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Chapter 692 - 392: Return to the Sect_2

Chapter 692: Chapter 392: Return to the Sect_2

When Li Shiming advanced to the late-stage Golden Core, he could start concocting pills for the Nascent Soul Ancestors. Although most of the sect’s Nascent Soul Ancestors were in seclusion, the fact that Elder Zuo occasionally paid attention to Li Shiming’s Sword Holding Peak was evidence of how much they valued him.

After returning to the sect, Li Shiming was visited by Golden Core Elders on and off for the first few days. Once he had taken care of the needs of those late-stage Golden Core Elders in the sect, he announced that he would no longer accept orders for third-grade Spirit Pills for cultivators in the middle stage of the Golden Core.

The news of his decision caused a chorus of lamentations among the sect’s Golden Core Elders, but they were helpless and had to find ways to approach him through the few cultivators who could ask for his help, like Elder Su and Elder Ma.

Even his senior brothers and sisters had many cultivators knocking on their doors.

His actions earned the praise of the alchemy masters. There was nothing they could do, as his alchemy skills were too advanced and severely disrupted the business of other alchemy masters.

Li Shiming was aware of this. He had rarely taken orders for third-grade Spirit Pills for early-stage Golden Core cultivators since he was capable of producing those for the middle stage.

Despite spending only a short time at the early-stage Golden Core realm, the number of third-grade Spirit Pills he produced for middle-stage Golden Core was incredibly high.

The main reason for this was his fame. Orders from within the sect, from the sect’s allies, Beishu Trading Company, and other friendly requests allowed him to concoct a large quantity of third-grade Spirit Pills for middle-stage Golden Core, sufficient for his own cultivation needs.

Though his clone Li Yuanba had not yet advanced to the middle-stage Golden Core, the third-grade Spirit Pills for that stage had already been prepared.

As the news spread, late-stage Golden Core Cultivators from the Thousand Illusion Sect and late-stage Arhat monks from Qianye Temple came knocking on his door through their connections.

The three major Demon Sects also placed orders through Beishu Trading Company.

But at this time, Li Shiming went into seclusion. Apart from the sect’s alchemy orders, he even halted the orders from Beishu Trading Company.

This was a marketing tactic of creating scarcity. Although alchemy and marketing were different, he saw them as achieving the same goal through different means.

Things too easily obtained are never cherished, especially concerning Beishu Trading Company, which he planned to give a hard time, lest he be completely under their control.

In the Cultivation Room, Li Shiming’s consciousness entered the mechanical space.

The mechanical space was becoming increasingly cramped now. With Venerable Huijing, the Nascent Soul Body, the Fake Infant Body, and the Great Elder undergoing Body Refinement, there were four beings occupying it. Had he not moved a vast majority of the resources he had stored there into spatial items to reduce the usage of the mechanical room, it would have been completely filled long ago.

After the IBM z15 was refined into his life-bound magical treasure, the mechanical space turned into a storage area. Fortunately, he had acquired a number of spatial items, so the storage only occupied a corner of the mechanical space.

Li Shiming released all four occupants and also fetched the Fourth-Grade Locking Vein Plate. The Formation in his dwelling was very secure, ensuring that not a trace of energy would leak out.

The only regret was the Third Grade Golden Lotus and the Spirit Cleansing Carp in his dwelling. In comparison to Nascent Soul Level Spirit Veins, their grade was too low to significantly enhance the Spirit Veins.

The twelve Silver Corpses were arranged to work in the underground space factory, continuing their previous research work.

Only the Silver Corpse Nanming was kept by him, as he brought it into the mechanical space.

Even Li Shiming envied the talent of the Silver Corpse Nanming.

What made Li Shiming envious, of course, was Silver Corpse Nanming’s mastery over the Nanming Leaving Fire.

The foundation of Silver Corpse Nanming was incredibly strong. Patriarch Weng Zhao had used some unknown method to merge a Nascent Soul that controlled the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ into Nanming’s body.

You see, Nanming was only at the Qi Refinement Realm initially but could control the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ to a certain extent.

When Li Shiming himself was at the early-stage Golden Core, he couldn’t even cultivate the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ divine skill, despite having received the heritage and the fire seed. He could only watch helplessly.

If it weren’t for his advancement to the middle-stage Golden Core, and the appearance of the Nanming Leaving Fire rune patterns in his body, he wouldn’t have been able to cultivate this divine skill.

