Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1560 - 826: Inventory_2

Ultimately, from Yan Gao Great Cultivator's soul crystal ring, he pulled out a full collection of fourth-grade top-quality living items.

This assortment featured a tea set, tables and chairs, a meditation cushion designed for cultivation, along with a screen displaying ever-shifting designs. Out of all these spiritual treasures, merely the meditation cushion provided any real benefit, as it could modestly boost cultivation results. The practical value of the remaining spiritual treasures hardly justified their status as fourth-grade top quality.

From his perspective, this seemed like nothing more than a flashy show of wealth; evaluating by actual utility, deploying fourth-grade top materials for such purposes represented a huge waste.

Li Shiming set aside Yan Gao Great Cultivator's soul crystal ring and grabbed Master Wang He's soul crystal ring instead.

Spotting the fourth-grade top flying boat inside left him astonished. Hadn't he heard that fourth-grade top flying boats were incredibly scarce?

Now, counting the ones he already possessed plus this new acquisition, his total of fourth-grade top flying boats exceeded five.

Yet, given the elite status of the cultivators he had defeated—top figures in the cultivation realm—it all made perfect sense.

He skipped a deep examination of the fourth-grade top flying boat; after collecting so many, it no longer felt extraordinary.

Two batches of thunder-attuned fourth-grade top materials proved immensely valuable. The "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer" he wielded remained merely an initial-stage spiritual artifact.

Boasting forty million thunder attack arrays and up to four hundred and eighty million thunder runes, the numbers appeared impressive, yet ever since he refined his room space mastery down to 0.05 nanometers, the "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer" he could craft would boast several times more runes than before.

He had long pondered upgrading his "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer," but elevating its grade demanded thunder-attuned fourth-grade top materials, which were virtually unobtainable from outside sources.

With the Yuqing Sect dominating as a thunder-specialized powerhouse, they had claimed the lion's share of all thunder-attuned fourth-grade top materials.

At last, the chance had arrived to strengthen his natal spiritual artifact, the "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer."

Once upgraded further, it would propel his thunder techniques to new heights. In his present state, boosting offensive strength was no easy feat, so he refused to let this chance slip by.

Within the soul crystal ring, Li Shiming also uncovered fifteen shares of Great Cultivator spirit medicine and twenty mid-tier Great Cultivator spirit pills, revealing the vast reserves held by these two pinnacle Great Cultivators.

Naturally, he remained unaware that upon hitting the peak Great Cultivator stage, the demand for Great Cultivator spirit pills dropped sharply, and thanks to sect allocations plus mission bounties, they managed to stockpile such quantities.

Typically, a Great Cultivator might gather just two or three portions of Great Cultivator spirit medicine, then tuck away a handful of Great Cultivator spirit pills before retreating into seclusion to convert those assets into raw power.

Next came various jade scrolls, much like the ones safeguarded by Yan Gao Great Cultivator. These too contained data tied to the rules.

Both Master Wang He and Yan Gao Great Cultivator harbored grand aspirations for that next breakthrough, yearning to push forward once more and ascend to half-step Great Power.

Another identical collection of fourth-grade top-quality living items appeared, just as opulent and extravagant.

"This doesn't add up!" As Li Shiming rummaged through the soul crystal rings belonging to the two pinnacle Great Cultivators, the sheer volume of random goods forced him to scrutinize every piece.

What he sought were details and supplies linked to a pinnacle Great Cultivator's leap into the Mahayana realm.

In his mind, either Yan Gao Great Cultivator or Wang He Great Cultivator stood as the nearest to half-step Great Power among all superpowers, so they ought to possess intel and assets for advancing to the Mahayana realm.

This precisely matched his requirements. Though uncertain of the timeline to reach the Peak Great Cultivator Realm himself, he felt that moment loomed not far off.

For him and his sect, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, support in this area would prove quite limited, leaving him to forge ahead solo.

