Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1643 - 868: Supreme Being

In a serene morning, Li Shiming was seated cross-legged inside the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven Treasure Lotus Hall, immersed in seclusion for more than three years.

A sudden surge of heart palpitations struck him; given his cultivation realm, such sensations invariably signaled an impending major event tied to his fate.

He stopped cultivating the ’Heavenly Human Technique,’ and initially checked via his link to the ’Phantom Clone’ for any irregularities at Luanyang Palace in the Central State Continent.

No troubles appeared at Luanyang Palace; the ’Phantom Clone’ resided in Fengqi Palace, though Yin Shilan was away, yet both the ’Phantom Clone’ and Yin Shilan remained shielded by Luanyang Palace’s mighty grand formation.

No cultivator from the Cultivation World would dare invade Luanyang Palace, provided it had no plans to target the ’Phantom Clone’ and Yin Shilan.

Not even a Great Power would risk it, since Luanyang Palace was protected by a Great Power, and venturing a Great Power near another’s grotto heaven would leave them in a severely disadvantaged position.

With the ’Phantom Clone’ and Yin Shilan safe, Li Shiming turned his thoughts to his personal circumstances.

After ending his ’Heavenly Human Technique’ cultivation, he vanished from the grotto heaven in a flash, reappearing inside the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Right then, his life-bound treasure, the IBMz15, linked up automatically with the drone satellite system; once connected, it picked up a critical warning from the drone satellite system.

Next, the IBMz15 sent him a monitoring feed—a roughly hundred-meter blurred zone hurtling toward the Ten Thousand Beast Sect at a velocity nearly matching his ’One Step to Reach’ technique.

When Li Shiming spotted that blurred zone, even though he’d seen the faint shadow patches of Wang He and Yan Gao—two Peak Great Cultivators captured by drone satellite surveillance—they were merely a fifth as intense as this blur.

That blurred zone triggered his danger sense to skyrocket almost to its peak, instilling a vivid premonition of utter doom.

"Is it a Great Power?" That was the sole possibility he entertained.

Yet one puzzle baffled him—after all this time, why would a Great Power still hunt him down?

Back when he displayed overwhelming might on the Dongqi Continent, killing Wang He and Yan Gao, those two Peak Great Cultivators, plus the Half-step Great Power Yang Xing, he had anticipated a Great Power might pursue him.

Years later, he assumed Great Powers couldn’t cross the vast oceans, so he had let his guard down.

Today, however, a Great Power had arrived for real; no clash required—the sheer horrifying spatial distortion alone revealed this Great Power’s terrifying might.

"Master, I need to leave the sect!" He transmitted this urgent note to Grandmaster Hu.

He offered scant details, as over-explaining wouldn’t help Grandmaster Hu or the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Once the message was sent, he invoked the ’Divine Eye Skill’ and rapidly put eight thousand miles between himself and the sect’s mountain gate.

Uncertainty lingered whether the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven could conceal him from a Great Power’s senses.

Still, he refused to gamble; if he hid there only to be discovered by the Great Power, escape would be impossible.

Thanks to the Divine Foot Skill’s ’One Step to Reach,’ he now held at least a shot at fleeing to safety.

"Trying to escape!" Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar, already unleashing the Thunder Escape technique, detected spatial ripples, glanced toward Li Shiming’s escape path, and remarked calmly.

Even as an avatar, it sensed fierce energy shifts in distant regions via the faint Thunder Energy traces suspended in space.

Had Li Shiming relied on standard flight, Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar might have missed him, but he had employed the Divine Foot Skill’s ’One Step to Reach’—a divine ability for vast spatial jumps that consumed massive Spiritual Power Pattern, generating substantial spatial disturbances.

Regular Great Cultivators, limited by weak perception, barely notice the spatial ripples from the Divine Foot Skill.

To Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar, though, Li Shiming’s ’One Step to Reach’ blazed like a beacon in darkness, practically yelling, "I’m right here!"

Great Power Luo Yuan’s abrupt shift in pursuit of Li Shiming was spotted by Li Shiming via the drone satellite system.

Li Shiming sharply raised his appraisal of the Great Power’s prowess; convinced Great Power Luo Yuan used some wondrous tracking method, alarm surged through him, driving him to spam ’One Step to Reach’ repeatedly.

He didn’t realize his hasty actions had betrayed his position to Great Power Luo Yuan.

In truth, ’One Step to Reach’ stands as the ultimate speed technique in the Cultivation World, particularly for Li Shiming with his ’Divine Eye Skill,’ enabling leaps far beyond expert Divine Foot Skill users.

Each stride spanning eight thousand miles would despair most cultivators.

Yet Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar, wielding Thunder Escape, moved at inconceivable velocities.

Lacking a corporeal body and existing as pure energy, amplified by Great Power-level Thunder Escape, its pace closely rivaled Li Shiming’s ’One Step to Reach.’

Particularly at full throttle, Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar unleashed Great Power-tier spatial effects, flickering in and out of the void.

One chasing, one running, the two figures in the void swiftly departed the Dongqi Continent’s shores, plunging into the ocean.

Li Shiming eyed the ocean below, pondering Water Escape, for this spot was perfect for it.