[This task has been completed...][Executing wake-up procedure...][Detecting current peak soul-power value. Please do not let stray thoughts affect test precision. After testing is complete, the Smart Bridge computational bonus will be recalibrated.]The Heaven Chip's voice echoed through Xia Li's mind. Countless complex patterns and number-strings appeared in his thoughts, intricate multidinsional geotric figures and cryptographic data. The Heaven Chip was guiding his brain to parse them. In common terms, this process was called benchmarking. The Earth's path of cultivation was not sothing one could coast through by relying on technology alone. A cultivator's own growth could greatly raise the upper and lower limits of their prosthetics.[Current peak soul-power value: 9.865.][Congratulations. Your telekinetic realm has reached Perfected Human - Awakened One - Upper Tier. You are 0.135 away from the next stage, Perfected Human - Manifestation - Lower Tier.]Once the Heaven Chip finished its report, Xia Li opened his eyes. In that instant, a flicker of spiritual light flashed through them, and Qiu Fu, who had been watching him the whole ti, felt her soul jolt. Even her thoughts froze for a brief mont.Manifestation tier.Equivalent to Soul Transformation.Xia Li now stood only one step away from reaching Soul Transformation through telekinesis. His stellar golden core was certainly powerful, but what had truly allowed him to ascend in a single bound was telekinesis. That was inseparable from how, back when he was still in Foundation Establishnt, he had deliberately focused on the soul. Even the one-ti Genesis Serum he had chosen was the type that enhanced the soul. Perhaps from the mont, five hundred years ago, when he had still been a dying mortal and t Professor Yan Qing, the great Dao he would pursue for the rest of his life had already been set. The greatest opportunity in Qi Refining had been the Quantum Lotus. The greatest opportunity in Foundation Establishnt had been contact with higher dinsions. Kindness or malice from higher dinsions alike was inconceivable and unreasonable.Like a capricious child looking at ants, it might step on them on a whim, or it might also share a drop of the honey it was eating."Xia Li, what level has your Divine Path cultivation reached now? Even after awakening my bloodline, I still feel like it would be hard to beat you at this mont, even with your cultivation having fallen."Qiu Fu still rembered that abrupt mont of thought-stagnation. In a life-and-death battle, it would be fatal. Even a brief interruption in thinking was enough to decide victory and defeat."Roughly the Nascent Soul Pinnacle of the Profound Path."He was only a little short of telekinetic Soul Transformation. If that was not Nascent Soul Pinnacle, what was? As he was now, his telekinesis could probably suppress multiple late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators at once. If he faced a Soul Transformation cultivator who was already wounded and crippled, he might even have a chance. And after personally refining demonic treasures, Xia Li had also gained no small amount of insight into the demonic path. It seed that the demonic path was rely extre in its thods. In truth, it was not nearly as vile as people claid. The demonic path also chose its people. But unlike the Buddhist path, which refused to save those lacking affinity or wisdom-root, the demonic path gave everyone a chance equally. Even so, refining other people remained the lowest form of demonic cultivation.The great-vehicle demonic path was almost like deliberately tornting oneself, constantly creating tribulations to temper oneself. The Demon Heart Pill was a perfect example. People in the world feared inner demons above all else. At the slightest sign of one, they would think of every possible way to extinguish demonic thoughts at once. The great-vehicle demonic path did the exact opposite. If there was no inner demon, it created one. So what if one failed and beca a demon? And if one overca the demon, then what could the demon do? The so-called great-vehicle demonic path possessed a certain kinship of spirit with great-vehicle Buddhism. Let malignance, evil, curses, and tribulations co. One battle was all that mattered. Why should people like them fear battle?"Then what about your Profound Path cultivation... You must have sacrificed a lot in that battle before. Can it recover? You had an immortal-grade golden core. It would be such a sha for it to be gone just like that.""It's not a big problem."With spirit stones, he could make it fuse again. It was only a matter of spending ti. Now that Xia Li's telekinesis had grown so much, even if his Profound Path cultivation dropped back to Foundation Establishnt, it did not an he had to fear anyone. Not to ntion that this Foundation Establishnt of his was no ordinary Foundation Establishnt. A dormant golden core was still a golden core. A dwarf star still had light and heat, far beyond the gas swirl of sothing that had never beco a star at all.
