Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1692: Chapter 892: The Fisherman (2)

He looked towards the lower parts of the Grotto Heaven, where countless spiritual plants originally grew, but unfortunately, they had all transformed into energy.

He tried a bit and found that because this place had lost its master, and various energies and rules were somewhat chaotic, there was no force suppressing his use of the Divine Foot Skill.

He was in the Grotto Heaven, using ’Eye and Yonder,’ which when used within his divine sense range, was even more stable.

He utilized ’Eye and Yonder’ to appear at various places within the Grotto Heaven, and each time he appeared, he would use his divine sense to scan the surroundings.

Meanwhile, his life-bound magical treasure IBMz15 was establishing a scanned map of the area within the Grotto Heaven. The world within the Grotto Heaven was chaotic, and his sense of direction was of little use here.

"Found it!" Li Shiming said to himself in surprise.

Amidst the chaos, his divine sense touched a very small jade ring.

A wisp of spiritual liquid was flowing from the nick of the jade ring.

Li Shiming couldn’t determine the quality of the jade ring, but he was one hundred percent sure that this was the Celestial artifact of this Grotto Heaven.

Celestial artifacts have no fixed form; they could be a flame, a stone, or even some soil. The most special feature of a Celestial artifact is the Celestial energy it contains.

Previously, he had discovered that the materials which could become Cave Heaven Cores were quite special, but he didn’t know in what way.

However, after the journey to the Divine Palace, he truly realized what was special about Celestial artifacts.

He directed a Master Recognition Technique into the jade ring, and it entered the jade ring. Soon, he felt a connection with the jade ring, and simultaneously created a link with the entire Grotto Heaven.

Although he had connected with the whole Grotto Heaven, he was unable to change anything in the current Grotto Heaven.

Perhaps when he advanced to a Peak Great Cultivator, he could truly affect this Grotto Heaven.

The jade ring was named ’Flying Pearl Jade Ring,’ a Water Element Heavenly Treasure. Because the Grotto Heaven was currently in a chaotic state, the ’Flying Pearl Jade Ring’ was greatly restricted, and even the spiritual spring water trickled out extremely sparingly.

Li Shiming shook his head; this Inheritance Cave Heaven he called the Jade Pearl Cave Heaven was so convenient to move because it was bound to a small island. Otherwise, he might not have bothered to occupy it.

He preferred to take the ’Flying Pearl Jade Ring’ and let the Jade Pearl Cave Heaven slowly collapse.

Of course, he also knew that removing the Cave Heaven Core was actually an act of ruinous waste.

The formation of a Grotto Heaven requires more than just a Celestial artifact; it also consumes a large amount of resources, many of which are controlled by a very few superpowers.

Building a Grotto Heaven also takes a long time, and during this process, almost ten Half-step Great Powers might not even produce one Great Power.

And Inheritance Cave Heavens can truly be inherited only by a Great Power.

A Half-step Great Power’s Cave Heaven might only exist under extremely special conditions, like after their unexpected fall.

Like Qiu Hengyi’s Half-step Cave Heaven was accidentally left behind, and Thunder Cave Heaven from Half-step Great Power Yang Xing’s soul being devoured was also accidentally preserved.

The Cave Heavens that can truly be preserved are those of Great Powers, and only a few of them are Inheritance Cave Heavens, as not all Great Powers wish to leave the Grotto Heaven they’ve spent their life constructing to others.

On the contrary, many Great Powers prefer to treat their Grotto Heaven as their own tomb, allowing it to become their eternal resting place.

Li Shiming exited from the Jade Pearl Cave Heaven and stored the small island into the soul crystal ring, essentially carrying the Jade Pearl Cave Heaven with him at all times.

Inheritance Cave Heavens are generally immovable because they’re bound to the mountain gate.

But the Jade Pearl Cave Heaven was a special exception. After its bound mountain gate was destroyed, it was preserved accidentally, and its bound mountain gate turned into an island.

The chaos at the Yuzhu Islands continued, as many cultivators attempted to leave with the plundered spiritual objects.

Some cultivators, unwilling to leave the remaining wealth behind, continued their frenzied looting.

The cultivators who left early might have been lucky, as a small half of them would wash up on other cultivator islands.

