Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 931: Chapter 512: Research

Li Shiming circulated the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’, and when he tried to operate it, he discovered a special situation.

Previously, although he had five Golden Cores, during cultivation, there was only one body, so one body provided Spiritual Power Pattern to five Golden Cores.

If it weren’t for the abundant supply of third-grade Spirit Pills for his cultivation, combined with some fortuitous opportunities, it might have taken him five times as long as other Golden Core cultivators to reach the Nascent Soul Stage.

Five times the time, estimating that his life span would be entirely consumed, could not reach the level of a Great Elder, let alone advance to the Nascent Soul Stage.

The situation now was different; he had five Nascent Souls in his body, and in the Nascent Soul Stage, the cultivation method was to cultivate with the Nascent Soul.

The Nascent Soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator is equivalent to the cultivator’s body, and the external body is like a ship, carrying and protecting the Nascent Soul.

Li Shiming cultivated the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’ through the Nascent Soul.

The problem was he had five Nascent Souls, and he did not know if it was feasible for five Nascent Souls to simultaneously cultivate the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’.

In the vast volumes of books he had read, there was no case like his, and he did not even know what having five Nascent Souls meant, let alone ask other cultivators.

He tried once, and since the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’ was not of any of the Five Elements attributes, all five Nascent Souls could operate it.

When five Nascent Souls simultaneously activated the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’, he felt the sword base in his body undergoing rapid transformation into energy.

The runes of the ’Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique’ in his body continuously converged towards the sword base, integrating into each minute energy unit of the sword base.

He could clearly feel these energy units of the sword base continuously strengthening, quickly breaking through to Fourth Grade and still rising.

Li Shiming did not know that the creator of the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’ had not even reached the Nascent Soul Stage. The creator merely obtained a fragment of an ancient Sword Cultivator manual, extracting the relatively complete parts.

It is estimated that even the creator of the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’ did not anticipate the manual’s changes after reaching the Nascent Soul Stage.

The simultaneous cultivation of the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’ by five Nascent Souls, under the influence of the manual, elevated the sword base to match his body refining strength.

His Body Refinement ability was as strong as the combined strength of five Nascent Soul Early Stage Body Refining Practitioners, although not reaching the level of a Nascent Soul Mid Stage Cultivator, it was much stronger than an early-stage one.

The current sword base could no longer be called a Third Grade Sword Base but should be termed as a Fourth-Grade Sword Base, reaching the peak quality of an early-stage Fourth Grade.

To be honest, with Li Shiming’s current realm and artifact refining abilities, he could easily use some Fourth-grade Refining Materials to create a magical treasure surpassing the Fourth-Grade Sword Base.

However, after undergoing tribulation, he discovered the uniqueness of the Fourth-Grade Sword Base.

Even after experiencing the devastating strike of Heavenly Thunder, it did not destroy the Fourth-Grade Sword Base, merely reverting it back to an energy state.

Such a trait can be life-saving at special times.

When the transformation of the Fourth-Grade Sword Base was completed, unknowingly, half a month had passed.

He opened his eyes, sensed the time spent, and couldn’t help but shake his head. The life span of a Nascent Soul cultivator is indeed long, but each cultivation consumes far more time than before.

Even operating the ’Sword Demon Secret Manual’, which took just one ’two hours’ in the Golden Core Stage, now took half a month in the Nascent Soul Stage.

It’s because the energy summoned was different; the complexity of Nascent Soul Stage energy far exceeds that of the Golden Core Stage.

Li Shiming stretched out his hand, and the Fourth-Grade Sword Base appeared in his palm.

The material of the Fourth-Grade Sword Base had long changed due to energy transformation, almost unrelated to the original material, entirely another form, a Fourth-grade metal capable of transitioning between physical and energy states.

With a slight thought, the Fourth-Grade Sword Base in his hand disappeared, appearing in the hands of the Gold Thunder Nascent Soul within him.

The Gold Thunder Nascent Soul wielded the Fourth-Grade Sword Base, drilling out from his head and standing in the void.

The Gold Thunder Nascent Soul invoked the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent within, imbuing it onto the Fourth-Grade Sword Base, feeling the power of the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent.

Though he had entered the Nascent Soul Stage, the time was too short, and he hadn’t discovered the changes within him immediately. It was only when he used the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent that he realized its difference.

Before undergoing the tribulation, the Heavenly Thunder contained within the Nascent Soul’s Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent was at the Golden Core Stage level. Due to absorbing nearly two hundred artifact tribulations’ worth of Heavenly Thunder, the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent exceeded ordinary Golden Core Stage Heavenly Thunder in power.

But the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent activated now had already reached the power of Nascent Soul Stage Heavenly Thunder.

Originally, for the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent to reach this level of power, it would typically require many years of cultivation comprehension and a breakthrough under fortuitous circumstances.

It’s known that Golden Core Stage Heavenly Thunder targets Golden Core cultivators, and even a Great Elder fears it.

Nascent Soul Stage Heavenly Thunder targets Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, with at least Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners extremely afraid of it.

He pondered for a moment, then realized the reason for the change in the Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent. It was because, during his tribulation, he absorbed part of the Heavenly Thunder’s power.

The tribulation he underwent was, in essence, the Nascent Soul Stage Heavenly Thunder, not to mention that due to his uniqueness, the power of the Heavenly Thunder exceeded tenfold.