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Chapter 1684: Chapter 888: Corrosion (Part 2)

He shook his head with a bitter smile, thinking that this guess had a high probability.

On Duiyi Island, some cultivators had negotiated with him about trading high-level spirit pills, and although other cultivators hadn’t stated it directly, he could sense the greed in their eyes.

In the Yuzhu Islands, with the deterrence of the half-step great power, these cultivators dared not take any action.

But with Li Shiming leaving the Yuzhu Islands, regardless of the opportunity, these cultivators would think about robbing him if they could.

"This might be for the best, at least it eliminates a lot of trouble!" Li Shiming said in a deep voice.

He stood in the void, three thousand meters away from the Yuzhu Islands, having set up a simple concealing array beside him, and using the Yuzhu Island Array to avoid detection by the other cultivators.

Since there was no discovery of foreign invasion, the cultivators on other islands weren’t too chaotic, and they looked towards the main island.

Some cultivators speculated that something might have gone wrong with the Yuzhu Islands’ cultivators researching the ’Magic Fog’, causing this situation.

No cultivator wanted to intervene to solve the ’Magic Fog’ on the main island—not because they didn’t want to, but because they couldn’t.

If the ’Magic Fog’ was so easy to deal with, it wouldn’t have been so difficult to handle the ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ previously.

Moreover, the power of this ’Magic Fog’ was exceptionally strong this time; if one wasn’t careful, they might drag themselves into trouble.

Cultivator Dai Biao looked toward the direction of the main island, his eyes flashed with astonishment.

As a cultivator from the Purple Cloud Sect, he had access to more intelligence.

Many cultivators on Duiyi Island had already discussed encircling and killing Li Shiming, he knew about it, and they had even invited him, though he did not participate.

Even regarding the Yuzhu Islands’ actions, he was aware, Grandmaster Wu Ding had once invited him as well, offering rather generous terms.

But after interacting with Li Shiming, he always felt a sense of inscrutability about Li Shiming, which made him refuse the invitation once again.

"Such coincidence, could it be Li Shizhen’s revenge?" Cultivator Dai Biao thought to himself.

Grandmaster Wu Ding went to ambush Li Shiming, yet before Grandmaster Wu Ding even returned, such a big incident occurred in the Yuzhu Islands; it was too coincidental.

Thinking of this, he felt unsafe standing on Duiyi Island, but when he tried to leave, he found the array restricted the movement of the island’s cultivators.

Forcing his way out would mean opposing the array.

Cultivator Dai Biao ultimately did not move, he stood still, quietly observing, ready to leave at full force if something went wrong.

In watching by many cultivators, the horror of the ’Magic Fog’ was fully displayed.

The buildings on the main island were protected by formations, with many materials being spiritual materials, yet under the erosion of the ’Magic Fog’ they were all corroded into ruined mundane objects, unable to support the weight of the building’s main body, collapsing.

The cultivators trapped by the ’Magic Fog’ needn’t be mentioned; some perished directly, while others exerted all effort to resist the ’Magic Fog’s erosion, but their defensive treasure and the spiritual power protecting their bodies couldn’t protect them for long, being breached in a few breaths.

After eroding a large amount of spiritual objects, the ’Magic Fog’ gained more energy and instead of shrinking, expanded its scope.

During this time, the entire Yuzhu Islands were extremely quiet, even though the Yuzhu Islands’ cultivators were powerless, they could only watch the main island gradually being eroded.

As a building that lasted the longest collapsed, it revealed a space gate shimmering with faint light.

When the ’Magic Fog’ contacted the space gate, space gates aren’t so easily eroded, but it was still somewhat affected.

This finally alarmed the owner of the Cave Heaven within the space gate, the half-step great power, who was still in recovery during this period.

The cost of the half-step great power making a move was not small, requiring the consumption of energy from within the Cave Heaven.

