"I will practice here for a while first. The ideal situation would be that I can practice to the foundation-building stage!" Li Shiming thought to himself.
He unexpectedly obtained the Wei family’s residence, which was protected by such a powerful formation, which made him want to stay and practice.
To join the Qianhuan Sect, one must first go to the Qianhuan Sect. Judging from the current situation, it will be very troublesome to cross the Ten Thousand Mountains.
If you become a foundation-building cultivator, perhaps you will have some ability to protect yourself along the way.
Besides, he has reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. If it weren't for the invasion of the Mingxin Sect of Northern Shu, he might have applied for a retreat room in the Tianhai Sect.
Just like Yin Shilan, he practiced in seclusion in the room for several months and then tried to break through the foundation-building stage.
The Foundation Establishment Stage is extremely attractive to Qi Refining practitioners, and the same is true for Li Shiming.
The life span of a Qi Refining cultivator is one hundred and fifty years, and the life span of a Foundation Building cultivator is two hundred years. In terms of life form, Foundation Building cultivators are more advanced than Qi Refining cultivators, and they are the only way to achieve the Golden Elixir.
Why did Li Shiming abandon the life of wealth and splendor in the secular world and insist on the path of cultivating immortals? It was because he hoped to live forever. After traveling through time and space, he must have some different dreams.
He summoned the main spirit of the 'Soul Controlling and Soul Splitting Technique', and the main spirit split into ten souls, which scattered and flew towards the mountain peaks beside the valley, monitoring the surrounding situation from a high altitude.
As for the Tie family monks who were attacking the formation in the valley, he ignored them.
Because there is no need to pay attention to it. Now he is the one who controls the formation. If he, a high-level formation master, is attacked by a foundation-building cultivator under such favorable conditions, then he would be unworthy of the formation knowledge he has learned.
His only worry was the powerful Jindan cultivator, and releasing his split soul was just a precautionary measure.
Only now did he have time to look around the cave. It was not luxurious, but extremely exquisite, which showed that great care had been put into its construction.
He was in the hall, and the top-grade spiritual vein was also in the hall, which was very special.
Because most of the caves will bring the spiritual veins into the training room instead of placing them in the middle of the hall.
There are three more rooms in the cave. He sent out his spiritual sense and saw the situation in the first room.
There was a wooden shelf in the room, on which were placed jade boxes, with words corresponding to the descriptions of the jade boxes one by one.
Li Shiming discovered that there were more than fifty kinds of spiritual medicines here, and they were all second-grade spiritual medicines, which were the spiritual medicines needed for the elixirs of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
These jade boxes look like a lot, but there are actually not many, because refining one kind of elixir requires more than a dozen kinds of spiritual medicines, and the types and quantities of spiritual medicines here are just the materials for a few furnaces of elixirs.
He had no knowledge of alchemy, so he collected all the jade boxes after a quick glance with his spiritual sense, without opening them one by one to check.
The second room was the library, where he saw all the books sold in the market outside, but here they were all preserved in jade slips.
In addition, there is a technique that can be cultivated to the Golden Core Stage, three secret methods of attack, a secret book on alchemy, and a secret book on talisman making.
"Why is there no jade slip for the formation?" Li Shiming said to himself with a little regret.
To be honest, he was still extremely surprised. The Wei family was just an ordinary immortal cultivation family, but they actually had a golden elixir stage practice. You know, on Tianhai Island, only seven sects had such a level of practice.
Of course, he didn't like this technique, he had a better one.
I don’t have time to study them now, but I will scan all these jade slips into IBM z15 when I have time later and look at them slowly.
His spiritual thoughts swept through and emptied Wei's library again.
The third room was where spirit stones were stored. Li Shiming simply scanned the room with his spiritual power and put the spirit stones away. There were less than 200,000 spirit stones, so he was not very excited.
Li Shiming shook his head. He didn't know whether this was Wei's warehouse or the warehouse of the old cultivator in the early stage of foundation building. If it was Wei's warehouse, then Wei's wealth would be a little less.
How could he know that the Wei family, a cultivator family, needed to maintain the cultivation of several foundation-building cultivators, and the cost was so huge that it was already very good to be able to save some spirit stones.
He didn't think much of the library, which was collected by several generations of the Wei family.
The second-grade spiritual medicines were only collected in the past year. Once a certain amount is reached, the furnace will be used to refine the medicine to provide medicine for the family's foundation-building monks to use for cultivation.
As for the other spiritual objects, they are all in the hands of various foundation-building cultivators, so how could they be left in a warehouse to gather dust?
Li Shiming took the storage bag of the old monk in the early stage of foundation building. There were no spirit stones or too many spiritual objects in the storage bag.
In addition to the previous self-defense spiritual weapon called 'Red Copper Fire Refining Bell', the old cultivator in the early stage of foundation building also has an offensive spiritual weapon called 'Red Copper Heaven and Earth Stick'.
What he didn't know was that this old cultivator in the early stage of foundation building was the oldest and most prestigious one in the Wei family. He was also a talisman maker who was able to make talismans for the foundation building period. Naturally, his wealth was the richest in the clan.
As he grew old, he left most of his fortune to his clan, along with two spiritual weapons, one for attack and one for defense.
These two spiritual weapons will be inherited by the family monks once he dies.
In addition to these, there was also a talisman pen in the storage bag. The spiritual power of this pen was so great that it was incomparable to the ones that Li Shiming had used in the past.
It was an ordinary jade slip, which he placed between his eyebrows. It contained a record of a talisman inheritance, which was the inheritance of this old cultivator in the early stage of foundation building.
Unfortunately, Li Shiming is not in the Foundation Establishment Stage and has not yet learned Foundation Establishment Stage spells. He will have to wait until he is promoted to the Foundation Establishment Stage before he can learn this inheritance.
The rest of the things in the storage bag are some second-grade talisman materials, which are quite valuable.
Li Shiming thought of the various buildings in the base. His clone outside had already walked into a building and started searching.
As he searched building after building, he became more and more disappointed. There were warehouses in the buildings outside, but they were all filled with materials for the Qi Refining Stage and were not of great value.
There were no spiritual weapons in Wei Lin and Tie Laosan's storage bags, especially Tie Laosan. After he self-destructed his super-grade magic weapon, he no longer had any super-grade magic weapon.
Wei Lin is not much better than Tie Laosan. His only super-grade magic weapon was destroyed by the self-explosion of Tie Laosan's super-grade magic weapon during the battle. In Li Shiming's eyes, it is no longer worth repairing.
However, a secret method was found in Tie Laosan's storage bag, which aroused Li Shiming's interest. It was the secret method that Tie Laosan used to make a super-grade magic weapon self-destruct.
This secret method was not a particularly complicated one. Tie Lao San was fond of refining equipment. Although his level was not very high, he had a flexible mind. During the refining process, he found a way to make the inside of the equipment unstable.
This secret technique can cause considerable damage to the owner of the magic weapon, but the power of the magic weapon's self-destruction is also considerable. The power of the self-destruction depends on the quality of the magic weapon and the amount of blood and essence its owner has paid.
Just now, Tie Lao San fought desperately and vomited three mouthfuls of blood, causing the super-grade magic weapon to self-destruct, which severely injured Wei Lin who was at the same level.
Even though Li Shiming had a good fortune, he couldn't help but twitch his lips when he saw this secret method. This secret method was to use spirit stones to hit people.
However, when you are in a critical moment, it is a good way to save your life.
However, what he was interested in was not the secret method itself, but the idea behind the secret method. When he had time to study refining, this idea might allow him to perfect the secret method, reduce the damage to himself, and increase the power of the self-detonation.
After searching the entire Wei family’s residence, the only useful spiritual object found was a huge alchemy furnace.
This alchemy furnace burns a kind of spiritual charcoal, which is placed in a fifty-cubic-meter storage bag beside the furnace. The entire storage bag is full.
Li Shiming collected all the spiritual objects he could, even the gold and silver. Anyway, he had enough storage bags, so he was not afraid of the trouble.
"Fellow Daoist, go over there and check it out!" Li Shiming was sitting at the control core of the formation. When he was checking the complete formation design diagram provided by IBMz15, he found an abnormality.
The clone smiled slightly on his handsome face, stood up and walked towards that place.
That place was not far from the cave, only about thirty meters away, but it was a bit strange that there was a blank area on the formation.
The clone's spiritual consciousness swept over the area and found nothing unusual.
But the biggest oddity was that there was no abnormality at all. You have to know that he was intentionally searching with his spiritual sense. This wall was located inside the formation, and it should have reacted to the formation's energy no matter what.
The clone reached out and tapped gently on the stone wall, and he found that the stone wall was solid.
He used his spiritual power to check around the stone wall bit by bit. He didn't believe that it was possible to leave no traces.
He had already guessed what this place was used for, so he was searching for it with a purpose. Sure enough, not long after, he discovered that an inconspicuous stone on the ground was somewhat special.
There are traces of friction on the stone, but the traces are very shallow and can be overlooked if you don't pay attention.
He tried to turn the stone according to the direction of friction. It didn't take much effort to turn the stone. After one turn, the stone wall suddenly sank inwards and a hole appeared.
"What a clever idea!" Li Shiming couldn't help but praise.
This is a secret passage, made of some kind of stone that can isolate spiritual thoughts. It does not use any methods of cultivating immortals, but instead adopts the mechanical techniques of mortals.
Once the formation of the Wei family’s base is broken, the Wei family monks can leave from here.
As the formation was stopped, the monks who entered the base could not find out anything special about this place until they mastered the core of the formation.
Besides, the formation has been broken. Even if the formation control core is controlled, it cannot be made to operate again without repairing the formation.
Given this much time, the Wei cultivator would have already fled to an unknown distance.
The clone walked along the secret passage for a distance and found that the exit of the secret passage was at the bottom of a river outside the valley.
Li Shiming couldn't help but feel relieved. Now he had a way out and he didn't have to worry about the trouble after the formation was broken.
In the valley, two foundation-building monks and more than thirty Qi-refining monks of the Tie family attacked for a long time, but there was no sign of the formation being broken.
Tie Lao Da's face was as gloomy as water. Not only did he fail to capture the Wei’s base this time, but he also lost Tie Lao San.
It's a bit reluctant to let him leave like this, but what else can he do if he doesn't leave? Can he just stay here forever?
"Go contact the Hu family and tell them that our Tie family is willing to contribute half of the share and invite the Hu family to come over and help break the formation together!" Boss Tie quickly came up with a solution and gave instructions in a deep voice to a Qi-refining cultivator in the clan.
The Qi-refining cultivator in the clan bowed and took the order and left. The other cultivators stopped attacking and retreated to the side to rest.
Li Shiming left his clone in the cave hall, and his real body came to the entrance of the base.
He took out the Shushan Seal, and then activated the Shushan Seal to fly out through the defense layer of the formation.
The advantage of a formation is that the inside cannot be observed from the outside, and neither attacks nor spiritual thoughts can enter the formation unless the formation can be broken.
Originally, the Wei family's cultivators were unable to attack from outside the formation because they had too little knowledge of formations.
Li Shiming did not have any trouble in this regard. He activated the Shushan Seal, which was refilled with spiritual power since its last use.
He still did not choose to attack the Foundation Establishment monks, as that would be a futile effort. His target was the Qi Refining monks who were sitting together in groups.
The Shushan Seal that suddenly appeared turned into a mountain and smashed down heavily on the groups of Qi-refining monks who were resting.
This group of Qi-refining monks who were resting never expected that they would be attacked. There were two Foundation-building monks from the clan not far away, and they were almost in a state of complete relaxation.
As the Shushan Seal transformed into a mountain, its binding force restricted the Qi-refining monks within the coverage area.
With a loud "bang", twelve Tie family Qi-refining monks were hit by the mountain and turned into meat patties.
The Shushan Seal that was smashed down quickly shrank and turned into a ray of light that flew back into the formation.
Everything happened too fast. The longest preparation period for the Shushan Seal was carried out inside the formation. The actual attack and the return of the Shushan Seal took less than a breath of time.
By the time Tie Lao Da and Tie Lao Er wanted to rescue the younger generation of the clan, it was already too late.
"Get away from it!" Tie Lao Da shouted angrily.
The loss of twelve Tie family Qi-refining monks made him feel heartbroken.
Although the immortal cultivation families not only look for seedlings with spiritual roots from their own bloodlines, but also search for children with spiritual roots everywhere and bring them back to the family for training, the resources and effort required to truly train a cultivator in the middle and late stages of Qi training with a certain level of combat power are enormous.
The loss of this attack reduced the Tie family’s subsequent talent pool by one third.
He looked towards the formation with hatred, but unfortunately he could not see who the cultivator was who made the move. However, the hatred he had for the Wei family reached its peak.
Li Shiming put away the Shushan Seal with a smile. The Shushan Seal was indeed useful and he got the most out of it both times he used it.
Unfortunately, it is too troublesome to charge the Shushan Seal. If the spiritual power is not replenished, the power of the Shushan Seal will be greatly reduced.
You should know that when he attacked just now, there were four cultivators in the late Qi Refining period who were smashed to death by him. He chose the position where there were the most cultivators in the late Qi Refining period.
He did not use sword power nor any unconventional means. He relied entirely on the spiritual power of the ninth level of Qi Refining and the power of the Shushan Seal.
If he used other super-grade magical weapons, it would be an excellent result if he could kill one or two people in the late Qi Refining stage in an instant.
"Another group of monks is coming!" The split soul who was monitoring on the top of the mountain sent a warning. He shared the split soul's vision and saw a group of monks flying towards him.
Li Shiming paid careful attention and did not find anyone whose strength exceeded the middle stage of foundation building, let alone the Jindan cultivator he was most worried about.