Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1402: Chapter 747: Golden Rainbow_2

"This is an unfinished Grotto Heaven. With your cultivation level, master, you shouldn’t possess such a Grotto Heaven. Although this Grotto Heaven has completed the Five Elements, it still requires you, master, to attain an introductory understanding of all the Five Elements Rules to truly transform this Grotto Heaven into your own, using it as the foundation for the Mahayana Realm!" As the Artifact Spirit emitted the Gold Rules, it simultaneously inspected the conditions within the Grotto Heaven in its own way, offering its opinion to Li Shiming.

This time, Li Shiming was truly astonished. He was just a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner. Not to mention he couldn’t return to the sect, even if he returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, it couldn’t provide him with the relevant cultivation experiences of a Great Power.

As for his avatar, Li Yuanba, with Li Yuanba’s identity, he would at least need to reach the Great Cultivator Realm to qualify for contact with the Mahayana knowledge at the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Yet, this Artifact Spirit actually mastered Mahayana knowledge and could even offer him guidance.

This was even more important than acquiring the final Gold Rules to complete the Half-Life Cave Heaven; he had found his direction.

The ’Heavenly Human Technique’ also contained cultivation content for the Mahayana Realm, but since there was no precedent of cultivation insights left behind for the ’Heavenly Human Technique,’ a lot of content required his understanding, then cultivation based on his understanding.

With the guidance of the Artifact Spirit of the Golden Rainbow Sword, he might avoid some detours on his path to ascend to the Mahayana Realm.

After recognizing its master, Li Shiming also learned the name of the golden flying sword, called ’Golden Rainbow Sword.’

The Artifact Spirit of this Golden Rainbow Sword had the highest Wisdom among all his Artifact Spirits.

This was normal; the crafting time for all his spiritual treasures was not long; even if the formed Artifact Spirits were extraordinary, growth still required time.

The growth time for any Artifact Spirit had to be counted in centuries. A hundred years could only make an Artifact Spirit barely usable; it would take several hundred, even a thousand years for the Artifact Spirit to grow to sufficient Wisdom.

Of course, the growth of an Artifact Spirit is not just a matter of time; it also requires the owner’s cultivation, nourished with a vast amount of knowledge.

The Artifact Spirit of the Golden Rainbow Sword had accompanied Langcai Great Power for an untold number of years, and through ear and eye, remembered many cultivation insights.

In the Artifact Spirit’s understanding, as long as Li Shiming settled the original owner properly, this knowledge could be imparted to the new owner without reservation, as the original owner did not impose restrictions on this aspect.

Li Shiming realized for the first time that this Half-Life Cave Heaven could entirely become his own Grotto Heaven.

With this Grotto Heaven as the foundation, he could leap from a Great Cultivator to the Mahayana Realm in one step.

"You are the Artifact Spirit of the Golden Rainbow Sword, so in the future, I will call you Jin Hong. If I were to obtain a complete Great Power Cave Heaven, could that Grotto Heaven serve as the foundation for my ascension to the Mahayana Realm?" Li Shiming thought for a moment and asked.

This question had previously received an explanation from Wu Qi through his avatar, Li Yuanba, but since Wu Qi was only a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner, the accuracy of his answer was very questionable.

He wanted to get an accurate answer from the Artifact Spirit Jin Hong, so he could be better prepared.

"Master, your aura does not match my original master’s aura. I can sense the complete Five Elements and thunder and lightning within your body. This Grotto Heaven is more compatible with you, and attempting to fuse my original master’s Grotto Heaven isn’t suitable!" Artifact Spirit Jin Hong replied.

Artifact Spirit Jin Hong’s Wisdom was indeed very high, though its guess was incorrect due to being sealed by the Forbidden Spirit Talisman before Lang Great Power’s Grotto Heaven collapsed, thus unable to understand the situation of the collapsing Grotto Heaven outside.

It still thought Li Shiming intended to use Langcai Great Power’s Grotto Heaven as a foundation for his ascension to the Mahayana Realm.

"It’s not your former master’s Grotto Heaven; his Grotto Heaven has already collapsed!" Li Shiming said without any intention to hide.

