Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1560 - 826: Inventory_2

Ultimately, from Yan Gao Great Cultivator's soul crystal ring, he extracted a complete array of fourth-grade top-quality living items.

This assortment featured a tea set, a collection of tables and chairs, a cultivation meditation cushion, and a screen displaying ever-shifting designs. Out of all these spiritual treasures, just the meditation cushion offered any real benefit, as it could mildly boost cultivation results. The rest of the spiritual treasures fell short of what their fourth-grade top quality suggested in terms of utility.

To him, it appeared as nothing more than a show of extravagance; when evaluated by actual usefulness, employing fourth-grade top materials represented a huge waste.

Li Shiming set aside Yan Gao Great Cultivator's soul crystal ring and grasped Master Wang He's soul crystal ring instead.

Spotting the fourth-grade top flying boat inside left him astonished. Hadn't he heard that fourth-grade top flying boats were incredibly scarce?

Counting the fourth-grade top flying boats in his possession, which now included the newly acquired ones, he had over five in total.

Yet, given the caliber of cultivators he had defeated—those at the pinnacle of the cultivation realm—it made perfect sense.

He skipped a deep examination of the fourth-grade top flying boat; possessing several already diminished its novelty.

The pair of thunder-based fourth-grade top materials proved immensely valuable. His current weapon, the "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer," remained merely an initial-stage spiritual artifact.

Though it boasted forty million thunder attack arrays and up to four hundred and eighty million thunder runes, which sounded impressive, ever since he refined his personal room space to a precision of 0.05 nanometers, the "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer" he could craft would feature multiple times more runes than before.

He had long pondered refining his "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer," yet elevating its grade demanded thunder-based fourth-grade top materials, which were virtually unobtainable from outside sources.

Thanks to Yuqing Sect, the dominant force in thunder techniques, nearly all thunder-based fourth-grade top materials ended up in their hands.

At last, the chance arrived to upgrade his core spiritual artifact, the "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer."

With further improvements, it would propel his thunder abilities to new heights. In his present state, boosting offensive strength was no easy feat, so he refused to let this chance slip by.

In the soul crystal ring, Li Shiming discovered fifteen batches of Great Cultivator spirit medicine and twenty mid-tier Great Cultivator spirit pills, revealing the wealth of resources held by these two pinnacle Great Cultivators.

Naturally, he remained unaware that upon hitting the peak Great Cultivator stage, the need for Great Cultivator spirit pills dropped sharply, and through sect allocations plus quest bounties, they managed to stockpile such quantities.

Typically, a Great Cultivator might gather two or three portions of Great Cultivator spirit medicine, then tuck away a handful of Great Cultivator spirit pills before retreating into seclusion for cultivation, converting those assets into real power.

Next came several jade scrolls, much like the ones kept by Yan Gao Great Cultivator. These too contained records on rule-related knowledge.

Master Wang He and Yan Gao Great Cultivator both harbored grand aspirations for that next breakthrough, yearning to push forward once more and ascend to half-step Great Power status.

Another identical collection of fourth-grade top-quality living items appeared, just as opulent.

"Something’s not right!" As Li Shiming rifled through the soul crystal rings belonging to the two peak Great Cultivators, the sheer volume of random goods forced him to scrutinize every piece.

His true aim was data and supplies tied to a peak Great Cultivator's path toward the Mahayana realm.

In his mind, be it Yan Gao Great Cultivator or Wang He Great Cultivator, they stood as the nearest to half-step Great Power among all major powers, so they ought to possess details and assets for reaching the Mahayana realm.

This precisely matched his requirements. Even though he couldn't predict the timeline to attain the Peak Great Cultivator Realm, he felt that moment loomed not too distantly.

For him, aid from his sect, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, in this area would be quite restricted, leaving him to depend solely on his own efforts.

While the "Heavenly Human Technique" included methods for advancing to the Mahayana realm, such a vital leap still demanded practical know-how, profound realizations, and solid resource backing.

Breakthrough resources for the Mahayana realm weren't available for barter, since no organization would relinquish such essential valuables.

Li Shiming sighed in frustration. Despite the bounty of goods in the pair of soul crystal rings, disappointment lingered.

He claimed the soul crystal ring of half-step Great Power Yang Xing, letting his divine sense probe within.

This soul crystal ring's inner space mirrored the dimensions of the two peak Great Cultivators' rings, showing no standout features in craftsmanship.

The treasures contained within were noticeably scarcer, amounting to just a handful.

His gaze fell first on a jade scroll—a deep golden one—and it stood alone in the set, underscoring its significance.

Such a deep golden jade scroll from a half-step Great Power sparked intense intrigue, and Li Shiming sensed its vital role in his journey.

He pulled out the deep golden jade scroll, sending his divine sense inside.

It held the renowned "Cave Profound Record," which astonishingly guided cultivators in building a grotto heaven.

Regarding grotto heaven creation, Li Shiming had merely guessed from the examples he encountered. Though he'd collected numerous writings earlier, none delved into this subject.

Reflecting on the "Cave Profound Record"'s material, however, it all added up; across the vast cultivation world, few could craft grotto heavens.

At minimum, a half-step Great Power qualified to author it, and not some ordinary one, but a veteran nearing completion who had firmly established their own grotto heaven.

From the "Cave Profound Record"'s details, Li Shiming confirmed the creators weren't a single Great Power but a collective of multiple Great Powers working together.

For it delved into diverse rules for grotto heaven building, and with Li Shiming's modest grasp, no lone half-step Great Power could master so many rules.

He had beheld the prowess of Great Powers and was convinced that even they lacked total command over rules.

The "Cave Profound Record" proved far too esoteric for Li Shiming right now, exceeding his present capacity, since it encompassed countless rules, and grasping its essence called for a fitting depth of rule insight.

He fed the "Cave Profound Record"'s information into his innate artifact, IBMz15, where IBMz15 launched a dedicated initiative for grotto heaven construction.

Moreover, drawing on studies of Thunder Cave Heaven and Half-Life Cave Heaven, combined with Li Shiming's insights into thunder and Five Elements rules, IBMz15 geared up to simulate a grotto heaven in a virtual environment first.

This step aimed to build the conceptual groundwork for Li Shiming's eventual grotto heaven creation. Errors in forging a grotto heaven were unforgivable, with no room for do-overs.

The initial jade scroll delivered a surprising delight; afterward, he turned to the next spiritual treasure.

It appeared as plain wood at first glance, yet upon his divine sense's touch, its odd nature hit him right away.

This wood shared traits with the sacred tree in Half-Life Cave Heaven. Unless he erred, it qualified as a wood-attuned treasure.

He fully grasped the purpose of a wood-attuned treasure like this. Back when scouring the cultivation world for Half-Life Cave Heaven, his quest centered on Five Elements Treasures.

Eventually, he learned these rarities most often resided at a grotto heaven's nucleus.

Nearly all grotto heavens relied on a treasure at their center to act as the vital core.

Before, uncertainty plagued him on whether grotto heavens birthed these treasures naturally or if they were inserted beforehand during setup.

Thanks to Thunder Cave Heaven, he now offered a solid verdict: a treasure must be embedded amid the grotto heaven's forging, evolving into its central essence.

Exclusively such a treasure held the potential to foster and spawn intelligent artifact spirits once the grotto heaven took shape.

The wood he held could be seen as a component half-step Great Power Yang Xing had readied for expanding a grotto heaven into its next stage.

He also grasped his own stroke of luck; the supplies a half-step Great Power gathered for personal use paled against the ones he had hunted across vast distances.