Burning

With the Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman enhancing him, Li Shiming's figure flew between the rocks. This downhill path was the final route analyzed by the IBMz15 Mainframe.

If he could jump down from a cliff of unknown height without harm, he would have had plenty of choices.

But he was only a little rookie at Qi Refining Second Level, and on top of that, his grasp of how to use spiritual power had not even reached the threshold of entry. He simply did not have the ability to leap down from a height of over a hundred meters.

He did not look disheveled on the surface, nor did he seem to be fleeing. That was because every time, he could discover the ambush ahead in advance.

Sometimes it was a warning from uneasy small animals; sometimes it was an inconspicuous mark on the ground.

Li Shiming stopped again. He had discovered that fifty meters ahead, a small pebble had shifted from its original position, revealing a tiny trace of dampness.

This showed that someone had stayed there not long ago. His eyes continued sweeping the surroundings.

Most of the cultivators attending this Market were Early-Stage Qi Refining cultivators. To a certain extent, they still had not reached the point of moving without leaving traces, and more or less always left something behind.

Li Shiming was furious inside. He did not expect the Cultivation World to be this dark. He had merely revealed a little wealth, yet who knew how many cultivators had already set their sights on him.

And this was even the comparatively safe Market Gu Jia had provided him with. It was clear just how dangerous the Cultivation World was.

In fact, Gu Jia truly did believe this Market was extremely safe. The Market's existence relied partly on all the cultivators in the Market jointly obeying the rules—that was, no one was allowed to make a move inside the Market.

The other part relied on borrowing the prestige of the Sky Ocean Sect Central Capital Garrison.

Gu Jia was also a Late-Stage Qi Refining cultivator. Naturally, no one in the Market dared provoke him, and every cultivator even did everything they could to curry favor with him.

Of course, if Li Shiming had announced Gu Jia's name, then at the very least, no cultivator would have dared attack him so brazenly.

Li Shiming found the cultivators' hiding place. Just as his gaze landed on a large tree, two cultivators stepped out from behind it.

The two cultivators wore identical clothes, and their faces were very ordinary, but their eyes were extraordinarily sharp.

After Li Shiming discovered their hiding spot, they walked straight out.

It did not matter that they could not ambush him. Li Shiming's strength was too weak. One of them was at Qi Refining Stage 3, and the other was at Qi Refining Fourth Level. Killing Li Shiming, who was at Qi Refining Second Level, was absolutely a sure thing.

"Hand over your Storage Bag, and we'll let you leave!" the Qi Refining Fourth Level cultivator said in a low voice.

Li Shiming was a full sixty meters away from him, yet the voice still entered his ears clearly.

Naturally, Li Shiming could not possibly hand over his Storage Bag. Although there was not much in his Storage Bag, most of his valuable items were kept in the Server Room Space.

He was very clear that even if he handed over the Storage Bag, the cultivators opposite him would not let him go.

He quickly analyzed and calculated his chances of winning in a fight. Clearly, based on the cultivators' abilities, his chance of victory was not even one percent.

What he could use were two Low-Grade Earth Armor Talismans, five Low-Grade Fireball Talismans, and five Low-Grade Ice Arrow Talismans.

The power of these low-grade talismans should have been the normal attack methods of Early-Stage Qi Refining cultivators, but the Spiritual Power Fluctuations of the two cultivators opposite him were much stronger than his. In particular, the Spiritual Power Fluctuation of one of them made his heart palpitate.

And this was still at a distance of more than sixty meters. If they got close, he feared he would not even be able to stand steadily.

Li Shiming's consciousness entered the Server Room Space, and he took out a Thermite Bomb from a box.

The two cultivators opposite him slowly moved forward. They held speed-enhancing talismans in their hands, ready to activate them immediately once they reached a certain distance. In that case, it would be very hard for Li Shiming to escape from their hands.

They did not want Li Shiming to escape. Although all the roads were blocked by cultivators, and Li Shiming most likely would have a hard time getting away, if Li Shiming was killed by other cultivators, the spoils of war would not fall to them.

According to the news that had come in, this was a rookie. The two cultivators wanted to use words to distract the rookie and strive to kill him in one strike.

Li Shiming gripped the Thermite Bomb with both hands. His arms leaned back with the force of his waist, and spiritual power gathered in his waist and arms.

This was his shallow use of spiritual power. When spiritual power was mobilized into his arms, his arms could erupt with several times their own strength.

This throwing motion of his, from posture to the transmission of force, was all research results from sports papers in the IBMz15 Mainframe's database.

This motion could transmit the strength of his entire body to the Thermite Bomb to the greatest extent. His body was like a catapult, and his arms were the catapult's throwing arm.

"I'll smash you to death!" The Thermite Bomb flew toward the two cultivators as Li Shiming shouted.

After the Thermite Bomb flew out, his consciousness once again entered the Server Room Space, and he took out a large, soft object made of Starlite and covered himself with it.

The two cultivators saw the Thermite Bomb he had thrown. There was not the slightest Spiritual Power Fluctuation on the Thermite Bomb.

In a cultivator's eyes, something without Spiritual Power Fluctuation could not pose even the slightest threat to a cultivator.

The Qi Refining Fourth Level cultivator even casually struck out with a stream of spiritual power, intending to shatter the Thermite Bomb flying at them.

The Thermite Bomb Li Shiming had made had two detonation modes. One was timed detonation, which required him to operate it with his consciousness inside the Server Room Space. The timed detonation device was hidden inside the Thermite Bomb's outer shell.

The second was detonation upon impact. This was determined by the inherent instability of the Thermite Bomb itself. At the same time, it also contained several kinds of unstable chemicals, and any slight impact would cause those unstable chemicals to generate a large amount of heat.

So the instant the Qi Refining Fourth Level cultivator's spiritual power struck the Thermite Bomb, the Thermite Bomb exploded.

The explosion of the Thermite Bomb was not very loud. The most terrifying part of the Thermite Bomb was not the impact force of the explosion, but that horrifying fire.

This was an incendiary bomb, born specifically to create flames.

With a boom, a mass of fire spread out from the Thermite Bomb as the center, completely engulfing a radius of forty meters in flame.

Before the two cultivators heard the explosion, their eyes were blinded by the intense light produced by the Thermite Bomb. With a cultivator's ability, this blindness could be recovered from with a single circulation of spiritual power.

But what followed was fire. These flames were not ordinary flames. The aluminum substance inside made the temperature of the fire reach nearly three thousand degrees.

After being blinded, the two cultivators' first reaction was to retreat, while at the same time swapping the Speed Enhancement Talismans in their hands for Defense Talismans from their Storage Bags.

Their reactions were fast, but the Thermite Bomb devoured even faster. The two cultivators were swallowed by the flames.

The screams lasted two seconds before stopping. The flames of the Thermite Bomb also lasted only a few seconds before disappearing, leaving behind pungent white smoke at the scene.