And the Cave Heaven of the half-step great power was in a growth phase, with energy balance within the Cave Heaven being very fragile at this stage, requiring a period of adjustment and maintenance each time energy is consumed.

The half-step great power sensed anomalies occurring with the space gate, it was then he actively checked the situation outside.

This glance astonished him; unknowingly, the main island was covered by ’Magic Fog’, with the entire island being eroded into a layer, even exposing his Cave Heaven space gate.

"Extinguish it for me!" At this moment, he couldn’t refrain from making a move, he mobilized the Cave Heaven’s energy and unleashed it toward the main island.

The ’Magic Fog’, which was untouchable by all cultivators, vanished rapidly under the actions of the half-step great power.

The gray ’Magic Fog’ dissipated, revealing the ravaged main island, with the loss of cultivators this time being no small number, and all being elites of the Yuzhu Islands.

The main island was occupied by core cultivators, only a minority residing in areas not covered by the ’Magic Fog’ at first instance managed to escape successfully, while the rest perished in the ’Magic Fog’.

"How dare you, courting death!" A thunderous voice echoed above the Yuzhu Islands.

Cultivator Dai Biao stood on Duiyi Island; in this sound, his whole body involuntarily weakened, even his spiritual power couldn’t be mobilized.

This was the might of the half-step great power, merely leaking the aura of the half-step great power rendered nearby cultivators immobile.

Though Cultivator Dai Biao was shocked at heart, he also knew this half-step great power wouldn’t target him.

From the words of the half-step great power, it was clear that this great power had discovered the culprit.

He struggled to control the weakening feeling, his eyes watching toward the main island’s direction, wanting to witness the half-step great power’s action.

Before the half-step great power made a sound, Li Shiming sensed a special energy scan, and simultaneously, the control jade token in his hand lost its function, preventing him from connecting with the array anymore.

It seems the half-step great power had a higher authority, he even suspected that the core of the array might be near the space gate, allowing the half-step great power to immediately regain control after noticing something was wrong.

When the half-step great power emitted his roar, Li Shiming knew he had been discovered.

Without hesitation, he activated ’One Leap’, not just once, he engaged multiple brains simultaneously to activate multiple ’One Leap’.

Just as he felt being locked, ’One Leap’ took his body away from the original place, appearing eight thousand miles away subsequently.

And a massive energy shot forth from the void of the main island, directly striking where Li Shiming was previously.

Though this massive energy didn’t hit Li Shiming, it didn’t stop, continually rushing out a hundred thousand meters before disappearing.

Leaving a twisted shadow in the void, making every cultivator sensing this attack feel their scalp tingle and hearts race.

Li Shiming’s ’Divine Abilities’ kept focusing on the main island’s direction, he saw this terrifying attack.

Fortunately, although this attack was terrifying, it didn’t exceed the eight-thousand-mile range as he had imagined, thus he didn’t need to use several pre-prepared ’One Leap’.

"The half-step great power simply can’t leave the Cave Heaven, judging by the space gate’s style, it seems like it’s a binding type Cave Heaven!" Li Shiming uneasily activated ’One Leap’ again, only then he had time to ponder over what he saw.

A Cave Heaven entrance appearing in the form of a space gate; this formation only occurred in the binding Cave Heaven of various sects.

In the cultivation world he inhabited, sects possessing Cave Heavens had their inheritance Cave Heaven bound to mountain gates, making the Cave Heaven entrance immobile.

The advantage of this Cave Heaven is that once a peak great cultivator becomes the master of the Cave Heaven, they can use secret techniques to transform the Cave Heaven into their own Cave Heaven, allowing them to break through to become a great power.

With the half-step great power of the Yuzhu Islands exposing the location of the Cave Heaven entrance, and revealing the binding Cave Heaven information, with the strength of the Yuzhu Islands, it’s feared they’ll be unable to hold onto this Cave Heaven.

Perhaps even without Li Shiming’s interference, the Yuzhu Islands won’t have days of peace.