Zhiming Arhat's face was as gloomy as water. He had stayed at the checkpoint ever since the deaths of Jueyuan Buddha and Juetu Buddha and the loss of the jade foot relic.
He was looking for an opportunity to sneak into the Shiwanda Mountains, find Li Yuanba and take back the Jade Foot Relic.
Qianye Temple already knew that it was Li Yuanba who killed Jueyuan Buddha, but Li Yuanba had been in seclusion in the Senluo Sect for the past year, otherwise Zhiming Arhat would have sneaked into the Shiwan Mountains and captured Li Yuanba personally.
He had been waiting for information from the Senluo Sect, but he did not expect that Li Yuanba would leave the Shiwan Mountains and appear in the sphere of influence of the righteous path.
After Buddha Jueneng discovered Li Yuanba, he immediately reported it to Arhat Zhiming. By the time Arhat Zhiming received the news, Li Yuanba had already disappeared.
Zhiming Luohan paid some price to obtain the location information in Li Yuanba’s pass and chased him out again.
Indeed, each wooden pass has a positioning array inside. This is a backup plan to prevent the demon cultivator from causing any trouble within the sphere of influence of the righteous forces and from being able to be tracked down.
Since the energy fluctuations of the positioning array inside the wooden pass were disturbed by the fluctuations of various anti-counterfeiting and solid arrays on the wooden pass, and the fluctuations of the positioning array itself were extremely weak, the tampering on it must have never been discovered.
Every time the positioning method on the wooden pass is used, there is a risk of exposing the positioning of the wooden pass, so unless it is absolutely necessary, the righteous side will not use this function, and it will only be used for supervision purposes.
Zhiming Arhat requested to use this function for the sake of the jade foot relic and the inheritance of the divine power of walking on water.
With his strength equivalent to that of the Jindan stage, he thought it was too difficult to capture Li Yuanba, who was only in the foundation-building stage.
Although Li Yuanba's sword escape speed was very fast, Zhiming Luohan's speed was considered upper-level among the Jindan level. After applying for the positioning array information, he caught up with Li Yuanba in three hours.
Zhiming Luohan had already seen Li Yuanba's figure from afar. He could not suppress the joy in his heart, and excitement flashed in his eyes.
"Amitabha!" He chanted the Buddha's name and increased his speed again. Every tone of the Buddha's name would bring him closer to Li Yuanba.
According to his judgment, as soon as the Buddhist name is finished, he will be standing in front of Li Yuanba.
This comes from Luohan's confidence and his certainty about the strength of the weak.
The sword cultivator was indeed very strong, and the speed of sword escape was indeed very fast, but that was when they were at the same realm. Under the pressure of Zhiming Luohan's higher realm, Li Yuanba's speed was not enough.
Just as the last tone was about to be uttered, Li Yuanba sighed helplessly. Li Yuanba knew that he would be in big trouble from today on.
When Zhiming Luohan was about to catch Li Yuanba, his eyes suddenly became filled with horror.
As he watched, a holy white lotus appeared under Li Yuanba's feet, making Li Yuanba look like an immortal.
Two hundred meters in front of Li Yuanba, a second white lotus suddenly appeared. His figure suddenly disappeared from the spot and appeared on the second white lotus.
Strengthened by 'Purple Air Coming from the East' and cultivating his divine consciousness, the normal distance he could reach when using 'Lotus Step by Step' reached two hundred meters.
His figure kept flashing in the void and disappeared from the sight of Zhiming Arhat at an extremely fast speed.
Arhat Zhiming stood in a daze in the air, his mouth wide open, completely lacking the bearing of a great monk.
The reason why he didn't chase after him was because he knew it was impossible to catch up.
That is the 'Lotus Blooms with Every Step' of the Divine Foot Power. Although it is only the initial stage of the Divine Power, it is still much faster than the speed of the Golden Core cultivator.
Zhiming Arhat also wanted to inherit the power of divine feet, but unfortunately he was not able to pass the test. After failing once, he was no longer qualified.
Only once every few hundred years will a disciple who inherits the power of clairvoyance appear, which shows how difficult it is to practice the power of clairvoyance.
Even Buddha Jueyuan, who had mastered the 'Lotus Blossoming with Every Step', took more than ten years to master it, and then practiced for several more decades before he reached the level of one hundred meters with one step.
But look at Li Yuanba just now, each step was two hundred meters.
After Li Yuanba obtained the Jade Foot Relic, he immediately inherited the ability of divine feet, and it only took about a year.
In just one year, he was able to cultivate the supernatural power of 'lotus blossoms with every step' to such a level that even the Arhat Zhiming began to doubt that the Buddha had been born.
