Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 751: Chapter 422 Suppression Great Elder Sun Ao waved his hand and put away the black robe he was wearing, fully revealing his elder-level refining strength.

Terrible blood energy surged to the sky, and the sound of ripping filled the air, as if the blood energy was tearing through the void itself.

He looked at Li Shiming, hoping that the display of his power would suppress Shiming and make it easy to subdue him.

He didn’t want to accidentally injure Shiming in the process, since Shiming was only valuable alive.

Besides, if Shiming ever fully allied himself with Skywalk Trading Company, then Great Elder Sun Ao himself would come asking for Shiming’s help. Offending Shiming too much now would be creating trouble for himself later on.

Li Shiming could feel the blood energy oppression from Great Elder Sun Ao and smiled lightly. The other party hadn’t attacked immediately, giving him ample time to set up his formation.

Now he was sure that Great Elder Sun Ao would not be able to escape.

However, he shared the same thought as Great Elder Sun Ao, which was not to kill the opponent but to capture him alive instead.

He wanted to obtain intelligence from Great Elder Sun Ao; the secret behind why a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner would oppose an entire continent intrigued him greatly.

His aura suddenly surged, and an aura belonging to the Body Refining Grand Elder rose from him, his blood energy confronting Great Elder Sun Ao’s in the void.

Behind him, the phantom of the ’Angry-eyed Vajra’ appeared, elevating his aura even above that of Great Elder Sun Ao.

”I didn’t expect you to have refined your body to the level of a great elder in such a barren land as the Beishu Continent, and that too at Golden Core Middle Stage!” Great Elder Sun Ao’s expression changed slightly, but he soon composed himself and spoke in a steady voice.

His look towards Li Shiming became much more serious; he now regarded Shiming as a true opponent.

”It’s a pity that the ’Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill’ you’re cultivating is of such low grade!” Great Elder Sun Ao maintained his confidence of victory as he spoke.

Even if Li Shiming had manifested the true form of the ’Angry-eyed Vajra’, the ’Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill’ itself was just too low-end.

Of course, this ”low-end” was relative to the Skywalk Trading Company. In the Beishu Continent, the ’Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill’ was still considered the top Body Refining Techniques.

Great Elder Sun Ao’s aura strengthened again, and a huge phantom of the Mysterious Turtle faintly appeared around him, but this phantom had not reached the true form manifestation, indicating that he had not mastered the Body Refining Techniques to the extent of Li Shiming’s ’Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill’.

This might indeed be as he said: the higher the level of the Body Refining Techniques he cultivated, the harder it was to master them in the cultivation world.

”Let’s give it a try then!” Li Shiming wasn’t concerned about the words of Great Elder Sun Ao, and with a faint smile, he waved his hand and said.

As he waved his hand, the Third Grade Sword Base appeared from his hand.

The quality of the Third Grade Sword Base changes according to the physique of the cultivator; the stronger the physique, the higher the quality of the Third Grade Sword Base.

With the strength of Shiming’s great-elder-level refinement, the quality of his Third Grade Sword Base had already exceeded the third grade, reaching a level between the third and fourth grades.

Great Elder Sun Ao sensed the sharpness of the Third Grade Sword Base, and a long staff treasure also appeared in his hand.

The staff treasure is considered a heavy treasure among treasures, especially in the hands of a Body Refining Grand Elder. When wielded by a Body Refining Grand Elder, a heavy hit could likely shatter even an ordinary cultivator’s defensive treasures and crush them to dust.

Li Shiming activated his ’Divine Sight’, and through his vision identified the Spiritual Power Pattern on Great Elder Sun Ao’s body.

Great Elder Sun Ao’s Spiritual Power Pattern was nearly perfect, without a single flaw, which was something Shiming had never encountered before.

Even among the great elders of the Beishu Continent whom he had observed, none had reached the perfection of Great Elder Sun Ao’s.

Li Shiming had studied his own Spiritual Power Pattern before and saw its flaws, always believing it to be an issue of cultivation level, which would be repaired naturally when reaching the Nascent Soul Stage.

But after seeing Great Elder Sun Ao’s condition, he began to doubt if it was solely related to cultivation level; mastering elder level might also be related to the Cultivation Technique being practiced.

Perhaps when he and his incarnate Li Yuanba both reached the Great Elder level in the Golden Core Realm, they too would have flawless patterns on their bodies, achieving the perfect circulation of spiritual power, just like Great Elder Sun Ao.

That’s because he was practicing the ’Five Rhymes Qi Cultivation Technique’, and his incarnate Li Yuanba was practicing the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’, both of which are the most top-notch techniques in the Immortal World.

Of course, his judgment of the techniques was based on the standards of the Beishu Continent.

’Five Rhymes Qi Cultivation Technique’ and ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ were a step above the Inheritance Techniques of the six major sects in the Beishu Continent. He based his assessment of the two techniques on this comparison.

At this moment, Li Shiming became interested in the Body Refining Techniques practiced by Great Elder Sun Ao. Indeed, his ’Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill’ was only a relatively common Body Refining Technique from the Buddhist sects, not even the most top-notch within the Qianye Temple itself.

Now that he had reached the limit of his ’Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill’, he needed to find another, stronger Body Refining Technique for future cultivation. He had not found any suitable Body Refining Techniques in the Beishu Continent to his satisfaction.

Great Elder Sun Ao’s staff treasure swung in his hand, and the huge phantom of the Mysterious Turtle moved slowly with his motion. As the Mysterious Turtle turned, the staff treasure burst with an unrivaled force.