Great Monk Liu Ziyun left, and Great Monk Hu personally escorted him out of the cave. Li Shiming was left behind by Great Monk Hu. It was obvious that Great Monk Hu had something he wanted to say to Li Shiming alone.
"Please sit anywhere!" After seeing off the guests, Master Hu returned to the cave and waved his hand to Li Shiming.
Li Shiming sat down and waited for Master Hu's instructions.
"Actually, I don't want you to join Zhongzhou Trading Company!" The first sentence of Master Hu made Li Shiming feel a little uneasy.
He saw clearly that when Great Monk Liu Ziyun was around, Great Monk Hu's behavior was not as he said.
Master Hu obviously approves of Li Shiming becoming a guest official of Zhongzhou Trading Company. Otherwise, why would Li Shiming choose to join Zhongzhou Trading Company as a guest official without knowing much about the company?
With his alchemy ability, he would receive the best treatment if he joined any trading company. So why would he choose an unfamiliar trading company?
"I'm not saying that joining Zhongzhou Trading Company is a bad thing. On the contrary, Zhongzhou Trading Company is a transcontinental superpower. Joining Zhongzhou Trading Company will be beneficial to your future development. However, the enemies of Zhongzhou Trading Company are also superpowers. If any trouble arises, it will be a huge trouble!" Monk Hu continued.
"Master, is Zhongzhou Trading Company stronger than the Ten Thousand Beast Sect?" Li Shiming asked curiously when he heard Master Hu say that Zhongzhou Trading Company was a super power.
You have to know that the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect is only recognized as a large sect, while the Zhongzhou Trading Company is known as a super power. He is not clear about how the super powers are divided.
The strongest forces he had ever seen were the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion and the Myriad Beasts Sect, but since he and his clone Li Yuanba had only been in these two sects for a short time, they did not have a deep understanding of the sects' strength.
But even so, through some information, he still knew that the strength of the "Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion" and the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect was extremely terrifying.
For example, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect has five great cultivators on the surface, and it is unknown whether there are more in secret. The strength of the "Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion" is greater than that of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
"Zhongzhou Trading Company has powerful people, how can they be compared with the Ten Thousand Beast Sect!" Monk Hu said with a wry smile and shook his head.
Li Shiming was stunned. He did not expect that there would be a powerful cultivator in Zhongzhou Trading Company.
He has always regarded powerful monks as legends. It turns out that a super power is a force that possesses powerful monks.
"When you join Zhongzhou Trading Company, don't be too impulsive. Although Zhongzhou Trading Company is powerful, it is too overbearing in doing business and has offended many forces!" Monk Hu continued.
"I understand, Master!" Li Shiming nodded in response.
"Master, I really can't refuse. I owe Liu Ziyun a favor, so I ask you to repay the favor for me!" Monk Hu finally explained.
Li Shiming bid farewell to his master, Master Hu, and returned to his cave.
In the cave, he took out the gift given by the great monk Liu Ziyun.
The fourth-grade top-level mountain-type magic weapon is made of the fourth-grade top-level earth-type refining material, the four-sided rock. These four-sided rocks are indivisible.
The indivisibility of the Four-Sided Rock is extremely special; its size is determined by the length of time it takes to form.
No matter how big the square rock is, it can only be considered as a material for refining equipment.
Once a part is cut off from a square rock material, the part separated from the main material will lose its spirituality and become an ordinary object.
The fourth-grade top-level mountain-type magic weapon in the jade box is made of a huge square rock.
Li Shiming received a lot of weapon refining inheritance, especially the weapon refining inheritance of Bailian Sect, which enabled his accumulation of weapon refining knowledge to reach an extremely high level.
Although his weapon-refining heritage included methods for refining mountain-type magic weapons, he did not immediately perfect the rough draft. Instead, he set up a research project for his natal magic weapon IBMz15.
He knew how rare fourth-grade top-level materials were. He didn't want to waste a rough piece of a fourth-grade top-level magic weapon, so he refined it into the strongest fourth-grade mountain magic weapon.
Li Shiming asked IBM z15 to analyze and study it, and he took out the guest jade disc.
The functions of the guest jade disc are very comprehensive. There are only two contacts among them. One is the great monk Liu Ziyun, and the other is a specialist named Xin Jingyun.
The guest jade disc can also accept tasks. All the tasks he can see are alchemy tasks, and there are no other tasks.
I think Zhongzhou Trading Company positioned him as an alchemist and didn't want to use his other abilities.
