Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 629: Chapter 361: Return to the Clan

The female cultivator whose spirit had suffered severe damage displayed an extremely hideous, aged countenance, her consciousness blurred and her body convulsed with intense headaches.

Taking advantage of the female cultivator’s spiritual injuries, Li Shiming turned his ten strands of Divine Thought into ten chains that delved into the depths of the female cultivator’s spirit.

Li Shiming’s own spirit was incredibly strong, and coupled with the constant cultivation of the “Greedy Heaven Sleep Dream Technique,” his spirit continuously grew stronger.

It was not just that the female cultivator’s spirit was injured; even if her spirit had been intact, it wouldn’t compare to the robustness of Li Shiming’s spirit.

Now, the female cultivator was virtually defenceless spiritually, leaving her open to infiltration by his Divine Thought, which penetrated deep into her spirit.

In this manner, he executed Telepathy as if it were being applied without any distance between them, exerting its most potent effect.

Normally, Telepathy would not be able to affect a Golden Core Middle Stage female cultivator, but under these circumstances, it operated within the female cultivator’s soul without the slightest impediment.

The pain vanished from the female cultivator’s face, which regained a calm expression, and her eyes glimmered with a strange light.

She fell into the illusion crafted by Telepathy, an illusion born of Divine Skills with extraordinary effects.

She seemed to return to the past when she was still under her master’s instruction.

That day, her master gave her an Inheritance Jade Scroll as a reward for completing an important task.

She placed the Inheritance Jade Scroll at her brow, and a wealth of information poured into her mind.

Immersed in the memories, she forgot that she had already studied this Cultivation Technique for hundreds of years.

The illusion created by Telepathy allowed her to insert herself into the memory.

Through the female cultivator’s recollections, Li Shiming also acquired the full contents of the Cultivation Technique.

“Yin Yang Harmony Scripture,” one of the core Inheritance Techniques of the Yin Yang Sect.

After reading through the content, Li Shiming’s expression was one of bemusement.

“What kind of bizarre Cultivation Technique is this?” he murmured to himself.

Even with his vast experience, he was taken aback upon seeing this Cultivation Technique.

It could be said that at least half of the content in the “Yin Yang Harmony Scripture” was normal and consistent with the Taoist understanding of Yin Yang.

However, the other half involved Yin and Yang aiding each other in cultivation, which entirely contradicted the mainstream Taoist practice of harnessing the powers of Yin Yang from nature.

Especially after a male cultivator practiced the “Yin Yang Harmony Scripture,” he would be influenced by Yin energy, causing his physical appearance to change and become ugly.

Li Shiming shook his head. He had originally thought the female cultivator’s Pure Yin Spiritual Power might be beneficial to his incarnation, Li Yuanba, and wanted to acquire her Cultivation Technique.

But he never expected nothing from the Demon Sect’s Cultivation Techniques to be normal.

“Consider it a contribution to the knowledge repository!” he said resignedly.

After he killed the female cultivator, he did not even wish to leave the corpse behind and incinerated it with a burst of flames.

He felt no burden over killing a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator from the Yin Yang Sect.

No further incidents occurred afterward, and he passed safely through the sector’s great array.

On the way back, his mind was still pondering over the content of the “Yin Yang Harmony Scripture.”

Although the Cultivation Technique seemed somewhat unreliable, the concepts of Yin Yang within it were indeed useful. Perhaps in the future, he could collect more Yin Yang-style Cultivation Techniques and create a unique Yin Yang Skill on his own.

This was not an idle fantasy. Given the analytical capabilities of his Lifebound Magic Treasure IBMz15, combined with the research on the circulation of Spiritual Power within both Li Shiming and Li Yuanba’s bodies, IBMz15 could certainly establish a simulation system based on their cultivation practices.

Should there be any Cultivation Technique in the future, he could run it through this simulated cultivation system first. Only after it showed no problems would he and his incarnation practice it within their actual bodies.

Having this idea meant he needed to begin preparations, which was no easy task—even for the computational power of the Lifebound Magic Treasure IBMz15—and it would take a considerable amount of time to complete.

A day later, when Li Shiming returned to Shushan Sect, the simulation system for cultivation practice, based on his Pure Dao Body and Li Yuanba’s Taiji Dao Body, was completed.

This was just an initial setup, which needed continuous data collection from his cultivation process for future enhancement of the simulation system.

Li Shiming tried importing the “Yin Yang Harmony Scripture” into the simulated cultivation system of Li Yuanba’s Taiji Dao Body, letting the “Yin Yang Harmony Scripture” circulate within Li Yuanba’s body by practicing cultivation. He omitted the parts involving union between male and female cultivators, directly using the ongoing transitions between Li Yuanba’s human and Corpse Refining states to balance Yin Yang Spiritual Power.

During this process, numerous errors emerged in the simulated cultivation of Li Yuanba, with the most minor errors leading to deviation and the most severe causing simultaneous collapse of both his Golden Core and Corpse Pill.

Li Shiming made it a part of his ongoing research to painstakingly develop a set of Yin Yang Skills that Li Yuanba could practice, which required continuous experimentation.

He probably was the only one in the Cultivation World capable of using simulated cultivation to continually modify Cultivation Techniques.

In the Cultivation World, modifying Cultivation Techniques was extremely dangerous. Techniques like the “Yin Yang Harmony Scripture,” which was amongst the top-tier in the Beishu Continent, were likely modified from some ancient cultivation practice or created by a mighty being based on personal enlightenment.

Being merely a Golden Core Early Stage cultivator with an understanding of cultivation only at the Golden Core Stage level, he could only resort to trial and error to modify Cultivation Techniques for his own use.

The Shushan Sect was pleased that Li Shiming returned safely once more without encountering any trouble. No cultivator from the sect wanted their Alchemy Master to face major events whenever he left, leaving them anxious about Li Shiming’s safety after his departure.