This was intentional by Li Shiming, the Sword Servant’s Sword Intent soared, able to conceal the Yin Cold Energy within the Sword Servant, preventing other cultivators from recognizing the identity as ’Flying Night Demon’.
"Greetings, Li Taibai, and who might this be?" Grandmaster Hu stepped forward and asked respectfully.
"This is the Sword Servant beside Mr. Li, he’s here to help!" Li Taibai returned the courtesy.
He wouldn’t be disrespectful, as the person in front of him is his master, and strictly speaking, the Phantom Clone is a part of Li Shiming.
Grandmaster Hu didn’t know when Li Shiming acquired a Sword Servant, but knowing Li Shiming’s numerous secrets, he didn’t ask further.
"I will guard here, while the Sword Servant will go to investigate the beast tide!" Li Taibai continued.
"Sword Servant, be careful!" Grandmaster Hu, unable to discern the Sword Servant’s strength, cautioned.
Li Taibai smiled, leaving unsaid that if Grandmaster Hu knew he was reminding the ’Flying Night Demon’, he wondered what expression would appear.
The Sword Servant took a step forward, and his figure vanished.
His figure was already hundreds of miles away, continuing towards the deep sea.
Li Shiming surveyed the sea through the Sword Servant’s senses.
The beast tide hadn’t reached the Dongqi Continent yet, but various sea creatures were already in a frenzy.
It’s the instinct of creatures; when danger approaches, they innately sense it.
For the fish, the only option upon sensing danger is to flee, but the lack of direction in their escape only leads to chaos.
The Sword Servant soon discovered the vanguard of the beast tide.
Even in just the vanguard, fourth-grade early-stage spiritual beasts were seen in the beast tide.
In previous beast tides, fourth-grade early-stage spiritual beasts appeared last, but now they were in the forefront, arousing Li Shiming’s curiosity.
The Sword Servant’s aura changed, shifting from sword cultivator to corpse refining.
In fact, all he did was retract the Sword Intent, and the Yin Cold Energy within him became the corpse refining aura.
As long as it wasn’t a human cultivator’s aura, the spirit beasts wouldn’t intentionally target him, not treating the Sword Servant as a primary target.
The Sword Servant’s figure flickered and progressed deeper.
Upon encountering the next wave of beast tide, he identified fourth-grade mid-stage spirit beasts.
He did not attack these spirit beasts, as the beast tide posed both danger and opportunity to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.
Many cultivators lived off the resources brought by the beast tide, and if he prematurely wiped out the tide, it would affect the Dongqi Continent.
Besides, with Li Taibai around, no matter how strong the beast tide was, it was merely a joke.
The Sword Servant continued forward; reaching the ocean depths, there was no sign of the beast tide ahead.
The Sword Servant plunged into the sea; since there was no beast tide ahead, the source must be underwater.
Entering the sea, the Sword Servant encountered another beast tide, indicating that the tide indeed originated undersea, and this was the fifth wave consisting of fourth-grade late stage spirit beasts that he encountered.
There has long been a legend on the Dongqi Continent.
Beast tides are not naturally formed but originate from a hidden grotto heaven deep in the sea.
The grotto heaven continuously produces spirit beasts, and when enough are created, it releases them, forming the beast tide.
Throughout history, numerous cultivators ventured into the ocean’s depths searching for the source grotto heaven, but none were found despite all efforts.
Thus, the legend remained a legend, with not many cultivators believing it.
Entering the ocean and seeing the tide’s source underwater, the Sword Servant found some belief in the legend.
Going deeper, he discovered peculiarity in this part of the ocean.
Seemingly normal, but actually containing a formation.
The formation’s effect confuses visual detection and perception, preventing cultivators in this sea domain from accurately sensing reality.
It even guides cultivators, causing them to inexplicably leave the area.
Had Li Shiming not been a top-tier Array Master, he wouldn’t have detected the formation’s existence lacking evident aura.
This is an ancient formation, differing from modern formations.
Li Shiming has encountered ancient formations before; with some research and the Sword Servant’s fifth-grade level and sharp perception, they discovered these anomalies here.
"Interesting!" Li Shiming thought to himself, controlling the Sword Servant to enter the formation’s interior.
He could confirm the presence of an ancient relic here.
Inside the formation range, the Sword Servant saw nothing in the ocean, like an ordinary sea.
The Sword Servant released his senses, continuously scanning everything here and transmitting findings to IBMz15.
Using the Sword Servant’s scanning info, IBMz15 analyzed the formation data.
Though an ancient formation, IBMz15 stored extensive ancient formation data; it might take some time to fully decode the formation, but dispelling its illusionary effects was feasible.
After repeated movements, the Sword Servant’s surroundings transformed.
The ocean was no longer empty but had a massive underwater altar.
A space gate appeared on the altar, out of which spirit beasts continuously emerged.
Once out, they surged towards the Dongqi Continent direction as if following some mand.
Li Shiming noticed the spirit beasts’ eyes were crimson; even the highly intelligent fourth-grade spirit beasts lost their usual spirituality, acting out of instinct like wild beasts.
The Sword Servant’s eyes observed the space gate, and IBMz15 used his vision to analyze and calculate the gate.
Soon, the Sword Servant vanished.
Appearing inexplicably on the other side of the space gate.
IBMz15’s calculations derived the space gate’s spatial influence data, enabling the Sword Servant’s space movement to directly enter the gate.
Upon reappearing, the Sword Servant prepared for battle, assessing the surroundings.
The entire expanse, both sky and ground, was densely packed with countless spirit beasts.
These spirit beasts ignored the Sword Servant as if he didn’t exist.
The spirit beasts crowded together, even natural enemies with no friction.
Despite being the fifth-grade ’Flying Night Demon,’ surrounded by legions of spirit beasts, the Sword Servant felt extremely bizarre.
The issue was these spirit beasts ignored him, acting like he was one of them.
The Sword Servant’s figure flickered, performing space movement deeper.
In every direction lay oceans of spirit beasts; IBMz15’s preliminary calculations provided an approximate count exceeding ten million spirit beasts.
Finally, the Sword Servant reached the center of this space, where a white luminous region was.
Spirit beasts appeared there, materializing and getting transported aside into the crowded beast group.
If lower-level beasts appeared, they came in hundreds to thousands; if fourth-grade beasts appeared, they came single.
"Spirit beasts are truly being created!" Observing through the Sword Servant, Li Shiming inadvertently murmured.
He recognized the faint glow during the spirit beasts’ emergence, reminiscent of his creation process in his grotto heaven.
He termed this shimmer as the glow of creation, specific to spiritual object creation.
Yet it was his first time witnessing mass-life creation, beyond his prehension.
In his grotto heaven, he could at most create spiritual medicine, which was his current limit.
But observing here, vast numbers of spirit beasts were being created, stirring his curiosity.
Having found the beast tide’s source here, finding its cause was essential.
He deduced this site as an ancient relic, but whether it’s a grotto heaven was challenging to conclude.
Considering ancient relics’ spaces may not necessarily be grotto heavens since ancient cultivators possessed various space-creation skills.
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