Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1884: Chapter 988: Advancement (2)

Originally, one can only have one lifebound artifact, the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ is actually the lifebound artifact of Li Shiming, but Li Shiming gave the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ to Li Yuanba, so it is also considered Li Yuanba’s lifebound artifact.

Standing beside Li Yuanba are two Dukes of Thunder, one Red Demon, and one Holy Spirit.

Once these half-step great power combat forces are summoned, they are controlled by the four brains separated by Li Shiming, helping to adjust the energy balance within the grotto heaven.

This greatly reduced Li Yuanba’s workload, allowing him to focus more on other matters.

Moreover, these four half-step great power combat forces, existing within the grotto heaven, do not require any other actions, as their presence naturally strengthens the grotto heaven.

The grotto heaven has self-adaptive capabilities; originally with one half-step great power inside, it would adapt to the presence of this half-step great power, at least ensuring enough energy for the half-step great power’s consumption.

When four more half-step great powers appear in the grotto heaven, the grotto heaven would also continually increase energy production to maintain enough energy for the consumption of five half-step great powers.

Of course, this process is very slow, and it wouldn’t have been noticed if not for the fact that he had kept the four half-step great powers summoned for several years.

This is considered a new discovery, as in the classics seen by him and his true body Li Shiming, this point has never been mentioned.

The reason other half-step great powers have not discovered this is simple: in the half-step great power realm, the grotto heaven is extremely fragile.

Let alone allowing other half-step great powers to reside in the grotto heaven for long, even a half-step great power entering the grotto heaven could lead to an energy collapse within the grotto heaven.

Who would risk letting other half-step great powers enter their grotto heaven?

Moreover, even if a half-step great power wants to let other half-step great powers enter their grotto heaven, they must find a half-step great power who agrees.

The road to promoting a half-step great power among spirit beasts is almost completely severed due to the heavenly tribulation, as the heavenly tribulation for ascending to half-step great power is too horrifying, with few spirit beasts capable of overcoming it.

Human cultivators, upon reaching half-step great power, cannot leave their grotto heaven anymore.

Li Yuanba now experiences it; if he dares to leave the grotto heaven, he would face the half-step great power heavenly tribulation.

Even entering other grotto heavens cannot prevent the descent of the heavenly tribulation. Perhaps at lower levels, other grotto heavens can shield against heavenly tribulations, but at the half-step great power level, the heavenly tribulation lock cannot be avoided unless it is self-constructed, only then does it yield the effect of shielding heavenly tribulations.

Now, if not for the fact that his retreat is within the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion mountain gate, Li Yuanba might have considered having his true body Li Shiming send all seventy-two Holy Spirits into the grotto heaven.

Add seventy-two more half-step great powers, and the increase in energy production in the grotto heaven would surely be tremendous.

Unfortunately, this is just wishful thinking, as the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion would never allow outsiders to enter the place where half-step great powers seclude themselves, and this is also the most confidential area of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Li Yuanba focused his mind on the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak.’ With a slight shift in his thoughts, ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ flew out and landed on the ground, increasing in size as well.

Because the grotto heaven is only so big, he dared not let the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ reach its complete state.

The ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ although his lifebound artifact, naturally absorbs the energy of the grotto heaven once released, which continually strengthens the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak.’

This is also a method for those with great power to strengthen their lifebound artifact, but very few half-step great powers do this; only those with great power usually do this.

A half-step great power rarely has battle opportunities, and having the lifebound artifact absorb grotto heaven’s energy would make balancing the energy within the grotto heaven even more difficult.

If it weren’t for the four half-step great powers helping him control the energy balance in the grotto heaven, he wouldn’t dare release the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak.’

Although not in its complete state, half-step great power level gold element energy entering the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ still has a tremendous effect on it.

The enhancement effect of the gold element energy on the earth element body of the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ is limited, but the strengthening effect on the thousands of energy-converted flying swords within the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ is extremely strong.

