Li Shiming didn't know why, but the task of forming formations had become much heavier in recent times. The various plans to strengthen the formations proposed by the last two senior formation masters of the sect were all put into actual operation.
You should know that in the past, such plans were mostly just a kind of research. The sect would not approve the consumption of a large amount of precious formation materials just to make the formation a little more powerful.
But now it’s different. A large amount of formation resources seem to be taken out from the sect’s warehouse for free.
Li Shiming originally thought that the task of 50,000 good deeds would take a long time to complete, but based on the current trend, he estimated that it could be achieved within this year.
His cultivation speed continued to improve rapidly, and he did not delve into why the sect increased its investment in the formation.
Unless he revealed his strength as a high-level formation master, but after observing for a period of time, if he revealed his strength as a high-level formation master at this time, I am afraid that he would have very little time to rest, and it might even affect his cultivation.
His sense of belonging to the sect had been greatly diminished since that incident, which made him not consider things from the sect's perspective.
Of course, as a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, the sect's affairs were too far away from him, and he was too lazy to ask about them.
He completed the sect's formation tasks one by one every day, in exchange for considerable merits.
Today, Li Shiming was invited to Lingji Pavilion, and it was Uncle Song who invited him.
Li Shiming entered Lingji Pavilion and saw a beautiful middle-aged woman sitting in the seat that Uncle Zhuge liked to sit. She was Uncle Song, another senior formation master in the sect.
"Greetings, Uncle Master Song!" He suppressed his longing for Uncle Master Zhuge and bowed.
"Li Shiming, you seldom come to Lingji Pavilion!" Uncle Song said lightly.
Li Shiming was startled and was about to explain, but he saw Uncle Song waving his hand to signal him not to speak.
"I called you here this time because of this!" Uncle Song took out a jade slip and threw it over.
Li Shiming placed the jade slip between his eyebrows. Inside was a formation design diagram and a map of the sect a thousand miles away. From the sect a thousand miles away to the Seven Star Island, there was a formation set up at every distance.
He knew this formation. Its functions included transmitting messages, scanning the surrounding spiritual energy fluctuations, and being used for communication and alerting.
For him, setting up this formation was not difficult as long as he had enough materials.
But if it is according to this design drawing, more than 300 formations will be needed for this formation alone, and the amount of materials consumed can be described as massive.
“If your strength had not reached the late stage of Qi Refining, you would not be allowed to participate in this plan. I also know that you never accept missions that are too far away from the sect because you are worried about the Holy Ice Sect, but I can assure you that the Holy Ice Sect will not do anything to you.
In addition, I know you want to exchange the Foundation Establishment Pills. Let me tell you an accurate news. There are only three Foundation Establishment Pills left in this batch, and the rest have been exchanged.
If you take on this task, as long as you complete one hundred of the formations, I can ask the sect for a foundation-building pill. I have calculated your merits, plus the merits of setting up one hundred formations, which is just enough to exchange for one foundation-building pill. "Master Song had a calmness that seemed to have everything under control.
In fact, Li Shiming already had four Foundation Establishment Pills. If it weren't for Elder Yin's warning, he would have directly rejected Uncle Song's proposal.
No matter what he said about guaranteeing that the Holy Ice Sect would not do anything to him, he knew why the Holy Ice Sect would retaliate against him. It was related to the pain of the Holy Ice Sect's Elder Baili losing his son, and the fact that in order to deal with him, Elder Baili was severely injured and even lost a magic weapon.
Although Elder Baili did not know that he was the one who killed Baili Jinyan, and did not know that he was also the one who caused his injury and loss of magic weapon, but with Elder Baili's temper, he would definitely take revenge.
However, the Foundation Establishment Pill was indeed what he urgently needed, and he couldn't wait until the next time he could refine the Foundation Establishment Pill.
At his speed of cultivation, he would be able to reach the peak of Qi Refining next year at the latest, and then he would be able to try to break through.
"I'll take the task!" Li Shiming said without hesitation and bowed.
"Go and get the materials for the formation. After you complete each formation, you have to connect them together!" Uncle Song said, waving his hand.
Li Shiming left Lingji Pavilion and went to the warehouse to get the materials needed for ten formations.
Probably due to lack of manpower, these formation materials have not even been roughly processed.
He sent a message to Yin Shilan, explained the situation, and flew out of the sect.
Yin Shilan is also very busy at the moment. She has just entered the foundation-building stage and is practicing the main techniques, as well as some spells of foundation-building practitioners.
This is what Elder Yin requested. Before Yin Shilan has reached a certain level of self-protection, nothing else can be done.
Elder Yin's requirements were extremely strict on this point, and Yin Shilan could only obey his father's orders. She even lost the time to be alone with Li Shiming when completing tasks together.
As for Ren Fei'er, she was also locked up.
According to Ren Feier, her mother asked her to reach the foundation-building stage as soon as possible, and even prepared precious resources for her so that she could advance to the foundation-building stage as early as possible.
Li Shiming felt a little strange. He had seen Ren Feier's mother, who was a Jindan cultivator.
The knowledge of a Jindan cultivator is not short-sighted, and speeding up the advancement of foundation building actually does not bring much benefit to the cultivator.
Instead, it wasted resources. Especially considering Ren Feier's age, it was already very fast for her to reach her current level.
These unreasonable situations, coupled with the sect's sudden increase in investment in formations, made everything seem unusual.
Li Shiming didn't hear any news from Yin Shilan and Ren Feier, and he guessed that they didn't know the specific situation either.
But he felt that time was running out, which made him speed up the construction of the formation.
With his level as a high-level formation master, assisted by his spiritual thoughts, it only takes five hours for him to build a formation in the sea, and the task of processing the formation materials is also left to his clone.
Except for returning to the sect's cave to practice every day, he was outside building formations both day and night.
For his own safety, when constructing the formation, he would split the main spirit of the 'Soul Controlling Technique' into several souls and scatter them around, always paying attention to the situation in the nearby sea area.
It was precisely because of the existence of the Lord's Spirit that he dared to take on this task.
Ever since the main spirit of the 'Soul Control and Soul Separation Technique' absorbed Jindan Yunxing's soul after his death, the main spirit has undergone tremendous changes and is almost indistinguishable from a physical entity.
Even if ten souls are divided in succession, there will be no impact on the main soul. The current situation of the main soul even exceeds the description of the "Soul Control and Soul Division Technique".
A completely transparent flying boat was flying in the sky, with six cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining sitting on the boat. One of the cultivators in particular had an aura that surpassed that of his five companions.
"Senior Brother Du, the reward for this mission is generous. If we can be noticed by Elder Baili, please don't forget us!" A cultivator said flatteringly to Senior Brother Du who was in the lead.
Every sect has some talented monks who are valued by the sect. Under normal circumstances, these talented monks will not act with ordinary monks.
Even ordinary cultivators find it difficult to meet these genius cultivators. The genius cultivators have tasks and resources carefully prepared by the sect, and even the cultivation methods are provided according to the most suitable conditions.
Only a very small number of ordinary monks who are chosen by genius monks will get the opportunity to cooperate with the genius monks to complete tasks. Although most of the mission rewards fall into the hands of genius monks, the remaining ones are much better than ordinary mission rewards.
More importantly, for ordinary monks, this is a rare opportunity to make friends with talented monks.
The talented cultivators in the sect can at least reach the middle to late stages of foundation building. If they are lucky enough, they may be able to go one step further and become Jindan cultivators.
Of course, it will take many years for a genius cultivator to achieve the Golden Core stage. It is difficult for ordinary cultivators to enjoy the benefits unless they reach the Foundation Establishment stage.
These six cultivators are headed by Senior Brother Du, a talented cultivator from the Holy Ice Sect. If Senior Brother Du, who has natural spiritual roots, wants to become a disciple, many cultivators in the late stage of foundation building are willing to do so.
But Senior Brother Du wanted a higher starting point. Originally, this hope was slim because the quota for disciples of the Golden Core Elder of the Holy Ice Sect had long been filled.
But the opportunity suddenly came. Elder Baili's son Baili Jinyan disappeared, and then one of Elder Baili's true disciples in the Foundation Establishment stage died unexpectedly, which left Elder Baili with a vacant disciple spot.
Jindan usually doesn't accept too many disciples, mainly because they don't have the energy.
The Holy Ice Sect usually accepts about three Jindan disciples, and most of them are monks with excellent spiritual talents and great potential.
If Senior Brother Du can break through the Foundation Establishment Stage and perform better in other aspects, perhaps a Jindan cultivator will take the initiative to find him without him having to wait for him to seize it.
