"Senior Brother Li!" After leaving the mountain where his master, Master Hu, lived, Lu Heng appeared beside Li Shiming and greeted him with a smile.

Due to Lu Heng's status as a registered disciple, he was not eligible to participate in this ceremony, so he handled some trivial matters outside.

"Thank you for troubling Junior Brother Lu today!" Li Shiming responded with a smile.

"It's no trouble. This is what I should do!" Lu Heng quickly replied with a smile.

In fact, he could have left after the apprenticeship ceremony, but he still waited here until Li Shiming came out, just to have more contact with Li Shiming.

If I miss this opportunity, I don’t know how long it will take for me to have close contact with Li Shiming again.

He flew towards the exit of the cave with Li Shiming. The space gates in and out of the Four Symbols Cave had been solidified. Li Shiming did not live in the Four Symbols Cave, and had no way to control the Four Symbols Cave to send himself out directly.

"Junior Brother Lu, I only met the second senior brother today. I haven't met the eldest senior brother yet. I wonder where the eldest senior brother is?" Li Shiming took the opportunity to ask.

Master Hu only introduced him to his second senior brother Yue Shan, and did not tell him about his eldest senior brother, so he did not dare to ask proactively.

"You are talking about Senior Brother Zhong Qiang. He hasn't returned to the sect for a long time, and there has been no news of him for more than a hundred years!" Lu Heng looked around and then spoke using voice transmission.

Li Shiming was stunned when he heard the news.

Although the world of immortal cultivation does not have much concept of time, and being away for several years or even dozens of years is normal, but if there has been no news for over a hundred years, it is very likely that something has happened.

No wonder Master Hu didn’t introduce Senior Brother Zhong Da to him. He probably knew that Senior Brother Zhong Da was in big trouble.

After the two men left the Four Symbols Cave, they parted ways. Lu Heng looked at the name added in the identity jade disc with joy. If he needed anything in the future, he could use the identity jade disc to contact Li Shiming directly. This was what he wanted.

The fact that Li Shiming was accepted as a formal disciple by Master Hu was just a rumor before, but after this apprenticeship ceremony, it was finally confirmed.

Now many familiar monks came to visit and presented gifts.

In the following days, he received monks from the sect and received many gifts.

This did not delay him much of his time, as his skills were all running automatically, and the alchemy was controlled in the machine room, and he was also refining two furnaces of elixirs at the same time.

Finally this day came, and he was finally free. Those who were qualified to come and congratulate him in the sect were all Nascent Soul cultivators. Although there were quite a few Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect, only so many of them were truly free.

His alchemy skills gave him a wide social circle, which was why he spent several days receiving guests.

Li Shiming sat on a chair in the hall. Since Xiaofeng came into being, his cave had become much more lively.

Originally, when there was only the Phantom Dragon, it seemed lonely because it had no playmates, and normally it would lie down quietly and rest.

After Xiaofeng arrived, the Phantom Dragon also transformed into a small body and played with Xiaofeng.

"Chirp!" Xiao Feng jumped into the hall and called softly around Li Shiming.

Li Shiming couldn't help but shake his head and laugh. Through the contract, he knew that the third-grade top-level spirit beast enhancement pill he had left for Xiaofeng had been eaten up.

It's about time. Although Xiao Feng is still young, his blood is pure enough and he absorbs the medicinal power of the elixir very quickly.

A spiritual pet with top-level bloodline like this one can quickly pass through its infancy as long as there are enough resources.

Improvement after childhood also requires resources, but following Li Shiming, Xiaofeng does not have to worry about the resources before the fourth level, as they are definitely sufficient for him to squander at will.

Take the third-grade top-level Spirit Beast Enhancement Pill for example. In order to refine enough third-grade top-level Spirit Beast Enhancement Pills as quickly as possible, he took out his third-grade pill furnace which he had not used for a long time.

Anyway, a third-grade alchemy furnace is enough for refining third-grade elixirs. After several days of continuous refining with ten third-grade alchemy furnaces, he has more third-grade top-level spirit beast enhancement pills.

Of course, there are more by-products of the third-grade high-level spiritual beast enhancement pills. Normally, ten furnaces of spiritual pills are required to produce one top-level spiritual pill. The higher the grade of the top-level spiritual pill, the fewer furnaces are required.

Li Shiming cannot release these by-products because their quality is so good. He doesn't care whether they will be wasted or not, so he keeps them for now.

At least when resources were sufficient, he tried his best to prepare third-grade top-level spirit beast enhancement pills for Xiao Feng and Huan Linglong.

Li Shiming's spiritual consciousness moved slightly, and he put twenty third-grade top-level spirit beast enhancement pills into Xiaofeng's space ring.

Just then, the Phantom Dragon also came and circled around him.

"You, you are already a fourth-rank official but still act like a child!" Li Shiming couldn't help but shook his head and laughed.

The Phantom Dragon was indeed not very big. After playing with Xiao Feng, it forgot that it was a fourth-grade dragon and shrunk its body, making it look like a young spiritual pet.

Although Li Shiming said this, he still gave the Phantom Dragon the same twenty third-grade top-level spirit beast enhancement pills, which were originally prepared for them.

After settling Xiao Feng and Huan Ling Long, he began to check his own silver corpse.

He has thirteen silver corpses, the most important of which is the silver corpse of Nanming. The other silver corpses all have the appearance of three heads and six arms.

There is not much he can improve in strength in a short period of time, and upgrading from silver corpse to golden corpse is the best choice.

You can also directly refine a golden corpse. You can use the corpse of a Nascent Soul cultivator to refine a golden corpse, but the fourth-grade corpse refining resources required are a bit too much, and it is far less convenient than upgrading a silver corpse to a golden corpse.

In addition, the risk of upgrading a silver corpse to a golden corpse is much smaller than directly refining a golden corpse.

The refined golden corpse needs to face the Nascent Soul level tribulation when its foundation is at its weakest, so the success rate is naturally pitifully low.

When a silver corpse is promoted to a golden corpse, the silver corpse’s own foundation is very solid, which makes it more advantageous in facing the heavenly calamity.

The vast majority of golden corpses are cultivated from childhood, and a solid foundation is laid at each level, so that they can successfully survive the heavenly tribulation and become golden corpses.

The proportion of golden corpses that were truly successfully refined was extremely low.

The Wanshou Sect does not have any advanced corpse refining techniques, so it does not have much added effect in this regard. If one wants to directly refine a golden corpse, he will have to wait until he obtains the top-level corpse refining techniques in the future.

His eyes fell on the silver corpse Nanming. He did not have many fourth-grade corpse refining resources in his hands. If he piled them all on a silver corpse, it would increase the success rate of promotion a lot.

Although he was a little worried, he still made up his mind to let the silver corpse Nanming be promoted to the golden corpse first.

The Silver Corpse Nanming is an extremely special refined corpse. When it is refined into a Bronze Corpse, it possesses the magical talent of 'Nanming Lihuo'.

Therefore, the Silver Corpse Nanming was carefully cultivated by Li Shiming, and relatively more resources were invested in it.

If the silver corpse Nanming cannot be promoted to the golden elixir stage, the possibility of other silver corpses being promoted is even lower.

Li Shiming took out his identity jade disc and submitted an application to the sect, requesting the use of Dujie Mountain.

He now has a very high status and it was approved in less than a minute after he submitted his application.

He turned around and flew towards Dujie Mountain, using his identity jade disc to enter the mountain.

Seeing this place full of traces of lightning strikes again, it has not been long since he joined the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, but this is already the third time he has entered here.

He comes into this place so frequently that there aren't many cultivators in the sect who can compare with him.

Li Shiming used fourth-grade corpse refining materials to draw a corpse refining formation on the ground, summoned the silver corpse Nanming and placed it in the center of the formation.

Silver Corpse Nanming had already reached the peak of Silver Corpse. Theoretically, when Li Shiming was promoted to the Nascent Soul stage, the shackles of Silver Corpse Nanming's realm would have disappeared, and it could be promoted to Golden Corpse at any time.

However, without resources, it is extremely difficult for a silver corpse to be promoted to a gold corpse.

A truly naturally formed golden corpse is extremely rare in the world of immortal cultivation, because in the process of a silver corpse being promoted to a golden corpse, not only does it require fourth-grade corpse refining resources, it also has to face the most terrifying heavenly calamity.

The damage of heavenly thunder to refined corpses is increased. Heavenly thunder has the effect of sweeping away all evil spirits, and refined corpses are evil spirits.

Not to mention that there is no corresponding means, even with the assistance of cultivators' resources, the probability of a silver corpse being promoted to a gold corpse is pitifully low.

Li Shiming took out a golden corpse core, which he obtained as a reward for alchemy in the Northern Shu Continent.

This batch of golden corpse cores were all obtained from the cave.

He is currently unable to enter the space in the cave where the golden corpses reside, and is unable to obtain the golden corpse cores and other resources from the cave. Fortunately, he has this batch of golden corpse cores.

He put the golden corpse's core into the silver corpse Nanming's mouth. The silver corpse Nanming instinctively felt that the golden corpse's core was beneficial to himself, so he swallowed the golden corpse's core in one gulp.

Li Shiming's spiritual consciousness entered the body of the Silver Corpse Nanming. After the Golden Corpse's core was swallowed, it continuously decomposed and released a large amount of energy that flowed into various parts of the Silver Corpse Nanming's body.

At the same time, a rune with unknown function in the core of the golden corpse also entered the body of the silver corpse Nanming along with the energy and became a part of the silver corpse Nanming's body.

He did not interfere with the changes in the silver corpse Nanming's body. No matter what ability this rune had, it was a good thing.

This means that the Silver Corpse Nanming will have an additional innate ability. It would be even better if this innate ability was engraved into the corpse core during the process of being promoted to the Golden Corpse. In that way, the Silver Corpse Nanming's newly added innate ability will be greatly enhanced by the corpse core.

The Silver Corpse Nanming had already reached the peak of the Silver Corpse, and with so much fourth-grade corpse refining energy suddenly appearing in his body, it quickly filled up his body.

Li Shiming paid close attention to every change of the Silver Corpse Nanming. He wondered why he had to look for the corpses of extremely talented cultivators when choosing materials for corpse refining. It was so that the corpse refining could have stronger potential.

This potential is manifested at a specific level. In addition to the speed of absorbing corpse refining energy, it is also able to continuously advance.

If the talent of the corpse refining material itself is very poor, the original cultivator can only be promoted to the Golden Core stage at most. Then no matter how many fourth-grade resources you invest, the probability of refining the corpse to upgrade to a golden corpse will be so small that it will make people despair.

Instead, the corpses of extremely talented monks are chosen as materials for corpse refining. Their potential will be reflected in the practice and promotion of corpse refining. As long as the corpse is given a certain amount of fourth-grade resources, its potential can be brought into play and it can enter a promotion state.

Among all the silver corpses of Li Shiming, the one with the best talent is definitely the silver corpse Nanming.

Of course, the talents of the other silver corpses were not bad either. Almost all of his silver corpses were obtained from Elder Lu of the Senluo Sect.

Although Elder Lu is only a Jindan cultivator, he is a powerful elder of the Senluo Sect, and the corpse refining materials that he chooses are all seeds of cultivation of the heavenly spiritual roots.

Theoretically, the chances of a person with natural spiritual roots being promoted to the Nascent Soul stage are very high. Even though Elder Lu is not yet a Nascent Soul cultivator, the corpse refining materials he chooses are all aimed at making a golden corpse.

Elder Lu had to prepare so many refined corpses because there was nothing he could do. The risk of refining corpses to survive the catastrophe was too great, and he had to prepare more refined corpses to feel at ease.

But the potential of these silver corpses is not as good as that of Silver Corpse Nanming.

The Silver Corpse Nanming is the backup body that Patriarch Weng Zhao prepared for himself. The qualifications of this backup body are even higher than Patriarch Weng Zhao's original body.

You must know that once a Nascent Soul cultivator uses the technique of possession, he will no longer have the chance to change to a third body. This backup body is the last hope of the Nascent Soul cultivator.

Therefore, when Yuanying cultivators choose a backup body, they carefully select the best cultivator they can find.

The most crucial thing is that the Silver Corpse Nanming is not just a backup identity, but has also taken over the body of the Nascent Soul of Patriarch Weng Guang. The Nascent Soul has merged with this body, further strengthening the talent of this body.

It can be said that if this body had not been refined into a corpse, the chances of advancing to the Nascent Soul stage through normal practice would be very high.

Now this potential is naturally transferred to the corpse refiner Nanming. The potential of the corpse refiner Nanming, at least to be promoted to a golden corpse, is far beyond that of other silver corpses.

Inside the body of the silver corpse Nanming, the corpse pill suddenly emitted a violent energy fluctuation, and at the same time, its aura was no longer stable.

Li Shiming was not surprised but happy. The Silver Corpse Nanming really lived up to expectations. A Golden Corpse core made it reach a state of advancement.

It turned out to be the top potential. He thought he would need to use a few more golden corpse cores, but he didn't expect that just one golden corpse core would be so effective.

The corpse pill in Nanming's body shrank rapidly, and the energy of the fourth-grade corpse refining materials in the corpse refining formation under him was continuously extracted into his body and gathered towards the corpse pill.

In addition, the energy of the golden corpse core in its body has not been consumed yet, and more than half of it remains, and a large amount of energy is still pouring out to supply it.

The aura on Nan Ming's body was very strange. Sometimes it was extremely cold and sometimes it was as hot as the sun. It was completely different from a normal corpse. However, this aura was constantly increasing and approaching that of a golden corpse.

When the corpse pill in Nan Ming's body shrank to a certain extent, a qualitative change occurred, and it turned from a corpse pill into a corpse core the size of a millet grain.

Although the corpse core is small, the energy inside is many times stronger than that of the corpse pill.

As soon as the corpse core was produced, it began to absorb energy frantically. The energy in the fourth-grade corpse refining formation and the energy of the golden corpse's core all poured into the corpse core.

The corpse core is like a bottomless pit. All the energy that pours in is absorbed by it. The only change is that the corpse core slowly grows larger.

As the corpse core formed, countless golden threads emerged from the corpse core, extending throughout Nan Ming's body, filling every part of his body.