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Chapter 2079: Chapter 1086: Inventory

Li Shiming released the Heavenly Ghost. Great Power Lu Wei was a Late Stage Great Power, and his soul was the strongest he had ever encountered.

Although Great Power Lu Wei had fallen and his soul energy was dissipating, the soul energy that could be absorbed by the Heavenly Ghost was enough for it to ascend.

As soon as the Heavenly Ghost emerged, it pounced on the corpse of Great Power Lu Wei, swallowing the body whole in one gulp.

It had an extraordinary sensitivity to soul energy and immediately detected the exceptionally high quality of the soul energy on the corpse of Great Power Lu Wei.

It instinctively felt how important the soul energy on Great Power Lu Wei’s corpse was to it and didn’t want to waste even a single bit.

The remnants of the Late Stage Great Power’s soul energy were devoured, after which it spat out Great Power Lu Wei’s corpse, as well as a soul crystal ring.

Li Shiming put away the corpse and the soul crystal ring. He didn’t immediately check the soul crystal ring but instead looked at the Heavenly Ghost.

All along, he thought the Heavenly Ghost would be the first to ascend to the fifth grade.

Because the growth of the Heavenly Ghost could be achieved just by devouring souls. However, during the time in Central State, despite swallowing many powerful souls, it had not successfully ascended, only reaching a half-step fifth-grade peak.

Now, with the Heavenly Ghost devouring Lu Wei’s soul energy, the bottleneck preventing its ascension vanished.

The quality of the soul energy within the Heavenly Ghost continually rose, quickly breaking through the half-step fifth grade and reaching the fifth-grade level.

Before the Heavenly Ghost could express joy to Li Shiming, it felt a rejection from heaven and earth.

Li Shiming smiled, having already prepared the ’Thunder Resistance Secret Method’, which he cast on the Heavenly Ghost.

Regarding spiritual pets overcoming Heavenly Tribulations, he was arguably the most knowledgeable in both theory and practice in the Cultivation World.

Through the analysis of a large amount of data on spiritual pets undergoing tribulations by IBM z15, he had figured out the most appropriate methods for dealing with Heavenly Tribulations.

He summoned the Late Stage Fifth Grade Golden Saint, whose two pairs of wings fluttered, casting a defensive secret technique onto the Heavenly Ghost.

This was a secret technique Li Shiming learned from researching angelic inheritance, capable of granting powerful defensive power to a designated target.

Additionally, due to the special nature of ’Holy Spirit’ energy, which did not belong to the Cultivation World, the local heavens would not see it as external aid and therefore would not intensify the power of the Heavenly Tribulation.

At the level of the Golden Saint, it was a peak existence even among the Late Stage Fifth Grade. The defensive secret technique it cast, unless broken by an entity stronger than the Golden Saint, was difficult to breach swiftly.

The Heavenly Ghost’s Heavenly Tribulation began, but with the joint reinforcement of Li Shiming and the Golden Saint, the possibility of the Heavenly Ghost failing its tribulation was almost unthinkable.

Of course, this applied only to the Heavenly Ghost; he would not consider using this method for other spiritual pets.

The Heavenly Ghost, being a Spirit energy entity, was greatly restrained by Heavenly Thunder, making its tribulation highly difficult.

Unlike other spiritual pets, for whom the tribulation is both a hardship and an opportunity.

The process of the tribulation also signifies the self-fortification of a spiritual pet, a rare chance indeed.

Li Shiming, no longer concerned with the Heavenly Ghost, released a ’Silver Winged Spirit Gu Insect’ to undergo its tribulation at a distance.

After enhancing the state of the ’Silver Winged Spirit Gu Insect’, he allowed it to face the tribulation on its own.

With a gesture, the ’Five Elements Ring’ flew into his hand.

Though it was his first time deploying the ’Five Elements Ring’ in battle, he was very satisfied with its power.

The ’Five Elements Ring’ had capabilities beyond its ’Five-Colored Divine Light’; it was an all-round spiritual artifact capable of both attack and defense.

Unfortunately, in this battle, the ’Five Elements Ring’ only showcased the effect of the ’Five-Colored Divine Light’; its other abilities had no opportunity to manifest.

This was mainly because his vast array of battle tactics meant the ’Five Elements Ring’ was just one of many.

From the ’Five Elements Ring’, he drew a ’Heavenly Fire Pearl’. As soon as he had it in hand, he realized it was not an ordinary spiritual artifact.

In his perception, the ’Heavenly Fire Pearl’ didn’t seem like something crafted by a Great Power but rather appeared naturally formed.

The fire runes within the ’Heavenly Fire Pearl’ were not drawn by cultivators but were nurtured and formed over long periods within Fifth Grade Flames. These fire runes were more complex and possessed greater power than those drawn by cultivators.

Li Shiming smiled, looking toward the Heavenly Ghost. Once it ascended to the fifth grade, he could remove Great Power Lu Wei’s Spirit imprint from the ’Heavenly Fire Pearl’ and could re-establish ownership.

He then retrieved the soul crystal ring. With its owner having fallen, the restrictions on the soul crystal ring were lifted, allowing his Spirit to enter it.

Inside the soul crystal ring, the first thing he saw was the Fifth Grade Immortal Fires stored in special jade boxes—eight kinds of Fifth Grade Immortal Fires in total.

During the earlier battle, when Great Power Lu Wei desperately unleashed fireballs, Li Shiming noticed that the fireballs contained far more than just four types of Fifth Grade Immortal Fires, and it turned out to be true.

At the time, that ball of fire was truly terrifying. However, when confronted by Li Shiming’s ’Chaotic Immortal Fire’, even though the fireball contained several Fifth Grade Immortal Fires that hadn’t been fused by the ’Chaotic Immortal Fire’, the quality discrepancy was too vast. Even though Great Power Lu Wei was a Late Stage Great Power and exerted all the Cave Heaven Power, it was still no match for the ’Chaotic Immortal Fire’.

Li Shiming confirmed that Great Power Lu Wei had been concealing his full strength outwardly, only showing four types of Fifth Grade Immortal Fires while actually fusing eight types.

This kind of concealment could indeed have surprising effects in a battle where strengths are evenly matched.

But in the battle with Li Shiming, once he exerted his full power, the hidden strength of Great Power Lu Wei was of no use at all.