"Good tea, it's even better than the spiritual tea you left at the headquarters!" In a reception room of the Dongqi Continent branch of Zhongzhou Trading Company, Great Monk Ren Mu took a sip of the spiritual tea and couldn't help but praise.
This fourth-grade spiritual tea was naturally taken out by Li Shiming. He had been in seclusion for decades, and the fourth-grade spiritual tea he had originally roasted in the outside world had been almost consumed.
My abilities now are much stronger than they were back then, especially my control over the computer room space has been greatly improved, so the spiritual tea I roast is of better quality.
Although Great Monk Ren Mu was in seclusion, given his status, the fourth-grade spiritual tea should have been left for him, but no monk dared to leave it to him.
So after he came out of seclusion, he also tasted the fourth-grade spiritual tea prepared by Li Shiming.
"If you like, I will roast a batch of fourth-grade spiritual tea recently and give it to Fellow Daoist Liu, who will then pass it to you!" Li Shiming said with a smile.
"That would be great. I will take care of your problem when I return. Are you really not going back to Zhongzhou Trading Company?" Great Monk Ren Mu asked with a smile upon hearing this.
He still didn't want to give up trying to persuade Li Shiming, but unfortunately Li Shiming's attitude was very firm.
"I hope I can live in peace with Zhongzhou Trading Company!" Li Shiming also expressed his attitude.
Although the Zhongzhou Trading Company headquarters had betrayed him, he also dealt a heavy blow to the Zhongzhou Trading Company, taking away the wealth of two great monks and a long-distance merchant caravan. He avenged all his grudges.
Since Master Ren Mu proposed reconciliation, he didn't want to continue any longer.
Especially after listening to Great Monk Liu Ziyun and Great Monk Ren Mu talking about the internal situation of Zhongzhou Trading Company, he understood the factional disputes within Zhongzhou Trading Company. It was only one of the factions that betrayed him and they could not represent Zhongzhou Trading Company.
Of course, only Master Ren Mu could step in and deal with the trouble of Li Shiming killing two great masters.
"Fellow Daoist Li, if there are elixirs from great cultivators in the future, can I still entrust you to refine them?" Great cultivator Liu Ziyun, who had been silent, asked.
Ever since losing the alchemy master Li Shiming, Great Monk Liu Ziyun has received a lot of criticism from old customers because the level of other alchemy masters is obviously much weaker.
If it weren't for Li Shiming's alchemy level, perhaps it wouldn't be a big deal, but after comparing with Li Shiming, it seems that the materials and rewards paid by the old customers are not worth it.
"Of course we can cooperate, but I need to travel for a few years. After I settle down, I will contact Fellow Daoist Liu!" Li Shiming thought about it and nodded.
After resolving the conflict with Zhongzhou Trading Company, cooperation in alchemy was no longer a problem.
The most important thing is that Li Shiming himself needs a large number of elixirs from great monks for his practice. Although he has made a name for himself, he can also get commissions from many great monks.
But he can only accept commissions from one continent at most, and Zhongzhou Trading Company is different. Zhongzhou Trading Company has its own complete business network and can accept alchemy commissions from various continents.
Li Shiming would use up five Great Monk Elixirs in one cultivation session. After he settled down, the demand for Great Monk Elixirs would be a terrifying number.
"That's a deal. I'm waiting for news from Fellow Daoist Li!" Great Monk Liu Ziyun almost jumped up as he said excitedly.
There was a gleam in his eyes. He had had enough of these decades. After using up the elixir of the great monk refined by Li Shiming, he did not ask any alchemy master to refine elixir for him in the following years.
He accumulated all the spiritual medicines he had obtained from the great monks, just waiting for Li Shiming, or an alchemy master of the same level as Li Shiming.
Now, he had received Li Shiming's promise, and the elixirs he had accumulated finally found a place to use.
As for the delay in time, let alone a few years, he can wait even for more than ten years.
Decades of time have passed, and we can use this time to obtain more spiritual medicines from great monks.
"Fellow Daoist Li, please also refine my elixir!" Great Monk Ren Mu also knew about Li Shiming's alchemy level, he smiled and made the agreement.
A battle, an exchange, and decades of grudges were wiped out, and Li Shiming made a friend, the great monk Ren Mu.
Li Shiming returned to the Wanshou Sect and went back into seclusion.
But what he didn't expect was that not long after, a piece of news came out from Zhongzhou Trading Company.