While the "Heavenly Human Technique" included methods for shattering into the Mahayana realm, such a vital leap still demanded hands-on knowledge, profound realizations, and solid resource backing.

Breakthrough resources for the Mahayana realm weren't up for barter, since no faction would relinquish such pivotal assets.

Li Shiming shook his head in frustration. Despite the bounty of goods in the two soul crystal rings, disappointment still gripped him.

He claimed the soul crystal ring of half-step Great Power Yang Xing, letting his divine sense probe within.

The space inside this soul crystal ring mirrored the dimensions of the two pinnacle Great Cultivators' rings, showing no standout traits in craftsmanship.

The spiritual treasures contained within were noticeably scarcer, amounting to only a handful.

His gaze fell first on a jade scroll—a deep golden one—and it stood alone in this assortment, underscoring its significance.

A deep golden jade scroll from a half-step Great Power sparked intense intrigue, and he sensed it held massive relevance for him.

He drew out the deep golden jade scroll, sending his divine sense into its depths.

This jade scroll chronicled the renowned "Cave Profound Record," which astonishingly guided cultivators in forging a grotto heaven.

Regarding grotto heaven creation, Li Shiming had merely theorized from the examples he encountered. He had gathered plenty of writings earlier, but nothing touched on this subject.

Reflecting on the "Cave Profound Record"'s substance, however, it all checked out; across the vast cultivation world, few cultivators could even attempt building grotto heavens.

At minimum, a half-step Great Power qualified to author such a work, and not some ordinary one, but a veteran nearing completion who had firmly anchored their own grotto heaven.

From the "Cave Profound Record"'s details, Li Shiming confirmed the writer wasn't a lone Great Power but a collective effort by multiple Great Powers.

For it delved into countless rules for grotto heaven building, and with his modest grasp, no single half-step Great Power could fathom that breadth.

He had beheld the awe-inspiring force of Great Powers and knew even they lacked total command over every rule.

The "Cave Profound Record" overwhelmed Li Shiming with its depth, far exceeding his current ability to grasp, since it wove in so many rules that demanded a fitting level of rule insight to unpack.

He funneled the "Cave Profound Record"'s contents into his natal artifact, IBMz15, where IBMz15 launched a dedicated initiative on grotto heaven construction.

Moreover, drawing from studies of Thunder Cave Heaven and Half-Life Cave Heaven, combined with Li Shiming's insights into thunder and Five Elements rules, IBMz15 geared up to simulate a grotto heaven in a virtual environment first.

This step aimed to build a solid theoretical base for Li Shiming's eventual grotto heaven creation. Errors in forging a grotto heaven were unforgivable, with no room for do-overs.

The initial jade scroll delivered a thrilling surprise; he then turned to the next spiritual treasure.

It turned out to be a chunk of wood, appearing utterly mundane at first glance, yet upon his divine sense's touch, its odd nature hit him instantly.

This wood echoed the traits of the divine tree in Half-Life Cave Heaven. If his judgment held, it qualified as a wood-attuned treasure.

He grasped well the role of such a wood-attuned treasure. Back when scouring the cultivation world for Half-Life Cave Heaven, he hunted specifically for Five Elements Treasures.

Eventually, he learned these treasures most often hid at a grotto heaven's nucleus.

Nearly every grotto heaven relied on some treasure at its center as the vital core.

Before, uncertainty plagued him on whether these treasures sprouted naturally from the grotto heaven or got installed beforehand during setup.

Thanks to Thunder Cave Heaven, he now reached a firmer verdict: a treasure must get embedded amid the grotto heaven's formation, evolving into its heart.

Only a treasure like that could, post-formation, cultivate and spawn intelligent artifact spirits within the grotto heaven.

The wood he clutched could be seen as a key component that half-step Great Power Yang Xing had readied for expanding a grotto heaven into its next stage.

He also recognized his own stroke of luck; the components a half-step Great Power gathered for personal use paled against the superior ones he had tirelessly assembled.