Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1531 - 812: Preparation
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Li Shiming never imagined that Liu Ziyun would bring the traded goods plus the spiritual items he had bought, all in a mere three months or so.
Suddenly, his workload surged; he intended to handle the Golden Corpse refining ritual first, before turning his attention to advancing Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon.
Right now, Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon underwent enhancements and supplements via cultivation techniques from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, specially designed for spiritual pets of Phoenix and Dragon lineages.
His own methods for nurturing spiritual pets paled in comparison to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's thorough studies on them.
He merely supplied Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon with essential resources, lacking any in-depth, customized training.
Luckily, his esteemed position in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect granted him access to their vast resources; Phoenix clan materials or Dragon clan ones, everything stood available to him.
He resolved to solidify the foundations of Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon more before employing the freshly obtained exchange resources to push their breakthroughs.
Departing from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, Li Shiming sought out a spot beyond the Taichu branch.
With his leftover Fourth Grade Array Flags and the 108 Buddha Beads, he deployed a formation spanning the required zone.
This spot appealed because he commanded the Grotto Heaven core of the Taichu branch, an inner realm shielded by the Grotto Heaven, letting him watch for any incoming cultivators.
Moreover, he positioned Great Cultivator Luo Pei to watch over the formation's exterior, barring any cultivators from drawing close.
Truth be told, the odds of cultivators showing up here remained slim, since only Ten Thousand Beast Sect members could reach this point, and he had informed the Sect of his plans.
Keeping such events under wraps proved impossible; succeeding in refining a late-stage Golden Corpse would stir massive turmoil, and the sheer force of the Heavenly Tribulation couldn't stay hidden.
Li Shiming started laying out the formation, this round focusing on the Corpse Refining Array.
Corpse refining materials got forged into array bases, mostly fourth-grade high-stage ones, though a few reached fourth-grade top quality.
Those fourth-grade top materials shaped into the array bases' vital spots, as the bulk of fourth-grade high-stage materials formed the rest of the bases.
The expense of crafting a late-stage Golden Corpse shone clear here; remember, these fourth-grade top array bases and the plentiful fourth-grade high-stage ones served as one-time disposables.
His grasp on formations proved rock-solid, and aided by his Natal Treasure IBMz15, he set up the Corpse Refining Array to process five late-stage Golden Corpses simultaneously.
Without that, even he couldn't bear such heavy spending.
This collection of corpse refining materials built up gradually from his avatar Li Yuanba's alchemy efforts, plus rewards earned by aiding and mending cultivators in the Hell Cave Heaven.
Gathering another haul of materials matching this volume and caliber, even ordering from the Central State Commerce, wouldn't happen quickly.
Within the Hell Cave Heaven, resources from all superpowers converged, and Li Yuanba pulled corpse refining supplies from the stockpiles of those superpowers.
Over years of processing, the Corpse Refining Array faced no hitches.
Yet he held off on starting the Corpse Refining Array, since one key step remained—etching refining corpse runes onto the five Great Cultivator corpses.
Into the machine room space went one Great Cultivator corpse; before, his control there hit 0.1 nanometer accuracy. Post-advancement, he skipped such fine work and never checked the machine room space's new boundaries.
In everyday scenarios, 0.1 nanometer precision sufficed amply.
However, for this task, he aimed for the utmost precision possible.
The Great Cultivator corpses brought into the machine room space, encompassing the other four, came handpicked from superpower Great Cultivators.
Thanks to the countless major strikes he and Li Yuanba launched against foes across the Central State Continent, they amassed so many superpower Great Cultivator corpses.
Under ordinary conditions, even across a thousand years, securing this many superpower Great Cultivator corpses from unusual deaths seemed improbable.
Superpowers dominated their territories firmly, and during fights, they kept clashes in check, aiming to prevent escalations to Great Cultivator levels.
Besides, superpower Great Cultivators boasted immense combat power and carried potent life-preserving jade talismans, rendering the slaying of such Great Cultivators extraordinarily tough.
Inside the machine room space, Li Shiming's consciousness wrapped around the Great Cultivator corpse. Though this body's physical might fell short of his own, it outstripped a Nascent Soul Mid-stage Practitioner's body by leaps and bounds.
Earlier, he had tried carving 9 million one-nanometer precision refining corpse runes onto a Nascent Soul Middle Stage body.
Plus, he figured the Great Cultivator body could hold over tenfold the runes of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage body; the precise figure would only emerge through real inscription.
From his Central State Commerce purchases, he drew the priciest spiritual item: golden viscous blood drawn from a late-stage Golden Corpse.
Now that his grudge with the Central State Commerce had cleared, and they acknowledged his fighting prowess alongside his value in services, the Central State Commerce labored hard to procure this late-stage Golden Corpse blood.
As noted in the ’Prohibited Book of Xuan Yin Yaksha’, employing refining corpse blood matching the Golden Corpse's grade sharply boosts the ritual's success odds.