Venerable Hui Jing, who was missed by Venerable Hui Kong and Venerable Hui Ke, was sitting cross-legged quietly in the computer room, with the body of Nascent Soul, the body of False Infant and the body of Great Elder-level body refinement beside him.
The Heavenly Ghost is resting in the body of the Nascent Soul. For the Heavenly Ghost, this kind of rest is a kind of cultivation. The Nascent Soul body is passively and continuously strengthening the Heavenly Ghost.
Tian Gui gained a lot this time. After Li Shiming returned to the sect for several months, Tian Gui finally digested what he had gained.
The Sky Ghost can already control the fake infant's body to move like a normal person, but it still cannot control the fake infant's body to participate in battles because it cannot mobilize the fake infant's body's enormous power. Being able to make the fake infant's body move normally and freely is already its limit.
Li Shiming also had peace for a few months. After he calmed down from the surprise of receiving the Nascent Soul Ancestor's servant, Venerable Hui Jing, he devoted himself to cultivation again.
A large amount of third-grade high-level elixirs, and occasionally third-grade top-level elixirs, allowed him to maintain a cultivation speed far exceeding that of other cultivators of the same level.
During this period of time, his strength was getting closer and closer to the peak of the early Jindan stage, but it was not visible on the surface, because when he broke through to the Jindan stage, the aura he revealed, except for the lack of total spiritual power, was no different from the aura of the peak of the early Jindan stage.
The strength of the Absolute Spirit Huanxing Jiao has also stabilized. Although it has taken a lot of third-grade elixirs in recent times, its strength has increased extremely slowly.
Think about it, the more noble the bloodline of a spiritual beast, the longer its growth period. It is very good that the Absolute Spirit Huanxing Jiao has achieved some noticeable growth in just a few months.
After the Absolute Spirit Huanxing Jiao became smaller, it usually stayed in the machine room, sharing the spiritual energy in the Nascent Soul level spirit vein with Venerable Hui Jing.
The circulation channel between him and his clone Li Yuanba was restored, and the newly transferred Jindan Elder who was guarding the Zhengdao Jieshan Checkpoint joined in the joint maintenance of the smuggling business as soon as he arrived.
In other words, Chiba Temple wanted to set a trap, so it sent Zhiguang Arhat to cause trouble at the Jieshan Checkpoint.
The rest of the Jindan cultivators want to go there for the benefits involved.
Without sufficient resources, it is difficult to succeed in the Jindan stage.
Li Shiming sat in the practice room. He mobilized one hundred and fifty brains and invested them in the computer room to study Venerable Hui Jing.
This is an important task he has added in recent months. The reason why he does not use his entire brain is because he has dozens of brains, which have been controlling the thirteen silver corpses to carry out scientific research and manufacturing work.
Even the recent contacts with the outside world were handled by Silver Corpse, and he rarely came out to meet guests.
His mind sank into the body of Venerable Hui Jing, and through the connection of the reverse unequal servant contract, he shared the feelings of Venerable Hui Jing during the practice.
For Li Shiming, sharing the feelings of the Yuanying Patriarch during his cultivation is as difficult as an elementary school student watching a college student solve advanced math problems.
Venerable Hui Jing's understanding of spiritual power has reached a level that he cannot understand.
But he was not without benefits. With his natal magic weapon IBMz15 to help him with analysis and research, he was able to gain some high-level insights from Venerable Hui Jing.
These insights should not be known by people at his level. No Nascent Soul ancestor would allow other cultivators to explore his soul during cultivation and share his feelings during cultivation.
No matter how close the relationship is, it can't be this close.
In the world of cultivating immortals, cultivators are actually lonely. The best relationship between cultivators, even the inheritance relationship between master and disciple, cannot make the master agree to let the disciple get too close to him.
The injured Venerable Hui Jing was unable to take action for a long time, but Li Shiming found another way to use him.
Through this constant sharing of Venerable Hui Jing's cultivation experience, Li Shiming felt that his understanding of spiritual power had improved a lot.
As for how much he has improved, Li Shiming cannot describe it with quantifiers. It is a kind of indescribable feeling.
If it weren't for the use of the contract to connect with Venerable Hui Jing's soul, there would be no other way to share this high level of enlightenment.
This high-level understanding, even if he only got the basics, greatly improved his cultivation speed in the early stage of Jindan.
You know, according to his judgment, even if he had enough third-grade elixirs, it would take him several years to advance to the middle stage of the golden elixir.
But it hasn't been long since he approached the peak of the early Golden Core stage. If he didn't sense that his realm was very stable, he would have suspected that there was something wrong with his cultivation.
Li Shiming did not last long. After an hour, he ended his soul connection with Venerable Hui Jing.
