Since Yu Gu left, no monk came to disturb Li Shiming's life.
Although he only practiced at night, his cultivation level improved rapidly.
The frequency with which he took third-grade elixirs for cultivation was based on the maximum usage interval of third-grade advanced elixirs.
When he reached the middle stage of the Golden Core, the most important change was the formation of a Nanming Lihuo regular pattern in his body.
This was something he did not have in the early stage of the Golden Core stage. It was also because of this that even though he had inherited the magical power of the 'Nanming Lihuo', he was unable to practice the Nanming Lihuo and could only rely on the Heavenly Ghost to control his Nascent Soul body to practice on his behalf.
After being promoted to the middle stage of Golden Core, it seemed that due to the Nanming Lihuo flame in his body, a small piece of Nanming Lihuo regular pattern was automatically formed during the promotion process. He did not notice it at first because the small piece of Nanming Lihuo pattern was too small.
As he practiced and with the influence of the Nanming Lihuo in his body, the Nanming Lihuo rule pattern slowly grew larger, which allowed him to discover this change.
This discovery allowed him to practice the 'Nanming Lihuo' magical power on his own, and even gave him a glimmer of possibility to use Nanming Lihuo in the Jindan stage.
You must know that Nanming Lihuo is an offensive magical power that can only be mastered by cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage. The terrifying thing about offensive magical powers is that their own level is superior to most energies.
Just like the Great Elder-level body refining, it is extremely difficult for a Jindan stage cultivator to break through its defense, but in front of the Nanming Lihuo, only a little flame is needed to break through the defense of the Great Elder-level body refining.
One day three months later, Li Shiming left the capital of Xia State and set up a formation in an uninhabited area thousands of miles away from the capital.
This time, the purpose was to refine the corpse of Nanming. After such a long period of baptism by thunder and lightning, Nanming finally reached the standard recognized by his natal magic weapon IBMz15 and was able to withstand the catastrophe of thunder.
He attached great importance to the fact that the corpse refiner Nanming had broken through to the silver corpse realm. Although the corpse refiner Nanming had been promoted from the bronze corpse realm, in terms of potential, he should be the strongest among all his corpse refiners.
Even the potential of the Great Elder-level corpse in his hand after being refined into a refined corpse is not as good as that of the refined corpse of Nanming.
Although the corpse-refining Nanming was weak at the beginning, it was the Nascent Soul of the Nascent Soul Ancestor integrated into it, and inherited most of the Nascent Soul Ancestor's essence.
To be honest, the value of Patriarch Weng Zhao's Nascent Soul body is not even one-tenth of that of the Nascent Soul. Most of Patriarch Weng Zhao's cultivation throughout his life was above the Nascent Soul level.
In addition, the corpse of Nanming was originally a spare body for possession that was modified by the ancestor Weng Zhao. After being possessed by another body, its potential was so deep that it was impossible to estimate it with Li Shiming's realm.
Li Shiming's strength increased too quickly, especially his body refining skills directly increased to the level of a great elder, which made the help provided by the silver corpse beside him so small that it was almost negligible.
The corpse refiner Nanming is a corpse refiner who can provide him with combat power assistance in the Jindan stage and even the Yuanying stage.
It was for this reason that Li Shiming deliberately let the corpse-refining Nanming stay in the corpse-refining space for a while longer. It was not until his natal magic weapon IBMz15 analyzed that the success rate of the corpse-refining Nanming's tribulation had reached more than 80% that he decided to let the corpse-refining Nanming survive the tribulation.
The 80% success rate of overcoming the tribulation is the success rate of the corpse-refining Nanming overcoming the tribulation on his own. With his protection by his side, the success rate of overcoming the tribulation can be increased to 100%.
Li Shiming stood outside the formation, looking at the corpse-refining Nanming inside the formation. He connected a brain to the corpse-refining Nanming's body.
Unless he sensed any danger, he would not interfere in the matter of refining the corpse of Nanming to survive the calamity.
Once intervened, it may affect the future development of the Corpse Refining Nanming. Overcoming the tribulation is a test, but after passing the test, the corresponding rewards from heaven and earth will be given according to the situation of overcoming the tribulation. The consequences of human intervention will affect the strength of the rewards from heaven and earth.
The promotion of corpse refining Nanming was very smooth. Although Li Shiming had not been practicing for a long time, he had extremely rich experience in corpse refining.
He had thirteen refined corpses that had been promoted to silver corpses, a number that most Jindan cultivators could never achieve in their lifetime.
The changes in the corpse-refining Nanming's body were completed, and the appearance of the corpse pill triggered a thunder tribulation.
A huge thundercloud appeared, causing Li Shiming to feel worried.
