After practicing the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic', Li Shiming then began to practice the 'Sword Demon Secret Book'.
During the foundation building stage of the 'Sword Demon Secret Code', he focused on cultivating sword intent, but he could skip this step, which allowed him to practice the 'Sword Demon Secret Code' at a deeper level, skipping the early stage of the foundation building chapter.
The third-grade sword base turned into countless tiny daggers, which were integrated into every part of his body.
Silks of sword intent emit from countless tiny daggers, stimulating the fit between the body and the sword intent, deepening the integration between the body and the third-grade sword base.
The 'Secret Book of the Sword Demon' uses the sword to nourish the body, and the body to nourish the sword, so that the sword and the body improve at the same time.
Of course, he is still in the stage of maintaining his health mainly with swords, and there is still a big gap between his physique and the quality of a third-grade sword base.
While practicing the 'Secret Code of Sword Demon', Li Shiming no longer took monkey wine because his body was full of swelling and there was sufficient energy in his body.
As the practice progressed, the feeling of swelling in the body also disappeared. When the practice ended, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the previously swollen muscles had shrunk back and there were no longer any knots.
Although his muscles have become smaller, his physique has improved a bit, and his body is transforming towards the strength of a second-grade spiritual weapon.
When he is able to cultivate the 'Secret Code of Sword Demon' to the top level spiritual weapon strength of the second level, then even if he does not use any spells or magic weapons during the foundation building period, his body alone is enough to fight against any foundation building monk.
Early the next morning, before dawn, Li Shiming left the temporary cave.
In the next three days, he traveled carefully, but did not encounter the big demon again, and arrived at the predetermined target location smoothly.
Three mountains are connected here. Li Shiming is on the mountainside of the mountain on the left, separated by a mountain from the location marked Muyang Clover on the map. There is no need to worry about being discovered by powerful spiritual beasts.
He released the drone. Although he had to wait for Xu Chuan to act together, he also needed to detect some information in advance.
The drone flew over the top of the mountain, and after turning on infrared thermal imaging, he discovered many small red dots on the target mountain.
There is only one area with a radius of about a hundred meters, where there is no small red dot, but there is a huge red one, which should be the guardian spirit beast.
This discovery made Li Shiming feel reassured. At least a target like a drone without much spiritual power fluctuation would not have much of a problem if it was not too close to the target for ground reconnaissance.
What he is most worried about is encountering the kind of spirit beast that does not allow any wild beasts to appear in its territory. In that case, the appearance of the drone will be noticed by the guardian spirit beast.
As long as a drone flying in the sky is not directly observed by a guardian spirit beast, it will only be thought that it is a flying bird.
The drone circled nearby, and the IBMz15 mapped the terrain of the entire area into a three-dimensional map.
The only thing that cannot be determined is the strength of the guardian spirit beast.
Li Shiming asked Nezha to dig a deep cave on the mountainside. The thick rocks and soil could block the perception of powerful spiritual beasts.
He also set up multiple surveillance cameras outside. Some were placed on the top of the mountain facing the target mountain, and some were aimed at the other side. As long as Xu Chuan came over, he would be able to detect them.
For five days, Li Shiming has been practicing body-building exercises in the cave.
On the fifth day, Xu Chuan still didn't come, and Li Shiming felt something was wrong.
No matter how slow this journey is, it won't take five days to get here.
Thinking back to the four-clawed dragon monster that chased Xu Chuan that day, Li Shiming couldn't help but mourn for Xu Chuan.
People from Xuchuan are not bad. At least they are safe to be friends with. Not every monk is willing to take the initiative to lure away the big monster when encountering it.
This is character, and true character can best be seen in adversity.
"Brother Xu, I will try my best at Muyang Clover, but if there is a big demon guarding me, I don't have the ability. Please forgive me!" Li Shiming looked at the direction he came from and murmured to himself.
These days, he wanted to monitor the travel patterns of the powerful spirit beast through surveillance, but it was obvious that he was overthinking it. The spirit beast stayed in place and did not move.
Li Shiming couldn't even make an accurate judgment on the strength of the spirit beast without getting close.
