"Master Li, I have five elixirs here. Could you please help me refine them?" Shui Miao asked somewhat embarrassedly.
She kept winking at Feng Lanxin, wanting her to help speak.
"Junior Brother Li, if you are free, please help Fellow Daoist Shui!" Feng Lanxin had no choice but to say to Li Shiming with a smile.
"Rules cannot be violated. Senior Sister Feng and Fellow Daoist Shui have explained the reward. Give me five elixirs now, and I can give you the elixir in three days!" Li Shiming didn't care and agreed with a smile.
Shui Miao was very decisive and took out five elixirs and gave them to Li Shiming.
Li Shiming's reputation had long been spread among the major sects, but he did not make elixirs for outsiders, so the monks from other sects had only heard of his name but had not seen his true self.
Shui Miao also knows that there is no false reputation.
Her information channels were much better than those of ordinary cultivators, and she had some understanding of Li Shizhen's alchemy ability.
After Li Shiming returned to the temporary cave, he sent five elixirs into the machine room and started refining the elixirs using two fourth-grade furnaces.
The matter of alchemy had almost no effect on him. He sat quietly in the practice room, feeling his gains of the day in the rich spiritual environment.
Early the next morning, Shui Miao came to the cave of Feng Lanxin and Li Shiming and waited.
This was no longer a task assigned to her by the sect, but she took the initiative to contact the two people.
"Fellow Daoist Feng has signed up for the spirit pet competition. The champion of the spirit pet competition should be between Fellow Daoist Feng and Fellow Daoist Yuan!" Shui Miao said enthusiastically.
Li Shiming glanced at Feng Lanxin. He didn't expect that she had signed up for the spirit pet competition.
"In fact, this spiritual pet competition has always been a contest between the Phoenix and the Dragon. It is very rare for other cultivators' spiritual pets to surpass ours!" Feng Lanxin explained with confidence.
This is normal. The Wanshou Sect is good at spiritual pets, not to mention the existence of the Wanshou Cave, which allows the monks of the Wanshou Sect to always find powerful spiritual pets of their own.
The monks from other sects need to find young spirit beasts to make contracts with on their own.
Not to mention the rarity of young spiritual beasts, even if one could be found, there is no guarantee of their quality.
Truly high-quality spirit beast cubs are all protected by powerful spirit beasts.
"Junior Brother Li, you can bring your own pet to the next gathering. I'm afraid no other pet will be able to compete with yours!" Feng Lanxin continued.
She was very confident in Li Shiming's spiritual pet, but she still underestimated Li Shiming.
What she was thinking of was Xiao Feng. As a creature like the Red-Gold Phoenix, once it grows up, it will be able to absolutely crush the spiritual pets of the same level.
As they were talking, they arrived at another mountain, which was arranged into a series of fighting arenas.
Many cultivators were gathering from all directions, even many Jindan cultivators came to join in the fun. Except for a small number of Jindan cultivators who followed the Yuanying cultivators, the rest were disciples of the Taichu Sect.
This is indeed the best place to make friends. Monks can find like-minded monks here and communicate and exchange ideas.
With the protection of the sect's great formation, there will be no accidents in combat and competition.
There are already spirit pets, refined corpses and puppets fighting in their respective arenas, and many monks are standing outside the arenas to judge the two sides of the battle.
The atmosphere of this kind of communication is extremely lively, and one can gain a lot just by listening to the monks' comments.
It would take some time for Feng Lanxin's spirit pet to join the battle, and Li Shiming did not follow the two female cultivators. They agreed to reunite after Feng Lanxin's spirit pet battle started, and then Li Shiming would act alone.
Outside the arena, other competitions took place here.
"Have you heard that the prize for the champion of this alchemy competition is a ball of spiritual fire!" He was walking to the alchemy competition area when he heard a cultivator say.
He couldn't help but slow down. The number of spiritual fires has always been the decisive factor restricting the number of alchemists.
Even he, apart from the Red Sun Spiritual Fire, had never been able to obtain any other kind of spiritual fire.
In the Northern Shu Continent, spiritual fires are extremely rare. Even the spiritual fires of large sects are passed down from generation to generation through inheritance.
The spiritual fire cannot be plundered. If a cultivator does not want to pass on the spiritual fire, he can destroy it with just a thought.
He originally had no intention of participating in the alchemy competition. Just as Feng Lanxin said, he would be bullying others. But if there really was a spiritual fire reward, he would participate even if it meant bullying others.
"Excuse me, is the prize for the champion of the alchemy competition spiritual fire?" Li Shiming asked when he came to the registration office of the alchemy competition.
"Yes, the sect obtained a cluster of Xuanyin Youhuo overseas and used the Xuanyin Youhuo as a reward for the alchemy champion!" the monk at the registration office answered affirmatively.
Li Shiming recalled the classics he had read. He had heard of the "Xuan Yin You Huo".
The 'Xuan Yin You Huo' is not a particularly good spiritual fire for alchemy, mainly because it is difficult to match with the spiritual power of cultivators. Only cultivators who need to cultivate Yin-cold spiritual power can better cultivate the 'Xuan Yin You Huo'.
Spiritual fire needs to be cultivated so that it can grow with the cultivator.
No wonder the Taichu Sect was willing to offer a cluster of spiritual fire as a reward. It was really that the limitations of the 'Xuanyin Youhuo' were a bit too great.
However, this did not affect his desire for the 'Xuanyin Youhuo'. Although he could not use it, his clone Li Yuanba could use it.
Li Yuanba, who possesses the Tai Chi Taoist body, is in the corpse-refining state. His body is filled with cold and yin energy, which is just right for cultivating the 'Xuan Yin You Huo'.
"Little Taoist friend, we meet again!" a charming voice came.
Li Shiming didn't even turn his head before he recognized the voice as that of Mi Yi, the leader of the Yanri Sect.
"Friend Daoist Mi!" Li Shiming nodded in response.
He took out the invitation card and registered his information at the registration desk.
The alchemy competition is very simple. Every cultivator who registers only needs to refine a furnace of elixir within the formation. The grade of the elixir can be anything. In the end, the quality of the elixir will be judged by the alchemy master of Taichu Sect.
"Little Taoist friend, I don't even know your name yet. Aren't you here to make friends?" Mi Yi seemed very interested in Li Shiming and said with a chuckle.
"Fellow Daoist Mi, my name is Li Shizhen, please don't call me Little Daoist Friend!" Li Shiming replied with a frown.
"Li Shizhen, known as the number one alchemy master of the Wanshou Sect!" Mi Yi's eyes were shining, this was a big fish.
Neither Shui Miao nor Mi Yi thought that Li Shiming was the Master Li who had just become famous. The main reason was that Li Shiming's age was too deceptive.
"I dare not say that!" Li Shiming shook his head.
At this time, he took out a set of materials for a fourth-grade elixir for the early Nascent Soul stage, ignored Mi Yi, and walked into the formation on the side.
He maintained his usual alchemy ability, and after several hours of refining, he returned three fourth-grade intermediate elixirs to the organizer.
After he came out, he discovered that two hours ago, a message had been sent from the identity jade disc. It was a message from Feng Lanxin and Shui Miao that the spirit pet war had begun.
He looked at the time and walked towards the ring area.
"Master Li, you came at the right time. You caught up with the final decisive battle!" Shui Miao said with a smile after seeing Li Shiming.
At this time, Feng Lanxin was standing next to the ring, watching the fight on the ring.
"I just participated in the alchemy competition and came late!" Li Shiming explained embarrassedly while watching the pets fighting.
"Did you really participate in the alchemy competition?" Shui Miao asked in surprise.
It is conceivable how rare it is for a well-known alchemy master to participate in such an exchange competition.
Professional alchemy masters rarely participate in this kind of competition. When they reach the Nascent Soul stage, cultivators have very long free time.
After a long time, Nascent Soul cultivators will study many professions, especially the infant fire which can replace the spiritual fire to a certain extent and be used as the fire for alchemy.
This led many Nascent Soul cultivators to study alchemy, and this kind of competition was prepared for these Nascent Soul cultivators.
Through this kind of competition, Yuanying cultivators can exchange experiences with each other.
Of course, it is not a problem for Li Shiming to participate in this competition. His age is there. Besides, his fame is mostly within the Wanshou Sect, and he has not accepted any external alchemy business. At such an event, he cannot be considered a well-known alchemy master.
"I'm more interested in the reward of spiritual fire!" Li Shiming told the truth.
"That's it, I'm afraid the other cultivators will just become foils!" Shui Miao said with a gloating smile.
"Not necessarily. My alchemy ability is just relatively stable. If an alchemy master explodes, I still can't catch up!" Li Shiming said modestly.
As they were talking, the battle between the spirit pets on the stage had come to an end.
Although Yuan Xun's own combat power is stronger than Feng Lanxin's, the characteristic of spirit pet battles is that cultivators cannot intervene.
Feng Lanxin's phoenix pet was obviously stronger and ultimately won.
"Junior Sister Feng, you win this time!" Yuan Xun was not angry at all, and said to Feng Lanxin with a smile.
