Chapter 1916 - 1004: Sensing the Divine (Part 2)
Chapter 1916: Chapter 1004: Sensing the Divine (Part 2)
The restrictions within the Divine Palace are incredibly terrifying, and as peak Great Cultivators, they are well aware of this.
Moreover, because there are too many restrictions within the Divine Palace, exploring here makes it nearly impossible to prepare enough great power level defensive talismans.
It’s just too exhausting; every time you move forward a distance, you need to counter a restriction.
The restrictions in the Divine Palace are targeting the Great Cultivator Realm. Their attack power is stronger than a peak Great Cultivator but hasn’t reached the half-step great power level.
Were it to truly reach half-step great power level, the Divine Palace would not be a trial ground, but a land of death.
Li Shiming’s physical body is at the half-step great power level now, and having endured the half-step great power level Heavenly Tribulation three times, receiving three half-step great power level heavenly rewards, his body is a bit stronger than a regular half-step great power.
The restrictions of the Divine Palace were unable to break through his body’s defense, making him smile, indicating that his judgment was correct.
He gazed at the Divine Palace, eyes filled with greed.
Li Shiming attempted to release an ’Eternal Water Bear’, he was prepared, and if the Divine Palace attacked the ’Eternal Water Bear’, he would quickly retrieve it.
The feared event did not happen; perhaps the Divine Palace has its own judgment method.
The ’Eternal Water Bear’ is indeed at the half-step fifth-grade realm, but its master is Li Shiming, a cultivator at the Nascent Soul Realm only at the peak Great Cultivator level.
Having discovered this, Li Shiming no longer hesitated and released a Holy Spirit.
The six peak Great Cultivators were shocked by the aura of the ’Eternal Water Bear’.
Even after Li Shiming released a Holy Spirit, the shock remained.
Li Shiming observed that the six peak Great Cultivators showed no other emotions upon seeing the Holy Spirit.
This indicates that the six peak Great Cultivators do not recognize the Holy Spirit, or perhaps they have not come into contact with knowledge regarding ’Exotic Realm Divine Soldiers’.
Li Shiming noted that the Divine Palace did not attack the Holy Spirit, which allowed him to finally relax.
With a wave of his hand, all 133 Holy Spirits appeared, followed by 108 ’Eternal Water Bears’, and he summoned the ’Golden Winged Roc’ as well.
The ’Golden Winged Roc’ was extremely excited to find itself in the Divine Palace.
It was born here; despite being greatly constrained here, it still held affection for the place.
Li Shiming, accompanied by the six peak Great Cultivators, sat on the back of the ’Golden Winged Roc’. The six peak Great Cultivators were stunned, feeling as if their brains couldn’t process it all.
The six peak Great Cultivators wanted to slap themselves a few times, questioning their confidence in trying to besiege Li Shiming.
The combined half-step great power level combat strength of these half-step great power level spirit pets was many times that of all the half-step great powers of Cloud Island Sea.
Seeing a cultivator with over two hundred half-step fifth-grade spirit pets, they felt they could die without regrets.
Li Shiming commanded all the Holy Spirits and ’Eternal Water Bears’ to gather all the Great Cultivator resources.
He himself sat on the back of the Golden Winged Roc, advancing forward through the air.
Time was on his side; the Golden Winged Roc was very familiar with the restrictions of the Divine Palace and could fly slowly through the air without triggering any restrictions.
Even if a restriction was triggered, it wouldn’t be a problem, as the restrictions of the Divine Palace could no longer harm Li Shiming and the Golden Winged Roc.
Looking down, massive numbers of Holy Spirits and ’Eternal Water Bears’ spread out in a line, advancing forward.
Holy Spirits and ’Eternal Water Bears’ continually triggered restrictions, but these were incapable of harming the half-step fifth-grade beings.
Their existence was a bug, something the creator of the Divine Palace hadn’t anticipated, that a cultivator at the peak Great Cultivator Realm could form a contract with half-step fifth-grade spirit pets.
