Li Shiming flew into the pool of water. The spiritual power in the water-attributed golden elixir formed a spiritual power barrier beside him, allowing him to swim in the water without any restraint like a fish.
After knowing that there was a space underwater, he began to explore it.
After observing for a moment, he couldn't help but pat his head.
Perhaps because he was overconfident in his own formation ability, he even forgot about the ability of the Divine Foot Pass, "A World Away Within Reach".
If the array ability is the means to crack the array, then 'A World Away' is the cheating device to crack the array.
He took a step forward, and "A World Away" was activated. His eyes lit up and he appeared in another space.
This space is an ancient cave. The formation patterns on the walls and the ground of the cave emit a faint light, making the cave bright.
He carefully extended his spiritual sense, but soon realized that it was unnecessary.
This cave does not have any other defenses. It uses a space formation to shield the cave from the main world, making it an independent space.
If there is no means to detect spatial fluctuations, if there is no ability to break the cave formation, even if you know there is a cave here, you will not be able to find its location.
After checking out the cave, Li Shiming lost most of his interest in it.
Judging from the size and layout of this cave, the owner here cannot be a Nascent Soul ancestor, but at most a Golden Core cultivator.
He really didn't take the cave of a Jindan cultivator seriously. At the same time, he also knew that the cave posed no security threat to him.
Even if that Jindan cultivator was still alive, he wouldn't be able to easily hurt Li Shiming, the great elder who was good at body refining, let alone relying on a dead object like a cave.
Walking into the front hall of the cave, he saw a stone table. Next to the table sat a skeleton, and next to the skeleton was a jade slip.
Li Shiming shook his head. From the skeleton's bones, he directly determined the realm of the cave owner, which was the middle stage of the Golden Core.
The skeleton of a cultivator will change as his realm improves, unless he has practiced body-refining techniques.
He picked up the jade slip and entered his spiritual mind into it.
He quickly withdrew his spiritual thoughts from the jade slip, and looking at the skeleton he shook his head slightly.
A clichéd story, this is about the last monk of a medium-sized sect five thousand years ago. Because this medium-sized sect accidentally discovered a resource area, it has achieved rapid development.
Just when the strength of the medium-sized sect was rapidly expanding, the sect was hit by the Qianhuan Sect.
The Qianhuan Sect produced evidence that the medium-sized sect had connections with the Demon Sect, and used this as an excuse to wipe out the medium-sized sect.
The owner of this place escaped with the inheritance and hope of a medium-sized sect, but was severely injured on the way. He set up a cave here to treat his injuries, but unfortunately he died in the end.
The owner of this place left behind the sect's inheritance, hoping that someone with a destiny could rebuild the sect and take revenge on the Qianhuan Sect if they have the ability.
If you agree, kneel down and swear to the skeleton, and you will be able to obtain the inheritance.
Li Shiming threw the jade slip away casually. He did not feel any sympathy for the destruction of the medium-sized sect.
The world of cultivating immortals is a world where the strong prey on the weak. If a medium-sized sect does not have the corresponding strength and obtains resources beyond its own strength, it will suffer backlash.
Not to mention this medium-sized sect, even the six major sects, when they discovered important resource production areas, would be careful to keep the secrets.
As for kneeling down and swearing an oath in front of a skeleton, that is even more impossible.
Li Shiming's 'Divine Eyes' were activated and scanned over the skeleton. He discovered a small formation under the skeleton. This formation was a kind of oath feedback formation, which was an outlier among formations.
The function of the invitation feedback formation is to judge the oath made by the monks based on the conditions designed in advance by the person who sets up the formation. If the conditions are met, a certain designed result will be triggered.
After discovering the oath feedback formation, things became simple.
He sent out a stream of spiritual power, easily invading the oath feedback formation, skipping the preliminary judgment and forcibly activating the designed result.
With a "click", the stone table opened, revealing another jade slip inside.
His spiritual sense grabbed the jade slip and explored the contents inside.
This time he was really surprised. This was actually a place with abundant resources. It was the place with abundant resources that was discovered by a medium-sized sect five thousand years ago.
