Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1653 - 873: Sensing the Divine
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"How could a Golden Winged Dapeng appear here?" Great Cultivator Shen Ze stifled his shocked exclamation, afraid the volume would alert the Golden Winged Dapeng soaring overhead.
"Is it possible the restrictions in the Divine Beast Garden failed, letting the Golden Winged Dapeng break free?" Great Cultivator Ji Chuan wondered aloud.
Li Shiming quickly memorized the Divine Beast Garden's position, since this marked the first occasion he gleaned such profound details about the Divine Palace straight from Great Cultivators' lips.
"No way the Divine Beast Garden has a flaw. Otherwise, a lone Golden Winged Dapeng wouldn’t be the only one around!" Grandmaster Leng Hong from the demonic path replied, shaking his head firmly.
His eyes locked onto the Golden Winged Dapeng, brimming with terror and burning desire.
The terror arose from dread of detection by the Golden Winged Dapeng in this vulnerable spot. The desire came because it was a Divine Beast, the ultimate prize for Spiritual Pets among any Great Cultivator.
Even more crucially, Divine Beasts offered unique benefits, particularly when their traits aligned with a Great Cultivator’s, aiding breakthroughs in cultivation levels.
That made the Divine Beast Garden a prime objective for all the Great Cultivators there, where gaining entry and securing a Divine Beast Spiritual Pet justified the entire Divine Palace venture.
"Why can the Golden Winged Dapeng fly while we’re grounded?" Li Shiming questioned right then.
Rather than probing the Divine Beast Garden’s whereabouts, he posed a query only loosely tied to their scouting.
He realized that grilling the six Peak Great Cultivators on vital scouting topics would earn him silence.
"The Divine Palace raised the Golden Winged Dapeng, so its prohibitions spare it. The sky barriers strike only at us foreign cultivators!" Great Cultivator Shen Ze explained candidly after a brief pause.
Li Shiming peered skyward anew; even maxing out his ’Spirit Eye,’ no prohibitions came into view.
His low realm prevented sensing these supremely advanced prohibitions.
Once more, he studied the Golden Winged Dapeng, that fabled Divine Beast; unsure if this matched the myths exactly, its distant aura rivaled the elite bloodlines of Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan.
An aura of the Five Elements radiated from the Golden Winged Dapeng, perfectly syncing with Li Shiming’s own attributes.
Regrettably, sky prohibitions aside, even attempting a capture would draw fierce opposition from the six Peak Great Cultivators.
Circling for a while longer, the Golden Winged Dapeng eventually soared away into the horizon.
Great Cultivator Shen Ze withdrew the mirror light, revealing the Great Cultivators to the outer environment.
"No lingering breaks—let’s press on!" Grandmaster Leng Hong urged.
The rest of the Great Cultivators nodded in unison, using the Golden Winged Dapeng’s absence to push deeper ahead.
Resources surged in abundance across the second mountain peak’s forest.
Li Shiming kept tallying his allowable strikes, capping spiritual power use at three-fifths of a Nascent Soul’s full capacity.
Such a cap on spiritual power proved highly prudent; he refused to let rash actions betray his vast spiritual reserves to fellow Great Cultivators.
Truthfully, Peak Great Cultivators knew precisely how many Thunder Skill blasts a cultivator at Li Shiming’s level could unleash.
Avoiding standout feats preserved his concealed spiritual might, bolstering his safety and hidden aces.
The Golden Winged Dapeng stayed absent through another full day, easing the Great Cultivators’ tensions somewhat.
"Mr. Shen, fellow Daoists, could we veer ten meters leftward?" Li Shiming abruptly requested of Great Cultivator Shen Ze.
At those words, Great Cultivator Shen Ze instinctively checked ten meters left, spotting three spirit tea trees there.
"Fourth Grade Inquiry Tea Trees—prime spirit tea indeed, still valuable for Mr. Li. Let’s detour there!" he proposed smilingly to the group.
No Great Cultivator raised objections. Bringing Li Shiming along had boosted their haul and scouting pace alike.
With no previous requests from him, rejecting this simple shift would look petty.
Fourth Grade Inquiry Tea Trees held value for Great Cultivators, though useless to Peak ones—mere standard fare among Great Cultivator treasures.
Amid resource-rich grounds tailored for Great Cultivators, absent Li Shiming’s nudge, these Peak Great Cultivators wouldn’t deviate for just three Fourth Grade Inquiry Tea Trees.
Veering left brought them to a prohibition, swiftly dismantled by the Great Cultivators together.
"These three Inquiry Tea Trees are mine, deducted from my Great Cultivator resource allotment!" Li Shiming declared as he uprooted them.
Great Cultivator resources mattered little to him, thanks to his vast stockpile of top-tier spirit pills sufficient for two centuries.
Even after sharing high-level spirit pills with clone Li Yuanba, he’d converted nearly all accumulated Great Cultivator spirit medicines from his Immortal World branch into pills via the ’Hundred One-point Pill Technique,’ turning him into a resource consumer backed by the whole cultivation realm.
These three Fourth Grade Inquiry Tea Trees ranked as exceptionally scarce spirit trees.
He’d only encountered inferior Inquiry Tea Trees before, never a Fourth Grade variant, since upgrading a low-grade one to Fourth Grade rivaled discovering a fresh one.