Cultivation is just so scientific!

The more important a cultivator's status, the more secret techniques they carry, especially for second-generation cultivators, as their elders will leave revenge marks on them.

If they are killed outside, the elders can track the murderer based on the revenge mark.

Li Shiming had read a large number of books and knew about the revenge marks set by Nascent Soul cultivators on the Dongqi Continent to protect their descendants, so he used the Body Refining Great Elder Living Dead to kill Young Master Zhang Xian.

As expected, after the Body Refining Great Elder Living Dead killed Young Master Zhang Xian, a black mark flew from Zhang Xian's body onto the Body Refining Great Elder Living Dead.

Li Shiming became interested in this revenge mark. He retrieved the Body Refining Great Elder Living Dead back into the machinery space and began examining the Body Refining Great Elder Living Dead's body with 10-nanometer control power.

No matter how he checked, he could not find the trace of that black mark, as if it had disappeared.

He was one hundred percent sure that the black mark had not disappeared.

In the end, he could only shake his head helplessly, as the gap in realm was too large. The revenge mark set by a Great Cultivator was not something he could uncover.

If it could be easily found, it wouldn't be called a revenge mark.

As for the revenge mark on the Body Refining Great Elder Living Dead, he didn't care at all.

To him, the Body Refining Great Elder Living Dead was simply an expendable presence.

Among the three living dead, the Body Refining Great Elder was the weakest, and had long lost its meaning to him. He would store it in the machinery space to see if it had any value later.

He took the Mustard Seed Rings from Wu Shao and Young Master Zhang Xian and stored both rings and the two corpses in the machinery space.

He had no time to examine the Mustard Seed Rings or to inspect Wu Shao's corpse now, as the three altar platforms had already formed.

Li Shiming had read descriptions about these altar platforms in the texts from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

The function of the altar platforms was somewhat akin to the 'Supreme Profound Pill' and 'Supreme Sensing Pill,' but their effects were many times stronger than elixir pills.

He stood on one of the altar platforms, and Li Yuanba stood on another.

Seeing that one of the altar platforms was empty, he thought for a moment and then sent the Illusion Spirit Jiao onto the last altar platform.

This was undoubtedly the most extravagant action. Although the participants at the Green Field Cave Heaven were just some Golden Core cultivators, not many from the major sects participated. It should be noted that the 'Cloud Stepping Order' of Green Field Cave Heaven was scattered throughout the Dongqi Continent, allowing cultivators with opportunities, or those who used other means, to obtain it over the four hundred years, thus earning a chance to participate.

You could say that Green Field Cave Heaven offered the most equitable opportunities, without influence from the powers backing the Golden Core cultivators.

Every 'Cloud Stepping Order' on the Dongqi Continent was a priceless treasure, symbolizing an opportunity, particularly a substantial one, such as advancing to Nascent Soul.

It was only due to the unexpected participation of Fire Element Nascent Soul cultivator Wu Shao, that all the Golden Core cultivators perished here this time around.

Without Wu Shao's participation, aside from those Golden Core cultivators who wanted to take advantage and risked it, the ones who fled immediately upon being transmitted to the central area had a high likelihood of surviving and returning with valuable resources.

Every time, the opportunity to stand on the final altar was fought for and painstakingly obtained by the strongest three Golden Core cultivators participating in the Green Field Cave Heaven.

The opportunity dreamed of by countless Golden Core cultivators was handed over by Li Shiming to his spiritual pet.

Standing on the altar, Li Shiming saw that outside the altar, light dots from all over the cave heaven were flying toward the altar.

In these light dots, one could vaguely see the shadows of spirit beasts. He realized that each light dot was transformed from a spirit beast within the cave heaven.

As the light dots merged into the altar, the spirit beast shadows changed and turned into shadows of cultivators, constantly twisting and wailing.

Li Shiming maintained his 'Divine Eye Technique,' which allowed him to see Wu Shao and Elder Wei Long's shadows amidst the indistinct, twisting, and wailing shadows.

