Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1533 - 813: Late Stage
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Li Shiming triggered the Corpse Refining Array. Spiritual power drawn from the three vein-locking plates, together with a massive quantity of Spirit Stones, morphed into a sinister force that swirled inside the Formation once it filtered through the Corpse Refining Array.
One by one, the array bases glowed to life, while the wicked energy surged across the bases and along the formation lines, ultimately flooding into the central area where the corpses of the five Great Cultivators rested.
Across the surfaces of these five Great Cultivators’ bodies, the refining corpse runes sprang into action, their eerie blue glow pulsing and tinting the bodies in shades of blue.
This merely scratched the surface for the Great Cultivators’ bodies. Deeper within, on the bones themselves, even more refining corpse runes ignited.
Every one of these refining corpse runes hungrily absorbed the sinister energy. With greater influxes of that wicked power into the runes, the spectral blue radiance intensified dramatically.
Upon activation, the refining corpse runes kicked off the ceremonial process of forging the Great Cultivators’ bodies into something new.
Using the late-stage Golden Corpse blood as the binding agent, this ceremonial forging unfolded far more effortlessly than Li Shiming had anticipated.
Furthermore, thanks to the perfect equilibrium of energies within the five Great Cultivators’ bodies, no disruptions from energy mismatches occurred during the whole ceremonial forging, lending the procedure an astonishingly fluid progression.
Truth be told, plenty of cultivators face varying degrees of energy equilibrium problems amid their corpse refining ceremonies.
Even those armed with a corpse refining legacy struggle to precisely manage the runes inscribed on the corpses for true energy harmony.
Yet, experts boasting a robust background in corpse refining fare much better when it comes to maintaining that energy equilibrium.
Besides, in the midst of the ceremonial forging, the corpse and the refining materials possess a subtle knack for self-adjusting the balance, so provided the energy mismatch stays within tolerable bounds, success remains achievable.
Li Shiming’s track record for successful corpse refining has perpetually stunned others. It was only after acquiring the ’Prohibited Book of Xuan Yin Yaksha’ that he grasped the secret behind his exceptional success rates.
Likely owing to his mastery in Alchemy and Artifact Refining, he harbors a natural knack for energy equilibrium, leading him to craft his refining corpse rune designs around strict balance criteria.
Transformations swept over the five Great Cultivators’ bodies. Driven by four million refining corpse runes, the forms expanded relentlessly, swiftly exceeding four meters in stature, while their frames shifted entirely to a gleaming gold.
This marked the nascent shaping of the Golden Corpse physique, and deep inside that Golden Corpse form, the Refining Corpse Spirit took shape.
As soon as the Refining Corpse Spirit coalesced, it served as the nucleus, drawing in vast reserves of sinister energy to blend with it and birth the Golden Corpse Core.
During the Golden Corpse Core’s emergence, the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven Golden Corpse Core, positioned atop the Great Cultivator’s body, got drawn into and assimilated by the developing Golden Corpse Core.
Given the extraordinarily elevated tier of the Golden Corpse Core, the influx from the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven Golden Corpse Core barely stirred things, merely passing along the Speed Rule Imprint to the freshly formed Golden Corpse Core.
On the outside, the Golden Corpse body’s swelling halted, then reversed into shrinkage. As it compacted, the golden exterior deepened in hue, evolving step by step into a deep gold tone.
Right as Li Shiming assumed the completed Golden Corpse would retain that deep gold sheen, an unforeseen twist unfolded: upon compressing back to standard proportions, the Golden Corpse’s skin reverted to an everyday flesh tone.
"Boom boom!" Right before his gaze, the hearts within the five Golden Corpses thrummed in perfect sync, propelling blood along the veins to every corner of their frames.
Observing the blood flow activate inside the five Golden Corpses, a wave of relief washed over him.
He fixed his eyes on the five Golden Corpses, uncertain whether these stood as late-stage Golden Corpses. From his knowledge, late-stage Golden Corpses gleamed fully in deep gold, yet these five looked eerily like regular humans.
While he mulled this over, the full Corpse Refining Array started disintegrating from the bases onward, drained of its vital special energies.
Amid a barrage of snapping noises, the elaborate Corpse Refining Array—crafted from heaps of fourth-grade high-stage and peak-grade corpse refining resources—exhausted its power and shattered into fragments.
Li Shiming realized time was slipping away fast. He retrieved the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer.’
Shielded by the surrounding outer formation, he preserved the spirit treasure essence of the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ intact, merging it with the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ stored in the machine room space to cast the lightning resistance boosting secret technique upon the five Golden Corpses.
If the odds of failure in the prior Corpse Refining Array phase loomed large, then braving the Heavenly Tribulation spelled doom for ninety-nine percent of all Golden Corpses.
Beyond their weakness in distant battles, Golden Corpses dominate in melee clashes and defensive stands, even doubling as barriers for fellow cultivators at their level.
Still, Golden Corpses harbor a critical weakness—the very factor rendering them scarce and deterring most from forging them: their pitiful tolerance for Heavenly Thunder.
As embodiments of evil existence, Golden Corpses clash directly with Heavenly Thunder, the celestial tool forged to eradicate all darkness.
Li Shiming ventured into Golden Corpse creation bolstered by his cultivation of the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture,’ plus ownership of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ and the spirit treasure ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer,’ enabling the lightning resistance amplification secret technique.
Frankly speaking, deploying the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ to fortify a Golden Corpse’s lightning endurance—back in the Yuqing Sect’s days, no lone cultivator would have risked such blasphemy.
The ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ ranked as a supreme artifact of thunderous might, and with the Yuqing Sect rooted as a thunder-specialized mega power, they scorned outsider pursuits like corpse refining. Even borrowing the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ wouldn’t tempt anyone to squander it on such arts.
Once the secret technique concluded, Li Shiming’s Divine Sense swept the nearby formations, gathering every one of the one hundred and eight Buddha Beads alongside the Fourth Grade Array Flags.