"How did he pass the Buddha's test?" After standing there for a long time, Zhiming Arhat came back to his senses and thought of the most critical question.
If one wants to inherit the power of clairvoyance, one must have made an extremely deep study of Buddhism and be able to withstand the influence of the Buddha's voice on one's soul.
Let alone those who are not Buddhists, even for a Buddhist sect like Chiba Temple, which specializes in the test of the divine power, to cultivate a Buddha who can pass the inheritance of the divine power, it requires careful selection and long-term targeted training.
When Chiba Temple is conducting the test of the divine feet, there will be many monks with profound Buddhist knowledge to support them. Even so, the probability of successfully obtaining the inheritance is still terribly low.
"Could it be the reincarnation of a certain Bodhisattva?" Zhiming Arhat murmured to himself.
He no longer thought about arresting Li Yuanba. He needed to report to the sect that Li Yuanba had learned the "Lotus Blooming with Every Step".
In his opinion, there is only one possibility to learn 'Lotus Step by Step' so quickly.
That is, Li Yuanba is the reincarnation of a certain Bodhisattva, and this Bodhisattva had learned the supernatural power in the previous life, which is why he was able to practice "Lotus Step by Step" to such a level so easily in this life.
Even Zhiming Arhat did not guess that it was the reincarnation of a Buddhist master, because it was absolutely impossible for a Buddhist master to master the supernatural power to the point where even his reincarnation would carry the mark of his supernatural power.
This is a big deal. A Bodhisattva reincarnated and fell into the devil's sect. This is unbearable for the Buddhist sect.
If the reincarnated Bodhisattva is brought back to the temple, with the reincarnated Bodhisattva's foundation, it is inevitable that he will become a venerable in the future, and there is even a possibility that he will return to the Bodhisattva position.
If there were a Bodhisattva sitting in Qianye Temple, then Qianye Temple would instantly become the strongest sect in the Northern Shu Continent.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Zhiming Luohan immediately contacted Qianye Temple and informed him of his discovery.
Without mentioning Zhiming Luohan and Qianye Temple's speculations about Li Yuanba's identity, after Li Yuanba performed the "Lotus Steps", he finally left Zhiming Luohan far behind.
This was the first time that he used 'Lotus Step by Step' to get rid of a cultivator with Jindan strength. He found that the speed of 'Lotus Step by Step' could really exceed that of a cultivator with Jindan strength, which made him feel more at ease.
On the other side, Li Shiming sensed what happened to his clone Li Yuanba. He activated the 'Secret Technique of Charming Soul and Hiding in the Shadows' and performed the 'Lotus Steps' without considering the rendezvous place and went towards Li Yuanba.
The way he used 'Lotus Steps' was more covert. Once the 'Soul-Hidden Secret Technique' was activated, he could achieve invisibility as long as he was in the shadows.
He no longer used 'Lotus Steps' in the sky, but instead used various shadows on the ground to maintain invisibility and move continuously.
Currently, the distance of 'Lotus Blossoms Every Step' has reached 260 meters. How could there be no shadow at all in this distance?
In addition, IBMz15 assisted him in making judgments. Although the first use of 'Lotus Step by Step' was so short that he didn't even have time to think, his spirit had reached the level of a Jindan cultivator. With the help of IBMz15, he was able to maintain the highest speed while remaining invisible.
This method of movement was something he had thought of recently, and it could be used to save his life at critical moments.
It would originally take several days to reunite, but after the original Li Shiming and the clone Li Yuanba used the "Lotus Step by Step" madly, they met after several hours.
The first thing the clone Li Yuanba did when he met the original body Li Shiming was to put the wooden pass into the computer room of the original body Li Shiming, and then they moved to another place together and set up a formation of isolation and concealment.
"Fellow Daoist, nice to meet you again!" Li Shiming said with a smile.
"Fellow Daoist, I need your help again!" The clone Li Yuanba also said with a smile.
They are the same person, so there is no need to be polite.
Li Shiming took out the top-level elixirs that he had prepared long ago. They were all auxiliary elixirs for the middle and late stages of foundation building. They were enough for Li Yuanba to cultivate to the peak of foundation building.
The fact that he was able to accumulate so much, and that Li Shiming also reserved his own share, was all thanks to the Beishu Trading Company.
He refined elixirs for the Beishu Trading Company, and the quantity was extremely huge. If it were a single sect, it would not be able to satisfy his alchemy ability.
Beishu Trading Company is the largest trading company in Beishu. It has six major sects and partners all over Beishu behind it, which enables it to obtain more spiritual medicines than a single major sect.
Of course, some of the elixir tasks refined by Li Shiming were not actually for external purposes, but orders placed by other major sects to the Beishu Trading Company.
