Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1334: Chapter 713: Core

As long as they hold on for a while, Li Yuanba won’t need them to take action; he’ll exhaust his spiritual power too much and lose his ability to resist.

But they were wrong, because after a single breath, the Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword arrived from thirty miles away.

The Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword, carrying the terrifying ’Void-breaking Sword Intent,’ shot towards the first Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner.

The defense previously eroded by the ’Er Mei Divine Wind’ was shattered by a single strike of the ’Void-breaking Sword Intent,’ and the Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword penetrated the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner’s body, instantly extinguishing all life in his flesh.

For faster attack speed, Li Yuanba spared the Nascent Soul of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner.

The Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword then targeted the second Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner; in reality, even without the ’Void-breaking Sword Intent,’ just the power of the Xingyi Sword alone could easily break through the defense of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner.

The Xingyi Sword was fully unleashing the power of the Spirit Treasure; Spirit Treasures are weapons that only the mighty can possess, even if controlled by a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner, it would still achieve overwhelming success in battle against practitioners of the same level.

Thirty-two Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners, affected by two types of fields, became easy targets.

The Gravity Field made their bodies unable to dodge flexibly, and the Invisible Primordial Magnetism Divine Power Field weakened most of their artifacts.

Among the thirty-two Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners, only five artifacts were unaffected by the Invisible Primordial Magnetism Divine Power Field.

However, not mentioning the gap in quality between the five artifacts and the Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword, the evident impact of the Gravity Field on them, even if there is minimal impact, in combating the Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword, even the smallest impact is extremely significant.

The Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword’s speed advantage was fully unleashed. After Five Breath Time, all thirty-two Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners were entirely slain.

Although Li Yuanba prioritized speed and abandoned extinguishing the Nascent Souls of Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners along with their flesh, it didn’t mean those Nascent Souls could escape calamity.

In truth, when Li Yuanba decided to reveal the Spirit Treasure, there weren’t any plans to leave living witnesses.

It was because the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners in Qianren Sect Cave Heaven gathered together, granting him the opportunity to use his full power.

If these Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners were scattered, he wouldn’t expose the secrets of the Spirit Treasure to prevent any of them from escaping.

Thirty-two Nascent Souls left their life-extinct flesh, faced with the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ densely scattered all around them, since ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ is known for soul attacks.

Even if some Nascent Souls could withstand the power of the ’Sanmei Divine Wind,’ tens of thousands of energy-converted flying swords arrived, thoroughly extinguishing any life energy of these Nascent Souls.

From the time Li Yuanba decided on a direct attack, twenty breaths had passed in total.

Qianren Sect lost nearly a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators, even if he withdrew now, Qianren Sect would be incapable of recovering.

Without enough Nascent Soul Cultivators, they couldn’t control the current resources of Qianren Sect.

Without resources, Qianren Sect would quickly decline.

This is a vicious cycle, once it starts, it heads straight to the abyss.

Li Yuanba scanned the battlefield with his divine sense, collecting all thirty-two bodies and all spoils of war.

He wasted no time; the entire cleanup process took only one breath.

No more cultivators’ breaths were felt in the cave, amidst the dead silence, he took Spirit Pills to replenish his spiritual energy while continuing to use ’Distance Like the Horizon.’

He simply put away the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ and dispelled the ’Sanmei Divine Wind’ divine skill from his body.

Though he slew nearly sixty Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners outside and thirty-two Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners within the cave in a short battle, the enormous expenditure also almost overwhelmed him.

This reflects his weakness, the powerful Spirit Treasure, and various strong methods, all come at the cost of substantial spiritual energy consumption.

He entered the Nascent Soul Middle Stage too recently and his spiritual energy reserves were relatively insufficient.

Li Yuanba found the source of spiritual energy within the cave: a pool of water.

The pool walls comprise countless pieces of Spiritual Jade, and the pool’s water is of high-quality spiritual spring.

