Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1389 - 741: Retracting the Swords

Despite being imbued with the Sword Intent of a Great Cultivator, the duo of puppet statues lacked the overwhelming might they should have possessed.

Li Yuanba was unaware that the Grotto Heaven had been without a master for an age. Controlled solely by its Artifact Spirit, the realm was forced to expend a staggering amount of energy just to maintain the ancient systems established by its former lord.

Consequently, the Grotto Heaven had to link with the external Cultivation world, drawing energy from the outside to replenish its dwindling reserves.

Under normal circumstances, the energy within the Grotto Heaven would circulate in a closed loop, and it would never have revealed its location to the world.

Having only recently reconnected with the outside, the energy it had managed to absorb was minimal; had it been given enough time to restore itself to its peak state, any Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioner entering would have been throwing their life away.

Indeed, even in its current state, most Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators who dared to enter would likely have met their end if not for the presence of Li Yuanba.

Any hope of survival for the others rested on whether the superpowers could identify the anomaly within the Grotto Heaven and find a method to stage a rescue from the outside. Without such intervention, every Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioner trapped within would perish.

Currently, Li Yuanba was facing off against the puppet statues, which were operating on depleted energy levels.

As Li Yuanba had suspected, these puppet statues were fashioned from the corpses of cultivators by the Langcai Great Power.

At their zenith, these puppet statues could retain eighty percent of the original cultivator's combat strength; when combined with their tireless and fearless nature, their actual lethality was even more terrifying than that of the living cultivators they once were.

However, due to the energy loss, their combat power had plummeted to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. It was only the presence of Rule Power that allowed their strikes to exceed the standard limits of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivator.

With a light flick of his finger, Li Yuanba fixed two flying swords in place within the void.

The Great Cultivator Sword Intent within the blades struggled desperately to break free from the shackles of the 'Invisible Primordial Magnetism' Divine Power Field. Unfortunately, they were trapped by the field generated by the spiritual treasure 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak.'

Since no other cultivators were around to witness it, he fully unleashed the power of the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak.' The 'Invisible Primordial Magnetism' Divine Power activated at a spiritual treasure level was vastly more potent than anything he could manifest through his own power alone.

Furthermore, because the puppets' strength had decayed to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, they stood no chance against the 'Invisible Primordial Magnetism' Divine Power Field projected by the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak.'

A torrent of flying sand erupted from his fingertips—the 'Sanmei Divine Wind' Divine Skill. He constricted the range of the technique, focusing the attack solely on the two flying swords.

Had the two flying swords been able to maintain their high-speed maneuvers, he wouldn't have been able to trap them so easily within the 'Sanmei Divine Wind.'

The flying swords clashed incessantly with the 'Sanmei Divine Sand' inside the wind. With every impact, the master-recognition imprints on the swords grew weaker.

In a mere ten breaths, the spirit imprints within the two flying swords were completely wiped away.

Utilizing his Divine Sense, he seized the swords and stored them inside the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' hovering above him.

Now, the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' contained two flying swords carrying the Great Cultivator Sword Intent. Although these blades were highly unusual, it did not prevent the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' from converting them into energy-based flying swords.

These swords were of the fourth-grade high-stage quality, yet they strangely displayed the might of a fourth-grade top-tier flying sword, suggesting they possessed qualities that surpassed his current understanding.

Within the Cave Heaven of a Great Power, such anomalies were to be expected, as Grotto Heavens are places where miracles manifest.

The moment the imprints on the first two swords were erased, the puppet statues reacted by launching another pair of flying swords imbued with Great Cultivator Sword Intent directly at Li Yuanba.

Despite their origins from a Great Cultivator, the puppets had lost their sapience. Lacking sufficient intellect, they relied purely on combat instinct.

Seeing the new swords approach, Li Yuanba once again employed the 'Invisible Primordial Magnetism' Divine Power Field to paralyze them, using the 'Sanmei Divine Sand' to dissolve the spirit imprints within.

Shortly after, another pair of flying swords carrying the Great Cultivator Sword Intent was pulled into the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak.'

His eyes gleamed with excitement; could the supply of flying swords from these puppets be bottomless? If so, the benefits would be astronomical!

To elevate the power of the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak,' he needed to constantly upgrade the energy-converted flying swords stored within it.

If he could amass ten thousand energy-converted flying swords imbued with Great Cultivator Sword Intent, he would have the confidence to challenge actual Great Cultivators; no one at that level would dare face ten thousand such blades simultaneously.

Instead of rushing his opponents, he continued to play the long game with the two puppets. Driven by their base instincts, the statues relentlessly fired their most powerful attacks using the Sword Intent-imbued flying swords.

However, after each puppet had surrendered ten flying swords, they could no longer keep up the assault.

This was because the flying swords released by the puppets were actually manifested from the physical materials that made up their own bodies.

Li Yuanba hadn't noticed at first, but after several swords were lost, he saw that the puppet statues were visibly shrinking.

Losing ten flying swords had reduced the puppets' size by half and drained their spiritual energy to the point where they could no longer function.