Chapter 790: Chapter 441 Spirit_2

He had no choice but to think of channeling the Spiritual Energy into his life-bound magic treasure, the IBMz15. He immediately found that when the Spiritual Energy entered the IBMz15, it did not cause any problems; instead, it absorbed all of the Spiritual Energy.

Li Shiming floated in the air above the Hunger Ghost Hall, and it took a full cup of tea’s time before all the blue light finally disappeared.

His body did not fall, but instead, carried by his previous leap’s momentum, he drifted toward the portal.

“Congratulations on passing the ‘Hunger Ghost Path,’ you are the first to pass the ‘Hunger Ghost Path’ trial, and your reward has been issued!” A voice devoid of any emotion reached his ears as he passed through the portal.

He was somewhat dissatisfied; at least after passing the trial of the Hell Path, he had received a ‘Ghost Bracelet.’

Although the ‘Ghost Bracelet’ had been in his possession for a long time without being usable, it was still a Fourth-Grade Mid-Stage Ghost.

But the reward for the ‘Hunger Ghost Path’ was merely some Spiritual Energy, and his own spirit was already very strong. This time’s Spiritual Energy had brought him to the peak of the Golden Core Stage, but he was limited by his realm and could not advance any further.

The rest of the Spiritual Energy was all given to his life-bound magic treasure, the IBMz15, and he felt that this reward was really not as good as the previous one.

In fact, he was not aware that when a cultivator passed through the Hunger Ghost Path, they would continuously consume their own spirit, which was devoured by the spatial Corpse Refining.

During the trial, the reward given by the palace was to return all the spirit lost by the cultivator, and even the spirits lost by other cultivators before were given to him.

It’s just that Li Shiming’s realm was too low. Had a Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner received the reward, maybe their spirit could have been directly enhanced to the level of Nascent Soul Middle Late Stage, greatly increasing their chances of advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Late Stage.

Moreover, a Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner possessing the spirit of a Nascent Soul Middle Late Stage would also see a massive increase in their combat power.

Li Shiming himself had not lost any spirit; the reward he received was the spirit lost by ten Nascent Soul Ancestors in battle. Had he passed through the palace a bit later, perhaps he would have received even more spiritual rewards.

Of course, if there had been even more spiritual rewards, perhaps the life-bound magic treasure IBMz15 would not have been able to withstand it.

Those were ten Nascent Soul Ancestors, among them even a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Elder Jin Kai.

All of them were affected by having a significant amount of their spirit devoured by the Silver Corpse, and the accumulation of all their spirits was a significant figure for any Nascent Soul Ancestor, let alone for Li Shiming, a mere Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator.

Were it not for the life-bound magic treasure IBMz15 helping bear the burden, perhaps he would have already fallen by now.

He sensed the status of his life-bound magic treasure IBMz15; having devoured a huge amount of Spiritual Energy, the spiritedness of IBMz15 had greatly increased.

If previously he had to use his own spiritual power to drive the CPU of the IBMz15 to issue Divine Thoughts instead of his brain, now he just needed a thought, and the IBMz15 could emit Divine Thoughts on its own without consuming his spiritual power.

The intensity of the Divine Thoughts was not weaker than his, one hundred ninety brains, each reaching the peak spirit power of the Golden Core Stage.

By Li Shiming’s estimation, if he were to engage in combat with a Late-Stage Golden Core Cultivator again, he feared he could control the opponent using just his Divine Thoughts.

Because one hundred ninety-one Golden Core Stage Peak Divine Thoughts are equivalent to one hundred ninety-one Great Elders using Divine Thoughts to simultaneously attack the enemy.

Even without any Secret Technique for mental attacks, the combined power of so many strong Divine Thoughts is astounding.

Additionally, he felt that the bottleneck at his current stage of Golden Core Middle Stage seemed to have loosened. Finding an opportunity for secluded cultivation might allow him to break through this bottleneck.

He had reached the peak of Golden Core Middle Stage for some time already, perpetually trapped by the bottleneck.

“Not bad!” Li Shiming smiled somewhat reluctantly to himself.

