Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1559: Chapter 826: Inventory

The suicides of Master Wang He and Master Yan Gao made Li Shiming aware of the confidentiality methods possessed by the cultivators who hold core secrets of the superpowers.

Thinking about his clone Li Yuanba situated in the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, it seemed he had touched the core, but in reality, his understanding of the true core matters of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion was minimal.

Therefore, he thought that the number of cultivators in a superpower bound by such oaths was limited.

With the death of the two peak great cultivators, Li Shiming retrieved the soul crystal rings and their respective natal magical treasures from their bodies.

The robes on them were top-level fourth-grade robes, but Li Shiming did not strip them off. These bodies of the two peak great cultivators would definitely be refined into corpse refining in the future.

He then retrieved the body of the half-step great power Yang Xing from the Thunder Cave Heaven.

Previously, he was attracted by the thunder rules within the Thunder Cave Heaven and did not focus on the body of the half-step great power first.

The body of the half-step great power Yang Xing, even in death, exuded a terrifying aura towards its surroundings once outside the Thunder Cave Heaven.

Like how mortals react to the body of a powerful beast, the body of the half-step great power, even after death, still carried a natural deterrent effect towards great cultivators.

“What a pity!” Li Shiming looked at the body of the half-step great power Yang Xing; once refined into a corpse refining, it would be incomparably powerful.

But to refine such a powerful body into corpse refining required not just any ordinary corpse refining materials, but at least top-level fourth-grade, and even a few materials close to fifth-grade.

As stated in the ‘Prohibited Book of Xuan Yin Yaksha’, if Yang Xing’s body is truly refined into corpse refining, there is a high probability of achieving a corpse refining close to a Flying Night Demon.

Li Shiming took out a separate storage bag and placed the body of the half-step great power Yang Xing into it, carefully storing it within the machine room space.

He could only consider the refining process after acquiring enough materials for corpse refining in the future.

His gaze fell on the three soul crystal rings and three natal magical treasures. The natal magical treasures could hardly be considered anything special; even the half-step great power Yang Xing’s natal magical treasure was only a fourth-grade top-level artifact tribulation ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’.

A fourth-grade top-level magical treasure with an artifact tribulation still held significant value to most great cultivators, even if its power was halved as a natal magical treasure.

To this end, spending hundreds of years and a large amount of precious materials to erase the spiritual imprint on a fourth-grade top-level artifact tribulation treasure was a worthwhile endeavor.

However, Li Shiming did not value this fourth-grade top-level artifact tribulation ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’; he used a spirit treasure-level ‘Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ himself.

In fact, he could make more spirit treasures at any time as long as he had time.

At this level of magical treasure, he only cared about spirit treasures truly refined with fifth-grade materials.

Clearly, even a half-step great power like Yang Xing, without a fully formed Grotto Heaven, couldn’t nurture fifth-grade materials, let alone refine a spirit treasure.

Li Shiming first checked Master Yan Gao’s soul crystal ring: a fourth-grade top flying boat, three portions of earth-element fourth-grade top materials, twelve portions of great cultivator alchemy materials, and two bottles of eighteen great cultivator spirit pills.

The quality of the great cultivator spirit pills was intermediate fourth-grade, not particularly outstanding, but not the worst either.

What intrigued him most was a pile of jade scrolls.

After a casual glance, he found that they were all research materials on earth rules by the White Emperor Sect. Because rules are challenging to describe in words, these research materials mainly served an enlightening purpose.

Through some preliminary descriptions, they helped cultivators better enter the understanding of earth rules.

These research materials were vast, and in his judgment, they were likely accumulated by countless peak great cultivators, half-step great powers, and even great powers over countless years in the White Emperor Sect.

He recorded the contents of these jade scrolls into his natal magical treasure IBMz15; these materials would greatly deepen his research on earth rules.

Additionally, he discovered the inheritance insights of the ‘White Emperor Technique’. Previously, he had obtained the ‘White Emperor Technique’, but at the time, he was cultivating too many techniques to have any spare capacity to practice it.

Now it’s different; he need not cultivate the ‘White Emperor Technique’, just learning the secret techniques within it could achieve or even surpass the power of the ‘White Emperor Technique’.

The previous ‘White Emperor Technique’ lacked the part for great cultivators, but the one received from Master Yan Gao was more complete.

This was typical; many sects seemed to offer comprehensive inheritance techniques, but in reality, the profound parts were only briefly covered, with more content taught upon reaching certain cultivation realms.

If outsiders obtained these inheritance techniques, they couldn’t cultivate deeply.

It’s not that the techniques had issues; the brief content contained many detours, whereas the ‘White Emperor Technique’ obtained from the hands of a peak great cultivator had been refined by countless trials and errors over the years.

It was likely that the White Emperor Sect never expected Master Yan Gao to fall outside, hence this inheritance technique was stored in Master Yan Gao’s soul crystal ring.

Li Shiming had some interest in practicing the secret techniques of the ‘White Emperor Technique’. Once he could completely utilize the spirit treasure ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ in the future, he could unleash its true mountain peak type magical treasure power.

Alternatively, he could someday craft a mountain peak type magical treasure himself, using the ‘White Emperor Technique’ to control it, achieving much stronger power than other methods.