Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1296: Chapter 694: Effects 2

The most formidable aspect is still the ’Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ directing spiritual energy into Li Yuanba’s body. The ’Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ is targeted at the gold element, so naturally, the spirit qi directed in is also of the gold element.

This allows the spiritual energy he absorbs to be utilized and converted at the maximum rate, enhancing his cultivation effectiveness once again.

"Had I known it would be like this, I should have left the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ to the main body!" Li Yuanba mumbled to himself.

Since he had already made the decision, he wouldn’t send it back. Anyway, he really needed the combat power of the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ here.

Most importantly, he was at the ’Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion,’ a gathering place for sword cultivators. By using his alchemy skills, he could have many sword cultivators work for him and refine fourth-grade flying swords imbued with sword intent.

Only by continuously sending fourth-grade flying swords with sword intent into the spiritual treasure ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ could the attacking power of the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ be continuously enhanced.

If he were to truly place the spiritual treasure ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ with the main body Li Shiming, its only role would be to increase Li Shiming’s cultivation speed.

The artifact spirit of the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ also needs constant battle experience to enhance its own wisdom.

Li Yuanba didn’t dare to be distracted, so he collected himself and returned to a state of focused cultivation.

"What is this child up to again?" The Sword Elder, stationed at the Sword Cave Heaven, cast his gaze towards the direction of Li Yuanba’s cave dwelling.

If Li Yuanba hadn’t advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, making the Sword Elder pay more attention to him, he might have gone over to take a look.

"Forget it, this child’s opportunities are quite decent; I’ll veil it for him!" The Sword Elder said with a shake of his head and a smile.

Having experienced so many things in his life, he saw through everything and now only wanted to see how far Li Yuanba could go.

After all, according to the rules of the ’Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion,’ no matter how strong Li Yuanba became, he still had to protect the Sword Master. Additionally, since Li Yuanba is a disciple of Jian Wuwei, there was no concern about Li Yuanba getting into trouble because of growing too powerful.

The Sword Elder’s focus was more on protecting Li Yuanba and providing him with a relatively safe growth period.

He invoked the rules of the Sword Cave Heaven to add a barrier to Li Yuanba’s cave dwelling and purposefully inclined some spiritual energy to flow into the barrier.

The barrier encompassed a space with a radius of five kilometers and had multiple channels guiding spiritual energy inside.

In the Sword Cave Heaven, he existed like a deity, and such small matters were just a flick of a finger.

This particular cultivation session lasted a whole month for Li Yuanba; it was not considered a seclusion retreat, but merely extended cultivation.

If it were a retreat, it would take several years before he emerged.

Feeling the growth in his spiritual power within, this one-month training equaled the effect of more than two months of previous practice.

Unfortunately, as a sword cultivator, such barren cultivation alone contributed limitedly to enhancing combat strength; sword cultivators still need ample battles to fortify their sword intent.

Spiritual Power Pattern is only one aspect of a sword cultivator’s combat strength; the most powerful weapon of a sword cultivator is sword intent.

Li Yuanba decided to end his cultivation. After all, he had just come out of several years of seclusion and stabilized his realm, so even if he went into seclusion, there wouldn’t be much improvement in the short term.

The experiences of both he and his main body, Li Shiming, all pointed to the importance of opportunities.

Otherwise, how could he and the main body Li Shiming have reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage by the age of one hundred? If they had just cultivated diligently in a straightforward manner, they might not be Nascent Soul Cultivators even now.

He stepped out of the cave dwelling, noticed the changes outside, and couldn’t help but feel grateful.

With his sensitivity to the environment, he naturally knew there were arrangements made around his cave dwelling, enclosing it with more abundant spiritual energy and isolation.

The only person capable of doing this and willing to do it for him could only be the Sword Elder.

"Thank you, Sword Elder!" He bowed deeply towards the void.

"Cultivate well, let me know if you encounter any trouble!" A voice replied from the void, though the Sword Elder didn’t appear, he responded nevertheless.

