NOVPUBChapter 364: Chapter 228 Return_2
Even after breaking through to the mid-stage Foundation Establishment, one should take the top-tier elixir pills meant for cultivators of the mid-stage Foundation Establishment.
Ironically, Li Shiming always hoped that Li Yuanba would break through first, leading step by step and then be able to provide a massive amount of resources for Li Shiming.
But life is unpredictable, Li Shiming, with his excellent alchemy skills and the special nature of the machine room space, was actually able to refine top-tier elixir pills, which made him surpass the cultivation speed of his clone, Li Yuanba, and reach the peak of early-stage Foundation Establishment ahead of time.
Li Yuanba’s innate talent is definitely much stronger than Li Shiming’s, which was nearly demonstrated by his rapid advancement during the Qi Refinement Realm, practically dragging Li Shiming along.
However, no sooner had Li Yuanba begun practicing the ‘Ten Directions Sword Cultivation Technique’ than he was taken in by Elder Jian to switch his training to the ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’, essentially starting his cultivation all over again.
Now he has just stabilized his early-stage Foundation Establishment strength and to reach the peak of the early-stage Foundation Establishment would be impossible without a decade or more of hard cultivation.
As a result, there is now the unusual situation where Li Shiming is providing resources to his clone Li Yuanba.
However, whether it’s the original body or the clone, they are both part of the same entity, so there’s no need to differentiate between the two.
Li Yuanbanfidently stowed away the bottle of top-tier elixir pills, thirty in total, he wasnfident that heuld break through to the mid-stage Foundation Establishment within a few years.
Moreover, if Li Shiminguldntinue to provide top-tier elixir pills, this timeframeuld be shortened even further. 𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙥𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
Keep in mind that it took Li Shiming just over a year to reach the peak of early-stage Foundation Establishment, with enough top-tier elixir pills and a cultivation speed tens of times faster, any rapid progressuld be understood.
Li Yuanba received an order; the Foundation Establishment cultivators would withdraw from Jieshan Mountain Pass back to the sect.
He then joined the sect’s Flying Boat, led by a Golden Core Elder, to return to the sect.
Elsewhere, Li Shiming moved skillfully through the grand formation; within the formation, heuld sense several Golden Core auras in the battlefield.
Luckily, both he and his clone Li Yuanba had learned the ‘Step by Step Lotus’, which allowed them to leave the area within a few breaths and avoid detection by any Golden Core cultivators.
He took out his Flying Boat, set itsurse, and then retrieved the storage bag sent by his clone Li Yuanba.
The storage bagntained many items, among them a Body Refining Arhat’s Buddha body, which is the top-tier material for Corpse Refining.
Li Yuanba had no use for it, so instead of using such an excellent Corpse Refining material to exchange for resources, it was better to give it to Li Shiming.
Although Li Shiming is currently unable to refine a Silver Corpse, with his current alchemy level, there is little doubt he will have a steady supply of top-tier elixir pills, and reaching the Golden Core Stage shouldn’t be a problem.
Even if the Shushan Sect’s resources for Golden Core advancement are tight, they will do their utmost to support an Alchemist who possesses a Spiritual Fire and has a superb talent for alchemy.
Arding to what Master Ma reported to the sect’s upper echelons, Li Shiming can almost be certain of bming an Alchemy Master sooner or later.
An Alchemist at the Foundation Establishment Stage can serve the sect for just over a hundred years at most, but if Li Shiming’s strength reaches the Golden Core, then he can serve the sect for at least four hundred more years.
The gap between these periods, along with the rarity and importance of an Alchemy Master, will ensure the sect does whatever it takes to secure Li Shiming’s resources for Golden Core advancement.
Li Shiming glanced at the Body Refining Arhat’s Buddha body and put it together with anotherrpse belonging to Elder Lv, planning to refine them both directly into Silver Corpses after his Golden Core achievement to bme powerful protectors on his path.
In the storage bag were also the Thick Earth Shield Pearl and third-grade earth attribute materials, which heuld use.
He then took out the Formation knowledge exchanged by his clone Li Yuanba, scanning thentent of each Jade Scroll into the IBMz15, which wouldllect and begin analyzing and researching the Formation knowledge.
‘Moonlight Corpse Scroll,’ although he didn’t directly refine Silver Corpses now, this cultivation techniqueuld still enhance Nezha.
