Ever since Li Shiming inherited the weapon refining skills from Elder Zhang, Elder Zhang would come to give him guidance at a fixed time every day.
His weapon refining skills also improved by leaps and bounds, and in just a few days he had begun to refine spiritual weapons.
What made Elder Zhang most satisfied was Li Shiming's speed in learning the magic runes.
The attached rune is to put the spell in the form of a rune, and solidify the spell onto the magic weapon through the attachment, so as to achieve the corresponding special effect.
Such as the basic magic runes, the soul storage runes, acceleration runes, firmness runes, slowness runes, fire runes, frost runes, sharpness runes, etc. that Li Shiming had already learned.
The Zhang family's weapon-refining tradition also added a lot of foundation-building spell runes. Of course, after countless years of development, the monks summed up the most suitable runes for use on spiritual weapons.
Due to the material of the spiritual weapon, corresponding magic array patterns can be added to the body of the weapon to make it stronger.
In front of Elder Zhang, Li Shiming had always been learning how to refine weapons in an orderly manner, without showing any special performance.
He did not want to show excessive talent in refining equipment, at most he just had a strong learning ability.
He had no intention of refining weapons for others. The task of refining pills had already forced him to give up several hours every day, reducing his time for cultivation.
With no shortage of resources, why would he need to demonstrate his talent in refining equipment?
Even so, Elder Zhang was still amazed at his weapon-refining ability.
As for the affairs of alchemy, I don't know how Elder Ma handled it. All the cultivators who came to the sect to ask for elixirs moved back. In recent days, Li Shiming has been refining the Veins Protecting Pill, the Soul Calming Pill, the Resurrection Pill, and the Mountain Breaking Pill, which are the resources for making elixirs.
And for every furnace of alchemy, in addition to one-third of the elixir, one would receive other rewards, usually a portion of third-grade spiritual fruit or spiritual tea.
After actually handling it, he discovered that it was not that the resources for making pills were rare, but that the Northern Shu Continent was too large. The limited number of these resources, when placed among all the cultivators in the entire Northern Shu Continent, became extremely rare.
The three major sects of the righteous path, as well as major forces within the righteous path, control the resources for making elixirs.
Because of Li Shiming's reputation, the monks who had the resources and materials for alchemy in their hands tried their best to use their connections and favors to find Li Shiming for help in refining the Veins Protecting Pill, the Soul Calming Pill, the Resurrection Pill, and the Mountain Breaking Pill.
There is no other way. Among all the alchemy masters who are willing to make elixirs publicly, only Li Shiming can guarantee to make four high-level third-grade elixirs and produce full-grade elixirs.
High-level elixirs are much more effective in breaking through the golden elixir stage than medium and low-level elixirs. In order to increase the probability of successful elixir, cultivators are willing to pay any price.
Li Shiming believed that after some time, he would be able to refine a set of top-notch meridian-protecting pills, soul-stabilizing pills, resurrection pills, and mountain-breaking pills for himself.
In his computer room, the essence of each elixir is constantly accumulating, and soon it will be enough to refine top-level elixirs.
Li Shiming also understood why Elder Ma had said before that as a master alchemist, one does not have to worry about any resources.
He can now have third-grade spiritual fruit and third-grade spiritual tea freely. It is no problem for him to drink a cup of third-grade spiritual tea every day, and he can take out a third-grade spiritual fruit from time to time to satisfy his hunger.
In addition, he still found time these days to refine several batches of second-grade elixirs for the Beishu Trading Company. After all, he owed them a lot of favors, and he still needed to repay them. As for the third-grade elixirs, they consumed too much energy and had to be ranked behind the sect's alchemy affairs.
"Shiming, come here!" One day, Li Shiming was refining a spiritual weapon when he received a message from his master, Elder Su.
Fortunately, the refining of the spiritual weapon was carried out in the machine room. He devoted part of his mind to the machine room and continued to complete the refining work.
He himself soared into the air and headed towards Tianmu Peak.
When he was about to reach Tianmu Peak, he saw Elder Su and his second senior brother Wan Zheng already waiting for him outside the Tianmu Peak.
"Master, Second Brother, I'm late!" Li Shiming hurriedly stepped forward and greeted.
"It's not too late. I know you're busy, so I called you over after everything is ready. Let's go and watch Jing Xian make the elixir!" Elder Su said with a smile as he helped Li Shiming up.
Li Shiming looked around and saw that only his second senior brother was there; his third senior brother Lu Shi and fourth senior brother Xu Chuan were not there.
He thought that his third and fourth senior brothers had already gone, so he didn't care and followed Elder Su to fly towards the mountain where the eldest senior sister's cave was.
