Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 2016 - 1054: Spirit Treasure (Part 2)

As the Artifact Tribulation approached, Li Shiming effortlessly passed through it.

The ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ received the enhancement of Heaven and Earth Reward Energy. He removed the previous ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ from his lifebound artifact, but he did not remove the recognition imprint.

He handed it over for Li Taibai to use, and his recognition imprint remained effective.

He re-recognized the newly refined ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ and sacrificed it as a lifebound artifact.

The new ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, even without any time spent on sacrificing, was nearly as powerful as the previous one. After some years of sacrifice, this ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ could surpass the earlier one.

Li Shiming’s mind returned to the workshop space, where he continued to refine a spiritual treasure flying sword.

He had cultivated two sets of fifth-grade gold materials; the one for enhancing the Fifth Grade Sword Base showed no special effect.

For the current fifth-grade gold material, perhaps due to his subconscious thoughts, it developed a special trait.

This trait is ’Solidity’, far exceeding the solidity effect of any fifth-grade material.

Honestly, the appearance of a ’Solidity’ trait in fifth-grade gold material is generally deemed useless by other Sword Cultivation Great Powers.

With the strength of fifth-grade materials, even a great power using full force cannot damage it.

But this is exactly what Li Shiming needed. When he helped Yin Shilan pass the ninth bolt of Heavenly Thunder, he exhibited his full power in one slash, which damaged the ’Dustless Sword’.

Probably because of this thought, the Grotto Heaven strengthened the fifth-grade gold material in this direction during cultivation.

The Grotto Heaven is one with him; his consciousness is the consciousness of the Grotto Heaven.

Of course, nurturing fifth-grade materials itself is extremely challenging, and the chance of endowing them with traits is even smaller.

Li Shiming has five Grotto Heavens, and among the five nurtured fifth-grade materials, only this one gold material developed a trait.

The sword blank in the workshop space had a total of 50 billion runes engraved on its surface. This is one of the benefits brought by the ’Solidity’ trait.

A more solid sword blank can withstand more runes.

This sword blank had an additional 20 billion runes engraved compared to when crafting a Fifth Grade Sword Base.

It couldn’t be increased further because this time he is crafting a flying sword. As a smaller spiritual treasure, its surface cannot accommodate more runes.

For the 50 billion runes, he chose the ’Sword Intent Rule Runes’.

If there was no ’Solidity’ trait, he might have engraved some ’Defensive Rule Runes’ to enhance the flying sword’s strength.

However, with the ’Solidity’ trait, the flying sword’s strength is already sufficient.

The 50 billion ’Sword Intent Rule Runes’ have pushed the flying sword’s power to the extreme.

Li Shiming couldn’t even imagine any fifth-grade spiritual treasure surpassing the power of this flying sword.

Therefore, he named this flying sword ’Slaying Immortal Sword’, a sword capable of slaying Immortals.

The name ’Slaying Immortal Sword’ commemorates the mindset he had when he slashed through heavenly thunder; he felt that even facing Immortals, he could slay them with one sword strike.

Taking ’Slaying Immortal Sword’ out of the workshop space, this time he didn’t help it endure the Artifact Tribulation, but left ’Slaying Immortal Sword’ in place and stood outside.

The ’Slaying Immortal Sword’ with the ’Solidity’ trait suffered no damage under the bombardment of nine bolts of heavenly thunder.

He removed the ’Dustless Sword’ from his lifebound artifact and replaced it with the ’Slaying Immortal Sword’.

As for the ’Dustless Sword’, it was handed over for the Sword Servant’s use.

The Sword Servant currently has two flying sword spiritual treasures, one being ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ and the other ’Dustless Sword’. Each has its distinct characteristics, and Li Shiming had no intention of abandoning either.

The final spiritual treasure completed with engraved runes in the workshop space was a pair of small wings made from fifth-grade space material.

This spiritual treasure with 30 billion ’Space Rule Runes’ was named ’Space Penetration Spirit Wings’.

Li Shiming took the ’Space Penetration Spirit Wings’ out of the workshop space. Since these were refined by him and the fifth-grade space material was from his Grotto Heaven, even without recognition, he could freely control them.

With a slight movement of his mind, the ’Space Penetration Spirit Wings’ landed on his back.

The small ’Space Penetration Spirit Wings’ quickly expanded into a pair of wings existing between reality and illusion.

