"Oh, right, there's also that piece of scrap iron!" Li Shiming was joking when he said scrap iron. Although the sword-shaped metal looked broken, the terrifying aura it contained made him terrified.

He could be sure that this sword-shaped metal was of third-grade material.

Compared to the third-grade sword base that the clone used to practice the 'Sword Demon Secret Book', the aura of this sword-shaped metal is even stronger.

This sword-shaped metal is of course of extremely high quality. It is Elder Baili's main attack magic weapon. If it weren't for Elder Baili's misjudgment, how could he have allowed the main attack magic weapon to withstand the close-range explosion of two tons of solid explosives.

As a result, the internal structure of the main attack magic weapon was completely destroyed, and even the connection between the magic weapon and Elder Baili was forcibly destroyed.

Now, what Li Shiming holds in his hand are only the most basic third-grade metal materials.

With his knowledge, he certainly couldn't recognize what kind of third-grade material this was.

A normal magic weapon, in addition to a third-grade main material, will also add some high-grade auxiliary materials to give the magic weapon more characteristics.

The sword-shaped metal is in its current state, so even a weapon maker capable of refining magic weapons cannot accurately determine its material.

The explosion beyond imagination affected the material of this magic weapon, and this impact caused subtle changes in the material.

Li Shiming was a little hesitant. He had originally lost interest in the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon', but he had his clone practicing the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon' anyway.

It's not that he really had no ideas about the 'Sword Demon Secret Book'. The 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Art' he practiced had the same body-refining effect as the 'Sword Demon Secret Book'. The body refining of the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Art' relied on the Buddhist Vajra power, while the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' relied on external objects.

This external object determines the power of the 'Sword Demon Secret Book'. If the materials of a top-grade magic weapon are used, then the upper limit of the cultivated 'Sword Demon Secret Book' will be determined by the hardness of the top-grade magic weapon.

It seems that this is strong enough, but after Li Shiming saw the physique of the clone, and he has the "Vajra Body Protection Magic Skill", this level of improvement is unnecessary.

If he had not encountered the right materials, perhaps he would not have had any idea about the 'Sword Demon Sword Canon'. But now it is different. A piece of third-grade metal is placed in front of him. Isn't it God's will for him to practice the 'Sword Demon Secret Canon'?

If you don't accept what heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences.

Li Shiming was so familiar with the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' that he would control his clone to practice it every day. Even though his original body had never practiced the 'Sword Demon Secret Book', his familiarity with this technique had reached an extremely high level.

He held the sword-shaped metal in his hand, and the spiritual power in his body followed the route of the "Sword Demon Secret Book". After a long circle in his body, the spiritual power had turned into an extremely strange energy and came to the palms of his hands.

This strange energy, when in contact with the sword-shaped metal, seemed to produce no change at all.

But as he possessed spiritual consciousness, he was able to sense that the sword-shaped metal was being decomposed by strange energy.

Of course, the speed of decomposition was extremely slow. From the first decomposition work until the end of the practice of the "Sword Demon Secret Book", there was no visible change on the sword-shaped metal.

Li Shiming could feel that the strange energy brought back some substances, which were spreading throughout his body.

This is a long-term practice and the results cannot be seen in a short period of time.

After finishing the practice of the 'Sword Demon Secret Book', he ate two spirit fish and began to practice the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic'.

He had to be 100% sure that the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Skill' would not conflict with the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' in the slightest.

If there is a conflict between the 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art' and the 'Sword Demon Secret Book', he will need to make a decision and choose one of the body-refining techniques and give up the other.

Although the name of "Sword Demon Secret Book" contains the word "demon", this demon has nothing to do with demon cultivation. The meaning of the word "demon" is more to represent the difference between this technique and orthodox sword cultivation.

The Sword Demon Secret Book refines the sword with the body, and refines the body with the sword. A piece of high-quality metal is refined into the body, and the body is strengthened with the help of high-quality metal.

High-quality metals will grow together with the cultivator, and the connection between them will become deeper and deeper in this process. After reaching the Jindan stage, they can directly become a powerful magic weapon of the Jindan stage.

Of course, the reason why it is called "demon" is that it is different from the concept of sword cultivation.

No matter how high the quality of the sword base cultivated by the "Sword Demon Secret Book" is, it cannot be used as a flying sword like a real sword cultivator.

This is a sword-holding technique. The sword base of the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' has the greatest power only when it is held in the hand. After being disconnected from the cultivator's body, the sword base is nothing more than high-quality material, and loses the effect of mutual enhancement between the sword base and the cultivator.

What Li Shiming was interested in the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' was its ability to improve physical fitness. Using third-grade metal to improve physical fitness could theoretically strengthen the body to the level of third-grade metal.

The Vajra Force circulates in the body, constantly strengthening every part of the body. The Buddhist sound produced by IBMz15 in the ears is many times stronger due to the "Magic Sound Lotus".

This forced him to transfer part of his consciousness to the computer room to prevent himself from being affected by the Buddhist sound.

The 'Ice Heart Jade Mind Technique' provided him with a defense against mental influences, and combined with the transfer technique, he was still not affected by the Buddha's voice.

Stronger Buddha sounds produced stronger Vajra power. Pure Vajra power continuously flowed into his body from the relics, and his physical condition was constantly improving.

There was no effect at all. The substances absorbed into the body by the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon' did not conflict with the Vajra Force at all. On the contrary, it seemed to have accelerated the process of body refining.

The effect of this training was stronger than any previous time. He couldn't tell whether this was a coincidence or the two body-refining techniques were influencing each other.

Li Shiming stood up, and all the bones in his body made a popping sound like frying beans. He clearly felt that he had grown taller. Through the precise calculation of IBMz15, his height increased by 1.13 centimeters.

The last item of training was the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique'. Ever since he had spiritual thoughts, the vortex of spiritual energy in his body had grown tremendously and had reached the middle stage of the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Originally, such an effect would require at least several years of hard practice.

When he started practicing the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique', he discovered something was amiss. It wasn't that something bad was going to happen, but that his practice speed had increased again.

He has done research on the speed of cultivation, and found that the cultivation speed of his clone's spiritual roots is 100, which is a basic standard for cultivation.

Then with his three spiritual roots plus the gold spiritual root with a value of 81, if he specializes in gold-attribute spiritual power, he can theoretically reach an extreme speed of 27 points.

In previous research, all he needed to do was to keep approaching the theoretical value of 27, and there was no possibility of exceeding this value.

During this practice, Li Shiming discovered that his practice speed reached 27.01.

Due to the promotion of spiritual thoughts in cultivation, he has recently practiced the main technique "Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique" and almost reached the theoretical value of 27.

But today was different. He easily broke through the theoretical value that he thought he would never be able to exceed.

If this value had not been calculated by IBM z15, which never makes mistakes in calculations, he would have thought it was false.

You should know that this theoretical value is the limit of a cultivator's practice. Even if a cultivator takes elixirs to assist in his practice, he is only approaching this limit.

Otherwise, the world of immortal cultivation would not attach so much importance to natural spiritual roots. If the gap in spiritual roots could be made up by resources, the large amount of resources in the Qi Refining Stage would not be of high value to the sect, and there would be no problem in fully training a few disciples.

But the problem is that the spiritual roots of the cultivator are related to the limitations of perception and absorption. Take Li Shiming for example. Since he started practicing, he has never taken any elixirs to assist in his practice. That's because his own practice speed is fast enough, so he has not considered this issue.

Even if there were a large number of elixirs, and they were top-grade, top-level elixirs, and there was no need to worry about the residual elixir poison, the most he could do was to push his cultivation speed to a theoretical value of 27.

Coupled with the influence of other factors, except for those with natural spiritual roots, most cultivators are unable to reach their theoretical limit of cultivation speed.

However, this research, which Li Shiming believed to be conclusive, was broken by himself today.

Although the extra speed is only 0.01, the significance is very different.

This means that he can break through the limitations of his spiritual roots and achieve stronger cultivation results.

Why on earth did his cultivation speed reach 27.01? In this regard, he first considered the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon'. The biggest difference between today's cultivation and his previous ones was the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon'.

The 'Sword Demon Secret Book' absorbed a trace of the third-grade sword-shaped metal, and perhaps this was the reason why his training speed was improved.

Of course, his guess is always just a guess and cannot be confirmed, because even if the speed of practice will be improved later, it is also impossible to prove that it has nothing to do with the simultaneous practice of the "Sword Demon Secret Book" and the "Vajra Body Protection Magic Skill".

Practicing the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' and the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Skill' at the same time is also one of the changes he has made today.

IBMz15 issued a warning. Li Shiming's spiritual thoughts probed into the blindfold. Through the monitoring probe, he saw the familiar emerald green flying boat and the beautiful figure standing on it.

He hurried back to the cave and activated a small mountain protection formation.

He came to the pier specially designed for flying boats to dock, and met the pair of beautiful eyes full of autumn water. He saw the worry and joy disappearing in Yin Shilan's eyes.

"You're here!" Li Shiming felt that his mouth was a little clumsy at this moment, and he was not as talkative as when he was communicating in the identity jade disc.

He felt the care from Yin Shilan. It felt good to have someone care about him.

"I'm here!" Yin Shilan looked at him quietly and replied softly.

There was no news from Li Shiming for five days. At first she thought that Li Shiming was in seclusion, but later she became more and more worried.

On the surface, it seemed that the matter was over for Baili Jinyan, but she knew that Elder Baili would not let her go so easily. News came from the Holy Ice Sect that several Holy Ice Sect monks who had received her were all missing.

Even in the Tianhai Sect, many monks have disappeared inexplicably in recent times.

Although some monks seemed to have nothing to do with her, she sensed that there seemed to be some unknown connection, and she believed in her feelings.

More importantly, she used the authority of her identity jade disc to discover that Li Shiming was not on Eagle Island.

So after she lost contact with Li Shiming, she became more and more worried. This worry made her let go of her pride and wait outside Yingzui Island every morning.

"Come in first!" Li Shiming said as he stepped aside.

The two of them sat in the cave, and Li Shiming took a glass and poured a cup of tea for Yin Shilan.

"I've been feeling uneasy these past few days, worried that something might happen to you!" Yin Shilan took a sip of the spiritual tea, looked up at Li Shiming, and spoke as if murmuring or talking to herself.

At this moment, Yin Shilan was no longer the fairy who was high above everyone else. There was tenderness in her eyes, and she was as fragile as a mortal.

"I'm sorry for making you worry. I should have informed you in advance!" Li Shiming felt a little apologetic. He continued, "This time I went..."

"No need to say!" Yin Shilan stretched out her hand to stop him from saying the next word.

Yin Shilan handed over a talisman. The pattern on the talisman was not a rune, but a bow pattern.

This talisman gave Li Shiming a great sense of oppression, even stronger than the oppression given to him by the third-grade metal.

It was like facing a Jindan stage cultivator. Although Li Shiming was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, he had the experience of sensing a Jindan cultivator at close range.

He also had a talisman like this, which had a white jade cup drawn on it, with the same powerful aura and the same sense of oppression.

"What is this?" Li Shiming did not take the talisman. He knew that this talisman must be extremely precious, so precious that it was unimaginable.

He knew that this talisman should be Yin Shilan's life-saving item. Although he had never asked about Yin Shilan's background, he guessed through Feizhou and Baili Jinyan's pursuit that Yin Shilan must have an identity similar to Baili Jinyan.

"This is a talisman. It is made from a part of the power separated from the magic weapon of a Jindan cultivator. If you carry it with you, you can withstand any danger!" Yin Shilan saw what Li Shiming was thinking and put the talisman in front of Li Shiming without giving him a chance to refuse, and said softly.

"I have the means to protect myself, so I'd better keep you by my side, so I'll feel more at ease!" Li Shiming shook his head and said.

"I have many ways to save my life, and this one is not a big deal. Please don't make me worry, okay?" Yin Shilan's eyes were filled with tears, and she pleaded in her voice. Li Shiming was a little flustered by her tenderness.

Li Shiming picked up the talisman and felt Yin Shilan's determination.

When Yin Shilan saw him pick up the talisman, with tears in her eyes, she chuckled.

For a moment, Li Shiming felt dazzled, just like the first time he met Yin Shilan. The fairy in the rain now smiled beautifully for him.

He felt that the entire cave seemed to be bathed in spring light, with flowers blooming, and the sky and the earth lost their color in the face of this smile.

"Thank you!" Li Shiming stretched out his hand and gently pressed on Yin Shilan's soft hand. He would not do this on normal days, but at this moment, the fairy had fallen into the human world, and the fairy's smile intoxicated him, making him stretch out his hand involuntarily.

The two hands touched with a slight tremor. Yin Shilan did not pull her hand back, and the blush on her face made her inner shyness more apparent.