"What good stuff?" Senior Sister Ye Jingxian took the monkey wine without any hesitation.
She opened the wine flask and sniffed it. After feeling the effect of the monkey wine, her expression changed slightly.
"Shiming, are there any other uses for this monkey wine?" Elder Su asked with a smile.
"Master, the monkey wine I made after body refining is no longer useful to me, so I'm just giving it to you as a gift!" Li Shiming heard the master say this and thought that the master had some ideas about the monkey wine, so he said with a smile.
Naturally, he would not be stingy with the monkey wine. His master had helped him a lot. The Sword-Holding Peak alone was a huge benefit, not to mention the other things.
"It's not that I want it. Your senior sister is stuck at the half-step golden elixir stage and needs to strengthen her Taoist body through various means. This monkey wine will be useful to her!" Elder Su shook his head and smiled.
"Take it if it's useful to you, Senior Sister!" Li Shiming waved his hand and said when he heard that the monkey wine could be useful for Senior Sister's breakthrough to the Golden Elixir stage.
"Junior brother, I won't take advantage of you for nothing. Just come to me if you need anything!" Ye Jingxian said as she put away the monkey wine.
She wanted to give him spirit stones, but she had heard from Tianmu Trading Company that Li Shiming had ordered a lot of goods with a large amount of spirit stones, which meant that Li Shiming was not short of spirit stones.
She didn't know what Li Shiming lacked. After all, he was her junior brother. Even if his value was higher than hers, as long as Li Shiming asked for it, she would satisfy him.
"Today is the first time that Shiming comes here, so let him talk about my teachings!" Elder Su looked at the five disciples, glanced at Li Shiming intently, and said lightly.
Preaching is the most important way of inheritance between master and disciple. The Tao that one has realized is coordinated through language, breath, spiritual power, and divine thoughts to form a special Tao environment.
Of course, Elder Su did not want his disciples to repeat his teachings, but to display his teachings for his disciples to use as a reference.
Tao is the general principle for cultivating immortals, and all other kinds of skills are built on the basis of Tao.
At least this is the case with the main technique that Li Shiming practices, and this is also the theoretical basis that Li Shiming lacks.
After an hour of preaching, the Jindan cultivator's understanding of the Tao greatly deepened his comprehension of the practice he was doing.
Just as Elder Su said, it is not good to work in isolation. After hearing Elder Su's sermons, he gained more understanding of his own cultivation.
After finishing the sermon, Li Shiming asked questions about his cultivation. In the past, when he encountered problems in cultivation, he would analyze them through IBMz15 and choose the option with the highest success rate.
Now that he has a master, he can finally get the most accurate answers from him instead of figuring it out on his own.
"Shiming, although the income from spirit stones at Chijian Peak is not small, you still have to consider earning contribution points in addition to practicing. With your formation ability, it is not difficult to take on tasks and earn contribution points!" Elder Su persuaded Li Shiming when he left Tianmu Peak.
Back at Chijian Peak, Li Shiming was reflecting on his recent actions. He found that he was indeed a little impatient because of the improvement brought by the "Purple Air Coming from the East".
The 'Purple Air Coming from the East' brought him a hundred times more purple air every day, but it actually had limited effect on his main practice method 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art'. The biggest improvement was on his foundation, which was like a reshaping of his Taoist body.
The foundation-building period is a long process of cultivation. Just from the early to middle stages of foundation-building, even for those with natural spiritual roots, it takes about ten years, and that is without encountering any bottlenecks.
He really needs to arrange his cultivation properly and set up a practical cultivation plan.
As for earning contribution points, he has his own ideas.
He came to a room in the cave, which was originally empty. He planned to turn it into an alchemy room.
He has the inheritance of weapon refining and alchemy in his hands.
After some consideration, he decided to learn the alchemist inheritance first.
Currently in Shushan Sect, he hardly needs to worry about safety issues and only needs to focus on improving his strength.
What he lacked was elixirs. Elixirs for the initial stage of foundation building required contribution points to be exchanged in the sect, or he could refine them himself.
He still had confidence in his learning ability, and he believed even more in the pills he made.
He did have a top-grade magical furnace, which was enough for a beginner, and there were also a large number of first-grade elixirs, enough for him to splurge.
This is also the reason why he chose to inherit the alchemy master's throne first. In the early stages of learning, he does not have to worry about the problem of alchemy materials.
The first time he refined the elixir, he chose to use spiritual charcoal as the elixir fire. This was also the most commonly used fire source for refining low-level elixirs in the alchemy inheritance passed down by Elder Ma.
