CHAPTER 960: CHAPTER 526: GOLDEN CORPSE (PART 2)

In addition, the risk of a Silver Corpse advancing to a Golden Corpse is much smaller than directly refining a Golden Corpse.

A directly refined Golden Corpse, when its foundation is most fragile, must face a Nascent Soul-level Heavenly Tribulation, so the success rate is pathetically low.

However, when a Silver Corpse advances to a Golden Corpse, the foundation of the Silver Corpse itself is very solid, which is more favorable for facing the Heavenly Tribulation.

The vast majority of Golden Corpses are cultivated from a young age, laying a good foundation at each level to successfully pass the Heavenly Tribulation and become Golden Corpses.

The proportion of truly directly refined Golden Corpses is extremely low.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect does not have any particularly profound Corpse Refining Cultivation Technique, and in this aspect, there is not much of an enhancement effect. To directly refine a Golden Corpse, one must wait to obtain a top-tier Cultivation Technique in Corpse Refining in the future.

His gaze fell on the Silver Corpse Nanming. He did not have many Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Resources in hand, but if he piled them all on one Silver Corpse, it could significantly increase the success rate of advancement.

Though he was somewhat worried, he still resolved to let Silver Corpse Nanming advance to Golden Corpse first.

Silver Corpse Nanming is an extremely special Corpse Refining, possessing the ’Nanming Leaving Fire’ Divine Skills talent when refined into a copper corpse.

Therefore, Silver Corpse Nanming received Li Shiming’s meticulous cultivation, and relatively more resources were invested in it.

If Silver Corpse Nanming cannot advance to the Golden Core, the possibility of other Silver Corpses advancing will be even lower.

Li Shiming took out the Identity Jade Disc and sent an application to the sect, applying to use Tribulation Mountain.

His current status is very high, and the application was passed within a short time.

He turned around and flew towards Tribulation Mountain, using the Identity Jade Disc to enter Tribulation Mountain.

Once again seeing this place full of lightning strike marks, he hadn’t been in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect for long, yet this was the third time he’d entered here.

The frequency with which he entered this place was probably unmatched by many Cultivators within the sect.

Li Shiming used Fourth-grade Corpse Refining Materials on the ground to draw a Corpse Refining Array, summoning the Silver Corpse Nanming and placing it at the center of the Formation.

Silver Corpse Nanming had long reached the Silver Corpse Peak, and theoretically, once Li Shiming advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage, the shackles on Silver Corpse Nanming’s realm were lifted, allowing it to advance to Golden Corpse at any time.

However, without resources, it is extremely difficult for a Silver Corpse to advance to a Golden Corpse.

In the Cultivation World, naturally formed Golden Corpses are extremely rare, because during the process of a Silver Corpse advancing to a Golden Corpse, it not only requires Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Resources but also has to face the most terrifying Heavenly Tribulation.

Heavenly Thunder has an enhanced damage effect on Corpse Refining, sweeping away all evil, while Corpse Refining belongs to the category of evil.

Even with available cultivator resources for assistance, the probability of Silver Corpse advancing to Golden Corpse is pitiably low.

Li Shiming took out a Golden Corpse Core, which was obtained in the Beishu Continent through alchemy rewards.

This batch of Golden Corpse Cores was entirely obtained from Grotto Heaven.

He still could not enter the space within Grotto Heaven where the Golden Corpses were, unable to obtain Golden Corpse Cores and other resources from Grotto Heaven; fortunately, this batch of Golden Corpse Cores was available.

He let the Golden Corpse Core enter Silver Corpse Nanming’s mouth, and Silver Corpse Nanming instinctively felt the Golden Corpse Core benefiting itself and swallowed it in one gulp.

Li Shiming’s Divine Sense entered Silver Corpse Nanming’s body, and after being swallowed, the Golden Corpse Core continuously decomposed a large amount of energy, rushing towards various parts of Silver Corpse Nanming’s body.

At the same time, a kind of unknown function rune within the Golden Corpse Core also entered Silver Corpse Nanming’s body along with the energy, becoming part of Silver Corpse Nanming.

He did not interfere with the changes within Silver Corpse Nanming’s body; whatever the ability of this rune, it was a good thing.

This meant that Silver Corpse Nanming would gain an additional talent ability, and if this talent ability was inscribed into the Corpse Core during the advancement to Golden Corpse, it would be even better, as the newly added talent ability would be enhanced by the Corpse Core, significantly increasing its power.

