Chapter 681: Chapter 387: Coming to the Door
Li Shiming lived the life of a mortal, no different from an ordinary person except for his cultivation practice each evening.
Since the Royal Guards began guarding the ancestral home, no outsiders have come to disturb them.
Moreover, with Li Shiming’s skills as a Spirit Plant Master, there was no longer any need to buy ordinary vegetables outside. The vegetables he grew enhanced the health of everyone in the family significantly.
As for the matter of alchemy, there were no troubles at all. He completed the alchemy of third-grade spirit pills suited for late-stage Golden Core within two days.
However, he did not spread the news of the advanced third-grade spirit pills. Instead, he waited for Master Jing Mo, the store manager, to come to collect them after two months.
There were no difficulties in the alchemy of third-grade spirit pills for late-stage Golden Core, possibly because he had his life-bound magical treasure, the IBMz15. He felt that alchemizing these spirit pills was not much different from before; the only difference was that it took a bit more time.
When extracting the pills, he used the “Hundred One-point Pill Technique,” and as always, he obtained double the amount of spirit pills.
Each batch of Spiritual Medicine yielded six advanced third-grade spirit pills, four of which he kept for himself, while the other party provided the Spiritual Medicine received two, and they also had to pay him a certain reward.
These rewards were often third-grade spiritual items or valuable Jade Scrolls and the like.
From this, one could see how much Li Shiming, an Alchemy Master, gained, but this was not a common occurrence among Alchemy Masters.
Mmost Alchemy Masters who alchemized third-grade spirit pills for late-stage Golden Core had a certain failure rate. Even if they succeeded, it was difficult to achieve a full pill count, which was three third-grade spirit pills, not to mention guaranteeing the quality of the pills.
This is why Master Jing Mo, the store manager, was extremely excited upon hearing that Li Shiming had advanced to the middle stage of Golden Core. The cultivators who provided Spiritual Medicine for Li Shiming to alchemize could earn several times more than if they went to other Alchemy Masters.
Of course, Li Shiming would not disclose the actual number of pills he produced.
“Hundred One-point Pill Technique” and other pill dividing formulas were seen by cultivators as based on luck.
Today Li Shiming’s father, Li WenYuan, overslept and went to bed early in the afternoon, while Li Shiming sat in a rocking chair in the courtyard, his Divine Thought exploring the Space Ring he had obtained from Great Elder Fan Xi.
He did not pay much attention to this Space Ring, casually tossing it into the space of his workshop.
It wasn’t just this Space Ring—Bo Ran’s and Bao Zhao’s Space Bracelets were also discarded in the workshop space without inspection.
The truth was that Li Shiming had long lost interest in the space items of other cultivators. The spiritual items likely to catch his attention were probably fourth-grade spiritual items or higher.
Feeling good today, he was inspired to check out the spoils of war in his workshop space.
The magical treasures used by Great Elder Fan Xi were all high-grade treasures. There were only two items: a flying sword and a Protective Turtle Shell Magic Treasure, which seemed rather meager.
However, when he saw a jade box in the Space Ring covered with talismans, he understood why Great Elder Fan Xi appeared to be so impoverished.
It turned out that most of the Great Elder’s wealth had been exchanged for the Spiritual Medicine within the jade box.
Upon opening the box, he saw a lotus with seven leaves, the entire flower glowing like jade.
“Seven-leaf Jade Lotus!” Li Shiming sat up straight in his rocking chair and muttered to himself in disbelief.
The “Seven-leaf Jade Lotus” was one of the auxiliary Spiritual Medicines for advancing to Nascent Soul, capable of increasing the success rate of forming a Nascent Soul by ten percent.
This percentage was a common belief in the Cultivation World, hence the “Seven-leaf Jade Lotus” was extremely precious and highly sought after.
Li Shiming was surprised that Great Elder Fan Xi, a Golden Core cultivator from a sect like the Mingxin Sect, was in possession of the “Seven-leaf Jade Lotus.”
Even his master, Elder Su, was still striving for resources to help the sect members to form their Nascent Soul. It was uncertain whether the resources he could procure would include the “Seven-leaf Jade Lotus” or other medicines of similar caliber.
What he did not know was that the “Seven-leaf Jade Lotus” had come into Mingxin Sect’s possession many years ago by accident and had been stored in the sect’s treasury, kept by Elder Zang.
As Elder Zang’s lifespan was coming to an end, he temporarily entrusted the “Seven-leaf Jade Lotus” to Great Elder Fan Xi. Naturally, there were also plans for Great Elder Fan Xi to use it when he had a chance to advance to Nascent Soul.
Who could have known that this treasure would end up in Li Shiming’s hands.
Such matters were even unknown to the Sect Leader of Mingxin Sect, and even if he had known, he would have been powerless to do anything about it.
Li Shiming, keeping the “Seven-leaf Jade Lotus” alongside the “Red Infant Ginseng Fruit” he had acquired earlier, now had two pieces of Nascent Soul advancement Spiritual Medicine.
Given the rarity and value of Nascent Soul advancement medicines, possessing just one was more than enough to encourage many cultivators to attempt the breakthrough.
Li Shiming showed a satisfied expression. He then examined the Space Bracelets of Bo Ran and Bao Zhao, and unsurprisingly, found nothing that caught his eye.
However, upon seeing some lower-level cultivation resources in Bao Zhao’s Space Bracelet, he came up with an idea.
If a cultivation seedling with a spirit root were to appear in his family in the future, as an elder, he should leave behind some resources. After all, these resources were insignificant to him.
What other cultivators worried about the most, leaving resources in the mortal world might bring a calamity to their descendants, was not a concern for him.
Because the Silver Corpse in the ancestral home of his family could protect his family.
He took out some useless items from Bao Zhao’s Space Bracelet, added a few Jade Scrolls and some low-level Spirit Pills, and then handed the Space Bracelet over to the Silver Corpse for safekeeping.