Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1767 - 930: Leaving Seclusion

Thirty years had passed, yet Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar still stood in the void, the divine light in his eyes long since gone.

And down below, there were only a little over two thousand Cultivators left; these were all that remained of the more than ten thousand Cultivators who had been alive back then.

In these decades, whenever Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar returned to his Grotto Heaven to rest, incidents of Cultivators defecting would occur.

This was unavoidable. Sect Master Gu Ran simply did not possess the ability of Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar to monitor such a vast area.

Living in an environment like this, every so often they would see a fellow disciple’s body suddenly collapse due to some bizarre physical mutation, beyond the reach of any medicine, and thus fall.

Those who died were all Cultivators, and the various mutations that appeared on their bodies made the scalps of the remaining Cultivators crawl.

Cultivators who had seen the Hell Cave Heaven felt that the Yuqing Sect mountain gate as it was now was just another Hell Cave Heaven, and the radiation pollution here was even more terrifying than in the Hell Cave Heaven.

Of course, even for Cultivators who escaped from here, it was very hard to survive.

If not for the desire to obtain intelligence on the Yuqing Sect mountain gate from these Cultivators, perhaps no power would have been willing to take in these escapees at all.

Even if these Cultivators left the environment of radiation pollution, the effects from before could not be expelled; it would still slowly erode their bodies until the day their bodies completely collapsed.

Of the more than ten thousand Cultivators, after several decades only a little over two thousand remained; this rate of attrition had far exceeded Great Power Luo Yuan’s original estimates.

Great Power Luo Yuan saw the numbness in every Cultivator’s eyes; even in the eyes of Sect Master Gu Ran, there was very little spirit left.

The surface three feet of the ground at the Yuqing Sect mountain gate had long since been cleared away, but the radiation pollution outside the gate would continuously spread toward it, so the ground outside the mountain gate also had to be continuously cleared.

Even after clearing three feet of the surface, there was still residual radiation; it was just that its impact was much weaker.

No matter how weak the radiation, as long as it existed, spirit soil could not be maintained for long.

This radiation had some inexplicable corrosive effect on Spiritual Energy; even the Sect Formation could not be redeployed. This was also the main reason Cultivators continually found chances to escape.

Formations were easy enough to lay down, and the Yuqing Sect had accumulated no small amount of formation materials.

But once the Formation was set up, the radiation pollution would ceaselessly erode it, and the Formation would lose its spirituality and become useless in a short time.

What kind of torment was it for Cultivators to live for decades in an environment like this?

To prevent the radiation pollution from entering his own Grotto Heaven, Great Power Luo Yuan did not open it. Even Sect Master Gu Ran could only build a cave abode in the areas of the mountain gate where the radiation’s influence was relatively low.

Great Power Luo Yuan let out a helpless sigh; in these past decades, the number of times he had sighed exceeded the sum total of all his sighs before.

He reached out and took out an Array Plate from his Grotto Heaven. He did not dare bring the Array Plate close to the ground, but set it up a hundred meters above the surface, where the radiation pollution could not reach.

He cast a spell onto the Array Plate, and it immediately emitted golden light. Then strands of golden threads extended out from the golden light, spreading in all directions.

The golden threads formed abstruse patterns, quickly composing a gigantic Formation.

He hesitated slightly, but still sent the Yuqing Sect’s current plight into the array, after which the immense and abstruse pattern formed by the golden threads transformed into a single ray of golden light and shot off into the distance.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, he would not attempt to contact the Free Great Powers.

Guarding the sect was the responsibility of the Inheritor Great Ability; it was the price he had to pay for the sect making it easier for him to advance to Great Power through the Inheritance Cave Heaven.

But he was no longer able to guard the sect, and the situation might become even worse.

He could already imagine what would happen afterward: once the Yuqing Sect’s Cultivators were completely dead and the radiation pollution here was no longer so intense, Cultivators would come one after another to harass him.

Their goal would be to constantly deplete his energy until, once his energy dropped to a certain level, the Great Powers of the White Emperor Sect, or some other super‑power, or perhaps the combined action of multiple super‑powers’ Great Powers, would move to seal the portal to his Inheritance Cave Heaven Space.

By then, even as a Great Power, he would be able only to wait within the Inheritance Cave Heaven for the end of his Life Span.

In a cave abode within the Sword Cave Heaven of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, the aura on Li Yuanba’s body was rising and falling.

Only fifty years had passed, and Li Yuanba was already beginning to assault the Peak Great Cultivator Realm.

The most important reason for this was not the effect of the "Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl."

The energy produced by the "Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl" was stable. As long as the energy within the "Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl" was not exhausted, it could continuously provide Li Yuanba with the purest energy.

The reason he had brought forward the time to assault the Peak Great Cultivator Realm was the effect of the top‑grade Great Cultivator Spirit Pills.

Top‑grade Great Cultivator Spirit Pills were a type of Spirit Pill that only existed in theory.

To refine a top‑grade Great Cultivator Spirit Pill, in theory an Alchemy Master would need to continuously refine one hundred furnaces of Great Cultivator Spirit Pills, and also ensure that the quality of those Great Cultivator Spirit Pills was extremely high.

The refining of one hundred furnaces of Great Cultivator Spirit Pills would form a special medicinal force within the Pill Furnace, which would assist in the refinement of the next furnace of Great Cultivator Spirit Pills and raise the quality of one Great Cultivator Spirit Pill by a major grade.

In this state, if the Great Cultivator Spirit Pill whose quality was raised by one major grade was already of high grade to begin with, then a top‑grade Great Cultivator Spirit Pill would appear.