"Junior Brother Li, congratulations!" Yu Yongan handed a jade bottle to Li Shiming and said.
Li Shiming did not participate in the auction of the last super-grade magic weapon. That super-grade magic weapon was a defensive magic weapon, and in his opinion, it was not as practical as the Spirit Turtle Shield.
With his strength and the spiritual energy he injected, he would probably not have to fight with others for long before he collapsed due to lack of spiritual energy.
What Yu Yongan sent was the Foundation Establishment Pill that he had bought, which cost him 123,100 spirit stones.
To be honest, this price is really not expensive, at least that's what Li Shiming thinks.
But in fact, this price is already far beyond the normal auction price. Two Foundation Establishment Pills are auctioned every five years, and every cultivator knows very well the value of the spirit stones of the Foundation Establishment Pill.
If the price exceeds the cultivators' psychological range, they will not bid for it even if they still have spirit stones in their hands.
Another reason was that Li Shiming's bid was too high. He did not treat the spirit stones as spirit stones at all, but directly increased the price by ten thousand at a time.
If there wasn't a force that kept raising the price, perhaps it could be acquired within a hundred thousand spirit stones.
Li Shiming knew the identity of the monk who raised the price. He understood it just by looking at his surname: the monk's surname was Yun.
Li Shiming used his spiritual thoughts to scan the inside of the jade bottle. This jade bottle was made by the sect specifically for important elixirs. It could preserve important elixirs for a long time, and the foundation-building pill was placed intact inside.
"Senior Brother Yu, I will give you the spirit stone!" he said as he was about to take the spirit stone.
"Junior Brother Li, don't worry about the spirit stones for now. Just deduct them from the subsequent transactions. The company needs you to provide 500 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision Second Generation'!" Yu Yongan stopped him with a smile.
This time, Qianlong Trading Company's event was a complete success. All participants were extremely satisfied, and two hundred 'Second Generation of Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' were retained by the monks.
Qianlong Trading Company is planning to hold a small auction every week, a large auction every month, and regular introductions of new products every day.
The monks are more in favor of Qianlong Trading Company’s sales method because it is so safe and saves a lot of trouble.
"I will prepare five hundred 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision Second Generation' within three days!" Li Shiming did not insist and nodded in agreement.
He did not keep Yu Yongan, who was still excited, for long. After returning to the cave, he went directly down to the underground space.
He came to a machine, which was a computer with two CPU chips and 64G memory, and functioned like a programmable switching system.
Currently, all data from 'Thousand Miles of Mutual Vision' and 'Thousand Miles of Mutual Vision Second Generation' will first pass through this computer and then communicate with the core of the sect's formation.
In particular, the group function on the 'Qianli Hushi Second Generation' is completely controlled by this computer.
As for data security, all stored data is stored in the hard disk in hexadecimal data format.
Without the corresponding knowledge accumulation, even if this computer is handed over to a Jindan cultivator, he will not be able to discover the secrets inside it.
Of course, Li Shiming would not check every chat, but the biggest function of this computer is to serve as a search engine. Once the chat content involves some words he has set in advance, it will trigger an alarm.
Anyway, this world has no concept of information security. Besides, even in the previous life, those technicians who managed the chat servers could see the users' chat content, right?
He checked the computer room again, and found that his clone was absorbing spiritual energy.
The concentration of spiritual energy in the computer room is somewhat exaggerated, only slightly worse than the cultivation environment of the inferior spiritual veins exclusive to the underground space.
The clone's body was no longer holding the original spirit gathering plate, but a large spirit gathering formation formed by thirty-six formation flags.
The same is true for the Spirit Gathering Array, but its effect is more than twice that of the original Spirit Gathering Plate.
Under such circumstances, the clone was finally able to barely guarantee the conditions for his cultivation.
In addition, after such a long period of observation, the drop of essence and blood at the heart position of the clone has shrunk by more than half.
The clone's spiritual power and physique were greatly enhanced, making Li Shiming once again feel the huge gap between the second-generation cultivators and ordinary cultivators.
But the good news is that after a few months, the clone will be able to completely digest and absorb that drop of essence and blood, and then it will be able to leave the computer room.
On the other side, in the lobby of the Yun's Trading Company headquarters, five elders from the Yun's were sitting in their respective seats in order of importance.
Yunze had no seat and could only stand at the bottom.
"Clan leader, I have already said that I agree with the Holy Ice Sect's proposal to hand Li Shiming over to the Holy Ice Sect!" The old man sitting at the upper left said in a deep voice to the Yun clan leader sitting in the middle.
