Two years passed in a flash, and during these two years, there was constant friction between good and evil in the Northern Shu continent.
Fortunately, it did not cause any major conflicts. The biggest conflict in the past two years was that two Arhats from Qianye Temple went deep into the Ten Thousand Mountains of Senluo Sect, were discovered by Senluo Sect and launched a pursuit.
The two Arhats of Chiba Temple possessed a special secret method that allowed them to successfully evade the massive pursuit of the Senluo Sect.
Of course, this is also related to the special geographical environment of the Shiwan Mountains. The Shiwan Mountains are not just the Senluo Sect, or it is not dominated by human cultivators alone. There is also a clan of equally powerful spirit beasts here.
The two Arhats went deep into the sphere of influence of the spirit beasts in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, making it impossible for the Senluo Sect to track them.
However, since that time, the two Arhats of Qianye Temple seemed to have disappeared, and the Senluo Sect was wondering whether the two Arhats had died at the hands of the spirit beasts of the Ten Thousand Mountains.
When Li Shiming learned that two arhats from Qianye Temple appeared in Shiwandashan, he had some guesses in his mind.
However, the clone Li Yuanba had been hiding in Wanjian Peak, so even if the two Arhats really came for Li Yuanba, it would be in vain.
However, Li Yuanba did not accept the three tasks immediately after selecting them for his second year mission. Instead, he quietly left the sect and accepted the tasks after he arrived near the mission target. He completed the three tasks quickly, thus quickly completing his three tasks for the second year.
During the rest of the time, Li Yuanba never left Wanjian Peak.
During the past two years, Li Shiming has lost his initial enthusiasm for alchemy.
He used to refine a furnace of third-grade elixirs every day, but later on only refined one furnace every ten days.
But neither the Shushan Sect nor the Beishu Trading Company had any objection to this.
He did so because he listened to the advice of his master, Elder Ma.
In the beginning, he accepted a large number of tasks to refine third-grade elixirs. On the one hand, it was to make a name for himself, which was extremely important for a master alchemist. Only with a reputation would he receive private orders.
On the other hand, it is for more practice, so that one can have more opportunities to practice the third-grade elixir.
However, Li Shiming has maintained the speed of refining one furnace of third-grade elixir every day, which will have a significant impact on other alchemy masters.
The situation is better with his master, Elder Ma. Among the third-grade elixirs that Elder Ma can refine, only the low-level third-grade elixirs will be affected, and the business of the rest of the third-grade elixirs remains normal.
However, not all alchemy masters can refine third-grade elixirs with more than two third-grade spiritual medicines like Elder Ma, which conflicts with Li Shiming's alchemy.
Coupled with Li Shiming's success rate and quality in alchemy, other alchemy masters who refine low-level third-grade elixirs will almost have no chance of making any more elixirs.
Who would be willing to hand over the elixir that could be used to make three high-quality third-grade elixirs to an unsure alchemy master?
In order to prevent Li Shiming from making enemies with other alchemy masters for no reason, and because his level had been maintained without failure and he no longer needed to practice, Elder Ma persuaded him to reduce the number of third-grade elixirs he refined.
Of course, this is also because the three major sects of the righteous path have limited third-grade elixirs, and there is no guarantee that Li Shiming can refine a furnace of third-grade elixirs every day.
Now, Li Shiming can refine a furnace of third-grade elixir in ten days. Not only has his income not decreased, but the value of each of his actions has increased many times. The favors and rewards paid by the cultivators who asked him to take action are far more than before.
Sitting on the stone bench at the top of Chijian Peak, Li Shiming looked at the scenery in the distance.
There was a cup of spiritual tea in front of him. The slight water vapor mixed with the aroma of the third-grade spiritual tea was enough to make people feel refreshed even without drinking it.
The third-grade spiritual tea has become his daily consumable, which is part of the reason why he has reached the peak of the late foundation-building stage in just two years.
Even if there was a supply of top-level elixirs, it would probably take at least several more years to get them.
However, with a cup of third-grade spiritual tea every day and other various auxiliary means of cultivation, he was able to raise his realm to the peak of the late foundation-building stage in just two years.
And because of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' in his spirit lake, when he reached the peak of the late foundation building stage, the spiritual energy in the spirit lake had already been purified to the extreme. He felt that he was only one step away from the Golden Core realm.