The elixir recipe of choice is the 'Bigu Pill', which is the lowest level and simplest of all elixirs.
The material of "Bigu Pill" is spiritual rice, and even the process of concocting spiritual medicine is not required. All you have to do is put the spiritual rice into the pill furnace for refining.
Li Shiming took out three pieces of spiritual charcoal. The spiritual charcoal was made from charcoal of spiritual wood. After being ignited, the flame contained a faint spiritual power.
The flames of the spiritual charcoal rose, and he activated the 'Golden Sun Fire Control Technique', feeling the flames grow bigger or smaller as he controlled them.
After the furnace heated up, he threw the spiritual rice into it. Before he could use the 'Green Willow Spirit Sensing Technique' to sense the condition of the spiritual rice in the furnace, a burnt smell emanated from the furnace.
He was stunned. He didn't expect that his first alchemy session would end before it even began.
IBMz15 collected the spiritual energy of the first alchemy. Because of the participation of spiritual thoughts, the changes in the alchemy, the condition of the spiritual rice, and the temperature of the spiritual charcoal were all recorded one by one.
Li Shiming cleaned the alchemy furnace with spiritual water and heated it again with spiritual charcoal. This time he lowered the temperature.
The alchemy inheritance is only an operating guide. The measurement of temperature in the world of immortal cultivation is very vague, which makes alchemy, without any guidance, a complete summary of failures.
However, as long as he can find a rough reference temperature for the vague temperatures in the alchemy tradition during the process of refining the "Bigu Pill", this kind of failure will be greatly reduced.
In fact, the alchemy inheritance jade slip that Elder Ma gave to Li Shiming was not for Li Shiming to figure it out on his own, but was a hint for Li Shiming to go to Elder Ma for advice.
You know, since Elder Ma gave the alchemy inheritance as a gift, it means that he can guide Li Shiming to get started with alchemy.
Li Shiming had a misunderstanding. He really just regarded the alchemy inheritance jade slip as a normal gift, and he wanted to use it to become an alchemist.
After solving the temperature problem, he encountered the problem of sensing the changes in the spiritual rice. With the help of the "Qingliu Sensing Spirit Technique", he could clearly sense the changes in the energy within the spiritual rice, but the alchemy inheritance only gave a vague guide, and specific data support was needed for practice.
After repeated failures, the reference data in the alchemy database established by IBMz15 increased, and Li Shiming became more and more experienced in refining the "Bigu Pill".
During the twenty-fifth time of refining the elixir, the 'Green Willow Spirit Sensing Technique' allowed him to sense the transformation of spiritual rice into a thick liquid that balanced spiritual power.
His fingers tapped the alchemy furnace seven times. This was the 'Seven Finger Pill Collecting Technique'.
Every time he touched the furnace, the thick liquid in the furnace would roll on the furnace wall, making it even thicker.
When he tapped it for the seventh time, five round pills that had already formed in the furnace flew out.
Li Shiming used his spiritual power to grab the pills, and he picked up a "Bigu Pill" to check it.
Judging from the appearance of the 'Bigu Pill', it was an intermediate first-grade pill. He then checked the other five, all of which were intermediate first-grade pills.
"Not bad, so what's the problem?" The first time he refined a solid pill, it was an intermediate "Bigu Pill", so this result was considered very good.
But this was based on the alchemy database of IBM z15. Even with the help of the alchemy database, he could only produce medium-quality elixirs, which made him dissatisfied.
You should know that he himself would not eat the middle-grade "Bigu Pills", because the impurities in them were not removed when the pills were refined. It would be better for him to eat spiritual rice directly than to eat such "Bigu Pills".
He tried to refine the "Bigu Pill" once again. With the support of the IBM z15 alchemy database, this time the alchemy went very smoothly.
After using the 'Seven Finger Pill Collecting Technique', he obtained eight Bigu Pills, one of which even reached the advanced level, and the rest were all intermediate levels.
He found the records of IBMz15 and carefully analyzed the reasons for refining the advanced fasting pill.
When he repeated the process of refining the Bigu Pills for the third time, he obtained ten Bigu Pills, and all of them were high-level Bigu Pills.
High-level fasting pills are the limit of what an alchemist can normally refine. As for top-level fasting pills, they are the product of extremely special and uncontrollable circumstances.
Even a master alchemist cannot guarantee that the fasting pill can be refined to top quality. Top quality is entirely achieved through quantity. As long as a sufficient number of the same kind of pill is refined, top quality will appear.
