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Chapter 1292: Chapter 692: Artifact Refining (Part 2)

His battle prowess ranking continues to rise, and he is quickly acknowledged as a cultivator at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, second only to peak strength among the super forces.

This prowess is corroborated by the lives of numerous White Emperor Sect Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners, leaving no cultivator able to question it.

Of course, Li Yuanba’s troubles are also immense. The White Emperor Sect discovered the ’Breath of Earth’ within him, and the bounty for his capture is becoming increasingly high.

In the current situation, it is not appropriate for the White Emperor Sect to dispatch Great Cultivators. Should they do so and it becomes public that they acted against Li Yuanba, the conflict level between the two super forces would escalate to that of the Great Cultivators.

Any loss of a Great Cultivator would be a severe blow to a super force.

Truly escalating the conflict would not align with the White Emperor Sect’s interests.

Moreover, dealing with Li Yuanba is no easy task.

The main reason is that Li Yuanba is extremely cunning, his whereabouts are elusive, and he is highly vigilant. With his Divine Foot Skill, not only is capturing him difficult, even locating him is a challenge.

Each mission that Li Yuanba undertakes enhances the ’Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ continuously, and although he has not secluded himself in cultivation, the enhancement of his Sword Intent still raises his strength.

His battle experience and the enhancement of his Sword Intent are also shared with his main body, Li Shiming.

While staying inside the Grotto Heaven without taking a single step outside, Li Shiming also experiences countless battles.

During these times, Li Shiming is extremely fulfilled.

The Earth Thunder Nascent Soul refines the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ as a Lifebound Magical Treasure, and feeling the enormous energy of the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ manifesting within the Earth Thunder Nascent Soul always feels somewhat surreal to him.

Back when his avatar Li Yuanba cultivated as a Sword Cultivator within the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ now the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ has transformed into a small, energy-based mountain within his Nascent Soul.

He takes out a Fourth Grade Mid Stage Mountain Peak Magical Treasure, originally owned by a White Emperor Sect cultivator, and currently, all Mountain Peak Type Magical Treasures acquired by him and his avatar Li Yuanba have been consolidated under his possession.

There are as many as five pieces of Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Mountain Treasures alone, showing how much resources the White Emperor Sect’s cultivators have provided him.

He casts a Master Recognition Technique into the Fourth Grade Mid Stage Mountain Peak Magical Treasure, successfully acknowledging it as his own.

Once mastered, the Fourth Grade Mid Stage Mountain Peak Magical Treasure no longer obstructs him, allowing him to manipulate it freely.

He executes a complex spell, which, upon completion, transforms into a stream of light that descends onto the Fourth Grade Mid Stage Mountain Peak Magical Treasure, as if igniting the entire treasure in light.

If one could delve into the interior of the Fourth Grade Mid Stage Mountain Peak Magical Treasure, they would find within it countless networks formed by streams of light.

At the core of the network, a bit of earth-yellow energy is gathering.

This is a special Secret Technique, a method the White Emperor Sect uses to enhance Lifebound Magical Treasures.

Most of the White Emperor Sect’s Lifebound Magical Treasures are Mountain Peak treasures, and this Secret Technique is designed to extract the Earth Origin Energy from other Mountain Peak Type Magical Treasures for infusion into one’s Lifebound Magical Treasure.

Since Lifebound Magical Treasures can be energy-based, in their energy form, they can absorb this Earth Origin Energy from similar Mountain Peak Treasures more effectively.

Without the Earth Origin Energy, all the rune formations on the Fourth Grade Mid Stage Mountain Peak Magical Treasure lose their effects.

The Fourth Grade Mid Stage Mountain Peak Magical Treasure instantly reverts to a mere mountain, which Li Shiming swiftly stores in a Mustard Seed Ring during the transformation process.

The space inside the Mustard Seed Ring is ample enough to hold the mountain; his Divine Sense scans the mountain within the ring. Initially filled with numerous Fourth-Grade Earth Materials, these have now lost their spiritual properties, turning into ordinary materials.

