The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 553 - 393: Nurturing the Body

Chapter 553: Chapter 393: Nurturing the Body

Although Li Yi spoke casually, he also began to feel some urgency in his heart, realizing that he needed to make some preparations.

After entering the building, he took the elevator directly to his room on the top floor, then took out a machine named "Cradle of Life" from his Magic Artifact storage, which he had snatched from the sixth world. He felt it was time to prepare a new body for himself, as a precaution.

The projection of Lan Ji appeared in the room. Even though Lan Ji was currently controlling a Thunder Fighter in battle, the fourth generation artificial intelligence’s computing power was extremely strong, omnipresent, able to handle multiple tasks at the same time without being affected.

"Hello, master, welcome to use the Cradle of Life," Lan Ji’s sweet voice sounded.

"I want to create a new body, using my own blood to extract genes, plus silver exotic fruits and middle-grade gene potion," Li Yi said, waving his hand, and the last few lantern-sized silver fruits along with the middle-grade gene potion appeared next to the Cradle of Life.

"Do you want to undergo gene programming?" Lan Ji asked, "The Cradle of Life can combine master’s genes with Good Wings, the father beast, and Jiao dragon’s genes, and blend them with the energy of the silver fruit to create the most perfect body currently possible. According to precise calculations, the success rate is seventy-five percent."

"What, become a monster? No, I don’t need those," Li Yi immediately refused.

Although gene programming is good, the artificial intelligence Lan Ji neglected the most important factor: the adaptability of the soul.

Only a body cloned from one’s own genes would have the highest compatibility with his soul, just like his original body. If other genes were added, the body’s mutation could decrease the adaptability of the soul, and who knows what chaos could arise then.

Of course, gene transformation has its benefits too; although it turns you into a half-human half-beast, it significantly enhances the body’s potential.

"Okay, master, starting the life nurturing process now," Lan Ji started to operate the machine, collecting Li Yi’s blood, and extracting energy from the silver exotic fruits.

Only a moment had passed, and the Cradle of Life glowed with silver brilliance, dazzlingly beautiful, and a new body was being nurtured within it, which, to Li Yi’s surprise, had even stronger Divine Bloodline than himself - no, not just stronger, the purity of the bloodline was unbelievably high.

It turned entirely silver.

"Energy insufficient, nurturing process slowing down, estimated time, twenty-eight, forty-nine...fifty-six..." However, at this moment, an alarm sounded from inside the Cradle of Life.

"Energy insufficient?" Li Yi’s expression changed: "What energy is lacking?"

"Unknown silver energy is insufficient," Lan Ji spoke.

"I knew it," Li Yi’s mouth twitched immediately.

Before, the nobles of the sixth world used this Cradle of Life only to nurture ordinary bodies, but now he was nurturing a body with a Divine Bloodline, which was certainly not easy.

But now that he had invested so much, he absolutely could not let his efforts fall short.

Li Yi then took out all the silver exotic fruits and threw them into the machine for energy extraction.

After a large amount of silver exotic fruits entered the machine, the silver energy surged again, the brilliance intertwined, and the new body was quickly nurtured. During this, there were yet reminders of insufficient nutrients, and Li Yi had to send large amounts of Transcendent nutrient solution to serve as nutrition.

He thought this would end it, but the machine again reminded him of insufficient energy, and only after asking Lan Ji did he learn that this time, a massive amount of cosmic energy was needed.

This made Li Yi, who was nurturing a body for the first time, quite frustrated.

With no other choice, Li Yi had to stay next to the Cradle of Life, channeling cosmic energy into it. Fortunately, he had now awakened his Divine Bloodline and possessed a fragment of a miracle item, making the cosmic energy abundant. If it were an ordinary cultivator, acquiring such cosmic energy would be a challenge.

This channeling continued for an entire day.

However, this day was not without results; he saw a body of an approximately one-year-old baby taking shape. The baby’s body was crystal clear, woven with silver light, extraordinary and divine, and naturally attuned to cosmic energy. With every heartbeat, a large amount of cosmic energy was drawn towards it, as if it inherently possessed a Cultivation Skill.

However, Li Yi was worried about the cosmic energy contamination on Earth, constantly guiding pure cosmic energy and not daring to slack, fearing the new body could be contaminated.

But it could be foreseen.

The potential of this new body was absolutely terrifying.

After all, all the Divine Fruits had been used up.

"Too slow," Li Yi glanced and couldn’t help but twitch his mouth.

At this rate, it would take him at least over ten days of nurturing.

No.

It wasn’t necessary to wait until the body grew to twenty years old.

Even growing to seven or eight years old could work, but at that age, Li Yi would just be a child.

"Moreover, the energy needed increases towards the end. Based on the resources in my hand, I probably can’t support it for seven or eight days," Li Yi thought to himself.