This thundercloud is obviously much larger than the thundercloud when an ordinary silver corpse is promoted. However, considering the special nature of the corpse refining Nanming, the change in the thunder tribulation is normal.
At this moment, multiple auras were heard from afar, and these auras were approaching rapidly.
Li Shiming looked over and saw some foundation-building cultivators. This was not common. Tianhai Island was different from Beishu Continent. The number of foundation-building cultivators here was far less than that on Beishu Continent.
Especially among the independent cultivators, the probability of a foundation-building cultivator appearing is very low.
Of course, that was the situation when he was on Tianhai Island. He didn't know what the situation was like now and whether it had changed.
While he was still observing, two figures, even faster than these foundation-building cultivators, flew towards him.
He was just trying to drive them away when he discovered that one of the two Jindan cultivators was someone he knew.
He smiled, said nothing more, and stood there quietly waiting.
Baili Luo and Elder Jie, two Jindan cultivators, were leading a group of remaining cultivators from the seven sects to conduct a transaction in the market here.
After the seven sects merged into one, although they were suppressed by the Mingxin Sect, some of the seven sects' heritage was still retained.
They hid some resource points, which were originally located in relatively remote areas and were not discovered by the Mingxin Sect.
The resources produced by these resource points need to be traded in order to exchange for suitable cultivation resources. This matter was not a big deal in the past, but on Tianhai Island today, it requires the joint efforts of two Jindan elders to ensure safety.
He brought a group of disciples with him. These disciples took this opportunity to go out and trade some resources for their own use under the protection of two Jindan elders.
You must know that it is dangerous for these disciples to go out alone.
Many cultivators of the Mingxin Sect were like hunters, constantly hunting down the remaining disciples of the seven sects in exchange for contributions to the sect.
At the time of the transaction, all the cultivators sensed the strong fluctuation of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The foundation-building monks thought that a rare treasure from heaven and earth had appeared, and immediately rushed towards the direction where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was fluctuating.
The two Jindan elders also quickly ended the transaction and chased out. They also wanted to see who was transcending the tribulation here.
Of course, they also had the idea of taking the opportunity to rob. Everyone knew that the combat power of a Jindan cultivator who had survived the Jindan tribulation had not truly reached the Jindan level.
If one wants to possess the combat power of the Golden Core Stage, one needs to re-cultivate the main skills to accumulate spiritual energy and refine magic weapons, all of which takes time.
The time it takes for an ordinary Jindan cultivator to survive this calamity ranges from half a year to several years, depending on how well they prepare before going through the calamity.
A cultivator who is undergoing the Jindan tribulation outside is a good prey, regardless of whether he succeeds or not.
Baili Luo and Elder Jie were extremely fast and soon surpassed the foundation-building monks. When they saw the thunderclouds in the sky, their eyes flashed with brilliance.
Such a huge thundercloud indicates that the cultivator who is undergoing the tribulation has extremely high talent and is feared by heaven and earth.
"Hey, why does this cultivator look so familiar?" Elder Xie saw Li Shiming. Li Shiming had intentionally concealed his strength, so he looked like an ordinary mortal.
But how could anyone who could stand here be a mortal?
"Li Shiming!" Baili Luo also recognized Li Shiming. He gritted his teeth and called out Li Shiming's name.
He thinks of Li Shiming's face almost every day.
His hatred with Li Shiming was initially due to his son Baili Jinyan, but when he later went to find Li Shiming, he fell into a trap set by Li Shiming, and even his magic weapon was destroyed.
He fled back to the sect. His failure at the hands of a Qi-refining cultivator was the greatest shame of his life.
The revenge was even greater than the murder of his son Baili Jinyan. He had always wanted to seek revenge on Li Shiming, but after the Mingxin Sect invaded, Li Shiming disappeared and he never found any trace of Li Shiming again.
However, Baili Luo did not want to take revenge at this time. After recognizing Li Shiming, he prepared to turn around and escape.
Because of the conflict between Li Shiming and Mingxin Sect, especially the fact that Li Shiming blocked the gate of Mingxin Sect, the monks of Tianhai Island knew about it as time went by.
He did not think that he could defeat Li Shiming. According to rumors, Li Shiming's realm had reached the middle stage of the Golden Core.
Although he did not believe that Li Shiming had reached the middle stage of the Golden Core in less than twenty years, even if Li Shiming had not reached the middle stage of the Golden Core, he would not be able to resist Li Shiming alone who could block the gate of the Mingxin Sect.
When he turned around to flee, a sword light was faster than him and pierced through his body's protective spiritual power. He looked at the wound on his chest and a flash of unwillingness appeared in his eyes.
