Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1950: Chapter 1021: Spiritual Treasure_2

His current Lifebound Flying Sword is the ‘Traceless Illusion Sword’, made from fourth-grade top materials, and its power is passable.

But he doesn’t want his Lifebound Flying Sword to be merely passable in power; he needs the most powerful Lifebound Flying Sword.

With the Lifebound Flying Sword, a Sword Cultivator can shatter myriad techniques with a single strike, fully suppressing all at the same level.

However, with the ‘Traceless Illusion Sword’ in hand, Li Shiming finds himself unable to suppress a powerful Free Great Power.

He doesn’t know how strong a powerful Free Great Power truly is, but he sets a strong target for himself in his imagination.

To confront a powerful Free Great Power, he needs the strongest weapon, augmented by his enduring state of unity with the heavens.

The fifth-grade ‘Dustless Luminous Mysterious Gold’ is the material he intends to use to refine his new Lifebound Flying Sword.

Before refining, he took out the fifth-grade spiritual treasure, the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, originally the Lifebound Treasure of a Yuqing Sect Great Ability, whose spirit mark was removed by a Heavenly Ghost.

Now, this fifth-grade spiritual treasure, the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, has lost its function and has been discarded by him.

He voluntarily severed his master recognition bond with the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ and then took out the newly refined ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’.

Even without going through master recognition, as long as the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ hadn’t been refined and claimed by others, he was its natural owner.

He cast the Master Recognition Technique on the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, which merged into it, soon connecting to his soul.

The new ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ became his Lifebound Treasure, then transformed into an energy entering his body, lodging within a Grotto Heaven.

The ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ floated above the Cave Heaven Core, resonating with the ‘Thunder Rule Runes’ inside the Cave Heaven Core.

The energy within the Grotto Heaven requires Li Shiming to partition his mind, converting Cave Heaven Energy into thunder energy, constantly nurturing the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’.

As his understanding of the ‘Thunder Rules’ deepens, the ‘Thunder Rule Runes’ in the Cave Heaven Core will continually influence the ‘Thunder Rule Runes’ inside the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, elevating them to match his own level.

Li Shiming looked at his fourth-grade spiritual treasure, the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, made from fourth-grade top thunder materials, and decided to place it in the sect treasury for the first Thunder Cultivator to advance to Peak Great Cultivator to obtain.

At this point, some secrets no longer need to be hidden.

His artifact refining abilities are known to only a few cultivators in the Cultivation World.

In fact, his artifact refining abilities, as well as his alchemy skills, far exceed those of other cultivators, with a gap so vast the second-ranked cultivator’s skills seem meager in comparison.

Li Shiming then went into seclusion, starting to refine the ‘Dustless Luminous Mysterious Gold’.

Meanwhile, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect became lively, hosting a grand ceremony years in the making to become a Super Sect, held at the sect’s mountain gates.

This is one of the rare occasions the Ten Thousand Beast Sect opens its mountain gates. Not only were all superpowers invited, but also a majority of large sects sent representatives, resulting in an astonishing number of cultivators visiting the mountain gates.

Yet, none of the cultivators, regardless of their strength, dared to cause trouble.

Particularly those who arrived early, they sensed the terrifying atmosphere of Heavenly Tribulation outside the mountain gates, gaining a deep understanding of the existence of a super Great Power in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

This Great Power, Li Shiming, even before he became a Great Power, his illustrious battle achievements had already suppressed Inheritor Great Abilities across all superpowers.

Not to mention, after becoming a Great Power and returning to the sect, the first thing he did was storm the Feiyu Sect’s mountain gates, eliminating their Inheritor Great Ability, his unparalleled strength intimidating the entire Cultivation World.

Though Li Shiming lacked significant background, his formidable strength became his background.

No superpower wished to provoke him, for his ability to storm any superpower’s mountain gates at will was more terrifying than his displayed combat strength.

