With the help of two great monks, Wang Changdong and Meng You, Li Shiming had a temporary cave at the headquarters of Zhongzhou Trading Company.

Although it is a temporary cave, it is a cave for entertaining great monks. This is the face of the two great monks.

Li Shiming did not refuse, as he really needed a place to stay in Zhongzhou.

In the temporary cave, he began to refine the weapon, strengthening the 'Sky Thunder Hammer' to a higher quality.

This work was carried out by Fire Thunder Yuanying in the computer room, with the Golden Corpse Nanming helping.

The two beings who mastered the magical power of 'Nanming Lihuo' in the middle stage of Nascent Soul worked together to refine the 'Thousand Thunders and Ten Thousand Refined Gold'. Although it was a top-grade fourth-grade material, it was refined in a short time.

What followed was a more delicate task, with Mu Lei Yuanying holding the 'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' in his hand, and integrating the liquefied 'Thousands of Thunders and Ten Thousands of Refined Gold' into the 'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' bit by bit through a special secret method on the 'Jade Purity Thunder Classic'.

This task would take quite a while, as the 'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' was one of his life-saving magic weapons. If it failed, not only would the original 'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' be destroyed, but the newly acquired 'Thousand Thunders and Ten Thousand Refined Gold' would also be destroyed.

Although this job requires extreme concentration, it does not affect Li Shiming's daily affairs.

At the headquarters of Zhongzhou Trading Company, he would gather from time to time with two great monks, Wang Changdong and Meng You. The two great monks would also give him some alchemy materials to make great monk elixirs.

It just so happened that the work of refining the Fire Thunder Yuanying could be completely handed over to the Golden Corpse Nanming. The Fire Thunder Yuanying began to divide his attention and control five fourth-grade alchemy furnaces at the same time, and started to refine five furnaces of great monks' elixirs at one time.

This is the benefit of the 'Nanming Lihuo' magical power and the 'Chiyang Linghuo' being upgraded to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. Both the 'Nanming Lihuo' and the 'Chiyang Linghuo' can be divided into multiple fire sources when refining the elixir of a great cultivator.

When he was in the early stage of Nascent Soul, he couldn't divide the spiritual fire into multiple furnaces at the same time as he did when refining the elixir of a great cultivator.

This is also the reason why he wanted to trade for a fourth-grade alchemy furnace, in order to increase the number of pills he could refine as much as possible.

As for the worries of ordinary alchemy masters that they would be distracted from making the elixir, which would cause the quality of the fourth-grade elixir to decline or even cause the elixir to fail, this would never happen to him.

Each of his one hundred and ninety-one brains is capable of independent thinking, and each brain is equivalent to a master alchemist. As long as there are enough spiritual fires and alchemy furnaces, it will not be a problem to open one hundred and ninety-one furnaces to make alchemy at the same time.

The reason why Li Shiming stopped at the headquarters of Zhongzhou Trading Company instead of going to Qiu Hengyi's treasure as originally planned was that he wanted to wait until the 'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' was upgraded before taking action.

If he could upgrade the 'Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer' to a spiritual treasure, then combined with the effect of the 'Shenxiao Thunder Pearl', his combat power would be greatly enhanced.

The reason for making this decision was that he encountered a large number of cultivators in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul at the headquarters of Zhongzhou Trading Company. He could even sense the aura of more than ten great cultivators.

As for the existence that is stronger than the great monk, as long as the other party does not want him to sense it, he will not be able to discover such a powerful existence.

Moreover, as he communicated with his two new great Taoist friends, he also discovered that the level of cultivation in Zhongzhou Continent was far higher than that in Dongqi Continent.

Apart from the cross-continental forces, Dongqi Continent has no local superpower, and those cross-continental superpowers cannot place powerful people in Dongqi Continent, which means that there is no powerful person in Dongqi Continent.

At least that was the case on the surface. He had never heard of any powerful people in the Dongqi Continent in the Wanshou Sect.

But in Zhongzhou Continent, there are twelve super powers alone, which means that there are at least twelve powerful people in Zhongzhou Continent.

This is still the lowest estimate. You have to know that some super powers may not only have one powerful person.

Of course, Li Shiming does not have to worry about meeting powerful people easily. The two great monks said that powerful people usually stay in the mountain gates of super powers, hide in caves, and rarely leave the mountain gates.

The two great cultivators did not explain the specific reason why the powerful ones rarely left the mountain gate, but Li Shiming could hear that the powerful ones in the Mahayana stage were like nuclear weapons in the world of immortal cultivation. Under normal circumstances, they would have a deterrent effect, but once they were used, the sect would be at a critical juncture of life and death.

