Li Shiming sat cross-legged on a mountain about fifty miles away from the secret base of Tianxing Trading Company. This was a temporary cave he had dug out.
He placed one hundred and eight third-grade formation flags in the cave to conceal the cave's aura.
He was watching a live broadcast at the moment, which was a battle between seven Nascent Soul ancestors.
He saw the end of the Wanfo Temple, which was a somewhat famous force in the Northern Shu Continent.
Anyway, compared to the Wanfo Temple on Tianhai Island, the Wanfo Temple on the Beishu Continent is many times stronger, and the area alone is incomparable.
Although there is no venerable master in Wanfo Temple, there are many arhats trained there.
But even such a force is not even considered an enemy in front of the Nascent Soul Ancestor.
Li Shiming did not need to think too much. Just by seeing that since the battle with the Yuanying ancestor, no Arhat had been able to leave the Wanfo Temple, and that the fire devoured the entire Wanfo Temple at an unimaginable speed, he could judge that the Wanfo Temple was destroyed.
During this process, except for Patriarch Weng Zhao, no other Nascent Soul Patriarch actually took action against the Wanfo Temple. Just like that, such a large force completely disappeared.
"This is the power of the Nascent Soul!" Although Li Shiming was not at the scene, he could not help but sigh through the live broadcast of the drone satellite.
The subsequent battle was so fast and the energy reaction was so violent that the drone satellite did not allow him to see the battle process clearly.
All he knew was that the six Nascent Soul ancestors were unable to stop Patriarch Weng Zhao from escaping, which made Li Shiming curl his lips. He was very disdainful of the abilities of the six Nascent Soul ancestors of the Northern Shu Continent.
Of course, he only dared to show this disdain when he was alone and did not dare to express it in front of anyone else.
The status of the Yuanying Patriarch in the Northern Shu Continent is so high that it is almost mythical.
Next, he watched as Patriarch Weng Zhao successfully escaped the pursuit of Venerable Huike, and fled far away while the six Nascent Soul Patriarchs were helpless.
However, as long as Patriarch Weng Zhao is still in the sphere of influence of the righteous path, he will not be able to escape Li Shiming's pursuit.
He was already considering spreading the drone satellite system across the entire Beishu continent in the future.
The situation over in the Ten Thousand Mountains is easier to deal with, but the other two major demon sects' sphere of influence requires him to go there in person. In the case of a large formation defense, he needs to send drones and satellites over before they can be deployed.
Patriarch Weng Zhao's Nascent Soul returned to his body. His face turned pale and even his body became thinner.
The reason why he looked thinner was because of the injuries in his body. In order to suppress the injuries, he used up a lot of his body's energy.
Although he was seriously injured, his face was full of pride.
The faces of the six Nascent Soul ancestors must have been extremely ugly. They took advantage of his inattention and almost formed a siege situation that was sure to lead to their death, but they were broken by him.
Even though he paid a high price for this, the fact that he was able to escape from the encirclement of six Nascent Soul ancestors was enough to make him a legend among the Nascent Soul ancestors.
He took out a jade slip, which contained a map of the Northern Shu continent.
He had fled too fast before and lost his direction. He found his position on the map, chose a direction and flew again.
The place he chose was that secret base. His injuries required him to retreat and recover, and that was where he found the Nascent Soul-level spiritual vein he needed for his retreat.
Without a Nascent Soul Level Spiritual Vein, it would be impossible for him to recover from his injuries quickly by relying solely on healing elixirs.
Being in the Northern Shu continent, after this battle, the six major sects will definitely search like crazy for the remnants of the Tianxing Trading Company.
Although he was in the Nascent Soul stage, he was seriously injured after this battle and it would take a long time to recover. Every time he forced himself to attack, his injuries would worsen.
He was always very careful when flying. Although he suppressed his cultivation, he was still able to discover the traces of other cultivators in advance through some secret methods.
He took the initiative to avoid other monks along the way and did not meet any of them.
In this way, he saw the secret stronghold without any problems. When he arrived at the front of the valley, he activated the formation and entered it.
As soon as he entered the hall, he found something wrong here.
There are no monks in the hall. It is possible that the monks are in other places and not here, but the spiritual energy in the cave is deviant and the concentration of spiritual energy is extremely low.
When he sensed the situation in the cave, he discovered that there was not a single cultivator in the area he could sense.
"Something happened here?" When he realized something was wrong, he immediately thought about turning around and leaving.
