The four cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining were very sensible. It should be said that almost all cultivators would be very sensible when they encounter a clear gap in strength.

Although there are cultivators who can fight above their level, they will definitely not appear among the casual cultivators.

Is it because he relies on the mediocre magic weapon in his hand, or the talismans whose power is not as strong as the spells he casts himself?

"Thank you for saving my life!" The head of the Guan family bowed to Li Shiming and said.

Li Shiming didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.

"This is the Senluo Order, please keep it well, fellow Taoist!" The eldest brother of the Guan family pretended to be suddenly aware of something, took out a sign from his storage bag and handed it over.

Although Li Shiming had never seen the Senluo Order, he discovered the trick when his spiritual sense swept over the sign.

Since the Senluo Order was issued by the Senluo Sect and is also a token of trust, it is naturally not too ordinary.

The sign that the eldest son of the Guan family took out was a sign carved from a spiritual wood. On it was written the words "Senluo Ling", but the crafting technique and the attached magic, etc., suggested that it was made by a weapon maker who made low-grade magic weapons.

Li Shiming is not a casual cultivator, he is also a cultivator of the sect. If the Senluo Order is real, then how can the Senluo Sect distinguish the authenticity of the Senluo Order?

Not to mention other weapon makers, even Li Shiming himself, as long as he has the spiritual wood raw material, he can make countless identical Senluo Orders that are impossible to distinguish between the real and the fake.

"Why bother? What's wrong with handing it over? Since you have produced fake ones, your lives belong to me!" Li Shiming said calmly.

A flash of sword light swept past, and the head of the eldest brother Guan flew into the sky. On the other side, the second brother of the Guan family, who had not yet shown any sign of panic, also had his head flying up almost at the same time.

Only Guan Laosan wanted to scream, but he found that he had lost his ability to move.

Li Shiming's spiritual sense swept over and the storage bags on their bodies were taken away.

He grabbed Guan Lao San and smiled in the direction of Zhao Biaotou, showing a warning. He thought that an old hand like Zhao Biaotou would not spread anything nonsense.

The sword light carried Li Shiming and Guan Laosan far away, and Li Shiming found a cave.

A spiritual thought swept through the interior of the cave, and all the garbage on the ground and the odor in the air were swept out of the cave.

Li Shiming carried Guan Laosan into the cave and threw him to the ground.

He took out three storage bags and poured out everything inside. Then he took out a wooden plate from a low-grade shield.

To be honest, the Guan brothers were quite good at hiding items, but unfortunately they met Li Shiming, who possessed spiritual thoughts. Their method of hiding items under his spiritual thoughts was a joke.

Li Shiming picked up the wooden sign, scanned it with his spiritual thoughts, and nodded with satisfaction.

This wooden sign was created using a very special magical method, and there was a special mark on its surface. The spiritual power within the mark was extremely strange, and it should be the result of some special secret method.

If I'm not mistaken, this wooden sign is the real Senluo Order.

As to whether it is true or not, it depends on Guan Laosan’s answer.

He kept Guan Lao San for this purpose. Besides, he also needed to get information about the nearby immortal cultivation world.

All I can say is that the three brothers of the Guan family disrupted his original plan, and plans really cannot keep up with changes.

Originally, he wanted to go to Guanquan Mountain as a mortal to see if there were any cultivators there.

He didn't expect that the three brothers of the Guan family would come to him and offend him, giving him a reason to take action.

According to Li Shiming's code of conduct, he cannot be like the devil and take the initiative to cause trouble to unrelated monks before they offend him.

A rope flew out from Li Shiming's hand and tied Guan Laosan tightly.

This is the spirit-binding rope obtained from Baili Jinyan. Unfortunately, he didn't dare to take it out and use it when he was on Tianhai Island.

Seeing that he had already reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, and would be able to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage in a while, if he had not met the three brothers of the Guan family, perhaps the combination of the soul-binding rope and the soul-piercing needle for interrogating a confession would have been buried in his hands.

After the foundation is established, the role of magic tools is very small.

Just like the two top-grade magic weapons in Baili Jinyan's storage bracelet, they were extremely powerful magic weapons for Li Shiming when he first got them, but now, Li Shiming is able to use super-grade magic weapons.

Those two top-grade magical weapons, one for attack and one for defense, lost their value and became collections to commemorate past experiences.

"What are you going to do? I won't say anything?" Guan Laosan looked at Li Shiming in horror and shouted.

He was well aware that he would be tortured if he fell into the hands of the monks, and he just hoped that Li Shiming's methods would be gentler.