He found a message on the contact card. After opening it, he discovered that it was a message from Zhiyan Luohan of Yakubutsu-do Hall in Chiba Temple.
He had previously used the Shushan Sect's channels to spread the need for the 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art' after the Golden Core Stage.
Although the body-building exercises like 'Vajra Body Protection Magic' are quite powerful, they have too many restrictions and require in-depth study of Buddhism. Therefore, even a large sect like Shushan Sect does not have the content of the Nascent Soul chapter of 'Vajra Body Protection Magic'.
Apart from Buddhist practitioners, few practitioners would practice the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic'.
Li Shiming also wanted to give it a try. He now has a wide circle of friends, and who knows which Jindan cultivator might have all the contents of this technique.
Zhiyan Luohan of Qianye Temple is the Luohan in charge of alchemy affairs in the temple. He did not expect that Zhiyan Luohan would take the initiative to contact him and claim that he had the full text of the "Vajra Body Protection Divine Art".
In fact, he did not have an urgent need for the Nascent Soul Chapter of the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Skill'. His realm was only the early stage of the Golden Core Realm. It would take at least several decades, or even hundreds of years, before he would need the Nascent Soul Chapter of the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Skill'. It all depended on when he could break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
However, now that he has the news of the complete version of the "Vajra Body Protection Magic", he will definitely not let it go.
Qianye Temple had been in big trouble before, so it was impossible for it to cause trouble again at this time. As long as he did not leave Chijian Peak and the gate of Shushan Sect, nothing would happen to him.
He used the contact card to send a message to Zhi Yan Luohan. He originally wanted to make an appointment to meet with Zhi Yan Luohan, but he didn't expect that Zhi Yan Luohan was waiting for him in Shushan Sect.
"So active?" Li Shiming muttered to himself as he activated the formation of Chijian Peak.
A silver corpse in the underground factory area finished the work at hand, withdrew from the factory area, came out of the cave and waited in the pavilion.
He has thirteen silver corpses, only two of which do not have three heads and six arms. One of them was made from Juetu's corpse. Although the appearance of this refined corpse was changed by him, he would not choose to use this silver corpse to meet the Arhat of Qianye Temple.
The silver corpse he chose was the one cultivated by Elder Lu whom he had killed. After such a long period of nurturing by him, its strength had reached the peak of the middle stage of silver corpse.
Zhiyan Arhat flew into the Chijian Peak. This seemingly ordinary spiritual peak is the dream place for many Jindan cultivators.
Li Shiming, the master of alchemy, has influenced the elixir affairs of almost the entire Northern Shu continent.
Fortunately, Li Shiming did not put all his effort into making pills, which left room for other alchemy masters. Otherwise, with the powerful alchemy ability shown by Li Shiming, it would be difficult for other alchemy masters in the Northern Shu Continent to get alchemy business.
When Li Shiming was a high-level alchemist, he showed a terrifying ability to refine ten batches of second-grade elixirs at the same time, and he was able to keep all ten batches of second-grade elixirs at the theoretical upper limit of quality.
Zhiyan Luohan was familiar with Li Shiming. Qianye Temple had offended Li Shiming before, so Li Shiming stopped its alchemy business for Qianye Temple. In the end, Qianye Temple had to pay a considerable amount of compensation to resume its alchemy business.
This time, after Zhiyan Luohan learned that Li Shiming wanted to obtain the Nascent Soul Chapter of the 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art', he immediately reported it to the temple. This was a good opportunity to make friends with Li Shiming.
The Nascent Soul Chapter of the 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art' is just one of the many top-level body-refining techniques in Qianye Temple. Its difficulty in practicing also means that there is no need to worry about the leakage of this body-refining technique.
The temple agreed to his proposal and he was responsible for completing the task.
Chiba Temple has decided to train a venerable, and there are a lot of resources to be refined from raw materials into elixirs.
All the Jindan cultivators in the entire Beishu Continent knew that it was most cost-effective to hand over the alchemy materials to Li Shiming for refining.
Although Li Shiming would take a cut from the profits, the quality of the elixir produced alone was worth far more than his cut.
Although Li Shiming does not have the ability to refine the elixir of the late Jindan stage now, the resources of Qianye Temple to cultivate the Great Arhat cannot be refined in one go, and the required time will be as long as more than a hundred years.
When Li Shiming's realm is raised to the middle stage of the Golden Core, he will be able to refine the elixir of the late stage of the Golden Core. When Li Shiming's realm is raised to the late stage of the Golden Core, he will be able to refine the most important fourth-grade elixir.
