Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1705 - 899: Ice Needle

The Xingyi Sword demolished the peak Great Cultivator’s defensive treasure right before he managed to trigger his life-saving jade talisman, then pierced straight into his body.

Simultaneously, both his physical form and Nascent Soul suffered assaults from the ’Chaos Sword Intent’ embedded in the Xingyi Sword. The life-saving jade talisman had barely slipped out of the soul crystal ring when it spiraled out of control and plummeted helplessly.

Li Yuanba swept the area with his Divine Sense, seized the jade talisman, and stored it away.

His eyes shifted to Great Cultivator Lin, reduced to mere Early Stage Great Cultivator power following Nascent Soul rebuilding. The Xingyi Sword zipped back to his side, primed for a fresh surge of spiritual power and bolstered Sword Intent, geared up to eliminate Great Cultivator Lin with the very next slash.

Great Cultivator Lin showed no sign of running; an unfathomable madness burned in his gaze.

He recognized this day as his utter end. Captured and returned to the sect by Guiyuan Sect’s mighty expert, he held only his life-bound treasure—no other Spiritual Objects remained, not even the soul crystal ring, which the powerful figure had handed directly to Li Yuanba.

Upon being questioned about his desires, he bypassed pleas for a fresh life-saving jade talisman, instead leveraging his final connection with the powerful figure to demand an offensive treasure.

Armed with this attack treasure, no further assistance would come from the powerful figure.

This act severed the final bonds between his clan and the powerful figure, but he viewed it as entirely justified.

He understood full well that even without his body ruined, his prowess fell short of overcoming Li Yuanba.

Not to mention his present state of Nascent Soul rebuilding, where climbing to Peak Great Cultivator Realm represented his absolute ceiling.

Nevertheless, the attack treasure handed him a real opportunity to slay Li Yuanba.

The powerful figure hadn’t outright gifted the attack treasure to Great Cultivator Lin; it was merely lent for a century before reclamation.

Right now, that attack treasure lay clutched in Great Cultivator Lin’s palm, set to unleash at any instant.

He grasped too that Li Yuanba’s flying sword moved with such blinding speed—even should his attack treasure land on Li Yuanba, the sword would strike him in the same heartbeat.

"Let us die together!" Great Cultivator Lin bellowed with a deranged look, as if yanking Li Yuanba down to Hell alongside him.

A chilling premonition gripped Li Yuanba as he sensed the ominous seal in Great Cultivator Lin’s grasp.

He acted without delay, unleashing the Xingyi Sword to hurtle toward Great Cultivator Lin at utmost velocity.

Great Cultivator Lin’s attack treasure likewise triggered, streaking straight for Li Yuanba.

The Xingyi Sword cleaved into Great Cultivator Lin. Even as ’Chaos Sword Intent’ ravaged his body and Nascent Soul, he fixated desperately on Li Yuanba, envisioning their shared doom in Hell.

To his dismay, an utterly crushing sight met his eyes; he perished staring wide, regret twisting his features beyond the grave.

Spotting the dire threat in Great Cultivator Lin’s hands, how could Li Yuanba clash with it using his own flesh? He summoned the Late-stage Golden Corpse.

A bolt of blue light slammed into the fully armored Late-stage Golden Corpse.

The blue light swiftly consumed the Late-stage Golden Corpse, encasing it in a sheath of blue ice.

Despite the ice’s formidable chill that imperiled even Peak Great Cultivators, it failed utterly—the Late-stage Golden Corpse’s defenses were staggeringly superior, outmatching those of Peak Great Cultivators.

Within a single breath of being frozen solid, the Late-stage Golden Corpse exploded the ice from within.

Li Yuanba’s gaze locked onto an ice needle, his eyes sharpening; its caliber defied assessment.

Only select treasures exhibit such traits, akin to the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ owned by the powerful figure.

With Divine Sense, he pulled in the ice needle, at once uncovering a tremendously potent spirit mark within—proof that Guiyuan Sect’s powerful figure was its master.

He swiftly fetched an isolating jade box and tucked the ice needle inside.

Afterward, he scoured the battlefield, evicting the remaining cultivators from the long-distance flying boat.

Far too many cultivators watched from nearby, so he held back from wiping out everyone on the long-distance flying boat.

He rose to the long-distance flying boat’s upper deck, directing it toward Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion reigned as the cultivation world’s top venue for processing spoils like seized Spiritual Objects.

He handed the long-distance flying boat back to the pavilion, where experts would take charge of it.

Even though it was a trap, the cargo inside the long-distance flying boat was loaded with real goods for added realism, stuffed to the brim.

No cultivator had the nerve to block the long-distance flying boat's takeoff; they weren't idiots, and they had clearly witnessed two Peak Great Cultivators fleeing solo while the rest got killed.

One cultivator had already spotted Li Yuanba; his strikingly unique face remained uncovered.

Li Yuanba piloted the long-distance flying boat, and as it approached the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, he transmitted a message to Jian Wuwei.

After getting back to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, Jian Wuwei sent a group of cultivators to handle the long-distance flying boat.

"Yuanba, why all this fuss?" Jian Wuwei was puzzled by Li Yuanba showing up with a long-distance flying boat and voiced his question.

Before this, Li Yuanba always handled matters covertly, without any traces left behind; the cultivation world pinned the Yuqing Sect assault on Li Shiming.

Yet today, Li Yuanba delivering the long-distance flying boat right to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion couldn't stay hidden, and word would spread fast to various powers.

"It was a trap this time—four Peak Great Cultivators ambushed me the moment I arrived!" Li Yuanba shot back, clearly irritated.