Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1999: Chapter 1046: Life and Death

Another fifty years passed. On this day, Li Shiming’s expression was tense; as someone who had already become a Great Power, it was rare to see him like this.

The reason for his tension was Yin Shilan.

After several centuries of accumulation, Yin Shilan had finally reached the Half-step Great Power Peak, and with Li Shiming’s targeted guidance, her understanding and comprehension of her own rules had also reached the extreme of the Half-step Great Power.

Yin Shilan was only one step away from advancing: crossing the Heavenly Tribulation.

The reason she could advance to Great Power several hundred years earlier than a normal Half-step Great Power was the energy produced by her Grotto Heaven.

When she advanced to Half-step Great Power, Li Shiming sent one hundred and eight ”Eternal Water Bear” into her Grotto Heaven, so that the energy output of her Grotto Heaven could supply one hundred and nine Half-step Great Powers.

It was simply that Yin Shilan’s talent was too poor; otherwise her Grotto Heaven could completely accommodate more Half-step Fifth Grade Spirit Pets, allowing her Grotto Heaven to produce more energy and thus reach the Half-step Great Power Peak even earlier.

In fact, it had already been decades since she advanced to the Half-step Great Power Peak. Li Shiming had never let her advance, because under IBM z15 calculations, her advancement probability was a bit too low.

Now the energy accumulated within Yin Shilan’s Grotto Heaven was sufficient, and her own comprehension of rules had reached her limit; the advancement probability estimated by IBM z15 was also worth the risk.

The key point was that IBM z15 had calculated that no matter how hard she tried, the advancement probability could not be increased any further.

Li Shiming decided to let Yin Shilan advance to Great Power. He could not allow Yin Shilan to keep hiding in the Grotto Heaven; if this dragged on too long, it would cause Yin Shilan to lose the will to advance.

With the ”Daoist Golden Lotus” in hand, his figure flickered and he arrived at the ”Thunder Prison”; at this time, the ”Thunder Prison” had once again been cleared out.

Li Taibai and the Sword Servants were all waiting there. Little Feng was flying in the air, and the Illusion Spirit Dragon was hidden in the dark.

Even though Li Shiming believed there would be no enemies here, his concern for Yin Shilan made him not dare to be careless, so he released all of his strongest combat power.

If not for the time being too short, so that those Half-step Fifth Grade Spirit Pets in the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground had not yet advanced, he would have summoned all of those Spirit Pets as well.

Yin Shilan stood in the Grotto Heaven with a smile on her face; there was no worry in her heart.

All these years, even though she was in the Grotto Heaven, because a Half-step Great Power Grotto Heaven could not withstand Li Shiming, a Great Power, Li Shiming still took time every day to meet her across the Cave Heaven Space gate and guide her cultivation.

She understood her own situation very clearly. Although back on Sky Sea Island she was considered a genius, Sky Sea Island was just a small island; the strongest cultivator was merely a Golden Core Early Stage cultivator. That kind of small-island genius truly didn’t amount to much.

After she joined Thousand Illusion Sect, her aptitude was still outstanding, but by no means top-tier.

Later she wasted a hundred years, with no improvement in her cultivation, squandering her most precious years.

But all of that changed after Li Shiming found her. After becoming Li Shiming’s Daoist couple, her cultivation underwent a leap-like rise.

She knew even better that the reason her cultivation could improve so rapidly was not her talent, but the massive supply of resources.

Even a cultivation treasure like the ”Heavenly Spirit Treasure Pearl,” Li Shiming had given her to use; only then had she advanced to the Half-step Great Ability Realm.

Yin Shilan sometimes thought that if she had stayed in Thousand Illusion Sect back then, trapped in that cave dwelling on the mountain peak, she might already have become a pile of dry bones in a lonely tomb.

As she was now, she was already extremely content—she had married the one she loved as a Daoist couple and spent several hundred years together.

These hundreds of years were the happiest time of her life.

Even if she failed to advance, she would have no regrets.

Facing the impending advancement, she wasn’t the least bit nervous; instead, she wore a gentle smile.

”Shiming, I’m about to see you!” Yin Shilan said softly with a smile.

She stepped out of the Grotto Heaven. When a Half-step Great Power steps out of the Grotto Heaven, they will be sensed by heaven and earth, and then comes the rejection of heaven and earth.

She saw Li Shiming, and her eyes were filled with love.

Li Shiming took out the ”Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer.” He mobilized the ”Chaos Energy” in his Grotto Heaven, transformed the ”Chaos Energy” into Thunder Energy, and used the ”Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer” to cast the ”Thunder Resistance Secret Method.”

The ”Thunder Resistance Secret Method” was then augmented by the ”Shenxiao Thunder Pearl,” and a ”Thunder Resistance Secret Method” strengthened by him to the utmost was applied to Yin Shilan.

Afterwards, he activated twenty brains at once, simultaneously casting twenty Innate Wood Divine Skills and injecting the energy of those twenty Innate Wood Divine Skills into Yin Shilan’s body.

At this moment, Yin Shilan felt the rejection from heaven and earth, and this sense of rejection grew stronger and stronger.

Her Grotto Heaven, with its space gate opened due to her departure, was likewise subjected to the rejection of heaven and earth.

This prevented her from drawing on the energy of the Grotto Heaven; of course, during this advancement process, the Grotto Heaven could only rely on its internal energy to resist the might of heaven and earth.

If the energy in the Grotto Heaven was insufficient, then the Grotto Heaven might collapse before the cultivator.

The Grotto Heaven is a cultivator’s source of energy; if the Grotto Heaven collapses, the cultivator is finished.

With a wave of Yin Shilan’s hand, a Fourth Grade Spiritual Treasure shield appeared above her head; this was something Li Shiming had specially refined for her.

There was no helping it—she was not Li Shiming or Li Yuanba; her physical body could not directly withstand Heavenly Thunder, and she still had to rely on defensive spiritual treasures.

Although this would increase the power of the Heavenly Thunder, the defensive power of the defensive spiritual treasure could make up for that.