Li Shiming had Spirit Stones, and quite a lot of them.
Although he did not intentionally collect Spirit Stones, the number of cultivators he killed was too many, and each cultivator had a large number of Spirit Stones.
Especially the cultivators from Skywalk Trading Company and Heavenly Inquiry Sect he killed, the amount of Spirit Stones on them was astonishingly high.
After paying three thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, he obtained the right to use the cave mansion for thirty years, and if he needs it after thirty years, he would have to continue paying rent.
He also got a token, which was not only the token to open the cave mansion but also his identity token and communication token at this place.
One hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones for one year of renting a cave mansion, he didn’t know whether this price was high or low, but he didn’t care about these three thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones anyway.
At least he finally had a foothold on the Dongqi Continent, allowing him to connect with the cultivation world of the continent.
Upon leaving, he got a jade scroll, which contained notes on Wuqing Mountain.
His Divine Thought scanned through the jade scroll, and he understood the things needed to be noted.
Within the great formation of Wuqing Mountain, the flying height was tiered based on different cultivation realms; Golden Core cultivators could freely fly, Foundation Establishment cultivators could only fly below ten meters, while Qi Refinement cultivators, even if they had flying artifacts, could only walk on the ground.
Li Shiming flew slowly up the mountain from its base, Wuqing Mountain had a nice environment, and there were many cultivators there, some residing and many others visiting for various matters.
On a street halfway up the mountain, there were many shops on both sides, making the entire street the liveliest part of Wuqing Mountain.
He didn’t look much, knowing he had plenty of time later, he planned to settle down in his cave mansion first.
Finally, he saw his cave mansion, which was an area covered by a formation.
At the entrance of the cave mansion were two plots of spirit fields, though very small, considering they were essentially given for free, it was understandable.
Using the token in his hand to activate the formation, he arrived at the entrance of the cave mansion.
The Spiritual Energy inside the formation was almost as dense as that of a Nascent Soul level spirit vein, which surprised him slightly.
He never expected the Spiritual Energy of a Golden Core stage cave mansion to be so dense.
The two spirit fields seemed long neglected, no Spirit Plants were growing on them, and he needed to do some work if he wanted to replant them.
Walking into the cave mansion, it was a standard one, composed of a hall, study room, storage room, cultivation room, miscellaneous room, and a spiritual pet room, each with formations to perform different functions.
Li Shiming did not have high requirements for the cave mansion, he was only interested in the cultivation room, the other rooms did not concern him much.
He first checked thoroughly, the formations inside the cave mansion were separated from the external formations, the token in his hand was the controller of the formations, Wuqing Mountain did nothing else in this aspect.
It could be said that without the token, it was impossible to enter the cave mansion.
Of course, it’s not true there are no methods; otherwise, how would long missing cultivators’ cave mansions be reutilized?
Just like this cave mansion, was reclaimed because of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator’s decades-long disappearance.
"Huh!" When he arrived at the miscellaneous room, he noticed something amiss.
Under his ’Divine Sight’, he saw several Spiritual Power Pattern lines of the formation in the miscellaneous room were misaligned.
Li Shiming had checked all formations in the cave mansion, and the Array Master’s level who laid them was incredibly high, seemingly quite experienced with cave mansion formations, there was no error at all.
With such an Array Master’s level, there couldn’t possibly be an abrupt misalignment of several Spiritual Power Pattern lines in the miscellaneous room.
It seemed someone had tampered with the formation here and deliberately concealed the traces.
Only Li Shiming or perhaps an Array Master with ’Divine Sight’ could have noticed these traces.
"What’s hidden here?" Li Shiming muttered to himself while gently running his fingers over the wall of the miscellaneous room.
He utilized his understanding of formations to forcibly create an opening in the protective barrier of the cave mansion’s miscellaneous room, revealing the wall decorated with formation patterns.
’Divine Sight’ magnified this wall, observing its details at a micro-level.
Soon, he noticed some different details. He tapped lightly multiple times with his fingers on various positions, and not long after, a stone on the wall shifted, revealing an opening.
His Divine Thought entered the opening, finding a five-meter passage inside, followed by a small secret chamber.
He had read the notes on Wuqing Mountain, that cultivators were strictly prohibited from damaging any interiors of cave mansions, behavior like privately creating small secret chambers was certainly not allowed.
He had little expectation of finding any treasures in the secret chamber.
To be honest, if this were the residence of a Nascent Soul Ancestor, he might have some interest in the secret chamber they built.
But for a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, and a Loose Cultivator at that, his interest was indeed very small.
The opening and passage were only enough for one person to crawl through, he did not want to crawl in, yet this was no obstacle for Li Shiming, a white lotus appeared at his feet, and soon he found himself inside the secret chamber.
The walls of the secret chamber were covered with array formation patterns, which not only had the effect of concealing its presence but also allowed the secret chamber to merge with the earth, preventing it from being detected by cultivators outside.