Previously he had beautiful ideas of using the Cradle of Life to nurture mythical creatures, but now it seems impractical. Let alone the issue of energy supply, and also the nurtured body lacking a soul would just be a vegetative person. If it’s just to raise a mythical creature for consumption, that would be too uneconomical.

The concept of energy conservation is destined to make you lose money,

unless the thing you’re trying to nurture has some peculiarity, otherwise, it’s simply not worth it.

However, although the dream has shattered, the value of the life cradle is still immense.

Li Yi persisted until the third day like this.

Looking at the three-year-old baby, he sighed helplessly because at this time, Lan Ji reminded him again that there was insufficient energy, and this time, the missing energy was silver, a special kind of energy.

But the silver exotic fruits in Li Yi’s possession had all been used up, and he really couldn’t afford to care for the baby anymore.

If I admit defeat now, can I get half of the resources back?

"Energy is insufficient, the nurturing speed is slowing down..." Lan Ji said with a smile, her voice pleasant to the ears yet gave Li Yi a headache.

Having no choice, he took out a huge silver peng bird from his magic storage artifact.

The enormous size immediately filled the entire floor.

Although the silver peng bird had been dead for some time, its body was still fresh, and its entire body shone with silver light. Living in the land where gods lay bones, it had consumed countless exotic fruits; had it not been struck dead by golden lightning, Li Yi wouldn’t have been able to kill it at all.

"This is the last source of energy, after this is consumed, we shall see how far it can nurture, I can’t afford this anymore," Li Yi said.

"Absorbing new unknown energy," Lan Ji remarked.

Then a tendril extended from the cradle of life and upon touching the silver peng bird, it started turning into a pool of liquid that spread continuously, eroding it and drawing out the energy from the body to feed it into the machine.

The once robust silver peng bird now began to shrivel at a visible rate, and the silver glow on its body also dimmed.

Every bit of its essence was being plundered by the life cradle.

Fortunately, with the energy supplied by this peng bird, Li Yi could breathe a sigh of relief.

Because the body of the peng bird contained not just the silver bloodline power of the god, but also abundant Qi-Blood essence, as well as the huge cosmic energy residing in its flesh and blood.

"Looking at it, it should be fine for a few days," Li Yi remarked.

Seeing this, Li Yi immediately instructed Lan Ji to stop the nurturing process as soon as the energy was fully absorbed; he had already been drained financially by this new body and couldn’t afford to nurture it any longer.

"Alright, Master," Lan Ji still wore a smile, her voice sweet.

Li Yi let go, stepping on the body of the peng bird, squeezed into the bathroom to take a bath, rested for a bit, then put on his Jiao Dragon Armor, and left the room, ready to ask how the Sky Tipping event was progressing since there had been no noise from outside in two days, and he was somewhat uneasy.

When he reappeared in the lobby on the first floor, he saw that a lot of people had already gathered there.

"Li Yi, you’ve finally completed your cultivation, if you didn’t come out now, I was about to go up and find you. Zheng Gong said that according to the Monitoring Bureau, the Sky Tipping event will happen either tonight or tomorrow morning. We need to be prepared to face this wave of impact," Lin Yue immediately approached and said.

"Sister Lin, I know, Lv Jue already told me about it. The people have been settled properly, and supplies are also fully stocked. Since the Sky Tipping event hasn’t started yet, I took care of some personal matters," Li Yi responded.

"How are things over at the Four Seas and Eight Continents?" Lin Yue asked.

Li Yi replied, "Of course, it’s all taken care of."

Lin Yue thought for a moment and said, "If it really comes down to it, how about we move now? I’m worried that if something happens, it might be too late to move. Let’s go find a place to take refuge first, and once we’re sure there’s no danger here, we can come back."

"That might be a plan," Li Yi said.

But Zhao Lingfu immediately came over and said, "Lin Yue, this plan won’t work. If we leave now, it’s as if we’re telling everyone in Tianchang City that we are planning to escape. That will certainly cause a large number of people wanting to leave with us. Once it gets out, everyone will scatter chaotically, which will surely affect the city’s defenses; we can’t bear such a responsibility."

Li Yi’s expression instantly changed; he could imagine it—a city of millions of people, moving en masse towards the dangerous area of Ghost Street. He could not control such a scenario.

Moreover, no one knows how the future will turn out. If his actions cause the city to become chaotic and lead to massive casualties, he definitely couldn’t bear that responsibility.

"Zhao Lingfu is right, now one hair moves the whole body, we should wait until after Sky Tipping," Li Yi said.

Lin Yue also reacted, she felt a bit relieved and then whispered, "It’s fortunate that you haven’t leaked the existence of the cross-border point, otherwise, if the news had leaked, we’d be doomed and probably couldn’t even escape."

Li Yi nodded in agreement.

He wasn’t that noble; protecting the people around him in such a big disaster was already his utmost effort.