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Chapter 1706: Chapter 899: Ice Needle (Part 2)

He indeed wanted to keep it a secret, but in the situation at the time, how could he?

Should he have slaughtered all the cultivators near Changshui Island, would it even help? Master Cui and Great Cultivator Yu successfully escaped, and eventually, the news was bound to leak.

"It seems you’ve won, otherwise you wouldn’t have brought the Long-distance Flying Boat back!" Jian Wuwei looked at the Flying Boat being processed, shaking his head as he spoke.

He was no longer surprised by Li Yuanba’s combat prowess; even during the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Li Yuanba possessed the strength to challenge Great Cultivators.

Now, having ascended to Great Cultivator for some time, his combat power naturally rose, and defeating several Peak Great Cultivators was only logical.

Of course, if this was any other Sword Cultivator, Jian Wuwei would not think the same.

The reason he thought this way about Li Yuanba was because of Li Yuanba’s ’Chaos Sword Intent,’ a terrifying force that could disregard differences in realm, perfectly embodying the Sword Cultivator’s one sword breaking all laws.

"Master, I want to see Sword Elder!" Li Yuanba made a request to Jian Wuwei.

"Is there something important?" Jian Wuwei hesitated slightly before asking.

The last time Sword Elder exerted himself significantly, lately he reduced his involvement in mundane affairs to quickly replenish the energy consumed before.

Any Great Power of a super faction is not alone; he is backed by the entire super faction.

The Cave Heaven Energy he consumes belongs to the entire super faction, less energy means reduced resources and Spiritual Energy supply for the core cultivators.

"I acquired a treasure this time, but it has an unbreakable spiritual imprint inside!" Li Yuanba replied frankly without hiding anything.

"Is it a Great Power’s treasure?" Jian Wuwei immediately knew what level the treasure was.

With Li Yuanba’s skills, even if it was a Peak Great Cultivator’s treasure, he had the ability to break the internal spiritual imprint; it was only a matter of time.

But for Li Yuanba to seek Sword Elder’s help meant that Li Yuanba had no confidence that he could break the spiritual imprint, no matter how much time he had.

"Exactly!" Li Yuanba took out a box containing the ice needle and opened it for Jian Wuwei to see, then continued: "I suspect it’s a treasure of a Guiyuan Sect Great Power. I took it from Lin Yuan of Guiyuan Sect, and it nearly cost me my life!"

"Follow me. If it’s in our hands, then it’s ours!" Jian Wuwei excitedly said upon hearing it was truly a Great Power’s treasure.

He led Li Yuanba into the Sword Cave Heaven and reached the core, casting a spell.

Spatial Energy then wrapped around Li Yuanba and Jian Wuwei, they vanished from the spot, appearing in some room again.

The room was filled with spiritual energy; Sword Elder was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, not acknowledging the two.

"Yuan Ba brought back a Great Power’s ice needle, requesting you to help remove the inner spiritual imprint!" Jian Wuwei jokingly took a step forward to speak.

"Old Ghost Jiang’s ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle,’ I smelled its scent as soon as you came in!" Sword Elder still sat unmoving, but his voice emanated from his body.

"Sword Elder, is this ice needle the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’?" Li Yuanba took out the jade box and opened it, exposing the ice needle inside and asked.

"It is indeed the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle.’ It is not inferior to a spiritual treasure, how did it end up in your hands?" Sword Elder’s voice came again.

"This time I encountered Lin Yuan outside, whom I let go last time. He had rebuilt himself with cultivation that barely entered Great Cultivator when he attacked me with this ice needle!" Li Yuanba explained.

"Did the other side make the first move?" Sword Elder asked again.

"Yes, four Peak Great Cultivators plus Lin Yuan set up a trap!" Li Yuanba answered truthfully.

"Then it doesn’t matter, Lin Yuan sought his own death, I will handle this ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle,’ you take it." Sword Elder said indifferently.

Then the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’ in the jade box held by Li Yuanba autonomously flew up towards Sword Elder.

As it neared Sword Elder, sword light rose from Sword Elder’s body, the sword light shot into the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle.’

"Sword Elder, this is my treasure!" an aged voice came from inside the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle.’

"Go find out about the incident yourself, besides, things in my hands, do I need to return them?" Sword Elder said indifferently.

"I will investigate, if..." the aged voice grew quieter until it was inaudible.

"Alright, but be careful when using it; don’t let Guiyuan Sect’s cultivators discover!" Sword Elder returned the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’ to the jade box held by Li Yuanba.

He was not worried about Li Yuanba’s secrecy ability. Consider Li Yuanba’s Lifebound Flying Sword Xingyi, a spiritual treasure-level sword, has not been detected by other cultivators for so long.

"Thank you, Sword Elder!" Li Yuanba joyfully thanked while looking at the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle.’

Through the conversation between the two Great Powers, how could he not know that the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’ was indeed a valuable treasure to the Great Powers.

Luckily Sword Elder was a Sword Cultivation Great Power, having little interest in other treasures, Sword Elder only required his own Lifebound Flying Sword.

If it was another sect’s Great Power, even if the disciple was holding such a treasure, it would be taken away, giving the disciple rewards of much lower value spiritual objects in return.

Sword Elder stopped talking, Jian Wuwei lightly pulled Li Yuanba, then they were sent out by Spatial Energy.

"You better stay within the pavilion for a while, you’ve offended quite a few powers this time, be careful of their retaliation!" Jian Wuwei reminded.

"Master, I will be in seclusion for a while!" Li Yuanba nods in agreement, saying conveniently.

With a joyful expression, he returned to his abode while watching the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle,’ Jian Wuwei looked at his departing figure and couldn’t help but sigh.

Jian Wuwei was somewhat overwhelmed by his disciple’s trouble-making abilities; during Li Yuanba and Sword Elder’s exchange, he received intelligence from the Intelligence Department.

It contained detailed information about Li Yuanba’s battle on Changshui Island, he learned the identities of the four Peak Great Cultivators who fought Li Yuanba and the identities of the two who perished.

Those two Peak Great Cultivators belonged to two super factions, fortunately not from Central State Continent super factions, even if they attempted revenge, it would be difficult to act against Li Yuanba on the Central State Continent.

At most, like this time, they could gather strong cultivators and set up a trap.

But from this incident, Li Yuanba fought four, defeated four Peak Great Cultivators, and killed two of them, raising Li Yuanba’s combat level significantly.

Intelligence Department’s analysis placed Li Yuanba’s combat power comparable to Li Shizhen.

When Li Yuanba returned to his abode, he eagerly took out the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle,’ immediately casting a Master Recognition Technique.

As the Master Recognition Technique entered the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle,’ he felt its response.

The ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’ was an ice-type supreme treasure with extremely strong attack power, capable of cross-realm combat.

This is somewhat similar to the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl;’ the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ enhances Thunder Skill power, whereas the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’ boosts the attack power when using the ice needle, the function is relatively straightforward, but the power enhancement is comparable.

If the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’ were in the hands of Great Cultivator Lin, its attack power would be about equivalent to slaying ordinary Peak Great Cultivators.

If it were held by a Peak Great Cultivator, its power might even harm a Late-stage Golden Corpse.

No wonder Li Yuanba sensed a threat to his life; his defensive power fell short compared to Peak Great Cultivators, if not for the Late-stage Golden Corpse helping to fend off the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’ attack, this time he might truly have fallen victim to Great Cultivator Lin.

"Really a pity!" Li Yuanba muttered to himself.

He was a gold-type Sword Cultivator; the ’Cold Moon Ice Soul Needle’ offered very little help to him, and he wasn’t proficient in using needle-type attacks.