Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 232: Chapter 162 Victory_2

Without the slightest delay, after receiving their rewards, this batch of Qi Refining Cultivators were sent away from Seven Star Island by people from various sects.

This was not a place for Qi Refining Cultivators to stay for long, no matter what, these talented cultivators were all important talent reserves for their respective sects.

Li Shiming, He Chuan, and Shang Haoquan left with a Foundation Establishment Cultivator uncle who almost fully powered the flying boat, pushing its speed to the limit.

Li Shiming also understood his uncle’s thoughts; in a place where Golden Cores convened, Qi Refining Cultivators amounted to nothing, but even Foundation Establishment Cultivators could at best be considered cannon fodder.

Thus, given the opportunity to leave Seven Star Island, the uncle flew as fast as possible.

Li Shiming and his two senior brothers sat in the cabin, each beginning to examine their spoils from this occasion.

Perhaps due to having joined the battle, aside from Elixir Pills for cultivating spiritual power, the five storage bags contained only a few magical artifacts, indicating that the Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice when they joined the fight.

There were no mid-grade magical artifacts; each storage bag contained one super-grade magical artifact, with the rest being top-grade magical artifacts, and even the top-grade ones were of exceedingly high quality.

Now, Li Shiming had more than enough magical artifacts for his Qi Refining Ninth Level, he could even prepare some for the copper corpse.

However, the bulk of the spoils of war were inside that storage bracelet; he channeled spiritual power into the storage bracelet, and its internal size was exactly the same as the one he got from Baili Jin Yan.

Perhaps Baili Jin Yan’s storage bracelet was acquired from Beishu, or else it was unlikely for two storage bracelets to not only have the same internal space but also to have nine parts of similarity in their external patterns.

There was a lot of stuff in the vast space, nothing like the scantiness of the storage bags of other Beishu Qi Refining Cultivators.

Of course, as a descendant of a Golden Core Elder, with protective talismans and life-saving items, and where even the power of the magical artifacts was astonishing, such strength would typically mean extremely high safety in such a competition.

Just the talismans alone, had Li Shiming not reacted quickly and moved fast enough, once activated, neither the “Inverted Nine Palace Trigram Formation,” nor any Qi Refining Cultivator present, including Li Shiming himself, could withstand a strike from a talisman.

Thinking of the talisman, he immediately checked it, and it bore the image of a flying sword on it.

Flying Sword Talisman – he suspected this talisman was made by a Sword Cultivator; of course, whether it was made by a Sword Cultivator or not, the effect was the same for him.

After all, it wasn’t powerful enough to deal with a Golden Core, but it was more than enough to handle Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Having encountered several talismans before, he had a certain understanding of them. He sensed the Flying Sword Talisman and found that it seemed to have never been used, with the full potential for four uses remaining.

He then looked at the confiscated Jade Seal. Using the “Dragon Drawing Technique,” he infused a bit of spirit into the Jade Seal, and then he understood the conditions of the Jade Seal.

Super-grade Magical Artifact Shu Mountain Seal, an uncommonly dominating magical artifact among Qi Refinement cultivators, when activated, it would transform into the shape of Beishu’s Shushan, carrying the weight of a small mountain as well as the spiritual power gathered within, unleashing a fatal strike.

The Shu Mountain Seal could be said to be an extremely terrifying magical artifact, even suitable for use by Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Such a super-grade magical artifact like the Shu Mountain Seal was the first he had ever seen, truly a nightmare for Qi Refinement cultivators.

It was only because of Li Shiming, who possessed the true form manifestation of the “Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill” and the “Sword Demon Secret Manual” based on the Third Grade Sword Base, that his current physical strength greatly exceeded what a Qi Refinement Cultivator should possess.

Together with his powerful spirit, he was able to calmly escape from the targeting of the Shu Mountain Seal.

Unfortunately, to use the Shu Mountain Seal, he would at least have to wait until he reached Qi Refining Ninth Level, and, of course, he would need to completely refine the Shu Mountain Seal to make it his own.

Li Shiming then went back to checking inside the storage bracelet, and he saw “Foundation Establishment Pills.” Although the bottle used was a Jade Pill Bottle, the words “Foundation Establishment Pill” engraved on it made it crystal clear what elixir it contained.

This was the seventh Foundation Establishment Pill he had obtained; he no longer knew whether exchanging fifty thousand good deeds for a Foundation Establishment Pill was worthwhile.

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Actually, when one thinks about it, it’s quite normal; the enemies he is currently encountering are all among the top of those in the Qi Refinement Realm and have a great chance of becoming Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

The sects these cultivators belong to will definitely prioritize their needs when distributing Foundation Establishment Pills.

Rather than allocating the Foundation Establishment Pill to ordinary cultivators who have little confidence in advancing, giving it to a talented Qi Refining Cultivator who has a great chance to add another Foundation Establishment Cultivator to their sect is an obvious choice.

Li Shiming looked at the Foundation Establishment Pills with some speechlessness; if seven of them could not help him advance to Foundation Establishment, then he reckoned he wouldn’t need to consider cultivating anymore.

After all, he had used several times the resources of other cultivators, and his aptitude wasn’t that terrible either, as he had three spirit root seeds, which were considered a medium-level talent in the Cultivation World, with numerous examples of successful advancements to Foundation Establishment.

To his surprise, the amount of spirit stones in his storage bracelet was pathetically small—just over a thousand low-grade spirit stones and around a hundred mid-grade spirit stones.

He was somewhat puzzled; given the identity of the bracelet’s owner, it didn’t seem possible that the spirit stones could be so few.

However, he discovered a jade plaque in the area where the spirit stones were kept; the jade plaque was a special magic artifact, and it bore the name of the Beishu Trading Company.

He swept his Spiritual Thought over the jade plaque from the Beishu Trading Company, and the numbers recorded within were 1,210,000 low-grade spirit stones and 60,000 mid-grade spirit stones.

“Is this thing a bank card?” Li Shiming understood the function of the jade plaque to some extent, but he was still very astonished that the cultivators of this world had managed to combine magical tool-making with arrays to create adjustable bank cards.

Through observation, he realized that altering the numbers inside the jade plaque was not simple; it required extremely complex calculations, and that was just at first glance.

He believed that inside this small jade plaque, there must be other methods to ensure that the number of spirit stones would not be tampered with.

Li Shiming didn’t attempt it; he guessed that in order to withdraw the spirit stones, the jade plaque would probably need to be authenticated with a certain magic artifact inside the Beishu Trading Company.

He didn’t even know where the Beishu Trading Company was or what kind of power it was, so why would he bother with such a futile effort?

Of course, he wasn’t lacking in spirit stones; he was not crazy enough to offend a trading company that could provide spirit stones storage and withdrawal services for cultivators just for the sake of a few spirit stones.

He didn’t find any identity information on the jade plaque from the Beishu Trading Company; it seemed to be the equivalent of an anonymous bank card, which was good. If he encountered the Beishu Trading Company in the future, he could try using this jade plaque.

Li Shiming skipped over the spirit stone area and looked at some magic artifacts placed next to it.

With his discernment, ordinary top-grade magic tools could no longer catch his eye, although he was only able to use top-grade magic tools at present.

There were many magic artifacts in the magic artifact area, dozens of them; he surmised that the Beishu Qi Refining Cultivator must have had a collecting habit, otherwise a normal Qi Refining Cultivator would only need one set for battle, one set for backup—two sets of magic artifacts would be plenty.

One set of magic artifacts at the Qi Refinement Realm consists of two to three items, which depends on the cultivator’s total amount of spiritual power and spirit strength.

Li Shiming set aside the top-grade magic tools, and there was one each of super-grade full body armor, super-grade shield, and super-grade sword artifact, which, combined with the Shu Mountain Seal, made up two sets of magic artifacts.

What surprised him was there were nine more flying swords, all spiritual artifacts, and a matching set at that.

The reason why he recognized the nine flying sword spiritual artifacts as a set was that it was blatantly obvious.

The nine flying sword spiritual artifacts were each engraved with the symbols of Qian Palace, Kan Palace, Gen Palace, Zhen Palace, Central Palace, Xun Palace, Li Palace, Kun Palace, and Dui Palace, and an Array Master had created Formation patterns on them.

Although they couldn’t compare to Li Shiming’s miniature array in terms of operation, they surpassed his own level in other aspects, which is why he judged them to be the works of an Array Master.

The nine flying sword spiritual artifacts could be considered weapons or array flags, their effects varying with the user, but the value of this set of spiritual artifacts was definitely far beyond that of nine ordinary spiritual artifacts.

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