Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 481 287: Refinement through Sacrifice

”Shiming, Jingxian came to me today, and her Golden Core is still not fully stable,” Elder Su said with a smile to Li Shiming. ”Lend her some Third-grade Spirit Pills for now, and she can replenish them for you later!”

He naturally had Spirit Pills in his hand, but he did not have the Third-grade Spirit Pills suitable for Ye Jingxian.

Without Li Shiming, he would have used some Spiritual Objects to exchange with Elder Ma, but with a disciple like Li Shiming, there was no need to owe favors to others, even if Elder Ma was his good friend.

”Big Sister, you shouldnʼt have gone to Master for this; you should have come directly to me!” Li Shiming said unhappily to Ye Jingxian, his tone filled with reproach.

He took out a jade bottle and passed it over.

He did not say anything about not needing to repay it. As an Alchemist, one must follow the rules of Alchemy, at least not to give Third-grade Spirit Pills on such occasions.

If he were to give it away, it would also need to be privately, in solitude, so as not to break the alchemistʼs rules.

”Junior Brother, I did want to find you, but I was out of seclusion and you were in seclusion. If we hadnʼt happened to meet here, perhaps by the time I entered seclusion, I wouldnʼt have been able to see you!” Ye Jingxian took the jade bottle and replied with a smile.

She was straightforward by nature and did not say any words of thanks. With the relationship she had with Li Shiming, there was no need for thanks.

”This might be too much; I might need two or three years to repay you!” she said, opening the jade bottle and shaking her head slightly after seeing the Third-grade Spirit Pills inside.

Inside the jade bottle, there were fifty Third Grade Advanced Spirit Pills. Even with her Golden Core Early Stage strength, stabilizing her realm and undertaking missions would take a long time to accumulate enough contribution points.

”Keep it. Improve your strength sooner and start working for the sect earlier!” Li Shiming said, waving his hand.

Elder Su watched the exchange between his two disciples and nodded with great satisfaction.

At Li Shimingʼs age, he was already a Half-step Golden Core, so it was almost certain that he would become a Golden Core cultivator.

In the future, with Ye Jingxian and Li Shiming supporting each other and each having a reliable cultivator of the same rank to rely on, this reassured Elder Su a lot about the future of these two disciples.

The stronger the strength, the fewer the true friends one has; Elder Su had experienced this himself. Among the cultivators of his generation who joined the sect with him, only he achieved the Golden Core.

Even among his own Masters and Disciples, he alone achieved the Golden Core. Although he later made many good friends, those he could call true friends were very few.

”You three train hard. With Shimingʼs help, if you still cannot achieve the Golden Core, it will greatly disappoint me!” he said, looking at the other three disciples in a grave tone.

Although Li Shiming could not just give them Spirit Pills due to the rules of Alchemy, these three disciples could jump the queue anytime they wanted to refine pills, and the fees they paid were minimal.

Such was a shortcut provided by an Alchemy Master, a condition that not any True Disciple could achieve.

His words made Wan Zheng, Lu Shi, and Xu Chuan nod unanimously, expressing their resolved determination with firm gazes.

Since Elder Su had designated Li Shiming to decide on mission matters, Li Shiming could only wait.

At Ten Thousand Sword Peak of the Senluo Sect in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, after a month of cultivation, Li Yuanbaʼs Golden Core had expanded slightly. Although still very small, the energy inside it had doubled.

Such a Golden Core was enough to sustain a battle in the Golden Core Stage, as well as to complete his own plans.

Of course, his cultivation would not stop; he just added a few tasks during the leisure time of his cultivation.

The first was to refine Yun Xingyiʼs Lifebound Flying Sword, which had been with him for a long time since the Qi Refinement Stage.

He took out Yun Xingyiʼs Lifebound Flying Sword and placed it in front of him with Divine Thought.

He took a deep breath, his mind activating the Golden Core breath, and then he sprayed a breath of Golden Core essence onto the Lifebound Flying Sword.

The Lifebound Flying Sword trembled slightly, then calmed down.

He sprayed another breath of Golden Core essence, and the Lifebound Flying Sword trembled again.

When the third breath of Golden Core essence was sprayed out, Li Yuanbaʼs face had turned slightly pale; this essence greatly drained his Golden Core, and three breaths were his current limit.

Finally, the Lifebound Flying Sword seemed to come alive, and as the Golden Core essence entered, the spirit contained in the essence surged towards the master-recognition pattern of the Lifebound Flying Sword.

Even though Yun Xingyi had died, a trace of spiritual imprint remained within the master-recognition pattern.

This trace of spiritual imprint, left behind from centuries of nourishing the Lifebound Flying Sword with Golden Core essence, did not completely disappear with the masterʼs death.

It was this trace of spiritual imprint that restricted others from using this Lifebound Flying Sword effectively.

However, when Li Yuanbaʼs spirit contacted this trace of spiritual imprint, the imprint did not resist at all but willingly accepted his spirit, allowing his spirit to successfully master the master-recognition pattern, and this spiritual imprint also merged into the spirit he infused into the Lifebound Flying Sword.

Due to the integration of this spiritual imprint, Li Yuanbaʼs progress in refining this Lifebound Flying Sword jumped to eighty percent. The remaining twenty percent would need to be refined bit by bit over a long time.

That is to say, he could now wield eighty percent of the power of this Lifebound Flying Sword.

Desperate not to mind the consumption of his Golden Core, he looked at the Lifebound Flying Sword in front of him with joy gleaming in his eyes.

All the information about this Lifebound Flying Sword, as he refined it, became known to him.