However, when he saw Li Shiming skillfully take out a professional spirit-binding rope and then a needle-shaped magic weapon, he could no longer pretend to be calm.

After using the soul-piercing needle once, all the information that Li Shiming wanted to know, including what should and should not be said, was dumped out by Guan Laosan.

Li Shiming finally understood what the Senluo Order was. After all, this thing was a means for the Senluo Sect to create chaos among the various forces of cultivators.

The Senluo Sect is originally a demonic sect, so its actions are naturally strange and incomprehensible. A batch of Senluo Orders were released, causing forces in the Ten Thousand Mountains to scramble for them.

Although these immortal cultivation forces are far inferior to the Senluo Sect in strength, their numbers are extremely large and they have ambiguous relations with the major sects.

The emergence of the Senluo Order caused constant conflicts among the various immortal cultivation forces in the Shiwan Mountains.

Every force wants the monks in its force to join Senluo Sect, so that the force can establish a relationship with Senluo Sect.

Under such circumstances, the various immortal cultivation forces were constantly fighting each other, but this accelerated the implementation of the Senluo Sect's plan to unify the Ten Thousand Mountains.

At the same time, the Senluo Order can also win over a group of monks. Any monk who can bring the Senluo Order to the Senluo Sect alive is extremely capable no matter what, which is very much in line with the style of the Senluo Sect.

Li Shiming also obtained the general entry and exit methods of the Beishu market, as well as the locations of some of the market.

When he asked these questions, no matter how confused Guan Lao San was, he realized that he was not a cultivator from Northern Shu.

As a cultivator from Beishu, how could he not know the general methods of entering and exiting the market? Especially for a cultivator who has reached the ninth level of Qi Refining, it is even more unlikely.

However, Li Shiming didn't care whether Guan Laosan guessed anything, because Guan Laosan's fate was determined.

After Li Shiming dealt with Guan Lao San, he put the three storage bags into the machine room as a warehouse.

As for the belongings of the three brothers of the Guan family, he picked out a low-grade robe and a low-grade sword, collected hundreds of spirit stones, and buried the rest of the junk in the cave.

Perhaps many years later, some lucky young man will dig out these things from the cave. Although these things are useless to Li Shiming, they are still treasures for cultivators in the early stages of Qi Refining, such as elixirs and magical tools.

He continued to rest in the cave, thinking about formulating a new plan of action.

Now he is no longer completely in the dark, and he has learned the basic situation of the immortal cultivation world in Northern Shu.

The word "chaos" can be used to describe the world of immortal cultivation in Northern Shu. The emergence of the Senluo Order is only a small aspect of the problem. The main reason is that the Senluo Sect has been constantly eroding the interests of other sects.

This has led to various small forces competing for resources within the areas originally controlled by each sect.

The Senluo clan is a large and powerful clan, and some small resources are not what the Senluo clan values, but for small forces, they are of great interest.

In addition, there are ambitious forces that want to become more powerful, and some forces that want to directly kill and rob, which makes the already chaotic situation even more serious.

The way the Senluo Sect manages its sphere of influence is different from that of normal sects. In addition, as it is in the process of expansion, it has no time to control the various forces within the Ten Thousand Mountains, allowing them to run wild.

Li Shiming shook his head helplessly. It was not a good choice for him to enter the Shiwan Mountains at this time. Even if he acted as a casual cultivator, he might be mistaken for a spy of another force and be killed by some force at any time.

He was thinking, looking outside the cave with a focused gaze.

Five auras were approaching rapidly, one of which was the aura of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage. He also recognized the other four auras. They were the four cultivators in the Middle Qi Refining Stage whom he had let go.

"I still have to ask for help from my fellow Taoist!" Li Shiming was not afraid. Instead, his fighting spirit rose. A clone appeared beside him, and he said to the clone with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist, today let's join forces to kill the foundation-building cultivator!" The clone was in high spirits.

Ever since he had a clone, he has been almost multitasking. Even in the computer room, the clone is still doing some research work.

This method allowed him to turn the originally useless martial arts technique 'Fighting with Both Hands' into a true multitasking that he could maintain for a long time.

Of course, 'fighting with both hands' is just a key, and what really enables him to do two things at the same time is his strong spirit and spiritual power.

Moreover, as this state of multitasking is maintained for longer, the two separate consciousnesses are nourished and strengthened by their respective bodies.

Li Shiming and his clone walked out of the cave and met a Foundation Establishment cultivator and four Qi Refining mid-stage cultivators who were chasing them.

