CHAPTER 976: CHAPTER 534: OCCUPATION

Above his head, the Fire Thunder Nascent Soul flew out, and he manipulated the Nascent Soul Level Spirit Veins to infuse into the small crystalline ball in the Fire Thunder Nascent Soul’s hand.

Then, the other two Nascent Soul Level Spirit Veins were also infused one by one into the crystalline ball.

In the grotto heaven within the ’Heavenly Human Dao’ main hall, there were now three Nascent Soul Level Spirit Veins, making the Spiritual Energy even more abundant.

These kinds of Nascent Soul Level Spirit Veins, they are either placed in one’s own cave abode or in one’s own grotto heaven to be sufficiently safe. While outside, naturally they are put in the grotto heaven, which can also speed up the cultivation pace of his avatar, Li Yuanba.

He estimated that Li Yuanba might be the Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator with the best cultivation environment on the Beishu Continent. As for the Dongqi Continent, he did not know much about it, but he knew that the Golden Core cultivators of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect did not have such cultivation conditions.

Adequate Third-grade Spirit Pills, a Spiritual Energy environment that even Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators would envy, unless a cultivator could live in the Fourth Grade Seclusion Room of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect while still in the Late-stage Golden Core, otherwise even staying in the cave abode of a Nascent Soul Cultivator would not match the Spiritual Energy concentration within the ’Heavenly Human Dao’ main hall.

Li Shiming hoped that Li Yuanba would advance quickly, as he needed this avatar of Li Yuanba.

Li Yuanba had an entirely different role from other forces; his Golden Corpse Nanming and Illusion Spirit Dragon had formidable power, but Li Yuanba could operate alone outside, independently handling all affairs, which meant another cultivation journey for him, allowing for additional opportunities.

However, just wishing is not enough; cultivation requires the accumulation of time. Li Shiming’s own rapid breakthrough was due to his unique fortune, a rare case indeed.

After securing the three Nascent Soul Level Spirit Veins, he discovered another hidden space within the formation.

He walked into the space, and this space was different from the earlier one. The previous space was prepared to lure outside cultivators, so the Yin Cold Energy within the space only increased slowly after the formation was activated.

Yet in this space, the accumulation of Yin Cold Energy was unknown. Even as a Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioner cultivated in Body Refining Techniques, with the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ inside him, he could not help but shiver.

It wasn’t that he was unprepared, but rather the Yin Cold Energy wasn’t truly harmful to him.

"This guy is really harsh on himself!" Seeing the state of the space, he exclaimed in amazement.

The entire space was arranged with a Corpse Refining Array, and the formation materials on the ground were all as high as the fourth grade.

This was not the main point, but rather at the center of the formation, a corpse refining body lay motionless.

Upon seeing this corpse refining body, Li Shiming immediately judged that it must be the owner here, since the corpse was wearing a Fourth Grade Magical Robe with the mark of the Sun Concealing Sect.

He sensed the condition of the corpse refining body, it was only a hair’s breadth away from breaking through to a Golden Corpse, seemingly confined by some Secret Technique.

Given the conditions here, the corpse refining was likely to have been upgraded to a Golden Corpse a while ago.

Even though it had not advanced to a Golden Corpse, its status was extremely special.

Firstly, the accumulation of Yin Cold Energy in the corpse refining body had reached unimaginable levels, surpassing the normal Silver Corpse Peak in the abundance of its Yin Cold Energy.

This was not surprising, though the corpse refining was at the Silver Corpse Realm, originally it was a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner, the energy the body could withstand was certainly of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

Secondly, the body of the corpse refining differed from normal ones, its bones had somehow been cultivated with some technique, showing a pure black color.

When Li Shiming’s Divine Sense touched the pure black bones, he could feel the terrifying hardness of the bones.

The hardness of these bones exceeded that of Li Shiming’s own bones at this time. He estimated that it would take him reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, practicing the ’Taiqing Xuan Turtle Xuan’ to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage to match such a level of hardness.

That is to say, the original body of this corpse refining, the Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator of the Sun Concealing Sect, either cultivated a certain Body Refining Technique or a certain demonic technique to enhance the body.

