Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1531: Chapter 812: Preparation

Li Shiming hadn’t expected that after just over three months, Liu Ziyun would deliver the items for trade along with the spiritual objects he’d purchased.

This suddenly increased the number of things he needed to do; he planned to first settle the matter of the ritual for refining the Golden Corpse, then consider the advancement of Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon.

Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon were currently being enhanced and supplemented using cultivation methods from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect aimed at spiritual pets from the Phoenix and Dragon clans.

Compared to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s comprehensive research on spiritual pets, his approach to cultivating his own spiritual pets seemed overly simplistic.

He had only provided Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon with the necessary resources, without conducting comprehensive, targeted training.

Fortunately, his revered status within the Ten Thousand Beast Sect allowed him to access many of their resources; whether it was the Phoenix clan or the Dragon clan resources, all were open for his use.

He decided to wait until the foundation of Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon was further solidified before using the resources acquired in this exchange to help them advance.

Li Shiming left the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and found an area outside the Taichu branch.

He used all of his remaining Fourth Grade Array Flags and the 108 Buddha Beads to establish a formation that covered the necessary area.

He chose this location because he was the master of the Grotto Heaven core of the Taichu branch, and it was part of the internal space isolated by the Grotto Heaven, allowing him to monitor if any cultivators approached.

Additionally, he arranged for Great Cultivator Luo Pei to stand guard outside the formation, blocking any cultivators from nearing.

Of course, the likelihood of cultivators arriving here was extremely low, as only Ten Thousand Beast Sect cultivators could get this far, and he had reported his actions to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

Such matters could not go unreported; directly refining a late-stage Golden Corpse, once successful, would cause significant commotion, and just the power of the Heavenly Tribulation alone could not be concealed.

Li Shiming began setting up the formation, this time arranging the Corpse Refining Array.

He refined the corpse refining materials into array bases, most of which were fourth-grade high-stage materials, with a small portion being fourth-grade top materials.

Fourth-grade top materials would be refined into critical positions of the array bases, while the remaining fourth-grade high-stage materials would be refined into other array bases.

The cost of refining a late-stage Golden Corpse was evident from this; it’s important to note that the fourth-grade top array bases and the more numerous fourth-grade high-stage array bases were single-use consumables.

His knowledge of formations was very solid, and with the assistance of his Natal Treasure IBMz15, he arranged this Corpse Refining Array to refine five late-stage Golden Corpses at once.

Otherwise, even for him, such consumption would be unsustainable.

This batch of corpse refining materials had been accumulated over a long period through the alchemy of his avatar Li Yuanba, as well as as rewards from providing support and healing to cultivators in the Hell Cave Heaven.

Acquiring another batch of corpse refining materials of this quantity and quality, even placing an order with the Central State Commerce, wouldn’t be a short-term accomplishment.

In the Hell Cave Heaven, all the superpowers’ resources were gathered, and Li Yuanba had obtained the corpus refining resources from the inventories of various superpowers.

After years of refining, the Corpse Refining Array hadn’t encountered any issues.

He hadn’t activated the Corpse Refining Array yet, as there was a critical operation left—to inscribe refining corpse runes on the five Great Cultivator corpses.

He took one Great Cultivator’s corpse into the machine room space; previously, his control precision within the machine room space was 0.1 nanometers. Since advancing, he hadn’t performed such precise control, nor had he tested the limits of the machine room space’s control.

Under normal circumstances, a precision of 0.1 nanometers was sufficient.

But this time, he decided to attempt the highest precision.

The Great Cultivator bodies he took into the machine room space, including the other four Great Cultivator bodies, were carefully selected from the Great Cultivators of superpowers.

It’s due to his and Li Yuanba’s many major disruptions against enemies across the Central State Continent that they possessed so many Great Cultivator bodies from superpowers.

In normal times, even within a millennium, it’s unlikely to have so many Great Cultivator bodies from superpowers fallen under non-standard circumstances.

Superpowers each controlled their domain, and even when battling, they tried to control the level of conflict, striving to avoid elevating battles to the level of Great Cultivators.

Additionally, Great Cultivators of superpowers wielded formidable battle strength and possessed powerful life-saving jade talismans, making it extremely difficult to kill Great Cultivators of superpowers.

In the machine room space, Li Shiming’s consciousness enveloped the Great Cultivator’s corpse. Although the physical strength of this Great Cultivator’s body couldn’t compare to his own, it was still many times stronger than a Nascent Soul Mid-stage Practitioner’s body.

Previously, he attempted to inscribe 9 million one-nanometer precision refining corpse runes on a Nascent Soul Middle Stage body.

And he estimated that the Great Cultivator body would far exceed ten times the capacity of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage body; the exact value required actual inscription to determine.

He took out the most expensive spiritual object he had purchased from the Central State Commerce, golden viscous blood from a late-stage Golden Corpse.

With the enmity between him and Central State Commerce resolved and his combat strength recognized by Central State Commerce, along with his utility value, Central State Commerce had gone through considerable effort to obtain this blood of a late-stage Golden Corpse.

The ’Prohibited Book of Xuan Yin Yaksha’ recorded that using refining corpse blood of the same grade as the Golden Corpse greatly enhances the success rate of the refining ritual.