Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 533: Chapter 313 Opportunity

The howling of the Heavenly Demon persisted, initially causing him dizziness and trembling in his body.

Yet, a cultivator’s body has strong adaptability; when the Heavenly Demon was unable to cause more damage, and he continued to be exposed to its howls, Li Shiming surprisingly began to adapt to the howlings of the Heavenly Demon.

At the same time, IBMz15 recorded the soundwave characteristics of the Heavenly Demon’s howl and a series of reactions, which was possible only because the Heavenly Demon was within him, allowing him such a profound perception, enabling IBMz15 to record with almost no omissions.

It was estimated that not many cultivators would have such an opportunity to make records while bearing the possession of a Heavenly Demon.

Days passed, and several cultivators who wanted to see Li Shiming received no response, signaling to the sect’s members that Li Shiming had entered seclusion.

For cultivators, going into seclusion was nothing strange, especially for someone like Li Shiming, who was a Half-step Golden Core cultivator.

Being only half a step away from the Golden Core Stage meant that whenever a Half-step Golden Core cultivator had some insights, they would go into seclusion, searching for that sliver of a breakthrough opportunity.

No cultivator knew that Li Shiming was contending against the Heavenly Demon.

To say it was a contention would be an understatement, it was more like an overwhelming suppression; the Heavenly Demon didn’t have the slightest chance to resist. At its strongest state, it had been dulled by the Golden Ten Thousand Character Buddha Seal of the Angry-eyed Vajra, and since then, the Heavenly Demon had become weaker and weaker.

Once the Heavenly Demon was trapped in a cage of lightning, it completely lost any chance of escape.

To Li Shiming’s delight, every time the Heavenly Demon weakened, his spirit grew stronger.

At first, he did not notice, as the damage to the Heavenly Demon was not severe and the continuous harm caused an extremely slow enhancement of his spirit. This enhancement was so gradual that it took him several two-hour periods to realize the changes in his spirit.

Li Shiming had long since ceased to be a novice in the Cultivation World. The most noticeable talent of a cultivator was the spirit root seeds, but if one wished to go further on the path of cultivation, the spirit was even more important.

A strong spirit could support leaps in a cultivator’s realm, while a weak spirit would halt any progress at the limit of one’s soul.

And strengthening the spirit with Spiritual Objects was extremely rare, with effects often unsatisfactory, usually only providing a minimal increase in the spirit, and would lose effectiveness after prolonged use.

The real opportunity for rapid soul enhancement came when a cultivator ascended to a higher realm, receiving the rewards of the Heaven and Earth Rules.

Li Shiming had not yet ascended to the Golden Core, but he had obtained a spirit enhancement exceeding that of ascension.

This phenomenon made him not want the Heavenly Demon to die early; the longer the Demon persisted, the greater the benefits he would receive.

Five days, ten days, twenty days, all the way to the fortieth day, his spirit had strengthened nearly by half, while the Heavenly Demon had become so ethereal it was almost transparent.

The howling of the Heavenly Demon was extremely weak; after enduring forty days of lightning assault, Li Shiming could not help but admire the Heavenly Demon’s perseverance, as its howling had never ceased.

Perhaps this was the only means of attack left to the Heavenly Demon after being trapped in the cage of lightning; even if it was futile, the instinct of the Heavenly Demon compelled it to keep casting.

Now, if compared in terms of research on the Heavenly Demon’s howl, Li Shiming could certainly claim to be the foremost in the entire history of the Cultivation World.

If Li Shiming’s strength had been stronger, the Heavenly Demon would not have been able to endure so long, and it would have been expelled and sealed away early on. If his strength were weaker, the Heavenly Demon could have broken through the cage of lightning and escaped.

His strength just happened to be at a point that allowed him to obtain the most extensive data on the Heavenly Demon’s howling.

During these forty days, he was unable to do other things, but he conducted research on the data of the Heavenly Demon’s howling, combining ‘Devil’s Sound into the Ear’ with other spiritual cultivation techniques.

The technique he renamed ‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ had a direct effect on the soul, a cultivation technique created one hundred percent based on the howling of the Heavenly Demon.

IBMz15 had recorded the howling of the Heavenly Demon for forty days. Various comparisons and analyses were made from every aspect; as long as Li Shiming could imagine it, everything that could be perceived through Divine Thought and the five senses – sound, energy, spirit – had been recorded.

The final ‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ technique could unleash half the might of the Heavenly Demon’s howl. The reason for only half its might was due to the limitations of Li Shiming’s vocal organs.

Even with IBMz15’s control over his vocal organs, it was impossible to fully replicate the sound-producing effect of the Heavenly Demon.

But Li Shiming was extremely satisfied. This was a cultivation technique he had created himself, and moreover, it was a spiritual attack technique.

Ever since his power reached the Half-step Golden Core Realm, the spiritual attack techniques he had studied and cultivated in the past had lost much of their significance.

Because the enemies that could be harmed by those spiritual attack techniques could be effortlessly dealt with using spells, Spiritual Artifacts, Corpse Refining, or even Divine Thought alone.

And opponents who were slightly stronger were not affected by those former spiritual attack techniques.

‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’, this technique, was different. The howling of the Heavenly Demon was effective against cultivators of any realm, and its power depended on the strength of Li Shiming’s own spirit.

With Li Shiming at the Half-step Golden Core Realm, activating ‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’ could affect cultivators in the same realm of Half-step Golden Core. When he breaks through to the Golden Core, he would then be able to influence Golden Core cultivators of the same realm.

Moreover, as his Taoist Body improved, his ability to mimic the Heavenly Demon’s howling would also increase, fundamentally enhancing the power of ‘Heavenly Demon Entering the Ear’.

The nearly transparent Heavenly Demon made Li Shiming think it was about to be destroyed, disappearing under the ‘Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Technique’.