Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 618: Chapter 355: Earthly Fiend_2

Every legacy system has its own separate inheritance, with records of the experiences of predecessors that are all different.

Moreover, each inheritance system has produced a Nascent Soul Ancestor in the past or present, and it is for this reason that the sects are unable to overly interfere with such matters.

In addition, the most crucial point is that the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ has very high cultivation requirements; even within the Earth Evil Sect, there are not many cultivators who have the ability to practice it. The ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ is only passed down among elite disciples, so the sect does not worry about the technique being leaked.

Like this Mid-stage Golden Core Cultivator, the reason he possesses the inheritance of the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ is that he is the strongest practitioner in their inheritance system; thus, the legacy of the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ is preserved in his hands.

Although Li Shiming did not know these things, his life-bound magical treasure, IBMz15, analyzed the technique and determined that it was genuine.

With the help of his life-bound magical treasure, IBMz15, he gained a thorough understanding of the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ in no time.

To his surprise, this ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ was the purest Earth Attribute Cultivation Method. It involved gathering the Earth Evil Power from the earth and converting and refining it into controllable Earth Evil Power within the body using Spiritual Power.

From this point of view, this technique could perhaps be considered a top Earth Attribute technique if it did not severely damage the earth’s veins.

Li Shiming had seen a Mid-stage Golden Core Cultivator use the Earth Evil Power; although that Earth Evil Power posed no threat to him, that was because he was attacking with the might of a Late-stage Golden Core Body Refinement.

Let alone a Mid-stage Golden Core Cultivator, even a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator would struggle to withstand a blow from him.

To some extent, his strength had long surpassed the constraints of his realm; at the Golden Core Early Stage, he was fearless of any foes during the Golden Core Stage.

Judging the Earth Evil Power based on his strength is extremely unfair.

Earth Evil Power is a manifestation of Earth Attribute Spiritual Power, much higher in grade than the Earth Attribute Golden Core Spiritual Power within Li Shiming.

Li Shiming found the reason why such an Earth Attribute technique was labeled as a demonic skill from within the legacy of the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’.

Besides plundering the Earth Evil Power from the earth’s veins, which causes a great loss in the land’s spirituality and renders an area uninhabitable for humans, the real reason the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ is called a demonic skill is that every cultivator practicing the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ can plunder the Earth Evil Power from other cultivators who also practice it.

No wonder the Earth Evil Sect has spawned so many factions of ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ practitioners. It is easy for incidents of stealing Earth Evil Power from one another to occur, so the cultivators of the Earth Evil Sect find it safer to align with closer cultivators, to ensure they don’t become sacrificial victims for others.

Upon reading this, Li Shiming’s eyes lit up.

One of his brains had already begun to simulate the cultivation path of the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ within his body, while another brain took the corpse of the Mid-stage Golden Core Cultivator from his Space Ring.

This Mid-stage Golden Core Cultivator had only recently passed away, and the Earth Evil Power within his body had not yet dissipated.

Practicing the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ required total dedication. By using one brain exclusively, Li Shiming met the requirement of fully focused cultivation.

He was probably the only cultivator in the cultivation world who could multitask while cultivating a technique.

If other cultivators attempted to do so like him, they would very likely experience deviation numerous times.

A grand force flowed from the corpse of the Mid-stage Golden Core Cultivator into his body, and with the special technique of the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill,’ he transformed it into his own Earth Evil Power, which entered his Earth Attribute Golden Core.

Li Shiming had no intention of changing his main Cultivation Method, nor did he even want to practice the ‘Earth Evil Demon Skill’ as a secondary technique.

He had no desire to absorb the Earth Evil Power from the earth’s veins, as the damage to the environment would be too great.

Looking at the land of the Earth Evil Sect, the many years of plundering the earth’s veins had rendered the land extremely desolate.

Although he was not exactly an environmentalist, he did have some principles.

Even after the transformation, the Earth Evil Power had completely replaced the Earth Attribute Spiritual Power in his Golden Core.

This was not surprising. After all, this Earth Evil Power was the entire Earth Evil Power of a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator, and Li Shiming was merely at the early stage of the Golden Core, with the Earth Attribute Golden Core being one of his five cores.