However, after the Silver Corpse Nanming advanced to the Silver Corpse, the Nanming Leaving Fire rune patterns within it were greatly strengthened, allowing it to use the Nanming Leaving Fire.

How could this not incite envy in Li Shiming? Naturally, it is understandable. Patriarch Weng Zhao had dedicated his life to cultivating the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ divine skill and prepared a Nascent Soul body as a backup for body seizing with targeted preparations. Coupled with the modifications during the merge of the Nascent Soul, a special body was created.

With the thoughts of Patriarch Weng Zhao, this new body should be able to use "Nanming Leaving Fire" to wreak havoc in all directions during the Golden Core Stage, being invincible in that stage to gather as many cultivation resources as possible in preparation for breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage.

However, he had not anticipated that all these benefits would ultimately go to Li Shiming.

Li Shiming’s mind entered the body of Silver Corpse Nanming, completely controlling it.

The Fourth Grade Heavenly Gang Four Phases Array Plate was collected into the machine room space, activated and deployed, protecting the Silver Corpse Nanming.

It should not be said that it was protecting Silver Corpse Nanming, but rather protecting the machine room space itself.

Li Shiming had tried, and the machine room space was nearly indestructible, but he did not intend to test its strength with Nanming Leaving Fire.

Sitting within the Heavenly Gang Four Phases Array, Silver Corpse Nanming had an orange flame light up before it.

Li Shiming, through Silver Corpse Nanming, began to try to control this small orange flame.

Under his control, the flame slowly increased in power. As its master, Silver Corpse Nanming was not affected by the fire, but the peripheral shield of the Heavenly Gang Four Phases Array shook continuously under the influence of the flame.

This was a fourth-grade formation, with defensive power strong enough to block several attacks from a Nascent Soul Ancestor.

Yet, after the small flame emitted its aura, it felt as if it could not sustain itself.

As the fierceness of the flame weakened, the shield of the Heavenly Gang Four Phases Array returned to calm.

Li Shiming shook his head. Silver Corpse Nanming could indeed control the Nanming Leaving Fire within its body, and its power exceeded the level of the Golden Core Stage, even surpassing that of Great Elder level.

But the drawback was also very clear; Nanming Leaving Fire could only be deployed within a meter in front of Silver Corpse Nanming.

Such tremendous energy would become uncontrollable if it moved any further away from the body.

The distance of one meter made it extremely difficult for Silver Corpse Nanming to use Nanming Leaving Fire in combat unless it was for a surprise attack. Otherwise, any cultivator who could get within one meter of Silver Corpse Nanming, Li Shiming himself could easily defeat.

However, Nanming Leaving Fire in Silver Corpse Nanming was not useless; with Li Shiming’s involvement and the specialization of the machine room space,

Li Shiming could achieve maximum precision in controlling Nanming Leaving Fire. Though it cannot meet the requirements for alchemy, it is completely sufficient for artifact refining.

He hadn’t yet used the Third-Grade Gold Attribute top-quality refining material "Star Fallen Gold Stone" he obtained from the Skywalk Trading Company base.

"Star Fallen Gold Stone" is the best material for refining flying swords. A treasure forged during the Golden Core Stage by oneself has an innate closer connection, which allows cultivators to handle their self-refined treasures more adeptly.

Early on when he had just formed his Golden Core, he had assigned a task to his life-bound magic weapon IBMz15 to design a flying sword using "Star Fallen Gold Stone" as the main material.

Afterward, since he learned "Divine Eyes Skill," he had more operability in artifact refining.

The life-bound magic weapon IBMz15 revamped the design of the flying sword, able to maximize Li Shiming’s artifact refining level.

The most difficult part of artifact refining is melting the materials; the higher the grade and quality of the materials, the harder it is to melt them.

Third-grade refining materials normally need to be melted with pill fire, and materials like "Star Fallen Gold Stone," which are of the top third grade and have a gold nature, require the pill fire of a Golden Core with fire attributes to melt them due to their inherent sturdy properties.

Even so, it would still take a considerable amount of time, which is why forging third-grade treasures generally takes a very long time.

Furthermore, during the melting process, various runes need to be continuously inscribed on the treasures to maximize the properties of the materials and to endow the treasures with various special abilities, all of which take time to perform slowly.

Some treasures take several months or even more than a year to forge, which is considered normal.

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