Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

Li Yun did not waste time with the nine golden-armored puppets.

He immediately controlled the Violet Shadow Swords and infused them with his Slaughter Sword Intent at ninety percent source mastery.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

In a single flash, all ten violet swords moved at once, cutting through the air with terrifying sharpness. The nine golden-armored puppets were torn apart almost instantly, their bodies shattering into fragments of metal, wood, and unknown materials.

Afterward, Li Yun continued walking forward.

Once the nine golden-armored puppets were destroyed, there were no further obstacles ahead. Before long, a wall appeared in front of Li Yun.

Exactly thirty-six precious swords hung upon that wall, and beside them, a line of words had been carved into the stone.

”My name is Mo Xuanyao. I cultivated for a hundred years, yet I achieved nothing worthy of pride and stopped at the peak of the Earthly Core Realm. Although I am about to die, I am unwilling to let my precious swords vanish with me in silence. Therefore, I have left the Profound Light Sword Formation here. If someone fated obtains this sword formation, I hope that person will cherish it.”

Although it was only a short line of words, a deep sense of helplessness and sorrow seemed to rush toward him from the stone wall. One could imagine how much bitterness had filled the heart of the person who wrote those words.

Seeing this line, Li Yun sighed softly.

The path of cultivation was often like this. Those who could advance bravely all the way and stand at the peak were always an extremely small minority. Most cultivators would eventually stop somewhere along the path because of limitations in talent, comprehension, perseverance, resources, or fate.

Before the Earthly Core Realm, such limitations were still somewhat less obvious. However, after reaching the Earthly Core Realm, the requirements for talent, comprehension ability, perseverance, and foundation became extremely harsh. Every step forward was as difficult as ascending to the heavens, and every bottleneck could block countless cultivators for the rest of their lives.

After shaking his head, Li Yun focused his gaze on the thirty-six precious swords nearby.

He could tell that these thirty-six precious swords had originally been at least high-grade Earth Rank. Unfortunately, after being eroded by the passage of time, many of them had already become damaged and useless. Only twenty-three precious swords remained intact, and all of them had fallen to low-grade Earth Rank.

Compared to the Violet Shadow Swords, the power of these twenty-three Profound Light Swords was slightly higher, but the difference was not too large.

”These twenty-three swords can actually form a set with the Violet Shadow Swords.”

With that thought, Li Yun took out the Sword-Nurturing Gourd and directly collected the twenty-three Profound Light Swords.

In this way, he now had thirty-three Earth Rank swords in his possession. The power of both his Soul Sword Control Art and the Spirit Sword Sealing Formation had improved significantly.

The improvement to the Soul Sword Control Art was still within expectation. After all, this technique would only undergo a qualitative transformation when the number of swords reached a major threshold. Increasing from ten swords to thirty-three swords could raise its power, but the increase was not too exaggerated.

However, the enhancement to the Spirit Sword Sealing Formation was far more astonishing.

With thirty-three Earth Rank precious swords supporting it, the power of the Spirit Sword Sealing Formation had been greatly strengthened.

Originally, the Spirit Sword Sealing Formation could only briefly suppress thirty percent of the essence qi of a peak 9th level Mortal Core Realm expert. Now, it could suppress fifty percent of the essence qi of such an expert and maintain the suppression for five breaths.

Five breaths might sound short, but in battle, it was already extremely significant.

Such a short window was more than enough to change the outcome of a fight or even reverse a desperate situation.

”Void Chaos Island is a place of great competition, but it truly is also a place of opportunity. A mere low-grade immortal cave has already given me such benefits. I wonder what kind of opportunities are hidden inside the high-grade immortal caves and the supreme immortal cave.”

Li Yun smiled faintly, and his anticipation for Void Chaos Island grew even stronger.

Just one low-grade immortal cave had increased his strength considerably. From this alone, one could imagine how tempting the opportunities hidden inside the higher-level immortal caves would be.

After leaving the immortal cave, Li Yun continued searching elsewhere.

Unfortunately, he did not gain much afterward. The only immortal cave he found had already been explored by someone else, and all of its benefits had been taken away.

However, during this period, he encountered many cultivators, which inevitably led to a series of fierce battles.

Those who had managed to reach Void Chaos Island all possessed a certain level of strength. Experts at the peak of the 9th level of the Mortal Core Realm could be seen everywhere, and there were even many who had reached perfection at the peak of the 9th level of the Mortal Core Realm, leaving them only one step away from the Half-Step Earthly Core Realm.

Facing cultivators at that level, Li Yun naturally would not be foolish enough to confront them head-on every time.

Instead, he began using the terrain and his speed to sneak up on them one by one. Once he found the right opportunity, he killed them swiftly before taking their storage rings.

Afterward, he devoured all the resources inside those storage rings with his Devouring Intent.

At present, his Devouring Intent had already reached seventy percent source mastery, causing both its devouring speed and capacity to increase tremendously.

Sadly for Li Yun, reaching the Half-Step Mortal Core Realm required far more resources than he had originally expected. He had already devoured a large amount of resources during this period, yet there was still no clear sign of him breaking through.

This made him wonder just how much energy he would need when the time came to truly break through to the Mortal Core Realm.