In the days that followed, the relationship between the good and evil sides at the Jieshan Checkpoint was the closest.
Through Li Yuanba's connections, six middle-stage Jindan elders from both the righteous and evil sides sent their respective third-grade elixirs and recipes to Li Yuanba.
Li Yuanba sent it to Ye Lingyun through a channel, and then Ye Lingyun sent it to the Chijian Peak of Shushan Sect.
Even the three Jindan elders of the righteous path had no intention of inquiring.
They knew very well that if they wanted to maintain such a channel, they had to keep it the same. If they were discovered while trying to find out something, it would be very likely that even the relationship with Li Yuanba would be severed.
Regardless of whether they believed it or not, whether Li Yuanba's good friend really existed or not, after receiving the first two successfully refined third-grade high-level elixirs and sensing the abundant spiritual energy within the third-grade high-level elixirs, their only thought was to stabilize their relationship with Li Yuanba.
Li Yuanba gained a lot of benefits from it. Not only did he stabilize the channels of the Jieshan checkpoint, but he also got extra money for the operation.
The profits he and his friend made were not much, but these two shares were for the benefit of Jindan cultivators, so they could not be too bad, otherwise they would not be able to show them off. Adding the reward from Li Shiming, he actually got three shares.
The six Golden Core Elders knew that the amount of elixirs they refined was very small, and their agreement with Li Yuanba was not spread outside.
If this kind of cooperative relationship is stabilized, it will become a long-term cooperation and will be the key to their cultivation.
No Jindan elder would destroy this relationship and would only do his best to maintain it.
Half a year had passed, and Li Yuanba's practice of the 'Scorching Sun Jade Body Technique' had reached a small level of success. He urgently needed the fourth-grade 'Heavenly Luo Fairy Milk' to improve his body refining skills.
In addition, the third-grade evil ghost in the ghost flag magic weapon in his hand was in a state of continuous weakening due to the lack of nourishment from the master for a long time, and it also needed to be delivered to Li Shiming as soon as possible.
So he sent messages to both sides of the Jieshan Checkpoint, requesting to be allowed to pass through the Jieshan Checkpoint.
In the past, anyone who wanted to cross the Boundary Mountain Checkpoint, especially a Jindan-stage cultivator, had to either smuggle through special channels or go through formal procedures and be supervised by the other side.
Jindan-stage cultivators have the power to cause a certain amount of damage, and given the tense and hostile relationship between the good and evil sides, it is extremely difficult for Jindan cultivators on both sides to pass the test.
In fact, Li Yuanba could have easily sneaked through the formations on both sides using the "Heaven-Covering and Secret-Hiding Technique" to conceal his own aura so that he wouldn't be discovered by the formations on both sides.
With his level of formation skills, it is not difficult to pass through the formation.
But he had the mission of guarding Jieshan City, so he needed to inform the government when leaving Jieshan City. In addition, he had formed an alliance of interests with the Jindan elders on both sides of the Jieshan Checkpoint over the past half year, so passing through the two large formations on both sides of the Jieshan Checkpoint was not a big deal.
Besides, after he goes there, he will only stay for three hours before returning. The righteous side doesn't care what big things he can do in this short period of time.
Three hours would not even be enough to fly to any vital location, let alone cause much damage to the righteous side.
In fact, the three Jindan elders of the righteous path all believed that Li Yuanba passed the test in order to meet that good friend, and that good friend was the cultivator who helped them contact Master Li Shiming.
Li Yuanba's previous intelligence had long been investigated, and the only record of him coming to the righteous forces was several years ago. It was probably that time that he made friends with the cultivators on the righteous side.
The relationship between good friends needs to be maintained. The three Jindan elders strongly support Li Yuanba's meeting with his friends, which is also related to their own interests.
After everything was agreed upon, Li Yuanba rode his sword to the Boundary Mountain Checkpoint. The Senluo Sect's Boundary Mountain Formation had already opened a passage for him.
When passing the formation, he nodded to Jiang Pu who was guarding the formation, and Jiang Pu smiled and waved in response.
After passing the formation of the Senluo Sect and flying across a 200-mile buffer zone, they arrived outside the righteous formation.
As early as when Li Yuanba approached the formation, the golden elixir aura was discovered by the formation. However, with three golden elixir elders including Ying Hou presiding over the formation, after confirming Li Yuanba's identity, the formation opened the passage.
"Fellow Daoist Li, if time is insufficient, you can stay a little longer. It doesn't matter if you return tomorrow!" Ying Hou said with a smile when Li Yuanba passed through the passage.
"Thank you for your concern, Brother Ying. I will try my best to return on time to avoid causing you any trouble!" Li Yuanba replied with a smile.
