"I don't know when I will be able to break through!" Li Shiming couldn't help muttering to himself as he felt the aura vortex in his body.
Ever since he drank spiritual tea at Gu Jia's place, the spiritual power in his body has greatly increased, coupled with the practice in the first half of the year and the supplement of spiritual food, he has finally reached the peak of the second level of Qi Refining.
He can feel a barrier appearing in front of him, as long as he breaks this barrier, he can enter the third layer of Qi refining.
His consciousness entered the space of the computer room, and he looked at the six-branched spiritual tea tree with not many leaves on it, and he couldn't bear to pick it.
Compared with Fu Lingzhu, the growth rate of the spirit tea tree is much slower.
It took more than half a year for the Ling tea tree to barely branch, but the normal shape of the Li Ling tea tree was still far behind.
Picking it now will definitely hurt the growth of the spiritual tea tree and slow down the time for the spiritual tea tree to take shape.
"Wait first!" Li Shiming gave up the idea of picking spirit tea, and his cultivation is not too slow.
Of course, his cultivation speed is compared with that of casual practitioners. It took him a year to go from having no foundation at all to being only one step away from the third level of Qi Refining.
As for the casual cultivators he saw, it took them almost ten years to reach this stage.
In the past six months, he has accumulated more than two thousand catties of spiritual rice and a large number of various elementary talismans.
If the materials for making talisman ink were not available, the number of talismans he made would be even more.
Since the Hao family was wiped out, some monks wanted to do the talisman business, but due to resource constraints, the business was very small.
Li Shiming had a great need for Fu Mo, and he didn't want to attract attention, so he didn't make any more deals with Sanxiu.
He is very aware of his situation, and it seems that no one dares to provoke him. It is not because of his own strength, but Gu Jia's influence.
It is impossible for Gu Jia to be by his side all the time, so he needs to hang on as much as possible to pass this time.
When he was thinking about Gu Jia, a 'Hundred Mile Messenger Talisman' flew over, and the bird transformed by the 'Hundred Mile Messenger Talisman' still had a talisman in its mouth.
Li Shiming stretched out his hand, and the bird jumped into his hand.
The little bird turned into a piece of letter paper and fell into the hand together with the talisman.
"Recently, a monk manipulated a corpse to kill someone. Keep this 'Hundred Miles Message Talisman' away. If you encounter trouble, activate it immediately!"
Li Shiming looked at the letter in his hand, even though Gu Jia had a purpose for him, but this He must accept the favor.
He has seen this kind of talisman 'Hundred Mile Messenger Talisman' many times, but unfortunately he doesn't have the relevant spells, so he can't make it by himself.
The 'Hundred Mile Messenger Talisman' sent by Gu Jia has already set the target of transmission, that is, the small courtyard of the palace, where Gu Jia will be there most of the time every day.
"Corpse refining?" Li Shiming tried hard to recall his poor knowledge of cultivating immortals, but he couldn't find any content about refining corpses.
However, one can tell from the name that this is a means of refining corpses for one's own use.
It's not that Li Shiming has no news channels, he also has connections with Jinshi of the same year.
These Jinshi entered various departments of Daxia, and he would hear a lot of internal information during the exchange.
Jinshi in the same period is a very dedicated group, and they have not grown up yet, and they are still at the beginning of entering the officialdom.
During this period of time, there were very few conflicts between Jinshi, and traditionally, Jinshi who passed the examination in the same year was one of the biggest boosters in the officialdom, so the relationship was relatively close.
Although Li Shiming did not have a real job, the emperor's rewards were a lot. Jinshi in the same year would not underestimate him, and he would be called to any party.
During these gatherings, he heard about the recent strange cases. There were at least a dozen murders in which the blood was drained from the whole body.
At this time, combined with Gu Jia's reminder, Li Shiming guessed that these cases were probably the work of refining corpses.
It's just that the news of mortals is different from that of monks. He wondered if he should find a monk to ask about the recent major events.
He immediately thought of Patriarch Liu. In the past six months, Patriarch Liu had dealt with him several times and treated him very well.
He also knew that Patriarch Liu lived in the city recently, but it didn't mean that the Liu family moved to the city like some casual cultivators.
Instead, the Liu family was divided into two parts, one part of the monks stayed in the original family location, and the other part entered the city.
This is to prevent them from being wiped out like the Hao family.
In the same way as the Liu family, there are the other three Xiuxian families.
According to the general cognition of casual cultivators, at most they persisted until the Immortal Ascension Conference was passed, and everything would be fine.
It is precisely because of the Immortal Ascension Conference that so many monks come to Zhongdu, and they also take this opportunity to earn more spirit stones in the city of Zhongdu.
For Li Shiming's visit, patriarch Liu personally greeted him at the door.
"Why do fellow Daoist Li come to my place when you have time?" Patriarch Liu invited Li Shiming into the living room, and after the two parties sat down as guest and host, Patriarch Liu asked with a forced smile.
"I learned from Brother Dao that some monks used corpse refining to cause trouble, so I came here to find out the details!" Li Shiming said directly without going around in circles.
"I do know about this matter. Yesterday, Fellow Daoist Gu on the third level of Qi Refining was killed by a corpse refining less than a mile away. Fellow Daoist Gu has already reported to the sect. In addition, casual practitioners have also received the task issued by Fellow Daoist Gu to track down the corpse The whereabouts of the corpse cultivator!" Patriarch Liu explained with a worried face.
Li Shiming now understands why Gu Jia reminded him that a homicide occurred in Zhongdu City, and it was a monk who was killed.
At other times, even if the monk was killed, it didn't have much to do with Gu Jia.
But these casual cultivators came to Gu Jia for protection, but they were killed. If Gu Jia did nothing about this matter, it might be difficult for Tian Haizong to restrain these casual cultivators in the future.
"Is this monk very strong? Brother Gu Dao is planning to report to the sect?" Li Shiming asked in surprise.
Gu Jia is the strongest monk nearby, and even he had to report to the Zongmen, which made Li Shiming feel the seriousness of the situation.
"I don't know exactly how strong it is, but it won't be weaker than the mid-stage Qi refining, and it may even be the same late-stage Qi refining as Fellow Daoist Gu!" Patriarch Liu replied with a wry smile.
Li Shiming couldn't help but stand up. A powerful monk who hides like a hunter is too dangerous for a rookie on the second floor of Qi refining like him.
No wonder Gu Jia would send him the 'Baili Messenger Talisman', it turned out to be so dangerous.
"The monks gather together as much as possible now, and they dare not act alone at all. We suspect that the monks who came this time are related to the monks who destroyed the Hao family half a year ago!" Patriarch Liu continued.
"I hope to find this monk sooner, or I won't be able to sleep at night!" Li Shiming said in a deep voice because it was difficult to tell the truth.
After getting the news, he didn't bother Patriarch Liu too much, and left for home while it was still early in the sky.
He didn't want to walk around outside in the dark, that would become prey for the monks hiding in the dark.
Introduce a book by Mu Chenke: Xu Chen traveled to the matriarchal clan and evolved from the Ruosheng clan. In order to commemorate his achievements, he wrote every invention into a diary, "Diary of Primitives".
(end of this chapter)