Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1580 - 836: Cultivation (2)
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She retrieved a jade bottle from the ones Li Shiming had gifted her, uncorked it, and let a Third-grade Spirit Pill spill out, set to swallow it down, but realized this Third-grade Spirit Pill turned out to be a Top-grade Third-grade Spirit Pill.
She continued by pulling out the remaining jade bottles, uncovering in total over 180 Top-grade Third-grade Spirit Pills designed for the Golden Core Middle Stage, along with more than 100 additional ones for the Late-stage Golden Core.
Li Shiming had explained that after depleting the Third-grade resources currently available, a substantial replenishment would arrive sometime later.
"I must cultivate diligently and not let Shiming down!" A fierce determination sparked in her eyes as she resolved her decision.
She understood perfectly that Li Shiming had secured these plentiful resources through immense dangers, and letting him down was something she couldn't bear.
With her innate high talent, Yin Shilan's cultivation advanced at an extraordinary rate, thanks to the supreme resources and the world's finest cultivation setting.
The key strength of Top-grade Spirit Pills lies in their flawless purity, letting cultivators draw in the enormous energy they hold and follow up with another dose right away, free from any threat of pill poison.
As a result, amassing sufficient Top-grade Spirit Pills could dramatically speed up a cultivator's progress.
Li Shiming's own blazing cultivation pace in earlier times owed much to the influence of these kinds of pills.
But upon hitting the Nascent Soul Stage, the much rarer Fourth-grade resources in comparison to Third-grade ones stopped him from producing Top-grade Spirit Pills on a large scale anymore.
Top-grade Spirit Pills don't come about by chance; they demand the herbs' vital essence to build up across repeated alchemy steps, finally yielding just one after processing several batches.
Thanks to his cultivation room space, Li Shiming could precisely gauge the right moments to create Top-grade Spirit Pills.
For other Alchemy Masters, it's tough to guarantee even one Top-grade Spirit Pill, no matter how many they refine.
Therefore, Top-grade Spirit Pills hold immense value in the Cultivation World, particularly in the lower realms. For Golden Core Stage, it's uncommon for an Alchemy Master to craft more than a handful over their entire life.
When it comes to the Nascent Soul Stage, it's even rarer, aside from the ones Li Shiming possesses. It's certain that Fourth-grade Top-grade Spirit Pills have never surfaced in the Cultivation World.
Li Shiming positioned himself outside the Great Power Palace. Rather than departing at once, he monitored Yin Shilan's cultivation progress, leaving Heavenly Person Cave Heaven only once she started her session.
As he emerged, he sensed something off in the external atmosphere.
Ren Fei’er had ceased her cultivation and stood rigidly inside the cave dwelling's formation, watching the unfolding events outside.
A Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, flanked by eight Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators, had the floating mountain completely ringed.
Ancestor Ge and Ancestor Zhan of the Thousand Illusion Sect observed from afar, steering clear of the encirclement and helpless against this band of Nascent Soul cultivators.
The mountain's formation stood shattered already. Elder Li, nursing a bitter grudge toward Li Shiming, burned with impatience to capture the female cultivator in the cave dwelling, unaware of Li Shiming's location.
Elder Li's hatred for Li Shiming ran deepest because of Li Shiming's ally Li Yuanba. During Li Yuanba's compelled exit from the Senluo Sect, he demolished Elder Li's cave dwelling and mountain peak, inflicting a mortifying embarrassment in front of all Nascent Soul Ancestors.
Xiao Lu, the Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, didn't curb Elder Li's rash actions, having spotted the remarkable protections during the assault on the mountain formation.
This mountain formation matched the caliber of a medium sect's setup from the Dongqi Continent. Absent their unified strikes from him and the eight Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators, combined with the occupants' lack of grasp on formation management, it wouldn't have fallen so readily.
Though the formation lay broken, the golden sea of flowers stretching ahead filled him with a nagging discomfort.
With Elder Li so keen to lead the charge, Xiao Lu welcomed letting him scout the perils first.
Ren Fei’er had been deep in cultivation inside the cave dwelling. She shared its control rights with her sister Yin Shilan, and an alert hit her when the formation faced assault.
She halted her cultivation without delay. Thankfully, as she was rebuilding her foundation, it wasn't advanced far, making it simple to pull back.
When she checked the cultivation room, she saw the outer formation had been penetrated.
With no trace of her sister or brother-in-law, her unease swelled rapidly.
Her dread peaked especially as Elder Li hurtled toward her position.
She identified Elder Li as the main force behind pressuring her sister to yield resources and treasures earlier.
While her concerns mounted, Li Shiming abruptly materialized at her side.
"Brother-in-law!" Ren Fei’er spun toward Li Shiming, her fears dissolving completely.
"I gave them a chance, but they didn’t cherish it. They’re asking for death!" Li Shiming flicked his hand casually, then cast a look outside.
Li Shiming had genuinely offered the other sects an opening, suggesting they pay ten times over in compensation, factoring in that this was his birth land, the Beishu Continent, where he avoided going overboard.
Still, he never foresaw the Beishu Continent sects teaming up with foreign powers, scheming to treat him the same way as before.
As Elder Li's form breached the mountain range and he readied to dash to the cave dwelling, the golden sea of flowers underneath abruptly rippled.
Petals swirled upward in the air, appearing leisurely, but in a flash they surrounded Elder Li entirely.
"Ah!" A shrill cry echoed, as the petals softly settled back, rejoining their blooms.
Elder Li had disappeared, a subtle blood haze drifting in the air to mark his demise.
A profound hush fell over the space beyond the floating mountain.
Even Xiao Lu, the Nascent Soul Middle Stage expert from Dongqi Continent, reeled from the display.
His insights dwarfed those of Beishu Continent's Nascent Soul cultivators, but he still couldn't unravel what this formation truly was.
A icy tremor shot through his spine, hitting him that this venture looked like a massive error.
To deploy defenses unknown even in Dongqi Continent meant that Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator Li Shiming was far from ordinary.
"Fellow Daoist, might I have a word with you?" Xiao Lu dropped ideas of striking, turning to talk instead to figure out the kind of foe they dealt with.
So far, he hadn't glimpsed the opponent, drawing only from the tales of Beishu Continent's Nascent Soul cultivators.
"Ren Fei’er, stay inside the cave dwelling!" Li Shiming ordered, before vanishing and rematerializing high in the sky over the mountain.
A dread-inspiring aura of a Great Cultivator blanketed the entire zone, sending the surviving seven Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators crashing down to the earth.
From that elevation, a Nascent Soul Early Stage body could handle the impact, yet the crushing Great Cultivator aura resembled a colossal peak, slamming them immobile into the ground.
"My lord, it’s a misunderstanding. I am a cultivator from the Canglong Sect, a vassal of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect!" Upon spotting Li Shiming, Xiao Lu forsook all defiance, rattling off his words at top speed.
He dreaded that even a brief pause might bring his end.
This was Li Shizhen, the supreme Great Cultivator ruling Dongqi Continent's heights.
The Ten Thousand Beast Sect had shared Li Shizhen's details, including his likeness, with every allied faction to sidestep conflicts with their vital Great Cultivator.
Xiao Lu, even out in Beishu Continent, had obtained this data through a recent long-range flying boat transmission.
In that instant, Xiao Lu longed to haul back the already perished Elder Li. If Elder Li's remains hadn't evaporated, he'd have hacked it into a thousand bits.
He was a fearsome entity who felled two Peak Great Cultivators in one fight, a dominant force that compelled mighty sects to yield. Against him, what could a simple Nascent Soul Middle Stage like Xiao Lu possibly do?