Li Shiming rarely stopped practicing, and even stopped practicing the "Gan Tian Shui Meng Jue" that he had been practicing since he got it.
He slept in a warm big bed like an ordinary person.
On the small couch outside the bedroom, Siqin's face had regained its youthfulness, and there was a faint smile on her face even in her sleep.
Li Shiming seemed to have become the young master of those days again, the scholar who studied diligently every day and always had a little maid by his side.
These two mornings, he slept until he woke up naturally, which was unimaginable for a Jindan cultivator at his level.
But he didn't care about anything. His body training had reached the pinnacle of the Golden Core stage and he was at the level of a great elder. The 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art' and the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' he practiced had both reached the peak of the early Golden Core stage and could not be improved no matter how much he practiced.
He shut down his perception, so he didn't even know when Siqin got up.
He sat up from the bed, Siqin came in with toiletries and gently helped him get up.
When Siqin took out a scholar's robe, Li Shiming did not refuse, nor did he say that the robe he was wearing before was a third-grade robe, which was so precious that the total value of the entire Xia Kingdom was not as valuable as that third-grade robe.
He walked out of the room, looked at the sunlight falling on his body, and couldn't help but smile comfortably.
I walked towards the main room and saw my father Li Wenyuan sitting there drinking tea. It seemed that my father's health had recovered well.
"Greetings to father!" Li Shiming bowed and saluted.
"You're grown up now, you don't need to visit me every morning and evening!" Li Wenyuan helped Li Shiming up and scolded him with some doting.
He was already very satisfied that his son could come back to see him.
Given his position, he naturally knew that many families had monks, and that the monks had never returned since they left.
"I have not been filial to you for many years. Father, please give me some chance to make it up to you!" Li Shiming said as he stood up.
"Shiming, how is your cultivation going now? I heard that the sect you were in was disbanded?" Li Wenyuan looked at him and asked with concern.
Li Shiming frowned. His father shouldn't know about such things.
The secular world cannot know what happens in the world of immortals.
My father actually knew about this, so it must be the news that came from the Xia Kingdom. Perhaps the Mingxin Sect has extended its hand here and suppressed the secular families of the original seven sects' cultivators.
He thought again of his father's injury, but he did not ask.
It was easy for him to investigate such things, and asking his father would only make him think too much.
His father was in poor health, and he didn't want him to worry about trivial matters in his last year.
"I changed my sect a long time ago. My current sect is very powerful and they value me very much!" Li Shiming replied with a smile.
"That's good. I heard that immortals have a very long lifespan. You should also take care of Shijie in the future. Shijie has been a sensible child since he was young, and he has no hope of a career in politics because of my involvement!" Li Wenyuan nodded slightly and said.
"Don't worry, father. I will leave some tricks to keep my Li family's inheritance going!" Li Shiming knew what his father was thinking, and he promised.
He was very clear about his situation. It was impossible for him to have offspring in the short term. Even if he had children with Yin Shilan in the future, the child would definitely have spiritual roots and would not remain in the secular world.
The inheritance of this lineage of the Li family depends entirely on Li Shijie.
Li Shijie's bloodline is also the bloodline of the Li family. Although it is separated from Li Shiming's own bloodline by several generations, he and Li Shijie have the same great-grandfather.
Since Li Shijie was adopted by his father, he is his younger brother and the heir of the Li family.
"Father, here are some gold and silver. Use them for household expenses!" Li Shiming thought about the fact that there was no silver or money at home, so he took out twenty gold and silver bricks each from the space ring.
Each of these gold and silver bricks is the size of a real brick, and when added together they are considered a considerable fortune in the secular world.
He had these gold and silver, which he purchased from Beishu Trading Company, as materials for experimental research.
It’s a good thing that this is the case, otherwise he really wouldn’t be able to take out any worldly possessions.
"Shijie, come in and put these away!" Li Wenyuan didn't care about these properties. He was just down and out in recent years. Before he was demoted, his family had a lot of wealth. He gave the order casually.
He did not refuse. Li Shiming was his son. It was only natural for a son to use money and property to honor his father.
Li Shijie walked in and a look of surprise appeared on his face when he saw the gold and silver.
"Look at your useless look. This was given to you by your eldest brother. Now that you are the housekeeper, you should keep it!" Li Wenyuan waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, brother!" Li Shijie first bowed to Li Shiming to express his gratitude, and then he took great effort to pick up the gold and silver on the ground.
