An immortal once blessed my head, tying my hair and granting me the path to longevity. Armed with an IBM z15 supercomputer—featuring 190 CPUs, 40 terabytes of memory, and 12.2 billion transistors...
The natal magic weapon is the most important magic weapon for a cultivator. Even if a cultivator can possess many magic weapons, he cannot shake the importance of his natal magic weapon.
A cultivator's natal magic weapon is unique and has a very close relationship with the cultivator. It is nourished by the golden elixir all year round and has much stronger growth potential than other magic weapons.
Generally speaking, a cultivator will either regard the strongest attacking magic weapon or defensive magic weapon as his life-long magic weapon, which is related to the cultivator's positioning of himself.
The natal magic weapon of the Xiangjian cultivator is definitely his natal flying sword.
Some monks who value their lives will treat defensive magic weapons as their life-saving magic weapons, which will give the monks extremely strong defensive capabilities.
Li Shiming did not have any particular boundaries for his own positioning. In terms of attack, he had his clone Li Yuanba, a sword cultivator. To a certain extent, he did not need to worry too much about the problem of insufficient attack power.
Of course, his current clone Li Yuanba is separated from him and belongs to the side of good and evil, but he is focusing on the future, not the present.
Li Shiming wanted to refine IBM z15 into his life-saving magic weapon, but he didn't know whether he could succeed. The main reason was that IBM z15 itself was too strange.
He decided to give it a try first. If it succeeded, that would be fine. But if he couldn't refine IBMz15 as his natal magic weapon, then he would choose other magic weapons again.
The 'Five Rhythms Qi Refining Art' contains a method for refining one's own magical treasure. Every inherited practice method not only has a practice method, but also has extremely comprehensive supporting related secret methods.
His spiritual thoughts entered the computer room and turned into a pattern of recognizing the master. In order to refine his natal magic weapon, the master's mark was required.
In the computer room, a recognition pattern composed of mental power emerged and flew towards IBMz15 according to his will.
He quietly sensed the status of IBM z15 and waited for IBM z15 to change.
However, when a recognition pattern was sent out, IBMz15 did not react at all.
He did not give up. Since IBMz15 followed him into this world and was bound to him in a special way, it should be possible for him to deepen this binding relationship and make it his own magic weapon.
The most important thing is that he has an inexplicable confidence in refining IBMz15 as his lifelong magic weapon.
He would not be disappointed because he failed several times in trying to obtain the master recognition pattern. At least he would keep trying until he ran out of options.
Li Shiming's mental strength was extremely strong, but after he had sent out hundreds of recognition patterns in succession, he still felt tired.
He stopped, as if he sensed something vaguely.
His consciousness checked the computer room space. The IBM z15 was still in the same place, without any changes. But he always had a feeling that this IBM z15 was different from before.
The IBM z15 has lost something. Although it can still be turned on and run, it seems to be missing something.
As for what was missing, even through micron-level detection, he could not find out what was missing.
His mind returned to his body, and in the center of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Formation' formed by five golden elixirs, an illusory IBM z15 appeared there.
This illusory IBM z15 was like a dead object, but it really made him feel that it was his life-saving magic weapon.
This life-saving magic weapon is estimated to be called out from the body, and it can't kill people when it is used to hit them. But if it cannot be opened, its only use is to hit people.
Li Shiming thought of something, and as his mind moved slightly, five electric currents flew out from the five golden pills and were input into the illusory IBMz15.
With the support of electricity, the IBM z15, although still in an illusory energy state, began to operate like a normal large server.
After a moment, the virtual IBM z15 started up normally after self-check. The startup time was so fast that even a home desktop computer, let alone a large server, could not be so fast.
However, he thought of the IBM z15 that had turned into his life magic weapon in his body. In this energy state, it was normal for it to start up so quickly.
At the moment when IBM z15 was turned on, Li Shiming only felt that his brain was connected to IBM z15, and this connection was completely different from the previous one.
Before, he regarded his five senses as peripherals of IBM z15, but now he has become one with IBM z15, and his brain is one of the CPUs of IBM z15.
He felt that his mind was divided into 191 parts. Each CPU of the IBM z15 was like a real brain of his. There were a total of 190 CPUs, plus his original brain, giving him 191 brains.
This isn’t some kind of multitasking; this is a real, physical brain.
Each brain can use multitasking without affecting each other.
He even felt that his previous performance utilization of IBM z15 had not even reached one percent.
