Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 668: Chapter 380 Arrangements_2

Because in front of him appeared a being entirely radiating with silver light. It was inaccurate to call it a person—it was more appropriate to call it a monster.

This monster stood four meters tall, nearly reaching the top of the warehouse, with blood-red eyes and terrifyingly sharp fangs.

“Don’t be afraid, this is Jue Tu, a corpse refined by the cultivation world. The jade talisman in your hand can control it, but it won’t leave this three-section courtyard. It will always protect this place. Anyone daring to provoke this place with an attack will be immediately slain by it. If an enemy comes to our home, the jade talisman can manipulate it to kill!” Li Shiming explained with a smile.

The corpse refining of Jue Tu used the body of a certain cultivator who practiced killing to achieve enlightenment, whose killing intent was almost substantial.

In the past, Li Shiming had valued Jue Tu greatly. Unfortunately, as his vision expanded, Jue Tu, a half-finished product that seeks to achieve enlightenment through killing and had not even broken through to the Golden Core, gradually lost his importance in Li Shiming’s eyes.

Moreover, Jue Tu being a core disciple of the Qianye Temple, having him stay at the family’s Sky Sea Island residence was indeed a good thing.

Now as a Silver Corpse, Jue Tu’s combat abilities were such that it could easily defeat even Golden Core Early Stage cultivators and could hold its ground against Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators.

Most importantly, through the connection he had with Jue Tu, if it encountered any trouble, he would know immediately.

Then he would be aware if anything happened at home. If Jue Tu couldn’t resolve the issue, he could also come back and seek revenge for his family.

Of course, one must think that if even a Silver Corpse couldn’t shelter a family, then what kind of force must this family have offended? And what kind of powerful forces could a mundane family even attract?

“Big brother, where will Jue Tu reside?” Li Shijie regained his composure and asked.

He knew his big brother would not harm him. His big brother was an Immortal, and this was the work of an Immortal.

“I’ll set up a space underground. You don’t need to worry about it. As long as nothing happens at home, Jue Tu won’t appear. In the future, this jade talisman should be passed down generation to generation. As long as I have not fallen, then Jue Tu can at least protect our family for five hundred years!” Li Shiming thought for a moment and answered.

With his cultivation at the Golden Core Stage, even if he couldn’t break through to the Nascent Soul, he would still have a lifespan of five hundred years.

In the world of mortals, five hundred years are equivalent to more than twenty generations of people.

Li Shijie’s mouth gaped open; he realized one thing—that his big brother could live for at least five hundred years.

His reverence for Li Shiming intensified, for he had grown up hearing the stories of Li Shiming from a young age. When Li WenYuan educated him, he often mentioned Li Shiming.

Li Shiming, the youngest third-place winner in Xia Country and then recruited by the Immortals, became an Immortal himself.

Li Shiming smiled and patted Li Shijie’s shoulder, then left the room.

The arrangement of Jue Tu was, in fact, quite straightforward.

When he summoned Jue Tu, he concealed its aura. Otherwise, if he had summoned a Silver Corpse in the Imperial City, the Imperial City’s formations would have long sounded an alarm.

He excavated a space underground, followed by setting up a formation.

This formation served several purposes: Firstly, it protected the three-section courtyard above, ensuring that it could not be destroyed—at least by worldly forces.

Secondly, it generated a mild environment of Spiritual Energy within the three-section courtyard, where a small amount of Spiritual Energy could strengthen mortals’ bodies. An excess of it, however, would be toxic to mortals.

Thirdly, the underground space absorbed Spiritual Energy, transforming it into an environment suitable for the corpse-refined being’s dormancy.

Jue Tu was highly sensitive to killing intent. Any person, whether a mortal or a cultivator, carrying killing intent within the three-section courtyard would awaken Jue Tu.

In addition, that jade talisman could also awaken Jue Tu, controlling it to strike.

The reason he confined Jue Tu only within the three-section courtyard and forbade its departure was his concern that among his descendants, there would be some who did not know better. They might use Jue Tu to vie for power, allowing Jue Tu to become just a tool for the pursuit of power.

Setting up the underground space didn’t take long; the formation was completed within two hours.

In the backyard’s flower garden, he discovered a patch of vegetables planted by Si Qin.

