Chapter 1855: Chapter 974: Acknowledging a Master

In the Inheritance Cave Heaven of the Yuqing Sect, Great Power Luo Yuan hovered blankly in the air, with the world of the Inheritance Cave Heaven below him.

Since he lost contact with the avatar, he remained in this state.

He was waiting, knowing before losing contact that the avatar was shielded from the main body’s connection by a formation.

He believed that as long as the avatar resolved the trouble, it would reestablish contact with him.

But as time passed, he grew increasingly anxious while waiting.

One day, two days, three days, although he hadn’t perceived the avatar’s demise, he knew something unexpected must have happened to it.

Today marked the thirtieth day since he lost contact with the avatar, Great Power Luo Yuan waited for an outcome, also awaiting the soul’s pain to arrive.

He no longer hoped for the avatar’s safe return and was quite certain that Li Shiming must have used some method to control the avatar.

It’s no wonder Li Shiming set up a barrier to isolate the contact between the avatar and the main body; surely, Li Shiming has some special means to fight the avatar.

Thinking of this, Great Power Luo Yuan couldn’t help but feel alarmed.

The hatred between him and Li Shiming had begun since Li Shiming was yet to mature, and every time they clashed, Li Shiming’s strength would explosively grow.

Initially, he only sent Nascent Soul Cultivators of the Yuqing Sect, then Great Cultivators, and subsequently Peak Great Cultivators, until he finally sent his Great Power Avatar.

The Great Power Avatar was already the strongest means he could deploy, and he had no stronger combat power to send.

The last time he sent the Great Power Avatar, it pursued Li Shiming, who escaped via some unknown spatial transmission technique.

This time, he also sent the Great Power Avatar, only to lose contact with it; although he had no source of information and didn’t know Li Shiming’s situation, he assumed the Great Power Avatar had trouble, meaning Li Shiming must be the victorious side.

He showed a bitter smile, never expecting that the renowned Yuqing Sect, a superpower of the Cultivation World, couldn’t handle Li Shiming.

Of course, now the Yuqing Sect was left with only him as a cultivator, but he was also the strongest.

Suddenly, the figure of Great Power Luo Yuan standing in mid-air wobbled, almost falling from the sky.

He struggled to maintain his posture, his face turning pale.

This was caused by the destruction of the severed soul, affecting the main soul.

He sighed deeply and fell from the air, walking into a cave mansion.

At the center of the cave mansion was a special formation.

This was a formation aiding long sleep, and he decided to let himself enter a long slumber to slow down the reduction of his life span.

The long sleep process would greatly reduce the consumption of bodily functions, while also weakening the soul to the extreme, even preventing it from being sensed by the outside world.

In this state over a long period, not only would there be no improvement in strength, but it might also adversely affect one’s cultivation, causing a decline in strength.

Moreover, in this state, if attacked, one wouldn’t even be able to react, let alone counterattack.

Naturally, not many cultivators knew about this long sleep secret technique, used mostly by elder cultivators at the end of their life span, to barely stay alive.

After awakening from the long sleep secret technique, cultivators experience dual torment to the soul and body, the longer the sleep, the more severe the torment.

Those sect elders resorted to the long sleep secret technique, not for themselves, but in preparation to unleash their final strike when the sect encountered trouble.

Great Power Luo Yuan was ready to use the long sleep secret technique out of desperation.

The fall of the Great Power Avatar left him almost unable to interfere in the affairs of the Cultivation World.

His soul was wounded, and to sever the soul again and summon another Great Power Avatar would not be feasible without hundreds of years of recuperation.

The key lies in the current energy reserves of the Inheritance Cave Heaven, which would further delay this recovery time.

He abandoned the idea of rebuilding the Yuqing Sect in the short term, preparing to sleep for a thousand years and plan to rebuild it afterwards.

As for the matter of Li Shiming, he no longer considered it.

Frankly, it was no longer a matter of him troubling Li Shiming, but whether Li Shiming would come after him in the future.

Given Li Shiming’s ability at the Peak Great Cultivator Realm to kill his Great Power Avatar, it was almost certain that advancing to Half-step Great Power would be no issue for Li Shiming.

And the likelihood of Li Shiming advancing to Great Power was extremely high; Great Power Luo Yuan saw in Li Shiming the shadow of those prodigious cultivators who advanced to Free Great Power.

Even the genius displayed by Li Shiming was more gifted than those Free Great Powers.

"Just hope Li Shizhen doesn’t come looking!" Great Power Luo Yuan entered the formation, sealed the entrance of the Cave Heaven, and muttered to himself before falling into slumber.

The peak where the Inheritance Cave Heaven of the Yuqing Sect was located suddenly collapsed, burying the entrance of the Inheritance Cave Heaven underground.

The barrier of the Cave Heaven Space at the Yuqing Sect’s mountain gate also disappeared, leaving no protection at all.

Yet no cultivator discovered this in a short time, until many days later, a cultivator accidentally noticed it.

The disappearance of the Cave Heaven Space barrier at the Yuqing Sect’s mountain gate spurred many speculations in the Cultivation World.

All the superpowers dispatched cultivators to investigate, and when they saw the situation at the Yuqing Sect’s mountain gate, feeling the omnipresent radiation pollution, they understood what had happened to the Yuqing Sect’s mountain gate.

The descriptions in intelligence reports always seem weak, only witnessing the real site could truly shock the cultivators.