Li Shiming took out his identity jade disc and checked his contribution points. He had a lot of them.
His spiritual sense controlled the identity jade disc, and he used contribution points to order a large batch of third-grade alchemy materials.
What he needed to refine was the food of the 'Silver-winged Spirit Gu insect', a third-grade elixir called the 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill'.
When the 'Silver-winged Spirit Gu Worm' is sleeping in the 'Gu Feng Bag', the 'Gu Feng Bag' can provide the 'Silver-winged Spirit Gu Worm' with the energy it needs to survive.
However, after the 'Silver-Winged Spiritual Guworm' is summoned, it still needs food to improve itself.
This food is also the unique food 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' that Master Zhao developed after long-term research.
The alchemy materials needed for the 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' were not particularly precious. For Li Shiming, he could fully support himself by exchanging large quantities of them with contribution points.
Just as he was waiting for the sect to deliver the alchemy materials for the 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill', he received a message from his master, Master Hu.
He left the cave and headed for the cave of Master Hu in the Four Symbols Cave.
Although he had no contact with the outside world during this period, some monks who came to seek elixirs would send him news from the outside world from time to time.
Among them was congratulations to him on the great monk Hu killing the great monk Zhao of the Gufeng Sect. This record was extremely dazzling in the Dongqi Continent.
You have to know that the great monk is not so easy to kill. It is possible to defeat the great monk, but it is difficult to kill him.
Every great monk has grown up through countless life-and-death battles, and the weaker ones would have fallen long ago.
Not to mention that the great monks have access to higher quality resources, which gives them stronger life-saving abilities.
Master Hu killed Master Zhao. This achievement was the first in the Dongqi Continent in nearly three thousand years.
Master Hu's reputation became even greater, and even his status in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect was improved.
Li Shiming didn't say anything. He would not tell others that Monk Zhao was attacked twice by him using the fourth-grade black armor puppet, and Monk Zhao's spirit insect counterattacked and killed him.
The greater the reputation of Master Hu, the more benefits he will get.
He came to the cave of his master, Master Hu, and was received by Master Hu's real body in the hall.
"No need to formalities, just be casual here!" Monk Hu waved his hand to stop Li Shiming from saluting.
He treated Li Shiming as his own. Although he had accepted him as his disciple before, the relationship needed to be cultivated and it was not the case that he would fully accept Li Shiming just by accepting him as his disciple.
It’s different now. Li Shiming informed him of the whereabouts of Master Zhao, which brought him considerable benefits. He likes Li Shiming even more.
"Yes, Master!" Li Shiming sat in the seat below as he was told.
"I called you here this time for a reward. This is the reward for you!" With a wave of his hand, Master Hu, five flying swords fell in front of Li Shiming.
Li Shiming picked up the five flying swords and found that they were a set of fourth-grade magic weapons, and their quality reached the upper fourth grade.
It seems that Master Hu saw that he had no decent magic weapon after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, so he prepared this set of fourth-grade upper-level magic weapons for him that are extremely suitable for his attributes.
For an early Nascent Soul cultivator like Li Shiming, a fourth-grade upper-level magic weapon is already the best magic weapon, not to mention that this is a set of five fourth-grade upper-level flying sword magic weapons. The actual quality is even better than a single fourth-grade upper-level magic weapon.
"Thank you, Master!" Although Li Shiming had his own plans, with this set of fourth-grade upper-level flying swords, he could also serve as a showpiece in ordinary battles.
Although the fourth-grade magic weapon he refined was extremely powerful and was also a weapon of weapon calamity, every time he used it, he needed to kill the enemy and could not let other cultivators discover that there was anything unusual about the magic weapon he was using.
You must know that even a great cultivator may not have a fourth-grade weapon in his hand, which is a weapon that surpasses the level of the fourth-grade top-level magic weapon.
"In fact, this set of flying swords is not enough to reward your contribution. After you are promoted to the middle stage of Nascent Soul, I will give you some rewards personally!" Monk Hu said with a smile.
"Thank you for the compliment, Master!" Li Shiming said modestly.
“You know, the Gu Feng Sect suffered heavy losses this time. After Zhao Qingfeng was killed, we raided the Gu Feng Sect’s cultivators again, dealing a heavy blow to the Gu Feng Sect.
After the Gufeng Sect heard about Zhao Qingfeng's death, they immediately withdrew their strength and withdrew from the Dongqi Continent.
They won’t be able to come to Dongqi Continent for at least four or five hundred years, or even longer!” Monk Hu laughed.
"Why is this?" Li Shiming asked with some confusion.
"The Gu Feng Sect is not without enemies in the Southern Zhao Continent. Their strength has been greatly reduced this time, so how can they have the energy to fight external battles? They may not even be able to maintain the Gu Feng Sect's base in the Southern Zhao Continent!" Great Monk Hu explained to him.
Li Shiming finally understood that the greatest loss to the Gufeng Sect was the death of Master Zhao.
Great monks are the foundation of a great force. The death of any great monk will be an extremely serious loss to the force.
A great monk is powerful enough to suppress an area. When a great monk dies unexpectedly, the area under his control will be targeted by other major forces.
If the Gu Feng Sect fails to handle the situation properly, perhaps from then on the Gu Feng Sect will become increasingly weaker and weaker, and will either be swallowed up by other major forces or become a small or medium-sized force.
The reason for all this came from the information provided by Li Shiming to Monk Hu, which allowed Monk Hu to find Monk Zhao.
Even if Master Hu hadn't been there, Master Zhao would have been killed by the backlash of his own spiritual insects, but Master Hu witnessed Master Zhao's demise with his own eyes, so the meaning was different.
The death of Master Zhao happened silently. Neither the Gu Feng Sect nor other sects considered Master Zhao's death as a death. Instead, they still counted him among the Gu Feng Sect's combat power.
However, with the proof from Master Hu and the evidence that Master Zhao's Nascent Soul was destroyed, all forces knew that the Gu Feng Sect had lost a great master.
"There has been no major events recently. You must hurry up and practice this set of flying swords until you can use them proficiently. Your realm and your magic weapon are really not matched!" Master Hu finally instructed Li Shiming.
Master Hu was not aware that Li Shiming had the Heavenly Thunder Hammer, his innate magic weapon. He had some guesses about Li Shiming's innate magic weapon, which should be an auxiliary magic weapon.
Although Li Shiming did not tell Master Hu directly, he still revealed it in his words.
Li Shiming returned to the cave, but he had no intention of refining this fourth-grade upper-level flying sword named 'Five-Colored Flying Phoenix Sword' into his life-saving magic weapon.
He separated one of his brains to specifically refine the Five-Colored Flying Phoenix Sword.
Just as Master Hu said, he had to at least practice the Five-Colored Flying Phoenix Sword until he could use it proficiently, so that he could perform some sword skills instead of using thunder magic with bare hands every time.
In addition, he also has a separate brain that controls the water mine Yuanying to refine the "Water Dragon Taoist Robe".
Except for the Fire Thunder Yuanying, the other three Yuanyings entered the state of cultivation.
A few days later, the sect sent the materials for the 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill', and Huo Lei Yuan Ying began to make pills in batches.
To refine the third-grade 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill', he can use a third-grade pill furnace to refine it, and can refine ten furnaces of spiritual pills at the same time.
In this way, every time you refine it, you can produce a top-level elixir.
After the first third-grade top-grade 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' was produced, he used twenty brains to summon the 'Silver Winged Spirit Insect'.
He presented the top-grade third-grade 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' to the 'Silver-Winged Spirit Insect', and for the first time the 'Silver-Winged Spirit Insect' expressed its joy.
When Li Shiming sensed the joy of the 'Silver Wing Spirit Guworm', he was stunned. He did not expect that the 'Silver Wing Spirit Guworm' could actually express such an emotion.
According to Master Zhao's research on the 'Silver-winged Spiritual Guworm', the 'Silver-winged Spiritual Guworm' cannot communicate. Master Zhao has tried countless times but has not made any progress. Only now did he get the absolute answer.
Obviously, there are still problems with Master Zhao's research. Li Shiming did sense the joy of the 'Silver-Winged Spirit Guworm'.
This shows that in addition to the crazy consciousness, the 'Silver Wing Spirit Gu Bug' also has other emotions, but they are usually hidden in the crazy consciousness and cannot be discovered.
The top-grade third-grade 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' is the key that unlocks the hidden emotions of the 'Silver-winged Spirit Insect'.
In fact, Master Zhao also used the third-grade top-level 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' to feed the 'Silver-winged Spirit Gu Worm'. The third-grade 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' is not a particularly precious elixir, and its materials are very easy to obtain.
As long as the amount of elixir materials is large enough, a master alchemist with sufficient skills will have a chance to refine the top quality "Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill".
However, there is a difference between the top-level 'Spirit Insect Golden Yang Pill' refined by other alchemy masters and the top-level 'Spirit Insect Golden Yang Pill' refined by Li Shiming.
