Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1900: Chapter 996: Cultivation (Part 2)

Of course, that was under the premise that his Transmission Ring could be used at any time; whether the Great Power’s true body still had other supreme treasures in hand was something that could not be taken lightly.

With the ‘Daoist Golden Lotus’ under his feet, Li Shiming looked even more like an immortal with transcendent bones and demeanor.

Over these years, by auctioning off Alchemy commissions, Li Shiming had harvested quite a number of Late Stage Fourth Grade resources needed by his Spiritual Pets.

His Spiritual Pets included the Heavenly Ghost, the ‘Eternal Water Bear’ Little Feng, the Illusion Spirit Dragon, the Thunder Beast, the Golden Winged Dapeng, as well as eleven ‘Silver Winged Spirit Gu Insects’; the Heavenly Ghost and the ‘Eternal Water Bear’ had already reached Half-step Fifth Grade, while the others were all at Late Stage Fourth Grade.

After preparing a large amount of targeted Fourth Grade resources, he began refining Spirit Pills.

As for the special place prepared just for his Heavenly Tribulation, he had notified the Ten Thousand Beast Sect in advance, and all Thunder Cultivators there had withdrawn.

Ever since the Yuqing Sect stopped recruiting Disciples, Thunder Attribute talent Cultivators in the Cultivation World had been taken in by various powers.

Unfortunately, among these powers, even the so-called superpowers did not possess a complete Thunder Cultivator inheritance.

Only on the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s side, with the full Thunder Cultivator inheritance of the Yuqing Sect provided by Li Shiming, did the Ten Thousand Beast Sect become another sect with a complete Thunder Cultivator inheritance after the Yuqing Sect.

Of course, since the Ten Thousand Beast Sect itself had not yet developed into a superpower, its influence was not very strong.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect could only recruit Thunder Attribute talent Cultivators from the Dongqi Continent and the Beishu Continent; wanting to recruit Thunder Attribute talent Cultivators from other continents was impossible.

Even without a complete Thunder Cultivator inheritance, many superpowers still had the ability to cultivate a Thunder Attribute talent Cultivator into a Thunder Cultivator.

And the combat power of Thunder Cultivators had always been like that of Sword Cultivators, belonging to the higher end of combat strength among Cultivators of the same realm.

Back then, the reason the Yuqing Sect could sign contracts with the continents, making each continent provide Thunder Attribute talent Disciples to the Yuqing Sect, was that the Yuqing Sect paid a tremendous price.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect had no ability to sign contracts with the continents, making each continent provide Thunder Attribute talent Disciples to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

The Thunder Cultivators already recruited were all cultivating in the valley where Li Shiming had his Spiritual Pets undergo Heavenly Tribulation.

This place was renamed ‘Thunder Prison’ by the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and had become a sacred cultivation ground for its Thunder Cultivators.

Cultivating Thunder Cultivation Techniques here had even better effects; more importantly, the environment here could continuously benefit Thunder Cultivators all the way up to the Thunder Cultivation Peak Master level.

The reason Half-step Great Ability Realm Thunder Cultivators were not mentioned was that, upon reaching the Half-step Great Ability Realm, they would already reside within their own Grotto Heaven and no longer needed the external environment.

Li Shiming arrived at the ‘Thunder Prison’; here, on the ground and the surrounding stone walls, due to hundreds of Half-step Great Power Level Heavenly Tribulations, these places bore the imprints of Heavenly Thunder.

Within these Heavenly Thunder imprints were the Thunder Rules and the aura of Heavenly Tribulation.

It was precisely due to the changes in the ‘Thunder Prison’ that Li Shiming would come here every time he needed to undergo a Heavenly Tribulation.

This time he had prepared everything; now he was extremely confident in the odds of his Spiritual Pets passing a Half-step Great Power Level Heavenly Tribulation.

After recording the might of a Half-step Great Power Peak Heavenly Tribulation, IBMz15, combined with all previous Half-step Great Power Level Heavenly Tribulation data and the experience of raising so many Half-step Fifth Grade Spirit Pets, was already able to simulate the process of a certain Spiritual Pet undergoing a Half-step Great Power Level Heavenly Tribulation.

Little Feng, the Illusion Spirit Dragon, the Thunder Beast, and the Golden Winged Dapeng’s advancements were all very simple; Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon had followed him the longest and had taken large quantities of Spirit Pills.

Following by the side of the strongest Alchemy Master in the Cultivation World, the resources Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon could obtain were beyond the imagination of other Spiritual Pets.

This allowed Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon to build an extremely solid foundation; what they needed to advance to Half-step Fifth Grade was a vast amount of energy as well as their master Li Shiming’s own breakthrough.

Li Shiming’s soul had reached the Half-step Great Power Level, which provided the prerequisite for Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon to advance to Half-step Fifth Grade.

