The Wanshou Sect of the Dongqi Continent is still a large sect in the world of immortal cultivation, but in a sense it has already left the category of large forces, and the only difference between it and a super power is the existence of powerful beings.
Since there was no powerful person in the Dongqi Continent, the powerful great cultivator Li Shiming suppressed all the great cultivators in the entire world of immortal cultivation with his own strength, giving the Wanshou Sect a unique position in the world of immortal cultivation.
Li Shiming's other ability, the most powerful alchemy ability in the world of immortal cultivation, makes all forces willing to make friends with the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
Whether out of sincerity or falsehood, no force would superficially conflict with the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
Even the Yuqing Sect and the Baidi Sect, two super powers that had a grudge against Li Shiming, tried to ease their relations with the Wanshou Sect in various ways.
If he didn't ease the relationship with the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, he wouldn't be able to entrust Li Shiming with the task of refining pills.
The number of great monks in Yuqing Sect and Baidi Sect is at its lowest point in history. If the number of great monks is not replenished in time, the two super powers will be in a troublesome situation of a power gap in the near future.
Li Shiming lived a very comfortable life. His 'phantom clone' accompanied Yin Shilan, while his real body went into seclusion for cultivation, coming out only once every few years.
The 'phantom clone' also met with the visiting great monks and accepted alchemy commissions.
Currently, the number of alchemy commissions brought by Zhongzhou Trading Company is getting smaller and smaller. Most of the great monks are willing to come to the Wanshou Sect to meet with Li Shiming to discuss the alchemy remuneration, and also take this opportunity to make friends with Li Shiming.
The last time Li Shiming's 'phantom clone' and Yin Shilan were attacked in Zhongzhou Continent, Luanfeng Palace mobilized many connections but was unable to find out who was behind the attack.
But it is precisely the fact that nothing can be found out that shows how powerful the person behind the scenes is. He must be at least a super power of the same level as Luanfeng Palace.
Li Shiming did not pursue the matter. After the 'phantom clone' brought Yin Shilan back to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, he never left the sect again for the next thirty years.
"Shiming, you are out of seclusion, come and taste the magic tea I brewed!" Yin Shilan, who was in the Palace of the Mighty One day, said happily when she saw Li Shiming walking into the palace.
Having been with Li Shiming for more than 30 years, even if the 'phantom clone' no longer deliberately remains transparent, she can recognize the difference between the 'phantom clone' and the original body at a glance.
Li Shiming, who walked into the palace of the powerful, was like an ordinary person, without any extraordinary aura on him.
But his cultivation is very different from what it was thirty years ago. Before, he could only be considered to have just entered the realm of a great monk, but now his strength has stabilized at the level of a middle-stage great monk.
This was thanks to the endless supply of high-level elixirs from great monks, which kept his cultivation at a state of resource saturation.
After thirty years of cultivation, although he had five Nascent Souls, which made him consume the same amount of high-level elixirs as five great monks at the same level, the number of high-level elixirs in his hand not only did not decrease, but increased a lot.
Ever since he released the alchemy commissions, the great cultivators in the entire cultivation world have taken out their pent-up resources one by one. Especially the large forces and super forces, the amount of great cultivator resources accumulated in their hands far exceeded his estimates.
Perhaps if there were no alchemy master like Li Shiming, and no alchemy master who could maintain the alchemy level of a high-level monk, the various forces would still accumulate some of the great monks' spiritual medicines and reserve them as war resources.
But with the appearance of Li Shiming, these forces can no longer store the spiritual medicines of the great monks in their hands. With the help of Li Shiming's alchemy ability, they can increase the value of the spiritual medicines of the great monks in their hands by dozens of times.
The rewards paid to Li Shiming by these forces and great monks increased the amount of top-level resources in Li Shiming's hands.
Li Shiming sat opposite the tea table, picked up the fourth-grade top-grade teacup, and gently took a sip of the fourth-grade spiritual tea.
"Lan'er, your tea-making skills have improved greatly!" He saw Yin Shilan's expectant eyes and praised with a smile.
"I learned this from my master. It's a pity that you can't learn the technique of making tea!" Yin Shilan said with a smile.
"Your cultivation level is improving too fast. Take fewer elixirs and stabilize your realm first!" Li Shiming said, putting down the fourth-grade top-level teacup.
In the past thirty years, not only Li Shiming's cultivation level has improved, but Yin Shilan has also been promoted from the early Nascent Soul stage to the middle Nascent Soul stage.
Yin Shilan's cultivation speed is extremely rare among the super powers in the world of immortal cultivation.
