual energy he sensed was. It was this drop of seemingly normal blood essence.
It is unknown how this drop of blood essence is helping Baili Jinyan practice the 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique'.
Anyway, with Li Shiming's current level, even with the computer room space and IBMz15, he cannot analyze the special features of the essence and blood.
What he didn't know was that this was a father's selfless love for his son. Elder Baili used his own blood and essence to perform a secret method, peeling off the blood and essence and putting it into his son Baili Jinyan's body.
Under normal circumstances, a drop of blood essence from a Jindan stage cultivator is enough to burst the body of a Qi refining stage cultivator. Even if Baili Jinyan has cultivated the physique of the 'Sword Demon Secret Book', it will make no difference.
But Elder Baili's secret method is to transform the essence and blood of the Jindan period into a mild nature and keep it in Baili Jinyan's body.
It was this essence of blood that enabled Baili Jinyan's already amazing talent to reach an almost insurmountable achievement in the Qi Refining Stage.
With Baili Jinyan's future development direction, he suppressed his realm and waited until the spiritual energy vortex in his body reached its limit. If he broke through again, he would lay the most solid foundation for cultivating immortals.
Li Shiming frowned as he sensed this drop of essence blood. He had two choices. One was to peel off this drop of essence blood and destroy it.
But he was not at all sure. It was difficult for him to even detect the essence and blood, let alone to separate it. He was worried that if the separation was not done properly, the energy inside the essence and blood would destroy his clone or even the computer room space.
The second is to keep it as it is and wait for this drop of essence and blood to be consumed on its own.
This is possible. With the operation of 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique', spiritual energy will flow out of the essence and blood.
It is impossible for a drop of blood essence to contain endless spiritual energy. As long as one continuously cultivates spiritual thoughts, the blood essence can be exhausted through the "Ice Heart Jade Thoughts Technique".
But in this case, he thought that bringing the clone to the outside world would have to be postponed again.
"Well, good things come to those who wait!" He sighed helplessly.
Now that he knew where the problem lay, he felt relieved.
After obtaining the clone, when he saw the treasure in the storage bracelet, he guessed that there would be trouble.
Sure enough, the trouble continued, but fortunately he was careful in everything he did.
If he really summoned his clone to the outside world, it might have been discovered by the Holy Ice Sect and started to hunt him down.
This is indeed the case. The owner of that drop of essence blood is Elder Baili. As long as Li Shiming does not leave this continent, he will be able to track down the location of the essence blood sooner or later.
In other words, the space in the computer room is too special, isolating Elder Baili's perception, which allows Li Shiming to be free until now.
Li Shiming's mind was immersed in the state of being connected to IBM z15. A large amount of formation knowledge kept emerging in his brain, and all 190 CPUs of IBM z15 were running at high load.
He did not use his good deeds, but purchased a lot of formation knowledge through Yun's Trading Company. Although it consumed a lot of spirit stones, it was still acceptable compared to his good deeds.
The Yun's Trading Company's knowledge of formations was mostly obtained from various channels. It has nothing to do with the sect's knowledge of formations, and does not conflict with it.
He felt that his knowledge of formations was sufficient, and after a while he could consider applying for the intermediate formation master assessment.
Of course, if he were to take the exam now, he would have some confidence, but the time was too short and would attract too much attention, so he decided to wait another year or two.
IBMz15 studies formation knowledge almost every moment, and shares his research findings with him every once in a while, just like now.
This allowed him to not miss anything, but to move forward quickly on the formation path.
Suddenly, IBMz15 stopped sharing the formation knowledge and sent him a reminder.
He understood that it was the eye mask next to him that was vibrating, and IBMz15 was alerting him after discovering it through his five senses.
The eye mask vibrated, indicating a suspicious approach.
He didn't need to wear a blindfold. He sent a thought into the blindfold, and then he saw the abnormal location outside the island through a surveillance probe.
Speaking of surveillance probes, now that he has micron-level chips, he has made a lot of surveillance probes, and any direction approaching Eagle's Beak Island is within the surveillance range.
Infrared plus normal mode, and then processed and analyzed by the chip, as long as there is a suspicious situation, it will automatically send an early warning to the relay device, which is the eye mask.
At the same time, the surveillance probe will track the movement of suspicious targets and provide real-time tracking images to the goggles.
Li Shiming's spiritual sense was like his eyes, and he saw the image inside the blindfold. It was a figure in an invisible state.
Monks have many invisibility techniques, but most of them are of little use to monks and can be broken by a small qi-seeing technique.
Even without using the Qi-gazing technique, a cultivator's perception of spiritual energy fluctuations can allow him to discover an invisible cultivator who is within a certain distance.
Li Shiming’s surveillance camera naturally does not have this capability, but the infrared mode can also detect targets.
But what surprised him was that the target figure did not appear red like a normal monk. The red color in the infrared night vision mode represented the heat radiating from the body.
Even monks will continuously radiate heat from their bodies. The stronger the monk's physique, the stronger the heat they radiate.
However, the figure in the surveillance video appears dark blue, which is the case when the body temperature is much lower than the surrounding temperature.
Fortunately, Li Shiming took the possibility of human hypothermia into account when writing the judgment program. He had come into contact with a similar cultivator before, but that cultivator was a demon.
The demon cultivator was a cultivator from the Xuanming Sect, and was very similar to the dark blue figure.
"Could it be a cultivator from Xuanming Sect?" Li Shiming guessed in his heart.
But why did the Xuanming Sect monks sneak into Yingzui Island? This place is a restricted area for Xuanming Sect monks.
At this moment, he saw a second dark blue figure appear. The two people seemed to be communicating something, and then one of them stretched out his hand towards the magic circle.