These energy-converted flying swords, previously only over two thousand contained ‘Chaos Sword Intent,’ but inside the grotto heaven, Li Yuanba exists like a deity.

And as a lifebound artifact, ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ is accepted by the grotto heaven, akin to a part of the grotto heaven, naturally under his complete control.

Half-step great power level gold element energy begins entering ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ strengthening the thousands of energy-converted flying swords.

No matter the grade of energy-converted flying swords, under the effect of half-step great power level gold element energy, they are continuously enhancing their quality.

The Sword Intent rules are also affecting these energy-converted flying swords, with half-step great power level Sword Intent rules enhancing the ‘Chaos Sword Intent,’ guiding it into the energy-converted flying swords.

This process requires some time, but as long as everything goes smoothly, the thousands of energy-converted flying swords within the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ will eventually convert to surpass the fourth-grade half-step great power level energy-converted flying swords.

With the quality of half-step great power level energy-converted flying swords, half-step great power level Sword Intent rules enhancing ‘Chaos Sword Intent’ can be nourished long-term to infuse the Sword Intent into the energy-converted flying swords.

Just imagining the thousands of half-step great power level energy-converted flying swords allows one to speculate on the terrifying power of the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak.’

Li Yuanba has no choice; if the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ doesn’t increase its power, it will become a useless object.

His own strength has increased too rapidly, and the once mighty ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ is of little help to him now. Without enhancing its power, this ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ will indeed become obsolete.

The process of strengthening the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ doesn’t require his constant attention.

The ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ is a spiritual treasure, possessing an artifact spirit. Although the artifact spirit’s wisdom is not too high, once he teaches it, the artifact spirit can act according to his orders.

Li Yuanba’s attention shifted to the ‘Xingyi Sword,’ also a spiritual treasure.

Due to cultivating the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique,’ after ascending to the half-step great power, the artifact spirit of the lifebound flying sword ‘Xingyi Sword’ underwent a significant enhancement, with its intellect increased several times.

Furthermore, the artifact spirit can separate part of its consciousness, placing it in the sword light emitted by the lifebound flying sword ‘Xingyi Sword,’ allowing the sword light to be fully controlled by the separated consciousness of the artifact spirit.

This is a major enhancement. If Li Yuanba employs the sword light dissemination secret technique within the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique,’ using the awareness separated by the artifact spirit to control the separated sword lights.

At his current realm, he can fully separate a thousand sword lights, each controlled by the consciousness of the artifact spirit, which can attack enemies autonomously after execution without further attention.

Of course, in terms of power, the energy-converted flying swords of the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ are still more potent, primarily because the energy-converted flying swords are equivalent to a complete flying sword, while sword light is merely a small portion of the power divided from the flying sword, and the more division, the weaker it becomes.

When the number of sword lights divided from the lifebound flying sword ‘Xingyi Sword’ is within a hundred, it can fully match the ultimate power of the ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ energy-converted flying swords.

After all, the ‘Xingyi Sword’ is his lifebound flying sword nurtured over countless years, naturally not comparable in power to those energy-converted flying swords.

Li Yuanba is also using half-step great power gold element energy within the grotto heaven to strengthen the ‘Xingyi Sword.’ As a spiritual treasure flying sword, its compatibility with half-step great power gold element energy is exceptional, and coupled with being of the same origin, the strengthening process is very smooth.

And it’s he who personally handles the process of strengthening the ‘Xingyi Sword,’ being a sword cultivator, the lifebound flying sword is too important for him.

Over these years, Li Yuanba’s strength has greatly improved, but unfortunately, after becoming a half-step great power, he can no longer leave the grotto heaven, trapped within it, even with increasing strength, he has no battlefield to utilize it.

Sometimes he even thinks about borrowing one hundred and eight ‘Eternal Water Bears’ from his true body Li Shiming to forcibly resist the half-step great power heavenly tribulation.

But considering that his true body Li Shiming’s cultivation has already deviated from the traditional path, he doesn’t want his side to stray from the traditional cultivation path as well.