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"Now I understand why you're so powerful. You dared do sothing that risky. Refining an inner demon is the kind of move where one careless step loses everything. You really dare to gamble. Your journey must have been full of hardship and tempering.""Well... of course. It's all been my hard work and sweat!"Xia Li felt embarrassed even as he said it, and two drops of guilty sweat rolled down from his forehead. Getting a Heaven Chip installed was terrifying, all right? They had to open up his skull and stuff things into his head. Wasn't that hard work? And whenever the Heaven Chip overheated, he had to sweat to help it cool down. Wasn't that sweat? There were no shortcuts in cultivation. Everything was forged through hard work and sweat. After that, Xia Li wasted no more ti. He began refining spirit stones according to the refusion program provided by the Heavenly Dao Computer in order to reignite his golden core.His right-arm prosthetic, Hestia, truly deserved its reputation as a high-end Nascent Soul-grade model. It even boosted the speed at which he refined spirit stones. On top of that, the spirit stones Mo Ye had left behind were mostly high-grade, which greatly increased his energy-gathering speed. Spirit stones were widely useful, but they had one major flaw. They were excellent at preserving spiritual energy, but that also made them harder to refine. A Qi Refining cultivator might use up the energy inside a low-grade spirit stone in a single day, yet still need three days to completely refine one. Xia Li now had both a prosthetic enhancing his refining efficiency and a Spirit Core assisting him, but even so, he still refined spirit stones without sleep or rest for an entire month before he finally reignited the fusion within his stellar golden core.And that was with high-grade spirit stones as his primary source. If he had been using low-grade stones instead, the constant need to fetch more would have wasted a great deal of ti on its own. With the golden core burning again and his telekinesis soaring, Xia Li returned to his peak state. The Heaven Chip's preliminary calculations placed his Ard Rating at a shocking B . One step further, and he would reach the strongest combat level openly acknowledged on Earth: Ard Rating A, the standard strength of Soul Transformation. And B , in the current society of Earth, already ant that wherever one went, one ranked among the notable figures. It was the level at which one could truly enter the halls of power.Another month later...the cave-heaven gourd finally slipped past layer upon layer of blockade and slowly made its way out of Manzhou. What delighted Xia Li was that the divine ability Realm Fusion was still working wonders. This shaless, chaleon-like ability to hide in plain sight had utterly exploited the information gap. In truth, all it would have taken was a single rainstorm, or even a strong enough gust of wind, to expose it. If one fallen leaf happened to land on the cave-heaven gourd, Xia Li would be unable to hide. Bring in a few Foundation Establishnt juniors to sweep leaves everywhere and they could have found him. If there was too much dust and sand, he would show himself just the sa. But the problem was that no one knew any of that.They insisted on using all kinds of spiritual-energy and divine-sense detection techniques, and even smugly stopped wind and rain with spells, thinking they were making it impossible for Xia Li to hide, when in fact they were simplifying the environnt even more. The more complex the environnt, the more likely Realm Fusion was to fail. The simpler the environnt, the harder it was to expose it. The Heaven Alliance had practically helped Xia Li hide even better. Perhaps this was what it ant for the great Dao to be simple. The Heaven Alliance kept guessing Xia Li knew so secret technique of hiding in the void or slipping into shadows. Who would have thought that in the end, it was only a plain, ordinary chaleon crawling slowly along? Once cultivators reached high realms, they all beca instinctively more reliant on spiritual intuition.But Xia Li's trick was one that had to be broken by ordinary mortal senses instead. If they had simply brought more dogs, Xia Li would have been sweating cold from sheer panic. At least when it ca to finding soone under Realm Fusion... Soul Transformation really was not as useful as a dog.
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