Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1392: Chapter 742: Spirit-Sealing (Part 2)

He thoroughly inspected the large gate, finding no traps, then pushed it open with force.

The gate was extremely heavy; he felt that if he wasn’t a Sword Cultivator and hadn’t cultivated his sword body, it would have been difficult to push this wooden door open with sheer strength.

He took back his previous statement upon seeing the thickness of the wooden door. He realized his earlier judgment that it could yield several dozen fourth-grade top flying swords was incorrect; the true number could be more than double.

This was indeed extravagant, using fourth-grade top materials to construct a gate when, in the Cultivation World, Nascent Soul Cultivators would fight fiercely for a piece of fourth-grade top material.

Even the core cultivators of super forces, although able to obtain fourth-grade top materials from their sects to refine magic treasures, find their quantities extremely limited.

Li Yuanba restrained his impulse to take the gate down, fearing that doing so would provoke an attack from the Grotto Heaven’s Artifact Spirit.

Upon entering the palace, he found the luxury exceeded his imagination.

The floor was paved with top-grade fourth-grade spirit jade. Almost everything in sight was made of fourth-grade top materials.

From the palace’s layout, it seemed to be the residence of Langcai Great Power.

As a solitary powerful being, the Grotto Heaven served him alone, so there was no need for facilities intended for future generations, like creating a separate space to manufacture an environment matching a specific cultivation technique, becoming a sacred place for future cultivation.

Langcai Great Power was alone, and all resources he obtained were for his own use.

After countless years of accumulation, the current layout emerged.

In Langcai Great Power’s view, no outsiders should be able to enter here.

The steps outside, though they could be called a path, were effectively a dead end.

Even Great Cultivators who mastered gravity rules couldn’t survive those steps.

It was only because of the Spirit Treasure level ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’, which merged with the gravity field on the steps with its higher grade gravity field, that Li Yuanba had the chance to get there.

Moreover, Spirit Treasures shouldn’t even be accessible to Nascent Soul Cultivators, let alone one that mastered gravity fields.

After the Spirit Treasure Tribulation and the energy blessing awarded by heaven and earth, Spirit Treasures are far from simple; their mysteries can’t be fully grasped, even by their masters, until reaching the Mahayana Realm.

Upon entering the palace, Li Yuanba felt overwhelmed with what his eyes saw.

There was a tea room, the favorite pastime of a cultivator is tea tasting, and Langcai Great Power was no different.

A tea table made of fourth-grade top wood, and two tea chairs made of fourth-grade top wood.

On the table was a tea box made of fourth-grade top spirit jade, and a set of fourth-grade top-quality teaware.

Li Yuanba noticed the palace had little in terms of arrangement, which also made sense, as it was Langcai Great Power’s daily living quarters, lacking any special setup was natural.

He was curious about the quality of Spiritual Tea that Langcai Great Power drank, so he opened the tea box made of fourth-grade top spirit jade and saw the Spiritual Tea inside.

He curled his lips in disdain: even a mighty being drank nothing more than fourth-grade Spiritual Tea. Though the quality was definitely superb, it still fell short of the Spiritual Tea personally refined by Li Shiming.

Even great powers are not omnipotent; each has its strengths, and although Grotto Heaven provides them with unique control powers, this control is far inferior to Li Shiming’s precision of 0.1 nanometers in the machine room space.

The machine room space underwent the impact of traversal, holding incomparable mysteries.

Plus, with the collaboration of the IBMz15, the refinement of Spiritual Tea could reach the pinnacle, allowing the fourth-grade Spiritual Tea to fully express its highest quality.

Li Yuanba looked enviously at the tea room’s items, feeling an urge to take them all.

Not just the tea room, but also the Alchemy Room, study, and Cultivation Room, everywhere in the hall, was filled with fourth-grade top materials.

He was surrounded by fourth-grade top materials, something he never imagined he would encounter.

Of course, he also knew that the amount of fourth-grade top materials in the palace wasn’t as abundant as he imagined; such a palace, being a colossal magical treasure, actually used much less of those materials.

However, even so, the fourth-grade top materials here were a hundred times more than what Li Yuanba and Li Shiming had seen combined.

He didn’t immediately claim these treasures but searched the palace for the Cave Heaven Core instead.

Half admiring, half searching, he traversed through various parts of the palace before returning to the main hall.

Li Yuanba’s gaze settled on a statue in the hall, depicting a middle-aged man with a long beard.

Initially, he hadn’t paid attention to the statue, for the palace had many statues; it seemed Langcai Great Power had a penchant for them.

But after his search of the palace, aided by the records of IBMz15 that formed a detailed map, he found that the statue was positioned precisely at the palace’s absolute center.

Such a special location wouldn’t arbitrarily host just any statue.

He approached the statue, activating ’Divine Vision’ and his Divine Sense to scan it.

The statue was made of a certain fourth-grade top metal and employed some special artifact refining and formation techniques to isolate it from all external connections.

Yet with IBMz15’s assistance, after some analysis, he found a breakthrough in the statue, allowing his Divine Sense to penetrate its interior.

Though Langcai Great Power excelled in artifact refining and formation, he couldn’t surpass the limits of the Cultivation World.

IBMz15 had records of array inheritances from several continents and major sects, and with Li Shiming’s expertise as an Array Master, there were few formations in the Cultivation World that he couldn’t decipher.

Li Yuanba’s Divine Sense entered the statue and sensed the rule power of metal and space at the heart.

”Found it!” Upon his Divine Sense touching the heart of the statue, he determined this was the core of the Cave Heaven.

The core of the Cave Heaven was crafted in the shape of a heart, and upon contact, he sensed the presence of the Grotto Heaven’s Artifact Spirit.

”Do not disturb the master’s slumber!” warned the Artifact Spirit.

From this warning, Li Yuanba detected an unhidden sense of helplessness.

The Artifact Spirit had used all its tactics to counter Li Yuanba, but unfortunately, Li Yuanba had too many responses, and with the Grotto Heaven having lost much energy, many tactics within lacked the power to threaten him.

Even as Li Yuanba reached the palace, there were no offensive setups present.

Li Yuanba ignored the Artifact Spirit’s warning; from its belief that Langcai Great Power was just sleeping and not dead, he understood that the Artifact Spirit couldn’t be re-subjugated.

This was a method adopted by the Great Power, not wanting the Grotto Heaven to fall into the hands of other cultivators.

The Grotto Heaven was created by the Great Power, and even if it fell, its living arrangements could be prolonged, including the non-transferability of the Cave Heaven Core’s Artifact Spirit.

Li Yuanba’s Divine Sense manipulated several array nodes on the statue. The formation on the statue created a passage exposing the heart’s position.

He took out several Forbidden Spirit Talismans and, without hesitation, affixed them to the statue’s heart.

Upon activation, the Forbidden Spirit Talismans transformed into energy talismans, penetrating the statue’s shell and adhering to the heart.

In an instant, this heart was sealed off from all spirituality, including the Artifact Spirit inside, isolated from the outside world.

The entire Grotto Heaven trembled, a reaction to losing contact with the core, with the Artifact Spirit no longer controlling it, the entire Grotto Heaven’s operations reverted to instinct.

If not for the Grotto Heaven’s simplicity and numerous automated designs, it might already have descended into chaos.