Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 461: Chapter 277 Oblivion

Li Yuanba, preoccupied with his thoughts, returned to the dwelling of the final task target.

Although the dwelling had been through a battle, it remained intact as no actual fighting had occurred inside.

He also located the original owner of the place, the mission target from the Senluo Sect.

The mission target, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, was now merely a corpse, carelessly tossed in a storage room.

Regardless, having found the body meant that the task was complete, and after collecting the corpse, he set off to return to the Senluo Sect.

Li Yuanba refused to linger outside any longer, aiming to return to the sect before Elder Yue discovered Niu Ziru’s slip-up.

It happened to be evening, allowing him to use “Step by Step Lotus” without reservation, and he returned to the Senluo Sect in just a few hours.

When it came time to hand in the task, he encountered no trouble, although his keen senses told him he was being watched by other cultivators.

A cold laughter formed in his heart. Now that he had ample cultivation resources and his strength was rapidly increasing, his future looked bright. He would seek his revenge against Elder Yue once he became a Golden Core cultivator.

After completing the tasks, he felt a weight lifted from his shoulders. The contribution points from the three missions might not have been much, but they were enough to sustain a year of undisturbed seclusion.

Once back at Ten Thousand Sword Peak, he resumed his daily routine of ingesting top-grade Spirit Pills for cultivation, and spent his remaining time integrating the Artifact Refining materials into various parts of Ten Thousand Sword Peak as previously designed.

The days that followed were both boring and fulfilling; boring because he resided alone on Ten Thousand Sword Peak with not a single outsider in sight, just him.

Yet, they were fulfilling since, aside from allocating a small amount of time for cultivation, the rest of his day was filled with ceaseless activity and not a moment of leisure.

Li Yuanba, cultivating the “Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique,” advanced rapidly in his cultivation, sensing daily the increase in Spiritual Power within his Spirit Lake.

At the Shushan Sect, his main body, Li Shiming, was also extremely busy.

It took him nearly three months to complete the Alchemy orders arranged by his master, Elder Ma, amassing twenty-nine Mountain-breaking Pills, Resurrection Pills, Vessel Protecting Pills, and Soul Stabilizing Pills, even including one top-quality elixir of each kind.

Of course, this was the result of many years’ accumulation of elixir ingredients by the three major righteous sects and the forces closely associated with Elder Ma. Generally, due to the importance of elixir resources, they prefer to enlist high-success-rate Alchemy Masters.

Such Alchemy Masters rarely perform their craft, one must understand that even Alchemy Masters need to be in the right state to create Third-grade Spirit Pills.

Many Alchemy Masters lead relaxed lives precisely for the purpose of finding the ideal state for Alchemy, only committing to produce the more valuable Third-grade Spirit Pills when their condition is at its peak.

Even an Alchemy Master like Elder Ma, who possesses the Alchemy teachings of the Shushan Sect, can only guarantee the success rate, not the quality of Third-grade Spirit Pills, highlighting the difficulty in producing such elixirs.

Finding a genius Alchemy Master like Li Shiming who could manage both success rate and quality, they naturally did everything possible to prioritize bringing their most important Third-grade Spirit Pills resources to him.

No one knew whether Li Shiming’s current state would continue indefinitely, so they all wanted to take advantage of his peak Alchemy condition to create the elixirs from their resources.

In these three months of continuous Third-grade Spirit Pill production, Li Shiming’s Alchemy skills soared.

Now, even without the workshop space, he could ensure full output and a certain quality for Third-grade Spirit Pills.

Of course, Alchemy outside the workshop space still significantly differed from that within, but as his experience accumulated, that gap steadily closed.

During these three months, Li Shiming’s gains in other areas were considerable.

Today, within the realm of righteous cultivation on the Beishu Continent, he could be considered to have friends all over.

Elder Ma introduced his friends to Li Shiming, who would then engage in direct conversations with him. Even Golden Core Elders with significant power from the large sects were extremely courteous to Li Shiming.

Moreover, Li Shiming obtained many resources, particularly the Third-grade Corpse Refining materials he requested, which became compensation for many Golden Core cultivators seeking pills.

For cultivators of lesser status on the Righteous Path, corpse refining could potentially become a point of criticism. However, for an Alchemy Master, it hardly mattered.

The Righteous Path Golden Core cultivators were also willing to use Third-grade Corpse Refining materials as payment, as their value on the Righteous Path was much less than within the Demon Sect, making it a very cost-effective choice for them.

After these three months, it was time for Elder Su’s orders, his friends’ requests that came from building relationships. Although they were all Third-grade Spirit Pills for Golden Core Early Stage practitioners, the pills were diverse.

Fortunately, the Shushan Sect had collected plenty of Third-grade Pill Recipes. Even for some obscure Third-grade Spiritual Medicines, the Golden Core cultivators seeking pills would take the initiative to provide the necessary Elixir Recipes.

During this time, he still produced numerous Second-grade Spirit Pills for the Beishu Trading Company. As for the Third-grade Spirit Pill orders from the Beishu Trading Company, those would have to wait until Elder Su’s friends’ orders were fulfilled before considering crafting Third-grade Spirit Pills for them.

Besides, the Third-grade Spirit Pill orders from the Beishu Trading Company required verification by the Shushan Sect.