But he couldn't wait any longer, as the competition within the sect was fierce, and there were two talented cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage who were eyeing him covetously.
He has been waiting for an opportunity to perform to Elder Baili and show his excellence, hoping to become Elder Baili's true disciple.
Unexpectedly, the opportunity came suddenly. Elder Baili issued a secret mission to kill a Qi Refining cultivator from the Tianhai Sect.
In fact, what Uncle Song from Lingji Pavilion said was correct. Under the current situation, it is impossible for the Shengbing Sect to launch an all-out attack on Li Shiming.
Just because the Holy Ice Sect can’t do it doesn’t mean that Elder Baili doesn’t want to.
There are always loopholes in the rules. In order to allow the disciples of each sect to receive training, the Seven Sects do not prohibit fighting between the disciples of each sect.
But there are unspoken rules for this kind of fight: between Qi Refining cultivators and between Foundation Establishment cultivators, it is not allowed to cross the realm to fight.
In the current situation, the seven sects need to fight the enemy together. Even Elder Baili does not want to make things worse at this time.
But if Li Shiming was killed in the battle between Qi Refining Stage cultivators, this could not be considered as the Holy Ice Sect intentionally provoking trouble.
Li Shiming is not strong enough, so you shouldn't let him go.
So many Qi Refining disciples are killed every year, so what does one more Li Shiming matter? As long as it is not a cross-border attack, Elder Baili can always cheat.
Elder Baili almost became obsessed with killing Li Shiming.
The fact that Li Shiming accepted the mission was not a secret and it could not be concealed from the attention of those interested, which led to this secret mission.
Li Shiming's spiritual thoughts controlled the prepared formation flags and set them on the reef. This task seemed simple, but before that, he had already made precise calculations of the terrain and the direction of spiritual energy near the reef.
The 108 formation flags need to be placed at special nodes. If there is any error in the position, the formation will fail.
This formation needs to be used for a long time, so he also needs to draw a spiritual power channel between the flags. At the same time, he needs to take into account that the reefs will be submerged when the tide rises, so the formation must also be waterproof.
He's done this plenty of times these days, all without the help of an IBM z15.
With the automatic comparison of the formation's sea of starlight, he can get accurate data. This is why formation masters can complete massive calculations with a relatively ordinary brain.
The formation master is actually a profession that requires a lot of experience. A formation master who created the Starlight Sea formation can easily retrieve the corresponding data from the Starlight Sea for any formation within his learning range through continuous accumulation.
Li Shiming sometimes wondered whether this formation, the Starlight Sea, could be considered another kind of biological computer.
"A monk from the Holy Ice Sect!" He stopped the work in his hands, and a soul from the 'Soul Controlling Technique' sent him a warning.
He shared the vision of the split soul through the main spirit and saw the familiar transparent flying boat, which was the standard flying boat of the Holy Ice Sect.
Judging from the flight path of the transparent flying boat, it was easy to determine that it was targeting him.
As he was watching, the transparent flying boat stopped and the five monks dispersed and surrounded him.
It can be seen that the monks from the Holy Ice Sect who came this time had extremely strong confidence and did not intend to give him a chance to escape.
Li Shiming sensed the aura of these cultivators through his split soul, and he couldn't help but feel relieved. Including the cultivator on the flying boat, they were all cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.
He is now at the eighth level of Qi Refining, a truly powerful person in the late stage of Qi Refining.
Not to mention his physique, which is enough to suppress a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining. His strong physique and defense allow him to not worry about being besieged by multiple cultivators of the same level.
Of course, this was his confidence in himself. The Holy Ice Sect didn't know him well enough, and in his opinion, the combat force they sent was far from enough for him to use his full strength.
In fact, Elder Baili knew about Li Shiming's performance on the Seven Star Island, so he assigned the task to the talented disciple with natural spiritual roots.
You should know that although Senior Brother Du did not become a disciple, the sect is very willing to provide resources and skills to disciples with natural spiritual roots.
Brother Du's combat capability is definitely at the top in the Qi Refining Stage. It is not a problem for him to deal with Li Shiming, who has made some progress in body refining. Not to mention that with the assistance of other Qi Refining Stage disciples, there is absolutely no chance that Li Shiming will survive.
Li Shiming did not dodge or hide, but faced the enemy head-on. He soared into the air, spread his wings behind him, and waited in the air for the enemy to arrive.