"Too weak!" Li Shiming only used the magic weapon, the Heart Sword, and used sword cultivation methods to drive the Heart Sword to launch an attack, killing Baili Luo with one blow. This made him feel Baili Luo's weakness.
Thinking back to those days, Baili Luo was able to terrify him with just her aura.
He shook his head with emotion, but he had to go out after all. The cultivators on Tianhai Island were generally weak, which was related to the inheritance of Tianhai Island.
Among the original seven sects of Tianhai Island, the best inheritance only reaches the Jindan stage.
However, the top martial arts in the Northern Shu Continent all have the basic standard of reaching the Nascent Soul stage, not to mention the existence of martial arts beyond the Nascent Soul stage.
The cultivation resources on Tianhai Island are also scarce, which makes most of the Jindan cultivators unable to make any further progress after reaching the early Jindan stage.
No matter how strong one's talent is, if one's skills and resources cannot keep up, one will only become ordinary.
When Elder Xie saw Baili Luo suddenly turn around and run away, he knew that he had encountered Baili Luo's enemy.
Looking at Baili Luo's appearance, he didn't even dare to fight and just turned around and ran away, which showed that the opponent was extremely powerful, far surpassing Baili Luo.
Just as Elder Xie was considering what to do, Baili Luo had already been killed.
For a moment, he didn't dare to escape, nor did he dare to resist. Li Shiming's strength was too terrifying, and his speed was no faster than Baili Luo.
"Li Shiming meets Elder Xie!" Li Shiming retracted his heart sword and greeted Elder Xie with a smile on his face.
"You are Li Shiming!" Elder Xie finally understood why Li Shiming looked so familiar. He thought of the Qi-refining cultivator he had met on the Seven Star Island more than ten years ago, the genius of the Tianhai Sect.
He thought again of the conflict between Li Shiming and the Mingxin Sect, and Li Shiming's strength was easy to explain.
As for why Li Shiming attacked Baili Luo, he had heard about the reason.
It was no secret that Baili Luo and Li Shiming had a grudge against each other. Elder Yin had even come forward to find Baili Luo about this matter.
"I have an old grudge against Baili Luo. When I was still a Qi-refining cultivator, he chased me many times. Elder Jie, please take his body back!" Li Shiming explained with a smile.
"Oh!" Elder Xie let out a long sigh. He really didn't know what to say about this matter.
In the world of immortal cultivation, revenge is something that cultivators must do. If they want to have a clear mind, they need to kill their enemies decisively when they meet them.
The clarity of mind plays a special role at the critical moment of promotion. This is recorded in many classics and is recognized by monks.
Elder Xie couldn't say who was right or wrong. With Li Shiming's strength, it was impossible for him to avenge Baili Luo. He could only take Baili Luo's body back and report to the sect.
At this moment, the thunder in the sky disappeared, and a silver-white corpse walked out of the formation.
Elder Xie took a look at Nan Ming, who had just been promoted to a silver corpse. For some reason, the hairs on his body stood up. In his perception, Nan Ming was as terrifying as a prehistoric beast.
Li Shiming waved his hand and put away the corpse Nanming. He naturally knew why Elder Jie looked frightened.
Nanming had just been promoted and was unable to perfectly control the energy in his body. A trace of Nanming Lihuo leaked out of his body.
Nanming Lihuo would scare even a weak Jindan cultivator like Elder Jie, not to mention a Jindan cultivator at the level of a great elder.
After the corpse-refining Nanming was put away, Elder Xie finally came to his senses from the fear he had just experienced. He took deep breaths of air to calm the fear in his heart.
He became more and more confused about Li Shiming's strength. Even if he was in the middle stage of the Golden Core, he could not kill an early stage of the Golden Core easily, not to mention the terrifying aura exuded by this newly promoted silver corpse.
He was 100% sure that even during the heyday of the Seven Sects, no Jindan elder's aura could be as terrifying as the aura of the one who had just been promoted to Silver Corpse.
That was a difference in levels. He was suppressed by the aura exuded by the silver corpse. If the silver corpse attacked him, he would not even have the room to resist.
He couldn't help but feel relieved. Originally, he had been thinking of taking advantage and was planning to rob the monks who were being promoted here.
Fortunately, he was delayed by Baili Luo's matter and did not actually take action, otherwise, given the terrifying nature of the silver corpse, there was a high probability that he would have been torn to pieces by it.
He looked at Li Shiming again, wondering whether his choice back then was wrong. He chose to stay in Tianhai Island, a place that was still safe even though the Mingxin Sect existed.
Unlike some other Jindan elders, he did not leave Tianhai Island and go to Beishu Continent to look for his own opportunities.
"It's time to leave!" Elder Xie made up his mind, and he bowed to Li Shiming.