Chapter 183: The Forgotten Mansion



The drone flew over the hall, and Li Shiming thought he was about to see a room, but what appeared before his eyes was actually a garden.

The garden is not very big, only a few hundred square meters. There is also a pond in the garden with several lotus flowers blooming in the water.

There was a spiritual light flashing on the lotus, and even the water in the pond was flashing with spiritual light. These were all spiritual objects.

There are many spiritual plants planted on the ground in the garden. Perhaps because they are not taken care of, these spiritual plants look very messy.

Above his head was the sunlight created by the formation, which fell on the spiritual plants and the pool water.

This is a garden built in a cave. Li Shiming had never seen the cave of a high-level cultivator from Northern Shu, but today he finally saw it for himself.

Several rooms were opened up at the end of the garden. The drone checked and found that only one room was enterable, and the entrances to the rest of the rooms were blocked by light curtains.

The more Li Shiming looked, the more hesitant he became. From the magic weapons in the hall to the spiritual plants in the garden, to the only enterable room, everything seemed to be constantly attracting the monks to go deeper.

He took out a signal repeater and placed it at the gate of the mansion. He and Li Yuanba kept retreating, placing a signal repeater at regular intervals, so that he could receive the signal from the drone and control it.

After retreating ten miles, he set up a formation to conceal his aura, and then gave the drone a command to enter the room.

The drone entered, and through the camera he saw a shriveled body sitting cross-legged on a cushion, looking like a corpse.

The dry body had snow-white hair and wrinkled skin, and in front of it was a black guqin.

Li Shiming controlled the drone and switched to infrared thermal imaging mode. Although the temperature of the dried body was not 37 degrees like a normal person, it was higher than the temperature of a corpse.

If there really was a corpse that had been placed in this room for many years, it would have long been at the same temperature as the surrounding environment.

There could be no temperature difference, the only possibility was that this was not a corpse but a living monk.

The Six-Fingered Sound Demon was also depressed at this time. After so many years, he finally waited for a visitor.

With the means he left behind, he was able to use the 'Earth Sound Destroying Dao Harp' to play the Destroying Dao Song, which shows that he was proficient in the guqin. In addition, he felt the Destroying Dao Song and did not die or go crazy, so he must have a spiritual strength that matches his inheritance.

The monks he selected using this method were those who met his requirements.

The Six-Fingered Sound Demon was forced to practice after being injured, which caused him to go astray. This is the drawback of the demonic practice method.

The magic cultivation techniques improve extremely quickly, but the foundation is far inferior to the Taoist and Buddhist techniques. In addition, the magic cultivation techniques do not emphasize cultivating the mind, which increases the risk of going astray.

The Six-Fingered Sound Demon was already seriously injured, and then his body was unable to move. The only thing he could use was his spiritual power.

For such a long time, he has been lingering on, waiting for the arrival of the monk he chose so that he could take over his body and be reborn.

He doesn't need a monk's talent to be very strong, as long as he has a strong spiritual talent, it is enough. This is the foundation for him to inherit everything he has learned.

The 'Earth Sound and Dao-Destroying Harp' has actually been passed around in many places in the world of immortal cultivation. It's not that there haven't been cultivators who have refined it, but not all cultivators who have refined it can receive the score of the 'Dooming Song'.

To receive the score of "Mie Dao Qu", the cultivator's spirit must reach a certain level of strength. This is the first step in the screening.

The 'Earth Sound Destroying Dao Harp' that has not been activated by the 'Destroying Dao Song' is not even as powerful as an ordinary sonic magic weapon, which allows the 'Earth Sound Destroying Dao Harp' to be changed hands many times.

Naturally, there are those who have sufficient mental strength among them, but those cultivators who are strong enough in spirit die after obtaining the score of "Destroying Dao Song" when refining "Earth Sound Destroying Dao Harp" because they cannot bear the "Destroying Dao Song".

And because the 'Earth Sound Annihilating Harp' was only a spiritual weapon and would not attract the attention of Jindan cultivators, the 'Earth Sound Annihilating Harp' changed hands many times in the world of immortal cultivation, causing the deaths of countless cultivators.

As a result, it was auctioned off by Yi Lingling and eventually fell into the hands of Li Shiming.

The Six-Fingered Sound Demon waited for the cultivator with great difficulty, but with his divine sense, he discovered that it was actually a strange flying object and not the cultivator he had imagined.

