CHAPTER 1006: CHAPTER 549: DEPARTURE

Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon, these two spiritual pets allow any cultivator who obtains them to greatly enhance the bloodline of their phoenix and dragon series spiritual pets.

Li Shiming has refined fourth-grade spirit pills for many cultivators and completed numerous fourth-grade pill refining tasks for sects; the sheer quantity of fourth-grade spirit pills retained from these tasks is enormous.

Li Shiming also acquired the Tai Chu Treasure Tripod. Although top-quality fourth-grade pill furnaces are difficult to bind to a master, as long as there is power from an alchemy master, and the opportunity presents itself, everyone will attempt to seize them.

If one truly robbed Li Shiming, the wealth that could be obtained from him would be equivalent to a treasure trove.

Feng Lanxin wanted to escort Li Shiming back to the sect, precisely because she considered this point.

"Thank you, Senior Sister Feng, I still have some matters to handle, not heading directly back to the sect, so no need to trouble you!" Li Shiming politely declined with a smile.

"Consider your greatly increased realm, as long as they aren’t Nascent Soul Middle Stage practitioners, you should be able to handle them. If real trouble arises, definitely don’t hesitate to use survival talismans!" Feng Lanxin advised him seriously when he refused.

As a disciple of a great cultivator, survival jade talismans are basic equipment; this is still due to Li Shiming having been under Grandmaster Hu’s tutelage for too short a time. If it were any longer, he would have obtained more treasures.

Li Shiming deployed his Thunder Escape, continuously leaving the thousand-mile range of Taichu Sect, and only when he could no longer sense the atmosphere of the grotto heaven did he relax his mood.

He disliked the feeling of being bound by the grotto heaven, especially when this wasn’t his home sect’s grotto heaven.

"Master Li, why did you leave without a word; Senior Sister almost couldn’t catch up with you!" A seductive voice came, and the silhouette of Mi Yi appeared.

Li Shiming looked at the compass in Mi Yi’s hand and sensed a hint of locking breath emanating from it.

He hadn’t expected Mi Yi could track him; after all, he was using Thunder Escape, second only to the ’Between Heaven and Earth’ escape skill.

"Mi Dao You, what brings you to me?" Li Shiming cautiously distanced himself from Mi Yi and asked.

"Of course, it’s for the matter of pill refining, I saw Master Li was interested in fourth-grade puppet mechanism materials, I can use fourth-grade puppet mechanism materials as compensation to request your help in pill refining!" Mi Yi said with a smile.

Li Shiming was taken aback; he hadn’t expected Mi Yi to be asking for his alchemy services.

"That can be arranged, but not anytime soon; I will contact you once I have more free time!" He thought it over before replying.

His realm has increased too swiftly, and upon returning, he needs to go into retreat for a period. Additionally, he needs to investigate Mi Yi’s information back in the sect; he doesn’t want to attract trouble.

"Master Li, then it’s settled!" Mi Yi, having obtained Li Shiming’s contact method, said with a light chuckle.

Mi Yi indeed has no other intentions; her aim is to establish and deepen a friendship with Li Shiming.

She researched Li Shiming’s background and found that his pill refining abilities might be reserved; this can be inferred by his exceedingly stable refining capabilities.

In fact, many cultivators suspect as much, though Li Shiming’s presented pill refining abilities are already exceedingly high, most cultivators dare not believe Li Shiming’s skill could be higher.

Regardless of whether Li Shiming has reserved any pill refining abilities, the capabilities he displayed are enough for Mi Yi to seek friendship.

Mi Yi is also helpless; the Sun Concealing Sect’s alchemy masters are plentiful, but their level is vastly inferior to Li Shiming’s.

The profits from spirit pill materials, as processed by Li Shiming compared to the Sun Concealing Sect’s alchemy masters, is several times more.

"How did you find me?" Li Shiming asked, looking at the compass in Mi Yi’s hand.

He suspected Mi Yi could track him down due to the compass’s features.

"This is the Sun Concealing Sect’s unique magical artifact, the Thousand-Mile Sensing Plate; it can track the owner of a breath within a thousand-mile range!" Mi Yi did not intend to conceal anything, handing the compass to Li Shiming.

Li Shiming did not accept the compass; he merely scanned it with his Divine Sense before withdrawing it.

