"It's still easy for an intermediate formation master to earn good merit!" After completing the inspection task, Li Shiming sighed.
Before, when he was a spiritual plant husband, he could only earn a few hundred good deeds in a season, which was still a profession that earned a lot of good deeds among the disciples of the sect.
But compared with the intermediate formation master, there is no comparison at all.
For the inspection task just now, he and Yin Shilan divided the merit equally, and each of them started with 500 merits.
Of course, not every cultivator can do this job. Even among the intermediate formation masters, there are only a few who can take on this kind of task.
In addition, he and Yin Shilan both have spiritual thoughts, so they can complete the task quickly. According to the normal inspection speed of two intermediate formation masters, it would take at least four or five days to complete this workload.
"What do you plan to exchange for the good deeds you earn?" Yin Shilan looked at Li Shiming with her clear eyes and asked with a faint smile.
"Of course it's to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill!" Li Shiming replied without hiding anything.
This is also what most of the monks in the sects are accumulating. A batch of foundation-building pills every five years is the hope of all the monks in the sects.
"In fact, as long as you become a high-level formation master, the sect can provide you with at least four foundation-building pills!" Yin Shilan knew more than him and pointed out the direction he needed to work towards.
Li Shiming's eyes widened. This was the first time he heard this news.
If he knew how many high-level formation masters there were in the sect, he would understand how much importance the sect placed on high-level formation masters.
In the huge Tianhai Sect, there are only three senior formation masters, but there are many areas that need to be maintained by senior formation masters.
A sect's large formation must have a senior formation master available to deal with sudden unexpected situations. This is why there is usually a senior formation master in the Lingji Pavilion of Duifeng.
In other words, in the Tianhai Sect today, there are only two high-level formation masters maintaining the huge formation.
As we saw before, the node array flag can only be repaired by a high-level array master.
"I will become a high-level formation master!" Li Shiming clenched his fists tightly. He must get these four foundation-building pills.
Yin Shilan had also made a decision in her heart, but she didn't tell him.
Yin Shilan was born with natural spiritual roots, and she could only have one foundation-building pill as a guarantee at most. The good deeds she had accumulated now were enough to exchange for one foundation-building pill.
She knew that Li Shiming had three spiritual roots, so she had to have as many foundation-building pills as possible to ensure that Li Shiming could be promoted to the foundation-building stage.
"Huh!" Li Shiming took out his identity jade disc, wondering why Yunze was looking for him at this time.
Logically speaking, he and Yunze and Yun’s Trading Company have already broken up, so why would Yunze contact him?
"What's wrong?" Yin Shilan asked with concern.
"It's Yunze's news!" Li Shiming answered while checking the information in the identity jade disc.
Yin Shilan was also a little curious. If anyone in the sect knew Li Shiming best, it would be her. She and Li Shiming would contact each other at noon whenever they had time.
In addition to exchanging experiences with formations, they also talked about miscellaneous things.
Yin Shilan had no intention of interfering in what Li Shiming did. This was the experience her mother told her.
Yunze invited Li Shiming to meet him as a friend.
Yunze was very smart. He didn't say anything else, but made the invitation based on their previous friendship. He knew Li Shiming's character well.
At the same time, the place he invited was Genfeng, which was theoretically extremely safe.
"Yun Ze asked me to meet him, so you go and complete the task first!" Li Shiming thought about it and agreed. He told Yin Shilan.
"Contact me if anything happens, and be careful!" Yin Shilan nodded in response.
She took off into the air first and floated away.
Li Shiming came to Genfeng, a courtyard at the foot of Genfeng Mountain, which was where Yunze had an appointment to meet.
His eyes flashed. This courtyard was a rare type of cave dwelling in the Nine Peaks. Most cultivators liked to build cave dwellings in the mountains.
The main reason why cultivators like caves is that they are more hidden and safer. The mountain protected by formations can block the prying eyes of other cultivators and reduce the fluctuations of spiritual power in the cave to the extreme.
In addition, with the formations arranged inside the cave, security and privacy are very strong.
The courtyard-style cave is more for the convenience of taking care of spiritual plants. Normal cultivators rarely choose this kind of cave with less privacy.
It can be seen that Yunze chose this place just to reassure Li Shiming.
But the more this happened, the more worried Li Shiming became.
However, judging from the formation in the yard, it is just an ordinary defensive formation that can isolate the spiritual power fluctuations inside, but it is also easy to break.
He had plenty of backup plans, so he didn't think too much about it.
"Junior Brother Li is here, please come in!" Yunze still had a sincere smile on his face, and said enthusiastically after seeing Li Shiming.
It seems that he was not affected by the "Thousand Miles Mutual Viewing the Second Generation" incident, but Li Shiming found more and more problems the more he looked at it.
Li Shiming pressed the object on his waist with his spiritual power and activated its function. It was a seemingly ordinary "Thousand Miles Mutual Vision".
"Brother Yun, you're too polite!"
Li Shiming entered the yard. He was careful not to enter the house and just stood in the yard.
"Senior Brother Yun is having a really comfortable time in the sect!" He took in the situation in the yard and said with a tone that sounded both sarcastic and envious.
There were four maids standing in the yard. There was no spiritual power fluctuation in the bodies of the four maids, but they were real maids.
But under Li Shiming's observation, he could clearly feel the blood flow in the bodies of the four maids. That kind of surging blood flow was not something that ordinary maids could do.
As he had made some achievements in body refining, he immediately judged that these four maids had all practiced body refining techniques.
The four maids with spiritual roots did not practice spiritual power techniques, but instead practiced more difficult body-building techniques. This is putting the cart before the horse.
Even if the spiritual roots of the four maids are poor, once they practice spiritual power techniques to form a spiritual energy vortex, their lifespans alone can be extended.
The consequence of practicing body-refining techniques instead of practicing spiritual power techniques is that your life span will be shortened. Without a body strengthened by spiritual power, practicing body-refining techniques by force will cost you your life at the cost of overdrawing your life.
Li Shiming could even analyze that the physical training techniques practiced by the four maids were very poor, which was related to his vision.
The 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art' and the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' that he practiced were both top-level body-building techniques.
"Junior brother, you are joking. I have prepared some good tea, which is in no way inferior to the spiritual tea you treated me with!" Yunze said with an unchanged expression, pointing to the stone table beside him.
On the stone table, there was a jade pot and two jade cups, and the aroma of spiritual tea emanated from the jade pot.
Li Shiming's spiritual sense swept across the yard, and except for the four maids, he did not sense anything unusual.
Li Shiming sat on the stone bench opposite Yunze. He wanted to see what Yunze was going to do.
For a private conversation like this, even if there was something going on, four unrelated maids should not be arranged to be present.
A maid came over and poured him a cup of spiritual tea.
"Such pure Suppressing Spirit Powder! If the quality of this spiritual tea was a little higher, it would really be impossible to detect it!" Li Shiming discovered the problem with the spiritual tea without even touching the jade cup, he said lightly.
With his five senses and spiritual awareness fully activated, IBMz15 analyzed the situation around him at all times and discovered the existence of the Suppressing Spirit Powder at the first moment.
Yiling San, a drug that can suppress the spiritual power in a monk's body, is usually used to detain monk prisoners.
"Junior brother, you have good eyesight. Why do you want to be an enemy of the Yun family business? Otherwise, we can really be friends!" Yun Ze was not angry because he was discovered poisoning. He said with helplessness.
Li Shiming couldn't help but feel awe-struck when he saw Yunze's expression. In the current situation, Yunze was absolutely 100% sure that he would keep him. Otherwise, just the fact that he poisoned his fellow sect member would be enough to put Yunze in the sect's jail.
"The Yun family is really good. They charged me 8,000 spirit stones when I purchased goods worth 5,000 spirit stones, and they also refused to accept orders that earn less spirit stones. I am wondering which force gave the Yun family some benefits to make them behave like this?" Li Shiming was really curious, and he wanted to get Yun Ze to talk.
"I know why you ask this question. Before you die, I will tell you the truth. The Holy Ice Sect wants your head, and the price they offer is too high, so high that the company cannot refuse. If you had not taken the initiative to break up with the company, the matter could have been delayed for a while!" Yunze shook his head regretfully.
In his eyes, Li Shiming was a dead man. He had a relationship with Li Shiming, so he wanted to let Li Shiming die knowing that he was dead, and also to end their previous friendship.
"Holy Ice Sect!" Li Shiming understood. He thought that since Elder Baili was in seclusion, the Holy Ice Sect would no longer pose a threat.
It seemed that Elder Baili had no intention of letting him go even during his retreat. The Holy Ice Sect had already started the action, but he was still unaware of it.
He was thinking about whether he should find an agent in the Holy Ice Sect and develop the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision Second Generation' there, so that he could monitor the Holy Ice Sect on his own.