Although the Qianhuan Sect was destroyed, very few people knew about this resource land. After the key cultivators were killed, this resource land was hidden again over the years.
Li Shiming called up the map of the drone satellite system and quickly found the location of the resource area.
"It's so close to Qianhuan Sect?" He was surprised to find that the resource site was only 1,300 miles away from the Qianhuan Sect's mountain gate.
You have to know that the vicinity of the mountain gate of a large sect will definitely be explored countless times, and there will be Nascent Soul ancestors who will pay attention to it intentionally or unintentionally. If there really is a place with resources, how could it not be discovered?
However, the jade slip contains detailed records on how to enter the resource-rich area, so it should not be false.
Only five thousand years have passed. It is unknown whether the resource site is still there or has been discovered by the Qianhuan Sect or other cultivators and taken over.
He searched the cave again, but only found a magic weapon of ordinary quality that was severely damaged. There were no other spiritual objects worth paying attention to.
It seems that the owner of this cave left nothing behind except some materials for setting up the formation.
Li Shiming searched the cave carefully but couldn't find the so-called inheritance, which made him a little disappointed.
Apart from anything else, this medium-sized sect is quite good at research on formations. The fact that the master here was able to set up this innovative space formation after being seriously injured is still worth his study.
He did not stay here any longer, and activated "A World Away" to leave the space where the cave was.
He used the 'Lotus Steps' to move stealthily towards the place of inheritance.
As for the purpose of Tianxing Trading Company, he had no intention of telling anyone about it. He would only wait until Tianxing Trading Company truly discovered the cave opened up by the great Zhai Ge.
After several hours, he arrived at the location of the resources.
"Sure enough, this medium-sized sect has a special inheritance in the art of formation!" Li Shiming exclaimed after arriving at a valley according to the records in the jade slip.
Over a period of five thousand years, ordinary formations set up in the wild are likely to have problems due to changes in terrain or spiritual energy, or other reasons.
But as soon as he entered the valley, he discovered an extremely weak formation fluctuation, which showed that the formation here was still effective.
The formation set up five thousand years ago can still maintain its concealment function. Even Li Shiming, a master of formations, admires the level of the monk who set up the formation back then.
There was no need for him to break the formation. He followed the description in the jade slip and took special steps to go deep into the valley. When he turned around, he discovered the wonderful use of the formation set up here.
The formation here is used to pull space. He moves in the formation with special steps. In fact, he is walking in the space channel opened up by the formation. It is only at the last moment that the space will change.
"If those monks holding compasses come here, they will probably find the space fluctuations here!" Li Shiming muttered to himself.
However, this possibility is very low. Even if Tianxing Trading Company mobilized a lot of local cultivators, they would only be searching based on the clues left by the great Zhai Ge.
Although the area suspected by Tianxing Trading Company is a bit large, it still has some targets.
If the cultivators really want to explore the entire North Shu continent, not to mention whether it is possible, even if it is done, it will take thousands of years.
Such a long investigation would definitely attract the attention of the six major sects.
Li Shiming sensed the space that was within reach, and according to the instructions on the jade slip, he passed through a barrier in one step.
Once again a space was discovered. It is estimated that only such an advanced independent space could have remained undiscovered near the gate of Qianhuan Sect for five thousand years.
The spiritual energy in this space is extremely rich, almost equivalent to the spiritual energy emitted by Nascent Soul level spirit veins.
But he found that his divine sense did not sense the existence of the Nascent Soul level spiritual vein.
The space was actually not that big, probably the size of fifty acres of spiritual fields. What made him feel a little regretful was that except for a little green in the middle of the fifty acres of spiritual fields, the rest of the areas had lost their spirituality.
However, according to the spiritual fields he discovered, the original spiritual fields here were of grade three.
"Huh!" When he focused his spiritual consciousness on the green spot in the middle, he unexpectedly discovered that although only a small part of the spiritual field was left there, the quality of the spiritual field was of the fourth grade.
There, two fourth-grade Sanyuan Huanling grasses were swaying. Sanyuan Huanling grass was the main ingredient in a fourth-grade elixir recipe in Li Shiming's alchemy inheritance, and could be used to refine a fourth-grade elixir for the Nascent Soul ancestors to practice.
