Chapter 1830: Chapter 961: Harvest (Part 2)
But a fifth-grade Pill Furnace is a completely different concept; it is a Pill Furnace capable of refining fifth-grade Spirit Pills.
If one were to use a fourth-grade Pill Furnace to refine fifth-grade Spirit Pills, the success rate would be extremely dismal, and it might even cause severe damage to the fourth-grade Pill Furnace.
Of course, even if the fifth-grade Pill Furnace were given to Li Shiming, it wouldn’t be of much help to him in the short term.
He has yet to even see fifth-grade Spiritual Medicine, much less a fifth-grade Pill Recipe; without these, how can he refine fifth-grade Spirit Pills?
The Duke of Thunder picked up the fifth-grade Pill Furnace and stored it in his personal soul crystal ring.
The entire process went smoothly, and the Duke of Thunder noticed that there was no master recognition imprint inside the fifth-grade Pill Furnace.
Perhaps the owner of the fifth-grade Pill Furnace had already perished, or perhaps the imprint inside the furnace dissipated over the ages.
The Duke of Thunder turned his gaze to the final object, the Jade Carving Ruyi, and picked it up. After repeatedly inspecting it, he sensed something.
He placed the Jade Carving Ruyi against his forehead, and then he could perceive the contents of the Jade Carving Ruyi.
The Jade Carving Ruyi is an ancient Jade Scroll that contains much of the same information as a Jade Scroll.
The Duke of Thunder inspected the records inside the Jade Carving Ruyi, and the IBMz15 immediately backed up all the contents and stored them into the database.
The Jade Carving Ruyi contained experiment records, and through these records, he understood the true purpose of this ancient relic.
Beyond being a site where ancient cultivators arranged and stored their backup bodies, this was also a research base for immortality.
The body of a peak Half-step Great Power was obtained by the owner of this site from an ancient superpower; how he obtained it, however, was not recorded in the Jade Carving Ruyi.
Consider Li Shiming’s situation; his original and dual bodies collectively obtained three Half-step Great Power corpses, proving that when the correct method is used, Half-step Great Powers can indeed be overcome.
The peak Half-step Great Power’s corpse became the owner’s backup body, and the one hundred and eight fourth-grade late-stage Spirit Beasts were actually a type of spiritual insect called Eternal Water Bears.
Eternal Water Bears can virtually live immortally; the immortality described here encompasses not only a nearly endless life span but also self-protection ability.
Without achieving Great Power strength, one cannot kill an Eternal Water Bear.
Moreover, the longer the Eternal Water Bear exists, the more its power continues to grow.
The cultivation of Eternal Water Bears is exceedingly difficult; the owner of this place spent immense vitality to nurture one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears for immortality research.
The Jade Carving Ruyi recorded a vast amount of experimental data, but the record abruptly cut off at one point.
He speculated that it was very likely the owner perished unexpectedly, causing the research to halt, with no one able to continue it.
Yet, the owner’s research was considered successful, for by extracting life force from one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears, the peak Half-step Great Power’s corpse managed to survive for at least several tens of thousands of years.
This ancient relic is actually a research laboratory left by an ancient cultivator.
Its defense system, aside from exterior prohibitions, is comprised of cultivated Guardian Spirit Beasts.
While the Guardian Spirit Beasts do not possess the ability for eternal life, they’ve reproduced within the prohibitions, retaining the guardian duty in their souls.
The six ’Golden Ice Crystal Beasts’ outside have gone through countless generations of ’Golden Ice Crystal Beasts.’
Knowing there’s no danger, Li Shiming manipulated the Duke of Thunder to first approach the one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears.
Li Shiming, who was voyaging afar, invoked a remote possession Secret Technique.
This Secret Technique allows one to project a piece of consciousness remotely through a specific medium.
Some Great Cultivators give the crafted medium to their most valued descendants; when the descendants face danger, activating the medium permits the Great Cultivator to project a consciousness remotely.
The projected consciousness can employ spells of its realm, and while it can only use the weakest spells of that realm, against enemies below its realm, they remain quite overwhelming.
Li Shiming’s usage of the Duke of Thunder as a medium to employ a remote possession Secret Technique was not to engage in combat.
The Duke of Thunder greatly surpasses him in prowess, and employing the remote possession Secret Technique simply facilitates operations.
He noticed that the greater realm of the Duke of Thunder and its cooperative nature lent ease to Li Shiming’s remote possession Secret Technique, causing minimal burden.
A faint shadow of Li Shiming appeared over the Duke of Thunder’s 1.2-meter frame.
Li Shiming observed the one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears, his eyes brimming with delight.
He exhaled deeply, the remote possession Secret Technique allowing him to project a segment of his spirit remotely.
Using this spirit segment, he invoked the Master Recognition Technique, launching them into the bodies of each Eternal Water Bear.
This is the Master Recognition Technique of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect; whether for spiritual insects or spirit beasts, as long as they lack the ability to resist, their success rate for this technique increases significantly.
With the Eternal Water Bears at a fourth-grade late-stage realm and Li Shiming at a peak Great Cultivator state, coupled with the Eternal Water Bears being bound and restrained, albeit their original owner perished, these constraints persisted without affecting them.
So long as this energy remains unceasing, the binding restraint on the one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears will not dissipate.
Li Shiming’s Master Recognition Technique entered the bodies of each Eternal Water Bear, transforming into contracts, successfully establishing bonds with each Eternal Water Bear.
For someone at the peak Great Cultivator realm to contract fourth-grade late-stage Eternal Water Bears, even if mentally fortified, the maximum possible number would reach only a dozen or so.
However, Li Shiming is different, possessing one hundred and ninety-one brains, enabling him to contract a significantly large number of fourth-grade late-stage Eternal Water Bears; contracting one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears posed no burden to him whatsoever.
Though the Master Recognition Technique sometimes fails upon activation, generally a repeated activation on the second attempt succeeds, and among the one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears, the maximum attempt required was three.
After some time, Li Shiming sensed his soul forming contract channels with one hundred and eight fourth-grade late-stage lives.
He could perceive the unconscious state of these one hundred and eight fourth-grade late-stage lives; precisely due to their being unconscious, they were easily contracted.
With the experimental records inside the Jade Carving Ruyi, he was already able to manipulate the formations and prohibitions here.
He controlled the Duke of Thunder to shut off the formations, with the one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears slowly awakening from unconsciousness.
These Eternal Water Bears sensed the presence of the master recognition contract; there was nothing peculiar about it.
Before becoming unconscious, the Eternal Water Bears had already been contracted, and upon awakening, they remained contracted, so there was nothing odd about that.
The Eternal Water Bears were unaware that tens of thousands of years had passed; their memory lingered at the moment they were placed inside the transparent partitions.
The Duke of Thunder retrieved a Spirit Beast Bag and issued commands to the one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears.
The Eternal Water Bears exhibited no resistance; leaving aside the bond of their contract, their original owner, eons ago, had thoroughly trained them.
One after another, the Eternal Water Bears entered the Spirit Beast Bag, all one hundred and eight quickly settling inside.
The Duke of Thunder stored the Spirit Beast Bag, and his figure flashed to the Crystal Stone Bed on the upper level.
Though it lost the supply of life force, this peak Half-step Great Power’s corpse continued its normal aging process.
Despite tens of thousands of years having elapsed, the life span of the peak Half-step Great Power’s corpse had halted, and its diminishing life span was replenished by the life force extracted from the one hundred and eight Eternal Water Bears.
The condition of the peak Half-step Great Power’s corpse ensured it retained at least several thousand years of life span, originally prepared as a backup body by its owner, naturally ensuring ample life span.
