Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1562: Chapter 827: Discovery (Part 2)

He took out the Fourth Grade Top-level Artifact Tribulation ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ and then summoned the Heavenly Ghost.

The massive figure of the Heavenly Ghost appeared. If he hadn’t set up a Formation to isolate this area within the Taichu Cave Heaven, cultivators in other areas of the Taichu Cave Heaven might have been frightened by the Heavenly Ghost’s aura.

The peak of the Fourth Grade Late Stage spiritual entity, and one carrying immense spiritual energy at that, has a spiritual suppression effect even on Great Cultivators of the same level, not to mention the cultivators working within the Taichu Cave Heaven.

The strength of these cultivators is generally not very high, with a few in the Nascent Soul Early Stage, but most are Golden Core cultivators.

In fact, Golden Core cultivators are the main productivity force in the Cultivation World, as Qi Refining cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators are relatively weak, lacking both in spirit and Spiritual Power Pattern.

Truthfully, if the auxiliary cultivators in the Taichu Cave Heaven were to be frightened into making mistakes, Grandmaster Hu might come to trouble him.

”Try to see if you can devour the spiritual imprint inside!” Li Shiming instructed the Heavenly Ghost.

The Heavenly Ghost, whose wisdom was not low now, heard his command and lowered its head to closely examine the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer.’

The huge figure was like a small mountain, and the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ was like the size of a pinhead in front of it.

The Heavenly Ghost extended its tongue and gave it a small lick, then retracted its tongue.

Li Shiming’s eyes lit up, as he noticed that with the gentle lick from the Heavenly Ghost, the spiritual imprint within the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ miraculously disappeared.

The reason why the spiritual imprint within a cultivator’s life-bound magic treasure is difficult to remove is that after a spiritual imprint is imprinted into it by a cultivator, it is further nurtured inside the cultivator’s body over a long period.

During this process, the cultivator’s spiritual imprint permeates every part of the life-bound magic treasure and becomes tightly fused with it.

Even after the owner of the life-bound magic treasure falls, this spiritual fusion does not disappear and will remain permanently within it.

Perhaps after a thousand years, the internal spiritual imprint will gradually fade away.

However, without the nurturing of its owner, over a millennium, the quality of the life-bound magic treasure will also degrade, even if it is re-mastered, it will not regain its original power.

If a cultivator wants to expel the spiritual imprint within a life-bound magic treasure, they must continually cleanse it with their own spirit, but doing so is not as worthwhile as nurturing their own life-bound magic treasure.

Expelling the spiritual imprint from a deceased cultivator’s life-bound magic treasure takes around hundreds of years, which is enough time to deeply nurture one’s own life-bound magic treasure.

Therefore, unless the quality is so high that a cultivator is willing to waste hundreds of years, they would not use another’s life-bound magic treasure.

Removing the spiritual imprint from a life-bound magic treasure has always been one of the most troublesome tasks in the Cultivation World.

No one would have thought that such a troublesome matter would be simple as eating and drinking in front of the Heavenly Ghost.

But considering the special nature of the Heavenly Ghost and its strength, having such capability is not surprising.

The Heavenly Ghost is absolutely unique in the Cultivation World, being a most special spiritual entity, and as a combination of Heavenly Demon and ghost, it naturally has a strong ability to suppress spiritual energy.

Li Shiming had no intention of investigating how the Heavenly Ghost devoured the spiritual imprint within the life-bound magic treasure. He immediately took out several life-bound magic treasures, all obtained from slaying Great Cultivators.

Under his orders, the Heavenly Ghost licked them a few times, resolving the spiritual imprints.

A smile appeared on his face, as these treasures were all great life-bound treasures of the Great Cultivators, each one a supreme treasure.

For example, the Mountain Peak Treasure used by Yan Gao Great Cultivator could be improved by adding a batch of Earth-type Fourth Grade Top Material, allowing the Fourth Grade Top-level Artifact Tribulation Mountain Peak Treasure to be redesigned with additional spell runes.

He had seen Yan Gao Great Cultivator’s Mountain Peak Treasure, and its high quality could not be matched even by the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak.’

