Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1189: Chapter 641: Advancement

Li Shiming silently flickered in the air, using the ’Hidden Phoenix Jade Talisman’ in conjunction with the ’Chameleon Cloak’ to truly achieve invisibility.

He had already distanced himself from the mountain gate of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, and this period was also a good opportunity for him to travel.

Since Yuqing Sect had suffered some losses on the Dongqi Continent, they were stabilizing their rear on the West Yan Continent and had not planned to come to the Dongqi Continent yet.

With no battles impending, Li Shiming’s travels would not be criticized by other cultivators from his sect.

Li Shiming’s figure stopped in the void, his gaze fell on the pond below, where deep within the rocks lay his secret hideout.

’A Step Away’ activated, his figure flashed and appeared inside the hideout.

Now, the distance of his ’A Step Away’ had tripled, and his divine sense extended to twelve thousand meters.

This meant that his combat range was twelve thousand meters, within which he could attack accurately.

Of course, this didn’t mean he couldn’t attack beyond twelve thousand meters. For instance, the ’electromagnetic cannon’ of the four Fourth Grade Puppets, like the arrows shot from Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng pulling the ’Thunderous Mysterious Bow’, could cause long-range damage.

Once Li Shiming entered the hideout, he immediately sensed the obstructive energy that made him uncomfortable.

Using his divine sense, he retrieved from the soul crystal ring some Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Array Flags, specifically made from Fourth-grade Corpse Refining Materials to set up a Corpse Refining Array.

Using the Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Array Flags, he set up a Corpse Refining Array in the hideout, which had the effect of gathering Yin Cold Energy.

In this environment filled with Yin Cold Energy, the effect of the Corpse Refining Array was greatly enhanced.

Li Shiming released the Golden Corpse Nanming, which stood at the center of the Corpse Refining Array, with large amounts of Yin Cold Energy surging into its body.

Under the supply of abundant corpse refining resources, the strength of the Golden Corpse Nanming steadily increased.

Since the Golden Corpse Black Shield had been handed over to the clone Li Yuanba, the refining resources on this side had been more concentrated in use, allowing the Golden Corpse Nanming to reach the peak of the early Fourth Grade a bit earlier.

Were it not for the restriction of his master’s realm, the Golden Corpse Nanming would have already advanced to the mid Fourth Grade.

Now, bringing the Golden Corpse Nanming to this hideout suitable for corpse refining, was to help it advance to the mid Fourth Grade.

Fourth Grade Lower Stage Corpse Refining Materials are extremely precious resources for other Nascent Soul Early Stage Practitioners in the Cultivation World.

However, through his alchemy skills, Li Shiming acquired a large quantity of Fourth Grade Lower Stage Corpse Refining Materials as payments for alchemy services.

At this moment, he put these Fourth Grade Lower Stage Corpse Refining Materials into the Corpse Refining Array as if they cost nothing, facilitating the Golden Corpse Nanming’s advancement.

Any Nascent Soul Cultivator with corpse refining skills witnessing his method would probably be dumbfounded.

This method, extravagant to the extreme, would seem like squander in the eyes of ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators.

However, Li Shiming’s method, while luxurious to the extreme, was not as wasteful as it appeared. Every time he invested the Fourth Grade Lower Stage Corpse Refining Materials, it was calculated precisely by his natal magical artifact IBMz15, placed at the perfect time and position.

One could say that every piece of Fourth Grade Lower Stage Corpse Refining Material was used to its maximum effect, and other Nascent Soul Cultivators, using three to four times the same materials, might not achieve the same effect.

Inside the Golden Corpse Nanming, the corpse core continuously absorbed the Yin Cold Energy. Because it was no longer restricted by Li Shiming’s realm, the energy of the corpse core was continuously accumulating, striving to break through the bottleneck of the early Fourth Grade.

Li Shiming indeed hoped to bring the Golden Corpse Black Shield here as well, as compared to it, the combat power of Golden Corpse Nanming was somewhat weaker.

The strongest feature of Golden Corpse Nanming was the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’, but the power of the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ used in corpse refining was greatly limited, especially noticeable after reaching the Golden Corpse Realm.

Even when Li Shiming’s Fire Thunder Nascent Soul performed the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ divine skill, solely relying on the fire attributes in the ’Five Rhymes Qi Cultivation Technique’ without a fire-based cultivation method, it was still able to exert significant power.

Whereas the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ divine skill of Golden Corpse Nanming was almost unusable in actual combat.

This wasn’t just because Golden Corpse Nanming, with its corpse-refining body, couldn’t fully utilize the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ divine skill, but also because it lacked a fire-based cultivation method to exert this divine skill for long-range attacks.

Golden Corpse Nanming would need to get close to the enemy, hitting them with the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’. Achieving that would give any strong cultivation method a fatal effect on the enemy.

Though Golden Corpse Nanming had various shortcomings, its advantages were also very notable. Mastering the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ divine skill, Golden Corpse Nanming, under Li Shiming’s control, could wholly replace the main body in alchemy and artifact refining.

Especially in artifact refining, upon breaking through to the mid Fourth Grade, Golden Corpse Nanming would significantly reduce the time needed to refine Fourth-grade Refining Materials.

After observing the changes in Golden Corpse Nanming for a while and confirming no problems, Li Shiming began to attend to other matters.