Chapter 1842: Chapter 967: Harvest (Part 2)

Li Yuanba’s eyes lit up at the sight of the fifth-grade thunder refining material. Using the fifth-grade thunder refining material to upgrade the fifth-grade ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ seemed like an extremely wasteful act.

But being able to upgrade the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ to a fifth-grade super spiritual treasure containing a massive amount of runes would greatly enhance Li Shiming’s thunder combat power.

Of course, doing so could pose a problem, since at his current level, his ability to refine a fifth-grade spiritual treasure is insufficient. The method he is using could better be described as a clever shortcut.

In fact, Li Shiming should wait until his promotion to half-step Great Power before upgrading the fifth-grade ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’. By then, the thunder rules he would have mastered should further enhance the power of the fifth-grade ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’.

This piece of fifth-grade thunder refining material was nurtured in the Grotto Heaven of the Great Power Leng Luo.

On the contrary, Leng Luo’s natal treasure, the fifth-grade ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’, was obtained from the Yuqing Sect’s heritage. It took nearly a thousand years to remove the spiritual mark left by his predecessors.

Leng Luo, with ideas similar to Li Yuanba, also planned to use the fifth-grade thunder refining material to upgrade the fifth-grade ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ to enhance its quality.

However, before he could implement this plan, he fell at Li Yuanba’s hands, and the fifth-grade thunder refining material ended up in Li Yuanba’s possession.

For the refinement of a fifth-grade spiritual treasure, Li Shiming only lacks the speed of comprehension concerning the rules, everything else meets the conditions.

Once upon a time, attempting to refine a fifth-grade spiritual treasure was impossible.

Now things have changed. Li Shiming has refined the ’Infinite Immortal Fire’. The fifth-grade ’Infinite Immortal Fire’, whether in alchemy or artifact refining, can refine fifth-grade elixir pills and spiritual treasures.

Li Yuanba put away the fifth-grade thunder refining material and turned his attention to a few other spiritual objects.

What he saw were three Heavenly Mechanism Treasures, one of which was a thunder element treasure: a thunder crystal, and another being a fire element treasure: a fire crystal.

The last was a unique small spiritual wood, which was not only a wood element treasure but also contained a trace of thunder energy.

The Grotto Heaven of the Great Power Leng Luo was established relying on these three Heavenly Mechanism Treasures.

The fire and wood elements can generate thunder elements, and it is likely this interdependent relationship that allowed the Great Power Leng Luo to construct a pure Thunder System Cave Heaven.

When the great power does not need to consider inheritance, their Grotto Heaven can achieve the extreme of a certain energy according to their notion.

Just like the Grotto Heaven of the Great Power Leng Luo, which is the extreme of thunder and lightning energy.

If not for his severe injuries and being besieged close and afar by the Duke of Thunder and the Red Demon, in normal circumstances, no great power would dare enter his Grotto Heaven.

He looked at these three Heavenly Mechanism Treasures, then thought of the pitch-black jade sphere. Fortunately, he tucked away the jade sphere and intended to hand it over to his main body when time allows for Li Shiming to research the internal structure of the Grotto Heaven within the jade sphere.

Knowing that the Great Power Leng Luo’s Grotto Heaven was built using three interconnected Heavenly Mechanism Treasures, he developed more ideas for constructing a Grotto Heaven.

Finally, he retrieved that soul crystal ring, and first issued a Master Recognition Technique to it.

No problems occurred; the Master Recognition Technique entered the soul crystal ring, successfully recognizing its master, making Li Yuanba his new owner.

He extended his divine sense into the soul crystal ring and was stunned.

In the soul crystal ring were stored numerous corpses, and these were neither human cultivators’ bodies nor any known spirit beasts.

Instead, they belonged to another race of intelligent creatures, ones that Li Yuanba had never encountered.

With golden hair and pure white wings, their appearance struck him as extremely beautiful.

These intelligent creatures were all beautiful, regardless of gender, or one might say that apart from reproductive differences, this race of intelligent beings had no gender differences, at least not in appearance.

The bodies were of two kinds: one belonged to seventy-three corpses of half-step Great Power level intelligent beings and two corpses of Great Power level.

Li Yuanba felt as if he had been hit on the head by surprise. Perhaps these corpses held some value for other cultivators or even great powers.

But only in his hands could they be fully utilized for maximum benefit.

Though the two Great Power level intelligent beings’ corpses are not usable, at least not before his main body elevates to half-step Great Power, the main body cannot refine the great power level intelligent beings’ corpses into corpse refining.

Yet, once the seventy-three intelligent beings’ corpses were successfully refined into corpse refining.

Imagine controlling seventy-three refined corpses with either the Duke of Thunder or Red Demon’s combat power, even against a fully powerful great power, he would dare to challenge.

"What on earth is this race?" Li Yuanba pondered while closely examining the intelligent creatures, feeling a great sense of wonder.

Clearly, this race’s power is formidable, with seventy-three half-step Great Power level intelligent beings’ corpses, and this was only what the Great Power Leng Luo had acquired.

This suggests there are more half-step Great Power level experts within this race.

He even wondered if half-step Great Power level experts were common within this race.

As this thought occurred, his hair stood on end all over his body.

Perhaps he was brushing against the cultivation world’s biggest secret, a secret only accessible to great powers.

Lian Yuanba subsequently found a flying boat within the soul crystal ring, which clashed entirely with the Cultivation World’s aesthetic.

The flying boat was white, covered with carvings of the winged intelligent beings, telling some stories about this race.

Even the internal workings of the flying boat were based on an entirely different system than that of the Cultivation World.

The flying boat was powered by a gemstone containing an unknown energy, which flowed from the gemstone into the boat, enabling it to function.

The flying boat’s interior was etched with dense patterns that neither Li Yuanba’s insight nor the connected IBMz15 could decipher.

These patterns were the secret to the flying boat’s operation, with energy flowing from the gemstone being processed through them to form defensive, driving, propulsion, and other energy forms.

Li Yuanba tried to inject a Master Recognition Technique into the flying boat, only to find it ineffective.

He shook his head, mocking himself.

This was a different system from the Cultivation World, and it was natural for the Master Recognition Technique to be inapplicable.

He wasn’t anxious about it, as he had plenty of time to study it in the future.

He turned his gaze to the pile of armor and weapons, presumably spoils removed from the intelligent beings.

The armor and weapons possessed a mysterious energy, and the materials chosen for their crafting were entirely different from the Cultivation World’s artifact refining materials.

It was impossible to judge them using the Cultivation World’s grading; all he knew was that the materials used were extraordinarily peculiar.

With a slight movement of his mind, a longsword appeared in his hand.

As a Sword Cultivator, he held a special affection for swords, and holding the longsword, he just knew it was an excellent weapon.

The longsword exceeded two meters in length, differing significantly from the typical Cultivation World standard.

Additionally, the sword’s rear lacked a blade edge, evidently the hand-held portion, indicating this longsword could be dual-wielded for combat, aside from its usual utility.

He tried channeling the Spiritual Power Pattern into the longsword, but it felt very sluggish, and the movement was exceedingly laborious.

"What a strange race!" Li Yuanba muttered, shaking his head.

Among the armor and weapons, their quantity exceeded the number of intelligent beings’ corpses.

These armors and weapons certainly had a function. He decided to try them on a refined corpse once he managed to refine a half-step Great Power level intelligent being’s remains.

As for corpse refining materials, given Li Shiming’s stature and influence, as long as he made a request, top 4th-grade corpse refining materials would steadily be sent to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and end up in Li Shiming’s possession.