Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1400 - 746: Inventory_2

Leaving a top-grade Pill Furnace unused would be a massive oversight for any Alchemy Master.

He performed the Master Recognition Technique on the Fourth-grade Pill Furnace. The process went smoothly, and he successfully established a soul connection with the artifact without any complications.

’Green Mist Treasure Cauldron’ was the name given to this high-tier Fourth-grade Pill Furnace.

Because the ’Green Mist Treasure Cauldron’ was brand new, it required a "nurturing" phase. He needed to refine a large quantity of Fourth Grade Elixirs suitable for the Nascent Soul Early Stage first. This would build the cauldron's spiritual resonance with medicinal ingredients before he attempted to concoct Great Cultivator Spirit Pills.

In the world of alchemy, newer is not necessarily better. In fact, seasoned pill furnaces are often superior because they have absorbed the essence of countless spiritual medicines over time, which helps stabilize the refining process and prevents failures.

For this reason, many Alchemy Masters stick with a single compatible Pill Furnace for their entire lives.

Li Shiming, however, was a unique case; he was capable of managing five furnaces of Spirit Pills at once. With the addition of the ’Green Mist Treasure Cauldron’, his capacity expanded to six simultaneous batches.

The primary advantage of the ’Green Mist Treasure Cauldron’ was its ability to accelerate the alchemy process while slightly boosting the final quality of the pills.

A mysterious vapor manifests during the refining stages, which gave the ’Green Mist Treasure Cauldron’ its name.

This green mist appears as the medicinal properties are stimulated, offering other Alchemy Masters an enhanced sensory intuition regarding the internal state of the furnace.

To Li Shiming, however, this feature was practically useless, serving as little more than a decorative flair.

With a casual flick of his sleeve, he stowed the ’Green Mist Treasure Cauldron’ away.

Returning to the tea room, he set the ’Green Mist Treasure Cauldron’ to the side and prepared the Fourth-grade Spirit Tea Leaves he had personally processed, adding top-tier spring water.

Using alchemical techniques to brew the Fourth Grade Spirit Tea, he soon directed a stream of the liquid into a high-quality Fourth-grade teapot.

He then poured the brew from the teapot into a matching Fourth-grade teacup.

The premium tea set further refined the already exquisite aroma of the tea. Just breathing in the scent caused his mind to relax, washing away the spiritual exhaustion accumulated from his Cultivation.

Taking a sip of the Fourth Grade Spirit Tea sent a wave of clarity through his frame, causing his pores to expand in relief. He shut his eyes, savoring the moment of pure bliss.

Clearly, a tea set of such caliber was not merely for show; it provided genuine benefits to one's Cultivation.

During long periods of secluded meditation, even with Li Shiming’s one hundred and ninety-one brains, the crushing isolation could gradually wear down a cultivator's psyche.

While Cultivators possess various techniques to recalibrate their mental state, these methods often leave subtle flaws that might manifest as heart demons during pivotal breakthroughs.

Savoring tea with a top-grade Fourth-grade tea set acted as a buffer against such negative emotional erosion.

The combination of his self-refined Fourth-grade Spirit Tea Leaves, the ’Green Mist Treasure Cauldron’ as a kettle, and the top-tier tea set was a peak luxury that could entirely neutralize the mental strain of long-term seclusion.

He smiled to himself, deciding that he should occasionally invite his incarnation, Li Yuanba, to share in this Spiritual Tea.

Leaving the tea room, Li Shiming made his way toward the Cultivation Room.

He found very few items of interest there. This was expected, as a figure of Langcai Great Power’s stature would have little use for a standard Cultivation Room.

The room existed primarily out of tradition. Since every practitioner begins their journey with a Cultivation Room and spends the majority of their life inside one, they hold deep sentimental value. This likely led Langcai Great Power to include one in his palace even after reaching the Mahayana Realm.

He toured the palace but left the various Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Spiritual Objects untouched for now, intending to use them as he pleased later. Any other cultivator witnessing such casual use of these treasures would surely decry it as a scandalous waste.

Furthermore, he had no intention of hosting guests in this palace until he was powerful enough to defend it, ensuring its location remained a secret.

Next, he produced the ’Luminous Golden Flower’. Through the shared connection with his incarnation, he knew Li Yuanba had already sensed the unique nature of this exotic treasure.

He remained curious about the mechanics of the ’Luminous Golden Flower’; while the vast field of flowers appeared to be a projection of the main plant, every single bloom possessed a physical form.

Utilizing his advanced skills in artifact refining and formations, Li Shiming moved the ’Luminous Golden Flower’ into his machine room space, employing 0.1-nanometer precision to analyze it.

The ’Luminous Golden Flower’ was fundamentally a plant, though it had likely been modified by a powerful figure or mutated naturally into a hybrid state between a living organism and a magical artifact.

In its plant aspect, it could draw nutrients from the soil to grow.

In its artifact aspect, it would not perish if removed from the earth, though it would stop growing, remaining preserved like any other magical tool.

After a moment of deliberation, Li Shiming left the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven and entered his Half-Life Cave Heaven.

The only significant inhabitant of the Half-Life Cave Heaven was the solitary Divine Tree.

He had no plans to grow other spiritual medicines here until the space truly evolved into a complete Cave Heaven.

He planted the ’Luminous Golden Flower’ into the ’Breathable Soil’ of the Half-Life Cave Heaven. With a simple command, the treasure split into a sea of countless blossoms.

Since the Half-Life Cave Heaven was still relatively small, the golden flowers quickly filled the available open ground.

The arrival of these golden petals brought a newfound sense of life to the space.

As the master of the ’Luminous Golden Flower’, the petals did not scatter in the wind; instead, they swayed gently toward him, releasing a pleasant scent.

Li Shiming floated in the air, with the radiant fireball of the ’Fire Jade Furnace’ hanging above him like a miniature sun.

The green foliage of the Divine Tree and the golden sea of flowers below both turned toward the heat source. This natural phototropism allowed them to absorb the energy radiating from the ’Fire Jade Furnace’ and convert it into their own power.

This created a nearly complete ecological cycle, though the lack of one of the Five Elements meant the Half-Life Cave Heaven was still flawed.

However, the cave heaven core belonging to Langcai Great Power, which Li Yuanba had secured, held the potential to fix this imbalance.

Still, the nature of Langcai Great Power’s core was strange and required a careful investigation.

He kept the Forbidden Spirit Talisman on the metal core heart as he removed it from its jade container.

The talisman’s power ensured that while the core could interact with the Half-Life Cave Heaven, its internal power remained suppressed, making it as inert as a common rock.

Li Shiming extended his Divine Sense toward the metal core, curious about its contents.

When Li Yuanba had been inside the original cave heaven, the Artifact Spirit had warned against waking the master. This led Li Shiming to suspect that the physical remains of Langcai Great Power might be resting within this core.

This was the reason Li Yuanba hadn't inspected it immediately; when it came to complex problems, the main body possessed far more resources and methods.

If anything went wrong, Li Shiming was prepared to handle it.

Inside the Half-Life Cave Heaven, he was essentially an omnipotent god.

Even if something happened with Langcai Great Power’s body, he could exit the Half-Life Cave Heaven with a single thought.

This was his safety net; within his own domain, his power far surpassed what he could achieve in the outside world.

As an added precaution, he summoned the Heavenly Ghost to wait in a state of invisibility. The Heavenly Ghost’s mastery over spirits and souls had been proven in many battles against superior foes.

By bringing the core into the Half-Life Cave Heaven, he ensured that if the situation became unsalvageable, losing the Half-Life Cave Heaven would be a much smaller price to pay than losing the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven.