Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1332 - 712: Sect Gate (Part 2)

The Continent Communication Array serves as a colossal network established through the collaboration of numerous powers, functioning as a nearly transparent and open system.

As Li Shiming gained access to the upper echelons of the Cultivation World, this Continent Communication Array became available for his use. He integrated the Communication Array with his drone satellites, originally intending for it to serve as a secondary channel for data transmission.

To his surprise, Li Yuanba put this to excellent use on the West Yan Continent, allowing him to track three Great Cultivators using only three separate drone satellites.

The IBMz15 calculated that the quickest return journey for a Great Cultivator located four thousand miles away would take forty breaths.

This estimate was derived from the peak speeds of Great Cultivators previously encountered by Li Shiming and Li Yuanba; in reality, the return time would likely be longer.

While he doubted the Great Cultivators of the Qianren Sect could reach the velocities of those from the superpowers, he maintained forty breaths as his safety baseline.

Li Yuanba was currently positioned inside the cave mansion of a Qi Refining Cultivator, where he had to keep the risk of detection to an absolute minimum.

Even so, he could confidently claim to be the most powerful individual within the entire Qianren Sect Mountain Gate as long as the Great Cultivators were absent.

Nonetheless, the longer he remained undetected, the more time he would have to operate.

He surged out of the cave mansion, triggering both ‘Divine Eye’ and ‘Telepathy.’

The ‘Divine Eye’ allowed him to perceive all surrounding arrays with clarity, but ‘Telepathy’ was far more formidable, exerting an influence over a two-thousand-meter radius that affected anyone below the Nascent Soul rank.

He was currently in a sector designated for low-level cultivators, making the area quite crowded.

Even without employing Invisibility, the effects of ‘Telepathy’ caused these low-level practitioners to completely overlook his presence.

The low-level zones of the Qianren Sect Mountain Gate were situated on the periphery, with each subsequent inner layer organized by Cultivation realm—the closer one moved to the center, the higher the practitioners' levels.

Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners occupied the central region, while Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners resided within the Grotto Heaven.

This layout was standard for most Sects, a refined organizational method that had remained virtually unchanged for tens of thousands of years.

Li Yuanba advanced toward the central region without facing any obstacles.

As he reached the edge of the Nascent Soul area, he retracted his ‘Telepathy’; although his Spirit could suppress Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners, the ‘Telepathy’ would certainly be noticed by them.

Since there were numerous Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners present, his Spirit could only influence about ten simultaneously; any more would exceed his limits.

Only his main body, Li Shiming, possessing one hundred ninety-one brains, could successfully use ‘Telepathy’ to manipulate all the Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners in the center, provided no Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners were around.

Consequently, Li Yuanba abandoned ‘Telepathy’ and prepared to use raw power.

A sharp light flickered in his eyes as he summoned the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ his Sword Intent erupting from his frame.

He infused the ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ Divine Skill into the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ and tossed it above him.

In an instant, a strange force field spanned a thousand meters, combining the gravity field with ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism.’

“Release all swords!” he commanded in a low tone.

Tens of thousands of flying swords formed from pure energy shot out from the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak.’ He didn't stop there, activating the ‘Sanmei Divine Wind’ Divine Skill to saturate the thousand-meter radius with ‘Sanmei Divine Sand.’

He finished these preparations in a heartbeat, causing the Qianren Sect Mountain Gate’s defensive formation to trigger a frantic alarm due to the massive energy fluctuations.

Within his mind, a countdown transmitted from Li Shiming began.

“40, 39, 38...” The timer tracked his remaining window of opportunity.

Utilizing ‘Shrinking the Ground to an Inch,’ he vanished and reappeared inside the Nascent Soul Early Stage zone, where his ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ loomed over the residences of eleven Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners.

These cave mansions were protected by Defensive Arrays, yet they crumbled in less than a breath under the combined fury of the ‘Sanmei Divine Sand’ and the energy swords.

Whether these mansions were occupied by Nascent Soul Cultivators at the time was irrelevant to his objective.

The moment the defenses shattered, the storm of energy swords and ‘Sanmei Divine Sand’ rushed in, wiping out the caught-off-guard Nascent Soul Cultivators.

These practitioners never expected that their private cave mansions, located in the heart of their Sect, would be violently breached and attacked.

Li Yuanba’s primary goal wasn't the slaughter of these Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners; he was searching for the Grotto Heaven's entrance.

The deaths of the Nascent Soul Cultivators beneath the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ were merely a side effect of his search.

He lingered for only a single breath before using ‘Shrinking the Ground to an Inch’ to relocate when the entrance wasn't found.

He had previously calculated the likely coordinates of the Grotto Heaven, though the exact spot remained a mystery.

Four breaths later, after covering another thousand-meter area, he successfully located the Grotto Heaven entrance.

By this time, roughly sixty Nascent Soul Cultivators of the Qianren Sect had perished.

The surviving Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners finally reacted and fled their homes. Realizing a powerful foe had invaded, they began sending distress signals and grouping together to form defensive arrays.

At that moment, the drone satellite data informed Li Yuanba that the Great Cultivator had abandoned the hidden resource site and was racing back to the Sect.

The IBMz15 updated the arrival time based on real-time movements: forty-six breaths remained.

Inside a palace covered by the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ a spatial gateway pulsed with light.

The palace’s own formations had been torn apart by the ‘Sanmei Divine Wind’ and the flying swords, as a direct assault was the most efficient path.

Li Yuanba blurred, using ‘Shrinking the Ground to an Inch’ to stand before the spatial gate.

He stepped through the gateway without a second thought.

As the spatial distortion faded, he found himself on a vast plain covered in a massive quantity of Spiritual Medicine. Most were only of the second or third grade, but they spanned as far as the eye could see.

While the individual value of these plants was low, the sheer volume was staggering.

However, he had little interest in these lower grades, thinking the Qianren Sect was mismanaging the resource.

No Grotto Heaven he had previously visited was used this way; usually, Sects would prioritize high-value Fourth-Grade Spiritual Medicine.

A Grotto Heaven’s primary function was to support the Cultivation of a Sect’s elite.

Using such a place for mass production was inefficient.

Because a Grotto Heaven produces a finite amount of Spiritual Energy, and Spirit Plants consume that energy to grow, filling the space with low-level plants leaves less energy for the cultivators to use in their training.

The Qianren Sect likely had their own specific reasons for this arrangement.

The moment Li Yuanba set foot in the Grotto Heaven, he pushed his perception to the limit, ready to flee through the exit if a controller was present.

The presence of a controller changed everything.

With a controller, the Grotto Heaven itself would become a weapon to suppress and trap him.

This was exactly why he had worked so hard to draw all three Great Cultivators away from the Mountain Gate.

He knew the Qianren Sect would never leave the Grotto Heaven's control in the hands of a mere Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivator; it would certainly be held by a Great Cultivator.

With the Great Cultivators gone, the Grotto Heaven was currently without a master to direct its power against him.