Of course, how could a super power with great Mahayana masters care about the combat power of an early Nascent Soul cultivator?
Li Shiming currently has no contribution points, so he cannot see the resources and skills that can be exchanged for contribution points.
He checked the alchemy tasks, and he was shocked to find that these alchemy tasks were definitely not just for the Dongqi Continent. The alchemy tasks he saw included alchemy tasks for various continents.
He could accept all these alchemy missions, but it was noted that if he accepted them across continents, he would have to wait for the resources to be transferred, and it would take a year before he could get the alchemy materials.
After the elixir is refined, it will take a year to get the corresponding reward.
He listed the task of refining fourth-grade elixirs for great monks separately from the alchemy tasks, and after thinking about it, he chose the task of refining fourth-grade elixirs for great monks from the Dongqi Continent.
The guest official has to complete three alchemy tasks for the great monk every year, so he wanted to finish it in advance to avoid having no time later.
He can also accept alchemy tasks from great monks continuously, and it is not a problem to complete many years of alchemy tasks from great monks at once.
There are quite a few fourth-grade elixir missions for the great monks in Dongqi Continent, as many as fourteen. The rewards are also clearly stated. This is the reward provided by the great monk who issues the alchemy mission.
After completing these alchemy tasks, Li Shiming not only received rewards from the great monk, but also earned contribution points from Zhongzhou Trading Company.
This would bring him greater rewards than if he took on the alchemy business himself, and the extra contribution points could be exchanged for resources and skills.
He chose five alchemy tasks that offered satisfactory rewards, which amounted to his mandatory tasks for five years.
As he operated, he accepted all the alchemy tasks from the five great monks.
What he didn't know was that he, as a guest official, was extremely special.
There are quite a few alchemy masters in Zhongzhou Trading Company, but there are very few who can directly accept alchemy tasks from great monks without the need for confirmation from the great monks who issued the tasks.
At the level of a great monk, the fourth-grade alchemy materials of the great monk are extremely precious. The great monk will not let an unsure alchemy master refine such precious materials.
If an ordinary alchemy master wants to accept an alchemy task from a great monk, he needs to get the approval of the great monk before he can complete the task.
However, an alchemy master like Li Shiming who possesses special authority does not need confirmation from the great monk who issues the alchemy task when accepting a task.
Because Zhongzhou Trading Company has certified Li Shiming's alchemy level and provided credibility guarantee to other great monks.
Li Shiming didn't know how Zhongzhou Trading Company delivered the alchemy materials, and he couldn't see anything from the guest jade disc, so he could only wait.
On the other side, Li Shiming's specialist, Monk Xin Jingyun, began his busy work after seeing the alchemy tasks that Li Shiming had accepted from the five great monks.
Since Li Shiming accepted the alchemy task from five great monks, Xin Jingyun needed to find the five great monks and get the alchemy materials.
After a whole day of hard work, Xin Jingyun finally managed to obtain all five sets of alchemy materials.
Xin Jingyun flew to the Wanshou Sect. She showed a jade disc and obtained permission to enter the Wanshou Sect.
She came to the outside of Li Shiming's mountain and cast a spell to send a message.
She was actually very curious about what kind of alchemy master could obtain the highest authority among Nascent Soul-level alchemy masters just after joining Zhongzhou Trading Company.
Li Shiming activated the mountain's formation and allowed Xin Jingyun to reach the top of the mountain.
He did not allow Xin Jingyun to enter his cave as he was not familiar with Xin Jingyun.
He met his Zhongzhou Trading Company specialist, Xin Jingyun, who turned out to be a female cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.
"Senior, I didn't expect that the alchemy materials were delivered by you personally!" Li Shiming saluted with a smile.
"Master Li, you should call me fellow Taoist. I dare not be your senior as your guest official!" Xin Jingyun said with a smile, and then she continued: "For the next hundred years, I will be your specialist. I will be responsible for delivering resources and taking away elixirs. I will notify you when a new specialist is appointed after a hundred years."
"Friend Xin, if I want to buy some sundries, can the company help me?" Li Shiming was very concerned about this issue.
His research has been ongoing, but as the research progresses, more and more materials are consumed. Most of his previous inventory has been used up and he needs to replenish it.
Many of the materials he needed were ordinary things.
"As long as you give us a list, we can get spiritual objects from other continents for you, but it will take a long time!" Xin Jingyun answered confidently.
Li Shiming handed a jade slip to Xin Jingyun without hesitation.
