Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1486 - 789: Return_2

Li Yuanba stepped into the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven, arriving at the Treasure Lotus Hall. The setup for cultivation in this spot let him perceive his spiritual power steadily growing stronger inside him with every single breath he drew.

Without the restriction of being stuck in the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, he would have preferred to remain here and practice cultivation using his primary body.

From his storage, he pulled out a stack of containers filled with 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence.' Though every fragment of 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' remained quite tiny, the entire batch he gathered on this occasion managed to squeeze into the custom-built boxes he carried along.

Next, he retrieved the Heavenly Compass, that spiritual treasure he had bound to himself, even if it made no real difference whether he or his original self, Li Shiming, held the bond.

Grasping the Heavenly Compass, Li Shiming vanished in a blur, departing from the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven.

His personal cultivation sanctuary, the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven stood as a well-developed grotto heaven he had yet to fully expand, and he had no desire to let radiation disrupt it.

The confined area of the machine room proved far too cramped, and since it demanded activities like artifact forging and pill concoction, it failed to satisfy the necessary requirements anyway.

Solely the Half-Life Cave Heaven, with its foundational rules still in initial formation where his dominance over it reached peak levels, managed to effortlessly cope with the radiation's effects.

In this matter, he possessed total assurance, leading him to choose the Half-Life Cave Heaven as the spot to house the Heavenly Compass.

Arriving at the Half-Life Cave Heaven, he modified the surroundings and carved out a isolated zone spanning roughly ten meters across.

Through his command of the Half-Life Cave Heaven, he sealed off this region on its own.

Positioning the Heavenly Compass right in the middle, Li Shiming then extracted every bit of the 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' he acquired and arranged it encircling the Heavenly Compass.

Sensing the fierce radiation spreading throughout the area, he swiftly exited the confines of that ten-meter sealed zone.

Despite employing a cave heaven barrier to block off the area, traces of radiation managed to leak past the spatial shield.

Shaking his head, he resigned himself to this unavoidable flaw, yet fortunately, the Divine Tree and Breathing Soil present could cleanse the radiation, making the leaked amounts barely a hassle.

Even outside that separate zone, thanks to the linked bond with the Heavenly Compass, he remained able to detect the Heavenly Compass's condition.

He removed the partially processed 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' from within the Heavenly Compass and set it to one side, as the Heavenly Compass kept drawing in the radioactive power from the 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence.'

In the heart of the Heavenly Compass, a speck of superior-grade 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' began to take shape.

Detecting the emergence of this speck of 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence,' Li Shiming let a pleased grin spread across his face.

According to the thorough explanation of the Heavenly Compass, this treasure had been forged specifically to refine radioactive energy.

That mysterious powerful entity, for reasons unknown, possessed the ability to keep purifying radioactive energy, thereby producing 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' of elevated quality.

Even if the 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' created on this run hadn't achieved military-grade yet, it marked merely the initial round of purification.

Provided he purified every scrap of the raw 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' and subjected it to multiple rounds of refinement, it would ultimately attain military-grade level of purity.

Time posed no concern for Li Shiming, since his aim in crafting military-grade 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' revolved around building a nuclear weapon.

Given the might of both himself and his clone Li Yuanba, he already ranked as a formidable force in the present Cultivation World, even absent nuclear weapons.

After breaking through to the Great Cultivator Realm, he would stand as the mightiest among Great Cultivators, with scarcely any in the Cultivation World able to pose a real danger to him; in an era where supreme powers rarely surface, a supreme Great Cultivator equals the ultimate in battle prowess.

Nuclear weapons arose from an innate racial instinct; despite crossing into a different realm, the deep-seated urge for overwhelming firepower from his previous life's heritage hadn't faded—in fact, it had grown fiercer.

Inspecting the Half-Life Cave Heaven once more, he noted that the zone dedicated to refining 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence,' after operating for some duration, stayed remarkably steady.

In particular, once he linked his life-bound artifact IBMz15 to the Heavenly Compass's artifact spirit, enabling IBMz15 to keep watch over the Heavenly Compass's functions nonstop, it stood prepared to warn him of any sudden problems.

