Li Shiming did not check the storage bracelet immediately. His eyes fell on the two third-grade five-element formation materials displayed in the hall.
His spiritual thoughts traveled through the formation, and the formation was like nothing to him.
His divine sense enveloped two pieces of third-grade five-element formation materials, and then the two pieces of third-grade five-element formation materials disappeared out of thin air. They were collected by him into the space ring.
Two third-grade five-element formation materials disappeared, and the formation of the entire attic came to a standstill. In the market town outside the attic, the original large formation of the market town suddenly disappeared.
The cultivators in the market town all looked up at the sky. The foundation-building cultivators among them sensed more clearly and they discovered that the market town formation had disappeared.
"The market has been breached, let's run away!" A cultivator was the first to react and shouted loudly.
Then more monks reacted and dispersed in all directions.
The originally orderly market was disrupted by this sudden accident.
The monks were not honest. Without the defense of the market formation, the monks could leave the market from all directions, but many monks were not willing to leave empty-handed.
It was natural for them to grab a handful of things. Some monks robbed the spiritual objects of the monks who were setting up stalls, and the battle began in an instant.
More monks set their sights on the attics, where high-value spiritual objects were sold. Robbing them would be much better than robbing the spiritual objects from the monks who were setting up stalls.
Many monks who were setting up stalls immediately closed their stalls when they saw that something was wrong, and they instantly became part of the robbery.
The monks were a little afraid at first, because the Hang family had a Jindan monk. But when the first group of monks rushed into a shop, the Jindan monk from the Hang family did not show up, and the monks went crazy.
The monks continued to attack every attic. These attics relied on the power of the Hang family to survive. At most, they had one foundation-building monk in charge. How could they withstand so many monks?
At the most chaotic moment, a terrifying pressure swept through the market town, and all the cultivators felt the suppressive force coming from the Jindan cultivator.
"What happened? How dare you rob the market!" Hang Jian discovered from afar that something had happened in his own market. When he rushed over, it was already a mess. The originally peaceful and stable market had become like this. He let out a roar.
Hang Jian is the head of the Hang family and the only Jindan cultivator.
His divine sense swept across all the monks, and they quickly calmed down from their frenzy and began to tremble.
Under the absolute crushing power of the Jindan cultivators, killing these cultivators was just a matter of a breath.
Hang Jianqiang suppressed the urge to kill, he knew very well that if he killed someone without getting to the bottom of the matter, then the reputation of the Hang family in this place for hundreds of years would be destroyed, and they would not be able to think about opening a market town in the future.
The market town is a great place to make spirit stones, and because of the existence of the market town, a large amount of resources flow in and out of it, and there will always be some high-value spiritual objects that can be purchased first. This alone has brought huge profits to the Hang family.
Hang Jian's spiritual sense swept the main attic. He found Li Shiming who was packing things, and also found Hang Yuqing's body.
You can’t blame Li Shiming for being greedy, because he discovered a warehouse with a space formation on the third floor, which contained a large number of spiritual objects.
Although these spiritual objects are all of the second grade, their value is quite high when there are large quantities of them.
Just when he emptied the warehouse and was exploring other places, he sensed a powerful divine thought, and his heart shuddered.
"Damn it, this Jindan cultivator from the Hang family is back!" He already understood the current situation. He grabbed Ji Hongbo from the ground and sent out several messages at the same time.
These messages include distress messages sent through identity jade discs and distress messages sent through guest identity badges.
When Shushan Sect's disciples are in danger, they can send out a message for help. Since he is the guest alchemist of Beishu Trading Company, he can also send out a message for help to Beishu Trading Company.
The hundreds of miles of this market town are where spiritual veins converge, and there are many small and medium-sized immortal cultivation forces.
Among them, there are quite a few forces connected with Beishu Trading Company. Three Jindan cultivators all received emergency information from Beishu Trading Company and went to the designated location to rescue Li Shiming, the guest alchemist of Beishu Trading Company.
Li Shiming is so famous that perhaps few cultivators from large sects would buy elixirs from outside, but apart from the large sects, the rest of the immortal cultivation forces are very familiar with Li Shiming's name.
Li Shiming has become synonymous with top-notch elixirs, and there is a saying that anything Li Shiming produces must be top-notch.