"That's all I have to say. I'll give Junior Brother Li a ride!" Yunze poured the jade cup of spiritual tea in his hand onto the ground and said in a cold voice.
At the same time, Li Shiming felt the fluctuations of the formation coming from under the stone table, and then a strange fluctuation spread out from under the stone table.
He was just about to use his spiritual power, but found that he could not mobilize it at all.
Even the storage bag could not be opened. Within the range of that strange fluctuation, the spiritual energy in the void seemed to have disappeared.
Yunze had already expected this, so he didn't even move. Although he had also lost his spiritual power and was at the late stage of Qi Refining, he had lost all his fighting power.
He saw that Li Shiming had a look of confusion and panic on his face, and his smile couldn't help but carry a sense of superiority as someone who controlled life and death.
The four maids took out daggers from their waists at the same time. The daggers were all top-grade magical weapons. Since there was no need to consider injecting spiritual power, the daggers did not have any magic blessing. They were just top-grade magical weapon sword blanks.
However, top-grade magic weapon sword blanks are most suitable in this kind of forbidden spirit environment. On the contrary, the magic weapon that has been attached with magic will be affected by the forbidden spirit.
The four seemingly weak maids, when holding the daggers, the blood in their bodies flowed like a rushing river, which meant that their body training had reached a small level of success.
"Kill!" The four maids shouted in unison. Their dancing postures contained fierce murderous intent.
The four short swords transformed into four swimming dragons, blocking Li Shiming's body.
This is a secular close-combat sword technique that very few cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation would use, mainly because there are too few opportunities to use it.
The smile on Yunze's face grew wider and wider; this trouble was finally going to be solved.
Don't underestimate the arrangement here. This is the Yun's Trading Company's strongest means of dealing with cultivators. With the cooperation of four maids and a special formation, even cultivators at the peak of Qi Refining have been able to deal with them.
The four maids were trained as assassins from childhood, practicing physical training and swordsmanship.
In an environment where spiritual energy is restricted, they are more effective than cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.
Just as Yunze imagined, the four daggers stabbed Li Shiming in vital points.
Unfortunately, unlike what Yunze had imagined, the four daggers only pierced the skin and could not penetrate any deeper.
It would be fine if it was the heart or lower back, maybe Li Shiming had a protective armor inside.
But the sword that pierced Li Shiming's forehead clearly demonstrated the horror of his body.
The 'Vajra Body Protection Magical Skill' was also blessed by the relics of a senior monk who had cultivated the Vajra power and was given to him by the old monk Du Yuan. This allowed his 'Vajra Body Protection Magical Skill' to have reached the pinnacle of its current realm.
The Sword Demon Secret Book uses third-grade metal as the sword base. This kind of enhancement at any cost cannot be practiced unless there is the full support of the Jindan elder.
Asking the Jindan elder to pay the third-grade metal is something that even a direct disciple would not make such a huge contribution.
The third-grade metal is the material that the Jindan Elder uses to refine magic weapons, and magic weapons are the foundation of the Jindan Elder's strength.
Practicing two top-level body-building techniques at the same time was something that even Baili Jinyan couldn't do.
Li Shiming stood up slowly. He looked at Yunze coldly, then bared his sharp teeth, like a blood-sucking beast reviving.
The four maids quickly changed their moves and stabbed at him with their daggers again. As killers trained as death warriors, they would not give up because of one failure.
Either the target dies or they die.
Li Shiming was much stronger than them purely in terms of physique, and close combat was a pure skill, and the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' surpassed countless melee moves that were beyond the ordinary world.
Due to his incomplete cultivation of the 'Sword Demon Secret Book', he was unable to summon a third-grade sword to fight, but his hands were superior to ordinary mid-grade magic weapons.
Unlike the top-grade sword blank in the maid's hand, the power in his hand was based on the standard of a normal mid-grade magical weapon, and its sharpness exceeded that of a top-grade sword blank without any magic attached to it.
His figure was like a ghost, his fingers turned into swords and slashed across the necks of the four maids, who fell down with dazed eyes.
"So your body-building skills have reached this level!" Yunze said to Li Shiming in shock.
You have to know that the four maids are not like monks who need to practice other skills. They only focus on body training and swordsmanship. Theoretically speaking, monks without spiritual power cannot resist their attacks at all.
But everything he saw made Yunze realize the power of Li Shiming's body-building technique.
The four maids have been practicing body-refining techniques for much longer than Li Shiming. What kind of gap could leave the four maids without any ability to fight back at Li Shiming's hands?