Two plants of fourth-grade Sanyuan Fantasy Grass were actually grown in such a place.
If this news were to be known by the Nascent Soul ancestors of the six major sects, they would probably fight tooth and nail to seize this precious land.
Li Shiming was also so shocked that he stood there. He never thought that he came out this time just to find the cultivators of Tianxing Trading Company to get information.
But the location was found through a jade slip found in the cave of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core period five thousand years ago.
No wonder that medium-sized sect was wiped out. Li Shiming even suspected whether they took out the fourth-grade Sanyuan Huanling Grass to make pills, or wanted to exchange it for some resources.
This kind of fourth-grade resource is not so easy to get. If there is not enough strength to guarantee it, it will definitely be targeted by the six major sects and swallowed up with skin and bones.
"No!" Li Shiming was about to pick two fourth-grade three-yuan phantom grasses, but he shook his head with a strange look on his face.
There has been no cultivator taking care of this place for five thousand years, and all the spiritual herbs originally planted here have died. Only the fourth-grade spiritual herbs such as Sanyuan Huanling Grass, which require a long time to grow, have survived.
But the spiritual energy here cannot be explained. In five thousand years, even if there is a spirit gathering formation here, it is impossible to fill the gathered spiritual energy to the Nascent Soul level.
Besides, when he was exploring, he always felt that there was something special here.
The space of fifty acres of spiritual field exists like rootless duckweed.
According to Li Shiming's knowledge, no matter what kind of space it is, it needs something to carry it, otherwise how can it exist stably for thousands of years.
This planting space was discovered by a medium-sized sect five thousand years ago, and perhaps its existence is even longer than he could imagine.
He released his divine sense. This place was not big to begin with, so he explored every inch of it, but he didn't find anything unusual.
I think the medium-sized sect that discovered this place has also explored this place, so it is normal that he didn't find anything unusual.
But the lack of abnormalities is the biggest abnormality. There is no object to carry the space, so this space seems to exist out of thin air.
His natal magic weapon IBMz15 participated in the analysis. He first ruled out the possibility of a formation. If it was really a space formed by a formation, how could he not notice the abnormality with his level of formation skills?
IBMz15 built a virtual model of this fifty-acre space, and then focused on studying where the spiritual energy came from.
Li Shiming's 'Divine Eyes' were able to observe very closely on this point, and he actually found the source of the spiritual energy, which was flowing in from one end of the space.
Based on the instantaneous inflow, flow rate, direction, etc. of the spiritual energy, IBMz15 listed a complex formula and finally pointed out a location on the previous virtual model, which was the source of the spiritual energy.
Li Shiming became curious and recalculated several times. Each time, IBM z15 obtained the same result.
He came to the place where spiritual energy flowed in and looked into the void.
He judged the strength of his body and knew that he had mastered the divine power of walking on water. Even if he encountered any danger, he could use the divine power of walking on water to escape from danger with the support of the great elder-level body defense.
He took a deep breath. This was his first time using a position in the void as a moving target, so there were risks involved.
In the past, when he used "A World Away", even if he wanted to force his way through the formation, he would only do so when he had a great grasp of the formation's interior.
But today was different. According to the analysis results of IBMz15, the target location could not be perceived in his mind.
The unknown is the most terrifying thing, not knowing what that place is.
Li Shiming believed in the calculations of his lifelong magic weapon IBMz15. His curiosity was aroused. If he were asked to give up, his state of mind would be affected.
Of course, he couldn't just go over there, so he waved his hand and a silver corpse appeared beside him.
He activated 'So Close Yet So Far', his mind entered the silver corpse, and took over the control of 'So Close Yet So Far'.
This operation was extremely troublesome. Even the slightest mistake would prevent the Silver Corpse from taking over the performance of 'So Close Yet So Far'.
The takeover of 'A World Away' was proceeding slowly. It would be of no use in actual combat, but it was very useful as a pathfinder at this time.
The figure of the silver corpse was enveloped by the spatial energy of "so close yet so far away" and then disappeared on the spot.
Li Shiming's real body suddenly opened his eyes, and his consciousness was kicked out of the silver corpse.