Demonic techniques are not easy to cultivate, while their results after successful cultivation seem excellent, the consequences are extremely grave.

Many Devil Cultivators suffer demonic deviations due to the influence of such practices.

Additionally, demonic techniques also bring trouble such as increased difficulty in overcoming tribulations and affecting one’s mind and spirit.

This is why Li Shiming refused the Netherworld Emperor’s offer of the Inheritance Techniques of the Sun Concealing Sect; he would not cultivate demonic techniques.

Lastly, this corpse refining was still in an unmastered state, and based on Li Shiming’s examination, mastering it was as simple as casting a spell.

This corpse refining was prepared by the Netherworld Emperor for body seizing. Using the mid-stage Nascent Soul’s strength to seize the Nascent Soul Early Stage practitioner’s body could at least maintain the Nascent Soul Early Stage strength.

Of course, the weakened period would be prolonged, during which the Netherworld Emperor would also need defensive means.

The Netherworld Emperor intended to master the corpse refining made with his own body after body seizing.

Only Devil Cultivators might have such a mindset, transforming oneself into a ghost, refining the body into a corpse refining.

Given the accumulation of this corpse refining, unless misfortune struck, it had a great chance to survive the Heavenly Tribulation.

Once this corpse refining survived the Heavenly Tribulation, its combat power would be enough to confront any Nascent Soul Early Stage practitioner.

The potential of this corpse refining was enough that there weren’t significant bottlenecks before the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, since its original form was at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage level, and what follows depended on luck.

With the addition of numerous demonic techniques, the body had been polished to the extreme. Though there was some loss when transforming into corpse refining, after re-upgrading to a Golden Corpse and passing the Heavenly Tribulation, the perks bestowed by heaven and earth would significantly enhance the overall strength of the corpse refining.

Li Shiming, with a smile, cast the Master Recognition Technique, not only that but also added a drop of his blood essence to ensure thorough mastery of the corpse refining.

The corpse refining, which previously did not move, stood upright.

Li Shiming’s expression froze; he felt the bottleneck within the corpse refining body starting to loosen, and the secret method that restricted its advancement was broken upon recognizing him as the master.

He did not know what this secret method was, but he had his own means. He immediately cast several spells, forcibly suppressing the advancement of the corpse refining.

He took off the Mustard Seed Ring from the corpse refining’s finger and inspected the space here.

He had thoroughly explored the entire cave abode, and this was all there was to it.

Seeing the Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Array drawn with a large quantity of Fourth-grade materials on the ground, he did not want to waste it, knowing most materials could not be recovered as this formation was inscribed rather than set up with formation flags, many materials were mixed and consumed.

According to normal cultivation, the avatar Li Yuanba would take at least ten or more years to reach the Great Elder Level.

Yet under the conditions here, the avatar Li Yuanba could achieve the Great Elder Level in just two years if he trained in this corpse refining state.

This is due to Li Yuanba’s special situation, possessing a mysterious Taoist Body he called the Taiji Dao Body, freely switching between human and corpse refining states, also able to interchange energies within these states.

Li Yuanba reaching the Great Elder Level in the corpse refining state equated to achieving it in the human state.

This was an unexpected discovery, and with the formidable power of the array here, even a Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioner couldn’t break it, leaving Li Yuanba here would be quite safe.

Once he made up his mind, Li Shiming released Li Yuanba from the ’Heavenly Human Dao’ main hall in the grotto heaven.

Li Yuanba, connected with his mind, transformed directly into the corpse refining state without a word.

Li Yuanba positioned himself at the center of the Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Array, lying where the previous corpse refining had been situated.

Just laying down, he felt the surging Yin Cold Energy, transformed by the Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Array into the most suitable energy for a corpse refining to absorb.

Not needing further processing, it could be directly absorbed by the corpse refining to enhance itself.

"Fellow, stay here for two years, here’s a set of resources for ascending to Nascent Soul. I’ll make every effort to come over!" Li Shiming said with a smile.

Two years is not long, at least for a Nascent Soul cultivator that’s true.

"Fellow, see you in two years!" Li Yuanba also responded with a smile.

Li Yuanba didn’t need to re-master the cave abode’s formation, for everything mastered by Li Shiming, he could control and use.