The ordinary Earth Attribute Spiritual Power within the Earth Attribute Golden Core, after being transformed by the “Earth Evil Demon Skill”, turned into Earth Evil Power.

This greatly improved the quality of the Earth Attribute Golden Core, nearing the comparability with the Fire Attribute Golden Core.

It is known that the quality of the Fire Attribute Golden Core was enhanced because of the “Nanming Leaving Fire”.

Ever since he obtained the “Nanming Leaving Fire”, the Spiritual Power quality within all five of Li Shiming’s Golden Cores had improved.

But that was one against four, which still put considerable stress on the Fire Attribute Golden Core, especially during major battles when the consumption of Spiritual Power was excessive, it could not ensure the enhancement of the other four Golden Cores’ Spiritual Power.

Now that the Earth Attribute Golden Core’s quality was enhanced and its own spiritual energy became the higher-tier Earth Attribute Spiritual Power like Earth Evil Power, it was equivalent to adding another engine to the “Five Elements Qi Absorption Array”.

Originally with only the Fire Attribute Golden Core serving as an engine, now the Earth Attribute Golden Core had joined as another engine.

Li Shiming could feel the spiritual energy within his five Golden Cores running more smoothly—this was the benefit of cultivating the “Earth Evil Demon Skill” and absorbing the Earth Evil Power.

What surprised him the most was that his “Five Elements Qi Absorption Array” within him could actually convert Fire Attribute Spiritual Power into Earth Evil Power.

If the Earth Evil Sect could make the “Earth Evil Demon Skill” self-generating, they wouldn’t need to scour the earth looking for Earth Evil Power anymore.

At least during the Golden Core Stage, the “Earth Evil Demon Skill” still needed to plunder Earth Evil Power from the earth’s veins to enhance oneself.

Yet within Li Shiming’s body, with every conversion of Spiritual Power in the “Five Elements Qi Absorption Array”, the Fire Attribute Spiritual Power within the Fire Attribute Golden Core was converted into Earth Evil Power.

This meant that even if he stopped practicing the “Earth Evil Demon Skill” in the future, the Earth Attribute Golden Core could maintain the growth of Earth Evil Power as his level increased.

Given Li Shiming’s realm, even with the addition of native magic treasure IBMz15, he couldn’t analyze the underlying reason.

It wasn’t the fault of the native magic treasure IBMz15; it operated based on Li Shiming’s understanding of the Cultivation World and his knowledge base, and it was powerless beyond those limits.

However, considering that only the Fire Attribute Spiritual Power from the Fire Attribute Golden Core could be transformed into Earth Evil Power, Li Shiming speculated that it might be related to Spiritual Power quality.

The Fire Attribute Spiritual Power within his Fire Attribute Golden Core had been enhanced by the Nanming Leaving Fire and was perhaps of a higher quality than the Earth Evil Power.

While the Spiritual Power in the other three Golden Cores had much lower quality than that of Earth Evil Power.

Li Shiming tried to mobilize the Earth Evil Power, and he had been wondering if it would be troublesome to replenish Earth Evil Power in the future after practicing the “Earth Evil Demon Skill”; now, he didn’t have to worry.

The Earth Evil Power formed an Earth Attribute Armor on his body’s surface, and by his judgment, it was nearly equivalent to a defensive artifact at the early stage of the Golden Core.

He had a notion and took out the Mountain Peak Treasure, starting with a simple refinement process.

This refinement was only an initial bonding, but with the help of the native magic treasure IBMz15, his hundred-plus brains bonded simultaneously. If one brain could only achieve a one percent bonding progress, a hundred brains could achieve full bonding.

However, there were some limitations in the bonding process, which allowed him to reach eighty percent bonding of the Mountain Peak Treasure on the first attempt, enough for him to use it.

The Mountain Peak Treasure was called “Garland Peak”, and he attempted to channel Earth Evil Power called forth from the Earth Attribute Golden Core into the “Garland Peak”, which emitted an earthy yellow light.

Although it was his first time using Earth Evil Power, his control over Spiritual Power prevented the situation where a large amount of Earth Evil Power was devoured.

This was also related to his alter ego, Li Yuanba, having used a similar type of treasure before; the “Garland Peak” flew out of his hand and landed not far away in the air, transforming into a mountain peak.