Li Shiming came out of a cave on the lower level of Xunfeng Mountain, and his senior brother who was in the late stage of Qi training politely saw him off.
This was the eighth mission he had completed to set up a magic array for the sect's monks. All the magic array tasks he chose were those that rewarded him with good deeds. Even if the good deeds he was rewarded with were a little less, he would still accept them.
Because the magic array he arranged can bring out the power of the array to the extreme, he is now somewhat famous among the disciples in the late Qi Refining period who have a need for magic arrays in the sect.
Unfortunately, twenty days had passed and he had only accepted eight good deeds tasks and gained four hundred good deeds. He felt that the speed of earning good deeds was still too slow.
This is also related to the fact that the tasks accepted are all for cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage, and the good deeds that cultivators in this period can perform are limited.
The reason why he spent a lot of time and energy accepting tasks within the sect was because he was worried.
During the twenty days since he returned to the sect, he spent all his time in the underground space except for practicing the "Spring Breeze Nourishing Things Technique" every day when he was on Eagle's Beak Island.
Han Tianlei's interrogation has ended. The spiritual plant husband who died on Eagle's Beak Island had nothing to do with him, and the sect has not yet found the murderer.
Li Shiming knew that the spirit man must have died as a result of the revenge of the Holy Ice Sect, but he didn't know whether the Holy Ice Sect knew that they had killed the wrong person.
Every time he returned to the sect, he would check the surveillance camera records to see if there were any suspicious monks approaching Eagle's Beak Island, but he had never discovered anything new.
This does not mean that it is safe. Fortunately, Eagle's Beak Island is very close to Jiufeng, and a stronger small mountain protection formation has been replaced, so the possibility of being easily broken like before is not high.
"Junior Brother Li, walk slowly!" Li Shiming was about to go to Lingji Pavilion, but was stopped by a cultivator when he was about to leave Xunfeng.
The one who called him was a cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage. His temperament was not like that of ordinary cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage. He gave him a strange feeling that he was easy to get along with.
"Sorry to bother you, Junior Brother Li. My name is Yunze and my family runs the Yun's Trading Company in the sect!" Yunze introduced himself with a smile.
This is a businessman. Li Shiming finally understood why he had this temperament.
"I wonder what Senior Brother Yun wants to say?" After listening to Yunze's introduction, Li Shiming still didn't understand why he wanted to see him.
Yunze was not surprised to find that Li Shiming seemed to have never heard of Yun's Trading Company.
Although the Yun's Trading Company is considered a relatively large trading company among the Qi Refining cultivators in the sect, considering the time when Li Shiming joined the sect and the fact that Li Shiming lives alone outside the sect, it is normal that he does not know about the Yun's Trading Company.
"The Yun's Trading Company is recognized by the sect and is a trading company that specializes in providing various resources to cultivators. Cultivators can use spirit stones to purchase resources!" Yunze pointed out the key point.
Li Shiming became interested. Ever since Qiu Tan disappeared, his way of purchasing resources was cut off.
However, during the current period, he did not dare to leave the sect's Nine Peaks too far, and was unable to purchase various resources on his own.
He was indeed short of supplies, from magic array materials to cultivation resources, he lacked everything.
The reason why he was doing the sect's mission with all his strength was to be able to gain more good deeds, and he planned to use the good deeds to exchange for some resources.
"Senior Brother Yun, I just needed a batch of resources, and you helped me out of my urgent need!" Li Shiming said with a smile.
"Junior brother, if you need anything, just tell me directly. The business department can purchase it for you and deliver it to your cave!" Yunze thought Li Shiming was being polite and was very happy to have made a deal, so he replied with a smile.
Li Shiming became a formation master and gained a little fame, which ordinary cultivators were not aware of.
Businesses that do business are naturally aware that formation masters can make a lot of spirit stones. Any formation master can earn a lot of spirit stones through his formation abilities as long as he is willing to take the time.
In addition, array masters are also big consumers of resources, and the research on arrays requires a large amount of array materials.
It can be said that every growing formation master is a potential customer of the company.
"This is what I want. Can you tell me when we can get it?" Li Shiming took out a paper list, handed it to Yunze and asked.
Yunze was slightly stunned. He did not expect that Li Shiming had already been prepared. At the same time, he was also glad in his heart. If he had not come to Li Shiming, this business would have been taken advantage of by other businesses.
The sect is recognized, and there are more than one business firms that can do business within the sect.
This type of business is completely different from the market town outside the nine peaks of the sect. The business only comes into contact with cultivators with potential, and while doing business, it is also considered an investment.