But when he wanted to leave, he found that the normal formation just now had changed into another formation.
Of course, with the formation here, he could break it with just a casual strike.
Li Shiming had never thought of using the formation of the cave to trap an Nascent Soul ancestor like Ancestor Weng Zhao. He just wanted to let Ancestor Weng Zhao stay for a while longer.
When Old Ancestor Weng Zhao entered the cave, he saw Old Ancestor Weng Zhao through the surveillance camera and activated the detonation device.
In order to give Patriarch Weng Zhao a surprise, and also to see whether explosives were really useless to Patriarch Yuanying, Li Shiming filled the huge cave, the areas covered by the formation, the underground, above, and behind the four walls of the cave, any place that could be stored with explosives.
This time he prepared high-explosive TNT explosives. He filled the cave with more than 200 tons of TNT explosives in a crazy way.
This was only the amount of TNT explosives he had made. He took out all his stock just for this operation.
Each kilogram of TNT can produce 4.2 million joules of energy. The energy generated instantly by more than 200 tons of TNT is terrifying. This is the most powerful explosive Li Shiming has never detonated.
He even set up sensors inside and outside the cave for this explosion to receive data from the explosion.
Combined with the reaction of Patriarch Weng Zhao, these data can be used to analyze the threat effect of TNT explosives on monks.
When Patriarch Weng Zhao was about to break the formation, the explosion occurred. The explosion occurred simultaneously from all directions. There were many detonators, and under the action of the internal precision controller and the remote control of his natal magic weapon IBMz15, all the detonators were detonated at the same time.
Patriarch Weng Zhao immediately activated his spiritual power for defense. He did not sense the fluctuation of spiritual power, which made him not much more vigilant about the explosion. Instead, he was carefully guarding against possible attacks after the explosion.
He believed that the explosion was just to attract his attention, and the real threat would not be an explosion without spiritual power fluctuations.
But when the explosion completely broke out, he realized that he had underestimated the power that ordinary things could exert.
The instantaneous high temperature generated by the explosion engulfed him, and the strong shock waves squeezed his body from all directions. The poisonous gas produced by the TNT explosives had no effect on him.
Flames rose from his body as he activated his main cultivation technique to create a flaming body, which made him immune to damage from high temperatures to the greatest extent possible.
A strong shock wave hit his spiritual power shield. The terrifying power caused his original injuries to be shaken, and he couldn't help but spit out blood.
The blood evaporated in the air due to the high temperature, turned into mist and quickly disappeared.
Li Shiming saw the power of the explosion through a drone satellite.
The explosion created a huge gap in the middle of the mountain where the cave was located. Due to gravity and the huge size of the gap, the upper part of the mountain collapsed and pressed downwards.
Dust, gravel, and dirt flew everywhere, obscuring the view of the drone satellite.
After waiting for a while, with the help of strong wind, the dust was blown away, and the gravel and soil fell to the ground.
"Can it really be possible to blow up the Yuanying Patriarch to death?" Li Shiming stared at the images transmitted by the drone satellite and muttered to himself in disbelief.
With the monitoring of drone satellites, he can be 100% sure that no one has escaped from the cave.
Under such an explosion, he could hardly imagine how anyone could withstand it, not to mention that there was half a mountain pressing down on it, crushing everything in the cave.
However, he did not go over to check immediately. He waited for the temperature at the explosion site to return to normal before releasing a drone for a closer look. Through infrared thermal imaging and multi-band scanning, he wanted to confirm whether Old Ancestor Weng Zhao was still alive before going over.
He was known for knowing himself. No matter what the condition of Patriarch Weng Zhao was, as long as he was alive, he didn't need to take action. A single thought could be too much for him to bear.
Just as he was waiting, a figure flew out from the ruins, and a hole appeared on the ruins that was pressed down by half a mountain.
Li Shiming confirmed through drone satellite that this was the ancestor Weng Zhao.
Old Ancestor Weng Zhao was actually still alive. Not only did he survive the explosion, he also managed to carve out a passage under the crushing of half a mountain.
It's just that Patriarch Weng Zhao was in a bit of a state of distress at this moment. Even though he was surrounded and attacked by six Nascent Soul ancestors, he didn't look as miserable as he is now.
There were large patches of blackened blood on his robes, and the Nascent Soul Patriarch couldn't even protect the clothes on his body, which showed that the explosion did not have no effect on him.
The robe itself is a magic weapon, but few monks will make it into a magic weapon, and the main function of the robe is not defense.
