After practicing the 'Vajra Body Protection Magical Skill', Li Shiming then began to practice the 'Sword Demon Secret Book'.
The 'Sword Demon Secret Book' focuses on cultivating sword intent during the foundation-building period, but he can skip this step, which allows his 'Sword Demon Secret Book' to be cultivated to a deeper level, skipping the early stage of the foundation-building chapter.
The third-grade sword base turned into countless tiny daggers, fused into every part of his body.
Wisps of sword intent emanated from countless tiny daggers, stimulating the harmony between the body and the sword intent, deepening the fusion of the body and the third-grade sword base.
The 'Sword Demon Secret Book' is to use the sword to nourish the body, and use the body to nourish the sword, so that both the sword and the body can be improved at the same time.
Of course, at present he is still in the stage of maintaining his health with the sword, and there is still a big gap between his physique and the quality of the third-grade sword base.
While practicing the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon', Li Shiming stopped taking monkey wine because his body felt bloated and full of energy.
As the practice progressed, the feeling of swelling in his body disappeared. When he finished the practice, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the muscles that had previously expanded rapidly had shrunk back, without any knots as before.
Although his muscles have become smaller, his physical condition has improved a little. His body is transforming towards the strength of a second-grade spiritual weapon.
When he is able to cultivate the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' to the strength of a second-grade top-level spiritual weapon, then even if he does not use any spells or magic weapons during the foundation-building period, he will be able to fight against any foundation-building cultivator with just his physical strength.
Early the next morning, before daybreak, Li Shiming left the temporary cave.
During the next three days, he moved forward carefully and did not encounter any big monsters again. He reached the predetermined target location smoothly.
There are three large mountains connected here. Li Shiming is on the hillside of the mountain on the left, separated from the location of the Muyang clover marked on the map by a mountain. So he does not need to worry about being discovered by powerful spirit beasts.
He released the drone. Although he had to wait for Xu Chuan to take action together, he also needed to gather some intelligence in advance.
The drone flew over the top of the mountain, and after turning on the infrared thermal imaging, he found many small red dots on the target mountain.
Only in one area with a radius of about one hundred meters, there is no small red dot, but there is a huge red one, which should be the guardian spirit beast.
This discovery made Li Shiming feel more at ease. At least for a target like a drone that did not have much spiritual power fluctuation, there would not be much problem in conducting ground reconnaissance not too close to the target.
What he was most worried about was encountering a spiritual beast that did not allow any wild beasts to appear in its territory. In that case, the appearance of the drone would be detected by the guardian spiritual beast.
A drone flying in the air would be mistaken for a flying bird unless it is directly observed by the guardian spirit beast.
The drone circled nearby, and IBMz15 mapped the terrain of the entire area into a three-dimensional map.
The only thing that is uncertain is the strength of the guardian spirit beast.
Li Shiming asked Nezha to dig a deep cave on the mountainside. The thick rocks and soil could block the perception of the powerful spirit beast.
He also set up multiple surveillance cameras outside, some of which were placed on the top of the mountain facing the target mountain, and some were aimed at the other side. As long as Xu Chuan arrived, he would be able to detect him.
For five days, Li Shiming had been practicing body-building exercises in the cave.
It was the fifth day and Xu Chuan still hadn't come. Li Shiming felt something was wrong.
Even if the journey was slow, it would not take five days to arrive.
Thinking back to the day when the four-clawed dragon monster chased Xu Chuan, Li Shiming couldn't help but mourn for Xu Chuan.
Xu Chuan is a nice person. At least he is reassuring to be my friend. Not every cultivator is willing to take the initiative to lead away a big monster when they encounter one.
This is human character. True character can be best seen in times of adversity.
"Brother Xu, I will do my best to get the Muyang Clover, but if there is a big monster guarding it, I don't have that ability. Please forgive me!" Li Shiming looked in the direction he came from, muttering to himself.
These days, he wanted to monitor the travel patterns of the powerful spirit beast through surveillance, but it was obvious that he was overthinking it. The spirit beast had been staying in the same place and had not moved.
Without getting close, Li Shiming couldn't even make an accurate judgment on the strength of the spirit beast.
