Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1707 - 900: Decision

Even with rumors circulating about Li Yuanba overpowering multiple Peak Great Cultivators including Master Cui, countless cultivators insisted Jian Tianyi delivered the crucial blow in the showdown at Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

However, the clash on Changshui Island featured solely the Sword Cultivator Li Yuanba.

Through this fierce battle's prowess, Li Yuanba crushed the prestige of Master Cui, Great Cultivator Yu, and more, ascending to the elite ranks of top Great Cultivators.

The upheavals shaking the Cultivation World scarcely involved Li Yuanba, and tracking him down proved utterly futile for any cultivator.

Li Yuanba retreated into seclusion, barring all who sought audience.

Yuqing Sect burned for retribution against Li Yuanba yet found no path forward, limited now to deploying only their Great Powers.

Be it quantity or might of their Great Cultivators, none could topple Li Yuanba even united. Challenging him amounted to courting doom.

After the botched scheme of recruiting mighty experts to ambush and eliminate Li Yuanba, no Peak Great Cultivators stepped up anymore.

Peak Great Cultivators remain rare across the Cultivation World; plenty of super forces boast just one such powerhouse.

Concerning dispatching a Great Power, Li Yuanba wasn't some rootless cultivator. Unlike Li Shiming, they couldn't simply dispatch an avatar to drive him off.

Should Great Power Luo Yuan venture an avatar into Central State Continent, the horde of Great Powers there might erase it before he could strike at Li Yuanba.

Li Yuanba's bold strike wasn't free of repercussions; it laid bare his vendetta with Yuqing Sect, drawing fresh adversaries.

Still, this move yielded a vital gain: Yuqing Sect could no longer interfere in Dongqi Continent's conflicts.

Yuqing Sect now reels in crisis, numerous resource hubs lost to foes. Hammered by assaults from various powers at once, they're drained dry with no spare effort for Dongqi Continent.

Just the White Emperor Sect plus a few shadowy super forces covertly aided Dongqi Continent sects battling Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Li Yuanba's ferocious assault alerted White Emperor Sect to possible links between him and Ten Thousand Beast Sect. Their intel arm unearthed key evidence: Li Yuanba shares friendship with Li Shizhen.

This deduction stemmed from Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion consistently snagging premium Spirit Pills early during Li Shiming's pill-forging runs, bypassing all queues.

Investigations via backchannels revealed Li Yuanba orchestrated these arrangements.

Thus, Li Yuanba most probably lashed out at Yuqing Sect to lighten the load on Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

If not, considering his stature, what drove him to ravage Yuqing Sect so savagely, offending them without mercy?

As a result, White Emperor Sect yanked back the bulk of its forces from Dongqi Continent, retaining merely a handful for contact duties.

This retreat aimed to sidestep further ire from Li Yuanba. His merciless ferocity daunted even a colossal entity like White Emperor Sect.

An entire Yuqing Sect branch got obliterated by Li Yuanba single-handedly, sparing none from Great Cultivators down to lowly disciples.

Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect remained oblivious to White Emperor Sect's maneuvers—not their oversight, as their spy webs fixated solely on probing Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Details on White Emperor Sect's Dongqi Continent posture lay beyond those two sects' reach.

Mirroring other super forces, White Emperor Sect stationed only liaison cultivators, devoid of frontline warriors.

Essentially, these super forces had forsaken the fight against Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

They held no dread for Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's partner, Luanyang Palace.

Luanyang Palace clings to discreet ways unless hit by catastrophe; sans that, they shun grand gestures.

Yet Li Shizhen's ally, Li Yuanba, looms as the ultimate nightmare.

Li Yuanba strikes with zero restraint, toppling two Peak Great Cultivators under his blade—might mirroring a second Li Shizhen.

Li Shizhen's prior presence alone stayed Yuqing Sect and White Emperor Sect from assailing Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Li Yuanba's rise now drives Yuqing Sect to abandon Dongqi Continent, while White Emperor Sect pulls out by choice.

Inside Ten Thousand Beast Sect, Grandmaster Hu gazed strangely at the missive clutched in his grasp.

A White Emperor Sect cultivator had handed this letter to Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's Intelligence Department, from whence it reached him.

A letter sent to Grandmaster Hu originated from the White Emperor Sect, vowing no meddling in Dongqi Continent's matters and declaring that no outside forces from beyond Dongqi Continent would dispatch cultivators to involve themselves in its internal conflicts.

Grandmaster Hu pulled out yet another piece of intelligence, detailing the White Emperor Sect's pullback from the Dongqi Continent.

In contrast to Lianhua Temple and the Sun Concealing Sect, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s intelligence division is expanding swiftly, whereas those two sects struggle to uphold their massive spy networks, hardly able to keep them running, much less probe into the White Emperor Sect’s operations.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s intelligence team uncovered that the White Emperor Sect’s battle cultivators had departed the Dongqi Continent. Linking this discovery with the letter from the White Emperor Sect made their position unmistakable.

"What happened? How did things come to this? Is it a trap?" Grandmaster Hu muttered to himself.