"I don't know when I will be able to break through!" Li Shiming felt the whirlpool of spiritual energy in his body and muttered to himself.
Ever since he drank the spiritual tea at Gu Jia's place, his spiritual power has increased greatly. Coupled with half a year of practice and supplemented by spiritual food, he finally reached the peak of the second level of Qi refining.
He could feel a barrier appearing in front of him. As long as he broke this barrier, he could enter the third level of Qi Refining.
His consciousness entered the computer room space, and he looked at the Lingcha tree with six branches. There were not many leaves on it, and he couldn't bear to pick it.
Compared with Fulingzhu, the growth rate of Lingcha tree is much slower.
After more than half a year, the Lingcha tree was barely branched, but it was still far from the normal shape of the Lingcha tree.
Picking now will definitely damage the growth of the Lingcha tree and slow down the time it takes for the Lingcha tree to take shape.
"Wait a minute!" Li Shiming gave up the idea of collecting spiritual tea. His cultivation was not too slow.
Of course, his cultivation speed is compared with that of casual cultivators. It took him a year to go from having no foundation to being just one step away from the third level of Qi refining.
Most of the casual cultivators he saw had spent almost ten years cultivating to this point.
In the past six months, he has accumulated more than two thousand kilograms of spiritual rice and a large number of various primary talismans.
If the materials for making talismans were not available, the number of talismans he made would be even greater.
Since the Hao family was wiped out, some monks have wanted to start a talisman business, but due to resource problems, the business has been very small.
Li Shiming had a great demand for Fu Mo, and he didn't want to attract attention, so he never made any more transactions with casual cultivators.
He is very aware of his situation. It seems that no one dares to provoke him. That is not because of his own strength, but because of Gu Jia's influence.
Gu Jia can't be by his side all the time, so he needs to survive as much as possible to get through this time.
When he was thinking about Gu Jia, a "Baili Messenger Talisman" flew over, and the little bird transformed by the "Baili Messenger Talisman" still held a talisman in its mouth.
Li Shiming stretched out his hand, and the bird jumped into his hand.
The bird turned into a piece of paper and fell into the hand together with the talisman.
"Recently, a monk manipulated the corpse to kill people. Keep this 'Baili Messenger Talisman' and activate it immediately to call for help if you encounter trouble!"
Li Shiming looked at the letter in his hand. Even though Gu Jia was treating him with purpose, he had to accept this love.
He has seen talismans like the 'Baili Messenger Talisman' many times, but unfortunately he does not have the relevant spells and cannot make it by himself.
The 'Baili Messenger Talisman' sent by Gu Jia has already been sent to the destination, which is the small courtyard of the palace, where Gu Jia will be there most of the time every day.
"Refining corpses?" Li Shiming tried hard to recall his poor knowledge of immortality, but could not find anything about refining corpses.
But from the name, you can tell that this is a method of refining corpses for your own use.
It is not that Li Shiming has no information channels. He also has contacts with the Jinshi scholars of the same year.
These Jinshis enter various departments in Daxia, and they will hear a lot of inside information during exchanges.
The Jinshi scholars of the same period are a very tight-knit group. At present, they have not grown up and are still in the early stages of entering the officialdom.
During this period, there were very few conflicts between Jinshi scholars. In addition, traditionally, those who passed the Jinshi exam in the same year were one of the biggest boosters in the officialdom, so the relationship was relatively close.
Although Li Shiming had no actual position, the emperor's rewards were abundant. Those who were Jinshi in the same year would not look down upon him and would call him to any gathering.
During these gatherings, he heard about the strange cases that had occurred recently, including at least a dozen murders in which all the blood was drained from the body.
At this time, combined with Gu Jia's reminder, Li Shiming guessed that these cases were probably caused by corpse refining.
It's just that the news from mortals is different from the news from monks. He wondered if he should find a monk to ask about the major events that happened recently.
He immediately thought of Patriarch Liu. In the past six months, Patriarch Liu had dealt with him several times and had a very good attitude towards him.
He also knew that Patriarch Liu had been living in the city recently, which did not mean that the Liu family, like some of the casual cultivators, had moved to the city.
Instead, the Liu family was divided into two parts. One part of the monks stayed at the original family location, and the other part entered the city.
This is to prevent them from being wiped out like the Hao family.
Similar to the Liu family, there are three other immortal cultivating families.
According to the common belief among casual cultivators, at best, if you persist until the Immortal Ascension Conference is over, everything will be fine.
It is precisely because of the Immortal Ascension Conference that so many monks came to Zhongdu, and they also took this opportunity to earn more spiritual stones in Zhongdu Chengfang City.
Patriarch Liu personally greeted Li Shiming at the door.
"How come Fellow Daoist Li has time to come to my place?" Patriarch Liu invited Li Shiming into the living room. After the two parties sat down respectively, Patriarch Liu asked with a forced smile.
"I learned from Taoist brother that there are monks who are using corpse refining to cause trouble, and I came here to find out the details!" Li Shiming directly stated the purpose of his visit without beating around the bush.
"I do know about this matter. Yesterday, Fellow Daoist Gu, who was on the third level of Qi Refining, was killed by Refining Corpse less than a mile away from here. Fellow Daoist Gu has already reported it to the sect. In addition, the casual cultivators have also received the mission issued by Fellow Daoist Gu to track down the corpse.
The whereabouts of the corpse monk!" Patriarch Liu explained with a worried look on his face.
Li Shiming now understood why Gu Jia reminded him that there was a murder in Zhongdu City and the monk was killed.
At other times, even if the monk was killed, it would not have much to do with Gu Jia.
But this group of loose cultivators came to Gu Jia for protection, but were killed. If Gu Jia did not take any action in this matter, it would be difficult for Tianhai Sect to restrain these loose cultivators in the future.
"Is this monk very strong? Brother Gu Dao is actually planning to report it to the sect?" Li Shiming asked in surprise.
Gu Jia was the strongest monk nearby, and even he wanted to report it to the sect, which made Li Shiming feel the seriousness of the situation.
"I don't know how strong it is specifically, but it will not be weaker than the middle stage of Qi refining, and it may even be the same as the late stage of Qi refining like fellow Taoist Gu!" Patriarch Liu replied with a wry smile.
Li Shiming couldn't help but stand on end. A monk who was as powerful as a hunter was too dangerous for a second-level Qi refining rookie like him.
No wonder Gu Jia would send him the ‘Baili Messenger Talisman’, it turned out to be so dangerous.
"The monks are now gathering together as much as possible and don't dare to 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 I can find this monk soon, otherwise I won't be able to sleep at night!" Li Shiming couldn't tell the truth, so he said in a deep voice.
After receiving the news, he didn't bother Patriarch Liu much and went home while it was still early in the day.
He didn't want to walk around outside in the dark, as he would become the prey of the monks hiding in the dark.