Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1674 - 883: Talisman (2)

Even though he remained a beginner, within the machine room space, he forged talismans boasting a control accuracy of 0.05 nanometers, ensuring every stroke neared flawless perfection.

Concerning variations between blank talismans, IBMz15 scanned the particular blank talisman, performed a detailed analysis, and devised a drawing scheme customized exactly for that blank talisman.

Li Shiming completed the final stroke on the talisman, causing the ’Instant Arrival’ rune to burst into radiant light, after which a glow swept over the talisman’s surface, fixing the ’Instant Arrival’ rune’s luminescence in place.

Retrieving the ’Instant Arrival’ talisman from the machine room space, he examined it with his senses and found its teleportation range limited to just five hundred Baili.

Still, for typical cultivators, shifting through space by five hundred Baili sufficed for desperate escapes.

Next, he inserted another blank talisman from a Peak Great Cultivator into the machine room space and started sketching anew.

On this occasion, he first inscribed the ’Divine Eye’ rune, followed by the ’Instant Arrival’ rune, resulting in extraordinarily intricate patterns on the talisman that held spiritual power alongside traces of divine power energy.

Divine power energy substitutes for rule power, functioning as rule power during divine skill activation, while also enhancing the divine energy to amplify the divine power’s effects.

Drawing this talisman demanded more time this round, consuming a full two hours.

During the final solidification of the talisman, without his 0.05 nanometer control precision, maintaining equilibrium among the talisman’s energies would have proven impossible.

Li Shiming felt confident that no cultivator lacking a machine room space like his—complete with nanometer-level precision and IBMz15’s immense computational might—could dream of embedding two divine skills or spells into a single talisman.

Gazing upon the talisman clutched in his hand, he knew activating it would deliver an instantaneous vision spanning eight thousand Baili, enabling ’Instant Arrival’ to whisk him to any spot within that vast expanse captured by his gaze.

This talisman stood as a genuine lifesaver, potent enough to preserve life even against Peak Great Cultivators.

An eight thousand Baili instant spatial shift allowed any Peak Great Cultivator to flee with their life, provided the foe wasn’t a Great Power.

Li Shiming knew this from firsthand ordeal; eight thousand Baili of instant travel failed to evade a Great Power’s chase.

Attempting to inscribe the ’Thunder Fall Skill’ onto a Great Cultivator blank talisman revealed the material couldn’t endure such an offensive spell, with IBMz15’s assessment indicating a minimum Peak Great Cultivator blank talisman was required to bind a mighty attack like ’Thunder Fall Skill’ into a talisman.

And that excluded empowerment from the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ for the ’Thunder Fall Skill’; truly fixing the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’-enhanced version demanded an even superior blank talisman, beyond what his recent purchase could handle.

Little surprise that life-saving talismans typically featured defensive spells or evasion techniques, with attack talismans being scarce—likely for this very cause.

Naturally, since he hadn’t encountered the blank jade talismans wielded by Great Powers, he couldn’t gauge their load-bearing capacity.

Li Shiming lingered in the cave mansion across five days, though not solely immersed in talisman crafting—since that task occupied just one brain—while beyond the machine room space, he perused assorted books bought from the Yuzhu Islands.

These books mainly comprised cultivators’ travelogues, enriching his understanding of the ’Cloud Island Sea.’

A thunderous "Boom" rocked the cave mansion, jolting Li Shiming into fearing vengeful foes had arrived.

Swiftly, he scanned the cave mansion with his divine sense, gathered his spiritual treasures, and darted from the dwelling.

Once outside, he realized the disturbance targeted no one personally.

Beyond the fifty Great Cultivator cave mansions on Duiyi Island, over twenty Great Cultivators, mirroring Li Shiming, rushed out to survey the commotion.

"Fellow cultivators, Yuzhu Island faces assault from sea beasts. Yuzhu Island seeks every cultivator ready to join the island’s defense, promising fitting rewards afterward!" A voice echoed from emptiness as a will swept over Duiyi Island.

Detecting this will, Li Shiming grew nearly certain it belonged to a Half-step Great Power.

Unlike the Half-step Great Power Yang Xing he had slain, this one radiated far greater might, yet fell short of a genuine Great Power by a wide margin.

The Half-step Great Power’s focus on Duiyi Island made sense; its residents outmatched those on other isles in prowess.

Assembled, these twenty-plus Great Cultivators formed a daunting power anywhere, and enlisting them to shield the Yuzhu Islands posed no issue unless sea beasts overwhelmed in force.

"As Senior Yuan directed, we shall exert our utmost!" One Great Cultivator advanced, fists cupped in salute, declaring.

The remaining Great Cultivators voiced their support too, eager to aid Yuzhu Islands’ defense, and Li Shiming, wary of drawing the Half-step Great Power’s notice, joined in affirming his participation alongside them.

In truth, should genuine peril emerge, he’d flee without hesitation—this wasn’t his domain, and leasing a cave mansion didn’t bind him to die defending it.

That said, Li Shiming observed that despite the assembled Great Cultivators’ impressive might, they paled before a Half-step Great Power.

Nevertheless, this Half-step Great Power opted to spend on hiring over twenty Great Cultivators rather than intervene alone, signaling that personal action cost more than such recruitment.

Hiring lesser cultivators, even in numbers, wouldn’t rival the expense of Great Cultivators, rendering it trivial by comparison.

"Excellent, take these Array Formation Control Cards—one per Great Cultivator—and head to your assigned spots. The formation shields you; your task is unleashing total onslaughts!" Senior Yuan’s Half-step Great Power voice resounded once more.

Cultivators from Yuzhu Islands then delivered Array Formation Control Cards to Li Shiming and his peers; Li Shiming’s bore a standard numeral denoting its array node.

Great Cultivators required no formation knowledge or numeral interpretation; linking divine sense to the card revealed the destination node instantly.

Li Shiming’s node lay on eastern Zhenyi Island, and emulating a standard Sword Cultivator, he soared there via Sword Escape.

The Array Formation Control Card granted temporary array access, displaying his guarded node effortlessly.

Upon exposure, Zhenyi Island’s array node revealed intricate circular patterns etched into the ground, radiating blinding splendor.

Li Shiming eyed it briefly, inwardly scorning Yuzhu Islands’ miserliness; those flares masked the node’s arcane details.

Positioned within the glow, he sensed an immediate bond with the grand array.

Beyond defense, the grand array supplied him spiritual energy as a wellspring.

Casting spells let him channel array spiritual energy freely.

The Yuzhu Islands grand array transformed spiritual energy into any attribute’s variant, empowering all Great Cultivators to draw accordingly.

He wondered alone if deploying Thunder Skill would yield Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power from it.

The notion passed fleetingly; revealing his Thunder Cultivator nature might summon sects’ relentless scrutiny.

Thunder Cultivators have ever been scarce in the Cultivation World, with Great Cultivator Thunder Cultivators rarer still.

Furthermore, Yuzhu Islands neighbored Divine Palace’s seas, so baring his Thunder Cultivator identity here promised ceaseless woes.

Through his grand array link, Li Shiming unleashed IBMz15 to dissect the array’s secrets.