Both Jiang Chen and Nezha were refined using therpse refining methods from the Qi Refinement Realm, and even though the secretrpse refining technique from the Xuanming Sectuld refine frompperrpse all the way to ironrpse, it still lacked the enhancement process for ironrpses.
If it weren’t for the ‘Netherworld Ghost Realm Array,’ arpse refining array using third-grade materials, he wouldn’t even be able to refine Nezha and Jiang Chen to their current strength.
Looking at the large number of Yin spiritual objects required by the ‘Moonlight Corpse Scroll’ to enhance ironrpses, he found a method tontinue strengthening Nezha and Jiang Chen.
Moreover, once he matched some third-grade Yin spiritual objects, heuld even let Li Yuanba try to elevate Jiang Chen to the strength of a Silver Corpse.
Jiang Chen was Li Yuanba’s life-boundrpse refining, whichuld be one entire realm higher than the cultivator’s own stage.
However, Jiang Chen had only recently entered the Iron Corpse stage, so for now, he planned to let Jiang Chennsolidate at the peak of Iron Corpse for a bit longer.
As for the body of Jue Tu Buddha stored in therpse refiningffin, he planned tollect materials for refining as soon as he returned. The strength of Nezha by his side was still somewhat weak, and with his spirit, adding anotherrpse for refining wouldn’t be a strain.
In fact, many cultivators only refine onerpse not because of an issue with spirit but because the materials needed forrpse refining are too valuable, and the majority of cultivators can’t afford thensumption of multiplerpse refines.
Besides, having morerpses for refining isn’t necessarily better. Strengthening a singlerpse to the extreme is much more suitable than refining several with ordinary strength.
Li Shiming, having success in alchemy, didn’t need to worry about resources at the moment, and since even Elder Lvveted the body of Jue Tu Buddha, he also planned to refine Jue Tu Buddha’s body as his sndrpse for refining.
The Corpse Refining Coffin was a rare treasure, and after hensecrated it, he divered that ituld preserve a body for a long time and also increase the success rate of turning a body into a refinedrpse.
If a refinedrpse were placed inside, ituld slowly strengthen the refinedrpse, which was equally effective for Silver Corpses.
Naturally, Li Shiming stored both the Body Refining Arhat and Elder Lv’s body into the Corpse Refining Coffin. Thisffin was akin to a spatial object, with an interior space thatuld hold dozens of bodies without any issues.
All of Elder Lv’s scattered possessions, including a Space Ring and a vestment robe approaching the quality of a magical artifact, had been taken off when he entered the machine room space.
The robe now had holes in it after being pierced by the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun,’ but even so, it remained a valuable protective garment.
At least an attack from a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage would hardly be able to breach this garment’s defense. The ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’s’ offensive power shouldn’t even bensidered within the range of the Cultivation World’s attacks, representing the technological might of another world.
Unfortunately, the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’ was too demanding in its application. It was no problem to deal with Foundation Establishment cultivators, but to face a Golden Core cultivator, the opponent needed to be close enough so that theyuldn’t avoid the attack.
But if a Golden Core cultivator did actually get close to Li Shiming, the chances of them divering him would significantly increase, not to mention Li Shiming being encumbered by a four-meter-long ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun.’
Probably without even waiting for Li Shiming to initiate an attack, the Golden Core cultivator would have struck first.
Additionally, Li Shiming still lackednfidence that the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’uld penetrate a Golden Core cultivator’s defense, and killing Elder Lvuldn’t beunted as killing a Golden Core Elder.
When Elder Lv was attacked, not only was his strength locked at the late-stage Foundation Establishment, but his spirit andnsciousness weren’t present in the body either.
That is to say, the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’ attacked only a body of a Golden Core cultivator at the late-stage Foundation Establishment without any protective spells or use of Golden Core techniques. Because of Elder Lv’s instinctually irrectmbat judgment, hempletely resisted the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’s’ strike with his body.
The last Golden Core cultivator to withstand a strike from the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun’ was Sword Cultivator Yun Xingyi. That time, Li Yuanba first breached Yun Xingyi’s skin with multiple attacks using the Third Grade Sword Base, followed by a fatal blow from the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun.’
Yun Xingyi failed to block the strike from the ‘Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun,’ and Elder Lv, who forcibly endured the attack with his body, likewise didn’t survive.
