Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1954: Chapter 1023: Advancement (2)

Just as they were preparing to forcibly attack the formation, a wisp of aura emanated from within.

Although this wisp of aura bore no intention of attacking, its sheer power rendered all the cultivators present frozen in place.

“Do not disturb this place!” Then a voice echoed.

The strongest cultivator of the newly rebuilt Sky Sea Sect was only at the Golden Core Early Stage; this cultivator, like the others, remained immobilized for a long time, only regaining control of their body when the aura dissipated.

This was Li Shiming’s hometown, and he did not want to cause any trouble.

He sent a message to the Beishu Sect, and over ten days later, a team consisting of three Nascent Soul cultivators and several hundred Golden Core cultivators arrived at the Sky Sea Sect and took over the defense of Sky Sea Island.

In ten years, Yin Shilan’s cave heaven fully accommodated the presence of 108 ‘Eternal Water Bears’, and the daily energy production of the cave heaven was calculated based on Yin Shilan, Little Phoenix, and these 108 ‘Eternal Water Bears’.

Most importantly, Little Phoenix, the Red Gold Phoenix, took control of the cave heaven’s energy.

Li Shiming realized that he couldn’t underestimate any super force; initially, Little Phoenix might increase the half-step Great Power’s control over the cave heaven, but once Little Phoenix adapted to the cave heaven’s environment, its instincts allowed it to command the fire energy within the cave heaven.

Of course, this presupposed that Yin Shilan’s cave heaven contained only fire energy, which was relatively simpler to control.

Li Shiming retracted the ‘Eternal Water Bears’, and their departure allowed the cave heaven to accumulate a significant amount of energy.

At this juncture, Li Shiming did not linger; he also entered his own cave heaven, leaving only the ‘Daoist Golden Lotus’, which utilized space movement and disappeared from Eagle Beak Island.

After his departure, the restriction on Eagle Beak Island vanished.

The cultivators from the Beishu Sect withdrew from Sky Sea Island, while the cultivators viewed Eagle Beak Island as sacred ground, attracting countless cultivators from across Sky Sea Island, all eager to visit the former abode of a great power.

Furthermore, the cultivators discovered that, despite Eagle Beak Island being composed of ordinary rock, even a full-strength attack by a Golden Core cultivator using a magical treasure could not damage the island in the slightest.

Moreover, the spirit plants on Eagle Beak Island seemed frozen in time, neither growing nor withering.

If not verified by Spirit Plant Masters, cultivators might have thought these spirit plants were inanimate.

The wonders of Eagle Beak Island stemmed from the lower-level cultivators’ misunderstanding of higher-level cultivators; when Li Shiming rebuilt Eagle Beak Island, he infused it with a wisp of Earth Rules into the rocks and a wisp of Wood Element Rules into the spirit plants, leading to its current uniqueness.

The journey back was swift, taking only a few days; with the ‘Daoist Golden Lotus’ utilizing space movement, they returned to the Dongqi Continent.

After Yin Shilan’s cave heaven stabilized, Li Shiming began considering the advancement of his half-step fifth-grade spirit pets.

Upgrading a half-step fifth-grade spirit pet to the fifth grade required corresponding fifth-grade resources, which posed a challenge for him.

In his planting cave heaven, he could cultivate fifth-grade spiritual medicine, but neither the ‘Eternal Water Bear’, the Holy Spirit, nor other spirit pets had experience growing to the fifth grade.

Without any experience from predecessors to reference, he would need to research everything anew should he proceed.

This process was exceedingly complex and arduous. He had minimal opportunity to study fifth-grade spiritual medicine, causing IBMz15 to lack the supporting data necessary for calculations.

Li Shiming patted his own head, realizing he’d forgotten his expertise.

Fifth-grade spiritual medicines were extraordinarily precious; even when cultivated by Inheritor Great Ability in their grotto heaven, their yield was impressively small.

He wasn’t without data on fifth-grade spiritual medicines; by openly refining fifth-grade spirit pills, he could obtain fifth-grade spiritual medicines from other great abilities.