Fortunately, there were no other cultivators at the checkpoint at that time, otherwise no one would believe that this was a conversation between hostile righteous and evil Jindan cultivators.
When Li Yuanba passed through the righteous formation, he was surprised to find that the righteous formation did not even turn on the scan function. This was a sign of respect and trust in him.
After leaving the formation, he sped up his sword and flew towards the depths of the righteous forces.
After leaving the sensing range of the formation, he activated the "Heaven-Covering and Concealing Secrets Technique" and found a place to stop.
Not long after, a figure stepped on a white lotus and appeared. It was Li Shiming who came from Shushan Sect.
Li Shiming came here and casually threw out the fourth-grade Sumeru mustard seed formation plate, placing the two people inside the formation.
"Fellow Daoist, long time no see!" Li Shiming looked at his clone and said with a monk's salute.
No matter how many times I experience it, every time I come face to face with my doppelganger, that weird feeling can't be erased.
It's like facing a mirror, but the other self in the mirror is real and can move independently.
"Fellow Daoist, long time no see!" Li Yuanba returned the monk's greeting.
Li Shiming took out a wooden table from his space ring and poured the prepared third-grade spiritual tea on it. Li Yuanba sat on the other side, took off his mask and picked up a cup of third-grade spiritual tea.
"We both achieved golden elixir when we met again. Fellow Daoist has four more golden elixirs than I do!" Li Yuanba took a sip of spiritual tea, put down the cup and said.
"Only three more!" Li Shiming corrected immediately.
Although Li Shiming and Li Yuanba are the original body and clone of the same person, they have relatively independent thinking abilities, so such a conversation occurs.
Li Yuanba sensed the information from his original body, Li Shiming, and couldn't help but laugh.
"It's indeed three!" he nodded.
His Tai Chi Taoist body has the human's Yang body and the corpse's Yin body. The human's Yang body has a sword-cultivating golden elixir, and the corpse-cultivating Yin body has a corpse-cultivating golden elixir. However, the sword-cultivating golden elixir and the corpse-cultivating corpse elixir cannot exist at the same time, and will only appear accordingly when he switches Taoist friends.
The two of them sat face to face and drank the spiritual tea in their cups carefully.
Li Shiming placed a storage bag on the table, and Li Yuanba then took out a storage bag and placed it on the table.
The two smiled at each other and put away each other's storage bags.
"You should also put away this Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate. I rarely encounter danger. With my current array formation ability, even if I use a third-grade array flag, I can exert the same power as the Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate!" Li Shiming said, pointing at the 'Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate' on the ground.
This was something he had considered long ago. The fourth-grade 'Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate' was the most powerful means of defense in his hands.
If he had not become a master of formations, perhaps he would still keep the fourth-grade 'Sumeru Mustard Seed Formation Plate' with him to protect himself.
But he is now a master of formations, and with the existence of his natal magic weapon IBMz15, his strength in formations is probably unmatched by many cultivators in this world.
"Fellow Daoist, please be careful!" Li Shiming said as a white lotus appeared under his feet and then his figure disappeared.
Li Shiming practiced the 'Secret Art of Concealing Souls'. Even in the daytime, he could use various shadows to hide within the range of his spiritual thoughts and perform the 'Lotus Blooms Every Step'.
In this respect, the singleness of Li Yuanba's sword-cultivating golden elixir technique is much worse.
But Li Yuanba's natal flying sword is so powerful that it is hard to say who will win or lose if he fights head-on with his original body Li Shiming.
Li Yuanba waved his hand, and the "Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate" on the ground was put away.
Although the 'Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate' was refined by the original body Li Shiming, since the original body and the clone are one, Li Yuanba can use this 'Sumeru Mustard Seed Array Plate' directly without even refining it.
Li Yuanba looked at the time. It only took him an hour to meet with the original body, Li Shiming. Most of the time was spent sitting quietly and drinking tea.
He did not stay in the righteous sphere of influence for long, because he remembered that he had some trouble with Qianye Temple.
Fortunately, since the last time he discovered that he was being monitored by Qianye Temple using the "Fate Vision", and after he broke the effect of the "Fate Vision" through sword intent, Qianye Temple also realized that the hope of tracking him through the "Fate Vision" was slim, so he seemed to have stopped his actions against him.
Sometimes he also felt lucky that there were no Arhats from Qianye Temple guarding the main checkpoint of Xiangjie Mountain Checkpoint. Otherwise, it would be a problem whether he could open up a safe passage as he did now.
Most likely, he has to be careful every day about what tricks Qianye Temple might use and dare not easily expose himself outside the formation.
As he was about to approach the righteous checkpoint, a sense of warning arose in his heart.
When a monk encounters danger, he will have more or less warnings. The stronger the spirit, the more accurate the warning will be.
