On the black sea surface, Li Shiming was flying closely along the water. The Spirit Turtle Shield emitted a faint light, protecting his entire body and allowing him to move forward at full speed without any worries.
Beside him, the main spirit of the 'Soul Controlling and Soul Separation Technique' was almost three times larger than before. Upon closer inspection, the outline of a body and a head could be seen, and the facial features on the head could be vaguely seen.
This was the result of the main spirit devouring the souls of the Foundation Establishment cultivators remaining at the explosion site. Before, he was still helpless because of the main spirit's weakness, but now he doesn't have to worry about the main spirit at all.
While flying, he was receiving IBMz15's research results on the previous island formation.
The base of the Holy Ice Sect was located very close to the Tianhai Sect, so the formation it set up took a lot of thought and used many of the Holy Ice Sect's important formation methods.
This greatly broadened IBMz15's knowledge of formations. After a short period of research, IBMz15 had completed the replication of the formation of the island.
The ability to replicate the island's formation was partly due to the powerful computing power of IBM z15, and partly because Li Shiming entered the cave and used his spiritual thoughts to approach the formation, collecting enough data for IBM z15 to study.
Li Shiming received the new formation knowledge transmitted by IBMz15, and unknowingly he fell into a state of enlightenment.
The source of his knowledge of formations mainly came from the formation inheritance given by Yin Shilan, which was also the most comprehensive formation system knowledge.
After that, every time Yin Shilan communicated with him, in addition to benefiting Yin Shilan, he also benefited a lot. The questions raised by Yin Shilan were all the key points of the Tianhai Sect's formation.
Although there were restrictions on the sect, Yin Shilan only revealed part of the content, which also allowed Li Shiming to get a glimpse of some of the sect's formations.
Another source of Li Shiming's knowledge of formations was the Yun's Trading Company, from where he obtained a large amount of messy formation knowledge. This formation knowledge had no system, and some was even just a fragment of research on a certain formation.
But it was the combination of so much formation knowledge that formed his unique formation system.
After obtaining the Holy Ice Sect's formation knowledge transmitted by IBMz15, his unique formation system completed the most missing parts.
In his consciousness, a brilliant starlight was forming.
Every bit of starlight is a bit of knowledge that he possesses. Although the range of this starlight is not too large, it also forms a small starry sky of its own.
Every bit of his knowledge of formations sparkled in the starlight, making his brain exceptionally clear.
He finally understood why there were extremely complex formations. You have to know that those powerful formation masters did not have the help of IBMz15. They relied entirely on their own calculations and analysis to create formations like the sect's mountain protection formation.
Now, this piece of starlight gave him the answer. All his knowledge of formations was completely integrated in the starlight. As long as he did not deviate from the knowledge scope of the starlight, he could easily replace calculations with past experience and get the results directly.
He did not contact IBMz15 during his comprehension state, but he felt that as long as he had learned the formation, he would no longer need the help of IBMz15 and could clearly understand the data of each formation node.
As long as he wanted, every detail of the formation could be judged by him through experience and analysis.
His mind wandered in the starlight of his own formation. Every time he came into contact with a ray of starlight, he had a new feeling. He felt as if he had become a part of the starlight of the formation.
The Starlight of the Formation is him, he is the Starlight of the Formation.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Shiming felt tired and came out of his state of perception.
The moment he opened his eyes, the light in them was filled with the enchantment of starlight.
"We've reached Eagle's Beak Island!" Still in the dark sea, he found himself next to Eagle's Beak Island. He didn't know when he came back.
Although he was in a state of comprehension, his subconscious mind still accurately led him back to Eagle's Beak Island.
He was somewhat eager to meet Yin Shilan and ask him what was going on with the starlight in his brain.
But looking at the time, I can only wait until tomorrow noon to contact you through the identity jade disc.
He went directly back to the underground space through the passage on the seabed.
He liked staying in the underground space more and more. The cave above was just a cover. Even if the Holy Ice Sect came to find him and broke through the small mountain protection formation, they could only look for him in the cave.
Being in an underground space with surveillance equipment set up, he can detect intruders at any time and prepare in advance.
"If two tons of gas can't kill the golden elixir, then use twenty tons. If twenty tons doesn't work, then use two hundred tons!" After returning to the underground space, he sat on the ground and recalled the action, muttering to himself.
To be honest, he was frightened. He had placed two tons of solid explosives under the ground of the cave.
And when the explosion occurred, he saw Elder Baili and the Foundation Establishment cultivator standing on top of the solid explosive.
