Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 548: Chapter 320 Power_2

However, he was not in a hurry to refine the corpses from the two Golden Core bodies into Corpse Refining. He planned to wait until his strength increased further before proceeding.

Refining a corpse is not only related to the original strength of the body but also to the realm of the Sacrificial Refiner himself.

For the body of a Body Refining Arhat, if he started refining it now, he feared that the best outcome would be the strength of an early-stage Silver Corpse. Waiting until his own realm advanced to the middle stage of the Golden Core, he would need to use a large amount of resources to raise the strength of the Silver Corpse.

Currently, he was not lacking in combat power. The combat prowess of a mid-stage Silver Corpse, together with the twelve prepared reserve Silver Corpses, was already enough to handle any troubles.

In addition, he had a hidden combat power, the Absolute Spirit Illusion Snake.

The Absolute Spirit Illusion Snake was not far from advancing to the third-grade. Once the Absolute Spirit Illusion Snake ascended to the third-grade, it could potentially bring about the downfall of any Golden Core cultivator under a surprise attack.

A communication technique came flying in, and he casually received it, sensing the information within.

He glanced at the ‘Nine Revolutions Thunder Storage Array’ and then turned to leave the cave dwelling.

As long as he did not leave Sword Holding Peak, the connection between him and the Iron Corpse ensured that his personal magic treasure, the IBMz15, would automatically monitor the twelve Iron Corpses and prevent any issues from arising.

The visitor was his attendant Ye Lingyun. Ever since Ye Lingyun became a Foundation Establishment cultivator, one of her duties had been to transport materials for him.

Ye Lingyun had the freedom to enter and exit Sword Holding Peak at will, but entering the peak’s summit still required sending a spell to Li Shiming.

“My lord, this is the Spiritual Medicine sent from the Beishu Trading Company!” Ye Lingyun said respectfully, presenting a storage bag.

Today, Ye Lingyun’s status was completely different from before. She had been the first among the attendants to advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage, making her stand out.

With this advantage, she had become Li Shiming’s external liaison.

Li Shiming took the storage bag and scanned its contents with his Divine Thought. It contained materials for three Third-grade Spirit Pills, fulfilling an order from the Beishu Trading Company.

Apart from refining pills for the Golden Core Elders of the sect, orders from the Beishu Trading Company would also be delivered after receiving the sect’s approval.

As a Guest Elder for the Beishu Trading Company, he took advantage of their offerings, particularly obtaining many research materials related to technology through them.

In his previous life, those research materials might have been considered precious, but in this world, anything that was not a Spiritual Object held little value.

The Beishu Trading Company not only didn’t profit from collecting and transporting mundane objects for Li Shiming, but it also incurred quite a loss.

“This vial of Third-grade Spirit Pills should still be delivered through the previous channel to that place!” Li Shiming nodded, taking out a jade bottle from his Space Ring and instructing Ye Lingyun.

“Yes, my lord!” Ye Lingyun replied, receiving the jade bottle.

She didn’t need to ask; she knew where the Third-grade Spirit Pills in the jade bottle were headed. She would transport them through the channel periodically.

As for the fact that her master had connections with Devil Cultivators, it wasn’t something she, as an attendant, should inquire into.

Besides, even if Li Shiming had some dealings with Devil Cultivators, knowing his status and position, it wouldn’t be significant if the sect were to find out.

Ye Lingyun’s accomplishments were all thanks to her master.

Before becoming Li Shiming’s attendant, she was only considered to have average aptitude within her Cultivation Family, and with her talents in cultivation, she probably would have remained in the Qi Refinement Realm for her entire life, with little chance of advancing to Foundation Establishment.

After following Li Shiming, although she and the other two attendants were busy daily, taking care of the spirit fields on a mountain peak, they enjoyed cultivation resources that even the True Inheritors of the sect could not match.

They were supplied with Spirit Pills refined by Li Shiming himself every month.

The Spirit Pills refined by Li Shiming, regardless of their grade, were coveted by countless cultivators outside.

It was precisely these Spirit Pills that allowed her, a cultivator with modest resources at the Qi Refinement Realm, to successfully break through and become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

It wasn’t just her—her two followers had also reached the peak of Qi Refinement, and had been given Foundation Establishment Pills by the senior.

