Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1531 - 812: Preparation

After barely more than three months, Li Shiming never imagined that Liu Ziyun would show up with the traded items plus the spiritual treasures he'd ordered.

This unexpected delivery piled extra tasks onto his plate right away; he figured he'd tackle the Golden Corpse refining ritual first, then think about pushing Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon to the next level.

Right now, Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon were getting boosted and refined through special cultivation techniques from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, designed specifically for spiritual pets of the Phoenix and Dragon lineages.

His own methods for raising spiritual pets looked way too basic when stacked against the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's in-depth studies on the subject.

He'd simply supplied Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon with the essential supplies, skipping any in-depth, customized training sessions.

Luckily, his high standing in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect granted him access to a ton of their materials; resources for both the Phoenix clan and Dragon clan stood wide open for him to grab.

He resolved to hold off until Little Feng and the Illusion Spirit Dragon's foundations grew even sturdier, then deploy the goodies from this trade to fuel their breakthroughs.

Li Shiming stepped out from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and picked a spot beyond the Taichu branch's boundaries.

He deployed every last one of his Fourth Grade Array Flags along with the 108 Buddha Beads to lay down a formation spanning the required zone.

This spot worked perfectly since he controlled the Grotto Heaven core of the Taichu branch, which formed an isolated inner realm where he could keep tabs on any incoming cultivators.

On top of that, he posted Great Cultivator Luo Pei to watch over the formation's perimeter, stopping any cultivators from getting too close.

Truth be told, the odds of cultivators stumbling into this area were next to nothing, given that only Ten Thousand Beast Sect members could reach this point, and he'd already looped in the sect about his plans.

Stuff like this couldn't stay secret; pulling off the refinement of a late-stage Golden Corpse would kick up a massive stir once done, and the sheer force of the Heavenly Tribulation would be impossible to hide.

Li Shiming got to work on the formation setup, this round focusing on the Corpse Refining Array.

He transformed the corpse refining supplies into array foundations, where most came from fourth-grade high-stage stuff, and just a bit from fourth-grade top-grade ones.

The fourth-grade top materials got forged into the array's key spots, while the bulk of fourth-grade high-stage materials shaped the rest of the array foundations.

The steep price tag for crafting a late-stage Golden Corpse shone through here; keep in mind those fourth-grade top array bases and the heaps of fourth-grade high-stage ones were all one-shot deals that got used up.

His grasp on formations ran deep, and thanks to his Natal Treasure IBMz15's help, he managed to set up this Corpse Refining Array capable of handling five late-stage Golden Corpses in a single go.

If not, even for someone like him, that kind of spending would drain him dry too fast.

This haul of corpse refining supplies had built up slowly over time via his avatar Li Yuanba's alchemy work, plus bonuses from aiding and patching up cultivators in the Hell Cave Heaven.

Snagging another load of corpse refining materials this big and pure, even by ordering from the Central State Commerce, wouldn't happen overnight.

In the Hell Cave Heaven, resources from all the major powers pooled together, and Li Yuanba had pulled corpse refining stocks straight from those powers' stockpiles.

Through years of processing, the Corpse Refining Array had run smooth without a single hitch.

He held back from firing up the Corpse Refining Array just yet, since one vital step remained—to etch refining corpse runes onto the five Great Cultivator corpses.

He pulled one Great Cultivator corpse into the machine room space; before, his fine control there hit 0.1 nanometers. After his recent breakthrough, he hadn't tried that level of detail or checked how far the machine room space's precision could stretch.

In everyday scenarios, 0.1 nanometer accuracy did the job just fine.

But for this job, he aimed to push for the ultimate level of precision.

The Great Cultivator corpses he brought into the machine room space, counting the other four as well, had been handpicked from the fallen elites of various superpowers.

All those Great Cultivator corpses from superpowers came from the chaos he'd stirred up alongside Li Yuanba in battles across the Central State Continent.

Under regular conditions, even over a thousand years, you'd rarely see this many Great Cultivator bodies from superpowers drop in unusual ways.

Superpowers tightly gripped their territories, and during fights, they kept things in check to stop clashes from escalating to Great Cultivator levels.

Plus, Great Cultivators from superpowers packed insane fighting power and carried top-tier life-saving jade talismans, turning the act of slaying them into a nightmare.

Inside the machine room space, Li Shiming's mind fully wrapped around the Great Cultivator's corpse. Though this body's raw power didn't match his own, it still outclassed a Nascent Soul Mid-stage Practitioner's frame by leaps and bounds.

Earlier, he'd managed to carve 9 million one-nanometer precision refining corpse runes onto a Nascent Soul Middle Stage body.

He figured the Great Cultivator body could hold way more than ten times what a Nascent Soul Middle Stage one could; the real number would only show during the actual carving.

He pulled out the priciest spiritual item he'd snagged from Central State Commerce: that thick, golden blood drawn from a late-stage Golden Corpse.

With the bad blood between him and Central State Commerce now cleared up, his battle prowess acknowledged, and his overall usefulness noted, they'd bent over backwards to secure this late-stage Golden Corpse blood for him.

The 'Prohibited Book of Xuan Yin Yaksha' laid it out clear: blending in refining corpse blood matching the Golden Corpse's rank skyrocketed the odds of nailing the refining ritual.