Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1492: Chapter 792: Grandmaster Cultivation (Part 2)

He mobilized all of his one hundred and ninety-one brains. At this time, his brains, due to a complete enhancement of his spirit, combined with being in an ascension state, were functioning as if overclocked. The one hundred and ninety-one brains divided the rule fragments into numerous parts, beginning to comprehend them bit by bit.

He did not know that his understanding of the ’Chaos Sword Intent’ rules, based on the ’Sword Intent Stele’’s rules of sword intent, was precisely aligned with the most significant meaning of ascending to a Great Cultivator.

A normal Peak of Mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator would not have his chance to preemptively comprehend the rules. It is during the process of ascending to a Great Cultivator, due to this special state of ascension, that heaven and earth seem to bestow some special perceptual ability upon the cultivators.

In the process of ascending to a Great Cultivator, through accumulating vast amounts of prior knowledge, one comprehends a rule belonging to himself.

Of course, such comprehension can only form a vague rule imprint within the Nascent Soul, and after the ascension is complete, it becomes a long process of continuously perfecting this rule imprint.

This results in some Great Cultivators being very powerful, and others being weaker; aside from the differences in spiritual power, the biggest gap is influenced by the clarity of the rule imprint within the Nascent Soul.

Missing this important perceptual rule state during the process of ascending to Great Cultivator, if one wishes to perceive new rules, they will have to wait a long time, and most Great Cultivators do not have a chance to perceive a second new rule.

Li Shiming, due to having no inheritance, although he obtained a vast amount of knowledge, it was still somewhat different from systematic inheritance. For example, he was not very clear about the cautions needed during the process of ascending to Great Cultivator.

In fact, if he had waited for Li Yuanba to reach the Peak of Mid-stage Nascent Soul, Li Yuanba would have received the corresponding inheritance from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion. This inheritance would only be opened to those at the Peak of Mid-stage Nascent Soul, preparing to break through to Great Cultivator.

Being aware of such knowledge in advance is not necessarily a good thing for Mid-stage Nascent Soul practitioners, as it can affect the mind of Mid-stage Nascent Soul practitioners.

A vague rule imprint belonging to the ’Chaos Sword Intent’ appeared within Li Shiming’s five Nascent Souls.

At this time, within the Nascent Soul, there was already a Five Elements Rule Imprint, a Thunder Rule Imprint, and the newly comprehended Sword Intent Rule Imprint. It was after he comprehended the Sword Intent Rule Imprint of the ’Chaos Sword Intent’ that he slowly exited the special state of ascension.

After exiting this special state, when he tried to continue perceiving the sword intent rules on the ’Sword Intent Stele’, he found that it was no longer as clear as before, as if veiled by a layer of gauze.

Although it was much stronger than his perception during Mid-stage Nascent Soul, it was significantly inferior to the perceptual ability during the process of ascending to Great Cultivator.

A sense of clarity rose in his heart, understanding that the comprehension of rules during the process of ascending to Great Cultivator was extremely important.

He felt the newly appeared rule imprint within his Nascent Soul and let out a long sigh of relief. He hadn’t felt it before, but now thinking back, if he hadn’t comprehended these rule imprints before, the aspect of not having perceived rule imprints would have had to be temporarily abandoned.

The Five Elements Rule Imprint was the foundation of his cultivation of the ’Heavenly Human Technique’, the Thunder Rule Imprint was a necessary foundation at the Great Cultivator level of the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’, and the Sword Intent Rule Imprint was a necessary foundation for the Great Cultivator level of the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’.

Therefore, lacking any of the rule imprints would prevent him from truly exerting his Great Cultivator strength in that aspect.

Luckily, he had experienced the Five Elements Rules and Thunder Rules in the Half-Life Cave Heaven, which meant he did not need to use his precious ascension to Great Cultivator state on these aspects, but could instead use it on the Sword Intent Rule.

According to subsequent summaries, if he had spent a little longer on the Five Elements Rule and Thunder Rule, he would not have been able to comprehend the Sword Intent Rule Imprint.

Li Shiming’s ’Heavenly Human Technique’ was not yet completed; the aura within his Nascent Soul was elevated to a Great Cultivator level, and the Great Cultivator level ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’ in the ’Heavenly Human Technique’ entered his physical body.

His physical body was continuously strengthened by ’Chaotic Spiritual Power’. This first enhancement was crucial, laying the most solid foundation for his body.