The design concept for ’Space Penetration Spirit Wings’ was inspired by the wings of a Holy Spirit and ’Flying Night Demon’.

He found the wings to be extremely compatible with spatial abilities, and with ready references, he could refine the ’Space Penetration Spirit Wings’ with better effect.

The Artifact Tribulation was uneventful; although ’Space Penetration Spirit Wings’ was crafted to augment Li Shiming’s spatial abilities, spatial abilities can also serve as defense, rivaling the defensive effects of earth-element defenses.

Spatial defense is also more mysterious, such as deploying spatial cracks to channel a large amount of heavenly thunder energy into the crack.

After the Heavenly Tribulation ended, Li Shiming completed the refinement of all five spiritual treasures he had prepared for himself.

Unfortunately, the Fifth Grade Sword Base is the only spiritual treasure that shared the Heaven and Earth Reward Energy; the other spiritual treasures, even if stored internally, would only have the energy enhance them, having no effect on his body.

Within him, at the core of the five Grotto Heavens, each held a lifebound spiritual treasure.

The five lifebound spiritual treasures enjoyed the nourishment of the Grotto Heaven, with the Cave Heaven Energy constantly sacrificing to strengthen them, making the lifebound spiritual treasures more powerful.

This nourishment process is long and endless.

If time is long enough, the power of the lifebound spiritual treasures will continually increase.

The Sword Elder’s Great Power Avatar and Meng Jun Great Power’s avatar, after some time of flight, arrived outside the mountain gate of the Sun-Shooting Sect.

Inside the Sun-Shooting Sect’s mountain gate, Wan Fu Great Power personally greeted them.

"Wan Fu greets Sword Elder and Meng Immortal!" Wan Fu Great Power personally came to greet them, a gesture showing great respect to the two avatars.

"Brother Wan, do you know why I have come together with Meng Immortal?" Sword Elder asked indifferently.

At the first sight of Wan Fu Great Power, he knew that Wan Fu Great Power probably had some idea about the situation.

"Senior Brother Xie’s Soul Lamp left in the sect has extinguished, coinciding exactly with the day Li Shizhen slew an unknown great power. I’ve been living in anxiety lately, and not afraid to show weakness, I worry about Li Shizhen suddenly arriving and annihilating the Sun-Shooting Sect’s millennia-old heritage!" Wan Fu Great Power replied bitterly.

The more one studies Li Shiming’s past, the more they understand Li Shiming’s terrifying capabilities.

The Yuqing Sect clashed with Li Shiming, resulting in Great Power Leng Luo’s demise and the destruction of the Yuqing Sect’s mountain gate.

The Da Leiyin Temple clashed with Li Shiming, leading to the collapse of two Bodhisattvas’ Grotto Heavens and extinction of the Da Leiyin Temple’s mountain gate.

There were also avatars of other great powers that were annihilated, notwithstanding that at that time, Li Shiming wasn’t even a great power.

Now, Li Shiming is a great power, far stronger than before, and the threat he poses has likely increased many folds.

The Sun-Shooting Sect’s defensive power is no match for Da Leiyin Temple, and its attack power is not comparable to the Yuqing Sect, let alone the fact that they were wiped out with two great power-level experts present.

Sun-Shooting Sect’s Great Power Xie Gan perished before he even returned to the sect, leaving only Wan Fu Great Power as the sole inheritor. How could they withstand the threat coming from Li Shiming?

However, seeing Sword Elder and Meng Jun Great Power coming together gave Wan Fu Great Power some relief.

At least Li Shiming wasn’t the first to arrive, and given Sword Elder, Meng Jun Great Power’s relation with Li Shiming, it indicated room for negotiation.

As long as there were negotiations, rather than Li Shiming suddenly coming for vengeance, there were ways to resolve things.

Under the guidance of Wan Fu Great Power, Sword Elder and Meng Jun Great Power held a session of negotiations inside Sun-Shooting Sect.

During this period, Wan Fu Great Power continually made concessions on his initiative. Sword Elder and Meng Jun Great Power did not apply much pressure, yet Wan Fu Great Power offered highly favorable conditions.

In Wan Fu Great Power’s perspective, everything that Sun-Shooting Sect possessed could be brought to the table. Otherwise, if Sun-Shooting Sect ceased to exist, those treasures would be worthless.