Xin Jingyun took it and looked at it with her spiritual sense. When she saw the densely packed names of items in the jade slip, many of which were ordinary things, she couldn't help but be a little distracted.
"Master Li, I need some time to prepare!" Xin Jingyun responded quickly.
She was not worried that Zhongzhou Trading Company would not be able to gather all these items. The spiritual objects were easy to deal with as most of them were available in the warehouse. Even if there were some that were not available, they could be transferred from other places.
Those ordinary items require the longest preparation time. They need the help of secular forces to collect them, and the collection speed of mortals cannot be guaranteed.
"Just prepare it before I finish refining the elixir!" said Li Shiming.
"That's no problem. These are five sets of alchemy materials for great monks. The matching recipes are also included. Please check them, Master Li!" Xin Jingyun said as he placed a storage bag in front of Li Shiming.
Li Shiming checked and found that there was nothing wrong.
"It will take about 120 days. I'll let you know when the time comes!"
"Master Li, it's not that I don't believe you, but you must have got the time wrong. Even if it takes forty days to make a furnace of the fourth-grade elixir of a great cultivator, and you don't need to rest at all during that time, it will still take at least two hundred days to complete the elixir!" This was the first time Xin Jingyun had met Li Shiming, and she raised her own questions.
"That's right, I have my own secret method of alchemy, but it's not convenient to explain it to you!" Li Shiming said lightly.
He would not tell Xin Jingyun that he started refining the elixir with two furnaces of fourth-grade elixir at the same time. In addition, he had one hundred and ninety-one brains, so refining the elixir continuously was not a pressure for him at all.
"Master Li, I spoke too much!" Xin Jingyun said with a slight bow.
It is taboo to inquire about the privacy of monks. She violated the taboo, so she took the initiative to admit her mistake.
"Oh, by the way, these are the resources allocated by Master Li in the past five years!" She thought of something and took out another storage bag and said.
At this point, her work was finished, and she bowed to Li Shiming and said goodbye.
Li Shiming took out the spiritual objects from the storage bag, including ten fourth-grade spiritual medicines of the early Nascent Soul stage, one hundred pieces of fourth-grade spiritual tea leaves, one hundred fourth-grade spiritual fruits, ten fourth-grade lower-level talismans, and two fourth-grade middle-level talismans.
He was still very surprised when he saw the five-year salary offered by Zhongzhou Trading Company. It was really too much.
You have to know that when he became a guest official, he would receive additional compensation and contribution points for taking on alchemy tasks.
Although he looked down upon the ten fourth-grade spiritual medicines, for a normal Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stage, these were additional fourth-grade resources, which were worth more than the gains from many dangerous missions.
One hundred pieces of fourth-grade spiritual tea leaves and one hundred fourth-grade spiritual fruits are used to entertain guests. Although the quality is average, the quantity makes up for it.
This many spiritual objects to entertain people in five years is definitely not too many or too few.
The power of a fourth-grade lower-level talisman is equivalent to the power of a spell cast by a cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage.
The key is that the fourth-grade lower-level talisman does not require spell preparation time and can be activated instantly. This is the importance of the talisman.
For ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators in the early stage, a fourth-grade intermediate talisman can be considered a life-saving talisman to some extent.
A fourth-grade intermediate talisman is equivalent to the power of a spell cast by a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. This intermediate-grade talisman is much more precious than a lower-grade one. Even Li Shiming has rarely seen one.
Zhongzhou Trading Company allocated two to him every five years. These were the most precious spiritual objects in his storage bag.
Li Shiming didn't know that this was unique to him and other guest officials did not have such resource allocation.
This is thanks to the evaluation of him by the great monk Liu Ziyun. The great monk Liu Ziyun's evaluation of his alchemy level is the same as that of the great monk Hu. He is the number one alchemy master in the Dongqi Continent.
Li Shiming's alchemy level is not recognized as the best in Dongqi Continent, but any cultivator who knows that he can refine fourth-grade elixirs at the level of a great cultivator will confirm his position as the best in Dongqi Continent.
As the number one alchemy master in Dongqi Continent, Li Shiming, the guest official, naturally received special treatment from Zhongzhou Trading Company.
However, Great Monk Liu Ziyun did not explain these things clearly to Li Shiming, and Xin Jingyun did not explain much to Li Shiming before he had truly witnessed Li Shiming's alchemy level.
Xin Jingyun is on the sidelines, and she will change her attitude only when Li Shiming demonstrates his alchemy skills that convinces her.