The advantage of having five Nascent Souls once again revealed itself, allowing his body to undergo the first enhancement of the Nascent Soul five times, enjoying five rounds of Great Cultivator level physical enhancement from the ’Heavenly Human Technique’.

His body continuously vibrated, emitting thunderous sounds.

No one knows how long passed before he exited the cultivation state.

Strong, immensely strong, this feeling of strength only appeared because his own strength experienced a leap-like substantial increase.

The gap between Mid-stage Nascent Soul and Late-stage Nascent Soul within the Nascent Soul stage is enormous. This is reflected in the Cultivation World, where Mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators are addressed in the same way as Early-stage Nascent Soul practitioners, being referred to as Mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.

But Late-stage Nascent Soul practitioners are respectfully called Great Cultivators.

In terms of actual combat power, Great Cultivators have an overwhelming advantage over Mid-stage Nascent Soul practitioners.

The biggest difference is that Great Cultivators have grasped a wisp of Rule Power and have touched the fundamental forces of the world.

Li Shiming reached out his hand, and a Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation appeared in his hand. At this time, the quality of the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation had already improved to top-level Fourth Grade quality.

This corresponded to his physical body; the strength of his body was equivalent to the quality of a Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation. Top-level Fourth Grade quality represented that his physical body had reached the peak level of Great Cultivator Body Refinement.

Now, with just his physical body alone, he could smash an ordinary Fourth-Grade Magical Treasure. Even if a Great Cultivator were to use a non-top-level Fourth Grade Magical Treasure, it would still be difficult to breach his body’s defense.

Of course, this refers solely to aspects of pure spiritual power and strength, excluding some special effects of a cultivation technique.

Although he possessed such a formidable physical body, he would not allow a Great Cultivator who mastered the ’Void-breaking Sword Intent’ to strike his body, as the destructive power of a Great Cultivator level ’Void-breaking Sword Intent’ surpassed a typical Great Cultivator’s strength.

Li Shiming did not attempt to test his strength further; instead, he collected his thoughts and re-entered a secluded cultivation state.

Due to his recent ascension, the spiritual power reserves within his five Nascent Souls were woefully low.

Before beginning his cultivation, he examined his high-level Great Cultivator Cultivation Spirit Pills.

After so long in reserve, he possessed one hundred and thirty-six high-level Great Cultivator Cultivation Spirit Pills. He did not count the number of lower-quality Great Cultivator Cultivation Spirit Pills, as those were either meant as gifts for others or used as trade items.

"Looks like I still need to take on more alchemy commissions from Great Cultivators!" he mumbled to himself.

If other Great Cultivators were to hear his complaints, alongside the number of Spirit Pills he owned, they would probably jump up and curse loudly.

Even for Great Cultivators from powerful factions, the resources available to Great Cultivators are extremely limited. According to Li Yuanba’s situation during his time at the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, it would take roughly ten years to obtain a batch of Great Cultivator Spirit Medicine.

The one hundred and thirty-six high-level Great Cultivator Spirit Pills he owned, disregarding the aspect of quality, would require an Alchemy Master to carefully craft them from a batch of Spirit Medicine, assuming no failures in the process, yielding two Great Cultivator Spirit Pills per batch, needing a Great Cultivator six hundred years of diligent effort to procure what he possessed.

Currently, of his one hundred and thirty-six high-level Great Cultivator Spirit Pills, a small portion came from taking on numerous alchemy commissions from Great Cultivators at the Central State Commerce, allowing him to withhold a portion of the Spirit Medicine for refining them.

The most numerous among the commissions Li Yuanba took from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion were accumulated by the pavilion itself; individual Sword Cultivator Great Cultivator alchemy commissions were not many.

Li Shiming consumed five high-level Great Cultivator Cultivation Spirit Pills, and the medicinal energy flowed into his five Nascent Souls.

At this rate of consumption, the one hundred and thirty-six high-level Spirit Pills wouldn’t be nearly enough. The more Nascent Souls he had, the more concerns piled up.

For the first time, he felt he was not as wealthy as he thought, unable to sustain a full-fledged use of high-level Great Cultivator Spirit Pills.

This sensation was quite unpleasant, for not having enough high-level Great Cultivator Spirit Pills would slow down his cultivation speed.

With these thoughts in mind, he refocused his spirit back into his cultivation of the ’Heavenly Human Technique’.