But this one step away seems like an insurmountable chasm. At least he has reached this level for a month, but has not made any further progress.
He lightly flicked out a second-grade elixir with his fingers, and the elixir drew a streak in the air before disappearing.
He stretched out his hand, and the Absolute Spirit Shapeshifting Snake, which had taken the second-grade elixir, put its head under his palm and let him stroke it.
Today, the Absolute Soul Phantom Snake is almost the same as him in realm. The Absolute Soul Phantom Snake has reached the peak of the second level and is not far from becoming a third level great demon.
It is estimated that this Absolute Spirit Shapeshifting Snake is the fastest growing Absolute Spirit Shapeshifting Snake in history.
No other cultivator would have the luxury of Li Shiming, who feeds the second-grade high-level elixir to his pet as a snack without any stinginess.
No matter how wealthy a cultivator is, he cannot guarantee the supply of high-level elixirs.
You have to know that even the Shushan Sect's true disciples can't guarantee the high-level elixirs they need for their own cultivation, let alone have extra high-level elixirs to supply to their pets.
When Li Shiming was refining the second-grade elixir, he not only took one-third of the reward, but also used the "One Hundred and One Points of Alchemy Technique" to obtain twice the amount of elixir. Every time he refined the second-grade elixir, he gained more than times more than the cultivators who made elixirs.
It is precisely because of such conditions that the Absolute Spiritual Shapeshifting Snake, which loves to eat elixirs, can grow rapidly.
Speaking of Li Shiming's self-preservation ability, it can be said that he can be invincible in the foundation-building stage just by relying on the Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake.
Because of the special nature of the Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake, even divine consciousness cannot detect it, but the attack of the Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake can directly penetrate the defense of the cultivator with its poison. At least the cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage cannot defend against the poison of the Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake.
It is estimated that if there really is a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage who becomes his enemy, he will die inexplicably without him having to do anything.
Of course, with Li Shiming's current status, he doesn't have to worry about his combat power.
The faction of Elder Ji, who used to be hostile to him, is now actively showing goodwill to him.
He believed that if Elder Ji dared to show a trace of hatred towards him, other cultivators in Elder Ji's faction might all try to dissuade him, or even betray Elder Ji for their own benefit.
Although Li Shiming reduced the number of pills he refined, his level of refining equipment increased greatly.
Except for the fact that he could not refine magic weapons due to his realm, he could refine other kinds of magical weapons and spiritual tools with ease.
Among the commodities of Beishu Trading Company, the magic weapons bearing Li Shiming's mark have become as sought after by monks as his elixirs.
The spiritual weapons produced by Li Shiming can be made into spiritual weapons that are two levels higher than the materials, and the quality is not inferior at all.
If the number of spiritual weapons he produced were not limited, it might even have had an impact on the market.
"You will surpass me soon!" Li Shiming stroked the Absolute Spirit Shape-shifting Snake and muttered to himself.
Although the power of the Absolute Spirit Shapeshifting Snake increased rapidly, it was still young and, apart from its instinctive loyalty, its intelligence was not very high, so it could not understand what he said.
He was speaking from his heart. He felt that if he continued like this, he would not be able to find an opportunity for a breakthrough in ten years.
To be honest, let alone spending ten years, even if it took forty or fifty years, he would be extremely young to break through the Jindan stage at his age.
But he was not satisfied with that. He was only one step away from the Golden Core Stage, and he wanted to take this step as soon as possible.
He usually dealt with Jindan cultivators, which gave him a very different perspective than before. He also knew that as long as he became a Jindan cultivator, he would receive more attention with his alchemy skills.
By then, not to mention the Jindan stage cultivators, even the Yuanying stage cultivators will come to him for help, and then his influence will truly make him safe.
He drank the third-grade spiritual tea in one gulp, and felt the fluctuation of spiritual power in the spiritual lake in his body caused ripples after the third-grade spiritual tea entered his stomach, but it was impossible for the spiritual lake to produce any more spiritual power.
Even his Taoist body had reached the pinnacle a long time ago. This pinnacle had come after practicing the 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art' and the 'Sword Demon Secret Book'. The Immaculate Taoist body had reached the theoretical limit of the foundation-building period.
The only effect of this cup of third-grade spiritual tea was to make his mind a little clearer, and all other effects were wasted.
A white lotus appeared under his feet, and then his figure disappeared along with the white lotus.