Therefore, there is no need to worry too much about the great masters in the Mahayana period. Instead, the ones who should be most worried about in the Zhongzhou Continent are the great cultivators.

There are many great monks in Zhongzhou Continent, but the resources of great monks are still extremely scarce, so the competition among great monks is even more fierce.

Li Shiming stayed at the headquarters of Zhongzhou Trading Company for three months. One day three months later, he met the two great monks again in Yuntian Pavilion.

"Senior Wang, this is your fourth-grade elixir. Senior Meng, this is yours!" As soon as Li Shiming sat down, he handed over the five jade bottles and said.

There was surprise in the eyes of the two great monks, Wang Changdong and Meng You. Only three months had passed, and they needed to refine five furnaces of great monk elixirs in total.

"Did the alchemy fail?" With a hint of worry, the two great monks opened their jade bottles respectively.

After seeing the fourth-grade elixir in the jade bottle, their worries turned into surprise.

This time, Wang Changdong asked Li Shiming to refine three furnaces of great monk elixirs, one of which reached the fourth grade high quality. Meng You refined two furnaces of great monk elixirs, one of which also reached the fourth grade high quality, and the rest were all fourth grade intermediate quality.

They were of course pleasantly surprised. The effect of a furnace of fourth-grade high-level elixirs was almost several times that of fourth-grade intermediate elixirs. The difference was so great that it was equivalent to doubling the gains of the precious elixirs they paid for.

Every bit of the great monk's resources was obtained by them with great efforts. The improvement in the quality of the great monk's elixir allowed their cultivation to be further enhanced.

"Master Li, the Dongqi Continent is too barren. Why don't you come to the Zhongzhou Continent to settle down? My brother Wang and I can apply to the merchant company for a great monk's cave for you, and your offering can also be upgraded to the level of a great monk. What do you think?" Meng You looked at Li Shiming with hope and asked.

He didn't even need to discuss it with Wang Changdong. An alchemy master of this level was the best even in the Central Plains.

If they wait for Li Shiming to return to Dongqi Continent, then if they want to refine the elixir of the great monk in the future, they will have to go to Dongqi Continent to ask for the elixir.

It’s not that they are afraid of making this trip, but they have nothing to do in Zhongzhou Trading Company. In fact, they are very busy.

Wang Changdong needed to recuperate because of his injury, and Meng You had such a long period of free time because he had specially transferred tasks from other great monks of the company because of Li Shiming.

It would be much more convenient for them if Li Shiming stayed in Zhongzhou Continent. As long as they got the spiritual medicine from the great monk, they could ask Li Shiming to make the elixir.

If Li Shiming was in Dongqi Continent, they would probably have to wait a long time before they could go to Dongqi Continent, which would be too inconvenient.

"I am a cultivator from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect. It is impossible for me to leave the sect for a long time!" Li Shiming explained with a smile.

Although he was somewhat tempted by the conditions proposed by the two great monks, considering that he currently had no shortage of cultivation resources, what he needed most was a safe cultivation environment.

He will not come to Zhongzhou Continent for training until he reaches the peak of the middle stage of Nascent Soul at least.

As a master of alchemy, the number of fourth-grade auxiliary elixirs for cultivation in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul in his hands is enough for him and his clone Li Yuanba to practice, and he is even accumulating elixirs for great monks.

The number of great monks' elixirs in his hands is probably more than that of many great monks.

"That's such a pity!" Meng You looked at Wang Changdong and said helplessly.

He really couldn't persuade Li Shiming to leave his sect. Betraying the sect was a big deal, at least it shouldn't come from his mouth.

"Thank you both for your hospitality these days. I have something else to do and will leave the headquarters of the company today. I would like to say goodbye to you two seniors here!" Li Shiming said with a bow.

"I didn't expect that Master Li would leave so soon. Today, Brother Meng and I have ordered a table of spiritual dishes as a farewell meal with Master Li!" Wang Changdong said this even though he was reluctant when he heard that Li Shiming was leaving.

The spiritual dishes this time were not as high-end as the first time in Yuntian Pavilion, but there was still a dish at the peak of the middle stage of the fourth grade that made Li Shiming once again feel the specialness of the profession of spiritual chef.

Of course, the dishes cooked by the spiritual chef can only improve the current level of cultivation and are of no help in breaking through.

However, the ingredients consumed by the spiritual chefs are too precious for the cultivators at the same level as the ingredients, and no cultivator can afford to consume them in large quantities.

In addition, the most important thing is that the higher the quality of the ingredients, the harder it is to obtain.