Although the effects caused by Li Shiming’s Artifact Tribulation gradually subsided, the appearance of a fourth-grade spiritual treasure, the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, in the sect treasury drove the cultivators to frenzy again.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect opened its mountain gates, allowing numerous representatives from various powers to enter. Some matters, not too confidential, they didn’t mind these representatives witnessing, including the sect treasury.

The sect treasury is the foundation of a power; this treasury isn’t the core treasury, with vital Spiritual Objects stored in the core treasury.

But the Ten Thousand Beast Sect never anticipated that Li Shiming would casually place a fourth-grade spiritual treasure, the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, into the sect treasury and set the condition for obtaining it.

A spiritual treasure that could be used by a Great Cultivator, it nearly stirred the entire Cultivation World.

No one expected that Li Shiming had such accomplishments in the field of artifact refining.

All factions considered a matter: if Li Shiming could refine the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ with fourth-grade materials, then he was capable of refining other spiritual treasures.

However, the issue was that Li Shiming possessed a strength compelling any faction to negotiate respectfully. Even if a faction wished for Li Shiming to refine a spiritual treasure, they had no choice but to negotiate amicably.

Among all cultivators, Thunder Cultivators were the most frenzied group.

Upon learning the condition to obtain the fourth-grade spiritual treasure, the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, a large number of Thunder Cultivators desired to join the Ten Thousand Beast Sect within a short time.

These cultivators expressed their intent to join through the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s commercial outlets across the continents.

Originally, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect had a great allure for Thunder Cultivators, as it possessed all the inheritances from the former Thunder Cultivator super-sect, Yuqing Sect, granting comprehensive Thunder Cultivator inheritances upon joining.

Yet previously, since the Ten Thousand Beast Sect was merely a large sect, some Thunder Cultivator disciples remained in the observation stage.

Now, there’s no need to observe; the Ten Thousand Beast Sect became a Super Sect, with Li Shiming offering a fourth-grade spiritual treasure, the ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, as a reward, making the Ten Thousand Beast Sect the most desirable place for Thunder Cultivators.

Li Shiming remained in seclusion, unaffected by external affairs.

Though daily reports were sent to him, he casually glanced to stay aware of major events happening in the Cultivation World.

Another three years passed, and he refined a spiritual treasure sword, named ‘Dustless Sword’, as it was made from ‘Dustless Luminous Mysterious Gold’.

The ‘Dustless Sword’ was engraved with twenty billion ‘Sword Intent Rule Runes’ and ten billion ‘Space Rule Runes’.

The greatest feature of this spiritual treasure sword is its ability to traverse the void; its attack method is far more elusive than his previous ‘Traceless Illusion Sword’.

With the function of the ‘Space Rule Runes’, the ‘Dustless Sword’ can utilize space movement to appear immediately before an enemy, which is more effective than increasing the flying speed of the sword.

No matter how fast the speed, it can’t match space movement. Eliminating the flying process, though losing the build-up of power during flight, the ‘Chaos Sword Intent’ contained within the ‘Dustless Sword’, under the effect of twenty billion ‘Sword Intent Rule Runes’, is enough to unleash devastating strikes on the enemy.

Of course, using ‘Space Rule Runes’ was actually a compromise.

If he could engrave ‘Speed Rule Runes’, he would rather do so.

The effect of the ‘Space Rule Runes’ is indeed formidable, but it also prevents many sword attack Secret Techniques in the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ from being executed.

His Grotto Heaven currently doesn’t record ‘Speed Rules’; thus, he couldn’t engrave ‘Speed Rule Runes’ even if he wanted to.

This is the greatest limitation of a fifth-grade spiritual treasure; only rules mastered by oneself can be engraved onto the spiritual treasure.

With the calculations of IBMz15 and Li Shiming’s cooperation, the ‘Dustless Sword’ successfully passed the Heavenly Tribulation.

However, this Great Power level Artifact Tribulation occurred after the grand ceremony of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s promotion to a Super Sect, and didn’t further impact cultivators from other factions.