"We must first determine the strength of the guardian spirit beast, and then lure the guardian spirit beast away, before we can determine whether the Muyang Clover is still there!" He planned in his mind.
If you want to observe the strength of the guardian spirit beast, the easiest way is to create a lot of noise. The guardian spirit beast will definitely be alert and show its power. Then you can judge the strength of the guardian spirit beast.
Creating a big noise is what Li Shiming is best at.
He took out a small 500-gram bomb, which was a standard military bomb with a full set of detonating devices. He used his spiritual power to adjust the detonating device to a timer.
The drone then flew with the small bomb to the right side of the three mountains, and then controlled the drone to drop the small bomb.
The drone returned, and he took it back. He restrained his aura and covered his entire body in the soil, leaving only a trace of his spiritual consciousness outside.
"3, 2, 1!" As he counted down in his mind, an explosion sounded.
At the moment of the explosion, the infrared thermal imaging in the surveillance video discovered the single huge heat source, and its heat increased rapidly, and then a huge roar was heard.
A giant bear covered in flames rose into the air and flew towards the direction of the explosion.
A terrifying and violent aura enveloped the entire area. The wild beasts on the ground were pissing and shitting everywhere. The timid ones were frightened to death, and the rest lay prone on the ground, not daring to move at all.
"It's a big monster. No, it's a little short of a big monster!" After sensing the violent aura, Li Shiming's spiritual thoughts immediately retracted into his body. He didn't want to be discovered by that powerful spirit beast.
Although the giant bear covered in flames was not a big monster, judging from the aura it displayed, it was much stronger than a peak foundation building monster.
This giant bear covered in flames should have taken a crucial step towards becoming a great monster, but the transformation into a dragon has not been fully completed.
Li Shiming didn't know whether his judgment was right or not, but one thing was certain, that was he could not defeat this giant bear whose whole body was covered in flames.
Not to mention him, even with Li Yuanba and the generals and ministers, and even with the talisman, he still had no chance of winning.
He couldn't help but back off. It really wasn't worth it to risk his life for others.
Thinking of this, he once again observed the giant bear covered in flames through the surveillance. At this time, the giant bear flew to the explosion area, but he did not see any life, only traces of the explosion on the ground.
The giant bear let out an angry roar and pounded the ground frantically, creating a big hole in the explosion area.
"Why is this bear so violent?" Li Shiming thought to himself in some surprise.
Along the way, he saw many spiritual beasts and did some research on them.
In particular, IBM z15 has collected a lot of data on spiritual beasts and conducted a systematic analysis of their behavior.
This giant bear is considered abnormal among spiritual beasts.
With the wisdom of spiritual beasts, after discovering traces of explosion, they will first choose to check and try to find other related traces, rather than wantonly destroying the scene like the giant bear.
"This seems to be feasible!" A thought flashed through Li Shi's mind, and he was no longer in a hurry to leave.
After seeing the giant bear return to its original location, he operated the drone to carry a bomb of the same size and dropped it in a farther direction.
This time he returned to the cave deep in the mountain and relied entirely on surveillance to observe the outside world.
After delivering the bomb, the drone flew to a place very close to the giant bear without disturbing it and landed on the ground.
The explosion sounded again, and the giant bear's reaction was still very violent. It flew into the air again. Its violent breath ignited the flames on its body, and several large trees nearby were burned.
Just as the giant bear was flying towards the explosion, the drone moved, flying close to the ground towards the place where the giant bear was guarding.
The chip built into the drone calculates the terrain shape and constantly adjusts the flight angle, keeping it close to the ground to minimize the possibility of being discovered by the giant bear.
Through the images sent back by the drone, Li Shiming saw the target location clearly for the first time.
The location was surrounded by several huge rocks, forming a nest. The drone was unable to get too close because the sensor issued a high temperature alarm.
The drone could only change its angle and finally found an observation position in the gap between the boulders.
Inside, surrounded by boulders, is a huge red rock.
It is not quite accurate to say that it is a red rock. It should be said that the huge rock is connected to the underground fire underneath, and flames burst out from the surroundings of the rock from time to time.
But even in this environment, there is a plant that has taken root in the rocks that were burned red by the underground fire.