While these fifth-grade spiritual medicines were destined for spirit pill refinement, through his handling, their data could be scanned into IBMz15’s database.

Moreover, with the opportunity to refine fifth-grade spirit pills for great abilities, he could further accumulate fifth-grade spirit pills for himself.

Having attempted it himself, in his specially constructed planting cave heaven, it took at least three hundred years for a mature fifth-grade spiritual medicine to emerge.

Crucially, the number of fifth-grade spiritual medicines a grotto heaven could simultaneously nurture was limited.

In his grotto heaven, each cave heaven could host only three fifth-grade spiritual medicines at a time; after three hundred years, five cave heavens would produce just fifteen fifth-grade spiritual medicines.

For other great abilities, three hundred years yielded only three fifth-grade spiritual medicines, insufficient for cultivation needs.

It’s no wonder, even with the ability to cultivate fifth-grade spiritual medicines in grotto heavens, one still needed to venture outside for adventures.

Of course, Li Shiming’s time as a great ability was too short. He was still in the energy accumulation phase, lacking comprehensive knowledge on late-stage great ability cultivation, information he would only gain once his realm advanced.

For now, his understanding of great ability cultivation was speculative.

Amidst contemplating methods to express his desire to refine fifth-grade spirit pills to various Inheritor Great Abilities, an invitation arrived from Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun of the Central State Continent.

This time, he didn’t go personally but dispatched his phantom avatar instead.

Currently, it should be called a Great Power Avatar.

Its internal Nascent Soul remained, yet it was stuck at the Peak Great Cultivator Realm, unable to progress, while the energy comprising its body was replaced by Cave Heaven Energy by Li Shiming.

This allowed the phantom avatar’s strength to genuinely reach the level of a great ability; as long as the Cave Heaven Energy wasn’t depleted, the phantom avatar could utilize it to exhibit great ability combat strength.

To enhance the phantom avatar’s strength, Li Shiming equipped it with the fifth-grade ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, once the life-bound magical treasure of the Yuqing Sect’s Great Power Leng Luo.

Unfortunately, the Nascent Soul within the phantom avatar was now a mere burden; the energy generated by its cultivation technique was merely the peak Great Cultivator energy, incapable of integrating into this body, much less replenishing energy.

Li Shiming sometimes considered whether he should attempt to advance the phantom avatar like a normal cultivator, constructing a cave heaven from the Nascent Soul, an idea that lingered in his mind.

But before that, he still needed the phantom avatar to head to the Central State Continent, to meet with Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun.

To conserve energy, the phantom avatar traveled aboard the Golden Winged Dapeng.

Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun arranged to meet at Luanyang Palace, both appearing as avatars, which was not unusual.

Upon the arrival of Li Shiming’s phantom avatar, Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun’s two great ability avatars welcomed the phantom avatar outside the mountain gate.

After some pleasantries, the three great ability avatars entered the main hall.

Though they were avatars, Luanyang Palace prepared the finest spirit fruits and spiritual tea.

The great ability avatars could still taste the spirit fruits and spiritual tea, even absorbing the energy within them.

“Junior Li, our invitation this time is for personal matters between Sword Elder and myself!” Great Power Meng Jun spoke with some embarrassment.

Originally, she planned to send an avatar to the Dongqi Continent for this request, but the current situation on the Central State Continent didn’t allow it; the decline of Da Leiyin Temple and Feiyu Sect led other super forces eyeing the Central State Continent, eager to enter.

The Central State Continent boasted the most resources in the Cultivation World. Previously, eight super forces shared the continent’s resources.

With two super forces gone, those deeming themselves strong enough were contemplating replacing Da Leiyin Temple and Feiyu Sect in settling on the Central State Continent.

Da Leiyin Temple was effectively finished, having lost most of its monks and great abilities, making reconstruction impossible.

However, due to contractual reasons, efforts were underway by the remaining super forces on the Central State Continent to rebuild Feiyu Sect, a process that would be lengthy.