Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 934: Chapter 513: Cultivation 2

In theory, when he accumulates his Spiritual Power Pattern to one hundred percent, he will have reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage.

And at his current cultivation speed, he is estimated to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage within a hundred years and try to break through the Nascent Soul Early Stage.

The reason it’s impossible to estimate accurately is that during this initial cultivation, he consumed multiple Fourth Grade Top-Grade Spirit Pills.

The cultivation effect of Fourth Grade Top-Grade Spirit Pills is several times that of High Grade Fourth-Grade Spirit Pills.

Li Shiming stood up, moved his body, and it made a cracking sound, a result of his body’s immense strength and the muscle contraction it caused.

Though he hadn’t moved his body in two hundred days, he had been cultivating the ‘Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique’, a cultivation technique that mimics the Mysterious Turtle of the Taiqing.

The Taiqing Mysterious Turtle rarely moves, only engaging in the inhalation and exhalation of Spiritual Energy to strengthen itself, allowing him to cultivate it alongside other cultivation techniques. Otherwise, if it required bodily movements, simultaneous cultivation wouldn’t be possible.

“Seems like I’ll still need to consider body refinement resources!” He murmured as the two hundred days of cultivating ‘Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique’ weren’t very effective.

Compared to the cultivation speed of the ‘Five Rhymes Qi Cultivation Technique’ and ‘Yuqing Thunder Scripture’, the ‘Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique’ lagged significantly behind.

Reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage in a century, such cultivation speed is based on the ample supply of Fourth Grade Spirit Pills.

It’s not that he doesn’t have body refinement resources, but the grade of those resources is simply too high for him to dare use them.

He possesses a drop of blood from a Body Refining Great Power and has already sensed that with his current condition, attempting to refine this blood could make him explode instantly.

It’s not just the Blood of the Body Refining Great Power; entities like the Ghost Bracelet and Asura Puppet cannot be controlled by him even if he ascends to the Nascent Soul Stage.

Take the Ghost Bracelet, for example; he can already refine it, but the ghost it contains is of the Fourth Grade Middle Stage, slightly beyond his current realm.

As for the Asura Puppet, refining and using it would also require reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

This significantly reduced his expectations of the Grotto Heaven, fearing that he might struggle to fully control it even in the Nascent Soul Early Stage.

Li Shiming assessed the status of the five Nascent Souls. Although the Spiritual Power Pattern within them was still minimal, it was sufficient for a battle.

Up until now, he truly became a Nascent Soul Early Stage practitioner, capable of possessing the combat strength appropriate for a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.

He took out the Fourth-grade Array Materials—his reward from alchemy—sufficient for crafting twelve Fourth Grade Array Flags.

He was quite familiar with array flags, having crafted many Third Grade Array Flags before.

Array Flags represent the least inventive form among Spiritual Objects custom-built over countless years to align with all Formations without deviation as even a tiny alteration influences their effect.

Array Flags, shaped through endless years of Formation research and experimentation, are compatible with all Formations.

Of course, Array Flags aren’t immutable. Li Shiming could design them based on particular Formations, even morph them into objects. However, such tailored Array Flags lack compatibility, deployable only within designated Formation setups.

Sect Formations, for instance, require numerous specialized Formation Artifacts.

However, Array Masters, in standard practice, rely on universal Array Flags that are compatible with all Formations.

Thus, when Li Shiming crafted the Fourth Grade Array Flags, he didn’t incorporate them into the machine space for crafting.

The Fire Thunder Nascent Soul emerged from his body, utilizing Nascent Fire to morph the Fourth-grade Array Materials and engrave an array of Array Runes upon their surfaces.

The twelve Fourth Grade Array Flags were crafted within just three days. The most tedious part was inscribing the Array Runes, but for him, it was the easiest and most effortless task.

He employed multiple brains to control his Divine Sense with the assistance of his life-bound artifact, IBMz15, effortlessly and accurately inscribing the complex tasks as IBMz15 simplified the process.

The twelve Fourth Grade Array Flags were placed within his cave abode. Upon sensing the activation of the Formation, he heaved a sigh of relief, feeling secure.