"I hope that when my original master awakens, he won’t blame me for not taking good care of the Grotto Heaven!" Artifact Spirit Jin Hong, upon hearing this news, expressed a sense of sadness.

The Artifact Spirit showed genuine emotion, not just a simulation, once again proving the high Wisdom of the Artifact Spirit Jin Hong.

"If there exists a Grotto Heaven with no owner that completely aligns with your cultivation technique, it can be used as the foundation for ascension to the Mahayana Realm!" Artifact Spirit Jin Hong’s emotions came and went quickly, and it proceeded to answer Li Shiming’s previous question.

"There’s one more question. I have five Nascent Souls; do I need to prepare to open five Grotto Heavens?" Li Shiming, having finally found a trustworthy object with sufficient knowledge reserves to inquire from, asked the question he was most concerned about.

This time, Artifact Spirit Jin Hong hesitated for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea; Li Shiming’s question even stumped its knowledge reserves a bit.

Having followed Langcai Great Power for thousands of years, it had vast experience, yet it had never heard of a Nascent Soul Cultivator possessing five Nascent Souls.

To confirm his situation, Li Shiming demonstrated Nascent Soul Emergence with one Nascent Soul after another above his head.

Five Nascent Souls hovered in the air, each with terrifying Chaos Energy waves flowing within.

"I cannot answer this question, but I can be certain that although you can ascend to the Mahayana Realm, to go further, you need all five Nascent Souls to open Grotto Heavens and cultivate them to the utmost!" Artifact Spirit Jin Hong answered after a brief pause.

Li Shiming was fortunate to question Artifact Spirit Jin Hong; otherwise, if he asked any Great Power this question, they might look at him like a fool.

What a daunting challenge he had set for himself; becoming a Great Power was already very difficult. The odds of ascending further were even smaller.

Yet he increased the difficulty of ascension fivefold; while other Great Powers needed to cultivate only one Grotto Heaven, he needed to cultivate five.

The resources required alone would be five times that of other Great Powers, not to mention the effort and time needed.

Nonetheless, having five Nascent Souls gave him not only trouble but also greater power.

His energy reserves were five times that of other cultivators of the same stage. If he used Nascent Soul Emergence to manifest the Nascent Soul Dharma Form, he could perfectly fight as five against one, with five ideally synergized Nascent Soul Dharma Forms.

At the Mahayana Realm, as long as he opens one Grotto Heaven, it would be equivalent to gaining an additional Mahayana Realm combat power. When he opens five Grotto Heavens, his ultimate combat power would be equivalent to the combined power of five Great Powers.

"Master, the energy within your Nascent Souls is different from your aura. It is Chaos Energy, the energy said to be mastered only by Ascendant Cultivators!" The Artifact Spirit suddenly spoke again.

Li Shiming was stunned again. Ascendant Cultivators were Late Mahayana Stage cultivators preparing to undergo tribulation and ascend, hence called Ascendant Cultivators.

The Artifact Spirit claimed the energy cultivated by his ’Heavenly Human Technique’ was the energy only Ascendant Cultivators could master.

Though he felt the Chaos Energy of the ’Heavenly Human Technique’ was quite convenient and potent, he didn’t believe it had reached the level of Ascendant Cultivators.

Let alone Ascendant Cultivators; with his current Chaos Energy, even combined with his treasured and supreme artifacts, he could only contend with a Great Cultivator.

He was far from the lowest-level Great Power, let alone comparable to Ascendant Cultivators.

"You say the Chaos Energy within my Nascent Souls is the energy only Ascendant Cultivators can master. Why can’t I feel that this Chaos Energy is so powerful?" Li Shiming asked immediately.

"Master, I cannot answer that question. Even Ascendant Cultivators were not well understood by my original master!" Artifact Spirit Jin Hong replied.

Li Shiming then asked all the questions he had accumulated, especially those he found puzzling during his cultivation of the ’Heavenly Human Technique.’

Artifact Spirit Jin Hong was like an encyclopedia, providing answers to most of the questions he asked.

Even if some questions could not be answered, it would offer some related explanations.

In this exchange of questions and answers, his path became clearer, and he transitioned from exploring in darkness to having a clear path of cultivation ahead of him.