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Chapter 53 Destruction (New book, please collect!)

"What is Hao Jin doing?" When Hao Jin brought the third and fourth jar into the courtyard, Old Cultivator Hao detected his movements and asked with some impatience.

Old Cultivator Hao was in a bad mood; Lao Si had been gone for an entire night, and under normal circumstances, he should have completed his task and returned by now.

But up to now, there had been no news whatsoever.

At this moment, sensing Hao Jin inexplicably disturbing him, he naturally transferred his irritation to Hao Jin.

He did not suspect that Hao Jin was doing anything harmful to the clan, as he had great trust in the loyalty of his clan members.

"I'll go and scold him!" a cultivator below said with a deep voice.

The cultivator stood up. Their room was on the second floor; he walked to the railing and looked down toward Hao Jin.

At this time, Hao Jin had completed the task assigned by Li Shiming. His consciousness was somewhat unclear, and he stood there foolishly.

This was because Li Shiming's hypnotism was not expertly applied, and also because Hao Jin's will was too weak. Li Shiming's forceful hypnotism had affected Hao Jin's brain.

The Hao Family cultivator sensed something was wrong, flipped down from the second floor, and landed next to Hao Jin.

"Hao Jin, what's inside these jars?" He saw the four large jars next to Hao Jin and asked with a frown.

"What jars?" Hao Jin twisted his neck in a strange posture, looked back at the Hao Family cultivator, and counter-asked.

Just as the Hao Family cultivator was about to check the jars personally, he heard a burning sound coming from one of them.

With a 'bang', one of the jars suddenly exploded, the terrifying shockwave struck Hao Jin and the Hao Family cultivator first because they were closest to it.

Neither the ordinary man Hao Jin nor the Qi Refining Third Level cultivator had any power to resist; they were engulfed by the scorching flames.

The explosion was not a one-time event; after the first jar exploded, it triggered the other three jars to explode as well.

The first shockwave swept over the entire Hao Family; outside their circular building, a glowing semi-circular shield appeared, blocking the first shockwave.

It was Li Shiming's first time witnessing an Array materialize; it gave him the feeling of seeing something straight out of a science fiction world.

Like the energy shields seen only in science fiction movies, they appeared in an ancient world—that was the world of cultivation.

But the Array did not save the Hao Family; instead, it intensified the power of the explosion.

After the first shockwave was blocked by the outer defense Array of the Hao Family, it rebounded inward.

The second, third, and fourth shockwaves, as they expanded outward, collided inside the Hao Family's buildings, causing even more violent damage.

Thousands of degrees in temperature, the explosive force destroyed everything as it collided within a confined space.

Eventually, the defense Array could no longer withstand such a large-scale explosion, and the semi-circular shield turned into specks of starlight as the unleashed flames spread outward.

In reality, the Hao Family's defense Array only contained the explosion for a brief moment, but that moment was enough to cause destruction far exceeding the initial power of the explosion.

Li Shiming had used hypnotism to make Hao Jin carry into the Hao Family what was nitroglycerin, more than two hundred kilograms of it—it was all the stock he had made since arriving at Central Capital.

For the Hao Family, he had brought out all his nitroglycerin.

The terrifying shockwave swept over his head; five hundred meters away from the Hao Family, even after taking protective measures, he still felt his heart race and his flesh tremble.

Once the explosion ended, he crawled out of the dirt. He did not immediately go to inspect the Hao Family but released a drone instead.

Through his night vision goggles, the Hao Family came into view.

The originally round building had vanished, and the few remaining embers lit up the tragic scene in the darkness.

Drones in the air could observe the entire Hao Family compound, which was not too large, so even the surrounding area of the Hao Family was within the observation range of the drones.

Li Shiming stood in his place and waited for approximately half an hour—the drone had its battery changed once—and by then, the sky was starting to lighten.

It was only then that he activated the drone's infrared mode. After such a long time, the explosion site no longer had intense heat sources.

Although there were still some factors affecting the effectiveness of the infrared thermal imaging, if there were living beings, they could still be detected by the thermal imaging.

The drone descended a bit and went back and forth several times over the ruins but did not discover anything in the end.

Only then did Li Shiming approach the ruins of the Hao Family. After connecting to the IBMz15, his five senses became the scanning devices of the IBMz15.

He first found three bodies, not far from where he had previously observed the four Hao Family cultivators.

It seemed that the Hao Family's mortals and cultivators were segregated; no mortals were present in the area where the Hao Family cultivators were.

The three bodies were completely charred, concentrated around the shield of the defensive array. It was evident that the three cultivators had been killed without the power to fight back in the explosion.

Li Shiming found three slightly charred storage bags on the three bodies and tried them out; the storage bags were still usable.

However, no matter how hard he looked, he could not find the body of the fourth cultivator. Without a body, it was extremely difficult to find a small storage bag amidst these ruins.

While searching, Li Shiming noticed several burnt plants at the center of the original Hao Family's round building. Your next chapter awaits on empire

He approached the plants and felt wisps of Spiritual Energy seeping out from underground.

"Is this a spiritual vein?" He thought of the spiritual veins Fan Yiyang had mentioned during their conversation, which seemed extremely similar to the phenomenon here.

The Spiritual Energy flowing from the spiritual vein was similar to that of his Gathering Spirit Plate.

However, that did not mean the concentration of Spiritual Energy from the Gathering Spirit Plate was fixed. The effectiveness of the Gathering Spirit Plate that Li Shiming felt was in an ordinary city.

If the Gathering Spirit Plate were used in a place with spiritual veins, its effect would be greatly enhanced.

Feeling the Spiritual Energy, Li Shiming felt a secret regret in his heart.

Although he was envious of the spiritual vein, with his abilities, he was unable to do anything with the spiritual vein, not even conceal it, let alone move it.

Suppressing the greed in his heart, he began observing the plants in the area.

He pulled up the previous drone footage and compared it with the current view; this place was supposed to be a pond, and he did not recall seeing any plants.

This meant that the Hao Family had hidden the plants, possibly even along with the spiritual vein itself.

He dug through the soil, and after removing the surface dirt affected by the explosion, the soil he touched was filled with Spiritual Energy.

"This is the spirit soil of a spirit field!" Even though he had never seen spirit soil, he recognized it.

Without any concern for appearances, he dug out the spirit soil with his hands and placed it into a storage bag.

Spirit soil was made of various spiritual materials, the consumption of which was immense, far beyond what he could currently afford.

The layer of spirit soil here was quite thick, and while digging it out, he also unearthed a section of bamboo root.

The bamboo root was also affected by the explosion; all parts above it were destroyed, but as it was bamboo root, even a small part of the main root left could be enough to revive it.