To Li Shiming's surprise, Yin Shilan did not arrive later, and even the contact at noon was cut off.

Ten days later in the morning, while he was using the 'Earth Spirit Technique' to adjust his spiritual field, he felt a warning from his identity jade disc that someone was approaching the defensive formation of Eagle Beak Island.

He thought it was Qiu Tan delivering the goods, so he went out to greet him with a smile.

When he saw an emerald green flying boat, he couldn't help but feel at ease.

Having lost contact with the immortal world, he worried about Yin Shilan's safety for a long time.

He had planned to use the few connections in the sect to inquire about Yin Shilan if there was no more news.

You have to know that with his status, the only person he knew was the rookie instructor, Brother Zhu Ji. His relationship with Brother Zhu Ji did not continue after the rookie period.

The main reason was because he was outside the Nine Peaks, and Senior Brother Zhu Ji was in the late stage of Qi Refining, so it was difficult for him and Senior Brother Zhu Ji to have any interactions.

The only bit of friendship we have is from the three-month period as rookies, and the other thing is the favors from my two uncles.

He used these few connections, almost intending to use up all his connections.

"You're here!" Li Shiming said with a smile as he looked at the beautiful figure in green standing on the deck of the flying boat.

"I was suddenly sent out by the sect to carry out a mission six days ago and I just came back!" Yin Shilan said with a bright smile.

What she didn't say was that in order to return as soon as possible, after completing the formation mission, she hurriedly drove the flying boat and traveled for more than ten hours without even going back to the sect.

After hearing her explanation, Li Shiming felt relieved and all the worries he had had for the past few days disappeared.

Yin Shilan collected the flying boat and entered Eagle's Beak Island with him.

"This is the spice that I grew for my greed. This is the Fuling bamboo, which I obtained before I joined the sect. The transplant was quite successful!" Li Shiming smiled as he introduced the things on the island to Yin Shilan.

Both the spiritual plants and the scenery on the island are very ordinary, but this does not affect Yin Shilan's interest.

She knew that it was very difficult for a new monk to achieve so much without any foundation.

Among Li Shiming's group of new cultivators, he was the only one who opened up a cave dwelling outside.

After entering the cave, Li Shiming boiled the prepared spiritual spring water and brewed a pot of spiritual tea for Yin Shilan.

He didn't have a spiritual object like the Liuli Juyuanzhan. He used an ordinary glass cup, but it was very exquisite in appearance.

Yin Shilan was not someone who did not understand the sufferings of ordinary cultivators. When she saw the spiritual tea, she couldn't help but be moved.

She had seen and tasted spiritual teas that were several times better than this, but Li Shiming was a new monk in the sect, and the cost of preparing such spiritual tea was extremely high.

But she didn't say anything. Instead, she picked up the glass and sipped the tea with a smile.

Li Shiming was extremely curious about the magical tea he grew. It was also the first time for him to drink the magical tea produced from the magical tea tree.

The two of them sipped the tea quietly, feeling the enjoyment brought by the spiritual tea.

The spiritual tea enters the stomach, and each kind of spiritual tea will bring the greatest effect when drunk for the first time.

Li Shiming only felt the spiritual energy surging in his abdomen, but the amount of spiritual energy was far inferior to the spiritual tea he tasted with Yin Shilan in the flying boat last time.

But the problem is that he is at the bottleneck of the third level of Qi Refining, and his own qualifications are not bad.

As the spiritual energy surged, he found that the bottleneck had loosened.

Whether in the teachings of Brother Zhu Ji during the rookie period or in the knowledge of Qi-refining practitioners, it is mentioned that once a practitioner's bottleneck loosens, he or she needs to immediately seize the rare opportunity to break through the bottleneck.

If you miss the opportunity, you will have to wait for the next breakthrough.

"Excuse me for a moment!" Li Shiming left a hurried sentence and turned to go into the practice room.

Yin Shilan's beautiful eyes moved and a smile appeared on her face.

Her realm was much higher than Li Shiming's, so she naturally saw Li Shiming's current state.

Li Shiming was at the bottleneck of the third level of Qi Refining, and he noticed it as soon as they met.

She did not ask Li Shiming why he did not use the top-grade breakthrough pill. She gave away the cultivation resources, and it was Li Shiming's own choice how to use them.

A monk's choice is a very personal matter. She herself is introverted and extremely intelligent, so she will not interfere with Li Shiming's choice.

Yin Shilan looked at Li Shiming's condition and it was clearly the first time for him to drink this spiritual tea. She believed that this spiritual tea was specially prepared for her.

Her eyes are as clear as blue waves, filled with a faint warmth. The curve of her mouth is as perfect as a crescent moon. Her smile is like a room full of flowers.

Unfortunately, Li Shiming didn't see it, as he was already sitting in the practice room practicing the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique'.

