In a year, there was no change in the Shushan Sect. When Li Shiming appeared outside the sect's formation, he sensed a lot of attention.
"Master, I'm back!" He saw his master, Elder Su, waiting for him outside the sect, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.
"Has your cultivation reached the middle stage of the Golden Core?" Elder Su asked his disciple in surprise.
Li Shiming couldn't help but be stunned. It should not be a secret that he was promoted to the middle stage of Golden Core. He had already informed Beishu Trading Company.
From the look of Master Elder Su, it seems like he still doesn't know about his advancement to the middle stage of the Golden Core.
How could he know that Beishu Trading Company had intentionally concealed the fact that he had been promoted to the middle stage of the Golden Core? It was because he had not explicitly requested that the Shushan Sect be informed of the news.
As for why, during this year, Beishu Trading Company had the exclusive order for Li Shiming to refine the third-grade elixir of the late Jindan period.
You have to know that if Beishu Trading Company really wanted to inform Shushan Sect of the news that Li Shiming had advanced to the middle stage of the Golden Elixir, how could Shushan Sect allow Li Shiming to not make elixirs for a year?
All the cultivators in the late Jindan stage in Shushan Sect are elders with extremely high status and position, and Shushan Sect cannot ignore their alchemy needs.
Li Shiming's thoughts turned quickly, and he figured out why Beishu Trading Company did not release the news.
But he couldn't blame Beishu Trading Company. On the one hand, Beishu Trading Company kept the secret for him and its ethics were impeccable. On the other hand, Beishu Trading Company's actions allowed him to spend a year quietly accompanying his family without being disturbed by the outside world.
"My disciple felt something in his heart at home and then he had a breakthrough!" Li Shiming replied with a smile.
"It seems that it was right to let you stay at home for a year. What you lack is not your cultivation, but your state of mind. This cannot be helped by elixirs or books on martial arts!" Elder Su was also very happy and said with a smile.
Elder Su was filled with emotion. The thing he was most worried about had happened. His disciple was too outstanding and had already caught up with his level of cultivation.
And he doesn't know how long it will take to advance to the late Jindan stage.
But he was just happy. In the world of cultivating immortals, besides improving one's own cultivation, the most important thing was inheritance.
In his opinion, Li Shiming is his successor. Even if Li Shiming has not practiced his main skills, Li Shiming is his true disciple and his identity as a successor is certain.
Li Shiming nodded in agreement. Even though he had been in the mortal world for a year, his gains were enormous.
His cultivation was not greatly affected, and with the help of the Nascent Soul level spirit veins and a large number of third-grade cultivation-assisting elixirs, his cultivation progressed rapidly.
He even began to practice the magical power of 'Nanming Lihuo', which was a huge progress, indicating that he was slowly mastering the magical power of 'Nanming Lihuo'.
"Don't rush into seclusion after you return to the sect. I'm afraid that the late Jindan elders in the sect will come to you soon. The refining of the third-grade elixir of the late Jindan stage consumes a lot of energy. Don't refuse to make the elixir and ask for a high reward!" Elder Su thought of something and gave Li Shiming some advice.
Unlike before, Li Shiming could use various reasons to refuse the third-grade elixir of the early and middle Jindan stage, even if the Jindan elders of the sect asked for it. However, the status of the late Jindan cultivators in the sect was different, so it was best not to offend them casually.
Of course, it is not so easy to ask Li Shiming to refine the elixir. Refining the third-grade elixir in the late golden elixir stage will delay Li Shiming's practice time.
None of the late Jindan cultivators in the sect are poor. Elder Su said this publicly outside the mountain gate, telling all the late Jindan elders that they can refine pills but they have to pay enough for them.
Li Shiming returned to the sect and saw many pairs of eyes staring at them.
The master and the disciple flew towards the sect while talking.
Li Shiming returned to the sect at the middle stage of the Golden Core realm. The news spread throughout the Shushan Sect at an extremely fast speed.
From every corner of Shushan Sect, figures with the aura of the late Jindan stage flew out and headed towards the Chijian Peak.
Li Shiming didn't know that Shushan Sect actually had so many late Jindan cultivators. In just one day, he received seven late Jindan cultivators, including a great elder.
These late Jindan cultivators were very generous. They offered rewards without Li Shiming saying much, and some even offered more than Li Shiming wanted.
It’s not that these late Jindan cultivators are generous, but they can see clearly that Li Shiming’s cultivation speed shows that Li Shiming’s cultivation talent is extremely high.
It is hard to say whether Li Shiming can advance to the Nascent Soul stage, but advancement to the late Golden Core stage is almost certain.
None of the late Jindan cultivators were willing to cause Li Shiming's dissatisfaction over a little reward, because once Li Shiming was promoted to the late Jindan stage, their resources for promotion to the Nascent Soul stage would still need to be refined by Li Shiming.
Li Shiming queued up all the alchemy orders according to the first-come-first-served principle and made them public.
He proceeded at the rate of refining one furnace every ten days. Fortunately, there were not many late Jindan cultivators in the sect. In addition, the spiritual herbs needed for the third-grade elixirs of late Jindan cultivators were more precious and rare. Even with the accumulation, it only took more than four months.
No one had any objection to his arrangement, and every late Jindan cultivator understood that Li Shiming's cultivation was as important as alchemy.
Li Shiming's alchemy cannot affect his cultivation, otherwise even the sect's Nascent Soul ancestor will not agree.
When Li Shiming was promoted to the late Golden Core stage, he could refine pills for the Yuanying ancestors. Although most of the Yuanying ancestors in the sect were in seclusion, Ancestor Zuo would pay attention to Li Shiming's sword-holding peak from time to time, which showed how much the Yuanying ancestors valued Li Shiming.
After Li Shiming returned to the sect, he was visited intermittently by the sect's Jindan elders in the first few days. After he dealt with the matters of the sect's late Jindan elders who had needs, he announced to the public that he would no longer accept orders for refining third-grade elixirs in the middle Jindan stage.
The news he announced made the sect's Jindan elders wail, but they were helpless and could only find ways to get through Elder Su, Elder Ma and other few monks who could ask Li Shiming to take action.
Even his senior brothers and sisters came to visit him, and many monks came to visit him.
He received praise from the alchemy masters for doing so. There was nothing they could do about it, as his alchemy skills were too high and had a serious impact on the alchemy masters' business.
Li Shiming also understood this. When he was able to refine the third-grade elixir of the middle stage of the golden elixir, he seldom accepted orders for the third-grade elixir of the early stage of the golden elixir.
Even though he didn't stay in the early Jindan stage for a long time, he refined a huge number of third-grade elixirs in the middle Jindan stage.
The main reason was because he was too famous. The sect, its allies, Beishu Trading Company, and some friendly orders allowed him to refine a large number of third-grade elixirs for the middle stage of the Golden Core during this period, which were enough for his practice.
Even though the clone Li Yuanba has not yet been promoted to the middle stage of the Golden Core, the third-grade elixir for the middle stage of the Golden Core has already been prepared.
As the news spread, the late Jindan cultivators from Qianhuan Sect and the late Luohan monks from Qianye Temple all came to him through their connections.
The three major demon sects also placed orders with him through the Beishu Trading Company.
But at this time, Li Shiming was in seclusion. Apart from the sect's alchemy orders, he even stopped accepting orders from the Beishu Trading Company.
This is hunger marketing. Although alchemy and marketing are different, in his opinion they are similar.
People will never cherish things that are too easy to get, especially Beishu Trading Company. He is going to give it a try, otherwise he will really be controlled by Beishu Trading Company.
In the practice room, Li Shiming's mind entered the computer room space.
Nowadays, the space in the computer room is getting smaller and smaller. There are four of them, including Venerable Hui Jing, the Nascent Soul Body, the False Infant Body, and the Great Elder who is refining his body. If he hadn't put all the resources collected in the computer room into the space items to reduce the space occupied by the computer room, the computer room would have been completely occupied long ago.
After he refined the IBM z15 into his life-saving magic weapon, the computer room space became a warehouse. Fortunately, he obtained a lot of space items, so the warehouse only occupied a corner of the computer room space.
Li Shiming released all four of them and took out the fourth-grade meridian-locking disk. The formation in his cave was very safe, and not a single bit of breath would leak out from here.
The only pity is that the levels of the third-grade golden lotus and pure spirit koi in his cave are still too low compared to the Nascent Soul level spirit veins, and they are not very effective in improving the Nascent Soul level spirit veins.
He arranged the twelve silver corpses in the underground space factory to continue his previous research work.
Only the silver corpse of Nanming was left behind by him, and he put the silver corpse of Nanming into the computer room space.
Li Shiming was a little jealous of the Silver Corpse Nanming's talent.
What made Li Shiming jealous was naturally the Silver Corpse Nanming's control over the Nanming Lihuo.
The foundation of the silver corpse Nanming was too strong. Ancestor Weng Zhao used some unknown means to integrate the Nascent Soul that controlled the 'Nanming Lihuo' into Nanming's body.
You have to know that Nanming was only in the Qi Refining Stage at the time, but he was able to control the 'Nanming Lihuo' to a certain extent.
