Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 854: Chapter 473: Inventory (2)

It seems that due to the journey, Ancestor Han Xiao’s Mustard Seed Ring contains an extraordinarily large number of spiritual objects.

The first thing Li Shiming saw was an extremely luxurious flying boat, which looked like a toy, but he knew this was its shrunken form.

”This is the long-distance flying boat of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect!” He recalled the content recorded by that Golden Core cultivator which mentioned the long-distance flying boat.

The description by the Golden Core cultivator matched this flying boat exactly; after all, the Golden Core cultivator had sailed over the oceans on this flying boat for months.

Obtaining this long-distance flying boat surprised him greatly. His divine thought entered the long-distance flying boat and found no spiritual mark inside.

It seemed the temporary owner of this flying boat was probably Ancestor Han Xiao, and after Ancestor Han Xiao’s death, the flying boat was ownerless.

Li Shiming did not hesitate and cast a master recognition technique into the long-distance flying boat. Soon he felt the recognition was successful.

He released the long-distance flying boat from the Mustard Seed Ring and restored it to its original form. A gigantic flying boat appeared before him, leaving him momentarily stunned.

Though he had imagined the size of the long-distance flying boat based on descriptions,

standing before the actual long-distance flying boat, he felt his own insignificance.

The key parts of the long-distance flying boat were built with fourth-grade materials, and even the less important parts used third-grade materials.

This long-distance flying boat was a fourth-grade magical treasure and one that consumed more materials than any other fourth-grade large magical treasure.

On the Beishu Continent, there were no such fourth-grade large magical treasures, but each major sect on the Beishu Continent had large flying boats; even third-grade large flying boats were treasures of every major sect, only used at critical moments.

Of course, this fourth-grade long-distance flying boat also had its troubles, being the standard long-range flying boat of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect. If discovered by the Heavenly Inquiry Sect, it would be big trouble.

However, being in the ocean now, encountering cultivators from the Heavenly Inquiry Sect was very unlikely.

Li Shiming put away his third-grade Meteor Ink Boat and boarded the long-distance flying boat with Li Yuanba and Venerable Huijing.

The long-distance flying boat was powered by a Nascent Soul Level spirit vein, providing spiritual energy to all cultivators on board.

The flying boat had three levels; the topmost level had only three suites, furnished in extreme luxury, with most of the spiritual energy from the Nascent Soul Level spirit vein flowing into this level.

This level must have been the residence of the Nascent Soul Ancestor, with many details using fourth-grade materials.

The middle level had five hundred small rooms, each surprisingly spacious due to the use of spatial formations.

Li Shiming had used spatial formations before and understood that they could affect a cultivator’s own cultivation, so in a cultivator’s abode, the cultivation room usually wouldn’t be expanded using a spatial formation.

And to be closer to the Heaven and Earth Rules, Nascent Soul Ancestors rarely lived in spaces created by spatial formations.

Of course, only higher-pursuing Nascent Soul Ancestors would care about this; Nascent Soul Ancestors on the Beishu Continent paid it little attention.

The lowest level was the cargo space opened up by the spatial formation, currently filled with a significant amount of resources, all third-grade resources including third-grade spiritual medicine and spirit pills, along with third-grade spirit fruits and spiritual tea, and various third-grade materials.

These should be the resources of those Golden Core cultivators, considering the five hundred small rooms in the middle, Li Shiming speculated that these third-grade resources were prepared for the Golden Core cultivators.

For several years or even decades outside, the resources needed by hundreds of Golden Core cultivators were naturally plentiful.

Li Shiming looked at the massive quantity of third-grade resources and felt a mixed emotion of wanting to laugh and cry.

If these resources were on the Beishu Continent, they could probably support over a thousand Golden Core cultivators.

But having them was truly a waste for him. He was already at the Great Elder level, and even the resources for his avatar Li Yuanba were ready, just waiting for Li Yuanba to cultivate step by step.

Li Shiming’s divine thought entered the core formation of the long-distance flying boat, where he checked the information inside.

”This is the route record!” he exclaimed joyfully.

