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Chapter 1984: Chapter 1038: Accepting a Disciple (Part 2)

Tang Zhe respectfully walked into the cave mansion. Seeing Li Taibai, his eyes were full of admiration, and upon meeting he dropped to his knees and performed a kowtow.

”Disciple did not disappoint Master’s expectations, successfully advancing to the Great Cultivator Realm!” He was a bit clever, acknowledging his Master as soon as he spoke.

Li Taibai smiled without saying anything.

He had accepted the matter, and since Tang Zhe had fulfilled the agreement, he was now his disciple.

”I have already updated the information on your identity jade disc. From now on, you are my first disciple. At the Great Cultivator Realm, I will no longer provide you with many resources; you will need to earn resources by completing sect tasks!” Li Taibai said solemnly.

Through his perception, he sensed Tang Zhe’s excitement and noted that there was no resentment despite his intentions not to provide Tang Zhe with cultivation resources.

He was very satisfied with this point.

He had very high expectations for Tang Zhe, hoping that his achievements would be at least at the Half-step Great Power level.

For a Thunder Cultivator to keep advancing, simply being satisfied with resources is not enough.

Looking at Li Shiming and Li Yuanba’s journey, they experienced numerous life-and-death battles; without these battles accumulating, how could they achieve what they have today?

”Since you are now my disciple, a gift is in order!” Li Taibai’s tone shifted as he spoke.

He took out a fourth-grade top-level ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, which Li Shiming had acquired after unknown circumstances while defeating a Yuqing Sect cultivator.

This was previously a life-bound artifact, which the Heavenly Ghost had cleaned, restoring the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ to its initial state.

He then took out two life-preserving talismans, placing a total of three spiritual objects in front of Tang Zhe.

”Disciple will surely cultivate diligently to repay Master’s grace!” Tang Zhe said, accepting the three spiritual objects with both hands.

Having cultivated the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’, the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ was also what he primarily used, although his previous ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ was only of early fourth-grade quality.

This was quite normal, as the materials for crafting the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ were long monopolized by the Yuqing Sect.

Even though the Yuqing Sect had declined, the number of fourth-grade materials available for crafting the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ over the past hundreds of years was limited.

He obtained the early fourth-grade ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ from exchanging in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s warehouse.

A fourth-grade top-level ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ was a top choice, not just for him as a Great Cultivator but even at the Peak Great Cultivator stage.

Of course, if he truly cultivated to the Peak Great Cultivator Realm and was the first among Thunder Cultivators in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect to achieve this, better choices would be available to him.

Li Shiming placed the spiritual treasure crafted from fourth-grade materials, the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s treasury, setting the condition that it could be obtained by the first disciple to become a Thunder Cultivation Peak Master.

”I have five days, during which you can first ask questions, and afterward I will explain the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ to you!” Li Taibai gestured and said.

Though he didn’t give Tang Zhe many resources, he spared no effort in cultivating Tang Zhe.

A Great Power spending five days specifically to guide an early Great Cultivator is extremely rare in the cultivation world.

Tang Zhe understood how precious this was, and he first asked all his questions about the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’.

Li Taibai answered his questions one by one, explaining things in straightforward and deep detail until he had a thorough understanding.

Following that, Li Taibai explained the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ to Tang Zhe, using the Thunder Cultivation Great Power’s realm, practically standing at the pinnacle of Thunder Cultivation. Every word he said might be unknown to Tang Zhe now, but in the future, he would realize that Li Tai Ming’s words were gems.

While Li Taibai was teaching his disciple, Li Shiming, having finished his conversation with Yin Shilan, began his formal seclusion.

Li Shiming had an excellent mind; after acquiring so much knowledge, he wasn’t in a hurry but decided to go into seclusion only after arranging matters with Yin Shilan.

His current seclusion mainly involved organizing the dao rhyme knowledge he obtained from the Debating Stone, as the knowledge he accepted was too vast and profound.

Of course, going into seclusion wouldn’t affect his alchemy work, as the alchemy was conducted within the machine room space.