Furthermore, Li Shiming refined a large number of high-grade Spirit Pills and a small amount of top-tier Spirit Pills, all of which were the most suitable Spirit Pills for Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon.

With the help of these Spirit Pills, Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon successfully advanced to Half-step Fifth Grade.

During their Heavenly Tribulation, Li Shiming blessed Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon with the ‘Innate Wood’ Divine Skills and the Thunder Resistance Secret Method enhanced by the ‘Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’.

The nine Heavenly Thunders faced by Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon appeared ordinary in his eyes; this was within his expectations.

He had already considered that, once Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon could not withstand the Heavenly Tribulation, he would intervene; with a suit of armor formed by one hundred and eight ‘Eternal Water Bears’, as long as the Heavenly Tribulation did not rise to Great Power Level, he could save Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon.

The reason he did not forcibly have the ‘Eternal Water Bear’ carry Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon through the Heavenly Tribulation was that he had considered their future development; the process of experiencing a Heavenly Tribulation was itself a form of tempering.

Li Shiming himself had relied on the ‘Eternal Water Bear’ to pass three Half-step Great Power Heavenly Tribulations; that had been something he had no choice about.

He was not at the Half-step Great Ability Realm, but used the Peak Great Cultivator Realm to pass Half-step Great Power Heavenly Tribulations.

Besides, these three Half-step Great Power Heavenly Tribulations were accidental additions and could not be counted as part of a normal Cultivator’s cultivation process.

Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon did not disappoint him; they successfully advanced to Half-step Fifth Grade and passed the Half-step Great Power Heavenly Tribulation.

Next was the Thunder Beast; Li Shiming converted his own ‘Chaotic Spiritual Power Pattern’ into Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power, then, with the blessing of the ‘Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’, injected this Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power into the Thunder Beast’s body.

Due to the master-servant contract, and because Li Shiming was the master of this Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power, he could manipulate this Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power to merge into the Thunder Beast’s body and fuse with the Thunder Beast’s own energy.

The Thunder Beast hardly needed any Spirit Pills; after Li Shiming injected a portion of Half-step Great Power Level Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power, the Thunder Beast directly entered the advancement stage.

During the Thunder Beast’s Heavenly Tribulation, the Heavenly Thunder posed extremely little threat to it; every bolt of Heavenly Thunder only made the Thunder Beast feel some discomfort, and even the last few bolts of Heavenly Thunder merely caused it minor injuries.

And after passing the Half-step Great Power Level Heavenly Tribulation, before the Thunder Beast could receive the reward energy from heaven and earth, it had already gained a benefit in advance.

It absorbed part of the might of the Half-step Great Power Heavenly Tribulation’s Heavenly Thunder and successfully integrated it into its body; subsequently, after being strengthened by the reward energy of heaven and earth, it effectively gained the ability to unleash attacks that simulated the might of Heavenly Thunder.

The Golden Winged Dapeng’s advancement was the most special; after taking the high-grade and top-tier Spirit Pills prepared by Li Shiming and advancing to Half-step Fifth Grade, the Golden Winged Dapeng’s body suddenly expanded, its wingspan reaching a hundred meters, becoming a giant beast in the sky.

During the Golden Winged Dapeng’s Heavenly Tribulation, with all preparations in place, it paid the price of its entire set of feathers to successfully pass the nine Heavenly Thunders.

The reward energy of heaven and earth caused the Golden Winged Dapeng’s feathers to regrow, and this time its feathers turned into five colors.

The Golden Winged Dapeng also gained a new Talent Ability, namely the Five Elements Divine Light.

This Five Elements Divine Light Talent Ability could imprison any treasure of the Five Elements and those derived from the Five Elements, and could also imprison Cultivators who cultivated the Five Elements and Five Elements derived Cultivation Techniques.

This ability was extremely terrifying, especially when facing certain supreme treasures with special abilities, as it had a restraining effect on these treasures.

For example, the Infinite Sect’s ‘Infinite Fire Peak’; if the Golden Winged Dapeng had possessed the Five Elements Divine Light Talent Ability earlier, a single beam of Five Elements Divine Light would have been enough to strip the ‘Infinite Fire Peak’ of its power.

The vast majority of treasures in the Cultivation World were of the Five Elements or derived from the Five Elements.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Lightning, Ice, Wind and so on all fell within this category and were restrained by the Five Elements Divine Light.

Even a Sword Cultivator’s Lifebound Flying Sword, being of the Metal attribute, was also subject to a certain degree of restraint; whether it could be completely restrained depended on whether the Sword Intent contained within the Flying Sword was strong enough.

In addition, the Golden Winged Dapeng’s flying ability was enhanced; when it flew at full speed, it could achieve continuous Space Movement, with each Space Movement covering a distance of more than ten thousand li.