The top-grade 'Spirit Insect Golden Yang Pill' refined by Li Shiming is of truly top-grade quality, the highest quality that can be achieved in alchemy in theory, without the slightest flaw, and it brings the performance of the 'Spirit Insect Golden Yang Pill' to its extreme.
The top-level 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' that other alchemy masters occasionally refined could not reach the theoretical highest quality, and there would be more or less some gap.
It is precisely because the top-grade 'Spirit Insect Golden Sun Pill' refined by Li Shiming is extremely perfect that it can attract the 'Silver Winged Spirit Insect' and make it show some emotions.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but after the 'Silver-Winged Spiritual Gu Bug' took the top-level 'Spiritual Gu Bug Golden Sun Pill', Li Shiming felt that the 'Silver-Winged Spiritual Gu Bug' seemed to have a sense of closeness to him.
When not receiving any orders, the 'Silver Wing Spiritual Insect' would rather get closer to him, rather than staying a certain distance from him as before.
Don't underestimate this short distance. Any living creature has its own warning distance.
Only creatures that they trust the most will be allowed to enter their warning distance, otherwise they will always maintain this warning distance.
However, at present, the 'Silver-winged Spiritual Gu Worm' has only taken one top-level 'Spiritual Insect Golden Sun Pill', and it will take a longer time to observe. But with a start, Li Shiming has more confidence in cultivating the 'Silver-winged Spiritual Gu Worm'.
Once the danger of the backlash from the 'Silver Winged Spiritual Guworm' is eliminated, then perhaps he can control the 'Silver Winged Spiritual Guworm' with just one brain.
Li Shiming took out the bamboo whip magic weapon that his master, Master Hu, had given him before. This was Master Zhao's natal magic weapon.
He hesitated slightly and did not immediately use the technique of recognizing the master to make it recognize him as his master.
The body of Master Zhao is still alive, but he is missing his Nascent Soul. The Nascent Soul is everything to Master Zhao. Without the Nascent Soul, it is hard to say whether his body is still Master Zhao’s.
But no matter what, this body still bears the aura of Master Zhao, and this will not change.
It all depends on whether Master Zhao’s natal magic weapon can recognize Master Zhao’s body and treat it as its master in the absence of a Nascent Soul.
If that is the case, perhaps this life-saving magic weapon can still exert its full power.
However, at this time, Master Zhao's body had not recovered yet, and Li Shiming had no intention of stimulating this seriously injured body too much.
He collected his thoughts, began to communicate with his life-long magic weapon IBMz15, and began to study puppetry.
He planned to create three fourth-grade puppets based on the fourth-grade puppet mechanism materials he already had.
Once a fourth-grade puppet is created, its strength is not fixed. Its strength will increase with the realm of its master. The strength of a fourth-grade puppet can be improved at the cost of consuming some precious puppet mechanism materials.
Therefore, he created three fourth-grade puppets in the early stage of Nascent Soul. After his realm was improved, he would be able to increase the strength of the fourth-grade puppets to a level that could help him.
It is not easy to make a fourth-grade puppet, let alone three fourth-grade puppets.
Li Shiming was not a man who stuck to convention. After in-depth research on puppetry techniques with IBMz15, he redesigned a fourth-grade puppet that was more suitable for him.
The energy core device of the fourth-grade puppet is the most important. Monk Zhao prepared three sets of materials. IBMz15 tried to redesign a stronger energy core device through countless calculations.
Puppetry and mechanical engineering is an extremely complex subject. Even for a monk with a developed brain, it is not easy to achieve results in puppetry and mechanical engineering.
Why are those who make puppet mechanisms generally cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage? Not only is the material for puppet mechanism making extremely expensive, but also the thinking ability of a Nascent Soul cultivator can reach the entry standard for puppet mechanism making.
It is so difficult to learn puppetry, let alone redesign it based on it.
Even for Li Shiming, it took him a month to redesign a fourth-grade puppet with the cooperation of IBMz15.
To create a fourth-grade puppet, it would take even longer and would require the assistance of the Fire Thunder Nascent Soul or the Golden Corpse Nanming's 'Nanming Lihuo'.
On the fortieth day, the golden corpse Nanming refined the elixir for the late Nascent Soul stage.
It is said that it was refined by the Golden Corpse Nanming, but in fact it was refined by Li Shiming himself, but he just borrowed the "Nanming Lihuo" of the Golden Corpse Nanming.
There are a total of six advanced healing elixirs of the late Nascent Soul stage. The quality of each one has reached the theoretical limit. Above that, the top-level elixirs require large quantities of refining to be produced.