Silver Corpse Nanming had already reached the peak of the Silver Corpse level, and with so much Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Energy suddenly added to its body, it quickly became full.

Li Shiming closely watched every change in Silver Corpse Nanming; the reason why talented cultivators’ bodies are chosen as Corpse Refining Materials is precisely for greater potential.

This potential manifests concretely in aspects such as fast energy absorption in Corpse Refining, and the ability to continuously advance.

If the natural talent of the Corpse Refining Material is poor, and the original cultivator could at most advance to the Golden Core Stage, then regardless of how many Fourth Grade Resources you invest, the chance of the Corpse Refining advancing to Golden Corpse can be despairingly low.

In contrast, choosing a talented cultivator’s body as Corpse Refining Material means its potential will be reflected in the cultivation and advancement of Corpse Refining, allowing its potential to be realized as long as it is given certain Fourth Grade Resources, enabling it to enter an advanced state.

Among all of Li Shiming’s Silver Corpses, Silver Corpse Nanming is absolutely the most talented.

Of course, the other Silver Corpses are not untalented either; his Silver Corpses were almost all acquired from Elder Lv of the Senluo Sect.

Don’t be deceived by Elder Lv only being a Golden Core cultivator; as an elder with real power within the Senluo Sect, the Corpse Refining Materials he fancied came from Heavenly Spirit Root seedlings.

Theoretically, the chance of Heavenly Spirit Root seedlings advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage is very high, and although Elder Lv is not yet a Nascent Soul Cultivator, the Corpse Refining Materials he selected were all aimed at becoming a Golden Corpse.

The reason Elder Lv prepared so many Corpse Refinings is simply because the risk of Corpse Refining facing tribulations is just too great, and having more Corpse Refinings prepared gives peace of mind.

However, the potential of all these Silver Corpses is not as great as that of Silver Corpse Nanming.

Silver Corpse Nanming serves as the backup body prepared by Patriarch Weng Zhao for himself, and this backup body’s qualifications are even higher than Patriarch Weng Zhao’s original body.

It must be understood that once a Nascent Soul Cultivator uses Body Seizing, they have no chance to replace it with a third body, and this backup body is the Nascent Soul Cultivator’s final hope.

Therefore, when selecting a backup body, Nascent Soul Cultivators meticulously select the best cultivators they can find.

Crucially, Silver Corpse Nanming is not merely a backup identity; it was Body Seized by Elder Weng Guang’s Nascent Soul, and the Nascent Soul merged with this body, further enhancing the body’s talent.

It can be said that had this body not been refined into Corpse Refining, its chance of naturally advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage through cultivation would have been very high.

Now this potential has naturally been transferred to Refining Corpse Nanming, and its potential to advance to a Golden Corpse far surpasses other Silver Corpses.

Within Silver Corpse Nanming, its Corpse Pill suddenly emitted intense energy fluctuations, and its aura also became unstable.

Li Shiming was not surprised; rather, he was pleased. Silver Corpse Nanming did not disappoint, and a single Golden Corpse Core brought it into the advancement state.

Indeed, it is of the highest potential, and he thought more Golden Corpse Cores would be needed, but unexpectedly, one Golden Corpse Core was effective.

Nanming’s Corpse Pill contracted drastically, and the energy from the Fourth-grade Corpse Refining Array constantly extracted into its body, converging towards the Corpse Pill.

Moreover, the energy from the Golden Corpse Core within its body still remained, most of it still supplying plentiful energy.

Nanming’s aura was very peculiar, sometimes extremely cold, sometimes as scorching as the sun, completely different from a normal Corpse Refining, but this aura was steadily rising, approaching the aura of a Golden Corpse.

When Nanming’s Corpse Pill contracted to a certain extent, it underwent a qualitative change, transforming from Corpse Pill into a millet-sized Corpse Core.

Though the Corpse Core was small, its inner energy was many times stronger than that of the Corpse Pill.

As soon as the Corpse Core was created, it began to absorb all the energy flowing into it from the Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Materials within the Corpse Refining Array and from the not yet depleted Golden Corpse Core.

The Corpse Core was like a bottomless pit, absorbing all the incoming energy, with the only indication being the countless golden threads extending throughout Nanming’s body.