Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1494: 793: Power (2)

By consuming vast quantities of advanced Spirit Pills, he shortened his cultivation duration dramatically, a practice that fellow Great Cultivators viewed as an enormous extravagance.

Nevertheless, he considered it entirely justified, since—as long as he pursued Alchemy—countless Great Cultivators would eagerly hire him to craft such high-grade Spirit Pills. Still, time held unparalleled value.

In his view, the deeper his cultivation advanced, the more time each breakthrough demanded; while Spirit Pills could always be produced anew, lost time remained irreplaceable.

Positioned perilously near the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, he glanced at the bearings before his form blurred and vanished instantly from view.

Executing 'teleportation in one step,' his inner spiritual power at the Great Cultivator Realm now adequately fueled the technique's usual demands. Provided he avoided chaining it hundreds or thousands of times in succession, his reserves proved more than ample.

Through 'Divine Sight Skill,' his gaze stretched across eight thousand miles; despite attaining Great Cultivator status, he had yet to refine 'Divine Sight Skill,' so this Divine Skill lingered at its foundational stage, unamplified.

Time constraints persisted relentlessly; even with 191 brains at his disposal, raising every facet of his expertise to Great Cultivator heights within a brief span proved challenging.

In particular, Divine Skills such as 'Divine Sight Skill' and 'Telepathy' posed hurdles: though his Nascent Soul housed the runes for both, without deep analysis of those runes, he couldn't amplify their might.

Delving into a Divine Skill meant unraveling the embedded rules. Prior to the Great Cultivator Realm, wielding Divine Skills relied on instinct alone, bypassing any grasp of their underlying principles.

Once entering the Great Cultivator Realm, where sensing rules becomes possible, Great Cultivators detect the Rule Power woven into Divine Skills, shattering the skills' inherent limits and propelling their potency to superior heights.

Besides 'Divine Sight Skill' and 'Telepathy,' 'Divine Foot Skill' encountered identical limitations. Though previously perfected, 'Divine Foot Skill' now stalled at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, as his insight into spatial rules showed scant improvement.

That said, the massive surge in spiritual power and spirit turned the fleeting 'teleportation in one step' into an everyday traversal method.

Shifting eight thousand miles per leap, his silhouette rapidly pulled away from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, plunging into the vast ocean depths.

A mere flicker of intent summoned the 'Traceless Illusion Sword' to his side. Thanks to its exceptional properties, no other cultivator could sense the 'Traceless Illusion Sword'—only he could.

Channeling his 'Chaos Sword Intent,' he empowered the 'Traceless Illusion Sword' with 'Chaos Sword Intent.'

Inside his Nascent Soul, 'Chaotic Spiritual Power' flowed alongside the 'Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique,' supplanting the prior Gold Element Spiritual Power that had infused the 'Traceless Illusion Sword.'

Even absent intentional invocation of Sword Intent Rules, 'Chaos Sword Intent' carried subtle threads of those rules, dramatically boosting the force of 'Chaos Sword Intent.'

This feeling echoed the moment he first seized 'Chaos Sword Intent' during Nascent Soul Middle Stage, when he could effortlessly vanquish peers of equal rank.

Uncertain whether a lone slash could pierce a Great Cultivator like Wang He's defenses, he brimmed with assurance against other Great Cultivators, defensive magical artifacts or none.

He refrained from drawing the blade; simply gauging the 'Traceless Illusion Sword's' latent strength let him appraise his Sword Cultivator prowess to some degree.

To fully gauge a Sword Cultivator's battlefield efficacy, clashing against formidable opponents proves essential.

'Chaotic Spiritual Power' outshone the Gold Element Spiritual Power from 'Sky Ascending Technique' in raw intensity, yet it meshed seamlessly with the technique, revealing the pinnacle strength of 'Heavenly Human Technique.'

With a gesture, he recalled the 'Traceless Illusion Sword' and summoned the spiritual treasure 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' to hover nearby.

His internal 'Chaotic Spiritual Power' morphed into Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power via the 'Yuqing Thunder Scripture,' yielding Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power far mightier than the scripture's original output.

“Thunder Fall Skill!” he uttered softly.

From the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' erupted a bolt of lightning, slamming into the ocean; myriad electric arcs burst outward from the strike point, transforming a broad expanse into an eerie glowing domain.

His eyes caught a third-grade sea beast gliding below the waves, ensnared in the zone bathed by the scattering electric glow.

As the electric radiance consumed that region, the third-grade sea beast dissolved utterly, the sheer ferocity of the electric lights erasing it from existence.

He gave a faint nod; Thunder Cultivators boasted innate ferocity in strikes, particularly across vast areas, offsetting the assault vulnerabilities inherent to sword cultivators.

Admittedly, reclaiming 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' would remedy sword cultivation's such flaws.

Yet Li Yuanba craved 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' even more urgently, armed as he was with a arsenal of devastating offensive arts. Lacking 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak,' Li Yuanba's fighting prowess would suffer a grievous blow.

Beyond that, Li Shiming's Thunder Cultivator might extended further. The spiritual treasure 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' merely represented one avenue to amplify Thunder Cultivation's offensive edge.

Intent flared again, linking him to the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' housed in the engine room space.

Achieving the Great Cultivator Realm unveiled the true worth of the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' to him.

Armed with Great Cultivator Realm might and the formidable essence of 'Heavenly Human Technique,' he trusted himself to surpass seasoned Great Cultivators. Linking to the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl,' however, revealed its infinite depths.

Li Shiming now firmly held that the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' hailed from a Yuqing Sect powerhouse's trove.

He chose not to manifest the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl.' Absent the imprint of a Yuqing Sect powerhouse's method upon it, he would dismiss its authenticity outright.

Similar to the 'Jiguang Xunying Boat,' marked by a White Emperor Sect luminary, which rendered this pinnacle flying vessel of the Cultivation World storable solely in engine room spatial artifacts.

Though 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' and 'Jiguang Xunying Boat' shared engine room storage, their essences diverged; he could wield the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' owing to its unique traits.

Activating the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' merely demanded tapping its power to bolster Thunder magic.

Once more, he wielded the spiritual treasure 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' to unleash 'Thunder Fall Skill,' simultaneously rousing the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl,' which infused the 'Thunder Fall Skill' with an extra surge of thunderous force.

As he deployed this 'Thunder Fall Skill,' its exceptional nature dawned on him, its potency surging manifold.

Via his avatar, Li Yuanba had observed Master Wang He deploy 'Thunder Fall Skill.' Assuming Master Wang He never restrained his full might in battle, then Li Shiming's 'Thunder Fall Skill' outstripped Wang He's mightiest combat blow in sheer intensity.

Master Wang He stood as a paramount Thunder Cultivator, among the mightiest at Nascent Soul Stage.

Regrettably, invoking the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' would alert Yuqing Sect Thunder Cultivators, with a Yuqing Sect powerhouse perpetually hunting the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl.'

Such pursuit made sense, given how the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' amplified Thunder magic. Though its boost for Great Cultivator Stage Thunder magic might pale against Mahayana levels, even marginal gains proved vital for a powerhouse.

By his reckoning, exposure of the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' or not, the Yuqing Sect would pursue him relentlessly upon his emergence.

Without beholding Sword Elder descend into Hell Cave Heaven and seal the spatial rift with that jaw-dropping display, he might have scorned all fears, ready to confront Master Wang He if challenged.

Yet, having witnessed Sword Elder's avatar unleash such terrifying might, he grasped that powerhouses wield avatars and hidden arts. Facing a true powerhouse's pursuit would leave him utterly vulnerable.