He did not use his divine sense, but only observed the drone through his divine sense.

Li Shiming was also observing the Six-Fingered Sound Demon. The drone scanned the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's body up and down, and finally noticed the ring on the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's finger.

He had seen similar rings before, but after arriving in Northern Shu he learned that this thing was called a space ring. It was a storage device that only powerful golden elixirs were qualified to use, and was essentially a first-class quality magic weapon.

Li Shiming was thinking about the situation of the Six-fingered Sound Demon. If the Six-fingered Sound Demon could move, then how could it not go out for hundreds of years.

He saw this from the formation outside and made judgments based on the traces of spiritual power in the formation. This is the ability of a high-level formation master.

Since the Six-Fingered Sound Demon is alive and does not go out, but uses the 'Earth Sound Destroying Harp' to lure the monks here, there must be some reason.

Almost immediately, he thought of possessing another's body.

He was almost possessed by the Jindan sword cultivator Yun Xingyi, so he was particularly impressed by the fact that Jindan cultivators could possess other people's bodies.

In order to determine whether the Six-Fingered Sound Demon is really unable to move, it is necessary to stimulate it to react, so as to confirm that it is alive.

Li Shiming was thinking in his mind as the drone flew towards the fingers of the Six-Fingered Sound Demon. The bracket under the drone moved closer to the space ring, as if trying to pick the ring down through the bracket.

How could the Six-Fingered Sound Demon pretend to be dead again? All his life's accumulation and inheritance are in the space ring.

His spiritual thoughts swept across the guqin in front of him, and a string on the guqin vibrated, making a low sound.

The drone exploded instantly, and as it disintegrated, a small ball of explosives built into it was ignited.

This small ball of explosives is naturally not aimed at the Six-Fingered Sound Demon. Not to mention this small ball of explosives, with the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's strength, if you want to kill him, I'm afraid even if you need a hundred times more explosives, it may not be effective.

The purpose of this small ball of explosives is to destroy an unstable fifty-cubic-meter storage bag, which is fixed under the drone.

This is a gift that Li Shiming made for the Six-Fingered Sound Demon who might be unable to move. It was definitely carefully prepared.

With a targeted explosion, the unstable internal space of the fifty cubic storage bags, which had already been severely damaged, was blown open, and the full amount of materials stored inside poured out.

Concrete labeled c130 fell from the void, submerging the six-fingered sound demon, the guqin, and even the entire room.

This C130 concrete is a by-product of Li Shiming's research on restoring the technology of his previous life. After grinding the water-repellent rock, a first-class material in this world, into powder and adding it to the C130 concrete, he produced a new type of C130 concrete that can solidify quickly as long as it comes into contact with air.

The quick appearance of C130 concrete surprised the Six-Fingered Sound Demon, and he wanted to drive it away with his divine sense.

But the problem was that the entire room was filled with the new C130 concrete, and due to its fast-setting properties, the new C130 did not flow out of the room, but solidified at the door, sealing it.

Although the fifty cubic meters of new C130 concrete were not able to completely submerge the entire room, there was absolutely no problem in submerging the Six-Fingered Sound Demon.

His divine sense drove away and blocked this side, while the other side poured down and soon submerged it in the new C130 concrete.

He wanted to use the magic guqin, but the magic guqin was also buried by the new c130 concrete. There was no space, so it was impossible to make the guqin make any sound.

The new C130 concrete outside solidifies in contact with the space, but the concrete inside is not that fast.

What the Six-Fingered Sound Demon had to face was concrete that was like mud. His divine sense could easily break up the concrete, but the broken concrete was equivalent to adding an extra step of mixing, which had no effect on the concrete at all.

After all, he had been lingering on for hundreds of years, and his spiritual power had long been exhausted. After struggling for a while, he felt the fatigue of his spiritual power.

A powerful late Jindan cultivator who could hold on for hundreds of years despite severe physical injuries already showed how powerful his cultivation was.

At this moment he gave up resistance. He wanted to retain a bit of strength to face the monk who designed the trap.

He was certain that his final blow would make the monk pay the price.

One day, two days, three days, Li Shiming did not show up, and the new C130 concrete had dried up and formed solid concrete.

The new c130 ultra-high-strength concrete has a strength of 149.5MPa, which is stronger than granite. One square meter of surface can withstand a weight of 15,000 tons.