When he appeared again, he was already in the cave. His cave had undergone considerable changes compared to two years ago.
A variety of precious ornamental spiritual plants and decorations make the cave hall extremely luxurious.
These are the gifts sent by the monks who came to ask for elixirs. The monks who came to ask for elixirs have tried every possible way to give gifts.
Just for finding out his preferences, his three senior brothers gained a lot of benefits. Whenever they saw the three senior brothers, their faces were beaming and the spiritual weapons on their bodies were upgraded to a higher grade.
The eldest senior sister had just been promoted to the Golden Core Stage and was still in seclusion, so she had missed out on a lot of benefits.
He ignored the rare spiritual objects in the hall and walked into the training room.
The third-grade golden lotus is now much bigger than it was two years ago. This is the result of continuous cultivation with third-grade spiritual objects. The two pure spiritual koi have grown to half their size and are swimming nimbly in the spiritual spring.
It is precisely because of the third-grade golden lotus and the pure spirit koi that the spiritual energy and environment in the training room are so excellent. Regardless of whether he is practicing or not, he will spend most of his time in the cave here.
He took out a jade slip and read it with his divine sense. It was a jade slip for an array formation.
Since the sect's task of refining the third-grade elixir gave him a lot of contribution points, he had enough contribution points to spend, and he exchanged them for a large amount of formation knowledge.
However, this formation knowledge did not allow him to break through and become a formation master. It only made his formation starlight sea expand again, and the starlight inside the galaxy of the starlight sea increased by nearly times.
Regarding the matter of breaking through the formation master, he also asked Yin Shilan to help ask his master, Master Luo.
According to Master Luo, it takes an enlightenment to break through the formation master, and with the existence of IBMz15, Li Shiming can solve any knowledge about the formation through data.
This allowed Li Shiming to solve the problems in the formation more quickly, but it also deprived him of the opportunity to gain insights.
Fortunately, this does not affect his application of formations. Now in the field of formations, he is no different from a real formation master. In many calculation levels, he has even surpassed some formation masters.
Just as he was quietly thinking about the knowledge of the formation, he suddenly sensed something, and his consciousness entered the computer room space and connected with IBMz15.
The IBMz15 projected the display onto his eyes, and what he saw were countless formulas and data, displayed like a refreshed screen.
"It seems that new experiments are still needed!" He was very clear about these formulas and data and knew what they meant.
This is a brand new research, and he plans to deploy satellites in low Earth orbit.
The data in this area, including various technologies, are actually complete in IBM z15 and do not require much difficulty.
But in actual operation, he has failed five times, which is the most failed studies he has ever encountered.
Even though he only failed five times, you have to know that he has a lot of data support and the support of countless experiments by his predecessors.
Under normal circumstances, there should not be continuous failures.
But after five failures, he made a surprising discovery from the failure data, it seemed that the world he lived in was not a sphere.
He still remembered that during the first experiment, in order to reduce the impact of the experiment, he brought the manufactured rocket to the bottom of the thirty-third heaven.
He did not add any immortal cultivation methods to the rocket, at most he used refining methods to strengthen the material.
Without any means of cultivation, Rocket entered the Thirty-third Heaven just as he had imagined, and was able to continuously transmit real-time data to him through the communicator.
Rockets may seem to be a product of high technology, but in fact the biggest technical difficulty lies in the rocket engine. As for the demand for chips, it is shockingly low.
The micron-scale chips he produced have great computing power when used on rockets.
He thought that the material enhanced by the means of refining equipment could at least allow the rocket to reach the technical capabilities of the rocket in the previous life without using any means of cultivation.
With complete data accumulation, the success rate of the launch is extremely high even if the world we are in is different.
But under data monitoring, the rocket continued to rise, penetrated into the thirty-third heaven, and reached the designated orbital altitude.
But then the rocket flew farther and farther and never came back.
In this first experiment, Li Shiming thought that the data of the planet he was on in this world was not exactly the same as the data of the planet in his previous life, so he recalculated based on the existing data.
This led to the second, third, and fifth experiments, but the result of each experiment was that the rocket could no longer return to the predetermined position.
However, the rockets launched in these five experiments were not wasted. He obtained a large amount of data. He re-formulated the calculation formula and used IBM z15 to calculate the near-earth data that was consistent with this world.