In a blink of an eye, a year passed and Li Yuanba ended his retreat. His Nascent Soul realm stabilized and the spiritual power in his body reached the standard of supporting the Nascent Soul Dharma form for a period of time.
For cultivators in the early Nascent Soul stage, this standard is enough to allow them to travel.
While practicing the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky', the 'Six Yang Spirit Fire' in his body absorbed spiritual energy on its own and was upgraded to the early fourth grade, which was enough for him to reach the standard of refining mid-to-late Nascent Soul elixir.
He also encountered an embarrassing situation. His alchemy furnace was a trophy from the war, a third-grade alchemy furnace, which was no longer suitable for his current realm.
In addition, he does not have the ability to multitask like his original body, Li Shiming. When he is practicing the "Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky", he cannot do other things at the same time.
Therefore, after he finished his retreat and stabilized his state of mind, he began to improve his innate flying sword, Xing Yijian.
He took out the fourth-grade Earth Fire Plate. Although his 'Six Yang Spirit Fire' could also be used for refining equipment, with the fourth-grade Earth Fire Plate he did not need to consume spiritual power to maintain the 'Six Yang Spirit Fire' for refining equipment.
A fourth-grade earth fire plate was placed in front of him, and the Nascent Soul in Li Yuanba's body left his body and jumped out from the top of his head.
The tiny Nascent Soul sat in front of the fourth-grade Earth Fire Plate and opened its mouth to spit out a sword.
Yuanying was not used immediately, but was contacting IBMz15. In order to improve the quality of Xing Yijian, IBMz15 had already started analysis and research. Taking this opportunity to improve Xing Yijian, it would optimize the power of Xing Yijian to the greatest extent.
As a standard sword cultivator, Xing Yijian is very much in line with the sword cultivator's needs for a natal magic weapon.
The strongest point of Xing Yijian is that it can enhance the sword intent of sword practitioners. After his cultivation over the years, Xing Yijian's sword intent has been improved from the 135% enhancement when he inherited it to 142%.
Even if he wanted to change his natal flying sword, it would be difficult to find one that could enhance the sword power so much.
The biggest weakness of Xing Yi Jian is that its material is of poor quality. However, by using the refining materials of the Nascent Soul stage to reshape the sword body, the material of Xing Yi Jian can be replaced to the fourth grade, thus making up for Xing Yi Jian's biggest weakness.
Not to mention that after reshaping the sword, not only can the original effect of the sword be retained, but the power improved by the refining materials can also be increased.
Li Yuanba received the information from IBMz15 in his mind. This was the Xingyijian transformation plan carefully designed by IBMz15 based on the fourth-grade top-level 'Abyss True Sand'.
The most special thing about it is that in addition to retaining the fundamental runes of Xing Yijian, it also leaves huge room for improvement.
He had many ideas about Xingyijian, and IBMz15 applied these ideas to the design drawings.
But there is a problem, that is, the 5-nanometer rune engraving in the design drawing can only be completed by the original body Li Shiming in the computer room space.
Therefore, Li Yuanba could only use the fourth-grade top-level 'Abyss True Sand' to transform Xing Yijian first, move Xing Yijian's fundamental runes to the appropriate position, and leave the remaining part vacant.
When he meets the real body Li Shiming in the future, Li Shiming will engrave micro runes on the empty space left by Xing Yijian, allowing Xing Yijian to reach the maximum tolerance range of the fourth-grade top-level 'Abyss True Sand' material.
Although the Xingyi Sword that Li Yuanba needs to use for a long time is only a semi-finished product and he is separated from Li Shiming by two continents, but considering the power of the magic weapon engraved with micro runes, it is all worth it.
If Li Yuanba possessed a fourth-grade natal flying sword, then he would be able to suppress any Nascent Soul sword cultivator in terms of natal flying sword.
Li Yuanba's Nascent Soul placed Xing Yijian on the fourth-grade earth fire plate, and then placed the fourth-grade top-grade 'Abyss True Sand' next to Xing Yijian, and they were burned by the fourth-grade earth fire together.
The Nascent Soul continuously cast out spells one after another, which was a secret method to improve the flying sword recorded in the 'Sword Intent Soaring into the Sky'.
The reason why he waited until now to start the operation and why he has not used the 'Six Yang Spirit Fire' is because this work consumes a lot of spiritual power and he dare not let his spiritual power run out in the process.
If he fails to upgrade Xing Yijian, the damage to Xing Yijian will cause him to suffer heavy losses.
Although the natal flying sword can be replaced, the cost of replacement is too high and it takes too much time and energy.
In this way, Li Yuanba ended his retreat for cultivation and entered another retreat to improve his natal flying sword.
This is also the daily routine of Nascent Soul cultivators. Whether it is cultivation or other things, the time required for Nascent Soul cultivators is much longer than that of the Golden Core stage.
Li Shiming is also in seclusion, but fortunately he can be distracted, so his seclusion can only be considered half-seclusion.
After more than a year, the rune dagger of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique in the body of Jin Lei Yuanying in the computer room was completed by 99.99%.
Inside the Golden Thunder Yuanying's body in the computer room, one can see through the microscopic field of vision that ninety spiritual consciousnesses are simultaneously changing tiny runes.
For the sake of the rune dagger in Jin Lei Yuanying's body, he stopped the ritual of refining those fourth-grade flying swords.
Now he is very skilled in this work, so only one spiritual consciousness is involved in changing the tiny runes. Now ninety brains are controlling ninety spiritual consciousnesses to carry out the work simultaneously.
It is precisely because of this kind of progress that we have achieved such results in just over a year, otherwise it would take a hundred years to achieve this.
"Huh," Li Shiming let out a long breath.
He was still very nervous. Although his life-long magic weapon IBMz15 had simulated many times the transformation of the Golden Thunder Yuanying's sword runes into the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique rune dagger, simulation was just simulation after all, and it could not be 100% accurate without the test of facts.
Seeing that the rune dagger of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique in Jin Lei Yuanying's body was about to be completed, and the result of whether it would succeed or not was also known, he became nervous and worried.
According to his idea, the Golden Thunder Nascent Soul was to be cultivated into a sword cultivator's Nascent Soul.
Among the sword cultivators' Nascent Soul, it can be said that the strongest is the Sword Cultivator's Nascent Soul of 'Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion'.
This is also the Nascent Soul of the sword cultivator that he is most familiar with. He has the Nascent Soul of his clone Li Yuanba for reference. This condition is unique in the world of immortal cultivation.
Not to mention the arrogant sword cultivators, even ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators cannot open their Nascent Soul to other cultivators for research, or fully open their Nascent Soul core runes.
With such conditions, Li Shiming naturally wanted to become the strongest sword cultivator, but he had not practiced the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' before. He wanted to use this transformation to forcibly change the Golden Thunder Yuanying into the Sword Cultivator Yuanying of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky'.
The last stroke of the rune dagger of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique in Jin Lei Yuanying's body was completed, but to his surprise, the rune dagger did not change at all, as if it were a dead object.
"How could this be?" Li Shiming murmured to himself.
Suddenly, his heart moved, and the Golden Thunder Yuanying's mind recalled the insights of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' shared from his clone Li Yuanba.
As the understanding of 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' rose in his heart, the rune dagger in the Golden Thunder Nascent Soul's body emitted a faint light, as if it had spirituality.
The comprehension of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' continued, and Jin Lei Yuanying's perception of the rune dagger became stronger and stronger.
"Success!" Jin Lei Yuanying opened his eyes. Although he was in the computer room, he could still feel the power of the rune dagger of the "Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky" technique in his body.
Jin Lei Yuanying, just like his clone Li Yuanba, broke through the Yuanying by practicing the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky Art', which gave birth to the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky Art' rune dagger in his Yuanying's body.
The rune dagger of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique is the Nascent Soul foundation of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique. With the rune dagger of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique, you can unleash the power of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique and even use all the secret techniques of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique.
It is hard to imagine that it only took him one year to let Jin Lei Yuanying master the "Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky Art".
Of course, if he wants to increase the power of 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky', he needs to constantly improve his understanding of 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky'.
To improve the comprehension of 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky', the main body does not need to do it. He can share Li Yuanba's comprehension of 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky', which saves a lot of trouble.
Unfortunately, the cultivation progress of the clone Li Yuanba was weaker than that of Li Shiming, and Li Shiming's sword skills could not keep up with his own realm.
However, considering the powerful attack power of sword cultivators, even if their realm is a little weaker, they can still make up for the shortcomings in their realm by displaying all the secret techniques of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky'.
Jin Lei Yuanying opened his mouth and sucked the 'Traceless Phantom Sword' floating beside him. The 'Traceless Phantom Sword' flew into his body and merged with the rune dagger of the 'Sword Intent Soaring into the Sky' technique.
He could feel that the 'Phantom Sword Without Trace' was being nourished by the rune dagger of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique. As long as the 'Phantom Sword Without Trace' was in this state, it was equivalent to being constantly refined by the Golden Thunder Yuanying.
Jin Lei Yuanying came out of the computer room. He looked up at the sky but found nothing unusual. He was still worried about whether a thunder disaster would occur.