Originally, this area should have been planted with ornamental trees and flowers, but because the family was strapped for cash, Si Qin planted vegetables instead to reduce household expenses.

The vegetable plot was small, planted with some common green vegetables.

Li Shiming approached the plot, waved his hand, and a mist of rain appeared, moistening the green vegetables within the plot.

He had not used any particularly advanced Spirit Plant Master abilities but had applied the lowest-level “Spring Breeze and Rain Skill”.

On one hand, the abilities of a high-level Spirit Plant Master were too potent for ordinary fields and mundane plants to withstand; on the other, even if these abilities were effective, too strong an effect would render the spiritual energy contained within the plants unbearable for mortals.

He carefully controlled the amount of spiritual energy in the green vegetables so it was just right for mortals to handle without being adversely affected.

At noon, he personally cooked a meal using these green vegetables imbued with a trace of spiritual energy and prepared a whole table of dishes.

Because he cooked an abundance, not only the master of the house, but also Si Qin and the Mo Yan family had their share.

It’s likely that the cultivators of Beishu Continent would leap in shock if they knew that Li Shiming personally cooked meals just for a group of mortals.

In Beishu Continent, the spiritual tea he brewed was already a top-level hospitality item for high-profile occasions.

The lunch made the family feel extremely comfortable, especially Li WenYuan, who became revitalized after eating the dishes Li Shiming specially prepared to nourish a mortal’s body.

That afternoon, Li Shiming planted two tea plants in a corner of the flower garden. These weren’t spiritual teas, but with his modifications and the influence of formations, these two plants would periodically produce a small amount of tea leaves with faint spiritual energy.

Consuming this tea regularly could ensure one’s health.

All of this was his way of leaving a legacy for his family, since as mortals, they couldn’t keep even the best items he might possess.

Over the three days at home, he never once left the house, spending each day with his father, teaching his brother to read, and instructing Si Qin on how to tend and roast the tea plants.

He appeared to have forgotten about the matters of cultivation, yet his spirit became increasingly refined in such ordinary life.

Three days later, he said goodbye to his father and, becoming invisible, soared into the sky, leaving the Imperial City.

He landed atop a mountain a hundred miles outside the Imperial City, where he laid down the Heavenly Gang Four Phase Array using a fourth-grade array plate and then enhanced it with third-grade array flags.

Only then did he settle into the array, sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion that had been used by Patriarch Weng Zhao.

Next, he took out a fourth-grade vein-locking plate, releasing the spiritual energy of a Nascent Soul Level spirit vein.

These preparations were not for ordinary cultivation; rather, they followed an epiphany he experienced upon returning to mortal life for three days—his Golden Core Early Stage bottleneck had unexpectedly loosened.

Frankly, Li Shiming had not anticipated advancing to Golden Core Middle Stage so quickly. In the Cultivation World, advancement isn’t as simple as reaching a certain level of cultivation; each leap in realm requires its own opportunity.

Of course, his homecoming epiphanies were just one factor; more importantly, it was the insights he gained from the Venerable Zhi Jing that allowed him to understand, and even surpass, the level necessary for Golden Core Early Stage.

He cleared his mind and began circulating the spiritual energy in his five Golden Cores according to the “Five Rhymes Qi Cultivation Technique” Golden Core chapter.

As spiritual energy circulated, moments of sudden understanding arose in his heart, and the spiritual energy underwent unnoticed transformations.

The spiritual energy returned to the Golden Cores, where the energy within was continuously replaced by the changed spiritual energy.

After all the energy in the five Golden Cores had been replaced, the cores simultaneously vibrated, and a fearsome aura burst forth from him.

The five Golden Cores grew slightly larger, with both the capacity and quality of the contained spiritual energy greatly enhanced.

The energy that once filled the five early-stage Golden Cores to their peaks now only filled a tenth of the five mid-stage Golden Cores, indicating a manifold increase in the amount of spiritual energy within the Golden Cores.

Additionally, the quality of the spiritual energy had also increased significantly, reflected in the increased power of his attacks.

Furthermore, under the operation of the “Five Elements Qi Absorption Array” within the five Golden Cores, the spiritual energy in the cores continued to consolidate, with their quality reaching the peak of the Golden Core Middle Stage despite the decreased quantity.