Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1537: Chapter 815: Discovery

When Grandmaster Hu left, his expression was indescribable. The Ten Thousand Beast Sect had gained five late-stage Golden Corpses, and the strength of these Golden Corpses far surpassed ordinary Great Cultivators, which was something to be happy about.

But his strongest Spiritual Pet, the Red Gold Phoenix, was easily defeated, which was something he couldn’t find any joy in.

Li Shiming couldn’t comprehend the complex feelings of his master, Grandmaster Hu. After Grandmaster Hu left, he began to consider matters of Artifact Refining.

He planned to use the top-grade fourth-grade materials he and his avatar Li Yuanba had previously acquired. In fact, strengthening the five late-stage Golden Corpses also enhanced his own combat power.

The first magic treasures he refined were five hammer-shaped magic treasures. These were simply the original top-grade fourth-grade mountain peak treasures with added hammer handles. The only additional elements were three billion ’power runes,’ three billion ’gravity runes,’ and three billion ’fortification runes’ on the hammer magic treasures.

The reason for adding precisely three billion runes was to control the hammer magic treasures so they wouldn’t progress to the level of Spirit Treasures after undergoing the Artifact Tribulation.

This is probably the most unusual method to suppress the quality of magic treasures in the Cultivation World, as other cultivators wish to enhance their magic treasure quality as much as possible.

If Li Shiming had the power of the Mahayana Realm, he would casually refine Spirit Treasures.

But now, being only in the Great Cultivator Realm, he could oppose superpowers and slay multiple Great Cultivators. However, if he truly revealed his ability to refine Spirit Treasures from top-grade fourth-grade materials, it would likely prompt a powerful figure to deal with him personally.

For the powerful entities, the fall of a Great Cultivator is a natural process of life. They’ve seen too much of life and death, and as long as it’s not a matter concerning the survival of a sect, they won’t interfere.

Matters that could prompt a powerful entity to take action are rare; apart from internal sect matters, it involves their own interests and the survival of their sect.

Spirit Treasures are related to the powerful entities’ interests; even for them, refining a Spirit Treasure is not easy.

The vast majority of fifth-grade materials are produced through Grotto Heavens, and the Grotto Heaven of a powerful figure can only produce a very limited amount of fifth-grade materials, just enough for them to refine one Spirit Treasure.

Spirit Treasures can truly leverage the combat power of powerful beings, and having one more Spirit Treasure represents an increase in combat power for most of them.

Additionally, possessing one more Spirit Treasure also speeds up cultivation, which is equally vital for powerful entities.

Back when Li Yuanba revealed the Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword, he luckily encountered Sword Elder, who was one of the rare powerful beings who didn’t care for a second Spirit Treasure.

Sword Elder was a Sword Cultivator, focusing on nurturing his Lifebound Flying Sword, advocating "one sword breaking all laws," and didn’t need other Spirit Treasures.

Thus, Li Yuanba could keep the Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword. Even so, he didn’t dare expose the ’Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ Spirit Treasure upgrade to Sword Elder.

The advantage brought by the Great Cultivator Realm was significantly faster refining speed; the modification of the five hammer-shaped magic treasures took about thirty days and was done simultaneously.

He used most of his brainpower, with a control accuracy of 0.05 nanometers, to inscribe runes in the refinement room space, achieving such rapid refining speed.

The process of overcoming the Artifact Tribulation for the five hammer-shaped magic treasures was quite easy, held by the five late-stage Golden Corpses. Li Shiming enhanced the five late-stage Golden Corpses with the Spirit Treasure ’Heavenly Strike Thunder Hammer’ and the ’Shenxiao Thunder Pearl’ for dual thunder resistance.

The three Heavenly Thunders were entirely blocked by the five hammer-shaped magic treasures, without even a chance to attack the late-stage Golden Corpses.

This resulted in obtaining five fourth-grade Artifact Tribulation magic treasures. Originally, this refinement was just the first and simplest step in enhancing the combat power of the five late-stage Golden Corpses.

However, news came from Master Liu Ziyun that the Peak Great Cultivator Yan Gao from the White Emperor Sect might have already arrived on the Dongqi Continent.

The uncertainty of this information was because Yan Gao’s movements weren’t disclosed to anyone, with even the White Emperor Sect internally hiding the information.

It wasn’t until the intelligence system of the Central State Commerce discovered that Yan Gao had disappeared from the West Yan Continent for about a month that a bit of information emerged.

Li Shiming couldn’t continue refining for the five late-stage Golden Corpses under such circumstances.

Yan Gao’s combat power was extremely potent. Most critically, unlike the previous Peak Great Cultivator Ren Mu from the Central State Commerce, Li Shiming and the White Emperor Sect had an irreconcilable feud.

Perhaps it was initially due to treasures, but as the White Emperor Sect suffered significant losses, with the death of as many as three Great Cultivators and nearly a hundred Nascent Soul Middle Stage Cultivators, the enmity reached an irreparable level.

Yan Gao’s visit to the Dongqi Continent must have been with the intention of killing Li Shiming.

Presently, Li Shiming’s reputation has already spread by the Central State Commerce. At least during the secluded cultivation of his avatar Li Yuanba on the Central State Continent, he would occasionally see news of Li Shizhen defeating Master Ren Mu in the periodic intelligence summaries from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion’s Identity Jade Disc.

Previously, Li Shizhen was addressed as Master Li by the superpowers, indicating he was an Alchemy Master.

But now, the superpowers merely call Li Shizhen by his name. Don’t think that calling him by name is a lowering of standards; on the contrary, it ranks Li Shiming’s combat power before his title as an Alchemy Master, addressing him based on his combat prowess.