And he also needed to strengthen his own accumulation through sharing Li Yuanba’s battle experience.

He still had the Thunder Beast, although it’s a bit slower than the Golden Winged Dapeng, the difference isn’t much.

"Thank you very much, fellow!" Li Yuanba said with a smile and bowed.

Li Shiming bowed in return, and the two laughed heartily facing each other.

They laughed extremely freely, as both the original and duplicate were the same person who achieved extraordinary accomplishments in the Cultivation World.

Now they almost stood at the pinnacle of the Cultivation World, no longer oppressed by other cultivators.

Whenever they recalled the hardships they faced along the road, the numerous times they hovered between life and death, surviving by the skin of their teeth just to reach this point.

Amidst their laughter, they were full of confidence, certain to step into higher realms.

Li Yuanba left the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, taking with him ten portions of Fourth Grade Inquiry Tea.

A thousand miles outside the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, after exiting the Cave Heaven Space barrier, the figure of the Golden Winged Dapeng was already waiting for him in the air.

Li Yuanba and Li Shiming were the same person, both were its masters to the Golden Winged Dapeng.

Li Yuanba sat on the back of the Golden Winged Dapeng, its figure transformed into a ray of light and sped off into the distance.

In the next moment, the Golden Winged Dapeng vanished, reappearing hundreds of miles away.

Two days later, Li Yuanba returned to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion without disclosing the existence of the Golden Winged Dapeng.

The first thing upon returning to Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion was to check the combat mission.

"Oh, there’s such a powerful Great Cultivator among Loose Cultivators?" Li Yuanba murmured in surprise upon seeing a wanted order.

No wonder he’s surprised, the strength of the wanted Great Cultivator, though not reaching the level of a Peak Great Cultivator, was close enough, having injured several Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion’s sword cultivators.

This kind of provocation, the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion would naturally not tolerate, escalating from an ordinary task to a wanted order.

A wanted order represents a must-kill, if Li Yuanba doesn’t take it, once Jian Tianyi has time, Jian Tianyi will take it.

Undoubtedly, Li Yuanba took up the wanted order to see what kind of strength a Loose Cultivator had to offer.

It’s not easy to enhance strength in the Great Cultivator Realm, requiring a vast amount of resource investment, not just for Loose Cultivators, even for major sects’ Great Cultivators, only a very few have the means to acquire resources to enhance strength.

Just like the former Ten Thousand Beast Sect, if not for Li Shiming’s assertiveness helping Ten Thousand Beast Sect occupy Dongqi Continent and establish commercial cooperation with numerous superpowers, their Great Cultivators would’ve remained at the initial stage of the Great Cultivator realm.

Li Yuanba accepted the mission without lingering in the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

The news of him accepting the mission spread rapidly.

Regarding the mission target this time, Li Yuanba didn’t care much, close to Peak Great Cultivator strength was merely a sword’s affair to him.

The only thing satisfying him was the mission location was on Central State Continent, not requiring him to leave the Central State.

Even with the Golden Winged Dapeng speeding along, too distant missions still wasted a lot of time.

What he needed was continuous battles, the lengthy travel taking countless days was not what he desired. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

In just a few two hours, he got close to the mission spot.

Li Yuanba let the Golden Winged Dapeng depart on its own, with a soul connection existing between them, the Golden Winged Dapeng would rush over with just his thought.

And given the Golden Winged Dapeng’s strength, unless encountering a powerful figure, no cultivator could exceed its speed, ensuring its safety during external actions.

Li Yuanba stood in the air, observing the target location with his ’Divine Eye’.

It was a place where cultivators gathered, at a very high level, and was also a black market, where Great Cultivators frequently came to trade.

This cultivator gathering place rented out grottoes, his target was within one such rented grotto.

According to intelligence, the other party hadn’t left since entering the rented grotto.

Li Yuanba didn’t mind the black market’s background issue, regardless of the background, none were stronger than him.

It couldn’t be a black market run by a powerful figure, the resources exchanged here were useless to powerful figures.

However, he was still polite first, if the black market cooperated, he would speak kindly.

After observing the black market’s situation, its formation was fairly good, under his observation, IBMz15 analyzed the formation thoroughly, he could break it easily anytime.

Without the formation’s assurance, the black market held no influence over him.

He cast a general Sound Transmission Technique, a spell sword cultivators used externally to identify themselves, transmitted to the black market’s Guardian Cultivator.

Shortly after, a Great Cultivator flew out from the black market.

"I wonder which fellow from Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion has arrived, Yu Jin warmly welcomes you!" Yu Jin greeted Li Yuanba with a fawning smile and bowed.

"Li Yuanba pays respect to fellow. I have come under Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion’s command to seize Chao Qi, please facilitate it!" Li Yuanba bowed slightly and said.

Yu Jin’s expression changed, a flash of fear passed through his eyes.

Li Yuanba’s reputation was built upon a mountain of corpses, calling it a reputation was more like a notorious reputation.

Now this fierce figure had come here to use the black market to seize a tenant, putting him in a difficult position.

"Senior, I can prompt Chao Qi to leave the black market soon, please grant me some time!" Yu Jin said, stabilizing his emotions.

Li Yuanba’s gaze suddenly turned sharp, the opposite party seemed unwilling to cooperate.

The mix of ’Chaos Sword Intent’ with chilling killing intent made Yu Jin shiver involuntarily.

A loose equivalent Great Cultivator like Yu Jin wasn’t even on the same level against Li Yuanba, a sword cultivator peak Great Cultivator.

"Senior, I will open the formation for you!" No need for Li Yuanba to say anything, Yu Jin conceded.

"No need, I’ll go in myself!" Li Yuanba waved his hand and spoke in a deep voice.

His figure flickered, disappearing from his place, then reappeared within the black market.

Watching Li Yuanba’s figure disappear, fear vanished from Yu Jin’s eyes, replaced by a mysterious gleam.

Upon entering the black market, which spanned a considerable range, in his mission data, he had a map of the black market, with Chao Qi’s rented grotto position clearly marked.

Deploying ’A Thousand Miles an Inch’ again, he arrived outside Chao Qi’s grotto.

By now, even if Chao Qi had some escape methods, he couldn’t evade his control.

As Li Yuanba was about to break Chao Qi’s grotto formation, he suddenly paused, looking around.

Unknown when, a formation appeared around him, silently arranged without him detecting its emergence.

"Beidou Array!" Li Yuanba murmured as he glanced at the sky where seven bright spots faintly surfaced.

The Beidou Formation was a broadly named formation, with any formation using the Beidou Seven Stars as formation eyes could be termed Beidou Array.

Yet facing the current Beidou Array, he felt at a loss on how to start.

The seven bright points representing the Beidou Seven Stars intermittently appeared, each position varied.

He promptly connected with IBMz15, analyzing the formation.

The more analyzed, the more shocked he became, the Beidou Array’s variations seemed manipulated by multiple elite Array Masters.

To break this Beidou Array, besides brute force, he had to utilize the brief stable moment during the Beidou Array’s shift to spot its flaw for breaking.

However, his priority wasn’t breaking the array but identifying who the enemy was?

Since they set up such an array to trap him, it implied they planned to do so deliberately.

With his reputation, not dispatching ample strong cultivators wouldn’t suffice to detain him.

Being in Central State Continent, if they dared to deploy powerful figures, Sword Elder’s duplicate would remind them their place.

Therefore, Li Yuanba wasn’t much worried, as long as the combat strength wasn’t at the powerful figure level, he was confident to handle it.