The Six-Fingered Sound Demon was trapped in such concrete, without a trace of air.

Li Shiming sent out the drone again. The drone entered the mansion, came to the garden with ease, and stopped outside the room.

The room was sealed with concrete, so there was no way of knowing what was going on inside, but one could imagine what the scene was like inside.

Of course he knew that a monk could survive without air. Even at this moment, as long as he had spiritual power, he could rely on the spiritual power to nourish his body and maintain vitality for a period of time.

Not to mention the Jindan cultivators, it would not be strange for them to live for another few decades.

However, as long as it is confirmed that the Six-Fingered Sound Demon is trapped, he can start the next step.

"Fellow Daoist, please stay outside!" Li Shiming returned to the gate of the abandoned mansion and spoke to Li Yuanba.

Although it would be best to let Li Yuanba enter, Li Yuanba cannot perform the operation he wants to perform, so only he can enter in person.

Li Yuanba sat cross-legged at the entrance of the cave of the abandoned mansion, and Li Shiming walked into the cave.

Li Shiming came to the hall. He did not move any items, but walked back and forth in the hall.

The Six-Fingered Sound Demon also sensed that a cultivator had entered. Although his body was trapped, the resentment and hatred in his heart continued to rise.

Even when he was at his lowest point, being hunted by the Senluo Sect, he had never felt as humiliated as he does now, being trapped by a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building.

Once the cultivator in the early stage of foundation building gets closer, he can capture the cultivator with his divine sense.

The Six-Fingered Sound Demon was also extremely cruel. When he knew that he was inevitably trapped, he immediately gave up resistance in order to lure Li Shiming.

Li Shiming's spiritual thoughts kept sweeping through the hall. All 190 CPUs of IBM z15 in the computer room were involved in the calculations, analyzing the spiritual power lines in the hall.

He had never come across the formation here before. It could be said that the formation here was beyond his cognitive limit to some extent.

But the formation remains fundamental no matter how it changes. With the computing power of IBM z15 as its basis, what he needs is to continuously provide it with large amounts of data.

Li Shiming was extremely careful. He extended his spiritual thoughts and concentrated them to the weakest level. Even if they were intercepted, it would not have a big impact on him.

The spiritual consciousness entered the garden and began to collect data on the spiritual power lines in the garden.

In his formation star sea, new stars continued to appear as he communicated with IBMz15. Each new star was exceptionally bright, representing a higher level of formation knowledge.

This was the longest time he had spent analyzing a formation. He collected data through his spiritual thoughts in the cave hall and participated in IBMz15's analysis. It took a full ten days before he and IBMz15 established a rough design of the formation.

"Found it!" Li Shiming said with joy on his face.

It was unknown how long it would take to fully analyze the formation, mainly because he did not dare to get too close to the room where the Six-Fingered Sound Demon was.

This meant that the data he collected on the formation was not comprehensive, but what he wanted was not to completely control the formation, but to find the energy nodes of the formation.

If this formation can last for hundreds or thousands of years, then there must be a spiritual vein.

Through analysis, he found the location of the spiritual vein, just below the pond in the garden.

In the following days, he kept trying to modify the formation, and finally after another five days, he was able to lead the spiritual energy of the spirit vein into the hall.

He remodeled the formation and added a special function, which was to continuously draw spiritual energy from other areas except the hall to the hall.

And as spiritual energy was introduced into the hall, except for the formation that supported the hall, the rest of the formations were collapsing.

Without the spiritual energy supply from the spiritual veins, the relatively polluted air outside entered into every corner of the cave, and first caused the large-scale death of the spiritual plants in the garden.

Li Shiming did not have time to feel sad for those spiritual plants. Although he recognized that all of them were second-grade spiritual plants, compared with the danger to his life, that little loss was not worth mentioning.

The Six-Fingered Sound Demon was still holding on, but his heart was cold, because without spiritual energy, his long-exhausted body could not last long, not to mention that there was no air, making it impossible for him to breathe, which forced him to constantly consume the spiritual energy in his body to maintain his life.

However, that cunning monk did not seem to be in a hurry at all. He actually practiced in seclusion in the hall, treating the place as his own cave.

Of course Li Shiming was not in a hurry. He was sure that the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's cultivation had declined severely. With his body unable to move, how much combat power could his spiritual power alone maintain?


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