Li Shiming walked out of the mountain gate of Qianhuan Sect. He didn't know whether the monk from Qianye Temple who was following him was still there. He looked at the sky. It was getting darker and it would be dark in another half hour.
He took out the flying boat, and it took him towards Shushan Sect.
After waiting until dark, he found an ownerless mountain, dug out a cave, and set up an isolation and hiding formation.
Arhat Zhiming had been staring at Li Shiming. After Li Shiming entered the mountain gate of Qianhuan Sect, he stayed at the gate to guard it.
Fortunately, Qianye Temple and Qianhuan Sect are allies, and Zhiming Arhat greeted the Qianhuan Sect, which allowed him to get so close to the Qianhuan Sect's mountain gate without being expelled by the Qianhuan Sect.
Under normal circumstances, unless a Jindan-stage cultivator from an outer sect is on a formal visit, it would be very easy to cause misunderstanding if he lingered outside the sect's formation.
The sect's formation is very sensitive to the fluctuations of spiritual power in the Jindan period. No matter how the Jindan cultivator hides, he will be discovered by the sect's formation as long as he is within a certain range of the sect's formation.
You must know that Jindan cultivators can already have a certain influence on the sect's formation. If multiple Jindan cultivators raid the sect's formation at the same time, and the sect's formation is not fully activated, it is very likely to cause serious damage to the sect's formation.
Therefore, each sect remains extremely vigilant towards Jindan cultivators who attempt to approach the sect's formation.
Arhat Zhiming waited until Li Shiming left the mountain gate of Qianhuan Sect. He continued to follow Li Shiming until Li Shiming set up a temporary cave to rest.
There is nothing unusual about this. With elixirs, cultivators do not need a spiritual environment to practice.
As Li Shiming is a senior alchemist, he must have a lot of elixirs for cultivation. I guess these are for the daily practice of his main technique.
Zhiming Arhat was guarding not far from the formation. He had a magic weapon to hide himself, so he didn't have to worry about Li Shiming discovering him.
Li Shiming did not act immediately. He really needed time to adapt to the late stage of foundation building.
Thinking that this time the breakthrough was due to spiritual tea, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head. No wonder the cultivators attached great importance to spiritual tea.
Of course, the spiritual tea only played a promoting role. In fact, he was very close to breaking through the late stage of foundation building.
Feeling the space in the Spirit Lake expanding again, the spiritual power that originally filled the Spirit Lake was now only one tenth of the amount.
This is the spiritual power reserve in the late stage of foundation building, which is ten times the total spiritual power of a peak cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.
Moreover, the power of each strand of spiritual power has been greatly enhanced. The spiritual power before was liquid like water, but now it is like viscous oil.
Although they are both liquid, their densities are completely different.
In fact, the reason why Li Shiming's spiritual power changed so obviously was because of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array'.
It is precisely because the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' continuously purifies his spiritual power that his spiritual power has been purified to the extreme of the current realm. In other words, his spiritual power is equivalent to the spiritual power at the peak of the late foundation building stage.
This has nothing to do with the total amount of spiritual power. Even if he has just entered the late stage of foundation building, he can exert the strength of the peak of the late stage of foundation building.
Li Shiming has a love-hate relationship with the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array'. He loves it because it has indeed brought him great benefits. The spiritual power in his body has always been at the peak of its current realm, and he has all five elements of spiritual power in his body.
There is no need to explain the benefits of having all five elements of spiritual power. He can learn and use almost all kinds of secret techniques without having to worry about whether the spiritual power supports it.
The reason why he hated the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' was that he could not find any similar information about the phenomenon of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array'.
This created many unknowns in his future. When it came to making the elixir, he almost had to carve out a path of his own on his own.
This task was so difficult that he had no confidence at all.
So after he got the information about the Five Qi Sect, he thought about going to take a look. Part of the reason for this was that the Five Qi Sect was an ancient sect that specialized in cultivating the five elements of spiritual power.
He didn't even need to discover any skills in the Five Qi Sect ruins. He only needed to see the ruins left at the Five Qi Sect's mountain gate, and IBMz15 would be able to analyze some situations, which would be of reference and help to his research on the five elements of spiritual power.
Of course, with the monks from Qianye Temple watching him, he naturally couldn't just go there in a big way. In case there was something preserved in the ruins of the Five Qi Sect, he didn't believe that the monks from Qianye Temple would let him get it.
In addition, he also needs to send his clone Li Yuanba back to the Shiwan Mountains first. Qianye Temple's attitude is too weird, and he can't guarantee what the consequences will be if Li Yuanba is caught by Qianye Temple.