Even the mountain feels somewhat off; a light touch of Divine Sense causes the entire mountain to collapse with a roar, disintegrating into fragments on the ground.

He doesn’t care about the destruction of a Fourth Grade Mid Stage Mountain Peak Magical Treasure. The Earth Origin from just one of these treasures is naturally insufficient. He plans to deplete the entirety of his stockpile of Mountain Peak Type Magical Treasures.

Li Shiming takes out another Fourth Grade Mountain Peak Treasure, and one by one, these treasures crumble into fragments as the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ inside his Earth Thunder Nascent Soul absorbs a massive amount of Earth Origin Energy.

Upon the injection of Earth Origin Energy from the last piece of Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Mountain Treasure into the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ the original rocks and soil of the mountain body are transformed to Fourth Grade Top Quality.

The method he uses to enhance the Lifebound Magical Treasure ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ is unprecedented within the White Emperor Sect.

Generally, absorbing the Earth Origin from one or two Mountain Peak Magical Treasures to enhance one’s Lifebound Magical Treasure is already considered an exceptional feat, given each Fourth-Grade Mountain Treasure requires an immense amount of Fourth-Grade Refining Materials.

They also require a mountain that has been nurtured by Spiritual Energy over a long period as a base, which alone makes the crafting of Mountain Peak Treasures extremely difficult.

Though the Cultivation World has never advocated for environmental protection, substantially damaging spiritually-infused mountains would certainly label one as a Devil Cultivator, becoming a target for eradication by the Cultivation World.

Therefore, refining Mountain Peak Treasures necessitates finding mountains far from cultivator dwellings, which significantly reduces the choices available.

It’s only because the Mountain Peak Treasures in Li Shiming’s possession were acquired through battle by him and his avatar Li Yuanba that he is so unbothered by this.

Consider the five Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Mountain Peak Treasures; within the White Emperor Sect, only Great Cultivators or a select few core cultivators qualify to own treasures of such quality.

Finally, Li Shiming places twelve jade tokens into the mountain body, designed to enhance the ’Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ Divine Skill, essentially serving as top-grade array flags.

At this moment, the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ still in an energy form within the Earth Thunder Nascent Soul, flows with Earth Origin Energy; the influx of such quantities has fundamentally altered the quality of the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak.’

But this transformation has not truly begun; it still requires Li Shiming to employ the Secret Technique for enhancing Lifebound Magical Treasures to induce a thorough qualitative change in the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak.’

With a simple thought, the Earth Thunder Nascent Soul vanishes from within him and appears in the control room space.

He does not remove the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ from the Earth Thunder Nascent Soul, but utilizes the control room space’s nanometer-level control to begin enhancing it with the Secret Technique.

The still naive Artifact Spirit within the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ instinctively welcomes this enhancement, even assisting through its spirit to ensure the process proceeds smoothly.

For Li Shiming, who now possesses Lingbao, this Artifact Spirit is considered low-level; however, its presence guarantees that once the quality of the main body is enhanced, the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ can advance to a Lingbao with no constraints.

Even without Li Shiming using his nanometer refining technique, the inherent spiritual potential of the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ allows it to gradually evolve into a Lingbao.

Yet, without Li Shiming’s assistance, this evolution would take an exceedingly long time, potentially rendering the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ obsolete for his own strength needs by the time it becomes a Lingbao.

Regarding the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ through years of study, Li Shiming is intimately familiar with its every microscopic detail.

The ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ comprises two parts: one is the original ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ formed after thousands of years by a Sword Sect continually casting flying swords imbued with Sword Intent into it.

During this time, the Sword Sect constructed formations on the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ to contain Sword Intent, but after millennia of transformation, both the formations and the main body evolved; now, the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ not only holds Sword Intent but also integrates the ten thousand flying swords into its body, having become energy-based.

The other part comes after Li Yuanba acquired a crafting blueprint for the ’Ten Thousand Sword Body,’ using it to forge the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ into a Mountain Peak Magical Treasure.