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Chapter 1044: Chapter 568: The Oncoming Attack (Part 2)

The small flame landed on his Golden Core, as if the Golden Core caught fire.

Just when Li Yuanba thought it was all over, he acknowledged the small flame as its master. Energy transmitted from the void, the energy was Supreme Yin in the void, but transformed into Supreme Yang when it entered his body.

This was a special ability of his Taiji Dao Body, the energy seemed to inject vitality into the small flame, and the small flame quickly began to grow.

He perceived for a moment, only to realize that the energy from the void was coming from the ’Xuanyin Ghost Fire’.

Normally, in his human state, without the presence of a Spiritual Fire with Supreme Yang attributes, the ’Xuanyin Ghost Fire’ wouldn’t be affected by the Taiji Dao Body.

Once the Spiritual Fire is acknowledged as its master, it becomes a part of the cultivator’s body, and when conditions are met, it would also be influenced by the Taiji Dao Body.

When it was just the ’Xuanyin Ghost Fire’, Li Yuanba’s Taiji Dao Body couldn’t balance the Yin and Yang energy of the Spiritual Fire, but when he acknowledged the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire and brought it into his body, the condition for balancing the Yin and Yang Spiritual Fires was fulfilled.

Li Yuanba was surprised to perceive the continual growth of the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire inside him, which didn’t take long to reach the peak of the third grade, matching the quality of the ’Xuanyin Ghost Fire’.

The peak of the third grade Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire was vastly different from the other Spiritual Fires he had seen.

The Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire was extremely domineering, in his view, using such a fire for alchemy would increase the difficulty significantly, as it could be described as volatile due to the influence of the Supreme Yang attribute.

To control such a fire well requires a higher level of mastery from an Alchemy Master.

Moreover, this Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire should also be suitable for Artifact Refining, although the fire’s terrifying power makes it fierce, the requirement for control in Artifact Refining is relatively lower compared to alchemy, plus the fire’s power is strong enough to easily melt the materials.

Li Yuanba was somewhat puzzled why the middle-aged cultivator didn’t acknowledge this Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire as its master for Artifact Refining, but chose to use a third-grade ’Earth Fire Plate’ instead.

He didn’t even consider that if this Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire was easy to acknowledge as its master, it wouldn’t have been passed down to him.

The biggest challenge of acknowledging this Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire as its master is the need for a Supreme Yang Dao Body, otherwise, the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire would continuously burn the cultivator’s body upon entering.

Even though the burn damage under the circumstance of acknowledgment wouldn’t be too serious, no cultivator would withstand it for a long term.

It’s impossible to consume healing Spirit Pills to treat burns every once in a while just for a Spiritual Fire.

Even consuming healing Spirit Pills requires considering the resistance built up from long-term use, excessive consumption would diminish the healing effects, still leaving one unable to resist the burning of the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire someday.

He looked at his Mustard Seed Ring, retrieving a set of third-grade alchemy materials, which he had won as loot at an unknown time.

He acknowledged a third-grade Pill Furnace as its master, preparing to attempt using the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire for alchemy.

With all of Li Shiming’s alchemy experiences, though Li Shiming mostly practiced alchemy in the chamber space, Li Shiming answered the questions repeatedly by following a standard answer, making such experience even more important than those Alchemy Masters who explore continuously.

Li Yuanba’s alchemy requires constant comparison with the correct answer, getting as close to the correct answer as possible.

He cast the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire into the third-grade Pill Furnace, feeling the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire within, and tried to control the size and power of the fire.

He had the experience of controlling ’Red Sun Spirit Fire’ on Li Shiming’s side, but initially still made mistakes, unable to control the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire satisfactorily.

Faced with trouble, he sought help from the intrinsic treasure IBMz15, which analyzed the intelligence of the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire and summarized a set of fire-controlling methods tailored for the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire.

Li Yuanba got familiar for a period, finally managing to skillfully control the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire as desired.

On his first attempt at alchemy, starting from placing the first Spiritual Medicine until completing the pill, unfortunately, even though Li Shiming had successfully used the ’Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ numerous times in the chamber space, he couldn’t successfully perform the ’Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ outside the chamber space despite having Li Shiming’s experience.

This batch of third-grade Spirit Pills was actually full, with the quality reaching a high level, but of course, it didn’t reach the theoretical extreme, only reluctantly achieving high quality.

”This is more like a real Alchemist!” Li Yuanba didn’t mind, saying with a laugh.

He wasn’t expecting much from his alchemy skills; if truly important alchemy tasks arose, naturally, Li Shiming must take action.

With double the yield and higher quality, unless he disliked having too many alchemy materials, how could he not seek Li Shiming?

After this alchemy, he gained more confidence; if he had a Nascent Soul Early Stage Fourth Grade Spiritual Medicine at hand, he could refine Nascent Soul Early Stage Fourth Grade Spirit Pill.

Li Yuanba was summarizing the recent alchemy experience, unlike Li Shiming, who had IBMz15 ready to assist anytime.

Although he could contact IBMz15, it was separated by a layer, unable to access IBMz15’s help anytime anywhere.

He needed to summarize experiences on his own, based on the characteristics of the Supreme Yang Spiritual Fire, the summarized experiences are his personal alchemy experiences.

While he was thinking, a warning startled him from his thoughts.

The warning came from the formation of the cave, triggering the alert of the cave as a cultivator entered the cave’s warning range.

Li Yuanba’s Divine Thought entered into the formation, through the formation’s ability perceived the situation outside the cave.

He noted five cultivators appearing outside the cave, among them, one floating in the air had the aura of a Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner, the others were all Late-stage Golden Core.

The four Late-stage Golden Core surrounded the cave from four directions.

”Zhang Tieshan, come out, don’t hide inside!” shouted a Golden Core cultivator towards the cave.

”It seems they came for the middle-aged cultivator, that middle-aged cultivator’s real name is Zhang Tieshan!” thought Li Yuanba in his heart.

He didn’t respond to the Golden Core cultivator, looking at the Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner, assessing the gap between them in his heart.

No need to mention direct fighting; a huge difference in realm makes it difficult to even withstand the opponent’s pressure.

”Zhang Tieshan, Ancestor Song said, as long as you hand over the ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’ and surrender, the sect will leave you a complete corpse. Otherwise, the sect will extract your soul and burn it on the ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’ for a thousand years!” the Golden Core cultivator continued to shout.

”There’s no Zhang Tieshan here, you have mistaken!” Li Yuanba wanted to see if he could bluff them, he said in a deep voice.

”The Hundred Refinement Sect has been searching for you for sixty years. Do you really think you can escape tracking? You have no other means. You can only survive by Artifact Refining. Although you changed your refining style, the basics can still reveal your origin to any sect cultivator!” The Golden Core cultivator didn’t believe they were mistaken and kept speaking.

Li Yuanba felt helpless; how unfortunate to encounter them today after they had searched for sixty years.

Indeed, it was both coincidence and inevitability.

Zhang Tieshan spent most of the sixty years secluded, near mortal places where Spiritual Energy is sparse, successfully evading the Hundred Refinement Sect’s tracking.

Apart from some Golden Core cultivators retiring in markets, there couldn’t survive Golden Core cultivators in such a place.

In sixty years, Zhang Tieshan exhausted the resources he carried, unwilling to die in the Golden Core Stage, he sought further advancement.

Thus, he chose Artifact Refining to sustain cultivation, originating from the Hundred Refinement Sect, having no other means to live.

He changed his refining style, only secretly trading with market organizers, but the refining technique from the Hundred Refinement Sect, no matter how altered, remains consistent in essence.

Eventually discovered by the sect’s cultivators were his crafted artifacts, leading to tracing and locating him here.

Li Yuanba also found him through the market, hence both coincidence and inevitability.