"We must first determine the strength of the guardian spirit beast and lure the guardian spirit beast away to determine whether the Muyang Clover is still there!" He planned in his mind.
If you want to observe the strength of the guardian spirit beast, the simplest way is to make a lot of noise. The guardian spirit beast will definitely be alert and show its power. Then you can judge the strength of the guardian spirit beast.
Li Shiming is best at making big noises.
He took out a 500-gram small bomb, which was a standard military bomb with a complete set of detonating devices. He used his spiritual thoughts to adjust the detonating device to the timing.
The drone then flew to the right side of the three peaks with the small bomb, and then controlled the drone to drop the small bomb.
The drone returned, and he took it back. His whole body's aura converged, and his whole body was covered in soil, leaving only a trace of spiritual thoughts outside.
"3,2,1!" As he counted down in his heart, an explosion sounded.
At the moment when the explosion sounded, the infrared thermal imaging under surveillance discovered the single huge heat source. Its heat increased rapidly, and then a huge roar was heard.
A giant bear covered in flames rose into the air and flew towards the explosion.
A terrifying and violent aura enveloped the entire area, and the beasts on the ground were covered in feces and urine. The timid ones were frightened to death, and the rest were lying on the ground without daring to move at all.
"It's a big demon, no, it's still a little short of a big demon!" After Li Shiming's spiritual sense sensed the violent aura, he immediately withdrew it from his body. He didn't want to be discovered by that powerful spiritual beast.
Although the giant bear covered in flames was not a great demon, judging from the aura it displayed, it was much stronger than the one at the peak of Foundation Establishment.
This giant bear covered in flames must have taken a crucial step and will become a great demon, but it has not completely transformed into a dragon.
Li Shiming didn't know if his judgment was correct, but one thing was certain, that was that he could not defeat this giant bear covered in flames.
Let alone him, plus Li Yuanba, the generals, and even the talisman, he still has no chance of winning.
He couldn't help but retreat a little. It really wasn't cost-effective to risk his own life for others.
Thinking of this, he once again observed the giant bear covered in flames through the surveillance camera. At this time, the giant bear flew to the explosion area and did not see any life. He only saw traces of the explosion on the ground.
The giant bear roared angrily and beat the ground crazily, creating a big crater in the explosion area.
"Why is this bear so violent?" Li Shiming thought to himself, somewhat strangely.
He has seen a lot of spiritual beasts along the way and has done some research on them.
In particular, IBMz15 has collected a lot of data on spirit animals and conducted systematic analysis on the behavior of spirit animals.
This giant bear is considered unusual among spiritual beasts.
With the wisdom of a spiritual beast, after discovering traces of an explosion, it will first choose to check and try to find other relevant traces, rather than wantonly destroying the scene like a giant bear.
"This seems to be something feasible!" An idea flashed through Li Shi's mind, and he was no longer in a hurry to leave.
After seeing the giant bear return to its original location, he operated the drone to bring a bomb of the same size and dropped it in a further direction.
This time he returned to the cave deep into the mountain and relied entirely on surveillance to observe the outside world.
After delivering the bomb, the drone flew to a place very close to the giant bear and would not disturb it and landed on the ground.
The explosion sounded again, and the giant bear's reaction was still very fierce. It soared into the sky again, its violent breath igniting the flames on its body, and several large trees nearby burned.
Just as the giant bear flew towards the direction of the explosion, the drone moved, and the drone flew close to the ground towards the place where the giant bear was guarding.
The chip built into the drone calculates the landing pattern and constantly adjusts the flight angle to keep it close to the ground, thus minimizing the possibility of being discovered by the giant bear.
Li Shiming saw the target location clearly for the first time through the images transmitted back by the drone.
That location was surrounded by several boulders, forming a nest. Before the drone could get too close, the sensor sent out a high temperature alarm.
The drone could only change its angle, and finally found an observation position in the cracks between the boulders.
The interior surrounded by boulders is a huge red rock.
It is not accurate to say that it is a red rock. It should be said that there is a fire under the huge rock, and there are flames shooting out from time to time around the rock.
But in this environment, there is a plant that has its roots stuck on the rocks burned red by the fire.
