Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1533: Chapter 813: Late Stage

Li Shiming activated the Corpse Refining Array. The spiritual veins from the three vein-locking plates and a large number of Spirit Stones, transformed into an evil energy circulating within the Formation after passing through the Corpse Refining Array.

The array bases lit up one by one, and the evil energy flowed through the array bases and the formation lines, finally pouring into the center position where the five Great Cultivators’ bodies lay.

On the surface of the five Great Cultivators’ bodies, refining corpse runes were activated, their ghostly blue light flashing, dyeing the Great Cultivators’ bodies blue.

This was just the surface of the Great Cultivators’ bodies. More refining corpse runes were activated on the bones inside.

All the refining corpse runes were devouring the evil energy. As more evil energy entered the refining corpse runes, the ghostly blue light became even brighter.

Once the refining corpse runes were activated, they began the ritual refinement of the Great Cultivators’ bodies.

With the late-stage Golden Corpse blood as a medium, this ritual refining process was easier than Li Shiming had imagined.

Moreover, due to the extreme energy balance of the five Great Cultivators’ bodies, there was no energy imbalance throughout the entire ritual refinement process, giving the process an unexpectedly smooth feel.

In fact, many cultivators encounter more or less energy balance issues during corpse refining rituals.

Even if cultivators have a heritage of corpse refining, they cannot accurately control the runes drawn on the corpses to achieve energy balance.

However, cultivators with a strong heritage in corpse refining do better in terms of energy balance.

In addition, during the ritual refinement, the corpse itself and the materials used for corpse refining have a certain small ability to automatically balance, so as long as the energy imbalance is within a certain limit, the refinement can succeed.

Li Shiming’s success rate in corpse refining has always been shockingly high. After obtaining the ’Prohibited Book of Xuan Yin Yaksha,’ he finally understood the reason for his high success rate.

Perhaps because he learned Alchemy and Artifact Refining, he has an instinctive focus on energy balance, so when drawing the refining corpse runes, he would design the plan based on energy balance standards.

The five Great Cultivators’ bodies began to change. Under the influence of four million refining corpse runes, the bodies continually enlarged, quickly surpassing a height of four meters, and their entire bodies turned golden.

This was the initial formation of the Golden Corpse body, and inside the Golden Corpse body, the Refining Corpse Spirit was forming.

Once the Refining Corpse Spirit formed, with it as the core, a large amount of evil energy merged with the Refining Corpse Spirit, forming the Golden Corpse Core.

In the process of forming the Golden Corpse Core, the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven Golden Corpse Core placed on the Great Cultivator’s body was absorbed by the Golden Corpse Core.

Perhaps because the Golden Corpse Core’s level was too high, the energy from the Heavenly Person Cave Heaven Golden Corpse Core did not have much impact, with only the Speed Rule Imprint being transferred to the newborn Golden Corpse Core.

Externally, the expansion of the Golden Corpse body stopped, then began to contract. During the contraction process, the golden skin darkened, gradually transforming into a dark gold color.

Just when Li Shiming thought that the final Golden Corpse would be dark gold, something unexpected happened: as the Golden Corpse contracted to normal size, its skin turned into a normal skin color.

"Boom boom!" Under his watchful eyes, the hearts of the five Golden Corpses started to beat in unison, driving the blood through the veins to all parts of the body.

Noticing the circulation of blood in the five Golden Corpses, he couldn’t help but feel relieved.

He just stared at the five Golden Corpses, unsure if the Golden Corpses before him were late-stage Golden Corpses. The late-stage Golden Corpses he knew were all entirely dark gold, unlike the five before him that appeared indistinguishable from ordinary people.

As he pondered, the entire Corpse Refining Array began to collapse from the bases due to the loss of too much of its special energy.

With a series of cracking sounds, the entire Corpse Refining Array, built with a large amount of fourth-grade high-stage and top-grade corpse refining materials, lost its energy and crumbled into pieces.

Li Shiming knew he didn’t have much time left. He took out the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer.’

Because of the isolation by the outer formation, he safely retained the spirit treasure quality of the ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer,’ and combined it with the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ in the machine room space to apply the secret technique enhancing lightning resistance to the five Golden Corpses.

If the failure rate of the refinement process in the previous Corpse Refining Array was high, then the Golden Corpse enduring the Heavenly Tribulation was the reason why ninety-nine percent of Golden Corpses met their end.

Except for being ineffective in long-range combat, Golden Corpses are extremely formidable in both close combat and defense, even capable of serving as a shield for cultivators of the same level.

But Golden Corpses have one major flaw, which is the main reason that Golden Corpses are rare and few cultivators are willing to refine them: they have very low resistance to Heavenly Thunder.

The Golden Corpse is an evil life form, while Heavenly Thunder is the weapon used by the heavens to purge all evil.

Li Shiming dared to refine a Golden Corpse because he practiced the ’Yuqing Thunder Scripture’ and possessed both the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ and the spirit treasure ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ to employ the lightning resistance enhancement secret technique.

To be honest, using the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ to enhance a Golden Corpse’s lightning resistance—when the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ was in the Yuqing Sect, no single cultivator dared to do such a thing.

The ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ was a treasure of great power, and since the Yuqing Sect was originally a super force specializing in Thunder skills, they looked down upon external things such as corpse refining. Even if a cultivator managed to borrow the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl,’ they wouldn’t dare use it for corpse refining.

After using the secret technique, Li Shiming’s Divine Sense swept over the surrounding formations, collecting all one hundred and eight Buddha Beads and the Fourth Grade Array Flags.