The magic circle on the mountain had already been activated, waiting for them to enter.
A formation was set up on the top of the mountain. Ye Jingxian was sitting in the formation, resting with her eyes closed, as if she was unaware of their arrival.
Elder Su took Li Shiming and Wan Zheng and sat cross-legged thirty meters away from the formation.
Li Shiming could see that there was worry in Elder Su's eyes.
He looked at the magic formation under Ye Jingxian again. It was a large formation that gathered spiritual energy. It cooperated with the mountain protection formation to gather all the spiritual energy generated by the spiritual veins of the entire mountain into the formation.
The magic circle has not been activated at this moment. Once it is activated, the spiritual energy from other parts of the mountain will be drawn away, which will affect the growth of the spiritual fields in various parts of the mountain over time.
However, the spiritual field now seemed insignificant compared to Ye Jingxian's elixir. Even if the spiritual field was destroyed when necessary, her spiritual energy needs had to be guaranteed.
"Why didn't the third and fourth senior brothers come?" Li Shiming looked around and found that Lu Shi and Xu Chuan had not come, so he asked softly.
“Only those in the late foundation building stage are qualified to watch the pill-making process!” Elder Su replied calmly.
"It is said that there cannot be too many cultivators watching the pill-making process, as too many of them will affect the process. When many cultivators are making the pill, except for a teacher who provides protection, they will not invite other cultivators to watch!" Wan Zheng explained to Li Shiming softly.
Li Shiming noticed the gratitude in Wan Zheng's eyes when he looked at Ye Jingxian. Just to invite him to observe the pill-making process, Ye Jingxian took a great risk.
But as the eldest senior sister, Ye Jingxian still invited two junior brothers who were in the late foundation building stage, so that the two junior brothers could see the pill-making process with their own eyes and get help in their own pill-making.
Just as they were talking, the formation under Ye Jingxian was activated.
As the formation was activated, the spiritual energy of the entire mountain rushed towards Ye Jingxian, and the movement of the spiritual energy formed a series of whirlwinds.
Her body slowly left the ground, supported by a large amount of rich spiritual energy. Just like a body floating in water, when the spiritual energy was too rich, the body would be lifted up.
Li Shiming was nearly a hundred meters away from Ye Jingxian, but he still heard the sound of spiritual energy flowing in Ye Jingxian's body. This was the sound of a large amount of spiritual energy pouring into the body.
"It's time to take the meridian protecting pill!" Elder Su whispered softly.
He was telling Li Shiming and Wan Zheng that although the sect had relevant experience in making pills to pass on, it was nothing like watching the process on site.
The sound here is naturally transmitted through voice transmission and will not affect Ye Jingxian.
Ye Jingxian still retained a trace of consciousness. The terrifying spiritual energy poured into her body, causing her meridians to reach their limit. She put a high-level "meridian protection pill" into her mouth and swallowed it.
As the Meridian Protecting Pill entered the stomach, the medicinal power of the elixir began to take effect. Strands of medicinal power lingered on the walls of the meridians, repairing and strengthening the meridians.
With solid meridians, a large amount of spiritual energy is guided through the main practice method and transformed into spiritual power which enters the spiritual lake.
Today's training is different from usual. The Spirit Lake is like a monster that devours everything. No matter how much spiritual power there is, it will be sucked into it.
From Li Shiming's perspective, Ye Jingxian's spiritual power was overflowing, and if she was not careful, her body would burst. This was just the beginning of the breakthrough, and it was not really dangerous yet, but it was already so dangerous.
Ye Jingxian's face showed pain. She took out another "Pulse Protection Pill" and swallowed it, and the pain on her face disappeared.
"I really have to thank Shiming. If he hadn't helped Jingxian refine two high-level meridian protecting pills, her first step would have gone wrong!" Elder Su looked very nervous. He glanced at Li Shiming and spoke in a voice transmission.
Although Ye Jingxian also practiced body-refining techniques and had a very strong physique among female cultivators, the stage of drawing the soul into the body was very unpredictable. Perhaps it was because her foundation was so good that she was able to draw in more spiritual energy at this stage.
If it weren't for the two high-level meridian protecting pills refined by Li Shiming, Ye Jingxian's body would not be able to withstand the process of guiding the spirit into the body and would have failed at the first stage.
Elder Su was grateful to Li Shiming in his heart, and was happy for Ye Jingxian's luck. In his opinion, this was due to the influence of Li Shiming's fortune.
He hoped that Ye Jingxian would continue to be taken care of by Li Shiming and be able to be successfully promoted.
Ye Jingxian's body emitted a dazzling light. That was the result of too much spiritual power being transformed in her body, which involuntarily passed through her skin and out of her body.
She took another elixir, and it took effect. No more spiritual energy flowed into her body. At this time, the spiritual energy in the spiritual lake in her body exceeded saturation and was in an extremely dangerous state.
"This is the Spirit Stabilizing Pill, which can stabilize the spiritual power in the body for a short period of time!" Elder Su continued to explain to Li Shiming and Wan Zheng.
Ye Jingxian continued to take elixirs, a fierce look flashing in her eyes. Today's breakthrough process did not go according to plan, and she needed to make a decision.
She was a heroine with a decisive character, and she made the decision immediately.
She took out two high-level 'Breaking Yue Pills' and swallowed them, and then put two high-level 'Resurrection Pills' into her mouth, but did not swallow them and kept them for backup.
"Why is this kid so adventurous!" Elder Su stood up suddenly, looked at Ye Jingxian, and complained in a low voice.
But he did not interfere with Ye Jingxian's decision. This was the most important moment in Ye Jingxian's life and it was Ye Jingxian's own choice.
After the 'Po Yue Dan' entered her stomach, the spiritual power in Ye Jingxian's body that had been stabilized by the 'Ding Ling Dan' began to shrink rapidly. A small dot first appeared in the center of the spiritual lake, and the spiritual power was compressed into the small dot.
Ye Jingxian is physically very strong, and she had already adjusted her spirit to the best condition before the breakthrough.
At this moment, her body was drying up rapidly, and the light in her eyes was slowly dimming. This was because a large amount of vitality and mental power was being drained from her body.
Her vitality and mental strength were compressed into a small dot in the center of the spiritual lake along with her spiritual power, and a golden elixir as small as a needle tip was taking shape.
There was horror in Li Shiming's eyes. He had seen many experiences in making elixirs, but when he saw Ye Jingxian's vitality and spirit disappear from her body, he still felt the danger of cultivating immortals.
This step is a matter of life and death, and it depends entirely on how much vitality and spiritual power will be absorbed during the formation of the golden elixir.
Of course, before preparing to make the pill, Ye Jingxian also took a large number of vitality-enhancing elixirs and spirit-enhancing elixirs. Although these elixirs were precious, they could not be compared with the Vein Protecting Pill, the Spirit Stabilizing Pill, the Resurrection Pill, and the Mountain Breaking Pill, which could be exchanged in the sect through contribution points.
At this moment, Ye Jingxian was still trying to slow down the loss of vitality and mental power being drained away by the golden elixir. She took many spiritual objects in succession, which improved her vitality and mental power.
But as the golden elixir was constantly extracted, her body became thinner and thinner, and her tall frame had become unrecognizable.
From the perspective of Li Shiming who was standing nearby, Ye Jingxian was like a layer of dry skin wrapped around a skeleton. If the energy continued to be extracted like this, Ye Jingxian's life would end.
Just when he was worried, Ye Jingxian's body shook violently, and then Ye Jingxian swallowed two high-level "Resurrection Pills".
In Ye Jingxian's body, the spiritual lake has disappeared, and a golden elixir emitting golden light has stabilized.
The golden elixir fed back special energy to her, allowing her body to recover quickly. Of course, this was also due to the effect of two high-level "Resurrection Pills". Without the help of the "Resurrection Pills", her body would not be able to recover to a certain extent in a short period of time and would no longer be able to withstand the next round of troubles.
There was already a faint golden elixir pressure on Ye Jingxian. Her eyes opened, and the mental power that was devoured by the golden elixir was transformed into stronger mental power and transmitted back, so that her spirit not only did not weaken, but instead increased a lot.
Regardless of the fact that her body had not yet recovered, she stomped her feet on the ground, let out a loud shout, and put her whole body into a state of alert.
She did not use any defensive spiritual weapon, because the divine thunder that followed would ignore all defenses and directly affect her body.
She simply mobilized the little spiritual power in her golden elixir and the body-refining techniques she practiced to continuously strengthen her body's defenses.
The 'Resurrection Pill' is still taking effect, but the energy fed back by the golden elixir is slowly cessation.
There was not a single dark cloud in the sky, but the perceptions of the cultivators present were extremely sensitive. Li Shiming felt his scalp tingling, as if some terrible changes were brewing above his head.
Without any warning, a golden lightning flash appeared, and the mountain protection formation and the formation under Ye Jingxian's feet did not react at all, as if the golden lightning flash had not appeared.
The golden lightning passed through several layers of formations and directly acted on Ye Jingxian's body.
The terrifying power of thunder and lightning hit the newborn golden elixir body, and Ye Jingxian's body was attacked from the outside to the inside by the golden lightning.
After receiving this blow, Ye Jingxian's body slowly fell backwards, and black smoke like burning rose from her body.