Although the route record only spanned from the Dongqi Continent to the Beishu Continent, it was sufficient; at least, with this exact route, the success rate of crossing the ocean would significantly increase.

After discovering that Venerable Huijing’s combat power wasn’t as strong as imagined, he felt a crisis about this journey.

If they were to encounter a fourth-grade spirit beast, Venerable Huijing would likely be unable to contend with it.

However, with an accurate route, he didn’t need to worry, and with this long-distance flying boat, even if they encountered a fourth-grade spirit beast, it wouldn’t attack them actively.

The fourth-grade spirit beast would assume it was a Heavenly Inquiry Sect flying boat. On the route of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect flying boat, unless a fourth-grade spirit beast coincidentally appeared by chance, it was almost impossible for an attack to occur.

Li Shiming checked the route and found minor discrepancies with the route he had organized, but the differences were not significant.

He felt more at ease, thinking he hadn’t severely misled Elder Sword.

With Elder Sword’s Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator strength, traveling in the nearby ocean of the route was much safer than venturing into uncharted waters.

In fact, after each voyage, the long-distance flying boat needed to clear its voyage records.

However, since Ancestor Han Xiao managed the flying boat, he believed nothing could go wrong with it in his possession, opting to clear the records upon returning the flying boat to the sect.

This gave Li Shiming the opportunity to obtain accurate sailing routes between the Dongqi Continent and the Beishu Continent.

Li Shiming, Li Yuanba, and Venerable Huijing each occupied a suite on the top floor, taking advantage of the long-distance flying boat’s impressive investigation array, which could detect situations up to three thousand miles away, eliminating the need for him and Li Yuanba to use ’Divine Sight’ for observation.

As long as Venerable Huijing maintained the aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator, they could sail along the route by controlling the long-distance flying boat.

Li Shiming continued to check the Mustard Seed Ring, this time retrieving a fourth-grade hammer-like magical treasure with lightning attributes. This fourth-grade hammer was of higher quality than those of Nascent Soul ancestors on the Beishu Continent.

”What a pity!” He sensed a remaining spiritual mark inside the hammer-like treasure, indicating it was the life-bound treasure of Ancestor Han Xiao.

Suddenly, he realized something. Because his trap was too successful, Ancestor Han Xiao didn’t have a chance to fight back, so he had no idea about Ancestor Han Xiao’s spiritual power attributes.

It was only after seeing the lightning hammer-like treasure that he realized Ancestor Han Xiao had a lightning attribute.

”Thank goodness I didn’t have a face-to-face battle with Ancestor Han Xiao!” Li Shiming said, shaking his head in hindsight, as he looked at the life-bound treasure with a lightning attribute in front of him.

If Ancestor Han Xiao had a chance to strike, with his Nascent Soul Thunder Cultivator attack power, Venerable Huijing probably wouldn’t withstand a single strike, and even with Li Shiming’s Divine Foot Skill, he couldn’t be sure of escaping lightning spells unscathed.

The terrifying aspect of Thunder Cultivators lay in the speed and terrifying power of thunder skills, especially for Nascent Soul Thunder Cultivators.

Only then did he realize he had inadvertently caused the downfall of a Nascent Soul Thunder Cultivator; his ignorance was truly bliss.

Although the might of this lightning hammer-like treasure was significantly reduced, it was not entirely useless. Li Shiming could sense the extremely powerful lightning on this treasure, continually emitting intense lightning.

His cultivation of the ’Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Technique’ hadn’t kept pace with the ’Five Rhymes Qi Cultivation Technique.’ If he used the lightning from this hammer-like treasure as energy for cultivation, it would greatly benefit his thunder-based cultivation technique.

For the current cultivation of the ’Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Technique,’ he was using formation-generated lightning, which was adequate earlier, but at the late-stage Golden Core realm, formation-generated lightning became somewhat inadequate.

He planned to have Venerable Huijing refine this fourth-grade lightning hammer-like treasure and then control the lightning to assist his cultivation.

Though this lightning hammer-like treasure wasn’t very useful to Venerable Huijing, Li Shiming had repositioned Venerable Huijing, seeing him as a transitional combat force, which would become increasingly redundant once Li Shiming advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage.