Just a few days after Li Shiming moved out of the cave on the second floor, a Jindan cultivator named Hong Ting rented the cave through normal procedures.
When Hong Ting took the token and opened the cave, he was still a little bit unbelieving.
He was not the only one who knew that there was a 'Treading Cloud Order' in this cave.
The original owner of the cave, the monk Wu Tongshan who was in the late Jindan stage, was ambushed by his enemies and seriously injured and fled back to his secular home.
Perhaps this was Wu Tongshan's obsession after he knew he would die, and he wanted to return to his roots and die quietly in his own home.
He was seriously injured and died not long after returning to his secular home.
Before his death, he left some things to his family, asking them to use the things he left behind if there were any younger generations with spiritual roots in the family.
But he misjudged human nature. He had been away from his secular home for too long. His descendants today respected him very much when he was alive, but after he died, they took out the things he left behind and sold them.
It was also the family's fault for having no vision and selling the Jindan cultivator's space ring as an ordinary ring.
This space ring circulated in the secular world for quite some time, and was eventually obtained by a Qi-refining cultivator, who then sold it to a trading company.
The business copied the jade slips inside and sold them several times.
In addition to the skills, the jade slip also contains Wu Tongshan's most important secret, information about the hidden "Treading Cloud Order".
The cultivators in charge of the business did not know the importance of the "Treading Cloud Order", and even most of the cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage did not know about it. This kind of cave heaven thing was only circulated among the cultivators in the late Golden Core stage.
The final result was that the news that the "Treading Cloud Order" was hidden in the cave where Wu Tongshan originally lived was known by many discerning cultivators.
Previously, Great Elder Tai Yi was one of them, and this late Jindan-stage Hong Ting was also one of them.
Before coming here, Hong Ting also gathered intelligence about Wuqing Mountain and learned that a great elder had forcefully attacked this cave but ultimately escaped in vain.
Later, he heard that the owner of the cave had moved away, so he had an idea and came over and rented the cave using some high-quality spirit stones.
Seeing how easily he entered the cave that even Great Elder Tai Yi had been unable to break into despite his full-scale attack, Hong Ting wondered if the 'Cloud Stepping Order' had been taken away.
According to the records in the jade slip, he came to the utility room. He did not have the ability of Li Shiming, so he took out a formation-breaking talisman and activated it towards the wall.
He didn't dare to attack the formation like Elder Tai Yi did. Even if it was a cave he rented, he couldn't break the rules of Wuqing Mountain and destroy the formation of the cave.
He bought the formation-breaking talisman from a formation master. Combined with the token in his hand that could control the formation, he was able to break a piece of the formation on the wall in one go.
He quickly dug open the wall, revealing the passage leading to the secret room.
After discovering that the formation in the utility room was not destroyed, and considering that the secret room was hidden so secretly, he became confident that the "Treading Cloud Order" was still in its original place.
He crawled into the secret room along the passage in an ugly posture and saw the wooden box placed in the secret room.
He walked forward and pressed lightly on the wooden box a few times before opening it.
This is the method of opening the box recorded in the jade slip. Otherwise, if Wu Tongshan's descendants come to open the wooden box, Wu Tongshan would be cheating his own family.
The array mechanism in the wooden box failed, and when it was opened, a fake "Tadingyun Order" made by Li Shiming was revealed.
Although it is a fake "Tading Yun Order", there are not many cultivators who have actually seen the "Tading Yun Order", and it can only be proved by some rumors.
Hong Ting looked at the 'Taoyun Order' in his hand. With his eyesight, he couldn't tell whether the 'Taoyun Order' was real or fake. He used the only method he knew, took out a flying sword magic weapon and slashed at the 'Taoyun Order'.
With a 'ding' sound, 'Tading Yun Ling' was not damaged at all.
He couldn't help but feel happy. Although the flying sword magic weapon didn't use much spiritual power and this attack was not a very strong attack, the jade token that could withstand the attack of the flying sword magic weapon was the most important feature of the 'Stepping Cloud Order'.
After he got the 'Treading Cloud Order', he had no intention of staying. The rent was just a few high-quality spirit stones, which was nothing compared to the 'Treading Cloud Order'.
Hong Ting flew out of the cave and headed out of Wuqing Mountain.
A drone satellite was monitoring the situation in the cave from ten thousand meters in the air. It observed Hong Ting's entry and also discovered his departure.
This drone satellite was released by Li Shiming. He is rebuilding the drone satellite system bit by bit. It is still in the production stage. Only a small number of drone satellites are available, and he prioritizes deploying them near his head.
"It seems that he is really after the 'Treading Cloud Order'. This time we should be able to divert the trouble!" Li Shiming observed Hong Ting's movements through his life-saving magic weapon IBMz15, and said to himself with a smile.
He had a backup plan when he found the 'Treading Cloud Order'. The 'Treading Cloud Order' preserved in such a secret way by a late Jindan cultivator must be extraordinary.
After learning the true purpose of the 'Cloud Stepping Order', he became more certain of the necessity of doing so.
Then he saw that not long after Hong Ting left Wuqing Mountain, he was besieged by a group of monks.
The scene was quite chaotic. The drones and satellites were too far away. All we knew was that when they dispersed, many monks had fallen there.
"Master Li, do you know what was in that cave?" A few days later, Yu An asked mysteriously when he came to visit Li Shiming.
Yu An is one of the very few Jindan cultivators who can enter the first level. Due to his relationship with Patriarch Yu, Li Shiming, in order to save trouble, handed over some of the matters related to refining third-grade elixirs to Yu An.
In addition, Yu An’s Baodan Pavilion also needed the elixirs refined by Li Shiming as commodities, so Yu An would come here from time to time.
Yu An is a businessman. Every time he comes to meet Li Shiming, he will use various topics to make the meeting not dull.
"Isn't my cave empty?" Li Shiming asked knowingly.
"Master Li, you have missed a great opportunity. The former owner of your cave, Monk Wu Tongshan, hid a 'Treading Cloud Order' in the cave!" Yu An said with an expression that expressed pity for Li Shiming.
"'Tadingyun Order' is the key to unlock the Green Field Cave Heaven?" Li Shiming's eyes widened, and he looked as if he had heard the news for the first time.
"It was a bit strange that Great Elder Tai Yi attacked that cave. After you moved out, another cultivator rented that cave and obtained the 'Cloud-Stepping Order'. As a result, the news was not hidden, and they were besieged just after leaving Wuqing Mountain. In the end, the cultivator was seriously injured and escaped. Now many Jindan cultivators are looking for him like crazy!" Yu An continued.
"Did you find out this?" Li Shiming thought he seemed to have underestimated Wu Qingshan's intelligence capabilities.
"There's no need to check. It has spread everywhere!" Yu An said with a smile.
Li Shiming also laughed. He found out from Yu An's expression and the voice he heard through his telepathy that he did not doubt him, and no cultivator in the outside world suspected that he had obtained the "Treading Cloud Order".
"Master Li, thank you for your hard work. Please start the furnace and make a few batches of third-grade elixirs!" Seeing that Li Shiming was in a good mood, Yu An quickly put forward his request.
"Put the materials here and come get them in a few days!" Li Shiming was indeed in a good mood and waved his hand.
Yu An's eyes narrowed with laughter, and he placed a storage bag in front of Li Shiming.
In addition to alchemy materials, the storage bag also contains some high-quality spirit stones that serve as rewards for alchemy.
After this period of cooperation, Li Shiming’s reward for refining the third-grade elixir has become a fixed number of high-grade spirit stones.
However, since Li Shiming moved to the first floor, the other late Jindan cultivators could not meet him and could only communicate with him through tokens. However, alchemy cannot be done by just sending a message through a token, so Li Shiming's reward for refining the third-grade elixir is out of stock.
Yu An's seemingly fair deal actually made him a lot of money.
Li Shiming didn't care about this top-grade spirit stone. What he cared about most now was the cooperation with the Nascent Soul Ancestor.
After sending Yu An away, he released Venerable Hui Jing, who controlled the fourth-grade Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer to assist him in practicing the 'Jade Purity Thunder Canon'.
After discovering that it was easy to obtain resources for advancing to the Nascent Soul stage in Dongqi Continent, he stepped up his practice of the 'Jade Purity Thunder Code'.
He still remembered what happened to him when he was promoted to the Jindan stage, and he was worried that it would happen again when he was promoted to the Yuanying stage.
These days he was still waiting, as Patriarch Sangfeng and Patriarch Yu were still preparing more resources for advancement to the Nascent Soul stage, and had not contacted other Nascent Soul ancestors for him.
In a blink of an eye, another month passed and Li Shiming had not left the cave. During this period, he launched more than ten drone satellites.
The deployment of the drone satellite system was not smooth. Based on the map of Dongqi Continent in his hand, he calculated the number of drone satellites needed and found that fifty drone satellites would be enough to cover the continent.
The Dongqi continent is different from the Beishu continent. There are no large formations separating the various forces here. This situation is actually more conducive to the deployment of drone satellite systems.
