Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1308: Chapter 700: Countering the Scheme (Part 2)

It seems that the Great Cultivator used some sort of concealing technique. Drone satellite systems are, in fact, very easy to deceive; it’s just that the Great Cultivator was unaware of the existence of drones and satellites, which made him feel that his actions were flawless.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei set up a concealing array using Fourth Grade Array Flags, and released five mid-stage Golden Corpses.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei himself retreated and then slowly moved towards the direction where the other Great Cultivator had disappeared.

Since there was a heavy rain before, there were quite a few puddles on the ground.

His figure transformed into a stream of water, slowly moving through the puddles on the ground. Although he had a ’Hidden Phoenix Jade Talisman’, deceiving a Great Cultivator still required extreme caution.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei had already caused significant damage to the White Emperor Sect, and this time he decided to deal the White Emperor Sect a fierce blow.

For this, he would go all out, letting the White Emperor Sect truly understand the consequences of provoking him.

Of course, if it hadn’t rained heavily before, he really wouldn’t have been able to quietly approach the position of that Great Cultivator.

Today’s weather and the environment seemed to be aiding him, so he went along with it.

The Water Escape technique combined with the ’Hidden Phoenix Jade Talisman’ allowed the stream of water he morphed into to stealthily approach.

As he was about to enter the range of the Great Cultivator’s Divine Sense, he stopped; further advancement, regardless of having the ’Hidden Phoenix Jade Talisman’, would not escape the perception of that Great Cultivator.

Within the perception of the Great Cultivator’s Divine Sense, these methods of his had nowhere to hide.

He wasn’t in a hurry; the Earth Thunder Nascent Soul within him displayed the ’Divinely Insightful Eyes’. At this distance, activating the ’Divinely Insightful Eyes’ allowed Li Shiming to clearly see the spiritual power flow in the place where the Great Cultivator disappeared.

There was a formation there, a concealing array set up using a Fourth-grade Array Plate. The array master’s skill in making the array plate was decent.

The fact that Li Shiming considered the array’s skill level decent meant that in the Cultivation World, the array master was very famous.

But no matter how skilled an array master was, they could not compete with the knowledge reserve and computational power of an IBMz15; formations relied not only on knowledge reserves but also on computational ability.

Not to mention, this concealing array was merely set up using an array plate, which, for an array master, was meant for those ignorant about formations.

Li Shiming identified all the array nodes of the concealing array, allowing him to easily enter the array’s interior.

However, before entering the array, it was crucial to be fully prepared for battle.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei didn’t need much preparation; the spiritual treasure ’Black Water Sword’ was already prepared, hidden in an energyized form within his body, ready to erupt with maximum combat power at any moment.

This time, Li Shiming decided to personally take action. To deal with a Great Cultivator, he could only use his strongest combat abilities.

With a mere thought, the five hidden mid-stage Golden Corpses surged out from the array, attacking the gathering place of the White Emperor Sect’s cultivators.

Hidden nearby was Great Cultivator Ning Xi of the White Emperor Sect. He had been assigned to this area.

Great Cultivator Ning Xi was not content with merely waiting around; he planned to use the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators from the sect to lure Great Cultivator Luo Pei to come to him.

Of course, he couldn’t possibly let the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators of his sect know this; otherwise, how could he continue to operate within the sect?

He proposed gathering all of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators in the area he was responsible for into one place, making it safer and easier for him to protect them.

The Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators of the White Emperor Sect were also terrified; recently, there had been ongoing news of Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators being slain by Great Cultivator Luo Pei, and many of their familiar sect members had perished.

During this time of widespread concern, Great Cultivator Ning Xi’s suggestion was promptly supported.

Meanwhile, Great Cultivator Ning Xi remained hidden around them. For greater safety, he had not prepared just one safe spot but multiple footholds outside the gathering place, allowing him to conceal himself within them easily.

He was well aware of Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s cunning nature; this method of changing his hiding spot periodically ensured that he wouldn’t be discovered due to staying in one fixed place.

By studying Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s behavioral patterns, he made a significant discovery.

