Lei Gong came to the crystal bed, from this distance he could observe the ancient monk more clearly.
The ancient monks wore a white robe, the style of which was like a whole piece of cloth with a hole dug out in the middle, and then the cloth was put over the head to form the white robe we have today.
The ancient monk looked very young and was a male monk.
However, Li Shiming did not think that the cultivator was really young. He judged the cultivator's strength from the energy fluctuations in his body. He was a half-step powerful being who was only one step away from being promoted to a great power.
If we judge accurately by the realm, the realm of the ancient cultivator should be the peak half-step great power.
The strength of his physical body is, except for the powerful ones, the physical body of the ancient monks is the best.
Lei Gong was still very cautious when looking at the ancient monk. Although he did not sense the soul from the ancient monk's body, the means possessed by the ancient monk were not beyond Li Shiming's imagination.
Lei Gong searched the ancient monk's body but found nothing.
The ancient monks were naked, wearing only a simple robe made of a single piece of cloth.
"Could this be the spare body of an ancient monk?" Li Shiming suddenly had a guess.
This is judged based on the habits of current Nascent Soul cultivators. As long as a cultivator's realm is raised to the Nascent Soul stage and he possesses the Nascent Soul, he can rebuild with the help of the Nascent Soul after his physical body dies.
In this process, the most important thing is to have a useful body.
Therefore, many Nascent Soul cultivators would spend a lot of effort to find young cultivators with excellent talents and attributes that match their own. They would then use special secret methods to remove the souls of the young cultivators, leaving only an empty shell.
When carrying out some dangerous tasks, the monks will arrange a spare body. In case of an emergency, they can use their Nascent Soul to take over the spare body and get a chance to reincarnate.
However, the ancient cultivator would use the body of a peak half-step great power as a backup body, so how powerful is this ancient cultivator?
Lei Gong did not immediately move this peak half-step great power's physical body. In fact, Li Shiming was extremely envious of this peak half-step great power's physical body.
With the experience of refining Thunder God and Red Devil, plus the accidental success in refining Li Yuanba's clone before, Li Shiming wanted to use this peak half-step great power's body to refine a new clone.
Even if he cannot refine a new clone, a corpse with the strength of a peak half-step great power is enough to enhance his self-preservation ability again.
But he planned to consider moving this peak half-step powerful body at the last minute, at least after exploring the entire ancient ruins.
Lei Gong explored the surroundings. His exploration was very simple. He only needed to find any restrictions similar to portals.
Lei Gong will naturally use his ability to move through space to find the space on the other side of the restriction.
After searching for a while, I finally found a hidden portal in a corner of this space.
In the same way, space moves through the portal.
The space they arrived at was a quiet room with a rotten cushion. In front of the rotten cushion was a small incense burner and a jade-carved ruyi.
The futon should be woven from extremely high-quality spiritual herbs. Unfortunately, no matter how high the quality of the spiritual herbs is, without special protection, they cannot withstand the erosion of time.
The lingering aura on the cushion let Lei Gong know that this was a treasure that had an extremely good effect on improving cultivation.
"What a pity!" Lei Gong shook his head and sighed.
Cushion-type treasures that assist in cultivation are extremely difficult to refine. Li Shiming himself only has a cushion that is suitable for a great cultivator, which is the 'Wuliang Jade Cushion' he got from the Wuliang Sect.
Lei Gong sensed the incense burner, and the moment he sensed the incense burner, he realized that his judgment was wrong.
This is not an incense burner, but an elixir furnace.
It cannot be blamed that Li Shiming, who controls Thunder God, has little experience. As the top alchemy master in the world of immortal cultivation, he has seen many kinds of alchemy furnaces, and he himself has five fourth-grade alchemy furnaces.
The main reason is that this is an ancient alchemy furnace, which is different from the current alchemy furnaces in many aspects.
"A fifth-grade alchemy furnace!" Lei Gong confirmed it again and again before he was sure of the quality of the ancient alchemy furnace in front of him.
The alchemy furnace is completely different from ordinary magic weapons. Although Li Shiming has the inheritance of refining the alchemy furnace, he has never really refined a high-quality alchemy furnace. That's because refining the alchemy furnace requires many parts of materials, each with different properties.