Although the role of the clone Li Yuanba to the original body is not as important as originally expected, Li Yuanba is an important combat force of the original body, especially after he learned the "Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky" in Senluo Sect, he is almost certain to become the top Jindan sword cultivator.
Just like Elder Jian, he can single-handedly defeat the terrifying combat power of multiple Jindan cultivators of the same level.
Li Shiming now positions his main body and clone differently. The main body focuses on secondary duties and has achieved considerable success in formations and alchemy.
What the original body wants is safety. If the original body dies, the clone Li Yuanba will most likely also die.
This does not mean that the combat power of the original body is weak. At least in the foundation-building period, the combat power of the original body can definitely suppress the clone. The Taoist defense and spiritual improvement brought by the Immaculate Taoist body have allowed the original body to reach the peak melee combat power of the foundation-building period to a large extent.
As long as he lets the original body get close, he believes that even a foundation-building cultivator who has reached the half-step golden elixir stage will not be able to defeat the original body at close range.
Li Shiming positioned his clone Li Yuanba as being in charge of combat, adding combat experience to the original body, and solving some of the original body's problems.
While thinking about these things, Li Shiming took out some corpse refining materials from his space ring.
He is already in the late stage of foundation building and can collect the iron corpses in the corpse refining space of the space ring for his own use and refine all the iron corpses.
In addition, the corpse of Buddha Juetu can also be refined into a refined corpse and become his helper.
He did not take out the body of Buddha Juetu, but set up a corpse refining array in the corpse refining space of the space ring and began to sacrifice and refine the body of Buddha Juetu.
Buddha Juetu practiced killing to become a Buddha, and reached the strength of a half-step golden elixir.
Even Elder Lu of the Senluo Sect attached great importance to the corpse of Juetu Buddha. After killing Juetu Buddha, he immediately prepared his corpse for sacrifice.
Li Shiming didn’t know much about Elder Lu before, but after getting Elder Lu’s space ring and discovering the corpse refining space in the space ring, he was sure that Elder Lu was a Jindan elder of the Senluo Sect who was good at corpse refining.
There are ten iron corpses at the peak of the corpse refining space, and one silver corpse. If Elder Lu is given more time, all ten iron corpses at the peak of the corpse refining can be upgraded to silver corpses, and their strength will be greatly enhanced.
A silver corpse is equivalent to a Jindan monk. Perhaps it is far from a real Jindan monk in terms of long-range attack and magic, but in terms of defense and melee ability, it is enough to suppress Jindan monks of the same level.
If the number of silver corpses were to increase to eleven, any Jindan cultivator would have a headache when facing so many silver corpses.
Li Shiming refined the corpse of Buddha Juetu and made it recognize its master. After success, he left it in the corpse refining space, allowing it to absorb the cold and yin power and grow.
After Juetu Buddha's corpse was refined into a refined corpse, it directly became an iron corpse, and its body defense and destructive power were far beyond that of a normal iron corpse. Even in his perception, it was almost the same as a general.
You must know that Jiang Chen is a corpse refined from the corpse of the Jindan sword cultivator Yun Xingyi. Due to the limited strength of his clone Li Yuanba, even if he refined it into his own corpse, his strength would only be reduced to the peak of the Iron Corpse, which is equivalent to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
After Juetu Buddha became a refined corpse, his defense and attack power caught up with Jiang Chen even though he had not yet reached the peak of the Iron Corpse. It can be seen that the potential of Juetu Buddha's Iron Corpse is huge, even surpassing that of Jiang Chen.
"From now on, I will call you 'Killing'!" Li Shiming sensed the Iron Corpse of Juetu Buddha in the corpse refining space. Such an Iron Corpse deserves a name.
Moreover, he would not transform Killing's body, because the main reason why Killing was so powerful was the changes in his body caused by the influence of killing intent.
Even though Buddha Juetu is dead, the effects of a hundred years of practicing the method of killing to become a Buddha will not disappear on his body. After the transformation of the corpse, the murderous intent has become the original ability of the Killing Iron Corpse.
Li Shiming has studied the "Moonlight Corpse Scroll" and obtained the entire corpse refining inheritance of Elder Lu. He has his own understanding of the killing iron corpse transformed by Buddha Juetu.
Originally, the corpse refiner was a monster that liked killing, but the Buddha Juetu, who cultivated the killing intent and became a Buddha, had the killing intent in his body transformed by the corpse refiner, and he even integrated this deliberately cultivated killing intent into every part of the killing iron corpse.