Li Shiming began to use his time rationally. He reduced the time he spent practicing his main technique, 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Technique', to four hours, replacing sleep time with the practice of his main technique.
All the saved time was used to learn alchemy.
With a complete alchemy heritage, a large amount of alchemy materials, and IBMz15 data analysis, his alchemy skills have been improving and the number of mistakes has become less and less.
Another month passed, and he was able to successfully refine the 'Mingxin Jiugong Pill', which was a kind of auxiliary cultivation pill passed down by the Mingxin Sect for cultivators in the late stage of Qi training.
Moreover, the quality of the 'Ming Xin Jiu Gong Dan' has been stabilized at a high level. It is a high-level first-grade elixir, and is also an auxiliary elixir for cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining. This is already the ceiling among first-grade elixirs.
If he took part in the alchemist assessment, passing the junior alchemist assessment would not be a problem.
Li Shiming's change in the time schedule also affected Li Yuanba.
Li Yuanba was also in seclusion. The three tasks of that year had been completed, and no one would say anything.
After analyzing the pros and cons of the time arrangement, Li Shiming also started a new plan for the arrangement of his clone Li Yuanba.
Li Yuanba began to accept missions. The mission of the outer gate combat unit was to kill.
For Li Yuanba, a swordsman, this is the best opportunity to hone himself, not to mention that he has generals and ministers by his side to ensure his safety.
The outer sect combat unit of Senluo Sect has a lot of tasks to do. Many of the monks who left the destroyed sects are enemies of Senluo Sect because of hatred.
Li Yuanba didn't care about right or wrong. There was no right or wrong in the world of immortal cultivation, only the struggle for interests.
The intelligence department of the outer sect of Senluo Sect is quite capable. Almost all missions have clear mission locations, and there is no need for combatants to conduct investigations.
Li Yuanba started to complete tasks once a week, which was equivalent to his continuous tasks without rest.
In one month, he completed four more missions, all of which were level one missions. Four cultivators in the early stage of foundation building died at his hands.
Although the spoils obtained from the four foundation-building monks are not a big deal, they are much better than the benefits obtained from the deputy positions.
He also understood why sword cultivators only focused on the sword and did not need to learn any secondary skills. The benefits of focusing on killing were too great.
Of course, the killing mission is very dangerous. You have to know that the foundation-building cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation all have some trump cards.
However, Li Yuanba was a little different. He practiced the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon' and took monkey wine, which made the 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon' improve extremely quickly.
His physical defense alone is almost as good as that of spiritual weapons, not to mention that Jiang Chen is his greatest support when he is in danger.
After Li Shiming refined the advanced 'Mingxin Jiugongdan', he could no longer improve his alchemy skills.
Because he didn't have a more advanced pill recipe, the pill recipe for the cultivators in the early stage of foundation building needed to be exchanged with contribution points. In addition, the second-grade spiritual medicine in the materials of the pill recipe in the early stage of foundation building was also something he couldn't get.
He thought of Master Ma, and it seemed that he should go visit him.
He picked some spiritual leaves from the spiritual tea tree, fried them into spiritual tea in the machine room, and put them in a jade box as a gift.
The second-grade spiritual tea tree given by the senior sister was one of the few gifts he could afford.
In addition, he used his micron-level control ability to stir-fry the tea in the computer room, and also used the 'Green Willow Spirit Sensing Technique' to sense the changes in the spiritual energy of the tea, and the 'Golden Sun Fire Controlling Technique' to control the flame. The quality of the tea he stir-fried this time was better than ever before.
The greatest benefit of learning alchemy is the understanding of the harmony of spiritual energy, which can be applied in many aspects.
Carrying the gift, he flew out of the Chijian Peak with his sword and headed towards Master Ma’s Danding Peak.
Outside Danding Peak, he chanted a spell and then waited obediently.
"This kid is finally here. Let's leave him alone for a while!" Uncle Ma from Danding Peak received the magic formula from Li Shiming and a smile appeared on his face.
Ever since Master Ma gave Li Shiming his alchemy inheritance last time, he has been waiting for Li Shiming's arrival.
But who would have thought that this wait would take several months, and now I finally got a visit from Li Shiming.
"Wait!" Li Shiming received a reply from Master Ma and thought that Master Ma was refining the elixir, so he could only wait outside Danding Peak.
Master Ma in Danding Peak was holding a book in his hand, reading leisurely, not caring at all whether Li Shiming outside was anxious.