The Tiangang Four Phases Formation blocked the fluctuations of Li Shiming's breakthrough to the middle stage of the Golden Core. Otherwise, in such an environment with poor spiritual energy, the aura of his breakthrough would have caused extremely serious harm to all the mortals and beasts in this area.
Even if a Jindan cultivator has reached the lowest level, for mortals, he is equivalent to a land-based immortal.
With a wave of his hand, he can decide the survival of a mortal kingdom and turn an entire country into a dead place.
The world of immortal cultivation has its own operating rules. Even the demon cultivators will not kill a large number of mortals at will. Not to mention the murderous intent generated by killing a large number of lives, even the rules of the world of immortal cultivation will make the demon cultivators the target of hunting by major sects and forces.
Mortals are the foundation of the world of immortals, and a stable mortal world is a necessity for all forces in the world of immortals.
Li Shiming's promotion this time was a natural process, so the promotion process only took five hours to complete.
It was already dark when I returned home, and Siqin had already prepared the bath water.
The house was no longer the same as it was three days ago. Mo Yan, the butler, had become a real steward. Now that the family no longer had to worry about money, he went and bought some honest and obedient servants.
Siqin now had two maids and two nannies to help her, so she no longer had to do any heavy work.
With Siqin's help, Li Shiming took a bath in the normal way.
He felt this warm moment, which was something he could not experience in the dangerous world of cultivating immortals.
In the twenty years since he left home, he has experienced countless life and death situations, and his hands are covered in blood.
Only at home can he relax like this.
He no longer thought about refining medicine and practicing, and just enjoyed this rare peaceful time.
After Siqin helped him to fall asleep and she fell asleep herself, he opened his eyes and waved his hand, and Siqin fell into a deeper sleep.
He came to the underground space, took out the Nascent Soul level spirit vein and began to practice.
He had given up practicing before because he could not make any further progress in his cultivation, but now that he had just broken through to the middle stage of the Golden Core, he would not waste even a little time.
Li Shiming was very clear about one thing: without strength, he couldn't even keep his family.
He had a large number of high-level third-grade elixirs that aided in the cultivation of the middle stage of the Golden Core. After breaking through the Golden Core stage, he almost exclusively refined these third-grade elixirs.
After a night of practice, he returned to ** in the early morning and lifted the spell on Siqin.
The spell will not harm Siqin, but will help her spirit.
Soon after the spell was lifted, Siqin got up with full energy and went to prepare for Li Shiming to get up.
Li Shiming watched Siqin's actions with a smile, and when the time was almost up he also got up.
After meeting his father and asking how he was, he walked out of the courtyard and headed towards the imperial city.
In the past few days since he came back, he has taken care of his father's health and settled the family. He needs to go to the imperial city to ask what happened and why his father was injured.
In this era when doctors were not subject to criminal punishment, my father had reached the highest rank in the court, so even if he was demoted, he would not be hurt, let alone have his wealth confiscated.
If my father had committed a capital crime, he would not have been merely injured and his property taken away.
He walked slowly towards the imperial city, and soon he sensed the aura of the imperial city's formation.
"I wonder who the monk is stationed here now?" Li Shiming murmured to himself.
He thought of Gu Jia, the garrison monk at the seventh level of Qi Refining.
With Gu Jia's lifespan, he would have turned into bones by now.
Gu Jia’s life span was limited back then, and it was only for the sake of future generations that he accepted the mission of guarding the mortal world.
While thinking about the past, Li Shiming walked into the range of the formation.
He did not try to analyze the formation. This formation was too low-level and not worth his time to analyze.
Even if he revealed a trace of his aura, it would be enough to forcibly destroy the formation.
"Where are you from, this is the Xia Kingdom's palace, you are not allowed to trespass!" A cultivator flew out of the palace, stood in front of Li Shiming and said.
This cultivator was only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and he had an old aura all over his body. He must be a cultivator who was nearing the end of his life.
Although this kind of cultivator was not at a high level, his eyes were extremely sharp. He could not see Li Shiming's strength, but he judged from Li Shiming's demeanor that he was extraordinary. So although he spoke with a warning, there were not many threatening words.
"Li Shiming, the elder of Shushan Sect, I have come to visit the Emperor of Xia Kingdom regarding matters concerning my closest relatives!" Li Shiming stated his origins in a deep voice without any intention of concealing anything.
"Mingxin Sect disciple Meng Bin greets seniors!" Meng Bin's face changed drastically, his body almost shortened by half a head, and he bent down with great effort to speak.
