In a stronghold of the Holy Ice Sect on the outskirts of the Tianhai Sect, a foundation-building monk was looking at two late-stage Qi Refining monks.
This stronghold is a permanent stronghold built by the elder Baili of the Holy Bing Sect, specifically to investigate the disappearance of Baili Jinyan.
The normal people stationed here are two monks in the late stage of Qi refining. The Holy Ice Sect is presided over by Elder Baili's foundation-building disciple, Wei Yun.
Recently, when Wei Yun was reading the intelligence sent back by Tianhaizong, he discovered that Li Shiming, who should have been killed, was actually still alive.
Li Shiming is not important, but the key is that Kai Yun has reported Li Shiming's death to his master, Elder Baili, so Li Shiming must be dead.
You must know that Elder Baili personally investigated Qiutan on Changming Island, and sensed the imprint left by Baili Jinyan from Qiutan and two assistants.
Because it took a long time, there was only a trace of residual breath left in the mark.
But this did not affect Elder Baili's discovery. With this discovery, regardless of whether Qiutan was related to Baili Jinyan's disappearance, Qiutan was the person Baili Jinyan wanted to kill.
Then help your son kill Qiutan and the two men, which can be regarded as fulfilling Baili Jinyan's unfulfilled wish.
After a period of investigation, Elder Baili has many questions about Baili Jinyan’s disappearance. The secret technique left in Baili Jinyan’s body has lost its sense, but has not disappeared. This is why he has doubts about Baili Jinyan’s future.
The last hope of death.
After catching Qiutan and his two assistants, Elder Baili conducted an inhuman soul search on the three of them.
Even in the world of cultivating immortals, soul searching is not a method that can be used casually. It is usually used only when someone has a deep hatred.
The main reason is that after this method is used, the soul of the soul-searcher will be completely annihilated. The monks' understanding of death is that life can be destroyed and the soul will enter reincarnation.
The annihilation of the soul represents no hope of reincarnation and is the most cruel punishment.
In addition, the person whose soul is being searched will suffer extreme soul pain during this period, and the caster will also feel this pain, which is a kind of soul torture for both parties.
However, since Elder Baili's realm is much higher than that of Qiutan and the others, the backlash he received was extremely low.
Through soul searching, he found out how Baili Jinyan met the three of them, and learned the gossip about the conversation between the three.
For the sake of his son, he decided to get rid of Li Shiming, the source of Baili Jinyan's anger. How could Li Shiming get the woman his son couldn't get?
Yin Shilan had a powerful father and a demonic mother who could not be provoked, so he could only kill Li Shiming.
Elder Baili did not personally do the killing of Li Shiming.
The main reason is that Li Shiming's Yingzui Island is too close to Jiufeng. At that distance, if Elder Baili dares to get close, he will be immediately discovered by the Tianhai Sect's sect formation, and then the elders of the sect will come forward.
After being threatened by Lao Mo Ren, Elder Baili had no intention of challenging the two sects, Tianhai Sect and Xuanming Sect.
For all monks in the Qi Refining Stage and most of the Foundation Establishment Stage, Tianhai Sect and Xuanming Sect are mortal enemies.
But it was only for the Golden Core Stage and the few Foundation Stage monks who had access to the core affairs of the sect that they understood the true relationship between Tianhai Sect and Xuanming Sect.
The battle between the two sects brought about the fact that the monks in the Qi Refining Stage and the Foundation Establishment Stage were both good at fighting, and they could limit the intensity of the battle within a controllable range, creating an environment conducive to the improvement of the monks from the two sects.
Without danger, monks will become useless people who only know how to cultivate. It does not mean that a high level means strong. Only monks who have been tempered in countless battles can gain a foothold in the world of immortality.
When encountering trouble at the level of Jindan, Tianhai Sect and Xuanming Sect can join forces at any time.
The small matter of killing Li Shiming became a reward task, which was left to the late-stage Qi Refining monks of the Holy Ice Sect to complete.
The late Qi Refining monks of the Holy Ice Sect also completed the assassination mission very easily and received the reward from Elder Baili.
The person responsible for supervising the assassination mission was Wei Yun in the foundation building period.
"Accepting the reward falsely, do you know the consequences of this?" Wei Yun scolded with a sullen face.
The two late-stage Qi refining monks looked pale, and they naturally knew Elder Baili's methods.
"Uncle Wei, who would have known that the spiritual master on that island was not Li Shiming!" A late-stage Qi Refining monk explained helplessly with a grimace.
Yes, the mission location is correct, and the mission target is a spirit planter who is in the middle stage of Qi refining.