Though ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ combined the essence of many Mountain Peak Type Magical Treasures, the Artifact Refining technique he found for integrating the essence of Mountain Peak Treasures originated from the White Emperor Sect.

Being a Peak Great Cultivator of the White Emperor Sect, the resources that Yan Gao Great Cultivator had access to were unimaginable to Li Shiming.

It was evident from Yan Gao Great Cultivator’s soul crystal ring that he was also a pinnacle Great Cultivator specializing in life-bound treasures, channeling almost all acquired refining resources into this Mountain Peak Treasure.

Of course, the main ability of ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ is not to suppress but to wield tens of thousands of flying swords, only gaining stronger gravity effects after incorporating the ’Gravity Gold Brick.’

Since ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ was given for use to his avatar Li Yuanba, and Li Yuanba found it handy, greatly boosting his combat power, he did not plan to reclaim it.

This time, he also did not plan to treat the Mountain Peak Type Magical Treasure as a life-bound magic treasure but rather refined it as a regular magic treasure.

The remaining slots for life-bound magic treasures were few, and he did not want the Mountain Peak Treasure to occupy two life-bound magic treasure positions.

If it were before attaining his current status as a Great Cultivator, re-refining a non-life-bound magic treasure would be difficult, but after ascending as a Great Cultivator, especially after cultivating the ’Heavenly Human Technique,’ his Spiritual Power Pattern and spirit saw significant enhancements, rendering previously challenging operations now effortless.

Li Shiming first recognized this Mountain Peak Treasure as its master, and after imprinting the Master Recognition Technique, he discovered that the Mountain Peak Treasure was named ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak.’

Upon mastering ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak,’ he could enter its interior with his Divine Sense and incrementally scan out the most comprehensive data of ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak.’

The life-bound magic treasure IBMz15 will redesign the spell runes of ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ based on this data.

With the experience of ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ the design work for ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ wasn’t too troublesome.

During this period, he placed five Fourth Grade Pill Furnaces into the machine room space to begin simultaneous alchemy.

With his prowess, he no longer worried about the duration of alchemy, and even if the Central State Commerce learned of his ability to simultaneously refine five furnaces of Great Cultivator Spirit Pills, they would cheerfully commend him instead of harboring any other thoughts.

Just as with the avatar Li Yuanba, who had strong backing, he relied on his own strength.

Because the machine room space was occupied and limited, a few days later, the design scheme for ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ emerged, yet he was still unable to proceed with refinement.

He wasn’t anxious, consuming five high-level spirit pills of Great Cultivators and entering the Treasure Lotus Hall within the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven to cultivate.

In the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave Heaven of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, within a special nurturing space harboring numerous spirit beasts, Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon were uncharacteristically well-behaved, lying on the ground and absorbing the special energy present in the space.

Both Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon had their powers forcibly enhanced to the Fourth Grade Middle Stage by Li Shiming using a massive amount of spirit pills and resources, rendering their foundation somewhat unstable.

Taking the typical growth of a Red Gold Phoenix as an example, merely progressing from juvenile to adulthood takes several hundred years, and even with the consumption of numerous spirit pills, this time span can only be reduced to a few decades.

But look at Little Feng, not only has it matured, but it has also reached the Fourth Grade Middle Stage.

The path that other Red Gold Phoenixes might take nearly a thousand years to traverse, Little Feng achieved in just a few decades.

After returning to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, Li Shiming, having studied many of the sect’s classics, chose to let Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon remain here to let them strengthen their foundation.

To continuously follow him, Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon must possess enough potential; insufficient foundation will prevent them from keeping up with him.

He could provide ample resources for his spiritual pets, but they must be able to convert those resources into strength and realm; otherwise, no amount of resources can allow them to exhibit their value.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect was very attentive to Li Shiming’s two spiritual pets, and especially for them, an area was opened within the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave Heaven, enhancing the provision of special energy in the cave heaven.

None of this required Li Shiming’s instructions, as his status within the Ten Thousand Beast Sect is already the highest. Although he hasn’t sought any power, any command from him would be executed with full force by the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, illustrating the influence of absolute strength.