Now, when he thinks of a certain piece of knowledge, he will immediately call up all the relevant data previously stored in IBMz15 and conduct analysis and judgment. The whole process is completed in an instant.
Not to mention his memory. What he sees with his eyes, hears with his ears, smells with his nose, etc., everything he perceives can be stored in real time in the IBM z15 and can be called up at any time in the future.
IBMz15's help in formation is most obvious. Thinking of this, he called out his own formation, the Starlight Sea.
The formation starlight sea was somewhat obscure due to the previous spiritual extraction, but when the formation starlight sea appeared, Li Shiming quickly discovered that the formation starlight sea had established contact with IBMz15.
IBM z15 was like discovering a new plug-in, and the Starlight Sea formation became an extended part of IBM z15.
The starry sea of the formation, which was originally dim, recovered a little after a while.
Li Shiming sensed it, he could not describe his control over the formation at this moment, he looked at the formation in the cave training room, and saw the spiritual power lines of the formation without any hesitation.
The spiritual power line also marked the location where one wanted to break the formation. Of course, the formation in the cave training room was not enough to be used as a reference. The formation here was originally set up by him.
However, in the process of observing the formation in the training room, the feeling of seeing through the formation is just like looking at the scenery at other times. All the secrets of the formation are there, and one can see everything about the formation without any thought.
He extended out a divine thought, and soon extended out a second divine thought, a third divine thought, and so on until the one hundred and ninety-first divine thought.
In terms of spiritual consciousness, he felt the power of IBMz15, his life-saving magic weapon.
The spiritual thoughts of a normal cultivator can be dispersed, but after being dispersed, the spiritual thoughts are equivalent to the cultivator using multiple minds to control them. No matter how strong the multitasking ability is, it cannot be compared with concentrating on one thing.
Under normal circumstances, a cultivator can use his spiritual power for many purposes and at the same time disperse it, but in battle, since a small influence may determine victory or defeat, the cultivator's spiritual power is all focused.
Even if it is not just one, it is using related secret methods to control multiple divine thoughts with one.
Just like the Nine Palace Sword Formation he used before, he controlled the other eight flying swords by controlling the central palace sword.
There are not many cultivators who want to control nine flying swords freely, and usually they practice the method of splitting the spirit to achieve it. However, the number of split spirits that can be created by the method of splitting the spirit is also limited.
The divine thoughts sent by Li Shiming were sent out by every CPU of IBMz15 plus his own brain.
This means that every brain controls a divine thought, and each divine thought is equivalent to a state of concentration.
This allowed him to control 191 magical instruments during the battle, and this was not the maximum. If he added in the 'Divine Mind Transformation Technique' he practiced, the number of magical instruments he could control could reach thousands.
As his mental strength continues to increase and his practice of the 'Division and Transformation of Mind' deepens, the number of magical instruments he can control will continue to increase.
Although it is not necessarily the case that the more controllable magic weapons one has, the better, but the suppression of the number of magic weapons is a great advantage in the battle of cultivators.
Of course, this idea is still just his fantasy. When he reaches the Jindan stage, the only magical weapon that is useful to him is a first-level magic weapon. Since he embarked on the path of cultivating immortals, he has killed many cultivators and obtained many magic weapons.
But asking him to produce 191 magic weapons would not be something he could do in a short period of time, let alone thousands of magic weapons.
Even with so many magical weapons, it is questionable whether his spirit can withstand it.
The research on IBMz15, this magic weapon, still requires long-term experiments to know its function. This is a long-term task.
During the next month, Li Shiming did not do anything else and devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.
He had saved up quite a few third-grade elixirs to assist in cultivation. Every time he opened a furnace of elixirs, the reward alone was more than what the cultivators who paid for the elixirs gained.
The 'One Hundred and One Points Alchemy Technique' allowed him to reap extremely rich rewards in alchemy, enabling him to provide for his own cultivation and that of his clone Li Yuanba.
Of course, when he reached the Golden Core Stage, it was impossible for him to use top-grade third-level elixirs for cultivation. The main reason was that it took ten furnace openings to produce one top-grade third-level elixir, and this was also the case when the elixir was of the same type.
Except for the period when one is just beginning to become a master of alchemy, when the four kinds of third-grade elixirs that are refined for cultivators are refined continuously, there is rarely an opportunity to refine the same elixir continuously for the rest of the third-grade elixirs.
During the period when Li Shiming was in seclusion, Shushan Sect was extremely lively. The five heavenly thunders that occurred when Li Shiming completed the elixir became a hot topic of discussion among the cultivators.
