Chapter 275: Chapter 184 Solution
Li Shiming toyed with a black chess piece in his hand, made of a certain third-grade material, together with the other 180 black pieces, 180 white pieces, and the chessboard, they formed a set of magical artifacts.
“What a pity!” he sighed softly.
This was not the formation artifact he had imagined, but a mere dark weapon artifact; the chessboard served for defense, and the 361 black and white pieces were for remote attacks, controlled by the chessboard.
He even doubted that the creator of this artifact had considered combat at all, instead using precious third-grade materials to craft this set of chess equipment.
He could sense that this Go artifact set had an owner, and until its owner was deceased, this Go artifact set couldn’t truly be considered his own.
Moreover, even if Six-fingered Sound Demon was indeed dead, with his current early-stage Foundation Establishment strength, he was far from being able to use such a Go artifact set, let alone refining it to recognize him as its master.
Li Shiming smiled. He didn’t know whether the Six-fingered Sound Demon was overconfident, assuming that the cultivators who entered the ancestral mansion couldn’t erase the spirit imprint of the master inside the artifact, or if he thought that at such a close distance, he could retrieve the artifact at any time.
With a sweep of his Spiritual Thought, he stored the whole Go artifact set into the machine room space and then nodded at Li Yuanba.
Li Yuanba took out the corpse-collecting bag from his waist and threw it to Li Shiming, who also stored it in the machine room space.
This set of Go artifacts was a trap set by the Six-fingered Sound Demon, carrying this set of Go artifacts on him, once he got close enough to his body, his Divine Thought could control the Go artifacts to initiate an attack.
The attack from the Go artifacts was not very formidable, but it was definitely unstoppable for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, coupled with a surprise attack, controlling the cultivators who came in was not a problem.
To prevent the cultivators from probing, a material that blocked Divine Thoughts was used within the cave dwelling; otherwise, separated by the distance they were at now, he could also control the Go artifacts with his Divine Thought.
The Six-fingered Sound Demon had calculated various possibilities, all in order not to make any mistakes.
He never imagined that Li Shiming would not act conventionally, instead employing an unseen drone to bring a massive amount of concrete, trapping him in a plight.
Just as Li Shiming stored the Go artifacts into the machine room space, the Six-fingered Sound Demon sensed that the connection with the Go artifacts had been blocked.
Alarmed, the Six-fingered Sound Demon realized that blocking the master’s connection to the artifact was no ordinary feat. It was at least not something a Golden Core could achieve.
In the machine room space, Jiang Chen was released and, under Li Shiming’s command, he launched a barrage of attacks on the Go artifacts.
Although Jiang Chen was at the peak of an Iron Corpse and had not yet become a Silver Corpse, the Sword Intent in his bones was largely retained, adding Sword Intent to Jiang Chen’s attacks.
This Sword Intent was not very strong, but the Six-fingered Sound Demon was not at his peak strength, and with the Go artifacts completely separated from him, like water without a source, the spirit imprints within were diminished by the Sword Intent with each hit.
As the Go artifacts were being attacked, with the spirit imprints inside being continuously weakened, the Six-fingered Sound Demon’s spirit also endured shocks.
Although he could not sense the existence of the Go artifacts, the spirit imprints were somehow connected in an unknown way when the spirit imprints were attacked, similarly causing backlash to the master.
Painful sensations of being torn apart kept coming from the soul of the Six-fingered Sound Demon, further damaging his already scant spirit.
Li Shiming continued to monitor the situation inside the machine room space, and with hundreds of continuous attacks from Jiang Chen, the spirit imprints within the Go artifacts were finally cleared.
Just as he was about to retrieve the Go artifacts, he heard a sharp scream not through his ears, but sensed by his soul.
The Six-fingered Sound Demon could wait no longer. This time, the eradication of the spirit imprints within the Go artifacts caused a backlash that left his spirit unable to maintain much longer.
Without further action, he would simply wait to completely perish.
At this point, his only way out was to make an all-out strike, capturing the cultivators in the hall to forcibly seize their bodies, perhaps preserving a sliver of hope.
No longer hesitating, his soul was entrusted to the Golden Core, he wished to take his space ring and his personal artifacts with him, but having lost most of his strength, he lacked the power to retrieve the space ring and personal artifacts buried under the concrete.
The Golden Core as his boat, flew out of his mouth, and the new type of C130 concrete, harder than granite, seemed as easily penetrable as tofu when faced with the Golden Core.
The Golden Core did not linger, with every moment the soul traveled outside the body aboard the Golden Core, it consumed the little remaining life force.
The Golden Core broke through the concrete, flew into the garden, and sensed the condition of the garden; most of his cultivated plants had withered due to the loss of Spiritual Energy.
This intensified his hatred for Li Shiming, as the Golden Core flew towards the hall.
The walls filled with sturdy and reinforced runes were easily penetrated by the Golden Core, which then entered the inside of the hall.
Li Shiming saw the Golden Core, extremely familiar with such Golden Cores.
He stepped back, activating the Formation in front of him, calculating all possibilities, yet he had not anticipated that a Golden Core cultivator could launch a remote attack by means of an external Golden Core.
This was due to his insufficient understanding of Golden Core cultivators, primarily because the capabilities of Golden Core cultivators exceeded his understanding of the world.
The Golden Core smashed into the Formation, but the Six-fingered Sound Demon, an experienced Golden Core cultivator, had learned various miscellaneous knowledge over the long years.