Li Shiming used the drone's camera to see the plant's appearance clearly, especially the fact that the entire plant had only three ruby-like leaves. He was 100% sure that this was the Muyang clover.
I didn't expect that the Muyang clover was still there, and it looked almost ripe.
In fact, Xu Chuan dared to regard the Muyang clover here as hope because he judged based on the records that the Muyang clover here was about to mature.
Spiritual beasts will not pick unripe spiritual objects. To do so would be a waste of natural resources, and the effect would be far from that of mature ones.
Li Shiming saw through the surveillance that the giant bear was flying back, so he quickly put the drone into standby mode. The drone stopped outside the nest, facing the tiny gap.
The giant bear flew back to its den. Its rage was suppressed when it entered the den, as could be seen from the terrible sound it made from its heavy breathing.
The drone acted as a surveillance device at this time, recording every move of the giant bear.
Li Shiming was not surprised that the drone did not attract the giant bear's attention. In this world, no matter whether it was cultivators or spiritual beasts, it seemed that no one would pay any attention to objects or lives without spiritual fluctuations.
The monks and the spiritual beasts seem to be in another world. In their world there are only spiritual creatures, and all other things are inferior and low-grade existences.
The giant bear's heavy breathing suddenly became lighter when it saw the Mu Yang clover. Its huge paw wanted to touch the Mu Yang clover, but it stopped an inch away from the clover.
Li Shiming could see that the Muyang clover was extremely important to the giant bear.
This third-grade Muyang clover might be the opportunity for the giant bear to be promoted to a great demon. This was his guess, and he believed it should not be much different from the fact.
Otherwise, how can we explain why a giant bear, which is about to become a great demon, is guarding the Muyang clover with such concern?
Over the next two days, an explosion occurred at regular intervals, and the locations of the explosions were very chaotic and without any pattern.
The giant bear's temper became more and more violent. Except for suppressing its anger in its nest, it almost burned all the nearby trees.
Fortunately, the drone was parked very close to the nest, so it escaped the fate of being destroyed by the angry giant bear.
According to IBMz15's analysis of the giant bear's personality, the time is almost right. The giant bear's anger has reached the critical point and it is time to take action.
Li Shiming took action personally and placed a time bomb on the right mountain peak, followed by the second, third, and fourth.
After he arranged everything, he returned to the mountain on the left and waited.
With a loud 'boom', another explosion caused the giant bear to soar into the air, and its rage almost enveloped the entire mountain.
The giant bear flew towards the mountain on the right. During the flight, after leaving the range of its nest, the rocks on the ground were burned and shattered by the horrible flames.
It is here preparing to be promoted to a great demon. It has already taken the most important step. It only needs to take the third-grade extremely yang elixir to become a great demon.
But something was constantly harassing it, and it couldn't find where the other thing was.
The giant bear originally had yang energy, and under this kind of provocation, he couldn't suppress his anger at all.
Just as it was flying towards the explosion point, another explosion was heard, this time a little further away than the first explosion point.
Without thinking, it flew towards the new explosion point.
Another explosion sounded, a little further away.
Li Shiming's figure rushed out. He tried his best to suppress his physical and spiritual power. Even the sword light was restrained to the extreme with the help of sword intent.
His speed was not slow at all, and this was not the time to hold back.
Through the data collected by IBMz15 these days, it was found that the explosions set up by Li Shiming were not random. IBMz15 determined the sensing range of the giant bear's nest.
As long as the explosion point is a little further away, the giant bear will hesitate for a moment when flying away, which can be clearly seen from the surveillance footage.
The reason why there were two days of continuous explosions was to allow the giant bear to remove this hesitation, and it unconsciously came up with an idea that no matter where the explosion occurred, it would not affect the nest.
The giant bear is not a real monster after all. Its intelligence is the same as that of normal humans. However, after being provoked many times, it is inevitably influenced by its instincts and enters a state of violence.
Li Shiming flew to the giant bear's lair, which was extremely simple and was designed entirely to keep the Muyang clover inside so that it would not be discovered by other spirit beasts.
The third-grade elixir is extremely important to any big monster, and the giant bear obviously knows this.
Since he didn't use much spiritual power, when he got close to the nest he clearly felt the temperature was like a furnace.