Cultivation is just so scientific!-Chapter 1669 - 881: Inventory

After traversing some distance in the ocean, Li Shiming dug out a temporary hideout beneath a seabed reef.

He had rich experience in constructing hideouts under the sea.

The Spiritual Treasure ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ made cutting through the reef extremely convenient and swift; in just a moment, a temporary hideout was carved out.

In the hall of the hideout, he took out several formation flags and set up a simple formation.

Once the formation was activated, it automatically expelled the seawater from the hideout and created a barrier at the entrance to prevent seawater from entering.

Unfortunately, this formation couldn’t last long, as there were no spiritual veins here. If there had been, this hideout could have been a permanent one.

Li Shiming didn’t care much about the longevity of the hideout; he needed only a safe resting place.

The biggest advantage of an underwater hideout was that seawater could shield against the investigation of other cultivators. Moreover, due to being underwater, if any cultivator did find this place, he could easily perform a water escape to leave.

After everything was set, he comfortably brewed himself a cup of Spiritual Tea and began to review the spoils of this time.

Of the six peak Great Cultivators, five fell at his hands, with only Master Qiu Zhi escaping.

In retrospect, he shouldn’t have let Master Qiu Zhi leave, as his departure meant that the other sects would learn about his slaying the other five Great Cultivators.

Although during the time they defended against enemies together in the Divine Palace, the peak Great Cultivators didn’t offer much useful information, he learned indirectly that each of their sects was extremely powerful.

In his understanding, these powerful sects were similar to super forces like the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, so he found a place to hide beforehand to check if there was any useful intelligence among the spoils.

He first took out the soul crystal ring of the Demon Cultivation Sect Master; he was quite curious about the corpse of Master Zongjing and would begin research when time permits.

Master Zongjing hailed from the Bone Sect, and upon his demise, the bones and flesh of his body were in a separated state, which resulted in Li Shiming obtaining a peculiar body without bones, as well as a skeleton.

Master Zongjing’s natal treasure was a Fourth Grade Top Quality White Bone Sword, and the skeleton held in hand a similar Fourth Grade Top Quality White Bone Sword, which, upon Li Shiming’s inspection, was also a natal treasure.

This meant that Master Zongjing possessed two natal treasures; aside from himself, Li Shiming had never seen another cultivator achieve this.

Li Shiming considered refining the body of Master Zongjing into a Corpse Refining; the peculiar nature of a corpse without bones intrigued him.

He also considered the use of the skeleton, sensing that its state was like an unused treasure, but he wouldn’t attempt to refine it for his own use without understanding it first.

As he thought, he examined the spiritual objects within the soul crystal ring.

With just a sweep of his Divine Sense, he felt a sense of revulsion.

Even though he had slain many cultivators, even those stronger than him, the methods of devil cultivation still deeply unsettled him.

Perhaps Master Zongjing was a demon cultivator focused on studying bones, as his soul crystal ring contained a large number of bones, with many being human bones.

Besides the bones of cultivators, there were some bones of mortals from young to old, preserved in special boxes that retained some vitality.

This indicated that all the bones were collected while their owners were still alive.

Li Shiming took these bones out, and with ’Nanming Leaving Fire,’ incinerated them completely.

He had no interest in these research-used bones, preferring to let dust return to dust and earth to earth, considering it an act of good.

In the soul crystal ring, he found a small flying boat, entirely made of bones. Fortunately, since it was made from the bones of powerful spirit beasts, he didn’t have the urge to destroy it.

The quality of the small flying boat was extremely high, reaching Fourth Grade Top Quality, nearly the top-tier flying boat in the Great Cultivator stage.

Alas, such a bone-crafted flying boat didn’t fit his aesthetic taste, and he had no intention of using it.

Once he returned to the Dongqi Continent, he could find an opportunity to sell it to the Central State Commerce, exchanging it for needed resources.

Following this, Li Shiming found a pile of Great Cultivator resources preserved in jade boxes, which were undoubtedly what Master Zongjing obtained from the Divine Palace.

He wasn’t surprised to have obtained these Great Cultivator resources; besides the other’s hostility towards him, another reason he spared no effort to slay these peak Great Cultivators was precisely for these resources.

The vast majority of the Great Cultivator resources from this expedition to the Divine Palace ended up in his possession.

With this batch of Great Cultivator resources, even cultivating his five Nascent Souls, his double Li Yuanba, and the future Yin Shilan to Peak Great Cultivator Realm wouldn’t exhaust these resources.

This operation truly resulted in a windfall, the obtained Great Cultivator resources roughly comparable to the centuries’ accumulation of all the super forces in the Cultivation World.

Li Shiming wondered just how many top-tier Great Cultivator Spirit Pills he could acquire from so many Great Cultivator resources.