Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1803 - 948: Inventory

Li Yuanba did not wait for the Great Cultivator Spirit Medicine to mature at the Great Cultivator resource point, as he was certain that news of this place would soon spread.

Next, he feared that Great Powers would come to investigate. Anyone who learns that a Half-step Great Power has appeared within their domain would come to check.

Upon seeing that the Great Cultivator Spirit Medicine needed several more days to mature, he decided to leave early.

Though the Duke of Thunder’s combat power isn’t weak, he learned the true strength of the Duke of Thunder from this battle.

The Duke of Thunder’s combat power is roughly equivalent to Half-step Great Power strength, and is primarily close combat.

The Duke of Thunder isn’t without ranged attack methods, as thunder is a ranged attack. However, in Li Yuanba’s view, its power is far less than his close combat strength.

Consider Half-step Great Power Zhao Zhao, who could still move freely in the midst of thunder, albeit slightly affected, but not to a threatening degree.

Of course, Li Yuanba was quite satisfied with the Duke of Thunder’s combat power; his true form Li Shiming was a mere Peak Great Cultivator, yet created the Duke of Thunder with Half-step Great Power combat strength, far exceeding common knowledge in the Cultivation World.

Just after Li Yuanba left, a Great Power Avatar from the White Emperor Sect arrived.

The Great Power Avatar sensed around, then reached out, creating a portal in space.

He stepped into the space portal and, upon entering, saw a black and white Grotto Heaven, his expression suddenly changed.

Even as a Great Power, he had rarely seen black and white Grotto Heavens.

All were scenarios where his sect’s Half-step Great Power failed to ascend and fell, but outside the sect, it was his first time witnessing a Half-step Great Power fall in battle.

"What kind of combat power does Li Yuanba possess to have killed a Half-step Great Power in battle?" Standing inside the dying Grotto Heaven, he murmured to himself, feeling the battle marks.

Although many battle marks in the Grotto Heaven were erased due to its demise, the time of death wasn’t long, leaving some marks.

With these remnants, the Great Power Avatar sensed a fierce battle.

Finding nothing else, the Great Power Avatar exited the Grotto Heaven, expanded his sensing power and realized Li Yuanba’s aura was absent from the maximum sensing range, then retracted his sensing.

At this moment, Li Yuanba was within the Crossing Void Shuttle beneath the sea’s surface.

He poured himself a cup of Spiritual Tea, sipping it while taking out Zhao Zhao’s Half-step Great Power corpse.

He was curious about what kind of Corpse Refining could be crafted from such a corpse.

The Duke of Thunder was refined from a Thunder Cultivator’s Half-step Great Power corpse, so what abilities would a fire element Half-step Great Power corpse possess?

Most likely, it would contain some fire element ability, but the other abilities were hard to predict.

His Divine Sense scanned the corpse, extracting two items from it.

First was a soul crystal ring, second was a gourd.

Honestly, it was Li Yuanba’s first time seeing a powerful cultivator using a gourd as their Life Artifact, sparking his curiosity about the gourd’s information.

However, to fully utilize the gourd, it needed to be sent to the true form Li Shiming, where the Heavenly Ghost would remove the recognition mark, turning it ownerless without affecting its power.

His Divine Sense entered the soul crystal ring, finding few Spiritual Objects inside.

This was normal, as upon entering Half-step Great Power state, cultivators either ascend to Great Power or fall due to exhausted Life Span, thus gifting life’s accumulation to juniors or exchanging them for useful Spiritual Objects.

Within Zhao Zhao’s soul crystal ring were several Jade Scrolls, a fourth-grade top flying sword, a Dragon and Phoenix hairpin, and a piece of Gold Element Refining Material.

The fourth-grade top flying sword was likely Zhao Zhao’s backup artifact, understandable given their Life Artifact was a gourd.

The Dragon and Phoenix hairpin was special, classified as an exotic treasure.

Li Yuanba sensed rich vitality in the hairpin, as wearing it can accelerate healing of injured cultivators, while continuously nourishing the physical body to increase Life Span.

Moreover, no male cultivator wore it; hence it seemed intended for female cultivators.

Of course, if male cultivators disregarded appearances, wearing the hairpin would have the same effect.

Lastly, the piece of Gold Element Refining Material surprised Li Yuanba; it was fifth-grade Gold-based Refining Material.

He had wide-ranging experience, yet had rarely encountered fifth-grade materials, although he possessed two spirit treasures made from them.

The first acquisition of fifth-grade Gold-based Refining Material excited him, pondering what power a spirit treasure crafted from it would hold.

Nonetheless, after consideration, he didn’t plan on using the fifth-grade Gold-based Refining Material.

Since ascending to Peak Great Cultivator, Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion exposed him to more core texts, deepening his understanding of Great Power.

The creation of spirit treasures is limited to Great Powers, due to their profound grasp of rules, which forms the foundation for refining spirit treasures.