In his Spirit’s domain, his life-bound magical artifact IBMz15 already established a model of the Thousand-Mile Sensing Plate; IBMz15 would study this model in depth in the upcoming period.

Perhaps it won’t be long before he can understand the principles behind the Thousand-Mile Sensing Plate.

Of course, knowing the principles does not guarantee the replication of a Thousand-Mile Sensing Plate.

Magical artifacts like the Thousand-Mile Sensing Plate, possessing special abilities, generally require specific materials for forging.

Li Shiming parted ways with Mi Yi; Mi Yi did not engage in any spiritual attacks, confirming to him that Mi Yi truly wanted to befriend him.

Whether to take on Mi Yi’s pill refining business still requires thorough verification. If there are no issues, he’s willing to refine pills for Mi Yi, gaining unique fourth-grade spiritual objects from the Sun Concealing Sect.

As he was too close to Taichu Sect, he didn’t perform ’Between Heaven and Earth’; instead, he continued using Thunder Escape, flying towards the distance.

"Who is it now?" He hadn’t flown far when he sensed another locking breath.

This was the result of his life-bound magical artifact IBMz15’s study of the Thousand-Mile Sensing Plate; although replication is impossible, it identified the theoretical basis of the Thousand-Mile Sensing Plate’s locking breath.

Through reverse engineering, IBMz15 could detect the Thousand-Mile Sensing Plate’s lock.

Initially, he thought it was Mi Yi again, but upon seeing Mu Jing’s silhouette, he recognized trouble had arrived.

Mu Jing of the Sun Concealing Sect exhibited hostility towards him during the Taichu Sect’s gathering.

An elite Nascent Soul cultivator from the Sun Concealing Sect, despite his limited knowledge about Mu Jing, his background mustn’t be simple to partake in Taichu Sect’s grand events.

"Li Shizhen, did you just meet Mi Yi?" Mu Jing approached angrily, shouting as he neared Li Shiming.

Li Shiming was unaffected by his yelling; upon seeing Mu Jing, he summoned the Heavenly Ghost, the Illusion Spirit Dragon hidden at his side, two Golden Corpses guarding on both flanks, he wouldn’t underestimate an elite Nascent Soul cultivator from the Sun Concealing Sect.

This was no Nascent Soul independent cultivator; the magical artifacts and secret techniques mastered were incomparable.

The Heavenly Ghost, upon emergence, issued a warning — the Heavenly Ghost detected an approaching Fourth Grade Ghost Soul.

Indeed, Mu Jing wasn’t as reckless as he seemed; truly being so reckless would’ve made survival in the Sun Concealing Sect impossible.

Mu Jing’s displayed anger was merely to allow the Fourth Grade Ghost Soul to approach Li Shiming.

However, Li Shiming still wondered what secret technique allowed the Fourth Grade Ghost Soul to conceal its presence, eluding his Divine Sense.

The Heavenly Ghost, similar in evading detection by same-tier cultivators, possessed this ability from merging with the Heavenly Demon’s shell.

Li Shiming, through contacting the Heavenly Ghost, sensed the position of the Fourth Grade Ghost Soul, its invisible means were indeed strange, undetected by him, but ineffective against the likes of the Heavenly Ghost.

"Kill it!" Li Shiming commanded the Heavenly Ghost.

The Heavenly Ghost, upon advancing to Fourth grade, faced battle for the first time.

If not for one of Li Shiming’s brains being intimately connected with the Heavenly Ghost, this engagement between a Fourth Grade Heavenly Ghost and Fourth Grade Ghost Soul would likely go unnoticed.

It was not a battle per se; the Fourth Grade Ghost Soul couldn’t detect the Heavenly Ghost, which approached alongside, mouth wide open.

The Heavenly Ghost’s mouth surpassed the size of the Fourth Grade Ghost Soul, engulfing it whole.

Mu Jing, still approaching, suddenly turned pale. Though he maintained his angry shout while advancing, his pace was cautiously measured, maintaining a considerable distance from Li Shiming.

His plan was to strike when the Fourth Grade Ghost Soul succeeded, a caution developed from daily intrigues in the Sun Concealing Sect.

Upon the Heavenly Ghost’s devourment, due to Mu Jing’s mental contract with the Fourth Grade Ghost Soul, the contract was consumed with it, severing instantly once swallowed by the Heavenly Ghost.