However, Ye Lingyun was not worried about competing with her two followers. She had already seized the initiative, managing many of the senior’s important affairs. Even if the other two followers successfully advanced, they would only become her assistants.

Li Shiming sent Ye Lingyun away and delivered three batches of Spiritual Medicine into the space of the machine room.

Within the machine room space, the Five Elements Nine Revolutions Furnace blazed with Red Sun Spiritual Fire. A Divine Thought processed the three batches of Spiritual Medicine, and then alchemy began.

During the alchemy, Li Shiming seemed as if he had nothing to worry about. A white lotus appeared beneath his feet, and he vanished and reappeared within the underground factory area.

Nowadays, he didn’t need to concentrate fully on alchemy. A single Divine Thought used for alchemy was equivalent to his previous undivided attention.

In the factory area, over a hundred Divine Thoughts flew out, operating various machines within the factory zone.

Especially in the chip area, after refining the IBMz15 as his life-bound magical artifact, he had made continuous and significant achievements in research, with the chip being the most notable.

The research materials for the chip were readily available; all he had to do was to create qualified production machines based on the research data.

In his previous life, even with countless human and material resources put into the research of nanometer-scale chips—and with existing research achievements—the progress was still very difficult.

This was due to insufficient basic industry. Many machines couldn’t be researched not because of lack of knowledge but because the basic industry was inadequate to manufacture the materials required for the machine parts.

One aspect in which this world was much stronger than his previous one was in the richness of materials.

Affected by Spiritual Energy, many Spiritual Objects had emerged. For example, in the realm of metals, spiritual metals possessed characteristics far beyond ordinary metals. Moreover, with the synthesis science from his previous world, the combination of various spiritual metals and ordinary metals resulted in metals far surpassing those of his previous life.

Previously, Li Shiming had spent a great deal of time on metal synthesis experiments.

Finding the right alloy proportions required countless experiments.

This task, with the help of his life-bound magical artifact IBMz15, had made tremendous progress.

One hundred ninety-one brains were equivalent to one hundred ninety-one researchers, supported by the computational power of IBMz15. Not even the top researchers from his previous world could compare to any of these one hundred ninety-one brains.

Currently, he had completed about eighty percent of the research work on nanometer-scale chips, and soon he would be able to trial-produce the first generation of nanoscale chips.

After being busy in the factory zone for ten hours, he ceased today’s research work and wrapped up his tasks for the day.

Meanwhile, in his machine room space, the first batch of Third-grade Spirit Pills was produced. He took four of the six Spirit Pills and placed them into a jade bottle to be sent out, with the four Third-grade Spirit Pills as his payment.

Following that, the second batch of Third-grade Spirit Pills began to be refined. Nowadays, alchemy no longer affected his daily affairs.

Even if he were to engage in battle, the alchemy within the machine room space would not be disturbed. Out of the one hundred ninety-one brains, only one needed to be allocated to carry out the alchemy.

“It seems I need to refine a few more Pill Furnaces!” thought Li Shiming as he left the underground factory area.

In his opinion, having only one “Five Elements Nine Revolutions Furnace” magical artifact was too few; he could only operate one furnace at a time.

If he had several more Pill Furnace magical artifacts, he would be able to refine several batches of Spirit Pills at the same time.

In fact, even an Alchemy Master like Elder Ma would not use the Divine Separation and Thought Transformation Technique to refine Third-grade Spirit Pills.

The refinement of Third-grade Spirit Pills was extremely complex; even dedicating one’s full attention to the process, issues could still arise, let alone refining several batches of Third-grade Spirit Pills at the same time.

Third-grade Spiritual Medicine was too precious, and the losses incurred from an increased failure rate were far more significant than any time saved during alchemy.

But Li Shiming was different. With one hundred ninety-one CPU cores on his life-bound magical artifact IBMz15, each core acting as one of his brains, he could, in fact, operate one hundred ninety-one furnaces at the same time if it weren’t for the limitations of the Red Sun Spiritual Fire and the Pill Furnace magical artifacts.