Divine Ability

Li Shiming's delay, born of excessive caution, gave the Jade Purity Sect time to begin its investigation.

Although the Jade Purity Sect was not a sect of the Central Continent, as a superpower, it still possessed extremely strong intelligence capabilities there.

After all, the Central Continent held the greatest number of superpowers, and every movement there affected the peace and stability of the entire Cultivation World.

When the intelligence organization of a superpower went all out—especially with the Central Continent lying within the Jade Purity Sect's Information Network—tracing the source of an aura was no difficult matter.

There were quite a few cultivators in the Central Continent Merchant Guild who had encountered Li Shiming.

The Central Continent Merchant Guild was also a commercial power, and its ordinary members were not as loyal to the organization as ordinary sect members were. Besides, no one would think that identifying the source of an aura counted as betraying the Central Continent Merchant Guild.

As a result, three days after the incident, the Jade Purity Sect had traced it to Li Shiming.

All of Li Shiming's information was placed before Great Cultivator Duan Zhang. When Great Cultivator Duan Zhang saw that Li Shiming was a cultivator of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, and that Li Shiming had been on the Eastern Qi Continent during the period when the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl had gone missing, he immediately concluded that Li Shiming was the cultivator who had seized the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl. However, although the Jade Purity Sect was certain of this, it could not ask other powers for help, mainly because it feared that the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl's whereabouts would become known to other sects.

The Central Continent was different from the Eastern Qi Continent. The Eastern Qi Continent had no superpowers,