The artifact spirit obeyed his directives precisely, understanding its operational protocols; from now on, additional refinement sessions wouldn't demand his direct supervision, except if complications emerged, letting him simply retrieve the results once military-grade 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' emerged.

He transferred authority over the compact area inside the Half-Life Cave Heaven to the Heavenly Compass's artifact spirit, permitting the spirit to handle the 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' as needed.

When military-grade 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' finally appeared, the artifact spirit would promptly deposit the military-grade 'Hell Disgust Crystal Essence' into the designated special anti-radiation jade box.

Li Shiming first deployed the spiritual treasure 'Traceless Illusion Sword' to cleanse his form, eliminating any lingering radiation.

Afterward, he made his way back to the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven, where Li Yuanba had safeguarded this batch in the Treasure Pavilion, while certain acquired jade scrolls found their place in the Book Collection Pavilion.

"Fellow, I'm heading back first. I need to enter seclusion for a bit," Li Yuanba said, smiling.

"I'll wait for you in the Great Cultivator Realm!" Li Shiming answered with a grin, flinging a few jade vials toward Li Yuanba.

The pair exchanged a meaningful smile, both displaying the identical assured look since they embodied the same individual.

The items Li Shiming passed to Li Yuanba consisted of a complete assortment of Great Cultivator Spirit Pills from the White Emperor Sect, designed for the breakthrough to Great Cultivator. Li Shiming chose to hand over this full set of Great Cultivator Spirit Pills to Li Yuanba, deeming them redundant for his own use.

Far from mere overconfidence, this decision stemmed from the fact that the 'Heavenly Human Technique' he practiced already delivered effects matching those of the Spirit Pills.

Furthermore, the enduring impacts of the 'Heavenly Human Technique' surpassed the White Emperor Sect's full set of Great Cultivator Spirit Pills by a wide margin during the push toward Great Cultivator.

Li Yuanba tucked away the jade bottles and proceeded to depart from the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven.

Li Shiming felt a twinge of regret that Li Yuanba's aptitudes barred him from practicing the 'Heavenly Human Technique.'

Had he not experimented boldly back in his Qi Refinement Realm, forging a 'Five Elements Qi Absorption Array' inside his body that eventually yielded five Golden Cores and five Nascent Souls, even he might have lacked the capacity to train in the 'Heavenly Human Technique.'

Thankfully, the understandings derived from the 'Heavenly Human Technique' still offered Li Yuanba some advantages through their shared consciousness.

Li Shiming went back to the Treasure Lotus Hall, settled into a cross-legged position on the Infinite Jade Mat, and started refining the 'Heavenly Human Technique' after swallowing a Spirit Pill.

As his five Nascent Souls jointly practiced the 'Heavenly Human Technique,' he felt his cultivation base inching upward bit by bit.

The path of cultivation stretches on endlessly; while treasures in earlier times hastened progress, pushing into the Nascent Soul Middle Stage—particularly its advanced phases—now relied solely on personal effort and persistence.

The Cultivation World's conditions prevent the birth of divine items tailored for swift cultivation boosts once one hits the later parts of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

After stepping into the Great Cultivator Realm, even resources like Great Cultivator Spirit Medicine grow rarer and rarer, as the natural order caps the count of elite cultivators.

With Li Shiming diving back into closed-door cultivation, Li Yuanba headed to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion and slipped into the cave mansion in the Sword Cave Heaven to begin a partial seclusion.

Regarding Great Venerable Hongfa, little extra oversight remained necessary.

At present, beyond serving as Li Yuanba's attendant, Great Venerable Hongfa occupied a key role inside the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Aside from Li Yuanba himself, Great Venerable Hongfa alone could sustain the 'Space Acceptance Array' in the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, a duty that caused the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion to value Great Venerable Hongfa greatly.

Though Great Venerable Hongfa owned his own cave mansion in the Sword Cave Heaven, unless Li Yuanba called for him, he favored lingering in a different cave mansion atop Sword Peak.

Mainly, the Sword Cave Heaven's atmosphere suited Sword Cultivators far better, and since he didn't specialize in metal element cultivation, he found the environment unappealing.