Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1877 - 985: Attracting Tribulation

Li Shiming, in the guest room of Fengqi Palace, had somewhat unstable aura.

The ’Beidou Formation Map’ above his head laid down an isolating formation around him, preventing his aura from leaking out.

In the bodies of his five Nascent Souls, the gold rules had undergone significant changes, much stronger compared to the other four elements among the Five Elements rules.

If other Great Cultivators were to see, they would surely recognize that his gold rules had reached Half-step Great Power Level.

Fortunately, it was only the gold rules that reached the Half-step Great Power Level, not the energy within his body and flesh reaching this level, otherwise he would be facing a heavenly tribulation by now.

The Half-step Great Power of human cultivators is completely different from other beings. For instance, the Half-step Great Power of a Corpse Refining requires the baptism of nine heavenly thunders, making the energy within it undergo a qualitative transformation, thus truly becoming an existence at Half-step Great Power Level.

Additionally, Li Shiming’s spiritual pet, the Heavenly Ghost, was the same, having truly ascended only after passing through nine heavenly thunders.

But human cultivators are different. Human cultivators have found a better way, a way more suited for human cultivation.

Human cultivators do not need to pass through the nine heavenly thunders, but instead construct a Cave Heaven World using their own Nascent Soul, hiding their flesh within it.

Due to the special nature of the Cave Heaven World, heaven and earth cannot detect the enhancement of human cultivators’ power, thereby not rejecting them.

Human cultivators can, within the Cave Heaven World, strive to enhance themselves until they have sufficient foundation, then they can walk out of the Cave Heaven, accept the baptism of heavenly thunder, and ascend to become great powers.

In other words, human cultivators, through their own method, reduce the baptism of heavenly tribulation by one time.

The baptism of heavenly tribulation is both a boon and a bane; the risks under heavenly thunder need not be elaborated on, as it poses extreme danger, with carelessness leading to total annihilation.

The good part is that after overcoming the heavenly tribulation, one will be rewarded by heaven and earth’s energy, making themselves stronger.

However, just by observing how many spirit beasts in the cultivation world exceed grade four, or other creatures surpassing grade four, and comparing the numbers of human Half-step Great Powers, one can see how correct this method of human cultivators is.

If not for Li Shiming’s particular means, the refining of Half-step Great Power Level corpses he embarked on would not be so easy.

Not everyone can engrave billions of refining corpse runes on a corpse, creating a brand new method for corpse refining.

The changes in Li Shiming’s body now came from the insights shared by his avatar, Li Yuanba.

The gold rules within the Cave Heaven of his avatar, Li Yuanba, were elevated to Half-step Great Power Level, and continued to enhance, with the original body Li Shiming sharing these insights too.

Reaching Half-step Great Power Level with gold rules allowed Li Shiming to wield flying swords with the ordinary attack power of Half-step Great Power.

The reason it’s called ordinary attack power is because the strongest attack of Half-step Great Power is enacted using the energy within their Cave Heaven.

Just like now, if Li Yuanba were to truly unleash his strongest attack, he would draw energy absorbed from external spiritual energy within the Cave Heaven, and convert it to Half-step Great Power Level energy.

This energy, being continuously nourished within the Cave Heaven, possesses greater might than other energies.

Once these energies are utilized, it equates to mobilizing the might of the Cave Heaven to attack the enemy.

This is the trump card of Half-step Great Power; however, few dare to do so, because once energy within the Cave Heaven is called upon, it can easily lead to energy disorder in the Cave Heaven, causing catastrophic effects.

What Li Shiming shared was merely Li Yuanba’s comprehension of gold rules.

Over the past decades, he recorded Li Yuanba’s cultivation process using IBMz15. During that time, Li Yuanba was still mastering gold rules and energy within the Cave Heaven, until he had completely stabilized the gold rules and energy, he then shared Li Yuanba’s insights into gold rules.

Li Shiming was very curious about the newly mastered gold rules, as these were Half-step Great Power Level gold rules, and he was even more curious about the power of these rules.

He attempted to mobilize the ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ within his body, enhancing the newly mastered gold rules, and converting it into energy for the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’.

Just as he converted this energy, before he could utilize it to emit sword light and test the power increase brought by gold rules, he felt a strange fluctuation rising within him.

”Damn!” He was somewhat bewildered, as this was the feeling of being rejected by heaven and earth.

At this time, even if he fled into other Cave Heavens it would be useless, unless it was a Cave Heaven he constructed himself, which would allow him to rely on his identity as Cave Heaven Master and completely block out the lock from heaven and earth.

Though he had Heavenly Person Cave Heaven, Thunder Cave Heaven, and Half-Life Cave Heaven, none of these were built by him, thus unable to prevent the lock from heaven and earth.

At this moment, the grand formation of Luanyang Palace issued an alert, indicating the recognition of the heavenly tribulation aura.

Li Shiming did not wish to remain within Luanyang Palace under such circumstances, for if he truly did, not only would it not aid his tribulation crossing, but it would also cause great damage to Luanyang Palace, deteriorating relations.

With a ’one step to a thousand miles’, he left Fengqi Palace, meeting Phoenix Palace Master who came to investigate.

”Feng Xianzi, I triggered a heavenly tribulation and need to leave Luanyang Palace!” He could not hide the aura on him, so he spoke to the Phoenix Palace Master.