Li Shiming still refused Cultivator Dai Biao. Although the offer of one thousand blank talismans from a Great Cultivator was tempting, based on Dai Biaoâs words and his experience in the Yuzhu Islands, he realized that Great Cultivator blank talismans werenât particularly difficult to find in the Cloud Island Sea.
At the Yuzhu Islands alone, he found over five hundred blank talismans of Great Cultivators. As long as he traveled around, it was quite easy to obtain Great Cultivator blank talismans.
Moreover, he sensed something was off. The urgency for high-level Spirit Pills was written all over the face of the Purple Cloud Sectâs Great Cultivator before him, which aroused his vigilance.
He understood the notion that possessing valuable things could attract trouble; being thought to have large quantities of high-level Spirit Pills could be extremely troublesome.
Once he realized this, it was already too late. Since Cultivator Dai Biao sought him out, many Great Cultivators, under the guise of friendship, approached him, ultimately wanting to purchase high-level Spirit Pills.
After living in the Yuzhu Islands for two months, Li Shiming wasnât planning on staying any longer. He noticed he had caught the attention of many cultivators and sensed the occasional greed and malice aimed his way.
That day, he didnât inform anyone, nor did he return the cave dwelling.
The cave dwelling here came with a free 300-year lease; he might return to live for a while.
He flew away from Duiyi Island, sensing a vague feeling of being watched, but he didnât mind. Once he left the Yuzhu Islands, no cultivator could threaten him.
The only true threat he felt in the Yuzhu Islands was the half-step Great Power who kept hidden.
Upon leaving the Yuzhu Islands, he pulled out the map stored in his IBMz15.
During his time at the Yuzhu Islands, he purchased numerous books. After all, the environment here in the Cultivation World was completely different from the one he knew. The cultivation techniques and various books were highly useful references for him.
Additionally, buying different versions recorded by various authors greatly enhanced IBMz15âs construction of the overall map of the Cloud Island Sea.
Within the Cloud Island Sea, there were many forces like the Yuzhu Islands scattered among the outer margins.
Li Shiming sometimes pondered if each of these forces had a half-step Great Power, the overall strength of the Cloud Island Sea would be terrifying.
But from his inquiries from Great Cultivators residing on Jingyi Island, he learned that forces like the Yuzhu Islands that have a half-step Great Power are very rare.
Most of these forces possess one or more Peak Great Cultivators.
Regarding the Yuzhu Islandsâ half-step Great Power, it was unknown what fortune they obtained to succeed in challenging the limits with the relatively scarce resources of the islands, becoming a half-step Great Power.
While Li Shiming was curious about the fortune of the Yuzhu Islandsâ half-step Great Power, he had no intention of investigating.
He already had enough fortunes of his own. As long as he absorbed them, breaking through to a half-step Great Power seemed attainable.
He took out the âChasing Wind Dragon Boatâ and sailed through the sea.
The sea owned by human cultivators, so sailing here is not threatened by powerful spirit beasts.
Though spirit beasts exist, powerful ones are blocked at the outskirts, and any that enter the Cloud Island Sea are targets for cultivators to purge.
The ocean views offer little to see, just an endless sea merging with the distant horizon would be the only sight for a long time.
Sipping Spiritual Tea, Li Shiming took out a book and began to read.
He had mapped out his plan, intending to spend years exploring the Cloud Island Sea, trading some special local products, before finding a place to retreat into the cave and wait for the teleportation ring to regain energy.
His other brain, together with IBMz15, was researching the great formation of the âYuzhu Islandsâ.
Last timeâs beast tide provided IBMz15 with nearly all information about the Yuzhu Island array, many aspects of which could not be probed without activation.
It was fortuitous that the beast tide occasioned the full activation of various functions of the Yuzhu Islandsâ array, allowing him to gather all relevant information.
This arrayâs setup is quite complex, requiring various Fourth-grade Array Materials, exclusively produced by the Cloud Island Sea. Only the formation bases made from these materials accomplish the large islandâs free movement.
Unfortunately, the Yuzhu Islands didnât sell these Fourth-grade Array Materials. He learned from inquiries that these materials are only available in more prosperous areas of the Cloud Island Sea.
Common cultivators donât purchase these Fourth-grade Array Materials; they are bought by forces constructing floating islands, hence the lack of stock at the Yuzhu Islands.
"Trouble still arrives!" Li Shiming put down the cup in his hand, shaking his head and sighing.
He detected a faint formation aura ahead; given his recent study of the Yuzhu Islandsâ array, he was particularly sensitive to it.
The aura resonated with the Yuzhu Islandsâ array; either itâs from their Great Cultivators or involves them.
Li Shiming halted the âChasing Wind Dragon Boatâ. A few meters ahead lay the outer wall of a formation; one more step would land him inside it.