Meng Bin is an old disciple of the Mingxin Sect. He was transferred from the Northern Shu Continent. However, he was ultimately unable to break through the foundation-building stage and ended up becoming a garrison cultivator in the Xia Kingdom.
He naturally knew the name of Shushan Sect, one of the six major sects in the Northern Shu Continent and the real ruler of the Northern Shu Continent.
The Senluo Sect, which drove the Mingxin Sect to Tianhai Island, is as famous as the Shushan Sect. The Mingxin Sect cannot afford to offend the Senluo Sect, and the same goes for the Shushan Sect.
To be able to become an elder of Shushan Sect, one must not only be in the Jindan stage.
Not to mention a mere Qi Refining disciple like him, even the Jindan elders in the sect would have to show enough respect when seeing such a person.
But soon, Meng Bin thought of the relationship between the name Li Shiming and the Xia Kingdom.
All the cultivators from Xia Country, whether they joined the Mingxin Sect or the previous seven sects, were people Meng Bin must understand.
The mortal relatives of these cultivators must be taken care of to some extent; this is the rule in the world of immortal cultivation.
But Meng Bin still had some impression of the name Li Shiming.
Li Shiming joined the Tianhai Sect twenty years ago. After the Mingxin Sect entered Tianhai Island, Li Shiming disappeared.
When Bo Zhaozhen was handling worldly affairs, he suppressed all the mortal relatives who had joined the Seven Sects, especially those monks from the Seven Sects who had already died, most of whom had died in the confrontation with the Mingxin Sect.
This means that these monks from the seven sects are all rebelling against the Mingxin Sect, so their relatives do not need any preferential treatment.
After this order was issued, all mortal kingdoms carried it out.
It was this order that caused Xia Guo to dismiss his father Li Wenyuan from his official position, and even punished him with thirty strokes of the cane. He then confiscated his property, leaving only the ancestral property with three courtyards.
Meng Bin's mind flashed with Li Shiming's message, but he didn't show it on his face.
He knew very well that if Li Shiming knew about this, the revenge of a Jindan cultivator would be extremely terrifying.
But he didn't know that Li Shiming had always had his telepathy turned on, and everything he was thinking was heard by Li Shiming.
This is also why Li Shiming was very confident that he could find out the reason why Li Wenyuan was demoted and his property was taken away.
Li Shiming was a pioneer in using his supernatural powers to investigate matters in the mortal world.
"Meng Bin, I give you some time to notify Mingxin Sect to hand over Bo Zhao. In addition, all members of the Xia royal family must be executed. I give Mingxin Sect five days to deal with it!" Li Shiming said lightly.
Meng Bin was shocked. He didn't think that he had leaked the information, but that Li Shiming had already found out the reason why Li Wenyuan was demoted, and was looking for trouble with Emperor Mingxin.
However, this matter involved too high a level and was far beyond his control. The only thing he could do was to pass the news back to the sect.
"I'll wait for news at home!" Li Shiming said and turned away.
Meng Bin bowed and watched Li Shiming's figure disappear, then he breathed a sigh of relief.
He activated the magic weapon, sped up his return to his courtyard in the imperial city, and activated the communication magic circle.
"Father!" Bo Zhao hurried into the room and shouted.
"Why are you so rough? How can you participate in the sect's important affairs in the future?" Bo Ran, who was in the middle stage of the Golden Core, frowned as he looked at his unstable son and shouted in a deep voice.
Bo Zhao is his son and also his disciple, and he has put a lot of thought into this son.
Bo Zhao is now in the early stage of foundation building, but he is already managing mortal affairs for the sect.
This is the business in which mistakes are least likely to occur, because no matter how big the problem is, it is still just a human matter.
However, it can train Bo Zhao's management skills and allow him to make great progress in this area.
After the Mingxin Sect occupied Tianhai Island, a lot of things were in ruins and many important positions needed to be filled by monks. Bo Ran, the Jindan elder, used his little power to put his son Bo Zhao in the position of managing the mortal kingdom.
"Father, news came from Xia Country that a Jindan elder from Shushan Sect appeared in Xia Country, and his family was suppressed. His father was demoted and his property was taken away. Now he wants..." Bo Zhao didn't dare to say any more after saying this.
"What is he going to do?" Bo Ran could no longer keep his composure and asked with a sudden change of expression.
"He said that the sect should hand me over and execute all the royal family members of Xia Kingdom!" Bo Zhao replied with his head down.
"What does this have to do with you?" Bo Ran stared at Bo Zhao and asked.
He was not at peace, because that was the elder of Shushan Sect. Although Tianhai Island was far away from Shushan Sect, Shushan Sect was a very important sect. Even if it was far away from the Northern Shu Continent, the influence of Shushan Sect needed to be considered.