Many among them, carrying plundered wealth but lacking strength, would become targets of robbery by other cultivators, with survival being a stroke of great fortune.

Those who stayed on Yuzhu Islands and didn’t leave faced greater trouble.

Shortly thereafter, another group of cultivators aware of the Inheritance Cave Heaven at Yuzhu Islands arrived.

To glimpse the Inheritance Cave Heaven of a Half-step Great Power, the strength of the arriving cultivators was self-evident. At least one Peak Great Cultivator was present.

The still-looting cultivators were forcefully suppressed.

Their wealth was entirely seized in turn.

A team with a Peak Great Cultivator wouldn’t normally care for such a small amount of wealth.

But who had told the team with the Peak Great Cultivator that they discovered the Inheritance Cave Heaven had disappeared and they figured out that another cultivator had beaten them to it.

They first found the remaining cultivators on Yuzhu Islands, and through various means of interrogation, but gained no useful information.

They only knew that after a group of Great Cultivators came, due to being suppressed by powerful cultivators, they dared not come out to check and hence knew almost nothing.

The furious cultivators who lost their opportunity took away these cultivators’ wealth, and some overly resistant cultivators were casually killed by them.

The incident at the Yuzhu Islands wasn’t over yet, as more and more teams of Great Cultivators arrived upon hearing the news.

Since the six superpowers were searching for any traces of Li Shiming in the sea around the Divine Palace, upon hearing the news about Yuzhu Islands, at least over ten teams with Peak Great Cultivators arrived at Yuzhu Islands one after another.

Through intelligence analysis and clues from the interrogated on-site cultivators, these teams of Great Cultivators focused their target on Jiao Xian, a Great Cultivator of the Purple Cloud Sect.

However, news soon came from the Purple Cloud Sect that Jiao Xian had fallen, and the Inheritance Cave Heaven at Yuzhu Islands vanished from then on.

During this period, Li Shizhen also caught the attention of many Great Cultivators.

After all, Li Shizhen was deemed the most suspicious, having both the ability and motive, as well as the time.

Of course, some Great Cultivators disagreed, not believing that Jiao Xian would be killed by Li Shizhen.

As for Li Shiming, he had already switched to a ’Jade Pearl Flying Boat,’ a fourth-grade top flying ship, sailing deeper into the Cloud Island Sea.

He was in an extremely excited mood, as he intended to examine this expedition’s gains.

Especially the treasure left by the Half-step Great Power, although the spoils from the several Purple Cloud Sect Great Cultivators were also worth inspecting.

He didn’t start with the treasure left by the Half-step Great Power, but planned to first look at the Purple Cloud Sect Great Cultivators’ spoils to get a baseline.

Among the six Great Cultivators who had not reached the Peak Great Cultivator Realm, including Cultivator Dai Biao, three were using soul crystal rings.

Unlike the Cultivation World Li Shiming was previously in, perhaps due to the sheer number of Great Cultivators in the Cloud Island Sea, the use of soul crystal rings wasn’t widespread among Great Cultivators; only a small number of top-ranking Great Cultivators were qualified to use soul crystal rings.

Each of the Purple Cloud Sect’s Great Cultivators carried a considerable number of Great Cultivator Spirit Pills with them at all times, but unfortunately, they were all intermediate-level pills, which could only serve Li Shiming for transactions.

Seeing these Great Cultivator Spirit Pills, Li Shiming realized he had been a bit too flashy when he was on Yuzhu Island.

The Purple Cloud Sect was a superpower, yet their Great Cultivators were still using intermediate-level Great Cultivator Spirit Pills. A certain number of high-level Great Cultivator Spirit Pills appearing and being used in a transaction would definitely attract attention from other cultivators.

Fortunately, he used them on Yuzhu Islands, where their strength wasn’t enough to swallow him in one go, and he managed to get through the trouble unscathed.

He even reaped a lot of benefits from it, but he didn’t want such a situation to happen again.

He thought to use these intermediate-level Great Cultivator Spirit Pills for future transactions; it would be better to be conservative with high-level ones.

While Great Cultivator Spirit Pills were of no use to him, some Great Cultivator Spirit Medicines still held value.