Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 364: Chapter 228 Return_2

Even after breaking through to the mid-stage Foundation Establishment, one should take the top-tier elixir pills meant for cultivators of the mid-stage Foundation Establishment.

Ironically, Li Shiming always hoped that Li Yuanba would break through first, leading step by step and then be able to provide a massive amount of resources for Li Shiming.

But life is unpredictable, Li Shiming, with his excellent alchemy skills and the special nature of the machine room space, was actually able to refine top-tier elixir pills, which made him surpass the cultivation speed of his clone, Li Yuanba, and reach the peak of early-stage Foundation Establishment ahead of time.

Li Yuanba’s innate talent is definitely much stronger than Li Shiming’s, which was nearly demonstrated by his rapid advancement during the Qi Refinement Realm, practically dragging Li Shiming along.

However, no sooner had Li Yuanba begun practicing the ‘Ten Directions Sword Cultivation Technique’ than he was taken in by Elder Jian to switch his training to the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’, essentially starting his cultivation all over again.

Now he has just stabilized his early-stage Foundation Establishment strength and to reach the peak of the early-stage Foundation Establishment would be impossible without a decade or more of hard cultivation.

As a result, there is now the unusual situation where Li Shiming is providing resources to his clone Li Yuanba.

However, whether it’s the original body or the clone, they are both part of the same entity, so there’s no need to differentiate between the two.

Li Yuanba confidently stowed away the bottle of top-tier elixir pills, thirty in total, he was confident that he could break through to the mid-stage Foundation Establishment within a few years.

Moreover, if Li Shiming could continue to provide top-tier elixir pills, this timeframe could be shortened even further.

Keep in mind that it took Li Shiming just over a year to reach the peak of early-stage Foundation Establishment, with enough top-tier elixir pills and a cultivation speed tens of times faster, any rapid progress could be understood.

Li Yuanba received an order; the Foundation Establishment cultivators would withdraw from Jieshan Mountain Pass back to the sect.

He then joined the sect’s Flying Boat, led by a Golden Core Elder, to return to the sect.

Elsewhere, Li Shiming moved skillfully through the grand formation; within the formation, he could sense several Golden Core auras in the battlefield.

Luckily, both he and his clone Li Yuanba had learned the ‘Step by Step Lotus’, which allowed them to leave the area within a few breaths and avoid detection by any Golden Core cultivators.

He took out his Flying Boat, set its course, and then retrieved the storage bag sent by his clone Li Yuanba.

The storage bag contained many items, among them a Body Refining Arhat’s Buddha body, which is the top-tier material for Corpse Refining.

Li Yuanba had no use for it, so instead of using such an excellent Corpse Refining material to exchange for resources, it was better to give it to Li Shiming.

Although Li Shiming is currently unable to refine a Silver Corpse, with his current alchemy level, there is little doubt he will have a steady supply of top-tier elixir pills, and reaching the Golden Core Stage shouldn’t be a problem.

Even if the Shushan Sect’s resources for Golden Core advancement are tight, they will do their utmost to support an Alchemist who possesses a Spiritual Fire and has a superb talent for alchemy.

According to what Master Ma reported to the sect’s upper echelons, Li Shiming can almost be certain of becoming an Alchemy Master sooner or later.

An Alchemist at the Foundation Establishment Stage can serve the sect for just over a hundred years at most, but if Li Shiming’s strength reaches the Golden Core, then he can serve the sect for at least four hundred more years.

The gap between these periods, along with the rarity and importance of an Alchemy Master, will ensure the sect does whatever it takes to secure Li Shiming’s resources for Golden Core advancement.

Li Shiming glanced at the Body Refining Arhat’s Buddha body and put it together with another corpse belonging to Elder Lv, planning to refine them both directly into Silver Corpses after his Golden Core achievement to become powerful protectors on his path.

In the storage bag were also the Thick Earth Shield Pearl and third-grade earth attribute materials, which he could use.

He then took out the Formation knowledge exchanged by his clone Li Yuanba, scanning the content of each Jade Scroll into the IBMz15, which would collect and begin analyzing and researching the Formation knowledge.

‘Moonlight Corpse Scroll,’ although he didn’t directly refine Silver Corpses now, this cultivation technique could still enhance Nezha.

Both Jiang Chen and Nezha were refined using the corpse refining methods from the Qi Refinement Realm, and even though the secret corpse refining technique from the Xuanming Sect could refine from copper corpse all the way to iron corpse, it still lacked the enhancement process for iron corpses.

If it weren’t for the ‘Netherworld Ghost Realm Array,’ a corpse refining array using third-grade materials, he wouldn’t even be able to refine Nezha and Jiang Chen to their current strength.

Looking at the large number of Yin spiritual objects required by the ‘Moonlight Corpse Scroll’ to enhance iron corpses, he found a method to continue strengthening Nezha and Jiang Chen.

Moreover, once he matched some third-grade Yin spiritual objects, he could even let Li Yuanba try to elevate Jiang Chen to the strength of a Silver Corpse.

Jiang Chen was Li Yuanba’s life-bound corpse refining, which could be one entire realm higher than the cultivator’s own stage.

However, Jiang Chen had only recently entered the Iron Corpse stage, so for now, he planned to let Jiang Chen consolidate at the peak of Iron Corpse for a bit longer.

As for the body of Jue Tu Buddha stored in the corpse refining coffin, he planned to collect materials for refining as soon as he returned. The strength of Nezha by his side was still somewhat weak, and with his spirit, adding another corpse for refining wouldn’t be a strain.

In fact, many cultivators only refine one corpse not because of an issue with spirit but because the materials needed for corpse refining are too valuable, and the majority of cultivators can’t afford the consumption of multiple corpse refines.

Besides, having more corpses for refining isn’t necessarily better. Strengthening a single corpse to the extreme is much more suitable than refining several with ordinary strength.

Li Shiming, having success in alchemy, didn’t need to worry about resources at the moment, and since even Elder Lv coveted the body of Jue Tu Buddha, he also planned to refine Jue Tu Buddha’s body as his second corpse for refining.

The Corpse Refining Coffin was a rare treasure, and after he consecrated it, he discovered that it could preserve a body for a long time and also increase the success rate of turning a body into a refined corpse.

If a refined corpse were placed inside, it could slowly strengthen the refined corpse, which was equally effective for Silver Corpses.

Naturally, Li Shiming stored both the Body Refining Arhat and Elder Lv’s body into the Corpse Refining Coffin. This coffin was akin to a spatial object, with an interior space that could hold dozens of bodies without any issues.

All of Elder Lv’s scattered possessions, including a Space Ring and a vestment robe approaching the quality of a magical artifact, had been taken off when he entered the machine room space.

The robe now had holes in it after being pierced by the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun,’ but even so, it remained a valuable protective garment.

At least an attack from a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage would hardly be able to breach this garment’s defense. The ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’s’ offensive power shouldn’t even be considered within the range of the Cultivation World’s attacks, representing the technological might of another world.

Unfortunately, the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’ was too demanding in its application. It was no problem to deal with Foundation Establishment cultivators, but to face a Golden Core cultivator, the opponent needed to be close enough so that they couldn’t avoid the attack.

But if a Golden Core cultivator did actually get close to Li Shiming, the chances of them discovering him would significantly increase, not to mention Li Shiming being encumbered by a four-meter-long ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun.’

Probably without even waiting for Li Shiming to initiate an attack, the Golden Core cultivator would have struck first.

Additionally, Li Shiming still lacked confidence that the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’ could penetrate a Golden Core cultivator’s defense, and killing Elder Lv couldn’t be counted as killing a Golden Core Elder.

When Elder Lv was attacked, not only was his strength locked at the late-stage Foundation Establishment, but his spirit and consciousness weren’t present in the body either.

That is to say, the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’ attacked only a body of a Golden Core cultivator at the late-stage Foundation Establishment without any protective spells or use of Golden Core techniques. Because of Elder Lv’s instinctually incorrect combat judgment, he completely resisted the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’s’ strike with his body.

The last Golden Core cultivator to withstand a strike from the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’ was Sword Cultivator Yun Xingyi. That time, Li Yuanba first breached Yun Xingyi’s skin with multiple attacks using the Third Grade Sword Base, followed by a fatal blow from the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun.’

Yun Xingyi failed to block the strike from the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun,’ and Elder Lv, who forcibly endured the attack with his body, likewise didn’t survive.

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