After truly inspecting the gains from this reward, he had no more complaints about the lack of physical prizes but rather felt very happy about it.

Li Shiming observed his surroundings; this time, the space seemed much more normal, with wild grass and wildflowers on the ground, a gentle breeze blowing, carrying a faint scent of flowers, and the sounds of birds and beasts could be heard in the background.

He felt it for a moment, this space still had significant limitations, vision, flying, and others were suppressed to the utmost limit.

‘Divine Eye Vision’ allowed him to observe things up to five hundred meters away. He saw a creature with a human body but with a head of a bull.

“Great Demon?” he judged in mild surprise.

A Great Demon capable of transforming into human form could almost be called a monster.

“This is the Beast Path!” he guessed the space he was currently in, judging from the previous two spaces after seeing the bull-headed creature.

He had no intention of getting through by normal means, understanding from the previous two spaces that this was not a test meant for Golden Core cultivators.

Thinking about it, the original owner of this Grotto Heaven was a Mahayana powerhouse, probably in the eyes of a Mahayana powerhouse, a Golden Core cultivator wasn’t considered a true cultivator.

Just as Li Shiming now looked at Qi Refinement cultivators, similarly not taking them seriously.

He pondered how to handle the current situation. A Great Demon was not so easy to deal with; a Third Grade Demon had the same realm as a Golden Core cultivator, but a Third Grade Demon was much more formidable than a cultivator of the same realm.

Unless it was a top existence among Golden Core cultivators, otherwise, it was impossible to have a head-on fight with a Third Grade Demon one-on-one.

Not to mention, a Great Demon might also possess some type of Talent Ability, which if tremendously powerful, would greatly enhance the demon’s combat capability.

As Li Shiming was contemplating, his life-bound magical treasure IBMz15 provided a solution.

He noticed a significant improvement in the processing and analytical speed of the IBMz15, which likely had something to do with the amount of spiritual power it had absorbed.

IBMz15 analyzed all the treasures he had on him, along with various conditions, and gave a solution that brightened his eyes.

He had almost forgotten about some abilities of his treasures; the Fourth-Grade ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan’ he had possessed a special ability, only he had not noticed it before.

The reason he had forgotten about the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan’ was that, although its rank reached Fourth Grade and despite the Artifact Spirit’s help allowing him to control the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan,’ he could not yet use it in combat, only as a cultivation base for Spiritual Medicine.

But the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan’ was also a spatial artifact, capable of containing life within it.

He took out the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan,’ and summoned the Illusion Spirit Jiao.

The Invisibility talent of the Illusion Spirit Jiao was special. Moreover, the Illusion Spirit Jiao was a Great Demon and belonged to the top lineage of the Dragon Clan among Great Demons.

He handed the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan’ to the Illusion Spirit Jiao, which tucked the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan’ beneath its scales. Before tucking it away, he commanded the Artifact Spirit to take his body inside the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan.’

A flash of light from the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan’ and his body disappeared.

Once inside the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan,’ feeling the rich Spiritual Energy there, had it not been for his Nascent Soul Ancestor, a Nascent Soul Body, and a False Infant Body needing Spiritual Energy, he could have used the Fourth-Grade Vein-Locking Plate for his clone, Li Yuanba.

The ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan’ contained a Nascent Soul Level Spirit Vein, but the ‘Mountain and River Qiankun Fan’ could not be transferred to Li Yuanba.

“It’s a waste, but anyway, Li Yuanba can still benefit from Elder Sword’s influence!” Li Shiming arrived at a safe place and reassured himself with a smile.

He connected with the Illusion Spirit Jiao, observing the outside situation through the eyes of the Illusion Spirit Jiao.

He sent a command to the Illusion Spirit Jiao, who moved in the direction he instructed.

He intentionally had the Illusion Spirit Jiao pass by the Great Demon with the bull head, wanting to see if the Great Demon could detect the Illusion Spirit Jiao.

The invisibility Talent Ability of the Illusion Spirit Jiao was indeed powerful, undetectable even by Divine Thought; the Great Demon with the bull head was also unable to detect it.