Chapter 1916: Chapter 1004: Sensing the Divine (Part 2)
The restrictions within the Divine Palace are incredibly terrifying, and as peak Great Cultivators, they are well aware of this.
Moreover, because there are too many restrictions within the Divine Palace, exploring here makes it nearly impossible to prepare enough great power level defensive talismans.
Itâs just too exhausting; every time you move forward a distance, you need to counter a restriction.
The restrictions in the Divine Palace are targeting the Great Cultivator Realm. Their attack power is stronger than a peak Great Cultivator but hasnât reached the half-step great power level.
Were it to truly reach half-step great power level, the Divine Palace would not be a trial ground, but a land of death.
Li Shimingâs physical body is at the half-step great power level now, and having endured the half-step great power level Heavenly Tribulation three times, receiving three half-step great power level heavenly rewards, his body is a bit stronger than a regular half-step great power.
The restrictions of the Divine Palace were unable to break through his bodyâs defense, making him smile, indicating that his judgment was correct.
He gazed at the Divine Palace, eyes filled with greed.
Li Shiming attempted to release an âEternal Water Bearâ, he was prepared, and if the Divine Palace attacked the âEternal Water Bearâ, he would quickly retrieve it.
The feared event did not happen; perhaps the Divine Palace has its own judgment method.
The âEternal Water Bearâ is indeed at the half-step fifth-grade realm, but its master is Li Shiming, a cultivator at the Nascent Soul Realm only at the peak Great Cultivator level.
Having discovered this, Li Shiming no longer hesitated and released a Holy Spirit.
The six peak Great Cultivators were shocked by the aura of the âEternal Water Bearâ.
Even after Li Shiming released a Holy Spirit, the shock remained.
Li Shiming observed that the six peak Great Cultivators showed no other emotions upon seeing the Holy Spirit.
This indicates that the six peak Great Cultivators do not recognize the Holy Spirit, or perhaps they have not come into contact with knowledge regarding âExotic Realm Divine Soldiersâ.
Li Shiming noted that the Divine Palace did not attack the Holy Spirit, which allowed him to finally relax.
With a wave of his hand, all 133 Holy Spirits appeared, followed by 108 âEternal Water Bearsâ, and he summoned the âGolden Winged Rocâ as well.
The âGolden Winged Rocâ was extremely excited to find itself in the Divine Palace.
It was born here; despite being greatly constrained here, it still held affection for the place.
Li Shiming, accompanied by the six peak Great Cultivators, sat on the back of the âGolden Winged Rocâ. The six peak Great Cultivators were stunned, feeling as if their brains couldnât process it all.
The six peak Great Cultivators wanted to slap themselves a few times, questioning their confidence in trying to besiege Li Shiming.
The combined half-step great power level combat strength of these half-step great power level spirit pets was many times that of all the half-step great powers of Cloud Island Sea.
Seeing a cultivator with over two hundred half-step fifth-grade spirit pets, they felt they could die without regrets.
Li Shiming commanded all the Holy Spirits and âEternal Water Bearsâ to gather all the Great Cultivator resources.
He himself sat on the back of the Golden Winged Roc, advancing forward through the air.
Time was on his side; the Golden Winged Roc was very familiar with the restrictions of the Divine Palace and could fly slowly through the air without triggering any restrictions.
Even if a restriction was triggered, it wouldnât be a problem, as the restrictions of the Divine Palace could no longer harm Li Shiming and the Golden Winged Roc.
Looking down, massive numbers of Holy Spirits and âEternal Water Bearsâ spread out in a line, advancing forward.
Holy Spirits and âEternal Water Bearsâ continually triggered restrictions, but these were incapable of harming the half-step fifth-grade beings.
Their existence was a bug, something the creator of the Divine Palace hadnât anticipated, that a cultivator at the peak Great Cultivator Realm could form a contract with half-step fifth-grade spirit pets.
Indeed, if not for Li Shiming accidentally attaining some of the capabilities of a half-step great power, he wouldnât possibly have half-step fifth-grade spirit pets.
