Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1642 - 867: Attention_2

Even half-step Great Power Yang Xing possessed scant knowledge of this matter, yet Great Power Luo Yuan understood it perfectly: the Thunder Beast had the ability to form a Sea of Lightning inside the Grotto Heaven.

The Thunder Beast and the Sea of Lightning mutually reinforce one another. The Sea of Lightning empowers the Thunder Beast to grow ever stronger, whereas the Thunder Beast dwelling within safeguards the Sea of Lightning's cultivation of potent Thunder Rules.

These formidable Thunder Rules represent precisely what Great Power Luo Yuan craves to bolster his own prowess.

Great Power Luo Yuan had hit a wall in his grasp of Thunder Rules, and access to such mighty Thunder Rules could genuinely propel him onward.

Discovering that Li Shiming had obtained a Thunder Beast Spiritual Pet gave Great Power Luo Yuan yet another compelling motive to confront Li Shiming in person.

Be it the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ or the Thunder Beast Spiritual Pet, both stand as items Great Power Luo Yuan desperately requires.

Great Power Luo Yuan dispatched a flurry of commands, rousing the once-quiet Yuqing Sect into fervent action as it unleashed hordes of spies.

With a strategy in place, he demanded precise intelligence to back it up.

Failing that, a fruitless trek across Dongqi Continent in search of Li Shiming would amount to far more than mere wasted time.

Great Power Luo Yuan drew in a profound breath, then cleaved off a sliver of his soul. As it departed his form, it swiftly drew in nearby Spiritual Power Patterns, condensing into a lifelike avatar.

As with fellow Great Powers, he maintained his own avatar.

Typically, though, he kept it sealed away, preserving his soul's wholeness to sharpen his insight.

Splitting off a soul fragment barely dents comprehension power, yet even tiny variances in rule comprehension can yield vast differences.

Great Power Luo Yuan gazed upon his avatar. For utmost assurance, he plucked a massive energy cluster from his own frame.

This hefty energy orb fused into the avatar, shifting it from ghostly translucence to tangible solidity, mirroring a living being.

Next, he delved into the Grotto Heaven's void, summoning lightning into his grasp.

Though hesitant, he infused the lightning into the avatar; as the origin of Thunder Rules in Yuqing Cave Heaven, it endowed the avatar with echoes of a Great Power's formidable strength.

One could say Great Power Luo Yuan views Li Shiming as his fiercest rival, pulling out all stops without a hint of complacency.

Merely extracting the Thunder Rules source depleted Yuqing Cave Heaven of two centuries' worth of Thunder Rules buildup.

Two hundred years of Yuqing Cave Heaven's reserves sufficed only to forge an avatar primed for a single Great Power-level assault.

He yearned to venture forth himself, but avatars drain vast energies, and prolonged absence of his true body from the Grotto Heaven would invoke the Cultivation World’s Heaven and Earth Rules, unleashing a devastating Heavenly Tribulation.

Meanwhile, on Dongqi Continent, Li Shiming plunged into yet another bout of secluded cultivation.

In the interim, Yin Shilan journeyed to Central State Continent, seeking deeper heritage lore at Luanyang Palace.

Li Shiming’s ’phantom avatar’ went along, escorting four late-stage Golden Corpses.

Though immersed in secluded cultivation, Li Shiming's alchemy orders had dwindled sharply, but the chamber space stayed perpetually busy.

Alchemy yielded him a bounty of resources, among them Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Refining Materials.

Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Refining Materials rank as the Cultivation World's finest for refining, yet they pale beside Li Shiming's High-level Spirit Pills, demoted to mere alchemy incentives.

Scarce as Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Refining Materials are across the Cultivation World, super factions hoard most of them.

Vast stockpiles of Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Refining Materials fill the treasure troves of mighty super factions.

Through the years, he devoted every free moment to artifact refining, ensuring the chamber space never lay dormant.

The ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ that Li Shiming acknowledged soared to spiritual treasure grade.

Unlike the spiritual treasure ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’, ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ fully captures a Mountain Peak Treasure's classic offensive style, morphing into an colossal peak to crush foes.

’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ began as the natal treasure of White Emperor Sect’s Peak Great Cultivator Yan Gao, refined to extraordinary heights across every facet.

Thanks to the Heavenly Ghost's influence, this natal treasure submitted effortlessly as an ordinary treasure under his dominion.

Once alchemy rewards brought earth-element Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Refining Materials, he set about elevating ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’s’ caliber.

Elevating ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ demanded a full three years of sporadic effort from him.

The extended time stemmed chiefly from alchemy sessions monopolizing the chamber space at intervals.

Yet the sheer volume of runes etched onto ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’—surpassing all prior spiritual treasures—played a pivotal role too, owing to Yan Gao Great Cultivator's masterful refinement.

White Emperor Sect harbors a secret art for devouring the essence of rival Mountain Peak Treasures to amplify one's own.

Through this arcane method, Yan Gao Great Cultivator elevated ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ to near-perfection among Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Mountain Peak Treasures.

Li Shiming's upgrades to ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ simply entailed re-etching its runes with fresh earth-element Top-Grade Fourth-Grade Refining Materials.

Leveraging the chamber space's 0.05 nanometer control precision, he engraved two billion Gravity Runes and one billion Solid Runes onto ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’.

This pushed ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ perilously close to its rune tolerance limit, a feat enabled by its supreme quality, boasting rune totals unseen in history.

As ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ ascended to spiritual treasure, without Li Shiming's ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ granting Thunder Resistance Secret Methods rivaling top Thunder Cultivator Great Cultivators, the ferocious Heavenly Tribulation might have obliterated it.

Each time Li Shiming reflected on ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’s’ Heavenly Tribulation, a chill of dread gripped him.

He vaguely perceived that twenty billion runes might mark the absolute ceiling, with any excess in a rune type amplifying Heaven and Earth Rules' rejection and skyrocketing the Heavenly Tribulation's ferocity.

As a spiritual treasure, ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ lacks exotic abilities; its overt two billion Gravity Runes and one billion Solid Runes vanished post-Tribulation, supplanted by a ’Gravity Rule Imprint’ and a ’Solid Rule Imprint’.

’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’s’ assault is brutally straightforward: it swells into a titanic Zhenyue Peak, its mass ballooned ten thousandfold, wielding a gravity field amplified a hundred times via the ’Gravity Rule Imprint’ to pulverize every foe in range.

Quantifying its might eludes him, but he suspects entrapment beneath ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ would spell near-impossible escape.

The purer the effect, the more devastating its potency; two billion Gravity Runes unleash weights and gravity fields beyond imagination.

Weight and gravity fields fuse into one, with the gravity field multiplying ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’s’ base weight tenfold, rendering it an unstoppable force no Great Cultivator in the Great Cultivator Realm could defy.

Admittedly, ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ bears a flaw: its peak weight in action betrays its spiritual treasure essence uncontrollably.

Put differently, activating ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’ inevitably reveals its spiritual treasure stature.

This stems from a straightforward cause: during rune inscription, Li Shiming overloaded it with Gravity Runes.

The twenty billion Gravity Runes robbed Li Shiming of total command over ’Ruyi Zhenyue Peak’. Absent perfect dominion, it defies the fluid handling of other spiritual treasures, unable to mask or modulate its quality at will.