He didn't expect that his breakthrough would come so quickly. Isn't it said that it is very difficult for a normal cultivator with three spiritual roots to break through the bottleneck of the realm?

The difficulty of breakthrough for a cultivator with three spiritual roots is considered medium among cultivators. Above them are geniuses with single and double spiritual roots, who only need to practice continuously in the Qi Refining Stage.

Especially for those with single spiritual roots, in order to prevent practicing too quickly and making the realm unstable, single spiritual root cultivators will also practice body refining exercises at the same time, in order to lay the most solid foundation in the Qi Refining stage.

Such a genius has never focused on the Qi Refining Stage, but on preparing for a higher realm in the future.

Different from a single spiritual root that can strengthen the realm and lay a solid foundation, four and five spiritual roots are at the other extreme.

Cultivators with four or five spiritual roots will encounter bottlenecks that are difficult to break through at each level, which makes it extremely difficult for cultivators with four or five spiritual roots to practice during the Qi Refining Period.

This is also the reason why most of the cultivators with four and five spiritual roots stop at the Qi Refining Stage.

Because they spent too much time in the Qi Refining Stage, neither their lifespan nor their realm was sufficient for them to break through the Qi Refining Stage.

Three spiritual roots are relatively ordinary. There is no genius of single spiritual roots or double spiritual roots, nor the difficulty of four spiritual roots or five spiritual roots. Only in the early stage of Qi Refining to break through the middle stage, and the middle stage to break through the late stage will there be bottlenecks that are difficult to break through. The difficulty of breaking through small realms in normal times is not that great.

But Li Shiming's breakthrough still surprised him a little, which was actually related to his circumstances.

In recent days, he has been a little uneasy because he has lost contact with Yin Shilan. Even though he has the help of IBM z15 and has adjusted his mood, his mentality is still affected.

With the appearance of Yin Shilan today, his mood has recovered, and his mentality is far better than usual.

Then I tasted the new spiritual tea for the first time, and the effects of the new spiritual tea played a stimulating role.

Of course, there is another point, that is, everything happens naturally, without a trace of deliberateness, which is the key to breakthrough.

As the bottleneck in Li Shiming's body was broken, the vortex of spiritual energy in his body suddenly doubled in size, and the aura of his whole body also increased.

This breakthrough was extremely smooth. He didn't even need to use the spiritual energy collected in the computer room. He broke through directly.

After the breakthrough, he spent some time stabilizing the spiritual energy vortex in his body before returning to the training room.

When Yin Shilan saw the aura of Li Shiming, how could she not know that he had been successfully promoted.

"It seems that I am lucky enough to witness your promotion today!" She congratulated with a chuckle.

Li Shiming also looked at Yin Shilan. When she was at the third level of Qi Refining, he couldn't see Yin Shilan's strength clearly. When she reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, which was already the middle stage of Qi Refining, he still couldn't see Yin Shilan's strength.

Even though he was in the middle stage of Qi Refining, he was unable to sense Yin Shilan's strength. Either Yin Shilan had practiced a special Qi-gathering technique, or Yin Shilan's strength had reached the late stage of Qi Refining.

He guessed that Yin Shilan was in both situations, otherwise he would not be unable to sense any fluctuations in Yin Shilan's spiritual energy.

"You haven't used the realm-breaking pill. It's too precious. You can use it to help you break through to the foundation-building stage!" Li Shiming said as he took out the jade bottle and handed it over.

Yin Shilan didn't answer, but just looked at him with a reproachful look.

"You exchanged this realm-breaking pill with me using the magic array diagram. I have memorized the magic array diagram and I can't return it. You'd better keep the realm-breaking pill!" Yin Shilan said softly, retracting her slight anger.

Li Shiming could tell that Yin Shilan was making an excuse, and under Yin Shilan's gaze, he put the jade bottle away again.

Seeing him put away the jade bottle, Yin Shilan smiled again.

Every time he saw Yin Shilan's smile, he felt intoxicated.

Perhaps an ordinary Qi Refining Level 3 cultivator would feel ashamed after seeing Yin Shilan for the first time, a female cultivator with such beauty, strength and wealth far exceeding his own.

But Li Shiming is a soul from another world, and the idea of ​​equality is almost engraved in his soul.

After knowing him for a while, Yin Shilan admired this point of him the most. When getting along with him, Yin Shilan could feel an equal attitude.

He was neither as arrogant as a male cultivator nor as timid as one would expect from a female cultivator who was much stronger than him.

His equality always appears naturally and unintentionally in face-to-face communication and in the communication of identity jade discs.

Although the two had not seen each other for many days, they did not talk much. They sat face to face, quietly enjoying the peace of being together. Both of them were immersed in the warm atmosphere of the cave.

Yin Shilan felt the vibration of the identity jade disc, and she quickly took it out to check.

"The sect sent a message, I'm leaving!" Yin Shilan said softly. She took out the Spirit Turtle Shield and placed it in front of Li Shiming, then said: "I can't use the Spirit Turtle Shield. Only your computing ability can use the Spirit Turtle Shield!"

When Li Shiming heard that she was leaving, he couldn't help but feel that time was passing by very quickly.

Seeing Yin Shilan take out the Spirit Turtle Shield, his attention was drawn to the Spirit Turtle Shield.

The surface of the Spirit Turtle Shield now seemed to be no different, but the extra thin lines and the increased patterns in each crack showed that the Spirit Turtle Shield was very different from before.

"You have created the magic circle?" he asked in disbelief.

Although it was he who proposed the idea and worked out the design together with Yin Shilan, this is a magic circle, and a new type of magic circle that has been shrunk to the size of the Turtle Shield.

In just less than twenty days, Yin Shilan created the magic array of the Spirit Turtle Shield, which took a lot of effort.

"Well, I'm lucky. I completed it without making any mistakes!" Yin Shilan said calmly, lightly touching her bun with a hint of complacency.

Li Shiming was about to observe carefully, but he saw Yin Shilan had already stood up and said goodbye without even giving Li Shiming a chance to refuse.

"This is for you, keep it well!" Li Shiming also knew Yin Shilan's character. He helplessly did not mention the Spirit Turtle Shield, but took out a pocket watch from his arms and handed it over.

Yin Shilan took the pocket watch and her cheeks turned slightly red. The pocket watch in her hand had a warm temperature, which was Li Shiming's body temperature.

"What an ingenious mechanism! It records time!" she exclaimed softly.

The world of immortals is not without mechanical devices for recording time, but compared to the pocket watches in our hands, these are much larger and require the use of spirit stones to drive them.

The pocket watch in his hand was so unique in its manufacturing concept and ingenuity that it has reached the pinnacle of ordinary things.

"I'm glad you don't mind it being an ordinary thing. This is a game I made in my spare time. I've been with it for a long time, so I'm giving it to you to check the time. It also has a stopwatch function." Li Shiming was happy to see that Yin Shilan liked it very much, so he introduced it to her.

Originally he was worried that Yin Shilan looked down on everything, but it seems his worry was unnecessary.

It is normal for monks to look down on ordinary things. All objects that can be driven by spiritual energy or contain spiritual energy are called spiritual objects. This is a characteristic used to distinguish them from ordinary things.

"What is seconds?" Yin Shilan seemed to have forgotten to leave and asked.

Li Shiming used the time system of his previous life on the pocket watch, which he had set up himself to determine a shorter time.

Yin Shilan nodded repeatedly in amazement after listening to this. She liked the pocket watch even more.

The stopwatch, date and other functions of the pocket watch can help her better grasp the most troublesome time issue in setting up the formation.

You have to know that even in the world of cultivating immortals, the judgment of a breath of time needs to be separated by each individual.

Judging by the word on the sundial, one word equals five minutes. The speed of a monk's thinking is much faster than that of ordinary people, but to divide five minutes into a shorter time, usually a breath, there is no guarantee of 100% accuracy.

Yin Shilan is a magic array master and has a great advantage in time calculation compared to ordinary cultivators, but magic arrays have higher requirements for time.

"What is the name of this thing?" Yin Shilan asked, looking up.

"I haven't given this thing a name yet, so why don't you give it a name?" Li Shiming said with a smile.

He did not intend to use the name pocket watch. Even in his previous life, pocket watch was just the name of a large category of watches, and each watch had its own brand and model name.

"Then I'll tell you when I've made up my mind!" Yin Shilan smiled slightly. She then sensed the new information from the identity jade disc and said without hesitation, "I'm leaving!"

Li Shiming sent Yin Shilan to the edge of the island. Yin Shilan took out the flying boat and stood on the deck. She waved to Li Shiming.

I don’t know when it started, but the two of them no longer called each other fellow Taoists, but they didn’t use any other names either. They always used the more intimate term “you and me”.

Qiu Tan was sitting on the spiritual beast, a white bird. He looked rather embarrassed, and the spiritual beast, the white bird, was flying a little slowly.

On the back of the spiritual beast white bird, in addition to Qiu Tan, there was also a huge wooden box, which affected the flight of the white bird.

"We're finally here. I'll have to ask Brother Li for more spirit stones this time. I can't afford to lose out!" Qiu Tan muttered to himself as he watched the Eagle's Beak Island getting closer and closer.

It was really troublesome to transport this batch of goods. It had to be sent from the mortal world to here. Along the way, it was escorted by many carriages and the army on land, and then taken over by a large ship at the seaside. Until it was delivered to the sea area near the sect, he went to pick up the goods.