Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1491 - 792: Grandmaster Cultivation

The practice of the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’ stands out as truly distinctive, since the initial guiding energy at the beginning of cultivation flows through the five kinds of Five Elements Divine Power Energy.

This very aspect explains the formidable might of the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’, which essentially draws upon the might of rules in an indirect manner.

Yet right now, with Li Shiming’s five Nascent Souls steadily pushing their realms higher, the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’ has shifted to being directed by the energy from the Five Elements Rules.

He remembered how the Five Elements Rules took shape inside Half-Life Cave Heaven, an experience that sharpened the Five Elements Rules in the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’ to greater clarity, while boosting the flow of energy from those Five Elements Rules.

Over time, the share of Five Elements Rules energy in the cultivation process grew ever larger. It started at just one-thousandth, but once it hit one percent, a sudden shift rippled through the aura of the five Nascent Souls.

All five Nascent Souls together broke past some unseen threshold. Even though this threshold didn’t block his path, Li Shiming sensed it sharply as they passed through.

This must have been the famed bottleneck marking the leap from Nascent Soul Middle Stage to the Late-stage Nascent Soul Great Cultivator Realm, one that the five Nascent Souls breezed right over.

The presence around the five Nascent Souls surged upward swiftly, and deep within the Nascent Souls themselves, some mysterious transformation occurred, causing the spiritual energy they held to thicken by over ten times once the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’ cycled through.

At the same time, the five Nascent Souls kept drawing in his spirit and then releasing it back, a process during which he noticed the spirit emerging far stronger than before.

In typical situations, whenever the five Nascent Souls sought to bolster their spirit, it pointed to strengthening the spirit tied to the main brain.

However, his spirit went well beyond that single source, for he actively summoned the spirit from his other 190 brains, channeling it into the five Nascent Souls to undergo refinement and amplification.

He had no certainty if the five Nascent Souls would continue refining spirit once their advancement wrapped up.

Inside the five Nascent Souls, the spiritual energy dwindled steadily until barely one-tenth lingered. Still, the surviving spiritual energy in the Nascent Souls boasted a quality worlds apart from its prior state.

Threaded through this spiritual energy ran hints of the Five Elements Rules. At the same moment, imprints of the Five Elements Rules—for metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—emerged as if etched straight into the five Nascent Souls.

These Five Elements Rule Imprints stayed somewhat fuzzy, mirroring the depth of his command over the Five Elements Rules.

Truth be told, even though insights into rules came to him from controlling Half-Life Cave Heaven and watching rules form, his grasp on the Five Elements Rules remained shallow, held back by his current realm.

Naturally, if one were to measure it against others, his hold on even a lone rule from the Five Elements outstripped the fresh insights of those who had just stepped into Great Cultivator status.

Plenty of Great Cultivators, after hundreds of years—say three or four—tending to rules, still lacked his all-encompassing view of them, thanks to that once-in-a-lifetime chance of witnessing the Five Elements Rules birth.

Only after he fully absorbs the revelations from Half-Life Cave Heaven will the Five Elements Rule Imprints in his five Nascent Souls lose their hazy edges.

A faint ripple stirred in Li Yuanba’s mind; how come just the Five Elements Rule Imprint showed up, when he’d also seized hold of the Thunder Rules?

He’d spotted this while observing clouds, rain, and thunder shaped by the Five Elements’ sway in Half-Life Cave Heaven, unraveling the birth of Thunder Rules there.

Likely, a place like Half-Life Cave Heaven—an incomplete grotto heaven—was the sole spot where a cultivator could sense rules with such vivid sharpness.

Once a grotto heaven reaches full completion, its rules hide away on their own, serving as the hidden backbone for the cave heaven’s workings.

An occurrence as extraordinary as Half-Life Cave Heaven popping up feels almost too unlikely to fathom.

Across the vast cultivation world through the ages, merely Qiu Hengyi managed to bequeath a Half-step Cave Heaven; all other half-step Mahayana cultivators saw their half-step cave heavens shatter upon death.

Lacking full rules, a half-step cave heaven struggles to hold its spatial structure steady. Somehow, Qiu Hengyi employed secret arts and artifacts to keep his half-step cave heaven intact even after passing.

This stroke of fortune let Li Shiming glimpse the rules with crystal clarity. In bygone days, countless cultivators vied for the Half-step Rule Cave Sky Core, all hungry for that shot at rule enlightenment.

As Li Shiming surged into the Great Cultivator Realm, he at last grasped the immense boon that claiming Half-Life Cave Heaven had brought his way.

He mulled over the genesis of Thunder Rules, a force he’d wielded amid Yuqing Thunder Scripture strikes back in Nascent Soul Middle Stage, proof of his profound bond with Thunder Rules.

As memories flowed, Thunder Rule Imprints bloomed inside the five Nascent Souls.

A touch of avarice flickered in him, drawing his thoughts toward Sword Intent.

The rules woven into ‘Chaos Sword Intent’ twist with wild intricacy, far beyond what Nascent Soul Middle Stage could unravel.

Yet in this instant, particularly amid his breakthrough, his attunement to rules sharpened to an extraordinary edge.

From the depths of IBMz15’s database, he pulled up the projection of the ‘Sword Intent Stele’ and peered into the rule power it harbored.

That said, next to the straightforward rules of Five Elements and Thunder, the rule power in the ‘Sword Intent Stele’ tangled into a bewildering web, pieced from scattered rule shards that fueled the ‘Sword Intent Stele’’s own Sword Intent.

While Li Shiming hadn’t unlocked every layer of Sword Intent in the ‘Sword Intent Stele,’ he had seized the bulk of it, shaping his present ‘Chaos Sword Intent.’