Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1352: Chapter 722: Advancement_2

Since the one who refined the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ is Li Shiming, and Li Shiming’s cultivation is at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, theoretically, the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ needs to pass through the artifact tribulation equivalent to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Heavenly Tribulation.

But if a Great Cultivator intervenes, then the tribulation would be based on the higher cultivation level, resulting in a Heavenly Tribulation corresponding to the participant with the higher status.

Sure enough, the thunderclouds appearing above the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’, observed through the eyes of Great Cultivator Luo Pei by Li Shiming, are indeed the Nascent Soul Middle Stage Heavenly Tribulation.

Though the power of this tribulation is considered top-tier within the Nascent Soul Middle Stage realm, he was not worried at all.

The ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ remains silent, with its airborne sword body concealed, undetectable both to the naked eye and divine sense scanning.

However, this cannot escape the attention of the heavens; the thunderclouds are hovering above the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’.

With a thunderous roar, a bolt of Heavenly Thunder descends, directly striking the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’.

The ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ neither evades nor retaliates; the thunder could not avoid it either.

It simply allows the Heavenly Thunder to hit the sword body directly, causing numerous rune lights to flicker, revealing the hidden sword body.

Thunder light flashes back and forth on the sword body, attempting to obliterate it, but among the four hundred million solid rune’s effect, it could only produce a visual effect without causing real damage.

The second and third Heavenly Thunder bolts fell in succession, with the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ honestly enduring the thunder’s attack; this is Li Shiming’s experience—resisting only strengthens the power of the Heavenly Thunder.

While stronger Heavenly Thunder would intensify the heavenly rewards after the tribulation, considering the accompanying danger, Li Shiming would rather safely pass through the thunder tribulation.

Now the thunder faced by ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ has reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage level; if it causes an increase in the tribulation’s power, it would reach Great Cultivator level Heavenly Thunder.

Thus, the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’s chance of overcoming the tribulation would decrease, and he certainly does not want his Lifebound Flying Sword to fall under the Heavenly Thunder.

The effort and time invested in the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ alone is a colossal cost, not to mention the two kinds of fourth-grade top materials required are rare to come by.

With the dissipation of the final Heavenly Thunder’s power, the energy of heavenly rewards surged above the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’.

After waiting a while, Great Cultivator Luo Pei released his aura to keep spirit beasts and cultivators attracted by the Heavenly Thunder at a distance.

A Great Cultivator’s aura is still very intimidating, causing hesitation among cultivators.

After a period, the energy surges on the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ ended, and the sword body vanished back into the void, returning to its concealed state.

Li Shiming gently moved his thought, and the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ flew back to the side of Great Cultivator Luo Pei, who then stored it inside his Cave Heaven.

Gazing upon the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ before him, through spiritual connection, he could sense the mighty Artifact Spirit within.

With regards to nurturing the spiritual treasure Lifebound Flying Sword’s Artifact Spirit, he can share experiences from his avatar Li Yuanba, understanding the best way to cultivate it.

It’s known that his avatar Li Yuanba received guidance from Sword Elder and practiced the ’Soul Control and Treasure Breeding Secret Method,’ a special secret technique targeting spiritual treasures.

On the surface of ’Traceless Illusion Sword’, ten billion sharp runes and four hundred million concealed solid runes hide away, leaving only two rule marks—a sharp rule mark and a solid rule mark.

Li Shiming’s requirements for the Lifebound Flying Sword differ from his avatar Li Yuanba’s entirely; while Li Yuanba pursues extreme speed, on his side, with more combat techniques and the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’s stealth capability, the need for speed is not high—the initial speed of spiritual treasure-level Lifebound Flying Sword is sufficient.

The ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ needs the strongest armor-piercing effect; under the support of ten billion sharp runes and sharp rule mark, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator’s defense is torn open with ease, without needing to employ ’Void-breaking Sword Intent.’

He activated the ’Soul Control and Treasure Breeding Secret Method,’ gradually transmitting his and avatar Li Yuanba’s understanding of ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ and sword cultivator combat insights to the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’s Artifact Spirit.

This is a long-term process; the more knowledge the Artifact Spirit learns, the greater the assistance in battle.

Outside, Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s figure turned into a stream of water and entered the ocean, using Water Escape to leave the island.

His direction is that of Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion; this time, he needs to welcome back Li Yuanba and receive some spoils.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei has fewer concerns when traveling now, mainly because the main Great Cultivators he concerns about from the White Emperor Sect have withdrawn from Central State Continent.

Not to mention, conflicts between the White Emperor Sect and Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion have intensified—there’s no way they could pay attention to him.

Of course, he couldn’t afford to be careless, as he is related to significant treasures; if given a chance, the White Emperor Sect would definitely seek him out.

His reputation isn’t good; notorious outside, becoming a Loose Cultivator is his only option now since joining any sect is impossible.

No matter the reason, after causing such devastation to the Fuliu Sect, almost putting it on the verge of extinction, any sect would be wary of him, fearing he might go mad one day and bring calamity upon their sect.

He didn’t care; Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s role is merely for accessing Great Cultivator resources.

Now Li Shiming’s own resources are sufficient; he only needs prolonged seclusion to attempt breaking through to Great Cultivator.

Once reaching the Great Cultivator Realm, the combat power of Great Cultivator Luo Pei would be dispensable for Li Shiming.

Certainly, Li Shiming has an important arrangement for Great Cultivator Luo Pei, which involves future corpse refining matters entirely entrusted to Great Cultivator Luo Pei.

With the Great Cultivator Realm, Great Cultivator Luo Pei can contract corpses from Late-stage Golden Core level, with a vast quantity, allowing him to freely contract numerous corpses.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei is essentially the body of a Heavenly Ghost, which is Li Shiming’s spiritual pet; with this relationship, Li Shiming’s control over Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s corpse refining is similar to his control over his own.

The long-distance flying boat carrying Li Yuanba, after a month’s voyage, returned to Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Within Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, while the Great Cultivators participated in meetings, he had no ability to attend such meetings, thus he remains extremely free.

He declined numerous requests for alchemy from sword cultivators, citing a need for a break.

Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion is a very united sect—his alchemy prowess is shared only within the sect, as evident from not spreading outside Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Flying out of Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, a thousand miles away above a seaside, he met Great Cultivator Luo Pei.

The two exchanged nothing; Li Yuanba handed all his gains to Great Cultivator Luo Pei this time.

Including Treasure Lotus Hall, ’Jiguang Xunying Boat,’ Spiritual Jade Spring Eye, and Fire Jade Furnace, even materials for two portions of Great Cultivator healing Spirit Pills were handed over.

Additionally, a large number of corpses; of the highest value among them is Great Cultivator Shi Dong’s corpse, and twelve core mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator corpses from the White Emperor Sect.

If all these corpses were to be refined into Golden Corpses, it’d likely deplete all Golden Corpse Cores of Zhai Ge Cave Heaven; without complete mastery of Zhai Ge Great Ability Cave Heaven, supplementing with Cave Heaven Golden Corpse Cores is impossible.

Certainly, refining so many corpses will require an immense quantity of Fourth-grade Corpse Refining Materials, especially for refining Great Cultivator Shi Dong’s corpse into a Golden Corpse, which Great Cultivator Luo Pei currently cannot achieve.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s cultivation may not be able to suppress the refined corpse of Great Cultivator Shi Dong, as Great Cultivator Shi Dong’s realm is far superior to Great Cultivator Luo Pei; although both belong to the Great Cultivator Realm, Great Cultivator Shi Dong is mid-to-upper tier within the realm, whereas Great Cultivator Luo Pei is at the bottom.