Just like the ingredients at the peak of the middle stage of the fourth grade, this is an ingredient that can be of some benefit to great monks, and it is also the highest-grade ingredient that Yuntian Pavilion can find.

The spiritual vegetables cooked with such ingredients will naturally have excellent effects. However, no matter how good the effect is, it will not be so eye-catching if the quantity cannot be guaranteed.

Just like Li Shiming, eating a peak fourth-grade spiritual vegetable cooked by a spiritual chef master once is equivalent to the effect of practicing for more than a month, but Yuntian Pavilion cannot guarantee the supply of peak fourth-grade spiritual vegetables for more than a month.

The most crucial thing is that the price of the peak fourth-grade mid-stage spiritual vegetables is far higher than the spiritual pills needed for the same level of cultivation. Unless one has so many resources that he can squander them at will, not many cultivators can consume spiritual vegetables of the same level for a long time.

In Yuntian Pavilion, most cultivators come here to taste the lower-level spiritual vegetables. Very few foods can impress high-level cultivators, and tasting spiritual vegetables is also a form of practice.

In order to provide ingredients for the spiritual chefs, many monks are needed to kill spiritual beasts outside, and these consumption can be counted as spiritual dishes.

It is precisely because the profession of spiritual chef has various restrictions that the profession of spiritual chef cannot flourish.

Li Shiming and the two great monks had a great time at the meal. After they agreed to contact each other using jade discs, Li Shiming left the headquarters of Zhongzhou Trading Company.

He had to leave. In the computer room, the 'Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer' held in Mu Lei's Nascent Soul's hand was only one step away from completing its enhancement.

The surface of the 'Sky Thunder Hammer' is now dull, because its spirituality has not been stimulated.

If you magnify the surface of the 'Sky Thunder Hammer', you can see countless runes drawn on it with 1-nanometer lines.

'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' is the main attack magic weapon that matches the 'Jade Purity Thunder Code'. It has a unique rune formation, which is also a thunder attack formation.

The lightning attack formation is composed of twelve lightning runes. An ordinary "Sky Thunder Hammer" has fifteen lightning attack formations evenly distributed in multiple locations on the hammer body.

Although this relatively large thunder rune can contain more thunder energy, allowing the fifteen thunder attack formations to exert considerable power, it is even more powerful when combined with the "Yuqing Thunder Codex".

But compared with Li Shiming's design, the normal 'Sky Thunder Hammer' thunder attack formation is nothing.

In the previous 'Yuqing Thunder Code', Li Shiming only engraved 360 thunder attack formations on the 'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' with 5 nanometers, which raised the quality of the 'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' to the level of a top-grade fourth-grade magical weapon.

It should be known that only the fourth-grade upper-level materials were used to refine the "Heavenly Thunder Hammer". This shows how powerful the effect of using nano-scale micro runes is in improving magic weapons.

Of course, this method of refining equipment is probably only something that Li Shiming can do. Whether it is the initial design or the formal process of refining and engraving runes, ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators simply cannot do it.

To have control over 1 nanometer, even Li Shiming needs to be in the computer room with the help of his life-saving magic weapon IBMz15 to accomplish this, which makes it impossible for him to do it outside the computer room.

Not to mention the process of engraving runes, just talking about the design of the magic weapon, it is not an easy task to distribute tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of runes on the surface of a small magic weapon without losing the balance of energy.

If energy balance cannot be achieved at any point, the consequence is that when an attack is launched, the internal part of the magic weapon will be damaged and self-destruct due to the loss of energy balance.

Ordinary weapon refining masters need to be cautious even when dealing with a small number of runes, for fear of accidentally causing the refining to fail, not to mention hundreds of millions of runes, which is beyond the ability of any weapon refining master.

The 'Heavenly Thunder Hammer' in Mu Lei Yuanying's hand has a total of 40 million thunder attack formations and as many as 480 million thunder runes on its surface.

That is to say, Li Shiming's cultivation level has improved, and his spirit has also greatly improved, which has enabled him to increase the speed of engraving runes in the computer room space with a precision of 1 nanometer, and completed the strengthening work of this "Heavenly Thunder Hammer" in just dozens of days.

The current 'Sky-Strike Thunder Hammer', a super-large thunder attack formation composed of 40 million thunder attack formations, only has a little left to finish.

He needs to find a relatively safe place to complete the final part.

By then, he will face a spiritual treasure-level Nascent Soul mid-stage weapon calamity. With his thunder cultivation ability cultivated through the 'Jade Purity Thunder Canon', he will have enough confidence to safely survive this weapon calamity as long as he is not disturbed while going through it.

So he chose the ocean. Only the vast ocean was safer and the number of monks there would be sparse enough.