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Chapter 1190: Chapter 641: Advancement (2)

He summoned the Asura Puppet, which requires a Nascent Soul Middle Stage to refine.

Now that he has reached this stage, he was somewhat eager to start refining the Asura Puppet.

The difficulty of refining the puppet wasn’t particularly high, and after applying the Master Recognition Technique, he established a connection with the Asura Puppet.

The Asura Puppet is a type of close-combat puppet with extremely strong defensive power and terrifying battle talents.

The Asura Puppet is of mid-fourth grade quality, created from a fourth-grade mid-stage Asura. Unlike those puppets made from mechanical materials, the Asura Puppet is a semi-living entity.

The entire body of the Asura Puppet is a weapon, embodying a true three-headed, six-armed form.

Li Shiming thought for a moment and then handed the Asura Drum to the Asura Puppet, also equipping it with a Mustard Seed Ring.

The sound of the Asura Drum has a special spiritual attack effect, and the drumstick itself is an extremely solid power-type weapon.

Perfectly suitable for the Asura Puppet, with the Asura Drum’s drumstick in hand, it can significantly enhance the puppet’s close-combat strength.

This Asura Puppet equates to the combat power of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage, providing Li Shiming an additional support in the Nascent Soul Middle Stage realm.

He put away the Asura Puppet, needing real combat to truly test it.

He then took out a bracelet he had acquired from the grotto heaven of Great Power Zhai Ge — the ’Ghost Bracelet.’

Within the ’Ghost Bracelet’ is a fourth-grade mid-stage ghost, and although he had obtained the ’Ghost Bracelet’ a long time ago, today he could finally recognize and use it.

After recognizing the ’Ghost Bracelet,’ the mental consumption was quite minimal, incomparable to directly contracting a fourth-grade mid-stage ghost.

Once Li Shiming established a connection with the ’Ghost Bracelet,’ he could distinctly sense the fourth-grade mid-stage ghost within.

He had absolute control over this fourth-grade mid-stage ghost.

Even commanding the fourth-grade mid-stage ghost to self-destruct on the spot, it would promptly comply.

Li Shiming casually summoned the fourth-grade mid-stage ghost from the ’Ghost Bracelet,’ observing it hovering before him, sensing the greed of the Heavenly Ghost for the ghost.

The Heavenly Ghost was only at the early fourth-grade level at the moment. To advance the Heavenly Ghost to the mid-fourth grade isn’t difficult, merely requiring the consumption of some early fourth-grade ghosts, or just one mid-fourth grade ghost.

However, Li Shiming wouldn’t allow the Heavenly Ghost to devour the mid-fourth grade ghost before him. He could easily find other mid-fourth grade ghosts for consumption.

The combat power of a mid-fourth grade ghost was quite important to him.

Especially over a long period after advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, he needed to elevate all his methods to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage level, relying on certain Nascent Soul Middle Stage methods to maintain his standing.

Li Shiming appeased the Heavenly Ghost, promising to find a mid-fourth grade ghost for it to devour.

He recalled the mid-fourth grade ghost back into the ’Ghost Bracelet’ and wore the bracelet on his arm.

Ordinarily, the ’Ghost Bracelet’ was concealed by the ’Water Dragon Taoist Robe,’ but when needed, it could release a mid-fourth grade ghost from within the robe’s sleeve for combat.

He then re-checked on the Golden Corpse Nanming, finding everything normal. With a slight thought, he entered the grotto heaven.

He was standing in the grand hall of the ’Heavenly Human Dao.’ Despite reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, he still couldn’t master the grotto heaven due to lacking the ’Heavenly Human Technique.’

His entry into the ’Heavenly Human Dao’ hall was not for cultivation. He had just consumed a large amount of ’Purple Field Plasma Liquid,’ not to elevate his cultivation but to constantly refine himself, solidifying his foundation.

He flipped his hand, a drop of blood appearing before him.

From this drop of blood, he could sense an overwhelming aura.

Facing this drop of blood, he felt an illusion of confronting a terrifyingly powerful existence.

This is a drop of a Body Refining Great Power’s blood, consuming it could facilitate in advancing from the Nascent Soul Middle Stage to the Great Cultivator Realm.

Of course, this isn’t the only benefit of the Great Power’s blood. It would provide him with many more additional advantages.

His realm was sufficient to consume the blood of the Body Refining Great Power, and he ingested it.

As the blood entered his stomach, he felt an intense heat emanating from it.

The Great Power’s blood was transforming into an unknown energy, easily absorbed by his body.

Li Shiming felt his body’s extreme hunger, with every cell yearning for the energy converted from the Great Power’s blood.

The energy transformed from the Great Power’s blood flowed through his body, causing significant changes in the tissues it passed.

His body was strengthening in every part, this strengthening unrelated to the cultivation method runes within him but was an intrinsic enhancement of his body.

Previously, his body was immensely robust due to cultivating the ’Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique,’ but this was reliant on the runes of body refining techniques within his flesh.

Now, although aided by the ’Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique’ to enhance his physique, his body was continuously strengthening, soon surpassing the technique’s bodily enhancement effects.

An indescribable strength, he had an illusion of being able to destroy everything.

He understood this was an illusion, stemming from the initial illusion of gaining great strength.

The transformation process of the Great Power’s blood wasn’t swift, taking a full ten days to completely convert into unknown energy and be absorbed entirely by Li Shiming’s body.

Li Shiming stood at the center of the ’Heavenly Human Dao’ hall, slowly opening his eyes.

He was at a loss for words to describe his physique, which now had an unusual quality, with his blood being golden and his muscles ten times tougher than before.

His skin seemed unchanged, yet he distinctly sensed that its defensive power had multiplied several times.

If he relied solely on his skin for defense, he was confident in withstanding attacks from a Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioner using fourth-grade upper-stage magical treasures.

And if he utilized a full-force punch, he felt he could shatter space.

This level of defense and power made him consider abandoning the ’Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique.’

There was no need, as even cultivating the ’Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique’ couldn’t elevate his defense to his current level.

Not to mention his strength had also greatly increased, far surpassing the ’Taiqing Xuan Turtle Technique’s enhancement on power.

Li Shiming analyzed and judged through his natal magical treasure IBMz15, finding that his physique alone could contend with and defeat Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators from major sects and above.

This was merely one effect of the Great Power’s blood. After fully absorbing it, he sensed his cultivation talent had reached an unimaginable level.

His physique possessed an extraordinary affinity for spiritual energy, greatly enhancing the effects of his cultivation, along with numerous hidden benefits brought by the improvement in talent.

The enhancement in cultivation talent was extremely significant, arguably more so than the increase in his body’s defense and strength.

Even though it was only a drop of Great Power’s blood, its effect on strengthening his body was greater than anything else he’d encountered before.

Li Shiming’s strengthening of his body was for future plans. Based on the information from his mentor, Grandmaster Hu, and Li Yuanba from Sword Elder, to achieve further progress in the Great Cultivator Realm, a sufficiently strong foundation and talent for cultivation were essential.

Li Shiming’s talent was, in fact, lacking. His spirit root seeds were at the three spirit root level, with most cultivators at this level halting at the Foundation Establishment Stage. To overcome this limit, he needed to improve his situation.

Enhancing his cultivation talent could also significantly increase his absorption rate of Spirit Pills, accelerating his cultivation progress greatly.