More crucially, the chance for half-step fifth-grade spirit pets to pass a tribulation was dismally low, far beyond outrageous, especially when breaking through with a spirit pet belonging to a peak Great Cultivator, further reducing the opportunities for breakthroughs.
While the Cultivation World is brimming with talent in all forms, with cultivators possessing various opportunities, Li Shimingâs scenario was unprecedented.
This unexpected situation was not considered by the creator of the Divine Palace, allowing Li Shiming to exploit it.
As numerous Holy Spirits and âEternal Water Bearsâ passed by, restrictions were continuously activated, but more importantly, a bulk of Great Cultivator resources was harvested.
Especially some Great Cultivator-level spirit fruit trees and spirit tea trees, which were species preserved only within the Divine Palace, mostly extinct in the Cultivation World.
Li Shimingâs resource gathering this time was the most thorough in the countless millennia of the Divine Palaceâs history.
All herbs and minerals reaching the Great Cultivator level were collected.
Fortunately, he wasnât overly greedy and didnât deplete all resources; otherwise, who knows how limited the resources would be when the Divine Palace opens next.
However, one thing is certain: the next peak Great Cultivators who enter will find the available Great Cultivator resources significantly diminished.
The growth of Great Cultivator resources requires time, not something that can fully mature in two hundred years.
Every two hundred years, the Divine Palace can produce only a portion of Great Cultivator resources; the rest are resources unharvested by the previous explorers.
Li Shiming continued to advance steadily, maintaining a pace with the harvesting team below.
Should anything arise, he could respond in a timely manner.
After half a day, the team reached near the âDivine Perception Steleâ.
Li Shiming lightly tapped the Golden Winged Roc, which brought him down to the ground.
Gazing at the stele before him, his heart stirred.
This stele carried his hope; through the virtualized âDivine Perception Steleâ simulated by IBMz15, he at least knew the âDivine Perception Steleâ possessed the capability to help him.
Standing before the âDivine Perception Steleâ once more, he calmed his mind and meditated before it.
Facing the âDivine Perception Steleâ, his spirit connected to it.
The âDivine Perception Steleâ led his main brain into a peculiar state, causing a vision to appear in his primary mind.
His âHeavenly Human Techniqueâ began functioning, massive amounts of Spiritual Energy flowed into his body, and before him appeared five Five Elements Heavenly Treasures of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.
His five Nascent Souls each picked up one Five Elements Heavenly Treasure, each representing one of the Five Elements, constructing five grotto heavens.
All five Nascent Souls transformed into grotto heavens, with attributes matching the five Five Elements Heavenly Treasures, corresponding to the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth elements respectively.
Oddly, the five grotto heavens were arranged in an exceedingly familiar mannerâit was the âFive Elements Qi Absorption Arrayâ.
The âFive Elements Qi Absorption Arrayâ was the root of all his cultivation practices, the very existence of which allowed him to surpass other cultivators from the Qi Refinement Realm and grow stronger step by step.
However, it was also the âFive Elements Qi Absorption Arrayâ that led him onto another cultivation path.
The five Golden Cores, five Nascent Souls, enabled his strength to far transcend his peers and filled his cultivation journey with unknowns.
No one would have thought that the âFive Elements Qi Absorption Arrayâ was the key to advancing to the half-step great power.
He constructed five grotto heavens and arranged them in the âFive Elements Qi Absorption Arrayâ manner. The âFive Elements Qi Absorption Arrayâ allowed the energies of the five grotto heavens to remain balanced.
Until one day, the five grotto heavens reached an extreme state, he experienced an indescribable feeling.
But at that instant, his primary mind detached from the vision.
Such visions wouldnât leave much memory when one awakened, only providing cultivators with subtle hints at critical times.
But Li Shiming was not limited to a single brain; aside from the primary mind, 190 other brains kept track of the primaryâs vision, while IBMz15 recorded everything in the vision.
He wore a smile, for regardless, he found his path to cultivation.