Cultivation is just so scientific!

Li Yuanba and Li Shiming parted ways. He now has two strongest means: one is the Golden Corpse Black Shield, and the other is the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure.

The Golden Corpse Black Shield goes without saying; as long as it's summoned, the contract is linked to the main body, Li Shiming, and it doesn't require him to consume his own Spirit. However, since he and the main body Li Shiming are one, he can command the Golden Corpse Black Shield.

As for the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure, it's somewhat awkward.

If he truly wanted to wield the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure, even if he pours all his Spiritual Power into it, he still couldn't drive the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure.

The 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure inherently consumes a great deal of Spiritual Power. Not to mention, after being upgraded to a Fourth-Grade Magical Treasure, the demand for Spiritual Power increases to such an extent that even cultivators newly entering the Nascent Soul Realm cannot satisfy the requirements to use the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure.

Of course, since Li Shiming upgraded the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure from Third-Grade to Fourth-Grade and still allows Li Yuanba to use it, there must be a solution.

After analysis and research by the life-bound magical treasure IBMz15, aside from using the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure as a suppressive tool, IBMz15 found another special way to utilize it.

This method is to borrow the flying swords within the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' magical treasure, drawing them out to transform into his own flying sword weapons.

In this way, the Spiritual Power consumption would decrease to a level that the Sword Cultivation Great Elder can sustain.

As for how this method of using the 'Ten Thousand Sword Peak' fares in combat, it depends on Li Yuanba's understanding of Sword Intent, and it also needs to be tested in actual battle.

Li Yuanba was flying through the air on his sword, sensing the 'Xuanyin Ghost Fire' within him.

In fact, he was already an Alchemy Master. With the Spiritual Fire and the shared alchemy insights and knowledge from Li Shiming, although his alchemy skills were not as good as Li Shiming's, they exceeded most Alchemy Masters.

The reason his level was not as high as Li Shiming's, despite sharing Li Shiming's insights and knowledge, was not due to Li Shiming withholding anything. There was no need to withhold; they were one, so withholding was out of the question.

Li Shiming has the control room space, where the mastery of 5-nanometer control in alchemy takes place. This is why Li Shiming can refine Spirit Pills to their theoretical pinnacle quality.

Neither Li Yuanba nor any other Alchemy Master, even if they possess the same level of alchemy skill as Li Shiming, can achieve the same results as Li Shiming.

What sets Li Yuanba apart from other Alchemy Masters is that he could also borrow a portion of the computational power from IBMz15.

What he currently lacks is a Pill Furnace. Li Shiming did not give him a Pill Furnace—Li Shiming didn't have enough for himself, having only ten Third-Grade Pill Furnaces.

Even if he had a hundred Third-Grade Pill Furnaces, Li Shiming could use them all at once for alchemy; these ten Third-Grade Pill Furnaces were originally brought over from the Beishu Continent.

In any case, Li Yuanba has no shortage of wealth, so buying a Pill Furnace is not a difficult matter.

Li Yuanba took out a Jade Scroll, and his Divine Thought entered it. It was an extremely detailed map sent by Li Shiming.

"First, find a market!" he murmured to himself.

Since he was searching for his own opportunity, naturally not everything should be done with the help of the main body, Li Shiming, for that would defeat the purpose of seeking opportunity.

The market was easy to find, as the Jade Scroll map already documented one. He found a market that could offer up to Golden Core Stage spiritual objects, and higher-level markets were unsuitable for him.

Xingyi Sword changed direction. The Great Elder Realm wasn't bad. Being in the Golden Core Stage, as long as he didn't do anything provocative, Nascent Soul cultivators would ignore him, and Golden Core cultivators wouldn't dare to provoke a Sword Cultivation Great Elder.

Of course, this premise is that he doesn't expose anything that attracts others. Once he reveals interests that attract others, the harshness of the Cultivation World will manifest.

Following the map, Li Yuanba found the market. It was in a medium-sized city, and if the map hadn't explicitly stated it, he would have doubted if he had found the wrong place.

The medium-sized mortal city appeared to be very prosperous.

The market was on a secluded street within the city. Li Yuanba cast an Invisibility Technique and flew above the street.

The Invisibility Technique was useless against cultivators, but to mortals, it was like divine magic.

Sensing the unique formation of the market, he knew he found the right place.

He cast the General Alchemy Market Entrance and Exit Technique, opening a passage through the market's formation, and he passed through into the market.

This market was the most rudimentary market he had ever seen; it was merely a three-entry courtyard, with only one truly open shop located in the central main house.

The rest were more than ten cultivators with ground stalls, selling items mostly from the Qi Refinement Realm and Foundation Establishment Stage.

This was truly the bottom level of the Cultivation World. Previously, the main body Li Shiming engaged even with Loose Cultivator factions, possessing Nascent Soul cultivators; the most contact was with major sects.

Of course, even this lowest level of the Cultivation World was superior to the bottom tier of the Beishu Continent.

Loose Cultivators of the Beishu Continent with Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators were already quite impressive, and Loose Cultivator factions with Golden Core Stage cultivators were considered the pinnacle among Loose Cultivators.

Li Yuanba walked past each ground stall, and the base-level cultivators selling items looked at him with reverence.

He didn't intend to conceal his aura; the aura of a Sword Cultivation Great Elder was restrained but not hidden, allowing other cultivators to sense his strength without harming lower-level cultivators.