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Chapter 547: Chapter 320: Strength

The silver-white body, standing four meters tall before Li Shiming, made him feel the terrifying might of this artificial being.

Yet his face bore a smile, for the Silver Corpse in front of him was his own.

It was a spoils of war given to him by Elder Lv of the Senluo Sect, and this Silver Corpse had been staying in the Corpse Refining space of his Space Ring before, since he couldn’t claim it due to his lack of the Golden Core Stage cultivation.

Once he reached the Golden Core Stage and stabilized his strength, he claimed the Silver Corpse.

The process of claiming it was without any trouble, a Silver Corpse placed in the Corpse Refining space, devoid of any consciousness, wouldn’t resist the claim at all.

In the Corpse Refining space, there were also twelve Iron Corpses, among which Nezha and the other ten Iron Corpses had been modified into a form with three heads and six arms, and another Iron Corpse, Jue Tu, was a special corpse refinement, using unparalleled killing intent as a weapon.

All twelve Iron Corpses had reached the peak of Iron Corpse strength, and Li Shiming had also devoted a lot of effort to these twelve Iron Corpses.

Now that he had become a Golden Core cultivator, the refinement of peak Iron Corpses was nearly useless to him, and he needed to elevate the twelve Iron Corpses to Silver Corpses in order to provide him with combat support.

But he understood the difficulty of elevating Corpse Refining through two experiences from his other self, Li Yuanba: one being Li Yuanba’s corpse body refinement advancement, the other being Jiang Chen’s promotion.

Under normal circumstances, it’s fortunate if one or two out of these twelve Iron Corpses managed to get promoted.

Otherwise, why would Elder Lv prepare so many Iron Corpses if not to anticipate failures in promotion?

Li Shiming didn’t want any loss among these Iron Corpses, each one chosen by Elder Lv was the best for corpse refining material.

As the de facto Elder of the Senluo Sect with authority, Elder Lv often encountered genius cultivators with single spirit root seeds. Originally, the ten Iron Corpses in the Corpse Refining space were all cultivators with single spirit roots.

In any case, with Li Shiming’s status, it was impossible for him to obtain so many single spirit root cultivator corpses; each single spirit root cultivator was important talent to a sect.

He wasn’t a Devil Cultivator, even less likely to kill those with whom he had no grievance, for the sake of refining corpses.

Li Shiming stowed the Silver Corpse. This Silver Corpse itself was quite powerful, with strength comparable to a Golden Core Middle Stage.

This gave him a decent shield for close combat. Of course, if a Golden Core cultivator actually breached the defense of the Silver Corpse and engaged him in close combat, that cultivator would then discover his true close combat ability.

He summoned all of the Iron Corpses, and the twelve Iron Corpses appeared before him.

He divided his Divine Thought into twelve parts, individually controlling each of the Iron Corpses, and took out twelve Third Grade Array Flags, handing one to each of the Iron Corpses.

The twelve Iron Corpses each stood at twelve nodes, their Third Grade Array Flags combined with the Iron Corpses themselves, forming a Formation.

‘Nine Revolutions Thunder Storage Array,’ a simple Thunder attribute Formation, its most special feature was that the power of thunder and lightning within the Formation was adjustable.

The ‘Nine Revolutions Thunder Storage Array’ could control the Power of thunder and lightning from one-rotation to nine-rotations, each level inducing a different level of thunder and lightning force.

As the ‘Nine Revolutions Thunder Storage Array’ was formed, the one-rotation Formation activated, strands of the Power of thunder and lightning materialized within the Formation, encompassing the entire bodies of the twelve Iron Corpses.

The Power of thunder and lightning and the Yin Cold Power inherent in the Iron Corpses were naturally conflicting elements, even the mere one-rotation level of Power of thunder and lightning could inflict certain damage on them.

The Iron Corpses shuddered, their bodies ravaged by the Power of thunder and lightning.

This was the second time the Iron Corpses endured the baptism of the ‘Nine Revolutions Thunder Storage Array’. The previous day, after staying in the Formation for three two-hours periods, they returned to the Corpse Refining space to recover.

Li Shiming couldn’t possibly allow the Iron Corpses to suffer too much damage; his goal was an experiment rather than letting the Iron Corpses be annihilated by the Power of thunder and lightning.

“Indeed!” A smile appeared on his face, in his perception, compared to yesterday’s data, the twelve Iron Corpses had undergone some positive changes.

For other cultivators, discerning slight differences from subtle changes over the course of two days might be difficult.

But Li Shiming possessed the life-bound magic treasure IBMz15; he could observe exceedingly fine data, with any slight changes recorded and analyzed by the IBMz15.

After only the second encounter with the ‘Nine Revolutions Thunder Storage Array,’ the Iron Corpses’ endurance against the Power of thunder and lightning had improved slightly, a change measurable behind three decimal points in the data. However, as long as there was improvement, there was hope.

His plan was clear: to continually increase the resistance of the Iron Corpses to the Power of thunder and lightning through the ‘Nine Revolutions Thunder Storage Array.’

Only when the Iron Corpses’ resistance was strong enough to withstand Heavenly Thunder would he allow them to promote.

In his possession were also two corpses of Golden Core cultivators. One was given to his alter ego Li Yuanba by Elder Jian, the corpse of a Body Refining Arhat from Qianye Temple—a top-notch corpse for refining.

This Arhat specialized in Body Refinement, and once his body was refined into a Silver Corpse, its combat capabilities would at least match the Silver Corpse meticulously cultivated by Elder Lv for many years.

The other was the body of the female cultivator Fang Lu. To have reached Golden Core cultivator status, Fang Lu’s talent was not insignificant. More importantly, being a female cultivator corpse, once refined, it would present different variations to Yin Cold Energy as compared to male corpse refinements, which greatly interested Li Shiming.