Li Shiming has not even learned the inherited skills of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect. He has already become a disciple of the great monk Hu and has enough contribution points. If he really needs it, he is probably qualified to learn any inherited skills of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
Even if the Emperor of the Netherworld could really copy out the inherited skills of the Yanri Sect, would he dare to believe it?
With this level of inherited skills, even the slightest mistake could lead the practitioner astray.
The celestial ghosts were still continuously entering the nodes of the formation. After entering more than two-thirds of the nodes, the Emperor of the Netherworld could no longer stay there.
As for the remaining one-third of his clones, he would rather fight to the death with Li Shiming than die by such a strange and silent method.
More than thirty clones flew out from the nodes of the formation, then merged into one and pounced towards Li Shiming.
Li Shiming smiled faintly. In his perception, a fourth-grade ghost with one-third of its strength had fallen from the middle stage of the Nascent Soul to the early stage of the Nascent Soul.
But he didn't want to use the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer, as this fourth-grade ghost would probably be destroyed instantly by the hammer.
"Kill!" He shouted softly, and five 'Flowing Stars' flew out, carrying the sword intent of heavenly thunder and slashing towards the fourth-grade ghost.
The speed of the fourth-grade ghost of the Nether Emperor is fast, but it is still a bit slower than the 'Flowing Star Meteor'. The five 'Flowing Star Meteor' are all cast with the control method of pure sword cultivation, plus the speed bonus of the 'Flowing Star Meteor' itself, the fourth-grade ghost was cut down while it was still in mid-air.
The 'Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent' of the five 'Flowing Star Meteors' was not released, but instead strengthened the cutting power of the 'Flowing Star Meteors'.
The five 'flowing stars' turned into a sword net. It was not easy for ordinary flying swords to harm a fourth-grade ghost. However, under the control of the sword cultivator and the blessing of the Heavenly Thunder Sword, the sword net formed by the five 'flowing stars' cut the fourth-grade ghost into hundreds of pieces.
Before the Emperor of the Underworld could even let out a scream, he found a huge mouth swallowing up all the fragments, and his consciousness disappeared.
Until his death, the Emperor of the Underworld didn't know what had devoured him, and what other creatures in the world of immortal cultivation could devour ghosts!
Li Shiming shook his head and casually put away the "Flowing Star" and the Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer.
He checked the condition of the Sky Ghost. It was obvious that the Sky Ghost was too full and was digesting the energy in its body.
According to his estimation, the Heavenly Ghost only needs to digest a small portion of the energy to be promoted to the fourth level.
Who asked the Nether Emperor to have a fourth-grade ghost soul that was at the middle fourth-grade realm? Under normal circumstances, it would never be the turn of a third-grade celestial ghost to devour it.
This made him feel very good. Once the Heavenly Ghost was promoted to the fourth grade, it would be of great benefit to him. In the future, when he encountered enemies like the fourth grade ghost, the Heavenly Ghost could deal with them on his own.
He put away the Heavenly Ghost and then began to explore the cave.
Li Shiming was able to guess that the owner of this place was not a casual cultivator at all, but a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator from the Yanri Sect.
A veteran cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul must have considerable wealth, at least at this point he is not qualified to be underestimated.
Think about the six Nascent Soul cultivators who lost their lives because of him snatching away their opportunities. It would be much better for them to die in his hands than to come here and be possessed by the secret magic of the Nascent Soul cultivator of the Yanri Sect.
He did not touch the fourth-grade magic weapons in the six storage cabinets in this space. The quality of those six fourth-grade magic weapons was only medium-grade, which was considered very good fourth-grade magic weapons among casual cultivators, but was of no use to him.
It would be better to leave it here as a decoration. Anyway, he plans to keep this cave as his own place to stay.
What interested him more was the secrets hidden in the formation.
Based on the formation model provided by IBMz15, he quickly found the core of the formation and left his spiritual mark on the core.
The original owner of the formation lost his soul, so his operation went smoothly without any setbacks.
The core of the formation is also the core of the cave. When he becomes the master of the core of the formation, the entire cave is also marked with his mark.
He knew all the secrets in the cave. The Emperor of the Underworld chose this place because of a strange spatial crack that gushed out pure cold energy, which was an extremely valuable resource for magic cultivators.
The Emperor of the Underworld built this cave based on this.
Of course, as a cultivator, he also needs spiritual energy, so he moved three Nascent Soul level spirit veins.
This is also the reason why Li Shiming sensed extremely rich spiritual energy when he first entered the cave.
At this time, Li Shiming couldn't help but sigh at the abundance of immortal cultivation resources in the Dongqi Continent. Three Nascent Soul-level spirit veins were concentrated in one cave, and this was not even within the cave within the sect.
He would not leave the three Nascent Soul level spirit veins here. There is a secret method of transferring veins in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, which can be learned by any Nascent Soul cultivator.
The three Nascent Soul-level spirit veins in this cave were originally meant to conceal the cold and yin energy in order to deceive the cultivators who entered.
All energy sources of the cave are obtained from the formation, and the energy source of the formation is the space cracks.
Therefore, if he removed the three Nascent Soul level spirit veins, it would not have any adverse impact on this cave.
His spiritual sense locked onto a Nascent Soul level spiritual vein and activated a secret technique. This Nascent Soul level spiritual vein did not penetrate deep into the earth, but was placed in a place inside the formation.
This reduced the energy he needed to consume a lot, and he easily absorbed the entire Nascent Soul level spirit vein into the void.
Above his head, the Fire Thunder Nascent Soul flew out, and he controlled the Nascent Soul-level spiritual veins and sent them into the crystal ball in the Fire Thunder Nascent Soul's hand.
Then came the other two Nascent Soul-level spirit veins, which he sent into the crystal ball one by one.
In the cave-like 'Tianren Dao' hall inside the crystal ball, there are three more Nascent Soul-level spirit veins, making the spiritual energy even more abundant.
This kind of Nascent Soul level spirit vein should either be placed in one's own cave or in one's own cave heaven, so that it is safe enough. If you are outside, of course you should put it in the cave heaven, which can also speed up the cultivation speed of the clone Li Yuanba.
It is estimated that Li Yuanba is probably the late Jindan cultivator with the best cultivation environment in Beishu Continent. As for Dongqi Continent, he does not know enough about Dongqi Continent. Anyway, the Jindan cultivators of Wanshou Sect that he knows do not have such cultivation conditions.
There were enough third-grade elixirs and an aura environment that even Nascent Soul cultivators envied. Unless a cultivator could live in the fourth-grade retreat room of the Myriad Beasts Sect in the late Golden Core stage, even if he lived in a Nascent Soul cultivator's cave, he could not reach the aura concentration in the 'Heavenly Dao' hall.
Li Shiming was looking forward to Li Yuanba's quick promotion, and he needed Li Yuanba as his clone.
Li Yuanba has a completely different role from other combat forces. His Golden Corpse Nanming and Phantom Dragon are both strong, but Li Yuanba can be alone outside and handle all matters on his own, which is equivalent to another experience of cultivating immortals and allows him to have more opportunities.
However, it is useless to just think about it. Cultivation requires the accumulation of time. Li Shiming's rapid breakthrough was the result of his own opportunity and is an extremely rare case.
After collecting the three Nascent Soul level spirit veins, he discovered another space hidden in the formation.
He walked into the space. This space was different from the previous one. The previous space was prepared to lure foreign monks, so the cold energy in the space began to slowly increase after the formation was activated.
And in this space, the cold energy has been accumulated for who knows how long. Even he, an early Nascent Soul cultivator who practices body-refining techniques and has the "Nanming Lihuo" in his body, couldn't help but shiver.
This was because he was not prepared at all, not that the cold energy could really hurt him.
"This guy is so cruel to himself!" He couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw the situation in the space.
The entire space was arranged into a large corpse refining formation, and the formation materials on the ground were all of the highest grade.
This is not the most important thing. The fact is that in the center of the formation, a refined corpse is lying there motionless.
When he saw the corpse, Li Shiming judged that this should be the owner of this place, because the corpse was wearing a fourth-grade robe with the mark of the Yanri Sect on it.
He sensed the situation of the corpse refining. The corpse refining was only a step away from breaking through to the golden corpse, but seemed to be restricted by some secret method.
With the conditions here, I'm afraid the refined corpse would have been promoted to a golden corpse long ago.
Although the refined corpse did not become a golden corpse, the state of the refined corpse was extremely special.
First of all, the Yin-cold energy in the refined corpse had accumulated to an unimaginable level, and the powerful Yin-cold energy exceeded the peak of a normal silver corpse.
This is not surprising. Although the corpse is at the Silver Corpse level, the corpse was originally a cultivator in the middle Nascent Soul stage. The upper limit of energy that this body can withstand is definitely that of the middle Nascent Soul stage.
Secondly, the body of the refined corpse is different from the normal refined corpse. The bones of this body are pure black, having practiced some unknown technique.
When Li Shiming's spiritual consciousness came into contact with the pure black bones, he could feel the terrifying hardness of the bones.
The hardness of this bone exceeds that of Li Shiming's own bone at this moment. According to his estimation, only when he is promoted to the middle stage of Nascent Soul and cultivates 'Taiqing Xuanguixuan' to the middle stage of Nascent Soul, can his bones reach this level.
In other words, the original body of this refined corpse, the middle-Nascent Soul cultivator from the Yanri Sect, had either practiced some kind of body-refining technique or some kind of magic skill that could strengthen the body.
It is not so easy to practice magic skills. Although the effects of successful practice are excellent, the consequences are extremely serious.
Many magic practitioners have gone astray because of the influence of their magic skills.
In addition, the magic power will also bring troubles such as increasing the difficulty of overcoming disasters and affecting the mind.
This is also the reason why Li Shiming refused the inheritance of Yanri Sect's skills from the Netherworld Emperor. He would not practice evil skills.
Finally, this refined corpse was still in an ownerless state, and according to Li Shiming's inspection, it was so easy for it to recognize its master that it only required the casting of a spell.
This refined corpse was prepared by the Nether Emperor for himself after he would possess another body. By using the strength of a middle Nascent Soul cultivator to possess the body of an early Nascent Soul cultivator, he could at least retain the strength of the early Nascent Soul cultivator.
Of course, the weak period is very long, and the Emperor of the Underworld also needs defensive measures during this period.
The Emperor of the Underworld was planning to take over another body and use his own body as the material to refine a corpse.
Perhaps only the devil cultivators have such a mentality, turning themselves into ghosts and refining their bodies into corpses.
With the accumulation of this corpse, as long as the luck is not too bad, the chance of the corpse surviving the heavenly tribulation is very high.
Once this refined corpse survives the heavenly tribulation, its combat power will be enough to fight against any cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage.
The potential of this refined corpse has no major bottleneck before the middle stage of the Nascent Soul at least, because the original body is already in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. After that, it all depends on luck.
Coupled with the practice of several kinds of magic skills, this body has been polished to the extreme. After being transformed into a refined corpse, although there are some losses, it has been promoted to a golden corpse again. After surviving the heavenly tribulation, the rewards from heaven and earth will greatly improve the overall refinement of the corpse.
Li Shiming smiled as he cast the spell to recognize the master, and not feeling reassured, he added a drop of blood essence to make the corpse completely recognize the master.
The originally motionless corpse stood up straight.
Li Shiming was stunned. He sensed that the bottleneck in the corpse began to loosen. The secret method he used on the corpse to restrict its advancement was broken after it recognized its master.
Although he didn't know what kind of secret method it was, he also had his own methods. He cast several spells and forcibly suppressed the advancement of the corpse refining.
He took off the mustard seed ring on the corpse refiner's finger and looked at the space here again.
He had explored the entire cave thoroughly and found only these few things.
After seeing the fourth-grade corpse refining formation drawn with a large amount of fourth-grade materials on the ground, he did not want to waste it. Most of these materials could not be recycled. This formation was drawn, not arranged with formation flags, and many materials were mixed together and consumed.
According to normal training, it would take Li Yuanba's clone at least ten years to reach the level of a grand elder.
Given the conditions here, if the clone Li Yuanba stays here in the corpse-refining state for two years, he can reach the level of a grand elder.
In other words, Li Yuanba's situation is special. He possesses a strange Taoist body which he calls the Tai Chi Taoist body. He can switch freely between the human state and the corpse refining state, and can also replace the energy of the two states with each other.
Li Yuanba cultivated to the level of a great elder in the corpse-refining state, which is equivalent to cultivating to the level of a great elder in the human state.
This was also an unexpected discovery. In addition, the formation here was extremely powerful. Even a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul might not be able to break it. Therefore, it was very safe for Li Yuanba to stay here.
Li Shiming did what he thought. He released Li Yuanba from the "Tianrendao" hall in the cave.
Li Yuanba was in telepathic communication with him, and without much words he transformed directly into a corpse-refining state.
Li Yuanba walked to the center of the fourth-grade corpse refining formation and lay down where the corpse had been refining before.
As soon as he lay down, he felt the surging cold energy. After being transformed by the fourth-grade corpse refining formation, it became the energy most suitable for corpse refining to absorb.
He doesn't even need to process it anymore, the corpse can be directly strengthened by it.
"Fellow Daoist, please stay here for two years. This is a set of resources for advancement to the Nascent Soul stage. I will also try my best to come over!" Li Shiming said with a smile.
Two years is not a long time, at least for a Nascent Soul cultivator.
"Fellow Daoist, see you in two years!" Li Yuanba also said with a smile.
Li Yuanba didn't even need to recognize the formation of the cave again. He could control and use everything that Li Shiming recognized.