The time when the original Li Shiming and his clone Li Yuanba were attacked was not much different. While Li Yuanba had resolved the battle and was looking for a resting place to count the harvest, Li Shiming was also resting and checking the harvest.
Li Shiming's biggest gain this time should be a flying sword magic weapon. If Elder Zhao had not come this time, perhaps there would be no such benefit.
Elder Zhao is a sword cultivator. Although Li Shiming does not use sword cultivation as his main practice, he has sword intent in his body. He often uses sword cultivation methods to deal with the enemies and displays sword intent far beyond that of ordinary sword cultivators. In addition, Elder Zhao and Elder Su are from the same faction of the sect.
This is why the flying sword magic weapon was snatched from Hang Jian and given to Li Shiming. This is the love of the elders for the younger generation, and also a kind of expectation.
Elder Zhao believed that Li Shiming would achieve the golden elixir. Of course, many cultivators who knew Li Shiming's background agreed with this point.
No matter what, the Shushan Sect was determined to push Li Shiming, who had the potential to be a master alchemist, to the Golden Core realm. Of course, this also required Li Shiming to be lucky enough to break through the Golden Core barrier if he had the resources.
Li Shiming kept in mind the love and care that Elder Zhao had for him, and he would have to repay it in the future.
He took out Ji Hongbo's storage bracelet and entered his spiritual mind into it.
Ji Hongbo was a true disciple of Shushan Sect. Since he did not die, the storage bracelet actually had limitations.
But don’t say that Ji Hongbo is a mortal now, even if he still had his original strength and was still a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, the restrictions on his storage bracelet would not be able to resist Li Shiming’s divine consciousness.
There are many items in the storage bracelet, but not many of them can be seen by Li Shiming.
Spiritual weapons, jade slips of martial arts techniques, etc., if he wanted, he could get them easily.
There are about five million spirit stones, part of which are in the form of jade tokens stored by Beishu Trading Company, and the other part is physical spirit stones.
However, the spiritual wine and spiritual food were of very high quality, and there was also a box of spiritual tea, which was even of the third grade. It was the most surprising thing for Li Shiming in the storage bracelet.
Just as his spiritual sense scanned the storage bracelet and was about to retract it, it suddenly paused.
In the area where elixirs were stored, his divine sense wrapped around a jade bottle and took it out.
If this jade bottle had not been special, he would have almost overlooked it.
This is a jade bottle custom-made by Shushan Sect to store elixirs, but it is different from a normal jade bottle.
The reason why Li Shiming felt it was special was that this jade bottle rarely appeared in the hands of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, but was used exclusively by Golden Core cultivators to store important elixirs.
The refining technique of the jade bottle is extremely complicated, and it takes a lot of effort for a high-level refiner to make it.
He opened the jade bottle, and a refreshing medicinal fragrance wafted into his nose.
His expression changed slightly and he immediately sealed the jade bottle again.
"Tianxiang Wuling Pill!" he exclaimed softly.
Li Shiming inherited the "Shushan Dan Dian" and was familiar with the Shushan Sect's elixirs.
'Tianxiang Wuling Pill' is a third-grade elixir, but its preciousness is even higher than the authentic third-grade elixir.
This is just like a first-grade elixir for auxiliary cultivation during the Qi Refining Stage and a first-grade foundation-building elixir. The difference in value between the two is as huge as heaven and earth.
'Tianxiang Wuling Pill' is used by Jindan cultivators to break through the barriers. Its function is to comprehend the artistic conception of the next realm in advance, thereby increasing the chances of successful breakthrough.
Of course, the 'Tian Xiang Wu Ling Dan' is also effective in advancing from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Golden Core Stage, but it is not listed among the resources for making pills.
This is because the 'Tianxiang Wuling Pill' is made of several third-grade spiritual medicines, which are extremely precious resources even among Jindan cultivators. How could it be possible for a foundation-building cultivator to take it?
Given the choice between adding a Jindan cultivator and improving the realm of an existing Jindan cultivator, most sects will choose the latter.
The probability of the former option is very small. For a Foundation Establishment cultivator with the resources to make elixirs, the probability of being promoted to Golden Elixir is only increased by 30% to 40%. However, the effect of 'Tianxiang Wuling Pill' on improving the realm of Golden Elixir cultivators is real.
Even if the Jindan cultivator was not able to improve his realm this time, his insights would not disappear. With the accumulation of taking the "Tianxiang Wuling Pill" once, the insights gained would always become a help in his advancement.
