Chapter 263: Chapter 178 Disaster
Li Shiming stayed at the Wei family’s residence for another twenty days, and it wasn’t until he could fully summon the complete Nine Palace Sword Formation with the spiritual power within his body that he ended his secluded cultivation.
During this period, he made a decision, which was to set a path for Li Yuanba’s future.
Yes, he needed to part ways with Li Yuanba. He had tested and found out that no matter how far apart his main body was from Li Yuanba, it wouldn’t affect the connection between their two souls, and they could exchange thoughts at any time and place.
This also ruled out the incidents he had seen in some annals, where avatars turned against and devoured their main body.
He had truly achieved a state where he and Li Yuanba were one entity, the same whether together or apart.
Li Yuanba had no background, and he did not intend to fabricate one for him. Perhaps, for small powers or minor sects, a fabricated background might be of some use.
But for major sects, it wouldn’t withstand scrutiny.
Therefore, he decided to use the Senluo Order to let Li Yuanba join the Senluo Sect. For a cultivator like Li Yuanba, who had no background, this path might be his only chance to join a major sect.
Besides, although the Senluo Sect belonged to the demonic path, it was still a major sect that was planning to unify the vast region of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
Li Yuanba had his main cultivation technique and didn’t need to practice the demonic techniques. Li Shiming was mainly interested in the resources of the Senluo Sect, which joining would bring him more ways to obtain resources.
This was a necessity; his main body now had to consider the materials for the Third Grade Five Elements Formation.
After all, Li Yuanba would need a lot of resources for rapid advancement.
It couldn’t all depend on Li Shiming alone to collect them, as that would affect his main body’s cultivation speed. His own cultivation was already slow; he really couldn’t afford delays.
Having made such a decision, it was time for them to divide their household.
He gave Li Yuanba a storage bag of fifty cubic meters and the storage bracelet that had already belonged to Li Yuanba. The storage bag was for show, and the storage bracelet was conspicuous, but its internal space was sufficiently large that there would be no problem if used discreetly.
In addition, he divided one million spirit stones and gave all of the remaining thirty-six array flags to Li Yuanba.
It wasn’t that he was stingy, but these thirty-six array flags were his last stock. The flags originally deployed in the Wei family’s residence had mostly lost their spiritual properties, and these thirty-six had been made recently.
Due to a shortage of array materials, he couldn’t make any more array flags.
As for Li Yuanba not being an Array Master, what of it? As long as their soul connection existed, Li Yuanba could always rely on Li Shiming’s ability as a High-level Array Master to use the flags to deploy formations.
Li Shiming also gave the Jade Flying Boat to Li Yuanba. He wasn’t short of flying boats; the enemies he faced on Sky Sea Island, whether elite sect members or cultivators related to the Golden Core, often had flying boats among their spoils of war.
When preparing to leave, he sealed up the cave dwelling with the little array materials left, especially the top-grade Spirit Veins which he completely sealed off.
No matter whether the Wei family’s residence was occupied by others or not, without the Spirit Veins, this place could no longer serve as a cultivator’s residence.
For so long, none of the Wei family’s Foundation Establishment Cultivators had returned; it seemed they had all perished, and the likelihood of the top-grade Spirit Veins being discovered here was extremely low.
He left this as a contingency plan, a retreat in case of a life-threatening crisis, where this place would become his hiding spot.
Li Shiming left the Wei family’s residence with Li Yuanba through the secret passageways and emerged from the riverbed outside the valley.
He took out a flying boat, and the two of them sat on the deck. As Foundation Establishment Cultivators, they no longer needed to move as cautiously as mice.
From the books in the Wei family’s Book Collection Room, he also learned about some of the circumstances in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
If one were to count the number of cultivators in Beishu, it was definitely many times more than on Sky Sea Island, especially the number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, which was significantly larger.
The main reason was the abundance of cultivation resources. Besides the seven major sects on Sky Sea Island, it was difficult for the rest of the cultivators to obtain sufficient resources, and strategic Elixir Pills like the Foundation Establishment Pill were controlled by the seven major sects.
But Beishu was different. Due to the rich cultivation resources, anyone with a spirit root had the chance to cultivate.
Even those with Four Spirit Roots, if willing to make an effort, could be nurtured by minor powers, not to mention those with Four Spirit Roots.
With the supply of vast resources and the support of more complete cultivation methods, even those with Five Spirit Roots could continuously advance their stages.
Especially Foundation Establishment Pills, there were many ways to obtain them in Beishu.
One could directly buy them with spirit stones, participate in competitions with rewards, or join certain powers to acquire Foundation Establishment Pills.
Foundation Establishment Pills were not monopolized in Beishu, and many powers had the capability to produce their own, even profiting from their sale.
The seven Foundation Establishment Pills Li Shiming had significantly depreciated in value upon reaching Beishu, but he no longer needed them.
The more Foundation Establishment Pills were produced, the more Foundation Establishment Cultivators were born.
This was the situation for the lower tiers of the Cultivation World, while Golden Core cultivators remained rare. Of course, this rarity was relative to the Beishu continent, and in terms of numbers, it was incomparable to Sky Sea Island.
Just the Mingxin Sect from the Ten Thousand Great Mountains had nearly twenty Golden Core cultivators, plus a False Infant Cultivator, which was enough to outweigh the combined forces of the seven major sects on Sky Sea Island.