Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1683 - 888: Corrosion

Inside the ’Chasing Wind Dragon Boat’, Li Shiming started calculating his loot from the journey.

The Mustard Seed Rings belonging to other Great Cultivators held scarcely any Spiritual Objects worth his attention.

Yet, upon inspecting Grandmaster Wu Ding’s Soul Crystal Ring, he immediately spotted a flying boat.

A top-tier fourth-grade flying boat it was, and his Divine Sense scan revealed the ownership imprint inside it remained intact.

Furthermore, the spirit power in that ownership imprint proved extraordinarily potent, likely from a half-step Great Power.

Li Shiming left the top fourth-grade flying boat untouched; he merely drew out a few Prohibition Talismans to lock it down.

"Indeed, there is!" he murmured with a grin, pulling a jade token from the Soul Crystal Ring.

Having lost its master with Grandmaster Wu Ding’s demise, this jade token now stood ownerless.

Nevertheless, should any other cultivator claim it, they couldn’t bind it anew or trigger its functions.

The jade token served as the Yuzhu Island Array’s control token—the one with supreme authority, befitting Grandmaster Wu Ding’s rank.

Holding this control token, Li Shiming could effortlessly command the Yuzhu Island Array, bypassing any need to infiltrate and conquer it.

A half-step Great Power lurked there, so he kept all operations distant from the Yuzhu Islands; venturing near might invite a fatal strike.

Having survived one assault from a half-step Great Power already, he had zero desire for a repeat.

Li Shiming injected his Divine Sense into the control token, and aided by IBMz15, he altered it to claim ownership anew.

Grandmaster Wu Ding’s Soul Crystal Ring also contained resources for Great Cultivators, though they no longer piqued his interest.

Shortly thereafter, he neared the Yuzhu Islands and stowed the ’Chasing Wind Dragon Boat’.

Shifting his aura to mimic water element, he fooled the Yuzhu Island Array’s scans, avoiding instant detection.

Once within range to dominate the Yuzhu Island Array, he produced the control token.

IBMz15 had thoroughly analyzed the array beforehand; through the token, he sent directives that the array obeyed.

Cultivators on Yuzhu Island gaped in shock as the thirty-six islands started shifting.

Still, with recent relocations fresh in memory, their astonishment at the islands’ abrupt motion didn’t spark mass hysteria.

Not even Yuzhu Islands’ leaders suspected an outsider puppeteering the island array.

Those thirty-six islands arranged into a unique confinement array, encircling the main island—known as Central Island—at its heart.

Li Shiming had verified before that the half-step Great Power’s Grotto Heaven bound tightly to the main island; beast tide movements never disrupted it.

Now, certain Yuzhu Islands elites sensed trouble, yet Grandmaster Wu Ding had sent away nearly every Great Cultivator, leaving mere Nascent Soul Middle Stage figures powerless to intervene.

Truth be told, even with intent to act, they stood no chance. Inside the array, only profound array expertise for swift breach, or overwhelming might—at minimum Great Cultivator level—targeting vulnerabilities full-force offered faint odds of halting it.

Without delay for Yuzhu Islands cultivators’ response, Li Shiming flicked his hand, launching two hundred ’Corrosive Fog Talismans’ toward the array.

No sooner had the two hundred ’Corrosive Fog Talismans’ pierced the array than its Spiritual Power Pattern lines whisked them to the main island’s core.

He observed them arrive, then triggered the ’Corrosive Fog Talismans’ remotely via the control token.

A resounding "boom" echoed as the two hundred ’Corrosive Fog Talismans’ detonated—like two hundred fourth-grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beasts’ self-exploding to unleash ’Corrosive Fog,’ but fiercer.

Chiefly, Li Shiming’s ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ fueled the ’Corrosive Fog’; its superior quality outshone equivalent-level energies.

Consequently, this ’Corrosive Fog’ raged far mightier than what a fourth-grade ’Xuan You Wujin Beast’ could produce.

On the main island's surface, a thick mass of gray mist suddenly materialized; the defining trait of the ’Corrosive Fog’ is its tenacious grip on whatever it touches, eroding the target completely without mercy.

The gray mist rapidly blanketed the majority of the main island's terrain, triggering panicked screams from the wary cultivators.

Cultivators scrambled to flee the zones enveloped by the gray mist, yet plunging headlong into the fog revealed their fatal miscalculation.

"This is the ’Corrosive Fog,’ hurry and call the patriarch to intervene!" yelled a cultivator who instantly identified the ’Corrosive Fog.’

Regrettably, Li Shiming clutched the control token; this token functioned not merely as the controller for the Yuzhu Island Array but also as the vital link to summon the half-step Great Power.

The half-step Great Power could not perpetually monitor Yuzhu Island's developments, relying solely on the island's commanding Great Cultivators to relay any outside disturbances.

Right now, the island's cultivators had detected the anomaly, and nearby cultivators likewise grasped that a dire event was unfolding on Yuzhu Island.

At Duiyi Island, Li Shiming was stunned to observe only a handful of Great Cultivators soaring into the air, with the others completely vanished from sight.

"Could it be they’re chasing after me?" Li Shiming muttered under his breath.