With the material of the robe, it is impossible to make it into the magical weapon-level robe of the Nascent Soul Patriarch unless fourth-grade weaving materials are found. Fourth-grade weaving materials are too precious. Even if such materials are available, priority will be given to making other more useful magical weapons.
When it comes to defense, shield-type magic weapons have stronger defensive effects and the materials are easier to find, so shield-type magic weapons are the first choice of cultivators.
The robes worn by Patriarch Weng Zhao were made of third-grade materials, but they were not refined into magic weapons and could only be considered spiritual weapons. The third-grade materials could not make them immune to the impact of the explosion.
That is, drone satellites could not take a close look at his condition, otherwise they would have noticed that his eyebrows and hair were burnt to varying degrees.
There was still blood on his mouth and his body was thinner than before.
Inside his body, the Nascent Soul was extremely weak, and the impact caused by the sudden explosion made his injuries much worse.
The most troublesome thing is that there is no place where he can go into seclusion. This is the only place that can allow a Nascent Soul cultivator to go into seclusion. The other remaining strongholds of Tianxing Trading Company in the Northern Shu Continent do not have the spiritual veins corresponding to the Nascent Soul stage.
And Patriarch Weng Zhao would no longer trust those strongholds.
This stronghold is already the most secretive one of Tianxing Trading Company in the Northern Shu Continent. All cultivators who can occupy this stronghold are the most core and important members of Tianxing Trading Company.
But even so, this stronghold was still discovered.
Patriarch Weng Zhao looked at the ruins below. He was a little confused. This was obviously not the work of a big sect.
If a large sect really discovered his hiding place, they should not use such means, but should send a few Nascent Soul ancestors as they did before.
With the experience of escaping last time, it would be difficult for him to escape from the hands of several Nascent Soul ancestors easily again.
And now, he was seriously injured and escaped from the exploded cave without encountering any obstacles.
This means that the enemy only has explosion as a means and does not have the strength to deal with him, a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage.
"No matter who you are, I will remember what happened today, and I will repay you in the future!" He said in a deep voice, summoning his spiritual power.
His voice could be heard from far away, and he believed that whoever had arranged the explosion must be watching here somewhere nearby.
He didn't go searching. He was just suppressing his injuries. He couldn't stay here any longer.
You have to know that this place is still within the sensing range of the formation of the big sect. His Nascent Soul stage has been exposed just now, and it won't be long before a Nascent Soul ancestor from the big sect will arrive.
Li Shiming didn't care at all about what Patriarch Weng Zhao said.
He is just a small cultivator in the early stage of Jindan. It's okay for him to set some traps secretly, but if he really sends him to the Yuanying ancestor, that would be courting death.
For any Jindan cultivator, it is definitely an honor to hear the threat from Patriarch Weng Zhao.
Because if a Jindan cultivator is an enemy of the Yuanying ancestor, he will not hear such threatening words, and the Yuanying ancestor can kill the Jindan cultivator with ease.
What Patriarch Weng Zhao said showed his incompetence, and Li Shiming could only laugh at Patriarch Weng Zhao's incompetent rage.
This time, Patriarch Weng Zhao did not rely on himself to fly, but took out a flying boat. After he entered the flying boat, the flying boat flew towards the distance.
This action made Li Shiming feel strange. It was not the first day that he had been monitoring Old Ancestor Weng Zhao, but he had never seen Old Ancestor Weng Zhao use a flying boat.
The flying boat is only a third-grade magic weapon. Perhaps for a Jindan cultivator, such a flying boat is extremely precious. Only the Jindan elders of large sects have the financial resources to own a third-grade magic flying boat.
"Is he seriously injured?" Li Shiming had doubts in his mind and immediately mobilized his life-saving magic weapon IBMz15. Based on the posture and movements of Patriarch Weng Zhao, he analyzed the possibility that he was seriously injured.
At the same time, the drone satellite is always monitoring the movement of the flying boat. If Old Ancestor Weng Zhao is really seriously injured, perhaps he can continue to give Old Ancestor Weng Zhao a little surprise.
As for reporting the whereabouts of Patriarch Weng Zhao to the sect and asking the sect's Nascent Soul Patriarch to take action, he had never thought about it.
Reporting the whereabouts of the Yuanying ancestor once might be information obtained by coincidence, but if the whereabouts of the Yuanying ancestor were reported continuously, I am afraid that the Yuanying ancestors of the Northern Shu Continent would have ideas about his abilities.