His divine sense dove to the water’s bottom, where water continuously gushed from a fissure in the Spiritual Jade. This was the spiritual spring eye of the pool.

The spiritual spring eye was merely a piece of Spiritual Jade, appearing quite peculiar, yet considering this is cave heaven, whatever odd phenomena are considered normal.

His perception noted a special connection between the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye and the surrounding cave, similar to the sensation Li Shiming encountered with the Divine Tree in the Yimu Cave Heaven of Fuliu Sect.

Li Yuanba felt joyful, for he knew he found what he sought.

His divine sense seized the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye, forcefully storing it within a Forbidden Spirit Jade Box, and then placing the box inside the soul crystal ring.

During the collection of the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye, he felt the cave heaven tremble.

However, after storing the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye in the soul crystal ring, he discovered another core existed within the cave.

While perceiving the cave heaven core, because he was close to the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye core, he only found the location of the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye.

The other core was located in another direction, only after losing the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye did the other cave heaven core become visible.

Actually, he didn’t need to search anymore; under ’Divine Eye Skill,’ he spotted a volcano erupting in the distance.

After briefly considering the time, he hesitated before finally heading towards the volcano.

The Qianren Sect’s cave heaven had two cave heaven cores, one of water and one of fire, maintaining balance, matching the characteristic attributes of Qianren Sect’s two inheritance techniques.

Thanks to the balance between water and fire, the environment in the cave heaven remained optimal, more suitable for cultivating Spirit Plants.

Especially near the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye core, leveraging the effects of spiritual spring water, cultivated Spiritual Medicines were of excellent quality and grew faster.

Due to Li Yuanba’s collection of the Spiritual Jade Spring Eye, the energy balance within the cave heaven was disrupted, even if the Artifact Spirit forcibly maintained stability, it still led to the other core’s volcanic eruption.

Li Yuanba ignored the volcanic eruption, as the flames of this magnitude could not harm him.

His divine sense swept through the flames, discovering the other cave heaven core, another natural piece of Spiritual Jade, only the previous Spiritual Jade Spring Eye was white, and this Spiritual Jade was red.

The red Spiritual Jade also bore a fissure, with flames emanating from within.

Without time for further examination, he had no time to linger, and his divine sense forcibly scanned the red Spiritual Jade, storing it similarly in the Forbidden Spirit Jade Box, and into the soul crystal ring.

After taking the red Spiritual Jade, the cave heaven trembled again, but this time he sensed the cave heaven seemed to lose its spirituality.

"Sure enough, the Artifact Spirit was within the cave heaven core!" Li Yuanba thought to himself.

The most potent retribution to a sect is to destroy the foundation of its inheritance.

After losing the cave cores, the cave heaven would gradually become spatially unstable; this progress might be incredibly slow, but it will worsen over time.

Perhaps a thousand years from now, this cave heaven might lose control, either collapsing into complete annihilation or merging with the outside, becoming part of the external space.

Without the cave heaven, the very basis of a major sect is lost.

Even if Qianren Sect has a Great Cultivator a thousand years later, without finding a new cave heaven, Qianren Sect will be unable to return to its status as a major sect.

Lacking recognized major sect status also means forfeiting the right to enjoy major sect resources, which also cripples the ability to support a Great Cultivator.

Of course, this is still the best-case scenario; in reality, Qianren Sect probably won’t endure even a millennium.

The cave heaven of Qianren Sect, having lost its core, becomes a mere ordinary space, devoid of its unique mystical quality, preventing the cave heaven’s controller from exerting manipulation.

Without the cave’s mystical nature, the cultivated Spiritual Medicines would wither, and the training environments for Qianren Sect’s two inheritance techniques would disappear.

Qianren Sect loses its allure to cultivators; whether existing cultivators remain, and whether they can withstand external threats’ attacks, becomes the primary issue of survival for Qianren Sect.

Li Yuanba has severed Qianren Sect’s roots; his vengeance is the cruelest in the Cultivation World.