Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1116: Chapter 604: Aftermath (Part 2)

’Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ can defend against metal attribute attacks, but has little effect on other attribute attacks.

So he decisively escaped with his Nascent Soul, intending to use the speed of the Nascent Soul to flee.

If he had encountered other Nascent Soul Cultivators, perhaps using Nascent Soul Emergence to escape would be feasible, because the flight speed of the Nascent Soul is the fastest.

But Li Shiming has the Divine Foot Skill, and upon discovering the Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner attempting to flee, he immediately activated ’Heaven Within Reach’ and arrived next to the Nascent Soul in one step.

The ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ in his hand unleashed a bolt of lightning and struck the Nascent Soul.

Just as the Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner had judged, any spell could easily dispatch him in his wounded state, and this ’Thunder Strike Skill’ claimed his life.

The Nascent Soul struggled in the lightning for a moment, then exploded from within.

A petite Mustard Seed Ring and Mountain Peak Treasure appeared where the Nascent Soul exploded, remnants from the Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner.

Li Shiming waved his hand and collected the items, and his figure flickered back to the battlefield.

His Divine Sense swept over every place, and at this moment, his Wood Thunder Nascent Soul transformed into the main Nascent Soul, causing his aura to change to that of a Thunder Cultivator, with the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ in his hand surging with lightning aura.

He first collected all the corpses, suspecting that the backgrounds of these Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners were not simple, fearing trouble, so he stored all the corpses in the machine room space, the safest place.

He then found twelve jade tokens at twelve locations on the ground, each carrying the aura of Earth Element Spiritual Power, and he collected them all into the machine room space after a glance.

His Divine Sense found nothing further, yet as he was about to leave, he discovered a strange phenomenon.

He maintained the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’, causing a lightning field to surround his body.

This lightning field had no actual effect, at least currently it was not usable by him.

Within the range of the lightning field, tiny electric glimmers emanating from him sporadically shot forth in all directions.

He noticed that the tiny electric glimmers surrounding his body uniformly flew toward a single location.

Li Shiming, filled with curiosity, arrived at that location, reached out his hand to touch it, only to feel a small bead.

When he touched the small bead, it seemed to sense the aura of the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ on him, revealed itself from invisibility, and fell into his hand.

”Could this be the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’?” Li Shiming gazed at the small bead in his hand, a suspicion emerging in his heart.

However, now was not the time to examine it, as a great battle had erupted here, and the cultivators sensing the battle aura would not be few, some would arrive soon.

He stored the small bead into the machine room space, activated the invisibility function of the Chameleon Cloak, and activated ’Heaven Within Reach’ to vanish from the battlefield location.

Shortly after Li Shiming left, cultivators arrived, and seeing the residual aura, one cultivator revealed a rueful expression.

The cultivator thought he came too late, as the intense battle aura indicated multiple Nascent Soul Cultivators had perished here.

Just as the cultivator was about to leave, other cultivators arrived.

”Leave the items!” The arriving cultivator also sensed the battlefield aura and stared at the previous cultivator with greed in his eyes.

Battle ensued again, and as more cultivators arrived, the battles here increased steadily.

Li Shiming was unaware of what transpired after he left; he hadn’t returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect but instead went to another one of his mansions, located under a pool.

This mansion he used for Corpse Refining development, and usually, he didn’t prefer visiting due to the Yin Cold Energy prevalent here.

Only his alter ego Li Yuanba, in the state of Corpse Refining, enjoyed staying in this mansion.

But this mansion was very secure, both in terms of concealment and defensive power being the best among wilderness mansions.

Inside the mansion, he retrieved the Fourth Grade Array Flag, dispelling the Yin Cold Energy from one room, disliking the idea of staying amidst the Yin Cold Energy for long.

The harvest was momentous, making him eager to examine it.

Yet he understood that greater harvest meant greater troubles.

Thus, he opted not to remove the items from the machine room space but to inspect them inside it.

The first thing he wanted to check naturally was the small bead he suspected to be the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, that eight Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners exerted tremendous effort to arrange a deadly trap for.

He’d also witnessed the power Wang Yuan displayed while using Thunder Skill, which was extraordinarily more potent, several times that of a normal Thunder Cultivator’s Thunder Skill.

His Divine Sense lifted the small bead into the air in the machine room space.

The 5-nanometer level of control, combined with the uniqueness of the machine room space, allowed him to penetrate the surface of the small bead and probe its interior.

He was stunned when his perception entered the small bead; its interior was a world of lightning.

Inside the small bead, layer upon layer of thunder clouds stacked above, rendering the sky dark and oppressive.

Lightning constantly cascaded from the thunder clouds, striking midair and ground, the ground was covered with strange runes, each in the area struck by lightning glowed brilliantly.

The small bead’s interior could be considered a miniature world, a world purely of lightning.

It was somewhat similar to a Grotto Heaven, but Li Shiming, who had seen a Grotto Heaven, was certain that the bead’s interior wasn’t a Grotto Heaven.

He felt an inexplicable affinity for the world inside the bead, as if he were connected to it.

The ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ spiritual power in his Nascent Soul linked with the lightning world inside the bead through his perception, creating the feeling that he could recognize the small bead as its master.

Since the bead connecting with him signified its acknowledgment of him.

This was natural, the small bead was the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, and it was indeed a supreme treasure of Yuqing Sect, inherently complementing the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’.

There were several methods to become the master of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, the most convenient and swiftest being practicing the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’.

Li Shiming was about to make the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ recognize him as its master when he paused, discovering a spirit mark inside the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.

Fortunately, inside the machine room space, he used his special control over the space to investigate the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, making him akin to a ruler within the space.

Although the spirit mark gave him the feeling of gazing upon a towering mountain, even reminiscent of facing Sword Elder, the unique control power in the machine room space ensured he wasn’t suppressed by the spirit mark.

He was somewhat disappointed, realizing that the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ was undoubtedly an extraordinary treasure.

But with the spirit mark, he couldn’t truly become its master.

The ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ behavior suggested that performing a Master Recognition Technique could make him its master, but this only made him its secondary master.

The being who left the spirit mark was the true master, and if they wished, could retake the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ at any time.

Of course, leaving the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ within the machine room space would prevent the entity from reclaiming it regardless of their strength.

Yet under such conditions, the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ becomes nothing more than a collectible in the machine room space.

This was not what he wanted; he coveted the effects of the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, particularly its enhancement to Thunder Skill, which was exceptionally tempting.

With the enhancement from the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, he could battle against Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioners using Thunder Skill alone.

And the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ was certainly not limited to such effects; this was merely the enhancement for Nascent Soul Early Stage Thunder Cultivators, and upon reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage, its enhancement might grant a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Thunder Cultivator a degree of Great Cultivator combat power.