When potential monks need it, the company can provide services to the best of its ability.
When the potential monks grow up, they will become a help to the business.
At the same time, this does not affect the business's ability to make profits. A deal with a potential monk can equal the transaction amount of receiving dozens of monks in the outside market.
"Ten sticks of soul-fixing incense are not cheap. In addition, some of the items on the list are in stock, and the rest will take half a month to deliver. The materials for the magic array can be traded at any time!" Yunze explained while looking at the list.
"How many spirit stones do you need in total?" Li Shiming had a lot of spirit stones in his hands. Not counting the ones he got from Baili Jinyan, he still had more than two thousand spirit stones in his hands.
What he lacked was never spiritual stones, but good deeds.
"1,680 spirit stones. Except for the ordinary items, all other spiritual items will be delivered to the cave tomorrow morning. The ordinary items are considered gifts from the business. They will be delivered immediately when they arrive!" Yunze quickly calculated the total amount.
"Okay, this is the spirit stone!" Li Shiming took the spirit stone and handed it to Yunze.
This is within the sect, there is no possibility of deception. Yunze cannot afford it, and Li Shiming does not have to worry about such a thing happening.
The transaction is based on a contract that needs to be backed up in the identity jade disc. Once one party breaches the contract, the sect will intervene.
This is the benefit of doing business with a business recognized by the sect, which is why Li Shiming was happy to hand over the spirit stones.
"Contact me if you need anything in the future!" Yunze said with a sincere smile on his face, taking out his identity jade disc.
The two sides exchanged contact information, and after that Li Shiming could contact Yunze to order items at any time within a thousand miles of the sect.
Looking at Li Shiming's departing figure, Yunze showed a smug look on his face.
This time, he had to pay a favor to find out the exact location of Li Shiming's mission and stopped Li Shiming outside.
They got ahead of other businesses and recruited Li Shiming, a potential junior formation master, as their client.
With this order alone, he earned more than the value of ten favors he paid.
Li Shiming was also very happy. The cultivation plan he made for himself when he came back included the 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique', but he did not buy the Soul-Fixing Incense, the basic resource for cultivating spiritual thoughts, so he could not start formal cultivation.
The sect does sell Soul-Fixing Incense. After completing this mission, the good deeds he had were enough to exchange for some Soul-Fixing Incense. Unexpectedly, he met Yunze by chance and was able to buy Soul-Fixing Incense with spirit stones, which saved the consumption of good deeds.
The next morning, Yunze personally delivered the goods to Yingzui Island, where they were received by Li Shiming.
After Li Shiming got the goods, he immediately returned to the underground space.
Here, a machine tool is almost complete.
These days, in addition to practicing and completing tasks, he has been manufacturing this machine tool.
This machine tool is not an ordinary machine tool. To be more precise, it should be called an industrial mother machine.
Industrial mother machines are metal processing machine tools, which are generally machines that manufacture machines.
He had this plan long before he settled down, and now he has finally started the manufacturing work.
The design drawings of the industrial mother machine are archived in IBM z15 and are specially encrypted with a very high level of confidentiality.
Moreover, there were not only design drawings from China in the previous life, but also design drawings of foreign industrial mother machines. As for where they came from, he had no idea.
The industrial machine tool he chose is the most mature design, with a five-axis linkage double-swing milling head. The CNC part needs to be connected to and controlled by IBMz15.
There is no other way around this. Currently, he is unable to manufacture chips by himself, so the core CNC part of the industrial mother machine can only be replaced by IBMz15.
Without chips, many technologies in previous lives would not be possible.
However, apart from the data part, he can guarantee that the rest of the parts meet or even exceed the most precise machine tool standards in his previous life.
Because this machine tool was manufactured entirely within the machine room, he used micron-level control power and his clone used the third-grade sword base to carve it bit by bit.
No matter how complex the metal structure is, a third-grade sword base can be transformed into the smallest cutter, and under the control of micron-level consciousness, it can also achieve 100% micron-level precision.
This was something that was impossible to achieve in the previous life. Through the "Sword Control Technique" and the extremely sharp and freely changeable third-grade sword base, the most perfect processing was achieved.
Of course, the machine tool in front of us is not without defects, that is the problem of metal material.
He was unable to find all the rare metals that fully met the standards in order to produce the most qualified synthetic metal, which meant that the machine tool might deform slightly during the processing due to heating or cooling, thereby reducing the processing accuracy.