He found that Great Cultivator Luo Pei definitely wasn’t operating without backing, at least not without a superpower intelligence division serving him.

The reason the White Emperor Sect’s Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators were continuously being wiped out was simply because their locations had been exposed.

Achieving this on the Central State Continent was something only the superpowers of Central State could do.

Great Cultivator Ning Xi had no suspicions about the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion; this style of using others to do one’s dirty work wasn’t characteristic of a Sword Cultivator’s methods.

And so, he dared not stay at any single location for long; fearing that his own position would be exposed. However, this very stance truly exposed his own whereabouts.

Great Cultivator Ning Xi constantly monitored the gathering point fifty miles away. Suddenly, he stood up straight and looked over.

There, five indistinct figures were rapidly charging towards the gathering point. Their speed was so extraordinary that even Great Cultivator Ning Xi’s gaze struggled to keep up.

He was shocked deep down: what kind of speed was this? Were it not for the fact that the auras of the five figures were not those of a Great Cultivator, he would have thought they were five Great Cultivators mastering the rules of speed.

He didn’t act immediately; since they weren’t Great Cultivators, he wouldn’t move. He suspected this to be a probing tactic by Great Cultivator Luo Pei.

The five mid-stage Golden Corpses charged to the outside of the gathering’s formation. A bizarre event occurred; the five mid-stage Golden Corpses flickered and entered the array.

Due to the extremely short time from when the five mid-stage Golden Corpses launched their charge to entering the array, the cultivators inside the gathering point had no reaction.

By the time the five mid-stage Golden Corpses were within the array’s perimeter, the formation discovered them and sounded an alarm.

But just as the alarm sounded, the five mid-stage Golden Corpses rushed into the array.

The ease with which the five mid-stage Golden Corpses entered the array was thanks to Li Shiming’s remote control. These five mid-stage Golden Corpses were the refined corpses of the Heavenly Ghost, which was Li Shiming’s Spiritual Pet.

Through indirect associations, Li Shiming could simultaneously control the five mid-stage Golden Corpses.

He had previously observed the formation at the gathering point, and breaking through it posed no difficulty.

Once within the array, the five mid-stage Golden Corpses began indiscriminately fighting, attacking cultivators wherever seen.

The combat power of the five mid-stage Golden Corpses could almost match that of a Peak of Mid-stage Nascent Soul Body Refining Cultivator.

This was a special corpse refining method developed by Li Shiming, employing nine million nanometer-scale refining corpse runes.

The five close-combat mid-stage Golden Corpses, possessing the peak combat power of mid-stage Nascent Soul, and with speed several times faster than normal cultivators, turned the battle within the gathering point’s formation into a massacre.

This place gathered over five hundred cultivators, among whom there were over forty Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators; the rest were their servitors, including disciples of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators, intelligence personnel, Alchemy Masters, Spirit Plant Masters, Array Masters, and the subordinates of these auxiliary cultivators.

This was the foundation of a superpower, providing a robust support system for large-scale operations.

But now, they had become living targets for the five mid-stage Golden Corpses, as cries and the angry roars of Nascent Soul Cultivators intermingled.

As long as Nascent Soul Cultivators displayed their aura, they’d immediately be targeted by the mid-stage Golden Corpses. This was the combat instinct of the mid-stage Golden Corpses, aiming to eliminate the most significant threats first.

There weren’t particularly powerful Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators here; due to Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s actions and the huge recent losses of the White Emperor Sect’s core cultivators, while the White Emperor Sect had not fully withdrawn all Nascent Soul Cultivators from Central State Continent, they had preemptively relocated core cultivators to a safe place.

There was no choice; despite the importance of saving face, the loss of core cultivators was too high to bear.

Every core cultivator represented the future of the White Emperor Sect; it was impossible to consume the sect’s future over something so meaningless just for a bit of reputation.

As for the ordinary cultivators left behind, they were meant to show that the White Emperor Sect wasn’t afraid of Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s retribution; the White Emperor Sect claimed to have the ability to deal with any enemy.