"Let me help you. Where do you want to put it?" Li Shiming waved his hand, and forty gold and silver bricks were lifted up by his spiritual power. He asked with a smile.
"Brother, put it in the warehouse over here!" Li Shijie was surprised at first, but when he thought that his brother was an immortal, he felt relieved. He pointed to a room next to him and said.
Li Shiming and Li Shijie walked into the room together. The storeroom was empty. It seemed that all the valuable things in the house had been sold.
Li Shiming put down the gold and silver bricks and stopped Li Shijie who was about to leave.
"Shijie, take this jade token!" He handed over a jade token and said.
Li Shijie took the jade token and was about to speak when he was startled and almost cried out.
Because a person with silver light all over his body appeared in front of him. It is not accurate to say that he is a person, it should be said that he is a monster.
The monster was four meters tall, its head almost touching the roof of the warehouse, with red eyes and terrifying fangs.
"Don't be afraid. This is killing. It is the corpse refining in the world of immortals. The jade token in your hand can control it, but it will not leave this three-courtyard house. It will always protect this place. Anyone who dares to use force here will be killed immediately by it. If there are enemies coming to your house, the jade token can control it to kill people!" Li Shiming explained with a smile.
The corpse of Juetu was used to refine the life. Juetu was practicing killing to become a Buddha, and his killing intent was almost solidified.
In the past, Li Shiming attached great importance to killing. Unfortunately, as his vision continued to improve, he paid less and less attention to Juetu, a half-finished product of killing to become a Buddha, who had not even broken through the golden elixir.
Besides, since Shasheng is a core disciple of Chiba Temple, it is a good thing for him to stay at his home on Tianhai Island.
The killing creature has become a silver corpse, and its combat power is so strong that it can easily defeat a cultivator in the early stage of Jindan, and can also resist a cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan.
Most importantly, with his connection with Shasheng, if Shasheng encounters any trouble, he will know it first.
By then he would know that something had happened at home, and if killing could not solve the problem, he could come back to avenge his family.
Of course, if a silver corpse cannot protect a family, then what kind of force must this family have offended? What kind of powerful force can an ordinary family provoke?
"Brother, where does this killer live?" Li Shijie regained his composure and asked.
He knew that his elder brother would not harm him. His elder brother was an immortal and this was an immortal's method.
"I will set up a space underground, you don't have to worry about it. As long as nothing happens at home, the killing will not happen. You have to pass this jade token down from generation to generation. As long as I don't die, this killing can protect the family for at least 500 years!" Li Shiming thought for a while and replied.
With his cultivation level at the Jindan stage, even if he cannot break through to the Yuanying stage, he will still have a lifespan of 500 years.
In the mortal world, five hundred years is equivalent to more than twenty generations of mortals.
Li Shijie opened his mouth wide. He understood one thing: his eldest brother could live at least 500 years.
His admiration for Li Shiming was even greater. He grew up listening to stories about Li Shiming, and when Li Wenyuan educated him, he would often talk about Li Shiming.
Li Shiming, the youngest third place winner in the imperial examination of the Xia Kingdom, was accepted into the Immortal Sect and became an immortal.
Li Shiming smiled and patted Li Shijie on the shoulder, then walked out of the room.
The solution to killing is actually very simple.
When he summoned the killing spirit, he hid the killing aura. Otherwise, if he had summoned the silver corpse in the capital, the formation of the imperial city would have sounded the alarm long ago.
He dug out a space underground and set up a formation.
This formation has several functions. One is to protect the three courtyards above so that they cannot be destroyed, at least not by secular forces.
The second is to create a faint spiritual environment in the third courtyard. A small amount of spiritual energy can make a mortal's body stronger, but too much spiritual energy will be highly toxic to mortals.
Third, this underground space will absorb spiritual energy and transform into an environment for corpse refining and dormancy.
Killing is extremely sensitive to killing intent. Anyone, no matter if they are mortals or cultivators, who enters the third courtyard with killing intent will awaken Killing.
In addition, the jade token can also awaken Shasheng and control Shasheng's actions.
The reason why he restricted killing to within the third courtyard and not to leave the scope of the third courtyard was that he was worried that there would be people in the future who would not know what is good for them and would use killing to fight for power, and then killing would become a tool of power.
It didn't take long to set up the underground space, and the formation was completed in just one hour.