It can be said that at the time of the explosion, Elder Baili and the cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage endured 100% of the strongest power of the explosion. It is not even accurate to say 100%, as the environment of the cave and the protection of the formation caused the explosion to still be greatly amplified.
The more contained the explosion, the more powerful it is.
But even so, Elder Baili still managed to escape. Although he escaped in a somewhat embarrassing manner, given the power of the golden elixir, he believed that Elder Baili's injuries were not serious.
"Let's see what's in the storage bag first!" Li Shiming no longer considered things beyond his imagination. The Jindan cultivator was an existence he could not imagine. He took out the storage bag which was completely black.
He injected spiritual power into the storage bag, but the storage bag did not react at all.
"Broken?" He thought of a possibility, and this possibility was very high.
Under the explosion at that time, with the power of two tons of solid explosives, it was just luck that the storage bag did not turn into ashes.
But he was still a little unwilling, so he switched to spiritual thoughts. This time it went very smoothly and the spiritual thoughts entered the storage bag.
The storage bag was about fifty cubic meters in size, and there were not as many things inside as he had imagined.
A long sword, a shield, a small bell, a wooden flying boat, more than five thousand low-level spirit stones and more than five hundred mid-level spirit stones, and several bottles of elixirs.
There were no jade slips and no unnecessary debris. It was obvious that this foundation-building cultivator had a mild obsessive-compulsive disorder. All items in the storage bag were neatly arranged without any useless items.
Li Shiming took out the long sword. He practiced the "Sword Controlling Technique" and had a strong interest in long swords. He was also a beginner in swordsmanship.
"If this isn't a magic weapon, could it be a spiritual weapon?" As he held the sword in his hand, he felt something was wrong.
As for magical instruments, having studied the art of attaching magic, he naturally had a deep understanding of it. Whether it was the material of this sword, the fluctuation of spiritual energy, or the art of attaching magic to it, it all went beyond the scope of magical instruments.
A spiritual weapon is a magical weapon that can only be used by cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage. It is an upgraded version of a magical weapon and is driven by spiritual thoughts, so it is called a spiritual weapon.
Of course, another way to say spiritual weapons is that magical weapons have spirits and can resonate with the spiritual thoughts of cultivators, thus making them more powerful.
Li Shiming did not feel any spirit in the spiritual sword in his hand at this moment, but he also had spiritual thoughts.
The several foundation-building cultivators he had met, none of them used spiritual weapons. These spiritual weapons were probably only possessed by a few of the foundation-building cultivators.
Wei Yun is the direct disciple of Elder Baili, who is in the Jindan stage. Although Elder Baili treats this disciple far less well than he treats his own son, Wei Yun's treatment is still better than that of most foundation-building cultivators.
This is also the reason why Foundation Establishment cultivators want to become disciples of Jindan Elders. Even the rewards given by Jindan Elders are resources that ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators dream of.
Li Shiming also didn't know the level of the spiritual weapon, as this knowledge was beyond the scope of a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.
It was even more impossible for him to take the spiritual weapon to inquire, as taking such a treasure out would cause big trouble.
He tried to transfer a little spiritual power into the spiritual weapon, but he stopped instantly because the spiritual power he transferred into the spiritual weapon was like a drop in the ocean, without causing any ripples.
If you want to use spiritual weapons, you will probably have to reach the foundation-building stage before you are qualified to use them.
All of a sudden, he lost all interest in spiritual weapons. Not to mention the foundation-building stage, he didn't even know how long it would take him to reach the late stage of Qi refining.
After putting away the spiritual sword, he picked up the shield, which was also a spiritual weapon, and then picked up the small bell, which was also a spiritual weapon. Both the shield and the small bell were defensive spiritual weapons.
This time it was Li Shiming's turn to be a little confused. This foundation-building monk had two defensive spiritual weapons in his storage bag, so why didn't he use them during the explosion?
He didn't believe that this foundation-building cultivator had more spiritual weapons. The number of spiritual weapons here alone surprised him.
Besides, using a defensive spiritual weapon might help you suffer less damage, so how could you not use it when you are in danger? This is totally unreasonable.
Li Shiming would never have thought that the reason why Wei Yun did not use the two defensive spiritual weapons was because of his master, Elder Baili.
Wei Yun retreated behind Elder Baili. He believed that Elder Baili could withstand any danger.
Indeed, the first wave of explosions was blocked by Elder Baili, whose magic weapon was destroyed and who was injured.