"I have ordered the disposal of a number of families that rebelled against our sect's cultivators, and among them is the family of Elder Li!" Bo Zhao did not dare not tell the truth. The elder of Shushan Sect had already investigated everything clearly, and it would be useless for him to not tell the truth.
In the world of immortal cultivation, evidence is of no use. As long as the cultivator believes in his own judgment, hatred will arise.
"Don't be anxious. Show me the information of the Jindan Elder!" Bo Ran ordered calmly.
Bo Zhao was well prepared and he handed a piece of information to Bo Ran.
Bo Ran looked at the information and was filled with anger at Bo Zhao's decision.
The earthly family of a cultivator, no matter what power they are from, should be taken care of if possible. This is the rule in the world of immortal cultivation.
Monks do not pay too much attention to their secular relatives.
But if you target these secular relatives, they may create hatred towards the monk.
Therefore, no force would do such a thankless task, and there is no benefit to be gained from dealing with mortals. Does a sect need to use mortals to establish its authority?
But when he looked at his own son, he had issued such an order and had even met the relatives of the Jindan Elder of the Shushan Sect.
He looked at Li Shiming's information again. There was not much information, but it could be seen that Li Shiming was a genius in Tianhai Sect and was highly valued by the sect.
There was no news after that. Everyone thought he had died, but he was still alive. After practicing Taoism for 20 years, he was promoted to the Golden Core Stage and became an elder of the Shushan Sect.
The information in Bo Ran's hand was not comprehensive. It only contained the information about Li Shiming's time on Tianhai Island.
He had no information about Li Shiming in the Northern Shu continent.
The Mingxin Sect was far away from the Northern Shu Continent and had no idea of the fame of the name Li Shiming in the Northern Shu Continent.
"He has reached the Golden Core stage at such a young age. He is a talented cultivator. I will go visit him and see if I can solve this trouble!" Bo Ran said in a deep voice.
His confidence came from the fact that he was in the middle stage of the Golden Core. No matter how talented Li Shiming was, he was only in the initial stage of the Golden Core.
With his strength at the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm, if he could lower his face a little, he could easily make Li Shiming give up on dealing with his son.
"The Shushan Sect elder only gave five days!" Bo Zhao reminded.
He was really scared. The elders of Shushan Sect wanted the sect to hand him over. If he was not the son of Bo Ran, he had no confidence that the sect would protect him.
"Got it. You go down first. I'll discuss it with the other elders!" Bo Ran said impatiently, waving his hand.
On that day, Bo Ran drove a flying boat to Xia State and arrived at the capital of Xia State in the afternoon.
He did not land in the city, but instead sent a spell to send a message into the city.
Li Shiming was drinking the tea made by Siqin and flipping through a notebook in his hand when he saw a white light flying into the air.
This white light is invisible to mortals. It is a message transmission technique, a special technique that is extremely safe and can pass through formations.
He waved his hand and summoned the magic formula for transmitting messages.
Siqin looked at him with some confusion, wondering why Li Shiming suddenly waved at her.
"I'll go out for a while, please help me heat up the tea!" After Li Shiming glanced at the content of the message transmission technique, he smiled and instructed Siqin.
"Yes, young master!" Siqin replied.
Li Shiming's figure flew up, and he used a little skill to make it impossible for mortals to see his flying figure.
As soon as he flew into the air, he saw Bo Ran. Bo Ran, who was in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm, was standing in the air very confidently.
"Where is Bo Zhao? Why hasn't he been sent here?" Li Shiming looked at Bo Ran, then looked around and asked in a deep voice.
His vision could see everything within a thousand miles. Since he did not see any other cultivators, it meant that the Mingxin Sect did not intend to hand over Bo Zhao.
He did not think that his request was unreasonable, although there was a saying in the world of immortal cultivation that cultivators should not interfere in worldly affairs.
But this does not hold true when it comes to the monk’s closest relatives.
On the contrary, Bo Zhao, the true disciple of Mingxin Sect, issued orders to interfere in the secular world, which was against the rules of the immortal world.
Li Shiming asked Mingxin Sect to hand over Bo Zhao because he did not want to escalate the matter. With his current strength, he was unable to deal with the fake infant monk.
However, he had already brought up his identity as the elder of Shushan Sect, and Mingxin Sect did not even hand over a Foundation Establishment cultivator. This showed how much they looked down on him, a Jindan elder, and on Shushan Sect.
Anger flashed in Li Shiming's eyes. How could a small Mingxin Sect dare to provoke Shushan Sect like this?