He has found a solution to this problem and is currently accumulating good deeds in preparation for purchasing the array master's knowledge of additional spells.
The so-called magic attachment is the most important step in the processing of magic tools. This step requires adding specific magic runes to the magic tools so that the magic tools have special effects.
The most basic magical runes include soul storage runes, acceleration runes, solidity runes, slowness runes, fire runes, frost runes, etc. Only magical instruments with magical runes can be considered real magical instruments.
And attaching magic requires extremely accurate sensing of the spiritual power of the magic weapon blank, and finding the point where the spiritual power is balanced on the blank to perform the spell. These are what the array master is best at.
Many weapon makers will seek help from formation masters to add spells. Of course, there are also weapon makers who can add spells on their own, but they are not common among weapon makers.
Because in addition to the accurate sensitivity to spiritual power, attaching magic also requires special learning of the attaching runes. Learning each rune is equivalent to learning a new spell, and its true meaning needs to be mastered.
Attaching magic to magic tools is a task that can earn you a lot of spirit stones among array masters.
During the Qi Refining Stage, the profit from attaching magic to a magical instrument is not much, but the demand is great. If one cooperates with a business for a long time, the profit can still be considerable.
When it comes to the foundation-building stage, the benefits of attaching the method once will be greater, but of course the difficulty will also be greatly increased.
Li Shiming wanted to learn the method of attachment not to earn spirit stones, but for machine tools.
No matter how unqualified the metal is, as long as he attaches a solid rune to it, there will be no worry about deformation even if the machine tool is under high temperature.
The cutting tools of machine tools are the simplest. You only need to customize the most common low-grade magic tools, and the shape will be according to the cutting tool size required by the machine tool. More sophisticated processing can be completely reprocessed in the machine room space with a third-grade sword base.
At present, this machine tool cannot be used, but just looking at it, Li Shiming feels satisfied.
This was the beginning of his own civilization. When this machine tool was turned on, all those complex processing machines could be manufactured one by one.
As for the raw materials that he was most worried about, with the help of Yun's Trading Company, most of them could be purchased. If there were any raw materials that could not be purchased, they could be replaced by other means.
This is a process of discovering and solving problems. He believes that by combining the technology and cultivation methods of the two worlds, it will be no problem to achieve his design goals.
Li Shiming took out the magic array materials he bought this time and remade some array flags. After the production was completed, he placed the array flags in the spirit vein for nourishment.
From now on, he did not plan to take out the Soul Gathering Plate again in the underground space. Every time the Soul Gathering Plate was taken out, it would affect the accumulation of spiritual power in the machine room space, thus affecting the progress of the clone's practice of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique'.
The Spirit Gathering Plate is still precious to ordinary Qi Refining cultivators, but for Li Shiming, who has mastered the knowledge of formations, he can completely use formations to replace it, and he can even do better.
Li Shiming took out the Soul-Fixing Incense, which was the most expensive resource in this order. One stick of Soul-Fixing Incense was worth one hundred spirit stones.
These ten soul-fixing incense sticks account for more than half of the spirit stones paid. From this, we can see how much the spiritual energy consumption is when practicing beyond the capabilities of the Qi Refining Stage.
During the Qi Refining Stage, Soul-Fixing Incense is generally used by cultivators to recover from a period of insanity after something went wrong in their practice.
Even cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage have a need for the Soul-Fixing Incense. The Soul-Fixing Incense is also effective for cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage and is suitable for recovery during spiritual cultivation.
So when Li Shiming ordered ten sticks of soul-fixing incense, Yunze thought it was for a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage who had gone astray, and he didn't expect it would be used to cultivate spiritual thoughts.
Looking at the Soul-Fixing Incense, Li Shiming hesitated for a while. He was considering whether to let his original body practice first, or let his clone practice first.
The clone had originally practiced the 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique', but the clone's original soul disappeared and was replaced by a new corpse-refining spirit. He didn't know whether the clone still retained some of its spiritual thoughts.
It is really that the current state of the clone is too special. Life and death are concentrated in one, and it can switch between life and death at will, which is beyond his understanding of life.
"Let the clone practice first!" Li Shiming made up his mind. A soul-fixing incense was sent into the computer room and ignited.
His consciousness also completely entered into the clone, and he began to concentrate his mental energy according to the records of the 'Bing Xin Yu Nian Jue'.
The fragrance of the soul-fixing incense was completely absorbed into the clone's body as he breathed, which made him feel his mind was extremely clear, as if a basin of water was poured over his head.