Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1525 - 809: Facing the Challenge

One day afterward, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect hosted a magnificent ceremony as two Great Venerables from the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect showed up carrying formal surrender documents from their respective sects.

Grandmaster Hu and a handful of Great Cultivators first hoped that Li Shiming would join this impressive gathering, yet Li Shiming turned down the invitation.

He held zero desire for authority or glory. Relying on his expertise in alchemy, he could gain fame and riches whenever he wished, without the need to command an organization for selfish benefits.

Disregarding the clamor beyond his walls, he stayed inside his residence, steadily practicing his Cultivation.

Part of his awareness, linked via the IBMz15 drone satellite network, kept watch over the entire Dongqi Continent.

By this point, the drone satellite network spanned nearly all of the Dongqi Continent, with special focus on the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and the former Taichu Sect.

These days, the old Taichu Sect headquarters had become known as the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect Tai Chu Branch. Even though the lingering Thunder Energy traces had been wiped from the surface, restoring the spiritual veins to recreate spirit fields would demand considerable time.

Right now, numerous Spirit Plant Masters assembled from different areas were working hard across the Tai Chu Branch's grounds.

Besides a few Spirit Plant Masters who stayed in the Grotto Heaven from the Taichu Sect era, additional ones had been borrowed from the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect.

Thankfully, both sects surrendered a vast array of resource sites, providing an abundance of spare Spirit Plant Masters.

Even though Li Shiming showed little concern for the ongoing developments, Grandmaster Hu kept sending him regular reports via the Identity Jade Disc.

The Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect had pulled back their areas of control, surrendering well over half their lands to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect now dominated almost three-fourths of the Dongqi Continent's resource locations and even claimed two major sect headquarters.

In particular, at the Tai Chu Branch, after Li Shiming gained recognition for the Taichu Cave Heaven's core, he secured access rights from the Artifact Spirit.

Using the Artifact Spirit, he reopened the sealed Grotto Heaven area around the Tai Chu Branch, restricting entry within a thousand miles to only Ten Thousand Beast Sect Cultivators.

Li Shiming chose not to linger at the Tai Chu Branch and instead went back to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

As the mightiest fighter in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, he needed to stay there even without joining the two sects' submission rite, offering strong enough intimidation against them.

Naturally, no matter how bold the two sects grew, they would never risk even the tiniest clash with the Ten Thousand Beast Sect following the Taichu Sect's total destruction.

Had the Ten Thousand Beast Sect been fully grown with ample Great Cultivators to hold down rising groups, it would have long urged Li Shiming to wipe out the two sects entirely.

Inside Li Shiming's residence at present, he benefited from the Spiritual Energy provision assigned for two Great Cultivators. While extra Spiritual Energy brought him little real boost, it clearly highlighted how highly the Ten Thousand Beast Sect valued him.

He avoided retreating into his Heavenly Person Cave Heaven; for now, with big issues still unsettled, staying alert remained essential.

The envoys from the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect finished the ritual amid deep shame. They understood that their sects would slowly decline from here, but against the Taichu Sect's grim end, this result stood as far better.

Having given up huge swaths of land and resource spots, the supplies for Cultivators in the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect fell short for proper sharing; moving forward, they might hunt for assets in the sea or spread out some of their members.

Hunting for resources in the ocean proves incredibly risky; even a Great Cultivator raiding deep-sea treasures could provoke attacks from Late Stage Fourth Grade spirit beasts dwelling there.

On top of that, nearly every coastal resource on the Dongqi Continent fell under the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's grip.

This stemmed from each Ten Thousand Beast Sect Cultivator owning a personal Spiritual Pet. Thus, one Cultivator matched the fighting force of two, and since the Spiritual Pet was itself a spirit beast, it excelled at battling oceanic spirit beasts, letting the Ten Thousand Beast Sect firmly hold shoreline assets.

Even during times when the Ten Thousand Beast Sect faced heavy pressure, the other three sects failed to harvest coastal resources on such a broad scale as the Ten Thousand Beast Sect achieved.

Of course, if those shores had been handed to the three sects for centuries or millennia, they could have devised solid methods to combat spirit beasts.

Although the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect boasted mighty backers, those powers refrained from meddling in Dongqi Continent's local conflicts tied to other such forces.

Just the Taichu Sect's wipeout left its supporting superpower's stance uncertain.

Still, no great worry was required, since Li Shiming's shown might was enough to make superpowers think twice before acting.

After Li Shiming clashes with a Peak Great Cultivator, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect will solidly claim its fresh Dongqi Continent holdings, with no superpowers bold enough to eye them.

For now, while Li Shiming lives on, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect stays secure even should he depart the Dongqi Continent.

Such is the might of elite battle prowess. A group with supreme fighters can defend lands fitting that level of power.

Yet, given the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's shallow roots, the seized areas still depend on Li Shiming's fame to keep them in check temporarily. When the Sect's own Great Cultivators advance sufficiently, its internal might will handle territorial dominance on its own.

Days flowed by steadily, and Li Shiming skipped deep Cultivation sessions, given the low yields from the ’Heavenly Human Technique’.

Still, its benefit lay in allowing him to snap out of Cultivation instantly and leap into combat whenever needed.