CHAPTER 459: CHAPTER 287: THE HIGHEST DEFINITION OF CONNECTIONS_3

The ’mountaintop’ was several hundred meters wide. Because Lin Li was being very careful, it took over ten minutes for him to barely reach the edge.

At the edge, a few hexagonal flowers with an ice crystal-like texture were growing. The petals were like blades, and from a distance of ten meters away, one could hear a faint sword-like resonance when they swayed slightly.

Lin Li chose to avoid them for now.

At a part of the mountaintop’s edge where everything seemed normal, Lin Li took out the action camera hanging from his chest and then manifested the "Invisible Sword," letting it attach to the action camera.

It was a bit harder to adapt than using a pen, but since it wasn’t too large, after a few minutes, the action camera on the ground flew up following Lin Li’s thoughts.

Without a drone, and not daring to manifest and use his armor now, this was the best ’drone’ for Lin Li.

Then, Lin Li controlled it to fly beyond the mountain’s edge.

No purple lightning targeted it, at least not right now.

The camera slowly descended, disappearing from Lin Li’s view, as he blindly controlled it to rotate three hundred and sixty degrees.

Then he let it fly back into his hand.

He checked the recording just now.

Sure enough, beneath his feet was the Inverted Mountain. Beyond the mountaintop’s edge, there was nothing, just rocks retracting inward.

In a sense, this mountain didn’t really provide a path for normal people to climb up or down.

Lin Li frowned, pondering for a few minutes, and chose to return to near the hexagonal flower at the edge.

The "Invisible Sword" detached from the action camera, attached itself to a protein bar, and then flew toward the flower.

When it was still several centimeters away, with the flower giving a sway, the protein bar suddenly split in two, forcing the "Invisible Sword" to detach.

"Damn it."

Looking at the extremely smooth cross-section, and how the cutting process made no sound while the protein bar’s remains continued to be sliced, Lin Li felt chagrined.

"Boom!" Another bolt of purple lightning.

Lin Li took a deep breath and chose to temporarily return to the center of the mountaintop.

It felt safest here.

Sitting cross-legged, Lin Li checked the system.

This time, it was still a six-hour limit, no different from going to the apocalypse world on Monday.

Then Lin Li began deep breathing exercises to intake spiritual energy, but he didn’t dare immerse his mind, instead, keeping a constant watch on his surroundings.

An hour passed like this.

Even without fully focusing on absorption, Lin Li had already absorbed spiritual energy worth at least one "Low Grade Spirit Stone."

The divided attention yielded this information: in one hour, the number of fallen lightning strikes was difficult to count, nearby there were eight strikes, none of which hit the mountain or its vicinity, all landing on the ground between mountains.

No signs of life were seen, whether human or beast, and the system hadn’t triggered any missions.

During the second hour.

The result was similar, just nine lightning strikes.

After sitting for two hours, Lin Li finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the sample was insufficient, it could be tentatively concluded that the purple lightning couldn’t strike the mountain.

Lin Li didn’t dare wear the title [Lightning Attractor] for even a second now.

The purple lightning seemed at least ten meters in diameter, and Lin Li didn’t really think his meager Purity and Righteousness Thunder-Controlling Body could handle it.

"First of all, this should be the Cultivation Realm." Lin Li started muttering to himself, analyzing the situation.

"So, is this system going to swap my ’hometown’ every month?"

"That does fit the system’s style, since even in modern settings, it would issue tasks for two worlds."

"But what about December? Will I return to the apocalypse world, or go to...the all-female world?"

"Going to an all-female world... that wouldn’t be good..."

Lin Li chuckled to himself, then shook his head to dispel the laughter.

For now, he needed to concentrate on the present.

"The Cultivation Realm is more meaningful compared to the apocalypse world."

Lin Li’s plan tonight was originally just to activate the mecha to explore the apocalypse world, to see if he could trigger any tasks.

But that was quite vague, essentially just aimless wandering.

The Cultivation Realm was different.

Just the spiritual energy alone was an immense harvest.

Focused on absorbing spiritual energy, Lin Li could absorb an amount worth two to three "Low Grade Spirit Stones" in one hour.

But that’s definitely not the limit. The factor limiting Lin Li’s absorption speed was the concentration of spiritual energy around — Lin Li still had the "Spiritual Qi Absorption Speed Increased by 600%" buff, making his absorption speed abnormal compared to ordinary people.

Right now, there wasn’t enough spiritual energy to absorb.

But solving this problem was simple: Lin Li still had a "Spirit Gathering Celestial Array."

The reason Lin Li hadn’t manifested it and hadn’t manifested the combat armor to fly out and explore the mountain was the same — fear of triggering an anomaly.

The Cultivation Realm represented endless resources, but also endless dangers.

Though Lin Li considered himself a cultivator in the modern world, actually coming to the Cultivation Realm, he realized the difference between ace troops and regular troops like Lin Yanbing did.

Take the flower at the edge of the mountaintop; Lin Li believed it was likely a rare heavenly material.

But he didn’t dare to have any thoughts about it.

Not even daring to get close, only probing from a distance with the "Invisible Sword."

The end of the protein bar made Lin Li feel he would receive the message of "Substitute Jade-faced Buddha" shattering if he rashly approached.

Many fortunes, cultivation is the threshold.

Without sufficient cultivation, coveting is courting death.

A dung beetle would not choose to push an elephant’s dung, that’s the idea.

The heavenly thunder outside the mountain also made Lin Li not dare to use mecha to fly out.

For safety’s sake, staying on this mountaintop was the best choice.