"Shizhen, we are outside the cave!" Li Shiming was disturbed from his practice by his master, Master Hu, and several other masters of the sect. Several masters had already arrived outside the cave, and Master Hu sent out a message of transmission.
Li Shiming shook his head. He had set up a formation in his cave. He discovered it when Master Hu and several other great masters were approaching, so he prepared to end his cultivation in advance.
"Master, how come you have time to come here? Is everyone so free?" Li Shiming opened the door of the cave, smiled and asked Master Hu.
In recent times, all the great monks of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect have been very busy, receiving resource points from various places and handling the sect's increasing number of affairs.
They occupied such a vast sphere of influence. Since it was a newly acquired sphere of influence, the number of personnel remained the same, but the affairs that each great monk was responsible for had naturally increased several times.
As far as Li Shiming knows, the time when all the great monks were so complete was when they were suppressed inside the mountain gate by the three major sects and two super powers.
"Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing?" Monk Hu asked with some excitement and a little annoyance.
The deep concern revealed in this question made Li Shiming confused for a moment.
"What big deal could it be? Is there anything bigger than the sect's victory?" Li Shiming asked puzzled.
"Have you made an appointment to fight with Master Ren Mu of Zhongzhou Trading Company?" Master Hu asked directly after looking at Li Shiming's condition.
"So it was about that matter. Master Ren Mu and I didn't fight with our full strength. We were just testing each other!" Li Shiming understood why his master, Master Hu, came and explained with a smile.
For him, it was a test battle, not an all-out battle.
Neither side used their full strength, and the battle was limited to a relatively safe level.
"You defeated Master Ren Mu?" Master Hu asked.
"There were no outsiders present in my battle with Master Ren Mu. How did Master know the outcome?" Li Shiming was stunned and asked.
"The news spread from Zhongzhou Trading Company that you had challenged Master Ren Mu to a duel, and you won, defeating Master Ren Mu!" Master Hu explained the reason.
"It was just a private fight, how come it was made public?" Li Shiming shook his head and muttered to himself in confusion.
How could he know that in order to resolve the feud between him and Zhongzhou Trading Company, Master Ren Mu took the initiative to release the results of their battle.
This is to let the various factions of Zhongzhou Trading Company know the strength of Li Shiming's combat power. When Master Ren Mu goes back to negotiate peace, if there are factions that really disagree, let them send their masters to find Li Shiming to resolve the issue personally.
Master Ren Mu is already considered the strongest among the Nascent Soul cultivators of Zhongzhou Trading Company. Even if the other factions of Zhongzhou Trading Company want to be enemies with Li Shiming, they cannot find a master cultivator who can defeat Li Shiming.
In addition, Zhongzhou Trading Company is a commercial force. They will not offend an invincible enemy for the sake of hatred. If they do so, it will probably affect the survival of Zhongzhou Trading Company.
"I didn't expect that your strength would be so strong. You should have told me earlier, so that the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect could gain more benefits!" Master Hu heard the implication of Li Shiming's words, which was an admission of victory over Master Ren Mu. He shook his head and said.
"Isn't everyone coming back because of this matter?" Li Shiming looked at the other great monks and asked.
"This is a big deal. You probably don't know what this means to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect yet?" Great Monk Ding's face flushed with excitement, and he said with a smile.
"Now that the Wanshou Sect has the combat power of a top-level great monk, no branch of a super power will infringe upon the interests of the Wanshou Sect in the Dongqi Continent!" Great Monk Chai followed.
"Shizhen, we have discussed it and decided that we will give priority to you in giving great monk resources to you in the future. You are the only great monk among us who has the hope of reaching the Mahayana stage, and you are the only hope for the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to become a super power!" Great Monk Hu said in a deep voice.
Li Shiming was truly shocked by his master's words. There were already very few great cultivators in the Dongqi Continent. Even though the Wanshou Sect now occupied three quarters of the Dongqi Continent, it was preparing to train more great cultivators.
If the resources of great monks were given priority to him, the Wanshou Sect would not only have a few more great monks, but even the great monks present would probably not be able to improve their strength.
He looked at the hope in the eyes of the great monks. This was an extreme love for the sect. Perhaps for the great monks, the hope of the sect being promoted to a super power was more important than the improvement of their own strength.
By cultivating a great Mahayana master, the Wanshou Sect, a large sect, can be promoted to a super power, and then it can participate in the competition for interests among the super powers.
"Thank you all for your kindness. I have a way to obtain the resources for my own cultivation, and I don't need the sect to provide them with any!" Li Shiming bowed to several great monks and explained.
Master Hu and several other masters insisted on their ideas, and after several rounds of discussion, they finally reached a final conclusion.
The sect's great monk resources were divided equally into several portions, with each great monk getting one portion. Li Shiming got three portions, and the remaining portion was used to train new great monks.
It took the Wanshou Sect two months to completely take over three-quarters of the Dongqi Continent's sphere of influence.
In recent times, Li Shiming has been consolidating his own strength while preparing to improve his combat effectiveness.
The five mid-stage golden corpses of Master Luo Pei are still with his clone Li Yuanba.
Li Shiming has enough materials for alchemy, and he plans to directly refine the late stage golden corpse.
At present, he has five corpses of great monks of sufficient quality in his hands. All of them are corpses of great monks from super powers, and they are also the ones he obtained by killing great monks from super powers over the years.
As for the bodies of the other great monks, they were of poorer quality, so he put them aside.
He was a little picky, but there was nothing he could do about it, since his strength was already very high and the requirements for the combat power of a late-stage golden corpse were not actually very high.
What he needed was a late-stage golden corpse with potential. Although it was difficult for a late-stage golden corpse to be promoted further, from some classics he had read, he knew that there was a realm of corpse refining after the golden corpse.
Flying Yaksha is the realm achieved after the Golden Corpse, which is equivalent to a powerful existence among human cultivators.
This kind of realm only exists in classics, and he has never heard of the appearance of flying yakshas in the world of immortal cultivation.
But since Flying Yaksha exists, Li Shiming considers giving it a try.
Anyway, he has a lot of corpse refining resources, all of which were obtained by his clone Li Yuanba.
Besides, if the later golden corpse is refined but its strength is not good enough, it will be handed over to the clone Li Yuanba. The clone Li Yuanba is still needed.
Of course, refining the late-stage golden corpse is not such a simple task, and the preparations required are very complicated.
Li Shiming used his relationship with the great monk Liu Ziyun to order a batch of spiritual objects from Zhongzhou Trading Company.
This batch of spiritual objects are used in conjunction with the refining of the late-stage golden corpse. All of them come from a corpse refining technique called "Xuanyin Yaksha Forbidden Canon".
This technique was obtained by his clone Li Yuanba. Many cultivators in Zhongzhou Continent knew that Li Yuanba was good at corpse refining. Li Yuanba found this corpse refining technique in Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion and exchanged it.
The 'Xuanyin Yaksha Forbidden Canon' is a method that can allow a corpse to directly become a Flying Yaksha, which is why it was included in the core collection of Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion.
Regarding the Flying Yaksha part in the 'Xuanyin Yaksha Forbidden Canon', Li Shiming found that the possibility of refining corpses to become Flying Yaksha is extremely low, because not to mention the difficulty of being promoted to Flying Yaksha, just the corpse refining materials needed are all fifth-grade corpse refining materials.
Li Shiming was a man of great knowledge and wealth, but apart from the two spiritual treasures he obtained which were made of fifth-grade materials, he had never actually seen fifth-grade materials, let alone the designated fifth-grade corpse refining materials.
The few spiritual treasures he refined himself were all upgraded to spiritual treasures through special refining methods, and had nothing to do with fifth-grade materials.
However, the method of refining the late-stage golden corpse in the "Xuanyin Yaksha Forbidden Canon" requires fourth-grade materials, although they are very precious, they are not yet to the point where he cannot obtain them.
Of course, the 'Xuanyin Yaksha Forbidden Code' would only be a reference. He would also use his own original methods and integrate the core of the golden corpse from the Tianren Cave Heaven during the corpse refining process.
Even if an ordinary golden corpse has reached the late stage of golden corpse, it is difficult to meet his requirements.
He either doesn't do it, or he does it to the best of his ability.
Great Monk Liu Ziyun was worried that Li Shiming would not ask him for help. When Li Shiming made a request, he immediately mobilized his connections. Even if some of the spiritual objects in this batch were relatively rare, he tried to find a way to transfer them to Dongqi Continent as quickly as possible.
When this batch of spiritual objects arrived, they arrived together with the fourth-grade late-stage dragon and phoenix resources. These were all expressions of goodwill from Zhongzhou Trading Company.