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Chapter 1871 - 982: Half-Step

Although Li Yuanba was fully immersed in his insights, Li Shiming was always attentive to Li Yuanba’s condition.

The Golden Winged Dapeng was directed by Li Shiming to escort Li Yuanba back to the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

As the core cultivator of Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, Li Yuanba’s ascension to Half-step Great Power was a major event for which the pavilion had a comprehensive plan.

For instance, now, Li Yuanba was sent by the Sword Elder into a distinct mountain cave dwelling specifically designed for ascension to Half-step Great Power, which was monitored by the Sword Elder and extremely safe.

Li Yuanba sat cross-legged at the spirit vein outlet of the cave dwelling, where the spirit vein was an important branch of Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion’s main spirit vein.

The spirit veins of Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion were acquired over countless years, with numerous sword cultivators seizing or obtaining these Great Cultivator Level spirit veins from various locations.

The quantity of Great Cultivator spirit veins is beyond record, but simply relying on this spirit vein serving as the main spirit vein of Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion suffices to understand how rich the spiritual energy here is.

Every breath Li Yuanba took now allowed his Nascent Soul to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy.

This process lasted a hundred days, with a massive amount of spiritual energy being converted by the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ into nascent soul spiritual power and integrated into the Nascent Soul.

In fact, after ascending to Peak Great Cultivator, his Nascent Soul could no longer increase its spiritual power by an iota.

But when he gained insights for ascension to Half-step Great Power and found the opportunity to advance, his understanding of the energy within deepened, allowing him to once again enhance the power of his Nascent Soul.

A hundred days of continuous energy absorption led to a mutation within the Nascent Soul.

The so-called Grotto Heaven, aside from requiring a Heavenly Mechanism Treasure, is essentially a cultivator establishing a small personal world within themselves.

And the container for this miniature world is the Nascent Soul itself.

Or, put differently, the Nascent Soul transforms into a small world, with the Heavenly Mechanism Treasure stabilizing it.

Massive energy, coupled with the change occurring within the Nascent Soul’s energy, led to the Nascent Soul being filled to the brim, causing the Nascent Soul to start energy implosion inwardly.

Li Yuanba had always remembered the method to construct a Grotto Heaven and actively put everything from his Nascent Soul into the implosion center during the collapse.

With a ’boom’ resonating in his mind, his Nascent Soul vanished, leaving only a tiny speck of light.

Without hesitation, he retrieved a Space Stone from the soul crystal ring.

The Cave Heaven Anchor Point Carrier offers various choices, and Li Yuanba chose this Space Stone.

Once his Cave Heaven formed and he stood within it, the external world would only be left with the Cave Heaven Anchor Point Carrier.

The Space Stone has the effect of concealing within space, and by utilizing a spell, the Space Stone can disappear, rendering the Cave Heaven Anchor Point Carrier undetectable.

This was a solution devised by IBMz15, and indeed, this Space Stone with a top-grade four-tier grade is a rare treasure in the cultivation world.

He obtained it from the spoils of a Half-step Great Power.

The tiny light spot formed from the Nascent Soul attached itself to the Space Stone, which rapidly became energized upon the attachment.

The energized Space Stone fell to the ground, and Li Yuanba’s figure vanished, entering the tiny light spot on the Space Stone.

That tiny light spot is the embryonic form of the Grotto Heaven, and upon entering it, he found it only able to contain his body, which remained curled.

Li Yuanba’s aura surged upon entering the Grotto Heaven embryo, continuously rising.

Had he been in the external world, such a surge in aura would likely have brought about heavenly rejection and the baptism of Heavenly Thunder.

But within this Grotto Heaven embryo, he avoided discovery by heaven, preventing the attack from Heavenly Thunder.

Of course, once his aura significantly exceeded the Peak Great Cultivator Realm and reached a certain degree, leaving the Grotto Heaven embryo would inevitably trigger a Heavenly Tribulation attack.

Thus, this path is irreversible. From the start of ascension to Half-step Great Power, there’s no turning back.

Li Yuanba felt content; although the space within the Grotto Heaven embryo is extremely small, this space seemed part of him, feeling akin to being within a mother’s body.

A sense of peace arose in his heart, as a pure smile unconsciously appeared on his face.

With no Nascent Soul within, he lost his energy source, yet every part of his physical body could accommodate energy, surpassing what his Nascent Soul once held.

Additionally, the Grotto Heaven embryo is also part of his body, filled with pure energy—essentially the energy originally belonging to his Nascent Soul.

Externally, the Space Stone was continuously absorbing spiritual energy from the void, which was then sent into the Grotto Heaven embryo.

Li Yuanba, in the Grotto Heaven embryo, felt as if his body was soaking within his mother, ceaselessly strengthening.

For him, time lost its meaning; one year, two years, three years—before he knew it, ten years had passed.

Li Yuanba’s eyes flickered as he slowly opened them.

Unbeknownst to him, the Grotto Heaven expanded to a radius of thirty meters, the standard size documented in various records for Half-step Great Power constructing a Grotto Heaven.

Over ten years, the Grotto Heaven absorbed a massive amount of spiritual energy, which was automatically converted within into the needed energy, resulting in a thirty-meter radius Grotto Heaven space.