After receiving the urgent message from Beishu Trading Company, the three Jindan cultivators rushed to the designated location without any hesitation.
On the other side, Shushan Sect received a distress message from Li Shiming. Sword cultivator Elder Zhao was the fastest and was the first to use sword escape to arrive. Then Elder Su also interrupted his practice and left the sect in a flash. Following him was Elder Ma who also drove a flying boat to arrive.
Although the other Jindan elders did not take action, they were all paying attention to this matter.
Li Shiming has not yet left the sect's sphere of influence. The only person who could allow him to send back a message for help must be an enemy that he cannot defeat.
Every cultivator in the sect knows how important Li Shiming is to the sect.
Within the sect's sphere of influence, the true alchemy disciples were forced to send back messages for help. The occurrence of such an incident was absolutely a slap in the face of the Shushan Sect.
If three Jindan elders had not already rushed to the rescue, perhaps more Jindan elders would have gone there.
Li Shiming now had a formation flag in his hand, and he controlled his mind to place the formation flag at a location in the attic.
He wanted to resist the attack of the Jindan cultivator, and he had no choice but to escape.
But being in this kind of attic gives you an extra choice.
This attic was designed to defend against early Jindan cultivators. Although the formation was disrupted because he had taken away two third-grade five-element formation materials, he was a high-level formation master who was infinitely close to a formation master. With the help of IBMz15, he came up with a solution in a moment.
"You stay here and don't move. Anyone who disobeys will be put to death!" Hang Jian said in a deep voice.
He gave some instructions first, then flew towards the main attic. He wanted to cut the monk who killed his son into pieces.
But when he came to the void outside the attic, he found that his divine sense could not enter the attic.
The formation in the attic was activated, blocking his spiritual thoughts outside.
There was a flash of murderous intent in Hang Jian's eyes. He waved his hand and a ray of sword light fell on the formation of the attic. With a bang, the attic shook a bit, but the formation of the attic was not broken.
During this short period of time, Li Shiming activated the formation and continued to reinforce it when Hang Jian launched the attack.
As flags were placed into the formation one by one, the spiritual power lines of the formation became more and more complex and more and more stable.
"Who are you and why do you want to kill my son?" After Hang Jian launched an attack, he found that he could not break it with one blow, so he calmed down a little and asked in a deep voice.
He had long discovered that the formation in the attic did not obey his control, but no matter what, the attic was set up by several generations of his Hang family at great cost.
He did not want to destroy the attic with all his strength. Of course, the main reason was that the murderer Li Shiming was trapped in the attic and had no way to escape from him.
"I am Li Shiming, a true disciple of Shushan Sect!" Li Shiming replied while continuing to set up the formation in his hands and summoning his spiritual power.
He actually hoped to chat for a while longer. The longer the time was, the stronger the formation would become, and his help would have time to arrive.
He didn't know whether the distress message from Beishu Trading Company would work. He calculated based on the time it took for the sect's golden elixir to travel from the mountain gate to here. That was his most stable hope for rescue.
Not only Hang Jian heard this answer, but all the cultivators in the market heard it.
"It's Li Shiming!"
"Who is Li Shiming?"
"You don't even know Li Shiming. He is a genius alchemist. Most of the high-level elixirs sold by Beishu Trading Company in this year were made by him!"
There was constant discussion among the monks, and those who knew Li Shiming explained Li Shiming to those who didn't.
Hang Jian looked extremely ugly. He certainly knew who Li Shiming was. The high-grade elixirs marked with Li Shiming's mark issued by Beishu Trading Company were the most sought-after goods. In a market like his, they were directly put into the auction house.
He never imagined that such a talented alchemist would come to rob his market.
He was not belittling himself. Although all the wealth in his market town seemed to be a lot, it was not worthy of a genius alchemist's efforts.
Especially when he used his spiritual sense to perceive just now, he discovered that there were many corpses of strange monks on the ground, as well as a monk who had broken his power and was subdued by Li Shiming. Everything indicated that there must be some reason behind it.
But at this point, his son had been killed by Li Shiming, so how could Hang Jian stop?
"If you surrender, I won't kill you. I will send you to Shushan Sect to seek justice!" Hang Jian's statement was the same as what Li Shiming had said to Ji Hongbo before.