"Thank you, Brother Yuan, for giving way to me!" Feng Lanxin was very happy about winning the championship. She nodded and replied.
The organizer sent a prize, a fourth-grade elixir that can increase the chance of a spiritual pet's promotion. This kind of fourth-grade elixir material is extremely rare, so it is considered a very good reward.
"In terms of spirit pets, our Wanshou Sect has an obvious advantage. The other sects are far behind, and this time there is no difficulty at all!" Feng Lanxin came to Li Shiming and said proudly to him using voice transmission.
These words could only be said through voice transmission. If they were heard by the monks of his sect, it would probably cause some trouble.
"Congratulations, senior sister!" Li Shiming congratulated with a smile.
"Fellow Daoist Feng, it's your turn soon to congratulate Master Li. He really went to participate in the alchemy competition!" Shui Miao couldn't wait to tell everyone that Li Shiming was participating in the alchemy competition.
"It seems that the prize attracted Junior Brother Li!" Feng Lanxin couldn't help but laugh.
"Brother Feng is still the one who understands Master Li!" Shui Miao couldn't help but laugh.
The alchemy competition would not yield results for a while, so Li Shiming and the two female cultivators went to watch other competitions.
He witnessed a real puppet battle. The battle between fourth-grade puppets was particularly boring. Almost all of them were fourth-grade puppets with both offensive and defensive capabilities. You had a sword and I had a shield. It was nothing like the rich fighting methods between monks.
The limitations of puppets can also be seen here. Although the combat power is extremely strong, the single combat method limits the use of the fourth-grade puppet.
Of course, for cultivators who are good at using long-range attacks, a fourth-grade puppet standing in front of them can not only prevent the enemy from getting close, but also resist the enemy's attacks, becoming a line of defense in front of them.
The corpse refining competition is very exciting, and the two golden corpses each have special abilities.
At this point, the competition has reached the final stage on the ring, and all of them are the strongest players who have eliminated other players.
One golden corpse is good at ice, and the other is good at poison. The arena is filled with green mist, which is the use of poison ability.
The entire body of the ice-type golden corpse is covered in ice crystals, making the golden corpse, which already has amazing defensive power, even more defensive.
In the end, the Ice Golden Corpse won the battle. It was not because the Ice Golden Corpse was stronger than the Poison Golden Corpse, but because the Ice Golden Corpse was almost immune to the Poison Golden Corpse's poisonous attacks.
If there were cultivators participating in the battle, they would definitely not be able to face the attack of the poisonous golden corpse so easily.
Li Shiming couldn't help but sigh in his heart, never underestimate the people in the world.
Whether it is the ice-type golden corpse or the poison-type golden corpse, it is one of the strongest golden corpses Li Shiming has ever seen.
He had always thought that golden corpses with special abilities were rare, but now it seemed that the golden corpses cultivated by some sects that inherited the tradition of corpse refining would not be simple.
If you really encounter this kind of golden corpse, you must be wary of its special abilities.
On the other side, Master Yu from Taichu Sect was checking the elixirs in the jade bottles. He was the alchemy master of Taichu Sect and also one of the referees of this alchemy competition.
With Master Yu's experience, he can tell the true alchemy level of the cultivator who refined the elixir just by taking a look at it.
This cannot be deceived. Any slight error in the technique during the alchemy process will be reflected in the elixir.
"Whose master's work is this? It's so shameless!" When he saw the fourth-grade elixir that Li Shiming was refining, he couldn't help but shook his head.
Three fourth-grade elixirs indicated that these were full elixirs, and their quality had even reached the intermediate level, only a slight distance away from the advanced level.
Master Yu himself couldn't guarantee that he could refine an elixir of this level.
Usually, when participating in competitions, unless one is a cultivator who likes to gamble on his luck, he will choose to refine the weapon at a lower level according to his own level, so that he will be more confident.
Only a well-known alchemy master can refine a full-grade fourth-grade elixir and reach this level.
Master Yu was already thinking about which alchemy master it was. The alchemy masters from all the major sects knew each other.
While thinking, he retrieved the alchemy information of three fourth-grade elixirs and discovered that they were the works of a cultivator named Li Shizhen.
"Li Shizhen of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect is as stable as the rumors say. I just wonder what kind of elixir he can guarantee to be refined stably?" Master Yu muttered to himself.
There is no need to compare anymore. The champion this time is Li Shizhen. Even if there are other well-known alchemy masters participating in the competition, they cannot compare with Li Shizhen's level.
The level of alchemy demonstrated by Li Shizhen has already placed him at the top of the alchemy masters in the Dongqi Continent. At least that's what Master Yu thought after seeing three fourth-grade elixirs.