Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1418: 755: Departure (2)

Ming Fa had targeted several Sword Cultivators from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion to harvest intelligence. Once his actions were exposed, he was pursued all the way to the Little Lei Yin Temple.

Had the Little Lei Yin Temple remained intact, the Da Leiyin Temple would have only needed to covertly extract Ming Fa upon their arrival, leaving Li Yuanba with no recourse. However, the temple was destroyed and Ming Fa was apprehended before they could act. According to the unspoken laws governing superforces, the Da Leiyin Temple can no longer pursue the matter.

The only startling element was that despite Great Venerable Hongfa guarding the Little Lei Yin Temple, Li Yuanba had still managed to shatter it.

The Venerable shook his head as he contemplated Li Yuanba’s legendary feats compared to the relatively weak combat prowess of Great Venerable Hongfa.

Meanwhile, the subject of their conversation, Li Yuanba, was already traveling back toward the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

“Hongfa, is there a legacy item for your Divine Foot Skill?” Li Yuanba inquired, his curiosity piqued.

The Divine Foot Skill practiced by Great Venerable Hongfa was noticeably different from his own version.

Such a discrepancy was natural; while the core of the Buddhist Divine Foot Skill remains constant, its outward manifestations vary significantly.

When Great Venerable Hongfa utilized his Divine Foot Skill, it was referred to as ‘Shrinking the Ground into Inches.’ While it shared similarities with ‘A Step Away from Eternity,’ it possessed a more ethereal quality that appeared incredibly elegant at a glance.

“Master, if you require one, I can produce a legacy item!” Great Venerable Hongfa responded, eager to please after failing to fulfill Li Yuanba’s initial request.

“That won't be necessary. Also, do not refer to me as master from now on; simply call me Yuanba. We shall treat each other as equals. Once we arrive at the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, you can claim that I invited you back as a talisman and Formation master!” Li Yuanba said with a dismissive wave of his hand.

“As you wish, Yuanba!” Great Venerable Hongfa replied, though his tone remained just as deferential despite the change in address.

“Educate me on spatial movement arrays; I find this subject quite fascinating!” Li Yuanba prompted.

“The history of spatial movement arrays stretches back to ancient times. In those days, Ancient Cultivators utilized space transmission arrays to travel between continents, crossing the vast distances in a single breath.

However, following the end of the ancient era, these space transmission arrays vanished. Only fragmented records remain within the ruins of ancient sites.

The Da Leiyin Temple once recovered a tome from these ruins, but unfortunately, the passage of time was too great. Even though the records were preserved on Spiritual Objects, much of the content has faded. Despite tens of thousands of years of study by numerous Space Venerables, we can currently only construct a space acceptance array. We are still far from reclaiming the lost glory of long-range space transmission arrays!” Great Venerable Hongfa grew quite talkative once the subject turned to his area of expertise.

“Do you possess a duplicate of those ancient spatial texts?” Li Yuanba asked after the explanation concluded.

“The original ancient spatial texts are actually in my possession!” Great Venerable Hongfa replied, unexpectedly producing an object.

Li Yuanba accepted the item, which turned out to be a worn, tattered book.

The small book was crafted from an unidentified fabric, and the pages were etched with Spiritual Power Patterns, marking them as Spiritual Objects.

He sensed that if not for the massive loss of spiritual essence, the quality of these pages would likely exceed the mid-fourth grade. Their original grade was now impossible to determine.

The material used for the pages had likely been extinct for ages.

Ink had been used to record the text, but large blank patches showed where the spiritual essence of the pages had failed.

Without the protection of spiritual energy, the ink had been consumed by time and vanished.

Even parts of the pages themselves were missing, eroded by the centuries once their spiritual essence was gone.

Li Yuanba carefully opened the volume. The text was written in ancient script, but this was no obstacle for him; the IBMz15 database held extensive knowledge in this field.

He flipped through the booklet rapidly, finishing his scan in little more than ten breaths.

This display left Great Venerable Hongfa dazed. The contents of the book were incredibly deep, involving the complex application of spatial rules. To someone without a foundation in spatial rules, it should have been as incomprehensible as a heavenly book.

Furthermore, the incomplete nature of the text made it even more difficult to decipher.

“Yuanba, I also have my own research and organized notes on these ancient spatial texts. You should examine these as well!” Great Venerable Hongfa offered a Jade Scroll, assuming Li Yuanba was struggling to understand the original.

Li Yuanba smiled faintly without explaining. With existing research to reference, the IBMz15 could work even more efficiently.

In truth, his quick leafing through the ancient texts wasn't reading in the traditional sense—the data had been fully scanned by the IBMz15.

This research task was being handled by Li Shiming in conjunction with the IBMz15. Li Shiming could partition his consciousness into multiple "brains" to handle the workload without disrupting his Cultivation.

Li Yuanba swept his Divine Sense over the Jade Scroll, and its data was instantly replicated by the IBMz15.

For the next two hours, Great Venerable Hongfa followed Li Yuanba in silence, careful not to interrupt him.

He believed Li Yuanba was deeply contemplating the Jade Scroll’s contents; he remembered how he himself had been mesmerized for a long time when he first studied it.

While maintaining ‘A Step Away from Eternity,’ Li Yuanba suddenly paused. His fingers traced seventy-two imaginary gestures in the air, connecting seventy-two distinct nodes repeatedly.

These seemingly random movements instantly grabbed Great Venerable Hongfa’s undivided attention.

While an outsider might not understand, Great Venerable Hongfa, who had spent his life studying spatial transmission arrays, recognized it immediately—it was the structural blueprint of a space acceptance array.

In a mere two hours, Li Yuanba had drafted the diagram for a space acceptance array—such talent was staggering!

Li Yuanba ignored the Great Venerable’s shock; the space acceptance array didn't seem particularly complex to him.

The array was documented in the Jade Scroll, and after the IBMz15 analyzed it, he could easily map out the formation’s structure.

On Li Shiming’s side, he had dedicated one hundred and fifty "brains" to investigating the ancient spatial texts and the Jade Scroll’s data.

In the entire world of Cultivation, Li Shiming was undoubtedly the most powerful expert in formations.

Aided by the IBMz15, he could perform billions or even trillions of calculations in an instant—a feat no other Cultivator could hope to match.

Furthermore, the IBMz15’s storage capacity far exceeded the Array Formation Starlight Sea of an Array Master. While the Starlight Sea only held personal research and calculations, the IBMz15 stored every piece of knowledge it encountered.

When it came to calculations, there was no need to store the results—it could simply recompute them in real-time whenever necessary.

Both Li Shiming and Li Yuanba had long utilized the Divine Foot Skill. Although their Realm hadn't reached the level of true spatial rules, their inherent perception of space greatly aided their analysis of the ancient texts.

Li Yuanba’s fingers moved again, adding thirty-six more nodes to the original seventy-two. By connecting these points, he completed an even more expansive formation diagram.

“Yes! That’s it! With this, the range of the space acceptance array can be pushed to a million miles!” Great Venerable Hongfa cried out in pure admiration, his excitement causing him to lose the dignified composure expected of a Great Venerable.

Previously, Li Yuanba had forced Great Venerable Hongfa into submission through sheer martial strength.

But now, the situation had shifted—Li Yuanba had truly conquered him through his brilliance in spatial arrays, far outstripping a lifetime of research in a single afternoon.