Elder Baili thought that there was still a golden elixir nearby, ready to attack at any time, so he used the blood escape method to escape, leaving Wei Yun to bear the remaining power of the explosion.
Poor Wei Yun, he didn't even use his defensive spiritual weapon and was exposed to the shock wave of the explosion, dying on the spot.
Li Shiming took out the wooden flying boat again, which he could use.
The flying boat is a special magical weapon. Most of the flying boats do not require spiritual power provided by monks, but fly through energy such as spiritual stones.
You have to know that traveling by flying boat usually involves flying very long distances, and the monks must stay in the strongest condition and be ready to deal with possible dangers at any time.
This requires that the flying boat does not occupy the spiritual power of the cultivators. Only when necessary, the cultivators provide more spiritual power to speed up the flying boat.
The flying boat in his hand was a single-person flying boat.
"Finally, I have one that works!" he said to himself with a smile.
But he couldn't help but stop halfway through his words, thinking of something serious.
This foundation-building cultivator was attacked together with Elder Baili, who was in the Jindan stage. If the Holy Ice Sect knew that he was holding this flying boat, what would be the consequences?
Although he had been targeted by the Holy Ice Sect for a long time, the level of the target was different.
In the past, the most that was done was to send someone to assassinate someone.
If he was determined to be involved in Elder Baili's injury, he could not guarantee whether Elder Jindan would personally take action against him.
As for the sect's protection, he couldn't even guarantee it. Would the sect offend the Jindan cultivator for the sake of his little mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator?
"What is going on!" he muttered as he stuffed everything back into the storage bag in annoyance.
He was too lazy to even look at the medicine bottle. He had never heard of the names on the bottles. Those should all be medicines that would only be used by foundation-building cultivators.
The elixir would not reveal anything, but would he, a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, dare to use such an elixir?
One pill can make him self-destruct. He cannot withstand the pills that a foundation-building cultivator can withstand.
The only thing he could use was the spirit stone. He took out the spirit stone and put it aside, and put the storage bag into the machine room to use as a warehouse.
At this time, he also understood what was going on with the storage bag. This storage bag was probably also a spiritual device, which was why it had no response to spiritual power, but could be easily opened with spiritual thoughts.
He didn't dare to use the spoils of the Foundation Establishment cultivator, but the spoils of the two Saint Ice Sect's late Qi Refining cultivators were of no use to him.
From the information collected through wiretapping, Elder Baili and the Foundation Establishment cultivators all guessed that the two late Qi Refining cultivators were going to assassinate him, so it was normal for the items of the two late Qi Refining cultivators to be in his hands.
As for the revenge from the Holy Ice Sect, as long as they are not from the Jindan or Foundation Establishment stages, he can still withstand it.
Li Shiming took out two storage bags, and the two storage bags became normal, and the spiritual power input was enabled.
The things inside were just like those of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage. There were not many things, just two top-grade magical swords. Unfortunately, they were of the water and ice types. He did not have any water spiritual roots, so using a top-grade magical sword with water attributes would weaken its power a lot, and the spiritual power required to drive it would also increase.
Two top-grade magical shields with the same water and ice attributes, worth about two thousand low-level spirit stones in total.
Fortunately, there was a crystal jade flying boat, so Li Shiming's efforts were not in vain.
He took the jade flying boat in his hand and saw the mark of the Holy Ice Sect on it. This boat should not belong to the two late Qi Refining cultivators, but to the Holy Ice Sect.
This is normal, and it is the same in Tianhai Sect. When a cultivator needs to go to a faraway place to perform a mission, he can apply to the sect for a flying boat.
Applying for a flying boat sect requires risk assessment. Flying boats are expensive and you can’t get one just because you want to.
These two late-stage Qi-refining monks from the Holy Ice Sect were on a mission under the orders of Elder Baili, so it was not a problem for them to apply for a flying boat from the Holy Ice Sect.
Holding the jade flying boat in his hand, a chill spread in the air.
Li Shiming did not show any disdain this time. He used the "Dragon's Finishing Touch" technique and began to refine the jade flying boat.
Even though he had the blackbird wings to help him fly, it was not as convenient as a flying boat. Besides, he had always had a dream of sailing on the sea of clouds like Yin Shilan.
Of course, it is also a wonderful thing to have Yin Shilan by your side drinking tea while boating.
It didn't take much effort to refine the jade flying boat. This kind of sect flying boat is very easy to refine.