His behavior this time would not be tolerated by the rules of heaven and earth. Without the thunder tribulation, perhaps the rules of heaven and earth did not take into account that there are still cultivators who can do this.
Li Shiming put away the fourth-grade flying sword magic weapon he had refined recently. There were seventy-three fourth-grade flying swords here, and only more than forty of them contained the "Heavenly Thunder Sword Intent".
He had no time to refine the other fourth-grade flying swords, and most of his brainpower was spent on the rune dagger in the Golden Thunder Nascent Soul's body.
At this moment, he had no idea of ​​continuing the ritual. After staying in the cave for so long, he felt like moving.
During this period of semi-seclusion, he not only completed the transformation of the Golden Thunder Yuanying into the rune dagger of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' technique, his Fire Thunder Yuanying sometimes refined pills and sometimes participated in refining weapons, while the other three Yuanyings were always practicing.
After Li Shiming came out of the cave, he first chanted a spell and asked his master, Master Hu, whether he was free. After receiving a positive reply, he flew towards the Four Symbols Cave.
After entering the Four Symbols Cave Heaven and arriving at the cave residence of his master, Master Hu, he did not see his registered disciple Lu Heng, and his second senior brother Yue Shan.
When he actually saw Master Hu, he discovered that Master Hu was meeting him in the form of an incarnation.
"Shizhen, you're out of seclusion!" Master Hu was very happy to see Li Shiming.
"Yes, my realm was improved too quickly before, and it is only after all this time of practice that it has become stable!" Li Shiming bowed and replied.
"During this period, there have been constant conflicts between our sect and the Yanri Sect, and they have been attacking each other's resource production areas. Most of the sect's Nascent Soul cultivators are stationed in various places. Now that you have come out of seclusion, I will give you a task!" Master Hu first sensed Li Shiming's realm before making a decision.
Li Shiming stood with his hands behind his back. He learned about the sect's recent movements from messages sent by some Nascent Soul cultivators and knew that the situation was somewhat tense.
But he didn't care. As long as he didn't have a head-on battle with a great cultivator, he would be able to protect himself if he encountered an early or middle Nascent Soul cultivator.
"There is news about your senior brother Zhong Qiang. Yue Shan and Lu Heng are both busy. Please go and find him for me!" said Master Hu in a deep voice.
As he spoke, he took out a jade slip and threw it to Li Shiming.
Li Shiming took the jade slip and his spiritual consciousness entered into it.
This is the investigation content from the intelligence system. It turns out that ever since Senior Brother Zhong Qiang disappeared, Master Hu has never given up looking for Zhong Qiang.
The sect's intelligence system finally found a clue not long ago. Senior Brother Zhong Qiang had a battle with Zhao Lingyu, a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator of the Yanri Sect. After that, Senior Brother Zhong Qiang lost contact.
According to some indirect information, Senior Brother Zhong Qiang escaped with only his Nascent Soul seriously injured.
Judging from the fact that Senior Brother Zhong Qiang hasn't contacted the sect for such a long time, it is very likely that he lost his memory after his Nascent Soul took over another body.
It is inherently risky for the Nascent Soul to take over another's body, and cultivators will not do so unless it is absolutely necessary.
Not to mention that the Nascent Soul was seriously injured, the danger of possession in this situation increased many times.
In Senior Brother Zhong Qiang's situation at the time, he did not use the spare body he had prepared. Instead, due to the emergency, he was unable to return to the spare body in time, so he could only find a body outside to possess.
Li Shiming's mission was to go to Guangyang Prefecture to find Senior Brother Zhong Qiang and bring him back based on the information obtained by the intelligence system.
"Is the eldest senior brother still alive?" Li Shiming asked uncertainly after reading the jade slip.
This jade slip did not mention anything about Senior Brother Zhong Qiang's life or death, which seemed to confirm that Senior Brother Zhong Qiang must still be alive.
Li Shiming had to make sure of this, otherwise if Senior Brother Zhong Qiang died, he would not be able to bring him back to the sect no matter how much time he spent.
"Zhong Qiang stopped his life lamp when he left, and his life lamp is still on!" Monk Hu explained for him.
There is a mark of the monk's soul in the life lamp. As long as the monk is alive, the life lamp will always be lit. If the monk dies, the soul mark will disappear and the life lamp will go out.
Not all monks in the sect will leave behind their life lamps. Only some monks who go to participate in extremely dangerous missions will leave behind their life lamps.
Monks attach great importance to their own souls, and the soul imprints they leave behind need to be taken back after they return from their mission.
Master Hu gave the task of finding Senior Brother Zhong Qiang to Li Shiming, which was also a way of taking care of Li Shiming. At a time when the two major sects were in conflict, this kind of task without much danger was most suitable for an alchemy master like Li Shiming to complete.