Li Shiming stood on the top of the mountain, the breeze blowing his hair, and his body seemed to be lifted up by the wind.

Good wind helps me soar to the sky.

He was not feeling it at this moment. If he had not controlled his body, he would really be blown off the ground by the breeze.

Now his body is transparent inside and out, as pure as flawless crystal.

The effects of the cultivation of 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art' and 'Sword Demon Secret Book' are still there, but the traces of body refining that should have been left behind are not visible on the Taoist body.

Both his body and spirit had reached a certain bottleneck, and a huge mountain blocked his further physical and mental strengthening.

Li Shiming guessed that this was probably the limit of the foundation-building stage. If one wanted to further improve his body and spirit, he would have to wait until the golden elixir stage.

In one year, he took more than 300 top-grade 'Shushan Huangling Pills', and the spiritual power in his body reached the late stage of the middle stage of foundation building.

He was also afraid of this speed, so he usually practiced the "Demon Shadow Buddha Technique" when he went out to keep his realm at the initial stage of the middle stage of foundation building.

But he was also unwilling to give up taking the top-level elixir. This rapid strengthening could increase his own strength and leave more time for future practice.

He had heard that some cultivators spent too much time in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and as a result, when they reached the Golden Core Stage, they had a hundred years less time to practice than other Golden Core cultivators, and ended up dying in the Golden Core Stage.

If you practice one day faster now, you will have one more day of practice time in the Jindan stage.

The lifespan in the Foundation Establishment Stage is 200 years, and it can be increased to 500 years in the Golden Core Stage. It seems like a long time, but in fact, the time spent in cultivation goes by very quickly.

The reason why Elder Su only meets with his disciples once a month is because it takes almost a month for him to practice once.

Li Shiming has checked the sect's classics, and he can be sure that his current Taoist body is already a pure Taoist body.

It's just that the Immaculate Taoist Body is supposed to be an innate Taoist Body, and it can't be achieved after birth. Who would have thought that a technique called 'Purple Air Coming from the East' could actually cultivate the Immaculate Taoist Body.

There are many benefits to having a pure Taoist body, the biggest one is that the affinity to spiritual power will be increased exponentially, which he also discovered during his practice. The effect of his absorption of the top-level 'Shushan Huanglingdan' has been improved to a certain extent.

Originally, after a training session, the excess medicinal power of the top-grade 'Shushan Huangling Pill' in the body would remain in the body for a period of time before being digested or excreted by the body.

But now, every time he practices the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art', the medicinal power of a top-grade 'Shushan Huangling Pill' will be completely absorbed by him.

Li Shiming now uses 'Lotus Steps', and the distance of each step has increased to 260 meters, which is also a manifestation of his spiritual improvement.

In addition, the Red Sun Spirit Fire in his body also benefited. Its quality has been improved to the peak of the second stage, and there have been some special changes.

The Red Sun Spirit Fire is originally the most yang fire, and the innate misty purple energy is also the innate most yang energy of heaven and earth. After the Red Sun Spirit Fire was affected by the innate misty purple energy, it underwent inexplicable changes, and its power was greatly enhanced.

Li Shiming always felt that there was a good chance that the Red Sun Spirit Fire could now be used to refine third-grade spiritual medicines.

He inherited the 'Shushan Dan Dian', which was an alchemy inheritance specializing in spiritual fire. In this regard, his judgment would not be wrong.

He was considering whether to try to refine the third-grade elixir now, which would allow him to become the second master alchemist in the Shushan Sect.

Of course, even if he becomes a master of alchemy, he is still far inferior to Elder Ma. This is related to his realm. He has not reached the Golden Core stage. The best he can do in alchemy is to refine the lowest grade third-grade elixir in the early Golden Core stage.

Only alchemy masters at the Golden Elixir Realm are capable of refining elixirs that require high-quality third-grade spiritual medicines as the main raw materials.

"Forget it, let's wait for a while until the Red Sun Spirit Fire is upgraded to the third level!" Li Shiming gave up the idea of ​​being promoted to an alchemy master early.

In fact, his foundation in alchemy is already very solid.

During the whole year, he had almost no waste. He refined elixirs five times a day, making ten furnaces each time, which means fifty furnaces a day.

The elixirs stored in his space ring now are estimated to be able to support the consumption of a large sect for several years.

This was the case when he sold some of the elixirs through the sect and the Beishu Trading Company.

Beishu Trading Company also provided him with a lot of various materials, so that he had enough materials to continue his research work.

"I have to go out again!" Li Shiming thought of another thing and muttered to himself.

During this year, Li Yuanba of Senluo Sect has also reached the middle stage of foundation building. The "Purple Air Coming from the East" has caused strange changes in Li Yuanba's Taoist body.

When he was in human form, he had an extremely yang energy and a peerless appearance. He truly looked like an immortal, like a banished celestial being.

But when in the corpse refining state, the yin and cold aura reached its extreme, and its height reached three meters and five, its skin was shiny black, its eyes were red, and its fangs were protruding, without any resemblance to a human form.

The strangest thing is that his body defense in corpse refining state is even similar to that of Jiang Chen. The extreme cold energy is even more terrifying. Once it hits the enemy, the damage caused is even greater than the damage caused by Jiang Chen simply using the cold spiritual power.

What level of corpse refining is Jiang Chen? He is at the pinnacle of iron corpses.

If Jiang Chen was not Li Yuanba's natal corpse, it would be difficult for him to control Jiang Chen.

Li Yuanba didn't know what the current changes were, but he was sure that there was nothing wrong with them.

He practiced 'Purple Air Coming from the East' and used the same 'Fresnel Reflector' as his original body, Li Shiming, but his Taoist body showed no signs of becoming a pure Taoist body.

It was completely about transforming his Taoist body towards the direction of pure yang extreme, and his corpse refining state towards the direction of pure yin extreme. This could be considered as forming a balance, but it prevented him from finding any task information related to this Taoist body.

It is not known whether Li Yuanba was born with better talent than Li Shiming, but after practicing 'Purple Air Coming from the East' for more than a year, the effect of 'Purple Air Coming from the East' became less obvious.

This was clearly the state of the Taoist body absorbing the innate purple energy to saturation. The original body, Li Shiming, had such poor natural talent that it took him twice as long to reach this level.

Of course, there is no need to discuss whether the benefits obtained by the clone Li Yuanba are greater or the benefits obtained by the original body Li Shiming are greater. The Taoist bodies of the original body and the clone are completely two different directions of improvement.

All the previous top-level elixirs had been used up. Besides, the top-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' was an auxiliary elixir for cultivation in the initial stage of foundation building. Even if there were some left, it would not be able to help his cultivation.

Li Yuanba practiced "Purple Air Coming from the East" for the last time and also put away the Fresnel reflector. If he wanted to practice "Purple Air Coming from the East" again, he had to wait until the Jindan stage to try and see if it would work.

He flew towards Wanjian Peak with the sword flashing. Being in the middle stage of foundation building, he was considered a backbone fighter among the foundation building cultivators of Senluo Sect.

After practicing the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky Art', he could fight against any opponent in the foundation-building period by relying solely on his sword skills, even without using any other means.

After entering Wanjian Peak, he swept his divine sense over and found that the large formation at Elder Jian's cave was closed.

This was a sign that Elder Jian’s training had ended. He thought about it and turned to fly towards Elder Jian’s cave.

Speaking of Li Yuanba's divine consciousness, he started practicing the 'Thousand Hammers Divine Technique' more than half a year ago. After a hundred days, he was able to transform all his spiritual consciousness into divine consciousness.

The 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky Art' was a secret method for sharpening the spirit, and with the help of the 'Purple Air Coming from the East' and the practice of the 'Thousand Hammers Forging the Soul', he was able to successfully cultivate divine consciousness during the foundation-building period.

In this respect alone, he surpassed most of the true disciples. One must know that the spiritual skills are so precious and difficult to practice that most of the true disciples cannot practice to his level even if they obtain the spiritual skills.

"Come in!" As soon as I arrived outside the cave, I heard the voice of Elder Jian.

"Disciple greets Master!" After entering the cave, Li Yuanba respectfully bowed to Elder Jian.

"Yes, it is just as your grandmaster said, you have reached the middle stage of foundation building in just one year!" Elder Jian looked at Li Yuanba with a smile and said with satisfaction.

Ever since Patriarch Lu showed his recognition and attention to Li Yuanba, Elder Jian has become more and more fond of this disciple.

"This time, I want to leave the sect and go out for a while, so I come to inform the master!" Li Yuanba bowed and stated his purpose.

He also needed to meet with the original body Li Shiming to obtain some spiritual medicines for cultivation, and also to deliver a set of pill-making resources on him to Li Shiming.

Anyway, this set of elixir-making resources will eventually be refined into elixirs by Li Shiming. It is not safer to keep them in my own hands than in Li Shiming's.

"You are in the middle stage of foundation building. It's okay for you to go out, but you have to be careful. The news that you have received a set of Dancheng resources has spread. I'm afraid you will get into trouble if you go out this time!" Elder Jian did not stop him, he just reminded him.

To be honest, he didn't care much about Li Yuanba's safety.

Li Yuanba had his sword-powered Buddhist beads in his hand, so even if a cultivator in the early Jindan stage came, he could be killed on the spot.

It is not so simple for a late Jindan sword cultivator to use secret methods to cultivate the sword intent for a long time. Li Yuanba had never used it before. As long as he had the sword intent Buddhist beads in his hand, it was equivalent to having the protection of a middle Jindan sword cultivator.

Although this kind of protection is only for one time, a sword attack with sufficient power is enough to shock many Jindan cultivators.

Besides, Li Yuanba's own strength is not weak. Elder Jian can sense this. For a sword cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, it is no problem at all for him to fight against an ordinary cultivator in the late stage of foundation building.

Sword cultivators are not flowers in a greenhouse, killing is the key to their growth.

"Thank you for your reminder, Master. I will be careful!" Li Yuanba did not expect to have such trouble. He bowed and said, "I want to ask for permission to pass through the Jieshan checkpoint!"

"Aren't a hundred thousand mountains enough for you to travel?" Although Elder Jian said this, he took out his identity jade disc and operated it.

Li Yuanba received an authorization in his identity jade disc that allowed him to pass through the Jieshan checkpoint.

What he can pass is not only the permission from Senluo Sect, but also the permission to enter the righteous area, which will be recognized by Senluo Sect and the three major righteous sects.

This is not difficult to understand. This kind of private travel is a form of communication as long as the number of monks is not too large.

Just like righteous monks also need to enter the Ten Thousand Mountains, we cannot completely restrict the travel between monks.

Li Yuanba said goodbye to Elder Jian, left Wanjian Peak, and flew out of Senluo Sect.

The news of his departure was soon noticed by many forces within the sect.

According to the way of thinking of the demon cultivators, extremely important items like elixir-making resources would naturally be carried with them. Leaving them anywhere would not make the demon cultivators feel safe.

Therefore, all forces believed that Li Yuanba would keep the resources for making elixirs on himself, and this was not a wrong guess.

As soon as Li Yuanba left, many demon cultivators left the sect, and a lot of news was sent out.

The Senluo Sect prohibits fighting between sect monks, but this can only be controlled within the mountain gate and cannot be guaranteed outside the mountain gate.

The competition for resources among the demon cultivators is an instinct ingrained in their bones. They have been experiencing this competition since the first day they entered the world of cultivation.

Li Yuanba, who was flying, seemed to sense something, but he just smiled. He didn't care about the battle. At least he would not be suppressed by much realm in the middle stage of foundation building. This allowed him to exert all his strength as a swordsman when facing cultivators in the late stage of foundation building.

Besides, ever since his sword intent underwent a transformation, he had not experimented with the power of the Zhiyang Sword Intent. Taking this opportunity, he wanted to see how powerful the Zhiyang Sword Intent was against the demon cultivators.

In Shushan Sect, Li Shiming also sent a message to his two masters that he was going out for a while.

Both Elder Su and Elder Ma did not refuse. Li Shiming's status was respected by cultivators everywhere. As long as he did not enter the Demon Sect's sphere of influence, there would be basically no danger.

As soon as Li Shiming left the gate of Shushan Sect, Ji Hongbo quietly left the gate with a group of foundation-building monks.

Ji Hongbo has been very low-key in the past two years. He had secretly used some means to deal with Elder Su. Although Elder Su did not take action against him, he knew very well that it was the price his father, Elder Ji, had paid.

He was not a man who was content to stay at ease. During the past two years of keeping a low profile, he had been paying close attention to the situation on Elder Su's side.

As Li Shiming rose to prominence, Ji Hongbo discovered that Li Shiming was exerting an increasingly greater influence.

If Elder Ji and Elder Su were competing for infant-forming resources at a 50% each in the past, with Li Shiming becoming a high-level alchemist and very likely to become a master alchemist in the future, the balance of competition for infant-forming resources between the two sides is tilting towards Elder Su.

When Li Shiming really becomes a master of alchemy, it goes without saying that many wavering senior leaders in the sect will choose Elder Su's side. After all, Elder Su has a disciple like Li Shiming who has an extraordinary talent for alchemy.

This is not like the friendship between Elder Su and Elder Ma. It is a closer master-disciple relationship. It is almost 100% certain that Elder Su can influence Li Shiming.