They used the formation-breaking talisman given by the sect to enter Eagle Mouth Island, and saw the monk who was casting Ling Zhifu's spell.
The description of the mission location and mission objectives were correct, and they did not expect to kill the wrong person.
In fact, not only them, but also Wei Yun didn't do much to investigate how a small fourth-level Qi Refining monk could deserve the excessive attention of a Foundation Establishment monk. He would just die if he died.
If the information this time hadn't mentioned that a junior formation master had gained some fame in Tianhai Sect, and the junior formation master's name was Li Shiming, Wei Yun would have forgotten this matter.
"There is a formation-breaking talisman here. You two go there again and sort things out without leaving any trace behind!" Wei Yun confessed in a deep voice.
Wei Yun was also a little distressed, so he paid for a formation-breaking talisman. This time, Elder Baili did not reimburse him, but he paid for it himself.
Of course, the two late-stage Qi Refining monks also had no mission rewards. They had already received them last time, and they did not dare to receive the same mission again.
"Uncle Xie, don't worry, we won't make any mistakes this time!" the two Qi Refining Stage monks assured.
Li Shiming didn't know that there was still a follow-up to the Baili Jinyan incident. More than half a year had passed, and he thought that the investigation on the Shengbing Sect should have ended long ago.
Besides, nothing has ever happened to Eagle Beak Island, and everything is peaceful.
At the moment, he is using his spiritual thoughts to combine his consciousness, and is doing a full body check on the clone.
The aura of the clone has been completely transformed. There is no longer any aura of Baili Jinyan. Coupled with the change in face, he is completely a different person.
But when Li Shiming put his consciousness into his body and practiced the "Bing Xin Jade Thought Technique", he always felt that there was some kind of spiritual energy in his body.
When the clone's spiritual sense was first restored, he didn't feel it was too strong, so he didn't notice it. However, as the clone's spiritual sense grew, this feeling became more and more obvious.
Moreover, when the clone practiced the 'Bing Xin Jade Thought Technique', the spiritual thoughts improved a bit too fast, even exceeding the improvement speed of the main body's spiritual thoughts.
Li Shiming divided the clone's body into dozens of areas and used micron-level inspection methods to explore them bit by bit.
He knew that his level was too low, so his search was very slow, using micron-level perception and spiritual awareness.
Finally he found something suspicious, which was a drop of blood in the heart.
The reason why I suspected this drop of blood essence was that it seemed normal, but when I examined it with my spiritual sense, I sensed an abnormal aura.
If the aura of the clone is still the same as the original, then Li Shiming will never sense anything unusual about the aura of this drop of blood.
The problem is that the aura of the clone has completely changed now. Although the aura of this drop of essence and blood is extremely weak, it is incompatible with the surrounding aura.
In addition to the breath of this drop of blood essence, he tried to sense the special spiritual energy in this drop of blood essence but failed.
Li Shiming thought about it and decided to let his clone practice the 'Bingxin Jade Thought Technique', because every time he sensed spiritual energy, the clone was in the state of practicing the 'Bingxin Jade Thought Technique'.
At the same time, he also let his spiritual thoughts and consciousness pay attention to this drop of blood essence, so that he could detect any abnormalities in the blood essence.
The 'Bing Xin Jade Thought Technique' operates, and this drop of blood essence emits extremely pure spiritual energy into the clone body, increasing the intensity of the spiritual thoughts.
Li Shiming finally understood what the spiritual energy he sensed was. It was this drop of seemingly normal blood essence.
This drop of essence and blood is helping Baili Jinyan practice the "Bing Xin Jade Thought Technique" in some unknown way.
Anyway, with Li Shiming's current level, even with the computer room space and IBMz15, he can't analyze the special features of blood essence.
What he didn't know was that this was a father's selfless love for his son. Elder Baili used his own essence and blood to use a secret method to strip away the essence and blood and put it into his son Baili Jinyan's body.
Under normal circumstances, a drop of essence and blood from the golden elixir stage is enough to burst the body of a monk in the Qi refining stage. Even if Baili Jinyan has cultivated the physique of the 'Sword Demon Secret Book', there will be no difference.
But Elder Baili's secret method was to transform the golden elixir-stage essence and blood into a mild nature, leaving it in Baili Jinyan's body.
It was this essence and blood that allowed Baili Jinyan's already amazing talent to reach an almost insurmountable achievement in the Qi refining stage.
Based on Baili Jinyan's future development direction, he will suppress his realm until the spiritual energy vortex in his body reaches its limit. If he breaks through again, he will lay the strongest foundation for cultivating immortality.
