It was only because they were at some distance away, otherwise they might have been shocked to death by the sound right there.
The four disciples, although not all disciples of Elder Li, were among the best.
The loss of these four disciples caused a significant decline in Elder Li’s influence within the sect, and it would take a long time to recover.
Training such four late-stage Golden Core disciples is not easy; he had spent a lot of effort.
Elder Li steadied his emotions, waved his hand to collect the four bodies, and went on to deal with more important matters.
His cave dwelling was invaded, which stored his years of collection.
Although he kept the most important resources on himself, a habit developed from being in a high position, he still stored some important things in the cave dwelling.
Upon arriving at Three Saints Peak, even before reaching his own mountain peak, he sensed dead air coming from the direction of his peak.
His heart sank, wondering why his mountain peak would have dead air.
Although he is a Devil Cultivation Nascent Soul, it does not mean his mountain needs any dead air. His peak had many spirit fields and spirit plants, which are extremely important resources, providing a continuous output.
Elder Li flew into the mountain peak, and the scene that met his eyes pained him deeply.
Everything was withered yellow, whether the spirit medicine in the spirit fields or the spirit trees and spirit flowers; all the spirit plants appeared wilted.
He reached out and grabbed a handful of spirit soil from the ground.
This spirit soil was the third grade spirit soil he had spent much effort to create, but now it was filled with dead air.
He found the dead air came from extremely fine powders, but even after discovering them, it was impossible to remove the powders; they had somehow fused with the spirit soil.
He threw the spirit soil away, and his Nascent Soul returned to his body, then he flew towards the cave dwelling.
Upon entering the cave dwelling, he discovered something that nearly drove him mad.
The entire cave dwelling looked like it had just been dug out, the floor tiles made of spiritual jade, and the beautifully carved runes on the wall tiles were all gone.
Let alone the furniture and spiritual objects in the cave dwelling; he felt the exposed earth and mountain rocks on the walls seemed to be mocking him.
He sensed the entire cave dwelling and found that the storeroom seemed unusual, filled with stuff, which had no spiritual energy, seemingly just a pile of mundane objects.
Just as he was about to take a look, the pile of mundane objects suddenly expanded.
"Not good!" Just as he was about to use the Spiritual Power Pattern to destroy the mundane objects in the storeroom, it was too late.
The storeroom door had a restriction he left there; when Li Yuanba entered the storeroom, he used ’Short Distance to Horizon,’ avoiding breaking the restriction.
This made Elder Li need to open the restriction before dealing with the TNT explosives in the storeroom. The brief delay in opening the restriction allowed the explosion to occur.
When the tens of tons of TNT explosives in the storeroom began to explode, even though Elder Li was a Nascent Soul Ancestor, he couldn’t stop the explosion process.
Bound by the restriction, the storeroom became a sealed space, which instead enhanced the power of the explosion.
"Boom!" A violent explosion rocked as Li Yuanba madly filled the entire storeroom with tens of tons of TNT explosives, detonating inside the cave dwelling, unrestricted by outside formations, enhancing the explosion’s power.
Initially inside the cave dwelling, the originally emptied dwelling was filled with flames from the explosion, with the powerful shockwave acting downward on the core of the Mountain Formation.
Li Yuanba’s chosen explosion point was meticulously calculated by an IBMz15, with the shockwave first destroying the cave dwelling then impacting the formation core below.
Formation cores usually have the protection of the cave dwelling, making them unlikely to be attacked directly.
But the explosion occurred inside the cave, the formation core was swept by the shockwave; some weaker materials were destroyed, and even high-quality materials that could withstand the explosion’s power couldn’t maintain the formation core’s effect.
The formation core was destroyed, and the mountain’s formation disappeared.
But the explosion’s aftermath wasn’t over yet, the shockwave continued to intensify inside the cave, spreading its destructive force around.
From the mountaintop, the unprotected stones shattered under the shock.
Everything happened too fast, so fast that Elder Li had no idea where to start stopping it.
When the explosion stopped, he stood in mid-air, several meters of empty space beneath his feet.
His cave dwelling had vanished, and even the mountaintop was shaved off several meters.
He wasn’t harmed at all; such damage couldn’t penetrate his Spiritual Power Pattern defense.
He just stood there in the void, looking at his cave dwelling, looking at his mountain peak.
He understood this was Li Yuanba’s revenge, but he didn’t expect Li Yuanba to be so bold as to dare directly attack his mountain peak, his cave dwelling.
Not only did he empty his cave dwelling, but he also destroyed it along with the mountain peak.
For a moment, even as a Nascent Soul Stage, he showed a bewildered look in his eyes.
He should be angry, but he wasn’t angry anymore. More important than being angry was figuring out how to handle the situation before him.
He felt he might become the laughingstock of the entire Beishu Continent, and not just Beishu Continent, as the Skywalk Trading Company and Heavenly Inquiry Sect were both in Beishu now, this matter would reach their ears.
His blunder would likely be spread to other continents, becoming a joke throughout the Cultivation World.
He was robbed by a Golden Core cultivator and given an explosion before his eyes, completely destroying his cave dwelling and mountain peak.
If Li Yuanba had just robbed him and taken everything in the cave dwelling, he could still try to save face by blocking the news.
But how could he block the news with the scene before him? The commotion had already reached the entire sect.
Elder Li also knew that recently, the Heavenly Inquiry Sect and Skywalk Trading Company already extended their reach into every major sect, and the happenings in major sects would be reported to them.
"Li Yuanba, I swear to kill you!" After a long while, the disciples of Senluo Sect heard Elder Li’s shout.
For some reason, when they usually heard the voice of the Nascent Soul Ancestor, it was full of reverence, but today they felt the powerlessness in the voice.
Far away on Yongle Island, attending a meeting with the Skywalk Trading Company and Heavenly Inquiry Sect on Beishu Continent, Ancestor Lu received news from the sect, learning everything that happened there.
"Alas!" He heaved a long sigh.
He slightly regretted not stopping Elder Li’s actions; if Li Yuanba hadn’t been detained, things wouldn’t have happened.
He knew long before this that Li Yuanba had his own fortuitous encounter, as otherwise, how could he achieve such accomplishments at such a young age in both realm and strength?
Especially in terms of combat power, knowing Li Yuanba had killed the Sword Cultivation Great Elder of the Skywalk Trading Company, made the company hesitate to send Golden Core cultivators against Li Yuanba again.
Ancestor Lu looked at the report mentioning Li Yuanba’s words about returning for vengeance after reaching the Nascent Soul, his heart was overshadowed.
Even without having reached the Nascent Soul, Li Yuanba dared to exact such revenge; if he truly reached the Nascent Soul, wouldn’t he destroy the entire Senluo Sect?
At this moment, he aimed to find Li Yuanba, either to persuade him to change his mind or to eliminate Li Yuanba, as he couldn’t allow Li Yuanba to continue like this.
Immediately he thought of Li Yuanba’s ’Step by Step Lotus,’ a Divine Foot Skill that, even with his Nascent Soul Stage strength, without approaching Li Yuanba quietly within a certain range, even when encountering Li Yuanba, he wasn’t confident he could capture him.
’Step by Step Lotus’ was incredibly fast unless inviting Venerable Huike to join, but Venerable Huike was not so easy to invite, as Qianye Temple was extremely low-profile now.