All of these are within Qianye Temple's calculations. The only thing that needs to be considered is whether Li Shiming can agree to take on the task of refining the elixir, which is Zhiyan Luohan's mission.
As soon as he reached the top of the Sword-holding Peak, Zhiyan Luohan felt the breath of the silver corpse. To him, this breath was an evil existence, and he almost wanted to kill it.
But when he thought that this was Master Li's territory, he suppressed the urge to take action.
"Zhi Yan Luohan, I am in seclusion and it is inconvenient for me to move my body. Please forgive me for meeting you in this way!" A sound like metal friction came from the silver corpse's mouth.
Zhiyan Luohan's face turned pale. He didn't expect that the head of Qianye Temple's Yaofo Hall could not even get a personal meeting with Li Shiming.
He almost turned around and left. His emotions fluctuated continuously in a short period of time, which was extremely rare for him as a Buddhist practitioner.
"Master Li, it's my honor that you can meet me in your busy schedule!" No matter how angry he was, he had to pretend to be humble when he thought of Qianye Temple's instructions.
"What price do I need to pay for the entire 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art'?" Li Shiming asked very directly through the silver corpse.
"I think Master Li also knows that the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Art' is the most advanced body-refining technique in Buddhism. The 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Art' in my hand contains the part of the Nascent Soul stage, and its value is the highest among all the techniques in the Northern Shu Continent. My requirements are not high. I only need to agree with Master Li to help me refine the elixir twenty times!" Zhiyan Arhat said with a smile.
Twenty attempts to refine the elixir may not sound like a lot, but Li Shiming immediately thought of the key.
Zhiyan Luohan did not ask him to refine the elixir immediately, but agreed to refine the elixir twenty times.
With the relationship with Qianye Temple, even if it goes through the channel of Beishu Trading Company, it is not a problem to refine twenty furnaces of third-grade elixir for the middle stage of Jindan.
Since Qianye Temple made such an agreement, it must not be for the third-grade elixir for the middle stage of the golden elixir.
You should know that as the quality of the elixir increases, the time and energy required to refine it will increase exponentially.
A third-grade elixir in the early stage of the Golden Core can be refined in one hour, while a third-grade elixir in the middle stage of the Golden Core requires more than three hours, depending on how troublesome it is to process the third-grade elixir.
If it is a third-grade elixir in the late Jindan stage, it will take six to ten hours, while a fourth-grade elixir will take several days.
If Li Shiming could really refine the third-grade elixir of the late Jindan stage, he would need to consider the attitude of Shushan Sect when accepting the alchemy business.
Different from the previous third-grade elixir, the third-grade elixir taken in the late Jindan stage is already a strategic-level resource.
The Shushan Sect would strictly restrict Li Shiming from refining third-grade elixirs for the late Jindan stage to outsiders, especially third-grade elixirs that involved advancement to the Nascent Soul stage.
"Zhiyan Luohan, please tell me clearly the level and quality requirements for refining the elixir twenty times, and then I will consider whether to trade!" Li Shiming said in a deep voice through the silver corpse.
Zhiyan Luohan didn't expect Li Shiming to be so careful and didn't let him take advantage of the loophole.
"I have some special third-grade elixirs that require a master to advance to the middle and late stages of the Golden Elixir before they can be refined. I am optimistic about your future, and this is also a kind of gamble. I believe the conditions I offer are very suitable!" Zhiyan Luohan tried hard to defend himself.
"Zhiyan Luohan underestimates me too much. He actually requires me to gamble to advance to the middle and late stages of the Golden Elixir. Let me make it clear that I can agree to the conditions, but I will need to prepare a separate reward that matches the elixir I refine every time!" Li Shiming said lightly through the silver corpse.
He thought about it more. From Zhiyan Luohan's words, he understood that the elixirs he needed to refine were not only of the third grade, but even of the fourth grade. Otherwise, he would not have mentioned that he needed to be promoted to the late stage of the Golden Elixir.
As for the special fourth-grade elixir that can advance to the late Golden Core stage, there is only the matching fourth-grade elixir for advancement to the Nascent Soul stage.
He didn't mind refining a matching fourth-grade elixir for Qianye Temple to advance to the Nascent Soul stage, because he also needed this matching fourth-grade elixir.
Even if Shushan Sect provided him with a set of fourth-grade elixirs for advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, his clone Li Yuanba was also in poor condition, not to mention his own body, which contained five golden elixirs. Who knew what kind of trouble he would encounter when he broke through? It was always better to make more preparations.
"No problem, Master Li, please rest assured about the reward!" Zhiyan Luohan smiled and replied with relief.
As long as Li Shiming agrees to make the elixir, everything else will be easy to deal with. For a big sect like Qianye Temple, the reward is just a small matter.