The reason why Yun's Trading Company changed its attitude towards Li Shiming was because there were two different voices in the clan.
This was because the Holy Ice Sect had contacted the Yun's Trading Company, hoping to lure Li Shiming out through the Yun's Trading Company and hand him over to the Holy Ice Sect, and the Holy Ice Sect offered huge benefits for this.
It was no big secret that Li Shiming had traded a large amount of materials with the Yun Company, and the intelligence network of the Holy Ice Sect naturally discovered it.
The benefits of handing over Li Shiming were so great that some of the senior executives of Yun's Trading Company agreed to the proposal of the Holy Ice Sect.
But the patriarch of the Yun clan did not want this to happen, because once this matter was exposed, it would be a disaster for the Yun clan.
It was precisely this kind of indecision on the part of the top management that caused the people under the Yun family to treat Li Shiming worse than before, and they no longer wanted to complete some orders that did not earn spirit stones.
Yunze has limited say in the Yun Trading Company. He wants to speak for Li Shiming, but he does not have the power to do so.
"I've gotten intelligence that Li Shiming will deliver a batch of 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision Second Generation' to Qianlong Trading Company in the near future. That will deal a heavy blow to our current business!" another old man added.
The Yun clan leader looked at the four old men and sighed helplessly in his heart. The matter must be resolved.
"Yun Ze, you have always been the one in contact with Li Shiming. This time, taking advantage of the opportunity of 'Thousand Miles Mutual Viewing the Second Generation', you should ask Li Shiming out!" The Yun clan patriarch looked at the standing Yun Ze and said lightly.
Once a decision is made, the Yun clan leader is a decisive person.
Which force doesn't have some dirty deeds, even though it is almost impossible to take action within the sect.
But that is almost, not absolutely. Monks need privacy, and the sect's large array surveillance is only for public places, and its effect is very limited inside buildings.
"Clan leader, we can still fight for Li Shiming!" Yunze said with his final effort.
"Yun Ze, all you have to do is follow orders!" the old man at the side shouted.
"Yes, Yunze, listen to my order!" Yunze no longer objected and bowed to obey the order. He continued, "Based on my understanding of Li Shiming, it is not easy to ask him out. He is extremely vigilant and sensitive!"
Yunze was well aware of this. Li Shiming rarely left the sect too far. He was either doing tasks within the sect's formation or in his own cave.
Li Shiming was happily working on a task with Yin Shilan at this time. The task was given to Yin Shilan and shared with him, and they completed it together.
At the peak of the sect, Li Shiming used his authority to open an illusory passage, revealing the hidden interior.
He looked back at Yin Shilan, who smiled and nodded. He entered the passage first.
This is a scene that no other cultivator in the sect can see except the formation masters who have been given permission.
Densely packed spiritual power lines are drawn on the mountain. These spiritual power lines are protected by the sect's formation and hidden deep in the formation.
His and Yin Shilan's task is to check whether these spiritual power lines are unobstructed, identify problems and repair them in time.
The two of them entered the interior of the formation, and Li Shiming used his spiritual sense without any hesitation to explore the surrounding spiritual power lines.
Yin Shilan also sent out a spiritual thought at the same time, and the two spiritual thoughts intertwined with each other, causing both of them to be distracted at the same time.
The spiritual mind is a combination of touch, hearing, and vision, and it also carries spiritual energy. When it does not have the ability to attack, the spiritual mind is almost the same as one's own body.
The two spiritual thoughts quickly separated, but the feeling of spiritual connection just now lingered in the hearts of the two for a long time.
In the quiet moment, words always seem pale. The two looked at each other, with a watery smile lingering in their eyes.
Neither Li Shiming nor Yin Shilan asked the other how the other had spiritual thoughts, especially Yin Shilan, who knew very well how rare spiritual thoughts were during the Qi Refining Stage.
Yin Shilan's spiritual thoughts were stimulated by Elder Yin using a third-grade spiritual object. That third-grade spiritual object was a disposable consumable, and its price was so high that Elder Yin could not even get a second one.
Yin Shilan was only happy in her heart, happy for Li Shiming. She was very worried about Li Shiming's cultivation. Li Shiming possessed spiritual thoughts, so at least his success rate in advancing to the foundation-building stage could be greatly improved.
The two intermediate formation masters possessed spiritual thoughts, and both of them were intermediate formation masters who could condense the sea of starlight in the formation. Their speed in checking the formation was extremely fast.