Li Shiming frowned and felt the drop of blood essence. He had two choices. One was to peel off the drop of blood essence and destroy it.
But he was not sure at all. He had difficulty even detecting the blood essence, let alone peeling it off. He was worried that if it was not peeled off well, the energy inside the blood essence would destroy the clone, or even destroy the computer room space.
The second is to keep it as it is and wait for this drop of blood to be consumed on its own.
It is possible that as the 'Bing Xin Jade Thought Technique' operates, spiritual energy will flow out of the blood essence.
It is impossible for a drop of essence and blood to have a steady stream of spiritual energy inside. As long as you continue to practice spiritual thoughts and use the 'Bingxin Jade Thought Technique', the essence and blood can be exhausted.
But in this case, he thought that bringing the clone to the outside world would be postponed again.
"Hey, it's a blessing in disguise!" He sighed helplessly.
Knowing what the problem was, he was relieved.
After getting the clone and seeing the treasure in the storage bracelet, he guessed that there would be trouble.
Sure enough, the trouble continued, but fortunately he was careful in everything he did.
If he really summoned his clone to the outside world, he might have been discovered by the Holy Ice Sect and began to hunt him down.
This is also true. Elder Baili, the owner of that drop of blood essence, will be able to track the location of the blood essence sooner or later as long as Li Shiming does not leave this continent.
That is to say, the space in the computer room was too special and blocked Elder Baili's perception, which allowed Li Shiming to be at ease until now.
Li Shiming was immersed in the state of being connected to the IBMz15. A large amount of formation knowledge was constantly emerging in his brain. All 190 PUs of the IBMz15 were running at full load.
He did not use good deeds, but purchased a lot of formation knowledge through Yun's Trading Company. Although it consumed a lot of spiritual stones, compared to the good deeds, it was still acceptable.
The Yun's Trading Company's formation knowledge was mostly obtained through various channels, and has nothing to do with the sect's formation knowledge, nor does it conflict with it.
He felt that his knowledge of formations was sufficient, and he could consider applying for the intermediate formation master examination after a while.
Of course, if he took the exam now, he would have a certain degree of confidence, but the time was too short and attracted too much attention, so he decided to wait another year or two before taking the exam.
IBMz15 is researching formation knowledge almost all the time, and then, just like this, the research results are shared with him every once in a while.
This allowed him to move forward quickly along the formation without missing anything.
Suddenly, IBMz15 stopped the sharing process of formation knowledge and sent him a warning.
He understood that this was the vibration caused by the eye mask placed beside him, and the IBMz15 detected it through his five senses and sent him a reminder.
The goggles vibrated, indicating someone was approaching suspiciously.
He didn't need to wear a blindfold, he put a spiritual thought into the blindfold, and then he saw the abnormal location outside the island through a surveillance probe.
Speaking of surveillance probes, now that micron-level chips are available, he has produced a lot of surveillance probes, and any direction approaching Eagle Beak Island is within the scope of surveillance.
Infrared plus normal mode, and then processed and analyzed by the chip, whenever a suspicious situation occurs, an early warning will be automatically sent to the relay device, that is, the goggles.
At the same time, the surveillance probe will track the movement of suspicious targets and provide real-time tracking images to the goggles.
Li Shiming's spiritual thoughts were like eyes, and he saw the picture inside the eye mask, which was an invisible figure.
Monks have many invisibility techniques, but most of the invisibility methods are of little use to monks. A small Qi-gazing technique can break them.
Even without the use of Qi-gazing, a monk's perception of spiritual power fluctuations can still detect invisible monks approaching a certain distance.
Li Shiming's surveillance probe naturally does not have this method, but the infrared mode can still detect targets.
But what surprised him was that the target figure did not appear red like a normal monk. The red color in the infrared night vision mode represented the heat emitted by the body.
Even a monk will continue to emit heat from his body. The stronger the monk, the stronger the heat he emits.
However, the silhouette of the person on the surveillance screen is shown in dark blue. This is a situation that occurs when the body temperature is much lower than the surrounding temperature.
Fortunately, when Li Shiming wrote the judgment program, he added the possibility of human body hypothermia. He had come into contact with a similar monk before, but it was a demonic cultivator.
That demonic cultivator is a Xuanming Sect monk, and he is very similar to this dark blue figure.
"Could it be a Xuanming Sect monk?" Li Shiming guessed in his mind.
Why did the Xuanming Sect monks secretly sneak into Eagle Mouth Island? This place is a restricted area for Xuanming Sect monks.
At this moment, he saw a second dark blue figure appear. The two people seemed to be communicating something, and then one of them stretched out his hand towards the magic circle.