However, when one of his drone satellites was approaching the Wanshou Sect within a thousand miles, it was pulled by a force and changed its flight direction.
Fortunately, he had taken into account the possibility of being captured by monks when designing the drone satellite. When affected by external forces, the drone satellite will actively self-destruct.
The drone satellite lost contact after it exploded, which made him alert. He might have underestimated the Dongqi Continent.
In the Northern Shu continent, even the Yuanying ancestor had not discovered the drone satellite, even the more advanced drone satellite upgraded by Li Shiming was still discovered by the cultivators.
After Li Shiming's analysis, he found that as long as the drone satellite did not enter the thousand-mile range of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, nothing would happen.
However, as long as the drone satellite gets within a thousand miles of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, it will either be directly destroyed or pulled away by some force.
Li Shiming could not help but be shocked. The direction chosen by the drone satellite to approach the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect was not the same. Every time it would be attacked as soon as it entered the range of a thousand miles. This meant that there was a powerful existence in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect who could launch attacks from a thousand miles away.
Not to mention attacking at a distance of thousands of miles, being able to detect drone satellites at a distance of thousands of miles is already extremely remarkable.
Even if you have the "Divine Eyes" that can observe things three thousand miles away, this kind of observation can only detect invisible drones and satellites.
Besides, because the drone satellite is close to the Thirty-Three Heavens and is affected by the Thirty-Three Heavens, it is even more difficult to be detected.
It was hard for him to imagine the level of cultivation of that powerful being from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
Now he has learned to be smart. The deployment of the drone satellite system is staggered away from the range of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect. In the future, when more drone satellites are deployed, they will also be staggered away from the thousands-mile range of the other three major sects.
"Business is coming!" Li Shiming suddenly said to himself with a smile.
In the images transmitted from the drone satellite system, a figure that can affect the surrounding void, making the surrounding void appear blurry in the drone satellite's monitoring, is approaching Wuqing Mountain.
Ever since the incident in which Great Elder Tai Yi attacked the cave, Patriarch Yu has never left Wuqing Mountain again.
Having such a business that continuously earns profits is indeed a good thing, but it is also a constraint.
Patriarch Yu did not have the same freedom as ordinary cultivators; he was bound to Wuqing Mountain.
This Nascent Soul Patriarch who came to Wuqing Mountain, no matter if he was Patriarch Sangfeng or not, most likely came here to find Li Shiming to make the elixir.
While monitoring the approaching Nascent Soul Patriarch, Li Shiming spotted a blurry figure flying out from Wuqing Mountain. It was Patriarch Yu who went out to greet him.
After the two blurry figures met, they stayed together for a moment and then flew towards the top of the mountain.
Li Shiming received a message that Patriarch Yu was coming to visit him.
Li Shiming took away Venerable Hui Jing and his clone Li Yuanba, activated the formation and walked out of the cave.
"Fellow Daoist Zhang, this is Master Li!" Patriarch Yu first introduced Li Shiming to the Yuanying Patriarch beside him, and then said to Li Shiming, "Master Li, let me introduce you, this is Patriarch Zhang Kai!"
"Greetings, Ancestor Zhang!" Li Shiming bowed and saluted.
He also had some understanding of Ancestor Yu. Ancestor Yu was particularly polite to Ancestor Zhang Kai, and this politeness was filled with awe.
Li Shiming was not an ignorant cultivator. He could judge that Patriarch Zhang Kai was also an early Nascent Soul cultivator. Patriarch Yu's awe probably did not come from Patriarch Zhang Kai himself, but most likely came from the power behind Patriarch Zhang Kai.
"I didn't expect that Master Li has reached such a realm at such a young age. It seems that he is only one step away from being promoted to the Nascent Soul stage!" Elder Zhang Kai looked at Li Shiming with surprise in his eyes.
"This step is a natural barrier!" Li Shiming replied with a helpless smile.
"Master Li, why don't you invite us in and have a seat?" Patriarch Yu reminded with a smile.
"Please come in, two elders!" Li Shiming invited.
Ancestor Zhang Kai walked into the cave. He had an extraordinary demeanor, and when he walked together with Ancestor Yu, Ancestor Yu seemed a little humble.
Li Shiming knew that this kind of bearing could only be developed after being in a superior position for a long time. It had nothing to do with cultivation, but was a sense of superiority in mentality.
He was more interested in the identity of the ancestor Zhang Kai. No matter what, he couldn't let the master alchemist suffer any loss, and he would be the one who benefited in the end.