"Uncle, this guy is the one who stole the Senluo Order!" One of the cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining pointed at Li Shiming and said.

The Foundation Establishment cultivator swept his spiritual sense over and confirmed the strength of Li Shiming and his clone. Although they were two cultivators at the ninth level of Qi Refining, they were nothing in his eyes.

There is a natural gap between Qi-refining cultivators and Foundation-building cultivators. Except for a very small number of talented cultivators cultivated by large sects, this huge gap in realm is an insurmountable chasm for cultivators.

"Hand over the Senluo Order and the storage bag, and end your lives!" the foundation-building cultivator said indifferently.

"The Senluo Order is right here. Come and get it if you want it!" Li Shiming said with a smile.

The Shushan Seal appeared in his hand. He could use the Shushan Seal after his strength reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. He had also been gathering spiritual power into the Shushan Seal.

Of course, his target of attack was not the Foundation Establishment cultivator. Although the Shushan Seal was very powerful, its binding force was not enough to restrain the Foundation Establishment cultivator at his current level.

Even though the foundation-building cultivator in front of him was in the early stage of foundation-building, and was considered the weakest cultivator in the foundation-building period, he was not someone who could be restrained by a super-grade magic weapon alone as he was at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

"A superb magical weapon!" When the Foundation Establishment cultivator saw the Shushan Seal that Li Shiming took out, his eyes lit up and he said with joy.

Even though he is a foundation-building cultivator, he only has one super-grade magic weapon in his hand, and the rest of his magic weapons are top-grade ones.

However, he immediately realized that the two ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators in front of him actually dared to resist.

He mobilized his spiritual thoughts to create the pressure of the Foundation Establishment Period, and pressed towards Li Shiming and his clone.

This is a common method used by Foundation Establishment cultivators to deal with Qi Refining cultivators, and it is also the most effective method.

The pressure created by the spiritual thoughts of the foundation-building period is unsolvable for the Qi-refining cultivators who have no spiritual thoughts. It is enough to suppress the Qi-refining cultivators both mentally and physically, and in severe cases it can even make them lose their ability to move.

But this time, the foundation-building cultivator obviously had mistaken his opponent. Li Shiming and his clone both had spiritual thoughts, and had even practiced the method of attacking with spiritual thoughts.

In terms of the strength of his spiritual thoughts, he was even stronger than this foundation-building cultivator, so the spiritual pressure from the foundation-building cultivator had no effect at all.

The clone rushed forward. He had been standing behind the original body before, but when he rushed out this time, the foundation-building cultivator could see his appearance clearly at the first moment.

The foundation-building cultivator had also lived for over a hundred years, but when he saw the face of his clone, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

He couldn't imagine how there could be such a flawless person in this world.

Yes, flawless. With his vision gained over a hundred years, the clone in his eyes did not have the slightest flaw, as if all the beauty in the world was concentrated on the clone's face.

Because of the Foundation Establishment cultivator's hesitation, his clone approached him, and the top-grade magical weapon, the golden fencing sword in the clone's hand, was used as a melee weapon and stabbed at him.

This top-grade magic weapon was originally a top-grade gold-attributed magic weapon refined by Baili Jinyan. It was only because he did not take out the golden sword and use it on Tianhai Island in order not to arouse the perception of Elder Baili.

Although this golden fencing sword is a top-grade magic weapon, it can be used as the main attack weapon by Baili Jinyan. In addition to being the top-grade magic weapon, it is also very suitable for Baili Jinyan.

On the other side, Li Shiming's body activated the Shushan Seal, which flew out and instantly covered all four Qi Refining middle-stage cultivators.

The four Qi Refining Middle Stage cultivators were unable to even move under the Shushan Seal, let alone escape.

With just one strike, all four Qi Refining Middle Stage cultivators were crushed to pieces.

"You deserve to die!" the foundation-building cultivator roared.

But this was just impotent rage. Once the clone got close to him, most of the advantages of a foundation-building cultivator were lost.

The clone practiced the "Sword Demon Secret Book", and his close combat ability could definitely crush any cultivator who had not practiced physical training.

The body of the foundation-building cultivator had been strengthened during the foundation-building period, but it was still no match for the clone who had practiced the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon', not to mention that the clone had also absorbed a drop of golden elixir blood, allowing the clone's refining to exceed the strength that the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon' should have during the Qi Refining period.

The Foundation Establishment cultivator was entangled by the clone, and he could only continuously launch spiritual attacks in an attempt to get rid of the clone's attacks, but the clones were even faster than him. They surrounded him and continuously stabbed with the golden fencing swords in their hands.