Indeed, if not for Li Shiming accidentally attaining some of the capabilities of a half-step great power, he wouldn’t possibly have half-step fifth-grade spirit pets.
More crucially, the chance for half-step fifth-grade spirit pets to pass a tribulation was dismally low, far beyond outrageous, especially when breaking through with a spirit pet belonging to a peak Great Cultivator, further reducing the opportunities for breakthroughs.
While the Cultivation World is brimming with talent in all forms, with cultivators possessing various opportunities, Li Shiming’s scenario was unprecedented.
This unexpected situation was not considered by the creator of the Divine Palace, allowing Li Shiming to exploit it.
As numerous Holy Spirits and ’Eternal Water Bears’ passed by, restrictions were continuously activated, but more importantly, a bulk of Great Cultivator resources was harvested.
Especially some Great Cultivator-level spirit fruit trees and spirit tea trees, which were species preserved only within the Divine Palace, mostly extinct in the Cultivation World.
Li Shiming’s resource gathering this time was the most thorough in the countless millennia of the Divine Palace’s history.
All herbs and minerals reaching the Great Cultivator level were collected.
Fortunately, he wasn’t overly greedy and didn’t deplete all resources; otherwise, who knows how limited the resources would be when the Divine Palace opens next.
However, one thing is certain: the next peak Great Cultivators who enter will find the available Great Cultivator resources significantly diminished.
The growth of Great Cultivator resources requires time, not something that can fully mature in two hundred years.
Every two hundred years, the Divine Palace can produce only a portion of Great Cultivator resources; the rest are resources unharvested by the previous explorers.
Li Shiming continued to advance steadily, maintaining a pace with the harvesting team below.
Should anything arise, he could respond in a timely manner.
After half a day, the team reached near the ’Divine Perception Stele’.
Li Shiming lightly tapped the Golden Winged Roc, which brought him down to the ground.
Gazing at the stele before him, his heart stirred.
This stele carried his hope; through the virtualized ’Divine Perception Stele’ simulated by IBMz15, he at least knew the ’Divine Perception Stele’ possessed the capability to help him.
Standing before the ’Divine Perception Stele’ once more, he calmed his mind and meditated before it.
Facing the ’Divine Perception Stele’, his spirit connected to it.
The ’Divine Perception Stele’ led his main brain into a peculiar state, causing a vision to appear in his primary mind.
His ’Heavenly Human Technique’ began functioning, massive amounts of Spiritual Energy flowed into his body, and before him appeared five Five Elements Heavenly Treasures of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.
His five Nascent Souls each picked up one Five Elements Heavenly Treasure, each representing one of the Five Elements, constructing five grotto heavens.
All five Nascent Souls transformed into grotto heavens, with attributes matching the five Five Elements Heavenly Treasures, corresponding to the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth elements respectively.
Oddly, the five grotto heavens were arranged in an exceedingly familiar manner—it was the ’Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’.
The ’Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’ was the root of all his cultivation practices, the very existence of which allowed him to surpass other cultivators from the Qi Refinement Realm and grow stronger step by step.
However, it was also the ’Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’ that led him onto another cultivation path.
The five Golden Cores, five Nascent Souls, enabled his strength to far transcend his peers and filled his cultivation journey with unknowns.
No one would have thought that the ’Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’ was the key to advancing to the half-step great power.
He constructed five grotto heavens and arranged them in the ’Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’ manner. The ’Five Elements Qi Absorption Array’ allowed the energies of the five grotto heavens to remain balanced.
Until one day, the five grotto heavens reached an extreme state, he experienced an indescribable feeling.
But at that instant, his primary mind detached from the vision.
Such visions wouldn’t leave much memory when one awakened, only providing cultivators with subtle hints at critical times.
But Li Shiming was not limited to a single brain; aside from the primary mind, 190 other brains kept track of the primary’s vision, while IBMz15 recorded everything in the vision.
He wore a smile, for regardless, he found his path to cultivation.