Li Shiming saw the appearance of the plant clearly through the drone's camera, especially since the whole plant had only three ruby-like leaves. He was 100% sure that this was Muyang clover.
I didn't expect that the Muyang clover is still there, and it seems to be almost mature.
In fact, Xu Chuan dared to regard the Muyang clover here as hope. It was based on the records that he judged that the Muyang clover here was about to mature.
Spiritual beasts will not pick immature spiritual things. Doing so would be a waste of natural resources, and the effect would be much different from the mature ones.
Li Shiming saw the giant bear flying back through the surveillance system. He quickly put the drone into standby mode, and the drone stopped outside the nest, facing the small gap.
The giant bear flew back to its lair, its rage suppressed as it entered the lair, as was evident from the terrible sound it made as it continued to breathe hard.
The drone acted as a surveillance camera at this time, filming every move of the giant bear.
Li Shiming was not surprised that the drone did not attract the attention of the giant bear. In this world, no matter whether it is a monk or a spiritual beast, it seems that they do not pay much attention to items and lives without spiritual energy fluctuations.
Monks and spiritual beasts are like being in another world. There are only spiritual creatures in their world, and all creatures are inferior and inferior.
The giant bear's heavy breathing became lighter when it saw the Muyang clover. Its huge bear paw wanted to touch the Muyang clover, but it stopped an inch away from the Muyang clover.
Li Shiming could see that Muyang clover was extremely important to the giant bear.
This third-grade Muyang clover may be the opportunity for the giant bear to be promoted to a great demon. This is his guess, and I believe it is not far from the truth.
Otherwise, how can we explain that a giant bear who is about to become a great demon is so caring while guarding Muyang Clover.
In the next two days, an explosion would occur every once in a while. The location of the explosion was very chaotic and there was no pattern.
The giant bear's temper became even more violent. In addition to being able to suppress its anger in its lair, it almost burned down all the nearby trees.
Fortunately, the drone was parked very close to the nest, so it escaped the fate of being destroyed by an angry giant bear.
According to IBMz15's personality analysis of the giant bear, the time is almost up. The giant bear's anger level has reached the critical point and it can take action.
Li Shiming took matters into his own hands and planted time bombs on the right mountain peak, followed by the second, third and fourth.
After he arranged everything, he returned to the mountain on the left and waited.
With a 'boom', another explosion caused the giant bear to fly into the air, and its anger almost enveloped the entire mountain.
The giant bear flew towards the mountain on the right. During the flight, after leaving the nest, the rocks on the ground were burned and shattered by terrifying flames.
It is preparing to be promoted to a great demon here. It has already taken the most important step. It only needs to take the final third-grade Zhiyang elixir to become a great demon.
But something is constantly harassing it, but it can't find where it is.
Originally a giant bear with yang energy, under this kind of teasing, the anger could not be suppressed at all.
Just as it flew towards the explosion point, there was another explosion, this time slightly farther than the first explosion point.
Without thinking, it flew towards a new explosion point.
Another explosion sounded, farther away.
Li Shiming's figure jumped out. He tried his best to suppress his physical strength and spiritual power. Even the light of his sword was restrained to the extreme with the help of his sword intention.
His speed is not slow at all. This is not the time to conserve speed.
After these days of data collected by IBMz15, it became clear that the explosions Li Shiming set up multiple times were not random. IBMz15 determined the sensing range of the giant bear's lair.
As long as the explosion point is slightly further away, the giant bear will hesitate for a moment when flying away. This can be clearly seen from the surveillance screen.
The reason why after two days of constant explosions was that the giant bear had to remove this trace of hesitation and unconsciously came up with the idea that no matter where the explosion was, it would not affect the nest.
After all, the giant bear is not a real great monster. It is just like a normal human being in terms of intelligence. However, after being provoked many times, it still inevitably accepts the influence of instinct and enters a violent state.
Li Shiming flew to the giant bear's lair, which was extremely simple and crude. It was designed to keep Muyang Clover inside and prevent it from being discovered by other spiritual beasts.
Third-grade elixirs are extremely important to any great demon, and the giant bear obviously knows this.
Since he didn't use much spiritual energy, he clearly felt the temperature like a furnace after getting close to the nest.