The main reason for such a fast cultivation speed was a batch of cultivation treasures sent by Zhongzhou Trading Company twenty years ago, which allowed Yin Shilan to reduce a lot of cultivation time.
In addition, there are the great monks' elixirs that Li Shiming provided to Yin Shilan. In addition to some high-level elixirs for great monks in the early Nascent Soul stage, there are also some top-level elixirs for great monks in the early Nascent Soul stage.
The last time Li Shiming came out of seclusion two years ago, it was the time when Yin Shilan was promoted to the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
Li Shiming provided Yin Shilan with some high-level elixirs of the middle Nascent Soul stage. In just two years, Yin Shilan's progress in the middle Nascent Soul stage has been greatly improved.
Although the Luanfeng Palace's martial art 'Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens' is a gentle martial art that is extremely suitable for female practitioners, one cannot practice 'Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens' too aggressively, and it still requires some sedimentation and accumulation.
"Master said the same thing. I have recently stopped taking pills and focused on studying formations!" Yin Shilan poured another cup of spiritual tea for Li Shiming and said with a smile.
Afterwards, she began to ask Li Shiming about knowledge about formations. Li Shiming naturally answered every question. In terms of formations, his level could be said to be the strongest among the great cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.
"My cultivation is also improving quite fast. I will accompany you to study the formation for some time in the future!" Li Shiming told Yin Shilan the good news, which made Yin Shilan in a good mood.
Although the 'phantom clone' is also Li Shiming, it doesn't feel like being with Li Shiming's real body.
Li Shiming smiled. The advancement from the early to middle stage of a great cultivator may seem like a small improvement in a small realm, but in fact the gap between them is as huge as the difference between heaven and earth.
Look at the great monks of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, all of them are stuck in the early stages of becoming a great monk.
It's not just the Wanshou Sect. Most of the great cultivators from the large forces are almost all at the early stage of great cultivators.
It’s not that these great monks don’t work hard. Part of this is due to the problem of cultivation resources, but more of it is due to the inheritance of skills.
To improve the cultivation level of a great monk, it is not only necessary to increase the total amount and quality of spiritual power in the body, but also to have a deeper understanding of the rules that he has mastered.
It is the understanding of the rules that has blocked the great monks who have no inherited skills.
Unless you are a super genius who can comprehend the rules on your own, you can only improve your understanding of the rules bit by bit by constantly studying the practice experience of your predecessors, slowly absorbing knowledge that is beneficial to you.
Li Shiming practiced the 'Heavenly Art'. Through his comprehension of the rules in the Half-Life Cave Heaven and the Thunder and Lightning Cave Heaven, he greatly improved his Five Elements rules and Thunder and Lightning rules. Combined with the improvement in the total amount and quality of his spiritual power from thirty years of seclusion, his realm advanced a small step.
It took him thirty years to take this small step, and his master, Master Hu, had spent nearly a thousand years trying but had yet to take it.
Sometimes, the importance of aptitude and opportunity is more important than the hard work of a monk.
During this period of adjusting his mind, Li Shiming also had another important thing to do, which was to transform the resources he had previously obtained into combat power.
Regarding this point, he was planning to upgrade all five mid-stage golden corpses that he had previously retrieved from his clone Li Yuanba to late-stage golden corpses, and equip them all with the strongest equipment.
He has no shortage of relevant resources. Although he has been in a state of cultivation for thirty years, he has a lot of spare brain time and is thinking about many things.
But before doing all this, he needed to travel to the Central Plains.
He did not tell anyone about his trip to Zhongzhou Continent, except to Yin Shilan.
Given Yin Shilan's personality, as long as Li Shiming didn't want to explain something, she would never trace the root cause or ask the reason.
"I'll be back in twenty days!" Li Shiming promised Yin Shilan with a smile before leaving.
Yin Shilan showed surprise, but did not express any doubt.
The reason for the surprise is that it would take about a month to travel from Dongqi Continent to Zhongzhou Continent, even if a great cultivator was controlling the flying boat.
Li Shiming said that he would be back in twenty days, which means that it would take ten days to reach Zhongzhou Continent, or even less time.
It is impossible for Li Shiming to do nothing when he goes to Zhongzhou Continent. It will definitely take some time.
Li Shiming came out of the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts. He used the "Reach in One Go" technique and his figure disappeared from the mountain gate. When he reappeared, he was already eight thousand miles away.
He summoned the thunder beast, which had been sleeping in the Thunder Cave for the past thirty years. It seemed very lively after being summoned.