It wasn’t that his previous cave abode was unsafe, but with too many secrets and initial Formations being uniformly arranged by the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, he naturally felt uneasy.

Not until the twelve Fourth Grade Array Flags boosted the cave Formation did he release his clone Li Yuanba and Venerable Huijing from the machine space.

Feeling Venerable Huijing’s condition, Li Shiming truly comprehended the disparity between Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Though he had just ascended to the Nascent Soul Stage less than a year ago, even considering it a recent ascension, it normally takes years to develop any combat power.

Yet, his current combat power has already surpassed Venerable Huijing.

Venerable Huijing’s original cultivation technique was too mediocre. Although he retrained with ‘Liu Yan Erosion Sun Skill’, Li Shiming deemed it not particularly powerful, especially in terms of fire attribute power, which paled compared to his ‘Five Rhymes Qi Cultivation Technique’, let alone the ‘Nanming Leaving Fire’ Divine Skill.

This couldn’t be blamed on Venerable Huijing. His current state was roughly equivalent to a Nascent Soul Early Stage Middle-level, possessing a fire attribute, and due to cultivating ‘Liu Yan Erosion Sun Skill’, he could be considered at a normal level among Nascent Soul Early Stage practitioners.

Comparing with middle-level cultivators in the Nascent Soul Early Stage of the Dongqi Continent, ‘Liu Yan Erosion Sun Skill’ enhanced Venerable Huijing’s strength.

But regarding realm, Li Shiming could already be considered at the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage, except his total Spiritual Power Pattern was quite limited.

This only represented one facet of Li Shiming’s strength; in the realm of Sword Intent, his Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent possessed power enough to intimidate Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators.

In the realm of body refinement, he also wielded the strength of Body Refining Nascent Soul, specifically at the peak of the Early Stage Nascent Soul Body Refining level.

And should a battle arise, his five Nascent Souls would act as fivefold strength, Venerable Huijing simply couldn’t contend with such power.

Li Shiming looked at Venerable Huijing, shaking his head helplessly.

Initially, when he signed the unequal reverse servant contract with Venerable Huijing, he thought Venerable Huijing would be a powerful ally in his Nascent Soul Stage.

Yet now, it seemed Venerable Huijing’s combat strength offered minimal help.

“Forget it, it only costs a few resources!” Li Shiming murmured.

For Venerable Huijing to grow, he must consume Fourth Grade Spirit Pills. Situated on the Dongqi Continent, Fourth Grade Spirit Pills weren’t scarce enough to limit what he could provide Venerable Huijing.

Despite Venerable Huijing’s lackluster combat power, being a Nascent Soul Cultivator, he still had some utility.

As for the clone Li Yuanba, he truly fell behind, but his potential was immense. Being a disciple of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, his future wasn’t any narrower than Li Shiming’s true body.

Leaving Li Yuanba and Venerable Huijing within the cave abode, Li Shiming transformed into a flash of lightning, flying out of the peak towards the sect’s exterior.

The consumption of Thunder Escape wasn’t significant, being twice as fast as the Golden Core Stage.

This wasn’t his fastest speed, which involved Nascent Soul Emergence where the Nascent Soul led his body.

But Nascent Soul Emergence without utilizing the Nascent Soul Dharma Form rendered the Nascent Soul’s defensive power weakest, even less than a Nascent Soul cultivator’s body.

The good thing was the Nascent Soul’s speed was swift enough; upon emergence, it was hard to hit, though dangers persisted. Hence, Nascent Soul cultivators usually wouldn’t perform Nascent Soul Emergence unless escaping, or unless using the Nascent Soul Dharma Form in front of other Nascent Soul cultivators.

These were aspects Li Shiming needed to heed while using Thunder Escape, familiarizing himself with the Nascent Soul Stage strength.

Now employing any Secret Technique was altogether a new experience, recorded by his life-bound artifact, IBMz15, for data collection and research.

“Master Li has come out of seclusion!” Master Jiang Hong remarked with mild surprise.

Master Jiang Hong had been monitoring Li Shiming’s situation. Typically, newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivators remain secluded for over three years, yet Li Shiming had been in seclusion for less than a year.

Not only Master Jiang Hong, but Chen Zhou also noticed Li Shiming’s emergence from seclusion.