Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1631: Chapter 862: Departure

In ten months, time seemed to fly by.

In the Great Cultivator Realm, ten months isn’t even considered a true closed-door cultivation session.

Li Yuanba upgraded the Sword Intent within all remaining Fourth Grade Energy Flying Swords on the Ten Thousand Sword Peak to Chaos Sword Intent during these ten months.

This isn’t the end for the Sword Intent within the two thousand one hundred plus Fourth Grade Energy Flying Swords; once his Chaos Sword Intent has significantly improved, he can continue enhancing the Chaos Sword Intent within them.

During the ten months, Li Yuanba met with nearly all the Sword Cultivators at the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion and established friendships.

He was never difficult to get along with, and being an Alchemy Master, the top-tier Alchemy Master capable of refining high-quality Spirit Pills for Great Cultivators.

Even though he recently handed all alchemy matters to his core self Li Shiming, few people know this, only his master Jian Wuwei at the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion is aware.

Every Sword Cultivator is willing to befriend Li Yuanba, the Alchemy Master; besides, visiting him means tasting the top Fourth Grade Spiritual Tea in the Cultivation World, which is also a key reason.

Even though the Cultivation World is chaotic recently and involves battles at the Great Cultivator Level, few Great Cultivators have fallen in these fights.

Unless faced with overwhelmingly superior strength leading to instant ’second kill,’ Great Cultivators can rely on their life-preserving items.

Generally, unless they’re deadly enemies, battles over resources are rarely escalated to life-and-death struggles.

This is why Li Yuanba showed mercy in previous missions.

However, upon acquiring top-tier Great Cultivator mission data from Jian Wuwei, he realized how dangerous these missions could be.

Top-tier Great Cultivator missions typically target resource grotto heavens; battles outside will not affect the resource grotto heaven’s interior before entering the entrance.

This allows top-tier Great Cultivators to compete without reservations.

Importantly, top-tier Great Cultivators are the elite of the current generation within each faction; slaying one can set a faction behind its rivals at this level.

Before Li Yuanba undertook the top-tier Great Cultivator mission, Jian Wuwei handed resources to him, indicating the mission’s danger level.

Fortunately, Jian Tianyi, the Cultivator is involved in this mission, reducing the danger as the two Peak Sword Cultivators work together.

"Yuanba, let’s go!" Jian Tianyi’s voice echoed into the cave abode from outside.

"Brother Tianyi, I’m well-prepared!" Li Yuanba emerged from the cave abode at his peak condition.

He had been adjusting his state for days, extremely cautious with this mission, marking his first true entry into the circle of Peak Great Cultivators.

Even fighting other Peak Great Cultivators means being acknowledged by many Peak Great Cultivators.

"Let’s take my flying boat; we can chat along the way!" Jian Tianyi summoned his Fourth-grade top flying boat, grinning.

Li Yuanba understood his intention; he wanted to drink Fourth Grade Spiritual Tea.

He wasn’t stingy, having gifted Jian Tianyi a box of Fourth Grade Spiritual Tea before.

However, to avoid too many cultivators guessing the relationship between him and Li Shiming, he couldn’t supply an unlimited amount of tea.

For Jian Tianyi, resources impacting his realm are scarce, but this top-tier Fourth Grade Spiritual Tea is among the precious few.

Though he couldn’t openly ask Li Yuanba for more tea, he drank some whenever he could.

"Yuanba, injuring Ming Hai proves your attack strength is formidable; don’t worry about my side during battle, just fight as you wish!" Jian Tianyi advised Li Yuanba while sipping tea.

Li Yuanba nodded, his Divine Sense focused on the satellite drone’s monitoring images.

He was startled to find nearly a dozen vague silhouettes nearing Peak Great Cultivator strength surrounding the mission target.

Though not all may be Peak Great Cultivators, they’re certainly top-tier Great Cultivators close to that level.

As far as he knew, this competition for Spirit Realm Cave Heaven involves only Central State’s top Great Cultivators, without participation from external continents.

Partly, intelligence on Spirit Realm Cave Heaven circulated only among Central State’s forces; those on other continents, even if informed, couldn’t pinpoint the timing. By interpreting recent top-tier Great Cultivator actions, they’d miss the Spirit Realm Cave Heaven’s resource maturity.

Traveling from external continents to Central State takes about a month; they would miss the mature moment for Great Cultivator resources in the Spirit Realm Cave Heaven.

Should competition for resources continue unabated, external continents might join the competition during the next resource maturity of Spirit Realm Cave Heaven.