Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1745: Chapter 919: Inventory

The Golden Winged Dapeng is skilled in ultra-long-range flight, occasionally moving hundreds of miles through space, making its flying appear exceptionally mysterious, even a bit faster than the Thunder Beast.

After several days, the phantom clone returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Li Shiming has not been in seclusion recently; his primary task now is to gain insights.

He retrieved the spoils of war from the hands of the phantom clone, including the Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s Nascent Soul.

This Nascent Soul belongs to a Peak Great Cultivator, in the strongest state of the Nascent Soul Realm. Unfortunately, without the protection of a physical body, the Nascent Soul remains extremely fragile.

He had some ideas on how to deal with this Nascent Soul.

He summoned the Heavenly Ghost, then used his brain to control it, subsequently storing the Heavenly Ghost and the Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s Nascent Soul together into the Materialization Chamber space.

In fact, once the Nascent Soul entered the Materialization Chamber space, regardless of whether the experiment succeeded, the Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s Nascent Soul would be impossible to retain its own consciousness.

The Materialization Chamber space is his greatest secret. Although it appears small, compared to Grotto Heaven or even the interior of a space item, the Materialization Chamber space is considerable, but its function is second only to the IBMz15, his life-bound magic artifact.

This space, which traveled with him, played an extremely critical role in his growth.

Once within the Materialization Chamber space, the Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s Nascent Soul had its consciousness sealed by restrictions, unable to think or perceive.

The Heavenly Ghost extended a finger, inserting it into the Nascent Soul’s head.

The Heavenly Ghost, being a spiritual entity, and the Nascent Soul, a fusion of soul and spiritual power pattern, an energy entity, had little resistance to this incursion from the Heavenly Ghost.

Li Shiming utilized the Materialization Chamber space’s 0.05-nanometer micro control, magnifying everything within the Nascent Soul.

He himself possesses five Nascent Souls from Peak Great Cultivators, having studied this level of Nascent Soul quite extensively, particularly with his life-bound magic artifact IBMz15, having a dedicated project analyzing Nascent Souls.

In his observations, each part of the Nascent Soul’s function was differentiated, and he found the area belonging to the Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s consciousness—here contained the Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s soul-manifested memories within the Nascent Soul.

On the Heavenly Ghost’s finger, a wisp of spirit was formed into a scalpel, stripping the Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s consciousness from within the Nascent Soul.

This was something that no cultivator in the cultivation world had ever done; at least, none of the numerous ancient books Li Shiming had obtained recorded anything related to this.

During the operation, he understood the difficulty of extracting consciousness. Without the 0.05-nanometer micro control, it would have been impossible to extract the consciousness from within the Nascent Soul.

This portion of the consciousness was not wasted but was instead devoured by the Heavenly Ghost.

The entire process took a day; the Soul Lamp belonging to the Great Cultivator Hua Ying at the Bitao Sect did not go out, but in reality, the Great Cultivator Hua Ying was already considered completely obliterated.

The Nascent Soul within the Materialization Chamber space existed in a state of chaos, devoid of any consciousness, but still possessing some instinct to keep the nascent soul from collapsing.

Li Shiming transferred the Nascent Soul out of the Materialization Chamber space, where it hovered in front of him.

He lifted all restrictions on the Nascent Soul; both its internal and external conditions were under his divine sense’s scrutiny, ensuring any anomaly would be detected.

The IBMz15 also joined the monitoring. Although he was very confident the experiment had succeeded, this involved his secrets, allowing no room for error.

As the restrictions were removed, the Nascent Soul re-established its connection with the outside world.

Yet the Nascent Soul did not move; it instinctively absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy, circulating it within, to enhance the spiritual power pattern inside the Nascent Soul.

After a period of examination, confirming the extraction of the Great Cultivator Hua Ying’s consciousness from the Nascent Soul was highly successful, he handed the Nascent Soul to the phantom clone at his side.

The phantom clone absorbed this Nascent Soul directly into its body. It was vague, but visible. Once the Nascent Soul entered its body, there was no abnormal energy fluctuation; the Nascent Soul seamlessly integrated into its body.

Its spirit began to enter the interior of the Nascent Soul; this was a demon cultivation secret technique obtained by Li Shiming, through spiritual invasion of other cultivator’s Nascent Souls.

However, that demon cultivation secret technique’s means of invasion were extremely violent. Even if successful, it merely added a Demon Infant, whose greatest effect was serving as an energy source for puppets and other spiritual objects.

In Li Shiming’s hands, this demon cultivation secret technique produced effects beyond what its creator could imagine.

With the Nascent Soul having its original consciousness stripped away, under this Nascent Soul incursion secret technique, the Nascent Soul was influenced by the phantom clone’s spirit, becoming subservient to the phantom clone’s control.

Of course, even so, this Nascent Soul could not be considered the phantom clone’s Nascent Soul, but it could perform some tasks normally associated with a Nascent Soul.

For instance, the phantom clone’s previous energy was its body, and each part of the body was composed of energy.

With the Nascent Soul, it serves as its energy storage, a Peak Great Cultivator’s energy storage capacity, alleviating any worries about energy sufficiency for the phantom clone.

Furthermore, with this Nascent Soul, the phantom clone can directly absorb external spiritual energy through the Nascent Soul, converting it into spiritual power patterns.

Unfortunately, the Cultivation Technique of this Nascent Soul is a water element cultivation method, meaning the cultivated spiritual power patterns require conversion by the phantom clone, which results in some reduction but becomes a higher quality ’chaotic spiritual power’.