The problem is how could Li Shiming believe Hang Jian? This hatred for the murder of his son is enough to make Hang Jian do anything.
"Justice! You, the Hang Market, colluded with monks to murder customers, and you still have the nerve to ask me for justice!" Li Shiming shouted.
His mentality became more and more relaxed. After talking for so long, he could at least guarantee that the formation here could hold out for half an hour without being broken by Hang Jian, who was in the early stage of the Golden Core Realm.
This is thanks to the formation of the Hang family's attic itself, which is a formation designed to defend against Jindan cultivators. What Li Shiming needs to do is to strengthen it in a targeted manner.
Hang Jian was about to speak again, his eyes looked into the distance, he sensed that three Jindan monks were approaching quickly from three directions.
He suddenly mobilized his spiritual power and slashed heavily at the attic formation with his flying sword, but unfortunately this attack still had no effect.
"Stop, Brother Hang, don't make the mistake!" A Jindan cultivator shouted as he approached.
"Dongyuan Fu Feng meets Fellow Daoist Li!"
"Dongyuan Yiyuan meets Fellow Daoist Li!"
"Dongyuan Kong Yinghua has met Fellow Daoist Li!"
Three Jindan monks stood beside the attic, opposite Hang Jian, bowed towards the attic and spoke.
"Thank you all three for your help. Li Shiming will accept this favor!" Li Shiming naturally knew that they were invited by Beishu Trading Company. He also knew what these monks valued most. He replied with a smile in the attic.
The three Jindan cultivators showed joy on their faces. Indeed, Li Shiming's favor was the most important.
But they knew that Li Shiming was the alchemist in Shushan Sect who had the greatest hope of becoming a master alchemist, and they usually could not invite such an alchemist even if they wanted to.
With this favor, when they need it, they can use it to ask Li Shiming to make the elixir. Of course, the longer this favor is delayed, the more useful it will be.
It would be best to wait until Li Shiming becomes a master of alchemy, then this favor could be a great support for them to break through.
Even though they are Jindan cultivators and control an immortal cultivation family, they are still independent cultivators.
It is more difficult for them to make further progress in the Jindan stage than for the Jindan cultivators from the large sects. This time, getting a favor from Li Shiming is almost their only chance.
"Three of you, we are acquainted with each other. This guy killed my son and ruined my market. Please move aside. I will be grateful!" Hang Jian bowed and said to the three Jindan cultivators.
These three Jindan cultivators usually have a good relationship with him, and they are all Jindan cultivators in the East Garden area.
He hoped that the three Jindan cultivators would allow him to capture Li Shiming because of their past friendship.
"Brother Hang, friendship is friendship, but this matter is not negotiable. Brother Hang dared to attack Fellow Daoist Li. I think you want to be the enemy of Shushan Sect. How can we go along with you!" Fu Feng replied calmly.
The other two Jindan cultivators were too lazy to even speak. How short-sighted was Hang Jian that at this moment in this situation, he still wanted to attack and kill Li Shiming.
"Three seniors, you only need to protect me for a while. I have already sent a signal to the sect, and an elder from the sect will be here soon to deal with this matter!" Li Shiming said.
The three Jindan cultivators felt relieved, but they didn't know how to deal with the matter.
Relying on the strength of their three Jindan cultivators, they were unable to stop Hang Jian at all. It was not that Hang Jian was too strong, but that the means of the independent Jindan cultivators were limited. They lacked the means to kill cultivators of the same level with one blow, so naturally they were unable to stop Hang Jian.
They could get Li Shiming's favor by just staying here and preventing Hang Jian from attacking the attic without fighting. How could they not be happy about such a good thing?
Hang Jian's eyes were filled with anger, he wanted to attack forcefully, but with the intervention of these three Jindan cultivators, he could do nothing to Li Shiming.
But if he is asked to leave, this is his foundation, which has been passed down by the Hang family for many years. How can he just leave like that?
For a moment, Hang Jian didn't know what to do. He could only stand in the air, waiting for the Jindan elder of Shushan Sect to come over. He also wanted the Jindan elder of Shushan Sect to come and judge the matter. He wanted to know why such a thing happened.
If it was Hang Yuqing's responsibility, he was willing to pay the price to resolve the matter. However, if Li Shiming was bullying others, then he would risk his own reputation and demand justice from the Shushan Sect.