Unless it is a sect that specializes in refining alchemy furnaces and has gone through a long period of accumulation and special collection, it is possible to gather all the materials for refining the alchemy furnace.
Li Shiming was too lazy to collect them. His current alchemy ability had reached its limit. Even if he replaced it with a better alchemy furnace, it would not improve his alchemy.
You have to know that when he was refining the elixir for the great monk and preparing to deliver it, he intentionally suppressed the quality.
The quality of the great monk's elixir he left behind reached the ultimate of great monk's high-level quality. This is the theoretical limit. Except for him who has 0.05 nanometers of control over the computer room space and can refine such a great monk's elixir in the computer room space, no other alchemy master can do this.
Therefore, he had never deliberately pursued the alchemy furnace.
But the fifth-grade alchemy furnace is a completely different concept. The fifth-grade alchemy furnace is an alchemy furnace that can refine fifth-grade elixirs.
If a fourth-grade alchemy furnace is used to refine a fifth-grade elixir, the success rate will be extremely low, and it may even cause serious damage to the fourth-grade alchemy furnace.
Of course, even if the fifth-grade alchemy furnace was given to Li Shiming, it would not be of much help to him in the short term.
He has never even seen a fifth-grade spiritual medicine, let alone a fifth-grade elixir formula. Without a fifth-grade spiritual medicine and a fifth-grade elixir formula, how can he refine a fifth-grade elixir?
Lei Gong picked up the fifth-grade alchemy furnace and put it into the soul crystal ring he carried with him.
The whole process went very smoothly, and Lei Gong even discovered that there was no mark of recognition of the master in the fifth-grade alchemy furnace.
Perhaps the owner of the fifth-grade alchemy furnace had died long ago, or perhaps the long period of time had caused the mark of recognition of the owner in the fifth-grade alchemy furnace to dissipate.
Lei Gong looked at the last jade Ruyi. He picked it up and after examining it repeatedly, he felt something.
It placed the jade carving Ruyi between its eyebrows, and then it sensed the contents of the jade carving Ruyi.
The jade Ruyi is an ancient jade slip, and like the jade slips, it contains a lot of information.
Lei Gong checked the records inside the jade ruyi, and IBM z15 immediately backed up all the contents and included them in the database.
The jade carving Ruyi contains experimental records. Through the records inside the jade carving Ruyi, he learned the true function of this ancient relic.
In addition to being the place where ancient monks arranged their spare bodies, it is also an experimental base for studying immortality.
The physical body of a peak half-step great power was obtained by the owner of this place from an ancient super power. As for how it was obtained, there is no record in the jade carving Ruyi.
Think about Li Shiming's side. His original body and clone obtained a total of three corpses of half-step great powers. It can be seen that as long as the right method is used, the half-step great power can still be defeated.
The physical body of the peak half-step great power became the backup physical body of the owner of this place. The 108 fourth-grade late-stage spirit beasts should be said to be a kind of spirit insects, called the Immortal Water Bear.
The immortal water bear is almost immortal. The immortality here does not only refer to an almost infinite lifespan, but also the ability to protect itself.
At least without reaching the power of a great being, it is impossible to kill the immortal water bear.
Moreover, the immortal tardigrade's strength will continue to increase as it exists longer.
However, it is extremely difficult to cultivate immortal water bears. The owner here spent a huge amount of energy and blood to cultivate 108 immortal water bears for the research of immortality.
A large amount of experimental data is recorded in the jade carving Ruyi, but the data is interrupted when it reaches one point.
He guessed that it was very likely that the owner of this place died unexpectedly, causing the research to be terminated and could no longer be continued.
But in fact, the research of the owner here can be considered a success, because through the extraction of vitality from 108 immortal water bears, the body of the peak half-step great power has indeed survived for at least tens of thousands of years.
This ancient relic is a laboratory left behind by an ancient monk.
The defense system here, in addition to the restrictions outside, is the guardian spirit beasts that have been trained.
Guardian spirit beasts do not have the ability to live forever, but they retain the responsibility of guardianship in their souls by living in restrictions and reproducing on their own.
The six 'Golden-Clear Ice Crystal Beasts' outside are from unknown generations.
Now that he knew there was no danger, Li Shiming controlled Lei Gong and first came to the place where the 108 immortal water bears were.
Li Shiming, who was on a long voyage, performed a secret method of remote possession.
This secret method is to remotely project one's own consciousness through some kind of medium.
Some great monks will hand over the medium they have produced to their most valued younger generations. When the younger generations are in danger, after activating the medium, the great monk can perform the secret method of remote possession and project his own consciousness over.
The projected consciousness can cast spells at its own level. Although it is the weakest spell at this level, it can still have a devastating effect when facing enemies at a lower level than its own.
Li Shiming used Lei Gong as a medium to perform a secret method of remote possession, so he certainly didn't want to fight.
Lei Gong is much stronger than him in combat power, so he uses the secret method of remote possession to make it more convenient to operate.
He also discovered that it was because Lei Gong's realm was stronger and he was extremely cooperative that Li Shiming was able to perform the secret technique of remote possession very easily and without much burden.
The shadow of Li Shiming appeared faintly on Lei Gong's 1.2-meter-tall body.
Li Shiming looked at the 108 immortal water bears and joy flashed in his eyes.
He let out a long breath, and the secret technique of remote possession allowed him to project a spirit over remotely.
He used this spirit to perform the master-recognition spell. One by one, the master-recognition spells were released and flew into the bodies of the immortal water bears.
This is the Wanshou Sect's method of recognizing the master. No matter whether it is a spiritual insect or a spiritual beast, as long as it loses the ability to resist, the success rate of this method of recognizing the master will be extremely high.
The realm of the Immortal Water Bear is the late fourth grade. Li Shiming is a peak great cultivator. In addition, the Immortal Water Bear is in a state of being bound and imprisoned. Although its owner has died, causing the Immortal Water Bear to lose its original owner, it has not affected its state of being bound and imprisoned.
As long as the energy here continues, the restraints on the 108 immortal tardigrades will not disappear.
The master-recognition spell that Li Shiming performed flew into the bodies of the immortal water bears one by one. The master-recognition spell turned into a contract, successfully binding each of the immortal water bears.
If a peak great monk wanted to contract a fourth-grade late-stage immortal water bear, no matter how strong his spirit was, he could only contract a dozen or so at most.
But Li Shiming is different. He has 191 brains, and the number of late-stage fourth-grade immortal water bears that he can contract is extremely large. Contracting 108 immortal water bears will not cause him any burden.
Although the master recognition technique may fail sometimes during its use, generally the contract will be successfully signed the second time it is performed. Among the 108 immortal water bears, the most number of times the master recognition technique is required is three times.
After a period of time, Li Shiming sensed that his soul had established a contractual channel with 108 fourth-grade late-stage life forms.
He was able to sense the unconscious state of one hundred and eight fourth-stage late-stage creatures. It was precisely because the immortal water bears were in an unconscious state that they could be contracted so easily.
With the experimental records in the jade ruyi, he can now control the formations and restrictions here.
He controlled Lei Gong to close the formation, and the 108 immortal water bears slowly woke up from their unconscious state.
The immortal tardigrades sensed the existence of the master-recognition contract, and they were not surprised.
Before the immortal tardigrades were in an unconscious state, they were in a contracted state. It is not surprising that they are still in a contracted state after waking up.
Even the immortal water bears don’t know that tens of thousands of years have passed. Their memories are still stuck at the time when they were placed in a transparent partition tens of thousands of years ago.
Lei Gong took out a spirit beast bag and issued orders to the 108 immortal water bears.
The immortal water bear did not resist at all. Not to mention the contractual relationship, even the original owner tens of thousands of years ago had already subjugated the immortal water bear very successfully.
The immortal water bears were thrown into the spirit beast bag one after another, and soon all 108 immortal water bears were in the spirit beast bag.
Lei Gong put away the spirit beast bag, and in a flash he arrived at the crystal bed on the upper floor.
Although it had lost its supply of vitality, the body of this peak half-step great power was only continuing to lose lifespan normally.
Even though tens of thousands of years have passed, the lifespan of the physical body of the peak half-step powerful being still remains at the level that it had been tens of thousands of years ago. The lost lifespan is replenished to the physical body of the peak half-step powerful being through 10800 immortal water bears.
With the physical state of a peak half-step powerful being, he still has at least several thousand years of life left. This was originally a spare body prepared for the owner of this place, so naturally the life span is very sufficient.