He was puzzled. Based on his understanding of the three elders guarding the Golden Core, Yinghou, Xintong and Mupeng, they were not the kind of people who would betray him.
They are elders of a large sect who are in the middle stage of the Golden Core. Although their agreement with Li Shiming is private, it is impossible for them to tear up the agreement without a reason.
Li Yuanba activated the 'Heaven-Covering and Concealing Secrets Technique', which allowed him to avoid being discovered by the righteous checkpoint's formation, and he entered the range of the righteous formation.
At this moment, a communicator in his space ring responded.
This communicator is the one between him and Ying Hou. It does not use the communication array of the major sects, but the communication array of Beishu Trading Company.
The advantage of this communicator is that anyone who is in one of the six major sects or in any of the less remote areas of the Northern Shu Continent can use it to get in touch with others.
His mind swept across the communicator and he received a message.
"Fellow Daoist Li, two great arhats have come to Qianye Temple. We will open the passage to the fifth formation for you. You must return from there as soon as possible!"
"What you think will come true!" Li Yuanba couldn't help but shook his head and muttered.
As soon as he thought of Chiba Temple, the great arhat of Chiba Temple arrived.
Great Arhat is a respectful title for an Arhat who has reached the peak of the late Arhat realm. The corresponding title for the peak of the late Golden Core realm is the Great Elder.
No matter which large sect, there are very few cultivators with the strength of the peak of the late Jindan realm. These are all Nascent Soul seeds, the most important foundation of the sect.
Such beings will only deal with some affairs of the sect unless they have lost hope of promotion due to lifespan issues. Otherwise, they will concentrate on cultivation.
Just like Li Yuanba’s master, Elder Jian, he is actually also the Grand Elder, but Elder Jian’s name is so famous that he does not need the title of Grand Elder to raise his status.
The Great Arhat of Qianye Temple is not much weaker than Elder Jian in strength. In fact, with the background of Qianye Temple, there may even be a Great Arhat with similar strength to Elder Jian hidden there.
This is entirely possible. Qianye Temple has a profound foundation, especially in terms of martial arts, which ranks first among the six major sects.
Even if Li Yuanba had the magic weapon Wanjianfeng, he did not have the confidence to fight against the Great Arhat, not to mention that there were two Great Arhats coming.
Qianye Temple must have valued him so much that they sent two great arhats to deal with him, a cultivator who had just been promoted to the Golden Core stage.
In fact, he still misjudged how much Qianye Temple valued him. If the six major sects had not been dealing with the affairs of Tianxing Trading Company recently, which required each major sect to have a powerful existence at the level of Nascent Soul Ancestor to guard it, perhaps a venerable would come to him at this time.
Since the fake infant sealing ceremony supervisor of Tianxing Trading Company disappeared, he has not been found yet.
There was also news from the Senluo Sect that the Nascent Soul Patriarch of the Tianxing Trading Company had appeared near the Beishu Continent, which forced every major sect to ask for a Nascent Soul Patriarch to guard the area.
Every major sect has several Nascent Soul ancestors. Under normal circumstances, most of them are in seclusion practicing, or acting freely. Although the mountain gate has a Nascent Soul ancestor, if they really want to invite him to preside over the affairs, they will probably have to wait many days in advance for the Nascent Soul ancestor to show up.
Of course, if an emergency occurs, the Yuanying Patriarch can be forcibly summoned, but in that case, unless the sect is in a life-and-death crisis, what awaits is the Yuanying Patriarch's wrath.
Therefore, knowing that there was a possible threat from a fake infant and a Nascent Soul, the major sects of course invited out their Nascent Soul ancestors in advance.
The six major sects also knew very well that it was almost impossible to stop the Nascent Soul Ancestor by relying solely on the fourth-grade sea beasts in the sea.
The fourth-grade sea beast was able to stop the Yuanying ancestor before, that was because the Yuanying ancestor was unfamiliar with the waters near the Beishu Continent. With some tricks and a few more attempts, the Yuanying ancestor was able to discover the division of the fourth-grade sea beast's territory, and it was completely possible for him to sneak between the territories and avoid the fourth-grade sea beast.
So under the current circumstances, the six major sects cannot guarantee whether the Nascent Soul ancestor has entered the interior of the Northern Shu Continent.
As long as the Yuanying Patriarch does not enter the monitoring range of the major formations, even if he uses the secret method of hiding, it is really impossible to discover the Yuanying Patriarch's trace 100%.
It is very good that the fourth-grade sea beast can stop the Nascent Soul Ancestor once. It is equivalent to informing the major sects of the situation in advance. This is also the reason why the major sects form an alliance with the fourth-grade sea beast.