When Li Shiming himself was in the early stage of Golden Elixir, he couldn't even practice the magical power of 'Nanming Lihuo' on his own. Although he had inherited and obtained the fire of 'Nanming Lihuo', he could only watch.
If he had not been promoted to the middle stage of the Golden Core and the Nanming Lihuo rule pattern had not appeared in his body, he would not have been able to practice this magical power.
But after the Silver Corpse Nanming was promoted to the Silver Corpse, the Nanming Lihuo rule pattern in his body was strengthened many times, which enabled the Silver Corpse Nanming to use the Nanming Lihuo.
How could Li Shiming not be envious? In fact, it was easy to understand. Ancestor Weng Zhao practiced the attacking magical power of "Nanming Lihuo" throughout his life. The spare body he prepared for the Nascent Soul to take over another body was a targeted preparation. Coupled with the transformation during the Nascent Soul's integration process, this special body was created.
According to Patriarch Weng Zhao's idea, this new body should be able to use the 'Nanming Lihuo' to kill everyone in the Jindan stage and be invincible in the Jindan stage. In this way, it can obtain as many cultivation resources as possible and prepare for the impact on the Yuanying stage.
But he didn't expect that in the end all these would benefit Li Shiming.
Li Shiming's brain entered the body of the silver corpse Nanming and completely controlled the silver corpse Nanming.
The fourth-grade Tiangang Four-phase Formation Disk was put into the computer room and activated and deployed to protect the silver corpse Nanming.
It should not be said to protect the Silver Corpse Nanming, but to protect the computer room space.
Li Shiming tried it and found that the computer room space was almost indestructible, but he did not intend to use Nanming Lihuo to test the strength of the computer room space.
Nanming, the silver corpse sitting in the Tiangang Four Phases Formation, had orange flames lighting up in front of it.
Li Shiming began to try to control the small orange flame through the silver corpse Nanming.
Under his control, the flames slowly increased in power. The silver corpse Nanming, the master, was not affected by the flames, but the Tiangang Four Phases Formation was affected by the flames, and the outer shield kept shaking.
This is a fourth-grade formation, and its defensive power is enough to block several attacks from the Nascent Soul Patriarch.
But after this small flame released its power, I actually felt like I couldn't hold on any longer.
The power of the flames weakened, and the shield of the Tiangang Four Phases Formation returned to calm.
Li Shiming shook his head. The silver corpse Nanming could indeed control the Nanming Lihuo in his body, and its power exceeded the level of the Jindan period, and even exceeded the power of the great elder level.
But the flaw is also very obvious. Nanming Lihuo can only be used one meter in front of the silver corpse Nanming.
Such a huge amount of energy will get out of control once it leaves the body.
The one-meter distance made it extremely difficult for the Silver Corpse Nanming to use the Nanming Lihuo in battle. Unless it was a sneak attack, Li Shiming could easily deal with any cultivator who could get the Silver Corpse Nanming within one meter.
However, the Nanming Lihuo of the Silver Corpse Nanming is not useless. With the participation of Li Shiming and the special space of the computer room.
Li Shiming can control the Nanming Lihuo to the ultimate precision. Although he cannot meet the requirements of alchemy, it is completely sufficient for refining equipment.
He had obtained the third-grade gold-attributed top-grade refining material 'Meteorite Gold Stone' from the Tianxing Trading Company's base, but he had never used it.
'Meteorite Gold Stone' is the best material for refining flying swords. The magic weapons refined by oneself in the Jindan period have an innate closer connection, which makes the cultivators more adept at using the magic weapons they have refined.
As early as when he had just completed the elixir, he had given a task to his life treasure IBMz15, to design a flying sword for himself with "Meteorite Gold Stone" as the main material.
Later, because he learned the "Divine Eyes", he became more maneuverable in refining equipment.
The natal magic weapon IBMz15 has modified the design of the flying sword to maximize Li Shiming's refining skills.
The most difficult part of refining equipment is melting the materials. The higher the quality of the materials, the harder it is to melt.
Normally, third-grade refining materials need to be melted with alchemy fire. However, third-grade top-grade materials such as 'Meteorite Gold Stone' are gold-attributed and naturally strong, and they need the alchemy fire of fire-attributed golden elixir to melt.
But even so, it still takes a lot of time, so the time required to refine a third-grade magic weapon is generally very long.
In addition, during the refining process, it is necessary to continuously engrave magical runes on the magic weapon in order to bring out the maximum characteristics of the material and give the magic weapon various special abilities. All of these require time to proceed slowly.
It is normal for some magic weapons to take several months or even more than a year to refine.