Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1857 - 975: Heavenly Ghost

"Hmm!" Li Shiming was sensing the phantom avatar using the Soul Bead when he suddenly looked up at the Heavenly Ghost.

The aura around the Heavenly Ghost seemed off, as if it was rapidly growing.

This discovery puzzled him. In the past, the Heavenly Ghost had also devoured a massive amount of soul energy.

But back then, the Heavenly Ghost stored the vast devoured soul energy within its body, gradually dissipating it.

He thought this time, after the Heavenly Ghost devoured the soul of Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar, it would also store that soul-transformed energy within the Heavenly Ghost’s body, making it grow large once again.

Yet he hadn’t realized one thing: his Peak Great Cultivator Realm had already surpassed the boundary of the Peak Great Cultivator Realm with the continuous enhancement of the fifth-grade "Infinite Immortal Fire."

He even came close to touching the edge of the Half-step Great Power solely through his current Spiritual Power Pattern, spirit, and flesh body. Had he not actively stopped enhancing with the fifth-grade "Infinite Immortal Fire," he might have faced the Half-step Great Power level Heavenly Tribulation prematurely.

Li Shiming’s realm was in a special phase, surpassing the Peak Great Cultivator line, without yet reaching the Half-step Great Power Realm.

For his strength, this only slightly enhanced his Spiritual Power Pattern, spirit, and flesh body, not reaching a transformative level, unlike the dramatic change of a major realm breakthrough.

However, for the Heavenly Ghost, or other Spiritual Pets, Li Shiming’s situation broke the shackles of the fourth-grade level for Spiritual Pets.

Li Shiming’s master realm constrained the realm of Spiritual Pets.

And when Li Shiming’s realm surpassed the line of Peak Great Cultivator, the Spiritual Pet could also break through the fourth-grade, but it likely wouldn’t exceed the Half-step Great Power Realm.

Li Shiming sensed the change in the Heavenly Ghost, his heart skipped, and his Divine Sense grasped the Heavenly Ghost. With a flicker of motion, "with one leap," he and the Heavenly Ghost left the cave and the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s gate.

He repeatedly used "with one leap," and in a moment reached the valley designated for Heavenly Tribulations.

He sensed the spiritual energy within the Heavenly Ghost continuously strengthening, a transformation not of ordinary enhancement but a fundamental change.

This time the Heavenly Ghost devoured not just some Half-step Great Power’s soul, but a true Great Power soul.

Although this soul was a fragment of a Great Power soul, on the soul level it was truly a Great Power soul, not to mention that Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar had nourished this fragment for many years, and the soul within was no less than a complete soul.

The Great Power-level soul energy, once devoured by the Heavenly Ghost, was aided by the loss of restriction due to Li Shiming’s level, allowing its realm to be unbound. After devouring Great Power Luo Yuan’s avatar’s soul, the spiritual energy within began compressing and transforming.

The Heavenly Ghost’s body shrank continuously; it had devoured countless soul energies over the years, growing to over three meters.

But now it was steadily shrinking, quickly reducing to less than three inches in height.

Inside the Heavenly Ghost, spiritual energy compression had caused its quality to surpass the fourth-grade level.

Unfortunately, this compressed enhancement of spiritual energy quality encountered a barrier again due to the boundary set by its master, Li Shiming, limiting it to the Half-step Fifth Grade level.

Fortunately, this barrier existed, or if the Heavenly Ghost had truly broken through to the fifth-grade, it might be difficult for Li Shiming to control.

Imagining the destructive power of an out-of-control Heavenly Ghost, Li Shiming found it hard to confine an unrestrained Heavenly Ghost.

"Half-step Fifth Grade, truly unexpected!" Li Shiming felt the realm of the Heavenly Ghost and couldn’t help but shake his head in amazement.

At this moment, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and terrifying Heavenly Thunder was brewing.

Li Shiming shook his head; the Half-step Great Power level Heavenly Tribulation was about to descend.

He immediately contacted the "Shenxiao Thunder Pearl" within the machine room space. With the "Shenxiao Thunder Pearl" boosted, and using the fifth-grade spiritual treasure "Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer" to cast the Anti-lightning Secret Method on the Heavenly Ghost.

He remained somewhat uneasy, mainly because the Heavenly Ghost, as a pure spiritual entity, had extremely weak resistance to Heavenly Tribulations.

But unexpectedly, black lines appeared on the Heavenly Ghost, forming complex patterns.

Through his connection with the Heavenly Ghost, he realized this knowledge was automatically gained upon reaching Half-step Fifth Grade, a Secret Technique constructing a defensive shell with spiritual energy.

He didn’t know if this Secret Technique came from a ghost or a Heavenly Demon, but given it was related to shell matters, it was more likely to have come from the inheritance of a Heavenly Demon.

Because the shell on the Heavenly Ghost originated from a Heavenly Demon.

Perhaps it was because the Heavenly Ghost’s body had shrunk, those black patterns were more densely packed on the small body’s surface.

Li Shiming felt an unusual energy fluctuation from these lines and patterns, as if they formed a barrier on the Heavenly Ghost’s body surface.

While he was contemplating this, a bolt of Heavenly Thunder descended from the sky, striking directly onto the Heavenly Ghost.

The black lines on the Heavenly Ghost instantly turned even darker upon the impact of the Heavenly Thunder.

The Heavenly Thunder caused the small body of the Heavenly Ghost to roll involuntarily, but in fact, the Heavenly Ghost was unharmed.

The power of the Heavenly Ghost was completely blocked by the black patterns.

Li Shiming shook his head; the black lines on the Heavenly Ghost, regardless of whether they stemmed from a Heavenly Demon’s or a ghost’s legacy, weren’t surprising.