Chapter 1117: Chapter 605: Taking Stock
Li Shiming once again perceived the spiritual imprint within the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, which floated inside the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, looking as though even after thousands of years, it might still not be able to dissipate on its own.
He attempted to forcibly remove the spiritual imprint from the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ through his control over the machine room space.
The moment his control contacted the spiritual imprint, it was instantly repelled. He felt that if it weren’t for the special control he used over the machine room space, just the counterattack of the spiritual imprint would be enough to damage the soul of a Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner, possibly even causing their demise on the spot.
The entity that left the spiritual imprint had embedded an immense amount of spirit into it, which might have been negligible to that entity, but was lethal to Li Shiming, a Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner.
His natal artifact, IBMz15, began its analysis and soon provided several solutions.
These solutions were tailored according to his current capabilities, with each having the potential to remove the spiritual imprint.
The reason it is only potential and not definite is that IBMz15 could not accurately determine the level of the spiritual imprint.
Li Shiming shook his head, and suddenly, a gigantic Nascent Soul Dharma Form arm appeared in front of him, holding the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’.
He released a bolt of lightning into the void before him, and with a slight mental maneuver, he directed the lightning toward the spiritual imprint within the machine room space’s ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.
The lightning struck the spiritual imprint, yet the imprint remained unaffected, as if the lightning were illusory.
Seeing that the lightning attack was ineffective, he then condensed a ’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’ and directed it at the spiritual imprint within the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.
’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’ is the nemesis of spirits, but its efficacy depends on the level of the spirit.
When the ’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’ contacted the spiritual imprint and struck it, the imprint stood unwavering, and instead, the ’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’ shrank by half.
Still somewhat unconvinced, he continued to attack the spiritual imprint with ’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’, but this time the ’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’ vanished completely.
Li Shiming looked at the spiritual imprint inside the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, feeling like a mortal confronting a mountain. His determination to shake the spiritual imprint wavered after repeated failures.
He hadn’t initially considered the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ because it was too feeble, even after a period of refinement, it could not compare to the ’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’.
Having tried most of the solutions provided by IBMz15, only one remained, and it was the least likely to succeed.
That was to use the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ to attack the spiritual imprint. Previously, neither the Thunder Skill attacks nor the ’Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent’ attacks had any effect, so Li Shiming doubted the immature ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ could succeed.
Light flickered on Li Shiming’s fingertip as a ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ formed.
With a slight mental maneuver, the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ disappeared from his fingertip and reappeared at the spiritual imprint within the machine room space ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.
The ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ struck the spiritual imprint of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, bounced back, yet was not diminished by much.
It appeared that the spiritual imprint was unchanged, just like the previous attempts—it was futile.
But under his 5-nanometer control perception, Li Shiming noticed a difference.
After being struck by the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’, the spiritual imprint in the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ produced a gap of about 18 nanometers.
In fact, if not for his 5-nanometer control, this 18-nanometer gap would have been impossible to detect.
Previously, no matter what was attempted, there wasn’t even a hint of a gap, let alone an 18-nanometer one.
"It’s working, but the efficiency is too low!" Li Shiming complained, though he did not cease his actions.
He allocated one part of his mind solely to controlling the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ to continuously attack the spiritual imprint of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.
No matter how minuscule the damage the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ had on the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’s spiritual imprint, as long as it caused destruction, the obliteration of the spiritual imprint was inevitable.
After all, he was a Nascent Soul Cultivator, with plenty of time at his disposal.
Just as Li Shiming used the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ on the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’s spiritual imprint, far away in a grotto heaven within the Yuqing Sect on the West Yan Continent, Luo Yuan opened his eyes.
"Wang Yuan is in trouble, the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ has fallen into the hands of another!" Luo Yuan murmured to himself.
He was slightly annoyed, wondering what cultivator dared seize the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, disregarding the Yuqing Sect.
The message Wang Yuan sent when trouble struck would take time to reach the West Yan Continent, and Luo Yuan had yet to receive Wang Yuan’s message.
The reason Luo Yuan knew something had happened to the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ was that Li Shiming had used the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ on the spiritual imprint he left within the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.
"Retrieve!" Luo Yuan cast a complex spell with a loud shout.
No matter how far the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ was from him, as its owner, he could recall the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.
The ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ was not just any magical artifact, but an extraordinary treasure, which had become the Yuqing Sect’s most prized possession after countless years of investment.
Under normal circumstances, once Luo Yuan cast the retrieval spell for the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, no matter how far it was from him, even if it was across the continent, he could recall it.