Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 829: Chapter 461: Interrogation

Unlike Skywalk Trading Company, the cultivators brought by the Heavenly Inquiry Sect this time are all professional intelligence personnel, so they don’t plan to create a Golden Core Battlefield in the Beishu Continent.

The professional intelligence personnel have almost all practiced various stealth secret techniques, using various methods to enter the inland in batches.

The six major sects have also noticed the movements of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect, and a series of tasks have been issued within each sect.

Since the matter involves the Heavenly Inquiry Sect, a power comparable to Skywalk Trading Company, all tasks from the six major sects were issued by the strongest Golden Core Elders in the sect.

Li Yuanba received a sect task, and its content was straightforward, simply to capture the cultivators of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect entering the inland.

The intelligence systems of the six major sects fully cooperated, and he wasn’t the only one to receive the task. Although the rewards for this task were insignificant, Ancestor Lu specifically sent a message asking him to take action.

Li Yuanba was quite curious, considering the presence of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect at this point in time couldn’t be a good thing. He felt it was very likely related to the matter of the Grotto Heaven.

The main character in the matter of the Grotto Heaven was Li Shiming himself, so even without the sect’s task, he would conduct an investigation.

The drone satellite system had been constantly monitoring the sea area of Yongle Island. Due to the considerable fuss caused by the arrival of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect, Li Shiming also received the news, thus placing the Heavenly Inquiry Sect under focused surveillance by the drone satellite system.

Upon hearing that another Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner arrived at the Beishu Continent, Li Shiming’s vigilance reached its peak.

Recently, all cultivators departing from Mountain Sea Island who failed to notice the necessity of defending against their own heat energy, regardless of the hiding methods employed, were tracked and located by the drone satellite system.

Li Yuanba’s figure flickered continuously in the air, with each flicker producing a white lotus.

Although ’Measure by Miles’ covers greater distances, he preferred using ’Step by Step Lotus’ since its consumption is minimal and can be used for extended periods.

He wasn’t like Li Shiming, who had five Golden Cores providing him with spiritual power, enabling him to sustain ’Measure by Miles’ despite its considerable energy drain.

Ren Xiao is a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect, whose combat strength can only be considered ordinary, though this ordinary is measured by the standards of such a powerful entity as the Heavenly Inquiry Sect.

With his combat strength, he believed that even on the Beishu Continent, he could hold his ground against a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator.

He had been on the move for more than a day since leaving Mountain Sea Island to enter the inland and had stopped to take out a map of the Beishu Continent.

The map, albeit somewhat outdated, still accurately represented the general terrain, though there had been some changes over time.

The map was found in the sect’s Book Collection Pavilion, as the Heavenly Inquiry Sect had been collecting intelligence from various locations.

The Beishu Continent’s value was too low indeed, and the initial intelligence personnel merely bought a map and some related information without focusing on an in-depth investigation of the Beishu Continent.

This map was over two thousand years old, and though many sects in the Immortal World do not undergo significant changes over such a long period, it retains some value.

Ren Xiao’s task was to visit a mid-sized sect, which, according to the map, was engaged in trading intelligence.

Connecting with this mid-sized sect and using the resources of Heavenly Inquiry Sect to exchange intelligence would immediately yield a wealth of information on the Beishu Continent.

There are quite a few intelligence personnel with tasks similar to Ren Xiao’s, all visiting local intelligence forces.

Throughout the day, Ren Xiao had seen several local Golden Cores from a distance and was able to sense their weakness.

”This place is really impoverished; I might as well call a few fellows to join me in raiding a couple of sects before leaving!” Ren Xiao thought confidently.

As he was about to put away the map, a hand suddenly appeared from the side and grabbed the map from him.

His Divine Thought sensed a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator inexplicably appearing at his side. Just as he was about to activate his magical weapon, he felt a hand clutching his neck, with terrifying Supreme Yang Energy penetrating him, sealing his Golden Core.

Even his body was invaded by this Supreme Yang Energy, blocking the flow of spiritual power inside him, rendering him incapable of even the slightest resistance.

He couldn’t even move his eyelids, able only to see an exceedingly handsome face gazing at him, with a gaze akin to looking at an ant.

Indeed, Ren Xiao felt like an ant, despite the opponent being a Late-stage Golden Core cultivator. He shouldn’t have been unaware of the opponent’s approach and subdued so easily.

Such a situation is only possible if there’s a vast disparity in strength, large enough to crush him completely.

One must know that Golden Core cultivators have a significant range of perception; any cultivator entering this range would be detected by them.

Hence, unless the enemy had laid a concealing array in a mandatory path in advance, ordinarily, a Golden Core cultivator wouldn’t be approached unnoticed by cultivators of the same level.

Li Yuanba subdued Ren Xiao effortlessly not just due to overwhelming power but also thanks to the ’Step by Step Lotus’ Divine Foot Skill.

From outside Ren Xiao’s perception range, he directly used ’Step by Step Lotus’ to appear beside him, and within this distance, with his Great Elder-level Body Refining strength, he could easily control Ren Xiao.

Li Yuanba lifted Ren Xiao to his face, activated ’Telepathy’, and forcibly invaded Ren Xiao’s brain.