Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1494: 793: Power (2)
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He relied on numerous advanced Spirit Pills to cut down on his cultivation duration, something that fellow Great Cultivators would view as an enormous squandering of resources.
Yet in his opinion, it proved entirely worth it, since as long as he decided to delve into Alchemy, countless Great Cultivators would eagerly hire him for commissions. Still, time held irreplaceable value.
As his cultivation advanced further, the hours required for practice seemed to stretch out endlessly; while Spirit Pills could always be concocted anew, lost time stayed gone forever.
The Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion lay far too near for comfort; after gauging the bearings, his form shimmered and vanished right from where he stood.
Executing 'teleportation in one step,' his inner spiritual power at the Great Cultivator Realm now fully sustained the everyday drain of this technique. Provided he avoided chaining 'teleportation in one step' hundreds or thousands of times nonstop, his reserves held steady.
Through 'Divine Sight Skill,' his gaze stretched across eight thousand miles; even with his realm ascending to Great Cultivator heights, he hadn't yet refined 'Divine Sight Skill,' so this Divine Skill lingered at its basic stage, untouched by upgrades.
Time remained in short supply; despite boasting 191 brains, pushing every bit of his expertise to Great Cultivator standards in mere moments proved a daunting challenge.
In particular, Divine Skills such as 'Divine Sight Skill' and 'Telepathy' posed hurdles: though his Nascent Soul housed the runes for both, without deep dives into those runes, he couldn't boost the Divine Skill's might.
Delving into a Divine Skill meant probing the underlying rules it harnessed. Prior to the Great Cultivator Realm, wielding Divine Skills happened blindly, relying on raw application alone.
Once hitting the Great Cultivator Realm, where sensing rules becomes possible, Great Cultivators could detect the Rule Power embedded in Divine Skills, shattering the skills' own limits and propelling their strength to new peaks.
Besides 'Divine Sight Skill' and 'Telepathy,' 'Divine Foot Skill' suffered the identical setback. Earlier, 'Divine Foot Skill' had reached its peak, but his grasp of spatial rules hadn't advanced greatly, so 'Divine Foot Skill' stayed capped at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
That said, the massive surge in spiritual power and spirit turned the fleeting 'teleportation in one step' into an everyday mobility art.
His silhouette leaped eight thousand miles in bursts, swiftly pulling away from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion and plunging into the ocean's depths.
A mere flicker of intent summoned the 'Traceless Illusion Sword' to his side. Thanks to its singular traits, no other cultivator could sense the 'Traceless Illusion Sword'—only he could.
He channeled his 'Chaos Sword Intent' into it, empowering the 'Traceless Illusion Sword' with 'Chaos Sword Intent.'
Inside his Nascent Soul, 'Chaotic Spiritual Power' flowed alongside the 'Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique,' supplanting the prior Gold Element Spiritual Power that had filled the 'Traceless Illusion Sword.'
Even absent any intentional call on Sword Intent Rules, 'Chaos Sword Intent' still wove in hints of those rules, dramatically amplifying the force of 'Chaos Sword Intent.'
This feeling echoed the moment he first seized 'Chaos Sword Intent' during Nascent Soul Middle Stage, when he could effortlessly cut down peers of equal rank.
He wondered if a lone slash could pierce a Great Cultivator like Wang He's defenses, but against other Great Cultivators—even those shielded by defensive magical artifacts—he brimmed with assurance.
He kept the sword sheathed; just gauging the 'Traceless Illusion Sword's' latent might gave him a rough measure of his Sword Cultivator prowess.
To grasp the true battle might of a Sword Cultivator, one had to clash directly with formidable foes.
'Chaotic Spiritual Power' outshone the Gold Element Spiritual Power from the 'Sky Ascending Technique' in raw force, yet it meshed seamlessly with the method, revealing the supreme edge of the 'Heavenly Human Technique.'
With a gesture, he recalled the 'Traceless Illusion Sword' and instead conjured the spiritual treasure 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' at his side.
The 'Chaotic Spiritual Power' coursing through him shifted into Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power via the 'Yuqing Thunder Scripture,' yielding Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power far mightier than what the original scripture alone could muster.
"Thunder Fall Skill!" he murmured softly.
Lightning erupted from the 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer,' slamming into the sea where it splintered into myriad electric bursts, turning a vast expanse into an eerie glowing realm.
He spotted a third-grade sea beast gliding under the waves, caught in the glow of the spreading electric arcs.
As those arcs consumed the zone, the third-grade sea beast dissolved utterly, the electric fury's sheer dominance erasing it from existence.
He gave a faint nod; Thunder Cultivators naturally packed devastating punch, particularly in broad assaults, offsetting the gaps in sword cultivators' striking range.
Naturally, reclaiming 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' would let sword cultivation plug that hole.
But Li Yuanba craved 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' even more urgently, armed as he was with a arsenal of fierce attack arts. Lacking 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak,' Li Yuanba's fighting edge would plummet sharply.
Beyond that, Li Shiming's Thunder Cultivator strength didn't stop here. The spiritual treasure 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' served as just one way to amplify Thunder Cultivation's offensive might.
Another intent linked him to the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' tucked in the engine room space.
Entering the Great Cultivator Realm let him finally grasp the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl's' true worth.
Armed with Great Cultivator Realm power and the 'Heavenly Human Technique's' fierce boost, he trusted himself to surpass seasoned Great Cultivators. Linking to the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl,' though, revealed its vast, endless depths.
Li Shiming now firmly held that the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' truly hailed from a Yuqing Sect powerhouse.
He left the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' stored away. Absent some legacy from that Yuqing Sect titan etched upon it, he wouldn't credit its existence.
Much like the 'Jiguang Xunying Boat,' stamped with the White Emperor Sect powerhouse's seal, rendering the Cultivation World's swiftest flying vessel storable solely in engine room spatial artifacts.
While 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' and 'Jiguang Xunying Boat' shared storage in the engine room space, their essences differed; he could wield the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' thanks to its special makeup.
The 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' needed only invocation of its essence to empower Thunder magic.
He swung the spiritual treasure 'Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer' once more, firing off a 'Thunder Fall Skill,' while rousing the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' to infuse the 'Thunder Fall Skill' with extra thunderous vigor.
When this 'Thunder Fall Skill' unleashed, he felt its extraordinary edge, its might surging several-fold.
Via his avatar, Li Yuanba had seen Master Wang He unleash 'Thunder Fall Skill.' Assuming Master Wang He never held back his full might in battles, then Li Shiming's 'Thunder Fall Skill' outstripped Wang He's peak combat blow in sheer force.
Master Wang He stood as a top-tier Thunder Cultivator, among the Nascent Soul Stage's mightiest beings.
Regrettably, tapping the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' would alert Yuqing Sect Thunder Cultivators, with a Yuqing Sect powerhouse forever hunting the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl.'
This made sense, given how the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl' bolstered Thunder magic prowess. Though its uplift for Great Cultivator Stage Thunder magic might pale against Mahayana levels, even a minor gain proved vital for a powerhouse.
By his reckoning, exposed or not, the Yuqing Sect would hunt him down the instant he surfaced.
If he hadn't beheld the Sword Elder descend into Hell Cave Heaven, pulling off that jaw-dropping seal on the space rift, he might have shrugged off all fears, ready to confront Master Wang He outright if challenged.
But after seeing the Sword Elder's avatar unleash such terrifying might, he understood that powerhouses wielded avatars and hidden tricks. Facing a true powerhouse's pursuit would leave him utterly vulnerable.