Finally, Elder Su stepped forward and said that Li Shiming was unfamiliar with the pill-making process, so he released four corpses to share the power of the heavenly thunder when the pill was being made, which caused five heavenly thunders to fall at the same time.
Some people believe in this explanation, while others do not, but no monk would try it out.
Because the risks of making pills are already extremely high, if they really have to use corpse refining to share the heavenly thunder, then Li Shiming will have the means to survive the extra thunder, but they will not be able to survive.
As for the fact that Li Shiming was refining corpses, it was known to the outside world as early as after Li Shiming killed Jindan Fang Lu in Huoyun Valley.
Moreover, Li Shiming has many refined corpses, which is considered an anomaly among the righteous.
But no matter how many corpses Li Shiming refined, no cultivator would blame him, because Li Shiming's refined corpses did save his life and helped him kill Jindan Fang Lu.
As a master alchemist, what's wrong with using some means to save your life? Who would care if the master alchemist has more means to save his life?
Li Shiming was not famous for his fighting ability. In the eyes of many cultivators, it was just that Li Shiming was too timid to fight alone, so he sacrificed many refined corpses to protect himself.
Comparing the previous and subsequent news, the five heavenly thunders that occurred when Li Shiming made the elixir were forcibly explained, and it was finally over.
The most discussed topic afterwards was whether Li Shiming could continue his previous magical alchemy ability and maintain his record of never failing to make a third-grade high-level elixir.
You must know that compared to the early Jindan cultivators who take the third-grade elixir with a third-grade elixir as the main ingredient, the ones who hold the most power in the sect are the middle and late Jindan cultivators, and they have always been extremely concerned about Li Shiming's growth.
Finally, Li Shiming succeeded in making the elixir, so they naturally hoped that Li Shiming would refine a third-grade high-level elixir for them.
For the same third-grade elixir, if Li Shiming could maintain his original level, then the effect of the third-grade high-level elixir he refined would be equivalent to that of several third-grade elixirs refined by other alchemy masters.
This other alchemy master is actually Elder Ma in the sect, but due to the master-disciple relationship between Li Shiming and Elder Ma, no one will say it clearly.
Elder Ma would not care. In fact, with Elder Ma's alchemy level, although the third-grade elixir he refined was not as high-quality as Li Shiming's, it was still good compared with other alchemy masters. As long as he wanted to take on alchemy business, he would have no trouble doing it.
After all, Li Shiming is only one person. Moreover, Li Shiming had already announced the principles of alchemy to the public long ago. The furnace would be opened only once in many days. This limited the output of Li Shiming's alchemy, and not many cultivators could qualify.
The biggest problem at the moment is whether Li Shiming can maintain his alchemy level, so the sect's middle and late Jindan elders are all watching to see when Li Shiming will come out.
Elder Su and Elder Ma stood outside Li Shiming's cave. A month had passed, and today was the day Li Shiming would come out of seclusion.
They had to come because a bunch of their old friends came to them and the personal connections made it impossible for them to refuse.
The formation of the cave was activated, and Li Shiming walked out of the cave slowly.
Elder Su and Elder Ma were both stunned when they saw Li Shiming. They could hardly believe their eyes.
They extended their spiritual thoughts extremely impolitely, and only after their spiritual thoughts swept over Li Shiming did their expressions become somewhat normal.
Li Shiming's aura when he walked out of the cave was very strange. Judging from his aura alone, it was definitely the aura of a peak early Golden Core state.
Li Shiming has only been practicing for a short time, how is it possible that he has reached the strength of the early stage of Golden Core in just one month.
No matter what kind of natural resources and treasures there are, they cannot achieve such an effect.
That is, they used their divine sense to investigate and discovered that although Li Shiming's aura had reached the peak of the early Golden Core stage, the total amount of spiritual power in Li Shiming's body had stabilized at the initial stage of the Golden Core stage.
Although being able to reach the stable level of the initial stage of Golden Elixir in just one month is already considered an extremely fast cultivation speed, it is still understandable considering Li Shiming's identity as a master alchemist with a lot of third-grade elixirs to help him.
This is easier to understand than reaching the peak of the early Jindan stage in one month, so the expressions of Elder Su and Elder Ma returned to normal.
But although his expression returned to normal, the shock in his heart was not so easy to calm down. No matter what, Li Shiming's strength at this moment was definitely comparable to that of an early Jindan cultivator who had practiced for decades.