He sat in his grotto heaven, choosing one of the two grotto heavens nurturing fifth-grade gold materials.

In front of him was the cave heaven core, and his eyes focused on his cave heaven core, concentrating on the ’Gold Element Rule Rune’ and the ’Sword Intent Rule Rune’.

He found that the two rule runes he had been very proud of before now seemed so inadequate.

This was because he had obtained the dao rhyme inheritance from the ancestor of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, which elevated his vision several times over. He naturally couldn’t appreciate his previous ’Gold Element Rule Rune’ and ’Sword Intent Rule Rune’.

Yet, before he could update these two ’Rule Runes’, he first needed to organize his comprehension of the two ’Rule Runes’, allowing the dao rhyme inheritance from the ancestor of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion to transform into his insights.

This time, he utilized one hundred and fifty brains to begin comprehending the dao rhyme inheritance.

As he delved into comprehension, the gold element rule energy in his grotto heaven rapidly intensified and quickly filled the entire cave heaven space.

One after another, sword intents appeared inexplicably in the void and vanished mysteriously; these were ’Chaos Sword Intents’.

Each new appearance of ’Chaos Sword Intent’ was stronger than the previous.

It’s known that for a Sword Cultivator, enhancing sword intent is no easy task. Even for a Sword Cultivator Great Cultivator, if one can enhance sword intent a bit over several decades or a hundred years, it’s considered having exceptional talent.

Whereas for Li Shiming, between the appearance and disappearance of one sword intent and the appearance and disappearance of the next, it was merely a matter of dozens of breaths.

Within these dozens of breaths, his sword intent experienced an enhancement.

At some point, Li Shiming’s body was lifted by the illusionary Taoist Lotus within him, making the use of the hundred and fifty brains clearer, enhancing his cognitive abilities significantly overall.

Even while fully immersed in comprehending the dao rhyme inheritance of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion ancestor, his other brains provided insight into his condition.

The spontaneously appearing Taoist Lotus initially scared him a bit, given that it emerged within his grotto heaven, from within himself.

Upon reaching the Mahayana Realm, the control over both the physical body and the soul had reached an extreme level.

Yet, he was unaware of why the lotus appeared. Naturally, he recognized this Taoist Lotus as the one born from the Debating Stone in the inheritance of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion ancestor.

Back then, one of the lotuses integrated into Li Yuanba’s body, while another integrated into his own.

However, after perceiving the Taoist Lotus for a while, he confirmed that this lotus caused him no harm.

The effects of the Taoist Lotus at present made him extremely pleased; as it lifted him, his cognitive ability doubled from the normal state.

This was an unimaginable feat since his cognitive ability was connected with the IBMz15.

This means that not only did the Taoist Lotus enhance his cognitive ability, but it also boosted the computational power of the IBMz15.

This singular ability alone was more beneficial than obtaining a treasure for him.

Everything he relied upon originated from the IBMz15, and contrary to diminishing with his growing strength, the role of IBMz15 became increasingly important.

Typically, a cultivator would change their life-bound artifact several times throughout their life.

From the Qi Refinement Realm to the Foundation Establishment Stage, they would replace their life-bound artifact with a spiritual artifact; from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Golden Core Stage, they would switch to a magic artifact; and from the Golden Core Stage to the Nascent Soul Stage, the quality of magic artifacts would significantly improve, naturally requiring a higher quality life-bound artifact.

Upon reaching the Great Power Realm, the life-bound artifact would then become a spiritual treasure.

Yet, since the beginning of his cultivation, the IBMz15 was regarded as his life-bound artifact and never became outdated.

To enhance the IBMz15 was the most useful and beneficial help for Li Shiming.

However, currently, he was absorbed in comprehending the dao rhyme inheritance and had yet to research how to manipulate the Taoist Lotus, which he would investigate slowly once the inheritance process was concluded.

His mind returned to comprehension, and the ’Gold Element Rule Rune’ and ’Sword Intent Rule Rune’ within the cave heaven core flickered slightly.