Cultivation is just so scientific! - Chapter 789: 441 Spirit

Chapter 789: Chapter 441 Spirit

Li Shiming had already seen another palace ahead through “Divine Sight,” and by comparing it with the map of Hell Path’s space, he confirmed that the two palaces were indeed in the same location, just as he had deduced.

The Space Silver Corpse he was seated on did not alarm any of the space Corpse Refining creatures; thus far, his journey had been without the slightest difficulty.

The Space Silver Corpse carried him across a plaza. With “Divine Sight” pushed to its limit, he continuously scanned the surroundings of the plaza but did not find the Golden Corpse he had imagined might be there.

He turned his gaze to the ground; the plaza’s surface was composed of countless skulls.

The mouths of these skulls all faced upwards, making anyone who saw it feel a tingling at the scalp.

Li Shiming speculated that if there truly was a Golden Corpse, it would probably be hidden beneath this plaza.

At this point, there was no turning back for him. He had already planned that if he really encountered a Golden Corpse, he would throw out all his Silver Corpses to attract the Golden Corpse’s attention, allowing him to enter the palace.

The feet of the Space Silver Corpse stepped onto the surface of the plaza. It seemed as if there was an energy on the surface of the skulls. When its feet made contact with the ground, the energy acted as a buffer, producing not the slightest sound.

One step, two steps, all the way until the Space Silver Corpse reached the steps in front of the palace doors, no Golden Corpse appeared.

Li Shiming let out a long sigh of relief; his judgment had been accurate. As long as he didn’t touch the ground, he wouldn’t trigger the Corpse Refining creatures beneath it.

The steps and the tall palace in front of them were also built entirely of skulls, with all their mouths facing outward.

The skulls that made up the palace had faint blue flames burning in their eye sockets, as if these skulls were alive.

Th𝖎𝗌 ςh𝖺p𝕥𝗲r 𝑖𝘴 p𝐨ѕ𝑡𝕖𝒅 b𝐲 𝘒𝒾𝓉є𝖓𝟬𝕧ꬲ𝗹

These blue flames were the soul fires of Dead Spirit life, and the skulls that comprised the palace were all ignited with soul fire, continuously emitting a considerable amount of death energy.

With the “Divine Sight,” Li Shiming could see the blue flames wrapped around the palace—a sight invisible to ordinary cultivators.

“Truly extravagant,” Li Shiming couldn’t help but exclaim internally.

He looked at the plaque above the gateway inscribed with “Hunger Ghost Path.”

“It really is arranged according to the Hell Path and Hunger Ghost Path from the cycle of the six realms. Then, there should be four more spaces to come!” Li Shiming had speculated earlier, and now it was confirmed.

Under the control of the Heavenly Ghost, the Space Silver Corpse walked through the grand entrance.

Similar to the previous palace, this one also had a portal at its center.

Li Shiming was about to control the Space Silver Corpse to walk towards the space portal when suddenly, the soul fires in the skulls of the ‘Hunger Ghost Path’ palace began to flicker, and the huge blue soul fire enveloping the palace also started swaying.

Chills ran down his spine, as if he were being targeted by something.

He was only ten meters away from the space portal, no longer hesitant. With a flicker of his consciousness, he stowed away the Heavenly Ghost and let the Space Silver Corpse fall to the ground.

As the Space Silver Corpse fell, he exerted force with his legs, vaulting off the corpse’s body and lunging toward the space portal.

His body traced an arc in midair, and at the arc’s apex, he was only five meters away from the portal.

The skulls in the palace that faced him shot out beams of blue light from the soul force in their eyes, converging on his body.

His body stiffened, suspended in midair like that.

Then, it seemed as if energy was being transmitted along the blue beams, surging towards Li Shiming’s body.

Li Shiming only felt a tidal wave of spirit energy entering his body—pure and devoid of any impurities, this type of spirit energy would be considered a precious treasure of the spirit outside.

Every Cultivator possesses spirit energy, but gathering it into oneself is not an easy task.

Devil Cultivators have methods to absorb the spirit energy of others, but those methods come with severe consequences that could jeopardize their future cultivation.

Especially for those with high cultivation levels, plundering spirit energy becomes even more difficult.

At the Golden Core Stage, such methods are almost non-existent. Cultivators generally enhance their spirit through Spiritual Objects or spirit-related Cultivation Techniques.

In the spirit energy of a Cultivator, there exists the mark of the Cultivator and some special impurities. The mark and impurities are attuned to the Cultivator themselves and do not harm the individual.

However, if other Cultivators attempt to absorb spirit energy, they would suffer backlash due to the marks and impurities in the spirit energy.

Of course, there are not entirely without solutions, but many of these methods are unreplicatable and produce pure, unadulterated spirit energy only under very rare circumstances.

Li Shiming was currently encountering such pure, unadulterated spirit energy, and the level of this spirit energy was far above his own, not just by one grade.

This should have been good news, presumably a reward from the Hunger Ghost Path palace.

However, this reward should have been for at least a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, but given to Li Shiming, a Golden Core Stage Cultivator, it was bound to cause problems.

An immense amount of spirit energy entered his body, and without waiting for him to absorb it actively, the spirit energy merged with his own spirit.

Initially, the increase in spirit felt comfortable, but as more and more spirit energy entered his body, he felt as though he might burst from it.

He felt that if he didn’t find a way to deal with it soon, he might become a rarity in the Cultivation World—a Cultivator killed by an overload of spirit energy.

With a shift of his mind, the spirit energy entered his life-bound magical item, IBMz15, which was in a state he couldn’t clearly define— reputedly a life-bound item, yet its existence hovered between the tangible and intangible.