Chapter 267: Chapter 180: The Diagram Appears (Extra for Tom2017)
Yi Lingling felt a chill run through her body. Due to the formation, she couldn’t see the battle between Li Shiming and Li Yuanba clearly, but the aftermath of the Nine Palace Sword Formation left her stunned.
Five Foundation Establishment Cultivators, including a Mid-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator, as well as Yi Yichen’s child, a Golden Core cultivator, were all killed on the spot.
In fact, the most wronged death among them could be said to be that of Yi Yichen’s child. Because Li Shiming had deployed a formation right from the start, Yi Yichen had powerful methods that he couldn’t utilize.
In the end, when he decided to use a magic amulet, he was struck soul-deep by Li Shiming’s top-grade magic device electromagnetic gun.
All of Yi Yichen’s various life-saving measures were rendered useless by this instant kill.
Li Shiming didn’t pay any attention to Yi Lingling. He collected all the corpses into a storage bag and threw them into the engine room space along with all the spoils of war.
As for offending a Golden Core, he had experience with that.
Battle traces needed to be cleaned. All spoils of war couldn’t be taken out before he had a strong backing and joined a great sect.
His spiritual thought swept over the battlefield repeatedly. After ensuring there were no oversights, he grabbed Yi Lingling and switched to a different flying boat to head into the distance.
Under the effect of the Soul-binding Rope, Yi Lingling wanted to speak but couldn’t control her own body.
Li Shiming’s spiritual thought swept over her entire body. Soon her storage bag was taken down, along with the jade hairpin on her head, the jade ornament on her chest, and a pair of jade bracelets on her wrists.
Yi Lingling was quite beautiful, but Li Shiming was not the least bit moved.
Female cultivators of the Cultivation World, who knew how old they actually were, especially Foundation Establishment beauties, could be anywhere from thirty to a hundred years old.
Besides, Yi Lingling was the enemy, especially involved with a Golden Core cultivator, and would be silenced no matter what.
Yi Lingling not only felt a physical chill, but her heart was filled with ice-cold fear. She clearly understood Li Shiming’s intentions; she feared that after her interrogation, she would end up like those cultivators.
From Li Shiming’s skilled cleanup of the battlefield, one could tell this wasn’t his first time committing murder. His calm and collected handling of everything was not something an ordinary cultivator could achieve.
Yi Lingling’s gaze turned to Li Yuanba. In her heart, Li Yuanba was much better than Li Shiming by a thousandfold, even though she had been defeated and captured by him, but Li Yuanba was just too handsome.
While she was lost in her wild thoughts, Li Shiming found a hidden cave.
Li Shiming used his spiritual thought to drive out a black bear in the cave and then cleared the stale air inside before carrying Yi Lingling into the cave.
Li Yuanba took out thirty-six formation flags and laid them out at the entrance of the cave, forming a formation that isolated spiritual power fluctuations and also had a defensive effect.
Li Shiming threw Yi Lingling on the floor and took out the Soul Piercing Needle.
“Name?” He allowed Yi Lingling to speak by controlling the Soul-binding Rope, and asked indifferently.
“My name is Yi Lingling, I am…” As soon as Yi Lingling said her name, she felt a soul-deep pain that prevented her from continuing.
Tears and snot uncontrollably flowed out of her. The pain was unbearable for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, let alone a female cultivator.
“Answer only what I ask. Saying more or lying will be punished!” Li Shiming said coldly.
Yi Lingling blinked incessantly, indicating that she understood. She no longer had any other thoughts; Li Shiming’s ruthlessness filled her with dread.
In the Cultivation World, apart from cultivators with special hobbies, who would spend a significant cost to create a magic artifact specifically for forcing confessions, not to mention that Li Shiming held a set of such artifacts.
The Soul-binding Rope and Soul Piercing Needle were precisely such artifacts. They were of no use at Sky Sea Island but showed their effectiveness in Beishu.
“What is Baoze Mountain? And who is Yi Zhen?” Li Shiming asked in a deep tone.
Yi Lingling looked extremely surprised. She had not expected that there were cultivators in this region who didn’t know about Baoze Mountain or recognize Yi Zhen.
“Baoze Mountain is the largest power within tens of thousands of miles. Yi Zhen is the master of Baoze Mountain, in the Golden Core Middle Stage!” Out of fear of Li Shiming using the Soul Piercing Needle, Yi Lingling’s answer was both succinct and to the point.
“Who is the young leader from earlier?” Li Shiming asked with a frown.
“Yi Yifa is Yi Zhen’s only son!” After answering this question, Yi Lingling covertly glanced at Li Shiming and saw that his expression was extremely grim.
Li Shiming shook his head. This had been an unexpected disaster. Could it be that he was fated to clash with Golden Core cultivators? He had only been in Beishu for a short time, and now he had killed the son of a Golden Core cultivator.
However, what was done was done, and he just had to be more careful in the future.
He believed that he had cleaned the battlefield very thoroughly, and it would be difficult for Yi Zhen to trace him.
“What did you obtain to make Yi Yifa chase you?” Li Shiming continued to ask.
He didn’t check Yi Lingling’s storage bag first; after all, the items were still there. It made no difference to ask first and check afterwards.
“I acquired a Spiritual Zither at an auction on Tianhua Mountain. Some cultivator recognized it as an artifact used by the Six-Fingered Sound Demon in his early days. As things got blown out of proportion, the zither was said to be the key to the demon’s legacy cave, marking the location and the way to get in and out!” Yi Lingling confessed honestly.
Li Shiming was completely unaware of the Six-Fingered Sound Demon, but assumed he must have been a powerful cultivator from history.
His knowledge in this area was extremely limited, and it couldn’t be supplemented in a short time.