With the cooperation of the two, they advanced quickly inside the sect's formation.
"Ahead is one of the 128 nodes of Zhenfeng. Be careful and don't get too close to the node!" Yin Shilan looked at the location and reminded Li Shiming.
Li Shiming has been keeping in touch with IBM z15, and his spiritual thoughts are constantly collecting data from the surroundings.
What they were checking was the situation of one of the 128 nodes of Zhenfeng. The complexity of this one node alone was beyond imagination.
They used their spiritual senses to check all the way, but found that it was less than one-tenth of this node.
If we use spiritual thoughts to check the small mountain protection formation on Eagle's Beak Island, the workload would have required the small mountain protection formation to be checked repeatedly several times.
Li Shiming was able to discover traces of antiquity from the spiritual power lines of the formation. Perhaps some of these spiritual power lines were drawn by a formation master thousands of years ago.
You should know that the Tianhai Sect has existed for more than ten thousand years, and the sect's formation has been constantly strengthened. After generations of efforts by talented formation masters, it has become the current huge super formation covering a thousand miles.
Li Shiming restrained his spiritual thoughts. Yin Shilan knew more about the sect's formation, so he naturally believed Yin Shilan's reminder.
Continuing forward, the terrifying fluctuations of spiritual energy were restrained by the formation, just like a wild horse being put on a rein and controlled.
When one of the 128 nodes of Zhenfeng was seen, the blinding light made it impossible to look directly at it.
Fortunately, both he and Yin Shilan were using their spiritual senses to observe, so they were not affected by the light.
In the light, an ancient formation flag was swaying with the fluctuations of spiritual power. Every time the flag shook, it would trigger a surge of lightning.
The dazzling light was caused by countless flashes of lightning.
Li Shiming also made battle flags, but compared with this one, the flags he made were like children's toys.
"What a great work!" Yin Shilan stared at the battle flag with her beautiful eyes. No matter how many times she saw it, she would be attracted by it.
She loves formations, and apart from practicing, she has devoted all her attention to the study of formations.
She glanced at Li Shiming, who was also in shock, and the corners of her mouth curved slightly. Now she felt more worried.
Li Shiming did not dare to use his spiritual thoughts to get close to the formation flag. The scene observed from a distance by his spiritual thoughts was recorded by IBMz15. The formation flag was so complex, with dense patterns and lines on the surface, that it contained too much unfamiliar formation knowledge.
This is the true core system of the Tianhai Sect's formation, which can only be accessed by high-level formation masters.
"I really don't know how it was made!" The more Li Shiming observed, the more amazed he was.
"No one in the sect can make it now. Only a formation master in the Jindan stage can make such a formation flag!" Yin Shilan said in a voice transmission.
This was the secret of the sect's formation. Even though she was inside the safest formation where the secret was least likely to be leaked, she still informed Li Shiming through voice transmission.
Since Li Shiming has the authority to enter this place, he naturally has the right to know this information.
Li Shiming smiled bitterly and shook his head. It seemed that these were still too far away from him, but he also hoped to learn something from the battle flags.
Zhenfeng's formation corresponds to thunder. If we can research special formation runes related to thunder attributes, it can completely replace the current power generation.
Just looking at the flags of the node in front of us, the terrifying amount of electricity contained in it is almost comparable to the large power plants in the previous life.
Passing by the formation flag, the two continued to check other spiritual power lines.
During the process, it was discovered that a section of spiritual power line had been damaged due to its age.
Yin Shilan took out the materials prepared in advance and asked Li Shiming to operate them. This was a rare opportunity to participate in the repair of the sect's formation. Even if it was just to repair this small spiritual power line, they would gain something in their understanding of the formation.
Li Shiming was not polite either. He used his spiritual thoughts to hit the disordered spiritual power and pushed it away.
The ink, which is a mixture of various spiritual objects, evenly repairs the original spiritual lines as the spiritual pen draws.
This seems simple, but it actually requires a lot of calculations. Otherwise, the disordered spiritual power alone will be enough to keep the formation master busy for a long time.
The damaged spiritual power lines also need to comply with the operation of the sect's formation, which means Yin Shilan is watching over them. Otherwise, he would not be qualified to do the repair work on his first mission.
When he released the disordered spiritual power, it seemed to have found the right path and flowed along the new spiritual power lines.
Yin Shilan was not surprised that he could complete the task easily on his first try. Yin Shilan knew how strong his computing ability was. That was without the Starlight Sea formation. Now with the support of the Starlight Sea formation, it was even easier for him to deal with such small problems.