Li Yuanba left the Sword Cave Heaven and contacted Tang Xue Ning, who was not in the pavilion but had gone out on a mission.

Under normal circumstances, the combat power of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Sword Cultivator was sufficient to handle ordinary battle missions.

The combat power of sword cultivators is among the top tier at the same level, unless they encounter particularly powerful cultivators.

Previously, Tang Xue Ning took Li Yuanba along for missions to enhance Li Yuanba’s combat experience.

Eventually, in fact, Li Yuanba’s contribution to the missions became significant; his abilities were even greater than Tang Xue Ning’s at times.

Now, unless faced with exceptionally tricky tasks, Tang Xue Ning completes the missions by herself.

"Junior Master Li, are you still into alchemy?" Yun Xiao, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time, hurried over upon seeing Li Yuanba and asked.

Over the past few years, although the battles between the White Emperor Sect and the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion escalated to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage level, fights at the Nascent Soul Early Stage never ceased.

This allowed Yun Xiao’s squad of Early-stage Nascent Soul Sword Cultivators to earn quite a few spoils of war, enhancing their wealth notably.

They knew Li Yuanba needed a large number of fourth-grade flying swords with sword intent. Given the large-scale conflict with the White Emperor Sect, these fourth-grade flying swords, a common treasure for Nascent Soul Cultivators, were not in short supply.

After further nurturing, they merged their sword intent with the fourth-grade flying swords, producing the fourth-grade sword intent flying swords Li Yuanba needed.

But Yun Xiao discovered that Li Yuanba had entered seclusion, not accepting any messages.

So the fourth-grade sword intent flying swords Yun Xiao and his squad had were stored away, as well as the fourth-grade spiritual medicine from their spoils and those acquired through trades of other spoils.

Initially, they considered working with other Alchemy Masters, but once they knew about Li Yuanba’s alchemical prowess, they couldn’t bring themselves to let those mediocre Alchemy Masters waste their materials.

At first, Yun Xiao continually sent messages to check whether Li Yuanba had emerged, but after two years, he stopped.

Now that Yun Xiao finally saw Li Yuanba again, there was no way he would let him slip away.

"Yun Xiao, if you have spiritual medicine, hand it over. I’ll refine them when I have time!" Li Yuanba reassured with a smile upon seeing Yun Xiao.

After all, they had fought side by side before, and with such a bond, making time for alchemy wasn’t an issue even if he were busy.

Moreover, his ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’ had recently advanced a level, significantly reducing the time needed to refine Nascent Soul Middle Stage Spirit Pills, improving their quality at the same time.

Now backed by the Sword Elder, he no longer wished to conceal his alchemical abilities.

Unlike his main body Li Shiming, who had a cheat-like machine room to produce alchemical masterpieces, he, even though shared the alchemical abilities with Li Shiming, still faced common fluctuations in pill quality just like ordinary Alchemy Masters.

Unless intentionally controlled, most of the pills he refined would likely end up being high grade fourth-grade level.

To nurture the spiritual treasure ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak,’ he decided not to hide his alchemical abilities anymore.

"Aside from my four furnaces of spirit pills, other fellow members of the team also have some fourth-grade spiritual medicine they’d like to ask for your help with, Master Li!" Yun Xiao said somewhat embarrassedly.

Li Yuanba had just emerged from seclusion, and Yun Xiao had already requested help with alchemy, and then asked for more.

But as the squad leader, Yun Xiao had to think of the team members’ interests, which was his unquestionable responsibility as the leader.

"Let them all come. I’ll stay here at the Sword Peak for a while to focus on alchemy before undertaking any new missions!" Li Yuanba chuckled, waving his hand as he spoke.

"I’ll go call them right now!" Yun Xiao, in his excitement, waved his hand vigorously.

He didn’t delay, took out his Identity Jade Disc, and headed toward the nearest squad members, unable to wait any longer, even finding it too slow to notify them through the Jade Disc alone, opting to coordinate both methods simultaneously.