The big sects cannot invite Li Shiming without going through the channel of Beishu Trading Company. After all, Li Shiming is the true master of alchemy of Shushan Sect, so how could he openly help other big sects to refine elixirs?
It is precisely because of these reasons that Li Shiming was able to accumulate so many top-level elixirs in just over a year.
Anyway, it is enough to supply him and his clone Li Yuanba with the cultivation. Besides, he will continue to refine elixirs for the sect and Beishu Trading Company in the future. There are some shortcomings on the original body, but they can be obtained later.
Li Yuanba also put the prepared things into a storage bag and handed it to Li Shiming. Among them was a set of resources for making pills. Once Li Shiming's alchemy skills reached the level of alchemy master, he would be able to make pills.
Of course, the spiritual medicine resources for making pills can only produce three pills at most, and this requires the top-level alchemy masters to ensure such a level. For normal alchemy masters, it would be good enough if they can maintain a production rate of one to two spiritual pills.
Therefore, when refining this kind of elixir, the master alchemist is not only rewarded with the distribution of the elixir, but also with other rewards.
Li Shiming can actually give this set of pill-making resources to his master Elder Ma for refining, and he can immediately get a full set of Vein Protecting Pills, Soul Calming Pills, Resurrection Pills, and Mountain Breaking Pills.
But he couldn't guarantee that Elder Ma could produce more than two pills in each furnace. In addition, he, as the disciple, also needed to pay the alchemist's remuneration. This was the alchemist's rule and no one could break it.
He was not in such a hurry. He might as well wait until he had the ability to do so. In the computer room, he was sure that he could make a full pill. In addition, with the "One Hundred and One Point Pill Art", he could get a set of elixirs with up to six pills of each kind.
There are also a large number of corpses of foundation-building monks in the storage bag, all of which were killed by Li Yuanba.
The most numerous among them were the corpses of Buddha, followed by the corpses of demons.
Li Shiming is not far from the late stage of foundation building. He has already considered refining all those peak iron corpses. Anyway, his spirit is strong enough. As long as he reaches that level, he can completely suppress it.
The reason why he needed so many corpses of foundation-building monks was because he wanted to transform the peak iron corpse into one with three heads and six arms. With the successful case of Nezha, the transformation was not a difficult task.
You should know that although Nezha did not have many opportunities to fight, his performance was extremely impressive, at least increasing the strength of the Iron Corpse by 30 to 40 percent.
If there weren't so many corpses of Foundation Establishment cultivators, he wouldn't have considered transforming the iron corpses. However, Li Yuanba had killed too many cultivators in Senluo Sect over the years, and instead of selling the corpses of Foundation Establishment cultivators left behind, it would be better to use them to improve his own combat power.
With his current status, the resources that a Foundation Establishment cultivator can obtain are easily available to him, and he no longer needs to sell his spoils.
Especially this time, after he exchanged resources with his clone Li Yuanba, it was enough for them to reach the peak of the late foundation building stage without having to worry about resources.
The storage bag that Li Yuanba handed over also contained the twelve third-grade needle-shaped spiritual weapons and the "Anti-Face Flower".
What Li Shiming was most concerned about was the 'Anti-Face Flower'. He put the 'Anti-Face Flower' into the computer room, where the third-turn Tianbao furnace had already been preheated with the red-bright spiritual fire.
It is not difficult to refine the anti-aging pill. After sensing the medicinal power of the 'Anti-aging Flower' in the computer room, although it was the first time I came into contact with it, I quickly became familiar with the medicinal properties of the 'Anti-aging Flower' under the micron-level sensing and control.
As he refined more and more elixirs in the computer room, he was able to form a complete set of data support with the help of IBM z15 through experience and micron-level observations to understand the medicinal properties of first- and second-grade elixirs, and not just first- and second-grade elixirs, but even third-grade elixirs.
This is a reflection of his improved alchemy skills, now even with a new elixir, as long as it is within the range of his alchemy skills, he can easily make it perfect.
Perhaps there might be slight defects when refining the elixir outside the computer room, but in the computer room, the possibility of such defects is absolutely avoided.
More than an hour later, the medicinal power above the third-turn Tianbao furnace rose, and Li Shiming's spiritual power accurately used the 'One Hundred and One Points Alchemy Technique'. Next to the ten elixirs that were taking shape in the furnace, ten phantoms of elixirs appeared.
The spiritual power from all around gathered towards the ten phantoms of elixirs in the alchemy furnace. He had already set up a spirit gathering array in the computer room and used medium-grade spirit stones, so he didn't have to worry about insufficient spiritual power.