He found a patch of vegetables planted by Siqin in the flower bed in the backyard.
Originally, ornamental flowers and trees should have been planted here, but the family was in financial difficulty before, so Siqin planted some vegetables to reduce household expenses.
This vegetable garden is not big and is planted with some ordinary green vegetables.
Li Shiming came to the vegetable field and waved his hand. A rain mist appeared and moistened the green vegetables in the field.
He did not use any particularly advanced spiritual plant master abilities, but instead used the lowest level 'Spring Breeze and Rain Technique'.
On the one hand, the abilities of advanced spiritual plant masters are beyond the capacity of ordinary fields and mortal plants. On the other hand, if the abilities of advanced spiritual plant masters are effective and the effects are too strong, mortals will not be able to withstand the spiritual energy in the spiritual plants.
He carefully controlled the spiritual energy content in the green vegetables, just enough for mortals to bear without suffering any harm.
At noon, he cooked himself and prepared a table of dishes using these green vegetables that had a hint of spirituality.
Since he burned a lot, not only the owner had some, but also Siqin and Moyan's family had some.
It is estimated that if the cultivators of the Northern Shu Continent knew that Li Shiming cooked the dishes himself just for a group of mortals, they would probably jump up and down.
In the Northern Shu Continent, the spiritual tea he stir-fried has become the top-notch treat in high-level occasions.
The family enjoyed a very comfortable lunch, especially Li Wenyuan, who ate the dishes specially prepared by Li Shiming that could nourish the human body, and his weak body was replenished.
In the afternoon, Li Shiming planted two tea trees in a corner of the flower garden. These were not spiritual teas, but after his transformation, under the influence of the formation, these two tea trees could produce a small amount of tea leaves with a faint spiritual energy every once in a while.
Drinking this tea regularly can ensure good health.
These were the foundation he was going to leave for his family. Since his family were all mortals, no matter how good the things were, he could not leave them behind.
He did not go out during the three days he stayed at home. He accompanied his father every day, taught his younger brother to read, and taught Siqin how to tend tea trees and roast tea.
He seemed to have forgotten about cultivating immortals, but his spirit continued to become purer in this kind of life.
Three days later, he said something to his father, turned invisible and flew away from the capital.
He landed on a mountaintop a hundred miles outside the capital. He set up the fourth-grade Tiangang Four Phases Formation and used third-grade formation flags to enhance the effect.
Only then did he fall into the formation and sit cross-legged on the Putuan, which was originally used by ancestor Weng Zhao.
He then took out a fourth-grade meridian-locking disk and released the spiritual energy of the Nascent Soul-level spiritual vein.
What he did was not just ordinary cultivation, but after he returned home for three days and returned to mortal life, he felt something in his heart, and the bottleneck of his early golden elixir stage was loosened.
To be honest, Li Shiming did not expect that he would be promoted to the middle stage of Golden Core so quickly. In the world of cultivating immortals, it does not mean that one can be promoted just by reaching a certain level of cultivation. Every improvement in realm requires a corresponding opportunity.
Of course, the feeling he had when he returned home was only one aspect. The most important reason was the enlightenment he gained from Venerable Zhijing, which allowed him to reach or even exceed the level of the early stage of Jindan in his understanding of spiritual power.
He emptied his mind, mobilized the spiritual power in the five golden elixirs in his body, and circulated it in his body according to the golden elixir chapter of the "Five Rhythms Qi Training Art".
As his spiritual power was circulating, a sense of enlightenment arose in his mind, and his spiritual power changed unconsciously.
The spiritual power returns to the golden elixir, and the spiritual power in the golden elixir is constantly replaced by the changed spiritual power.
When all the spiritual power in the five golden elixirs was replaced, the five golden elixirs suddenly shook at the same time, and a terrifying aura burst out from them.
The five golden elixirs have grown a little larger, and the amount and quality of spiritual power that can be stored inside have been greatly improved.
The spiritual power that was originally at the peak of the early stage of the golden elixir has now only been filled to one tenth of the five middle stage golden elixirs. It can be seen how many times the spiritual power in the golden elixir has increased now.
In addition, the quality of spiritual power has also been greatly enhanced, which is reflected in the power of attack.
Moreover, under the operation of the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' of the five golden elixirs, the spiritual power in the five golden elixirs continued to condense. The spiritual power in the five golden elixirs became less, but the quality of the spiritual power reached the peak of the middle stage of the golden elixir.