Because of the contract, he and the Thunder Beast have an extremely close connection.
He gently patted the thunder beast's neck, feeling the slight numbing sensation in his hand, and jumped onto the thunder beast's back with a smile.
"Take me to Zhongzhou!" he whispered.
The thunder beast let out a long, excited roar, and its figure turned into a flash of lightning and flew away into the distance.
The Thunder Beast is at the peak of the late fourth stage, and is a natural life form of lightning energy. The lightning escape it performs is several times faster than that performed by a great thunder cultivator.
This time the thunder beast sped up and quickly left the Dongqi Continent carrying Li Shiming.
The Thunder Beast is on the ocean and doesn't have to worry about the route at all.
Even if a powerful spirit beast discovered the Thunder Beast, not to mention the level of the Thunder Beast, even if the powerful spirit beast wanted to intercept the Thunder Beast, it could not compare with the speed of the Thunder Beast.
Although Li Shiming has the ability of supernatural feet and his speed exceeds that of the Thunder Beast, he cannot compare with the Thunder Beast when traveling long distances.
The consumption of "achieving it all in one go" is not small. Even if he is a great cultivator with the spiritual power supply of five Nascent Souls, he still needs to consider the dangers that may be encountered due to large-scale consumption.
For the thunder beast, using thunder escape to travel is an instinct, just like the normal walking of human monks, and the consumption is almost negligible.
In two days, the thunder beast approached the Zhongzhou continent.
Li Shiming controlled the thunder beast and did not enter the Zhongzhou continent, but came to an underwater cave thousands of miles away from the Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion.
His clone Li Yuanba was already waiting there, and he came here to meet Li Yuanba.
Over the past thirty years, Li Yuanba's aura has stabilized at the peak of the middle Nascent Soul stage. Just one more step forward and he will reach the realm of a great cultivator.
In order to ensure that Li Yuanba could be promoted to a great monk safely, Li Shiming came here in person.
Although there are many great cultivators in Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion, Li Yuanba's own master Jian Wuwei's cultivation is not as high as Li Yuanba's, and the help he can provide to Li Yuanba in this regard is limited.
Ever since Master Jian solved the problem of the space rift, he has appeared in public much less frequently.
According to his analysis, Master Jian's attack that time consumed a lot of energy. Although he used his clone, it is difficult to say the details. Otherwise, it cannot explain why Master Jian has reduced his appearances.
Besides, even if Li Yuanba has a lot of face, it is still a bit troublesome to ask Master Jian to protect him.
The most important thing is that Li Shiming is more suitable to protect Li Yuanba. Even at the most important moment, Li Shiming's spiritual power can be used interchangeably with Li Yuanba. Even Master Jian cannot provide such help.
"Fellow Daoist, we haven't seen each other for decades!" Li Shiming smiled and bowed to Li Yuanba.
"Fellow Daoist, you are still as charming and elegant as ever!" Li Yuanba returned the salute.
The original body and the clone smiled at each other. This feeling, as if he were talking to himself in the mirror, always felt new and novel no matter how many times it happened.
"Thank you, fellow Taoist!" Li Yuanba made a gesture of invitation.
Li Shiming smiled, took out the formation base that he had prepared long ago, and began to set up the formation in the cave.
This formation was arranged according to the characteristics of the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky'. At the core of the formation, he projected the phantom of the Sword Intent Monument from his life-long magic weapon IBMz15 onto the core.
Although the Sword Intent Monument is a virtual projection, it has Li Shiming, a mid-stage great sword cultivator, who is also practicing the same 'Chaos Sword Intent', so the sword intent contained in the Sword Intent Monument is the 'Chaos Sword Intent' of a mid-stage great sword cultivator.
This is also the strongest sword intent he can release. If it is simulated inside IBMz15, it can simulate most of the sword intent of the Sword Intent Monument itself. If it is released outside, it can only be this level of sword intent.
However, the 'Chaos Sword Intent' of a mid-stage Great Sword Cultivator was enough for Li Yuanba, who was in the mid-stage Nascent Soul stage, to be promoted to a Great Sword Cultivator.
Li Yuanba walked into the formation and sat cross-legged in front of the virtual sword intent monument. He took out a few great cultivators' elixirs and swallowed them, his mind immersed in the 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky'.
At this time, Li Shiming was monitoring the situation inside his body by communicating with his soul.
No matter how well prepared one is, no matter how deep one's accumulation is, the process of being promoted from a middle Nascent Soul cultivator to a great monk is always risky.
The purpose of Li Shiming's visit this time is to minimize the occurrence of such risks.