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Chapter 1553: Chapter 823: Devour

Li Shiming felt somewhat confused. He didn’t know what had happened; he had merely extracted the Spiritual Energy of the Grotto Heaven, but somehow, he ended up draining a half-step Great Power to death!

A half-step Great Power was really not up to par. It didn’t take long before his small actions played him to death.

He had actually planned to spend several months dealing with the half-step Great Power issue.

Now the only thing he needed to deal with was that heart demon.

A heart demon trapped within the Grotto Heaven and unable to escape was no issue at all in front of a Heavenly Ghost.

Li Shiming hadn’t let the Heavenly Ghost go forward to devour the heart demon because he was considering whether the Grotto Heaven could be preserved.

No matter how small this Grotto Heaven was, it represented the crucial step of a Great Cultivator towards becoming a half-step Great Power. Many Great Cultivators perished before establishing a Grotto Heaven.

Yang Xing’s half-step Great Power Grotto Heaven was even earlier than Half-Life Cave Heaven, almost a demonstration of the first step in the establishment of a Grotto Heaven.

Through researching this Grotto Heaven, Li Shiming could gain much experience and solve many problems.

The content in the records was somewhat different from reality, and many practical things could not be clearly described in records.

To master this Grotto Heaven, one needed to consider the issue of the heart demon. Would the control over the Grotto Heaven transfer to the Heavenly Ghost after the heart demon was devoured?

After contemplating for a while, he made a decision.

After all, the heart demon was inside the Grotto Heaven, and he himself could not enter the Grotto Heaven.

This was a heart demon formed from a half-step Great Power. If it weren’t for the Heavenly Ghost’s inherent ability to restrain heart demons, in the Cultivation World, it would take a Great Power, or no other cultivators would have a way to defeat the heart demon.

Li Shiming suddenly discovered that his sealed Nascent Soul had been unconsciously unsealed.

It seemed that the fall of the half-step Great Power rendered the seal ineffective.

Meanwhile, within a Grotto Heaven of the Yuqing Sect on the West Yan Continent, a figure sitting cross-legged in the void suddenly moved.

As he moved, the entire Grotto Heaven was filled with tumultuous thunder and lightning, as if he were the master of this Grotto Heaven, and any slight anomaly of his would provoke a violent reaction in the Grotto Heaven.

“Yang Xing has fallen!” He suppressed the anger he felt from the fall of Yang Xing Half-step Great Power, speaking in a voice of disbelief.

As a Great Power of the Yuqing Sect, he had witnessed the life and death of countless cultivators, and many of them were remarkable geniuses of their time.

Yet, truly stepping into the half-step Great Power realm was something that happened less than once in a millennium.

Ascending to the half-step Great Power realm was a great tribulation of life and death; the next step was the Mahayana Realm, becoming a top existence in the Cultivation World, with no other paths, for all other roads led to death.

Very few half-step Great Powers advanced to the Mahayana Realm, causing many Great Cultivators to either not want or dare to step into the half-step Great Power stage.

For a superpower such as the Yuqing Sect, their heritage was beyond the external world’s speculation; perhaps each superpower possessed hidden strength.

The Yuqing Sect’s recent achiever of half-step Great Power status was Yang Xing. Due to the short time he had been in the half-step Great Power rank, and since the Grotto Heaven was still in the early stage of integration, sending him on a task had comparatively minimal impact.

Therefore, the Great Power chose Yang Xing, and under the Great Power’s directive, Yang Xing had no choice.

Of course, Yang Xing was not without benefits; the Great Power would provide a few additional lectures upon his return from the task to increase his understanding and comprehension of the rules, along with some resource rewards.

From the formation of a half-step Great Power’s Grotto Heaven until the stabilization of the Grotto Heaven, a considerable amount of resources were required to ascend to the Mahayana Realm. These resources were extremely precious, also related to the future achievements and potential of a half-step Great Power.

Yang Xing, although unsure of whether he could successfully pass through the early integration phase of the Grotto Heaven to achieve a stable Grotto Heaven, needed to prepare for the demand for resources in the later stages in advance.

“How could he have fallen?” The Great Power murmured to himself.

In the Cultivation World, the only ones capable of slaying a half-step Great Power were other Great Powers.

However, Yang Xing had gone to the Dongqi Continent, where not to mention Great Powers, there weren’t even any Peak Great Cultivators. How then did Yang Xing fall on the Dongqi Continent?

He executed a communication technique, instructing the Yuqing Sect’s intelligence department to investigate the situation of Master Wang He. He did not sense Master Wang He’s life force’s disappearance, indicating that Master Wang He was still alive.

As long as they found Master Wang He, they could understand what had transpired.

Unable to act in the absence of intelligence, he thought of how many high-level cultivators had fallen for the ‘Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ for Yuqing Sect.

This time, with the fall of half-step Great Power Yang Xing, the possibility of Yuqing Sect producing a Great Power in the next two to three thousand years diminished drastically.

Whenever a half-step Great Power was born, it signified the potential emergence of a Great Power. Such a half-step Great Power would appear once every one or two thousand years.

Before the life span of a Great Power of a superpower ended, each additional half-step Great Power increased the superpower’s chance of producing a Great Power, allowing the lineage of the superpower to continue for a long time until a new Great Power emerged.

Originally, Yuqing Sect’s succession plan was perfect, yielding a half-step Great Power every one or two thousand years, ensuring the continuity of Yuqing Sect’s Great Powers. Among so many half-step Great Powers, the chances of producing a Great Power were substantial.

But with the loss of one, particularly the youngest half-step Great Power, Yuqing Sect’s subsequent Great Power plans encountered issues.