If the records in the "Moonlight Corpse Scroll" are correct, the Iron Corpse can strengthen its killing intent through continuous killing in the future, and complete the unfinished killing intent of the Buddha Juetu and become a Buddha in another way.
Of course, in the end, the Killing Iron Corpse, which really relies on the killing intent to improve itself, will definitely not become a Buddha through killing intent, but rather a demon through killing intent.
Li Shiming then began to refine the ten top-level iron corpses in the corpse refining space one by one. The corpses in the corpse refining space were very quiet, and even if they had lost their original owners, they had been in a dormant state.
His refining went very smoothly and he did not encounter any resistance at all.
He collected eleven iron corpses at once, plus Nezha, which made twelve iron corpses. If his spirit had not already surpassed the level of a cultivator at the peak of the late foundation building stage, he would probably be in a state of headache right now.
Even so, he felt a slight mental burden.
However, looking at the twelve iron corpses belonging to him in the corpse refining space, a smile appeared on his face.
Currently, among the twelve Iron Corpses, ten are at the peak level of Iron Corpses. Although the Killing Iron Corpse has not reached the peak level of Iron Corpses, it has the combat power of the peak level of Iron Corpses.
Only Nezha is still in the middle stage of the Iron Corpse Realm. This is because Li Shiming has just broken through. He thinks that by constantly absorbing the cold and yin power in the corpse refining space of the space ring, he will be able to improve his realm soon.
In fact, there is still the body of Elder Lu that has not been refined, but Li Shiming will not sacrifice Elder Lu's body during the foundation-building period. The body of a Jindan cultivator has a chance of being transformed into a silver corpse.
He would wait until his realm was raised to the Golden Core Stage before considering offering sacrifice to Elder Lu's corpse.
It seems a pity to have sacrificed Yun Xingyi's corpse before. Considering that Yun Xingyi's corpse directly became a peak iron corpse after being sacrificed, if he sacrificed it again in the golden elixir stage, there is a certain probability that he will get a silver corpse.
After all the iron corpses recognized their master, things did not end there. Li Shiming already had a plan for refining the corpses.
He put an iron corpse into the machine room. The iron corpse had already recognized its master and was completely under his control, so there was nothing to worry about.
He used the third-grade sword base as a scalpel again and used the corpse of the foundation-building cultivator sent by his clone Li Yuanba as material to begin transforming the iron corpse into one with three heads and six arms.
The defense of the peak Iron Corpse is extremely terrifying. During the operation, Li Shiming had to ask his clone Li Yuanba, who was also in the machine room, to add sword intent to the third-grade sword base, so that the operation could proceed normally.
With the experience of Nezha's transformation, the transformation of this iron corpse was not difficult. In addition, his strength had greatly increased, and he completed the transformation of the iron corpse in one hour.
The new three-headed, six-armed iron corpse was collected into the corpse refining space of the space ring, and placed in the Netherworld Ghost Realm Array in the corpse refining space, where it received dual nourishment from the cold and yin energy automatically generated by the ghost realm and the array in the corpse refining space.
This was the first one. Afterwards, Li Shiming sent one iron corpse after another into the machine room for surgery, and one peak iron corpse after another with three heads and six arms was sent into the corpse refining space for nourishment.
In one day, except for the killing iron corpse, the rest of the iron corpses changed their appearance.
The three-headed, six-armed iron corpses are currently unable to form combat power. They need to absorb the cold and yin energy for a period of time so that the newly added parts can also be transformed into part of the iron corpse before they can have combat power.
After finishing all these, Li Shiming also performed plastic surgery on the Killing Iron Corpse. Although the Killing Iron Corpse's face would change drastically after it turned into an iron corpse, the monks who were familiar with Juetu Buddha could still see the Killing Iron Corpse's original form.
Li Shiming is a true disciple of the righteous Shushan Sect and an ally of Qianye Temple. He cannot let Qianye Temple catch him.
Therefore, it became necessary to change the face of the Killing Iron Corpse. Although such an operation was simpler, due to the Killing Iron Corpse's defense, this operation was finally completed by the clone Li Yuanba who mobilized all the sword intent and spiritual power and held the third-grade sword base in hand.
Li Yuanba could avoid the attack power of the late foundation building defense with one sword, but it was particularly difficult for him to break the facial skin of the Killing Iron Corpse.
Fortunately, the facial skin was broken as there was a lack of muscle tissue there. In addition, there were no special requirements for the facial appearance. In the end, they just added a few bones to the face of the Killing Iron Corpse, completely changing the facial contour of the Killing Iron Corpse. Only then was the operation completed.
It can be imagined how difficult it would be for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to break through the defense of the Killing Iron Corpse in a real battle.