On another altar, his avatar Li Yuanba, also using the 'Divine Eye Technique,' spotted the shadow of Elder Gong You among the twisting and wailing shadows.

Within the twisting and wailing shadows of the two altar platforms, there were some familiar figures, all cultivators who were slaughtered in the competition this time.

Li Shiming was startled, perhaps every cultivator who perished in the Green Field Cave Heaven was transformed into a spirit beast here.

But thinking about it, every cultivator willing to enter the Green Field Cave Heaven was doing so with the thought of adventuring in mind.

Life and death were their own choices; what did it matter if their souls were captured by the cave heaven after death?

As he pondered, light dots from the altar soared upward, transforming into beams of light that enveloped him.

His body felt light, falling into an illusion.

Of course, having a hundred and ninety-one brains, only one was affected by the illusion, allowing him to remain able to think while engulfed by the illusion.

Within the illusion, he sat cross-legged on the ground, threads of enlightenment arising from his heart, granting him deeper insights into the 'Five Rhymes Qi Cultivation Technique,' 'Yuqing Thunder Scripture,' 'Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique,' 'Human Dao Reincarnation Technique,' and 'Nanming Leaving Fire,' all beginning to merge more profoundly in his heart.

He sensed a chance to advance, and thus began his progression.

Just as he was about to nurture his Nascent Soul from his Golden Core, a severe pause occurred in the illusion.

If Li Shiming had fallen completely into the illusion, he might not have noticed this pause, but having spare brains observing, he noticed the glitch.

He speculated that this glitch likely stemmed from his possession of five Golden Cores; even after combing through extensive Ten Thousand Beast Sect texts, he hadn't found any cultivator with five Golden Cores.

Certain special cultivation techniques could produce a genuine and a phantom Golden Core, allowing cultivators to have greater reserves of spiritual power than others.

But this genuine and phantom Golden Core, in essence, was still one Golden Core; the phantom one only served as a pseudo-core for storing spiritual power, incapable of nurturing a Nascent Soul.

The capabilities of the powerful exceeded Li Shiming's imagination; after the glitch, the illusion continued.

He discovered the illusion was balancing his five Golden Cores, maintaining a balanced state of nurturing Nascent Souls from them.

As the nurturing process progressed, five small Nascent Souls emerged within the Golden Core, each possessing distinct attributes of the Five Elements, yet also holding the attribute of thunder, bearing the Taiqing Xuan Turtle Rune, and imbued with exceptionally strong spirit.

Moreover, within the Fire Element Nascent Soul, a small flame flickered — it was the 'Nanming Leaving Fire.'

This altar had miraculously combined all of Li Shiming's deepest cultivation techniques and passed them onto the Nascent Soul.

In normal circumstances, when a cultivator forms their Nascent Soul, passing the runes of their main cultivation technique onto the Nascent Soul would enhance its power exponentially with the Nascent Soul's support.

This is why Nascent Soul cultivators exhibit specialized strengths; each Nascent Soul cultivator, upon condensing their Nascent Soul, imbues it with cultivation method runes, amplifying the power of that method manifold, ensuring its greater potential in the future.

During the Nascent Soul's nurturing, it wasn't just absorbing spiritual power from the Golden Core, but also devouring his spirit and life force. The simultaneous absorption and consumption by the five Nascent Souls left him feeling nearly drained.

Fortunately, within the illusion, his spiritual power, spirit, and life force seemed limitless, unchecked by those factors in the progression process.

After a long while, the Golden Core cracked, and the five Nascent Souls leaped out, leaving his memory of the illusion somewhat fuzzy, but his natal artifact IBMz15 recorded everything that occurred within the illusion, ensuring nothing was truly forgotten.

Of course, even if the memory was indeed vague, after experiencing the altar's illusion, the cultivator would have a concrete understanding of the progression bottleneck and would soon find their chance to advance.