The 'Tianxiang Wuling Pill' in Li Shiming's hand can be said to have increased his chances of advancing to the Golden Pill stage by more than 20%. Combined with the resources for making the pill and the fact that he still has a Yuanyang body and a pure Taoist body, he feels that his chances of advancing to the Golden Pill stage can exceed 60%.
But he also understood his own weaknesses. The 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Formation' he had concocted within the spiritual lake in his body made his ascension to the Golden Elixir stage full of uncertainties.
On the contrary, he currently has no shortage of resources for making pills. He can get them from Shushan Sect or from his clone Li Yuanba.
In addition, he is an alchemist himself. When he reaches the late stage of foundation building, he is confident that he can refine the third-grade elixir. At that time, he will be able to use the elixir with the best effect.
What he lacked were two of the third-grade five-element formation materials, third-grade water materials and third-grade wood materials. Only with these two third-grade materials could the level of the five-element Qi-gathering formation in his body be upgraded to the third grade, and only then would he have a chance to break through the foundation-building stage.
"There's no need to rush!" Li Shiming was very clear-headed. With his status, he could get these two third-grade materials even if he asked the two masters for help.
Of course, this was his last choice. To the two masters, perhaps the two third-grade materials were not that precious, but it was a bit excessive for him to ask for them.
Elder Su and Elder Ma are not the only disciples. If every disciple asked for third-grade materials, Elder Ma would be fine as he has a wealthy fortune, but Elder Su would probably have to pay a huge price.
The problem was that he was only Elder Ma's registered disciple, so he couldn't even ask for that.
Li Shiming looked at the 'Tianxiang Wuling Pill' with a smile. If he had known about the existence of this elixir earlier, he might have killed Ji Hongbo directly.
"You're thinking too much. Could it be that Elder Ji would send a Jindan cultivator to deal with me just for a 'Tianxiang Wuling Pill'?" He smiled and shook his head and said to himself.
He stopped thinking about these things, closed his eyes and started to connect to IBMz15. IBMz15 transferred all the recent analysis and research on the formation, including the process and results, into his brain.
Above his head, a sea of starlight appeared. A cloud of galaxies had taken shape and began to connect with each other.
"Just a little bit more. After I go back this time, I will ask the monks who came to ask for the elixir to use the knowledge of formations instead of reward!" He muttered as he sensed the sea of starlight of the formation.
He thought that becoming a formation master would be easy, but after obtaining the formation knowledge of the Senluo Sect from his clone Li Yuanba, he digested and absorbed the formation knowledge of the Senluo Sect and the Shushan Sect, but he was still one step away from completely sublimating his formation, the Starlight Sea, and was stuck at the bottleneck of being just one step away from becoming a formation master.
He doesn't have a master to teach him formations. If he had a formation master, he would tell him how difficult it is to become a formation master.
Which formation master does not combine the strengths of hundreds of schools? Only after a hundred years of dedicated research can he gain insights and achieve breakthroughs.
It is extremely rare in the history of the immortal cultivation world for him to want to become a master of formations after only learning them for a few years.
Of course, in the application of formations, his level is actually no worse than that of the formation master.
The most important thing for him at the moment is the realm. If he had the strength of a Jindan cultivator and could access third-grade materials, and use third-grade materials to make formation flags, he would be able to make the temporary formation able to resist the attacks of Jindan cultivators.
Look at him now. To get all the materials for the third-grade five-element formation, he needs to gather the strength of his original body and clone. His original body and clone are doing very well in both the righteous and evil sects, but they still haven't gathered all the materials for the third-grade five-element formation, let alone getting more third-grade formation materials to make formation flags.
"Once my alchemy skills are improved to that of an alchemy master, I will start preparing to learn about refining equipment!" Li Shiming began to make plans for the future.
After reaching the Jindan stage, refining equipment becomes a must-learn for most Jindan cultivators. When a cultivator reaches the Jindan stage, he can use the Jindan fire to refine the third-grade refining materials, thus laying the foundation for refining equipment.
Although the golden elixir fire is a spiritual fire, its nature is too fierce and it cannot be used for refining elixirs, but it is suitable for refining weapons.
It takes a lot of effort for Jindan cultivators to obtain third-grade refining materials. They either serve the sect for many years and exchange them with contribution points, or they take risks to explore some dangerous places, or they obtain them through their own luck.
No matter which method is used to obtain the third-grade refining materials, they will be extremely cherished. A Jindan cultivator will always feel uneasy if someone else uses the third-grade refining materials to refine a magic weapon.
Not to mention, many Jindan cultivators' natal magic weapons need to be refined according to the records in the inherited techniques, which involves the important inheritance of the cultivators. Asking others to refine them will leak their own secrets, thus bringing hidden dangers to themselves.
For any inheritance, it becomes the most important part when it reaches the Jindan stage, as it involves the secrets of one's own cultivation, and any mistake will be exploited by the enemy.
Therefore, even if a Jindan cultivator does not specialize in the art of refining equipment, he still needs to master some techniques so that he can refine his own magic weapon.
In the Ten Thousand Mountains, Li Yuanba was checking out twelve fine needle spiritual weapons. The more he looked, the more he felt Yu Piao's extravagance.
The twelve fine needle spiritual weapons were made of third-grade metal. Currently, he had done little research on weapon refining, especially third-grade refining materials, and had no idea what kind of third-grade metal was used.
Although these third-grade metals are rare, if you find a suitable refiner, you can at least refine a small magic weapon out of them.
Li Yuanba didn't know that it was luck that Yu Piao got this set of third-grade spiritual weapons.
Originally, this set of fine needle magic weapons was a magic weapon refined by a Jindan cultivator for himself. Because there were too few third-grade metals, he chose a needle-shaped magic weapon, and ambitiously prepared to use all third-grade metals to refine a set of twelve needle-shaped magic weapons.
However, this Jindan cultivator overestimated his own level of refining skills. With his mediocre level, perhaps the success rate of refining a single magic weapon would be higher.
In the end, he ruined a set of needle-shaped magic weapons made of third-grade metal. In a very bad mood, he sold the waste at a low price to a monk who was good at refining weapons.
The monk got this set of twelve scrap needle-shaped magic weapons. After some effort, he also failed and turned the scrap magic weapons into spiritual tool-level garbage.
Yu Piao got the news and spent a considerable amount of money to buy this set of garbage from the monk.
To a Jindan cultivator, spiritual weapons are naturally rubbish, and this one is made of third-grade metal. If he really uses this thing, he will almost be laughed to death by other Jindan cultivators.
No Jindan cultivator would have the nerve to use such a spiritual weapon, but for a foundation-building cultivator, it was an absolute treasure.
The twelve needle-shaped spiritual weapons are the top-level ones among all spiritual weapons. This is due to the material they are made of. No matter how poor their refining level is, they have gone through the hands of two Jindan masters, and the latter one is a Jindan who is good at refining weapons.
If the previous Jindan had not dug a big hole, the next Jindan who was good at refining equipment might have been able to turn waste into treasure.
The grade of the twelve needle-shaped spiritual weapons is almost the same as Li Yuanba's third-grade sword base. They are all based on third-grade metals and are all spiritual weapons.
Of course, there are huge differences between the two. The third-grade sword base is currently a good spiritual weapon, but this is just a transition. The third-grade sword base can grow. After Li Yuanba achieves the golden elixir, the third-grade sword base will evolve into a magic weapon.
However, the twelve needle-shaped spiritual weapons are just spiritual weapons and their grade cannot be upgraded any further.
Li Yuanba did not refine this set of twelve needle-shaped spiritual weapons. Although he disagreed with the pure sword cultivator's theory of the sole flying sword, the twelve needle-shaped spiritual weapons were useless to him and could not enhance his strength at all.
His attack power is as strong as that of the Golden Wind Sword in the long run, and as strong as that of a third-grade sword in the short run. For a sword cultivator like him to use a needle-shaped spiritual weapon is just a joke.
However, the twelve needle-shaped spiritual weapons did have some effect on the original body of Li Shiming. At least it provided him with an additional means of setting up the formation, which could be fully coordinated with the Nine Palace Sword Formation.
Li Yuanba put away the twelve needle-shaped spiritual weapons. He opened his storage bags and storage bracelets one by one, took out the useful spiritual objects and put them aside, and put the useless ones separately.
He couldn't help but shake his head and sigh that the true teachings of the Senluo Sect were too different from those of the Shushan Sect.
In fact, he misjudged the matter. If Lin Ping, Du Ke and Yu Piao really had a strong background in Senluo Sect, they would never come to snatch his pill-making resources.
These three true disciples were all marginal figures among the true disciples of Senluo Sect. They did not receive the favor of the powerful Jindan elders of the sect, but were instead accepted as disciples by the weaker Jindan elders.
You have to know that those weaker Jindan elders are not doing well in the sect, so how can they take care of their disciples?
Especially when it comes to important resources, priority will of course be given to the disciples of powerful Jindan elders.
Li Yuanba was a powerful and influential true disciple who was rewarded with a set of elixir-making resources by Patriarch Lu. In addition, Elder Jian was very powerful in the sect, so he naturally looked down on the items of these true disciples.
However, Ji Hongbo is the son of the most powerful Jindan elder in Shushan Sect. There is no comparison between the two.