"I don't know when I will be able to break through!" Li Shiming couldn't help muttering to himself, feeling the vortex of spiritual energy in his body.

Since he drank spiritual tea once at Gu Jia's side, the spiritual power in his body has greatly increased. In addition to the cultivation in the first half of the year and the supplement of spiritual food, he finally reached the peak of the second level of qi refining.

He could feel a barrier appearing in front of him, and as long as the barrier was broken, he could enter the third level of Qi Refining.

His consciousness entered the computer room space, and he looked at the spirit tea tree with six branches. There were not many leaves on it, and he couldn't bear to pick it.

Compared with the talisman bamboo, the growth rate of the spirit tea tree is much slower.

After more than half a year, the spirit tea tree was barely considered a branch, but it was still far from the normal form of the spirit tea tree.

Picking it now will definitely hurt the growth of the spirit tea tree and slow down the formation time of the spirit tea tree.

"Wait for now!" Li Shiming gave up the idea of ​​picking spirit tea, his cultivation was not slow.

Of course, the speed of his cultivation is compared with that of loose cultivation. It took him a year to go from no foundation to the present, and he is only one line away from the third level of qi refining.

As for the loose cultivators he saw, it took almost ten years to cultivate to this stage.

In the past six months, he has accumulated more than 2,000 catties of spiritual rice, and a large number of various primary talismans.

If the materials for making rune ink were not available, the number of runes he made would be even more.

Since the destruction of the Hao family, there have also been cultivators who wanted to do business with talismans, but due to resource problems, the business was very small.

Li Shiming had a great demand for Fu Mo, and he didn't want to attract attention, so he didn't do any more deals with loose cultivators.

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 because of Gu Jia's influence.

Gu Jia couldn't be by his side all the time, so he needed to live as much as possible to spend this time.

When he was thinking about Gu Jia, a 'Baili Messenger Talisman' flew over, and the bird that the 'Baili Messenger Talisman' transformed into had a talisman in its mouth.

Li Shiming stretched out his hand, and the bird jumped into his hand.

The bird turned into a letter, and dropped it into his hand together with the talisman.

"Recently, a cultivator manipulated corpse refinement to kill people. This 'Hundred Mile Letter Amulet' has been put away. If you encounter trouble, immediately activate the call for help!"

Li Shiming looked at the letterhead in his hand, even if Gu Jia had a purpose for him, he had to accept it.

He has seen the talisman 'Hundred Miles of Letters' many times, but unfortunately he doesn't have the relevant spells and can't make it himself.

The 'Hundred Miles of Letters Talisman' sent by Gu Jia has already set the destination of the transmission, which is the small courtyard of the imperial palace, where Gu Jia will be there most of the time every day.

"Refining corpses?" Li Shiming tried his best to recall his poor knowledge of cultivating immortals, but couldn't find anything about corpse refining.

But from the name, you can tell that this is a means of refining corpses for your own use.

Li Shiming is not without news channels, he is also connected with the jinshi of the same year.

These jinshi entered the various departments of Daxia, and he would hear a lot of internal information when communicating.

During the same period, the Jinshi was a very strong group for the troupe. At present, none of them have grown up, and they are still in the early stages of officialdom.

During this period, there were few conflicts between the jinshi, and traditionally, the jinshi who passed the examination in the same year were one of the biggest boosters in the officialdom, so the connection was relatively close.

Although Li Shiming did not have a real job, the emperor's rewards were a lot. In the same year, the jinshi would not underestimate him, and he would be called at any party.

During these gatherings, he heard about strange cases that happened recently, at least a dozen murder cases in which blood was drained from the whole body.

At this time, combined with Shanggu Jia's reminder, Li Shiming guessed that these cases were probably the work of corpse refining.

It's just that the news of mortals is different from the news of monks. He wondered if he should ask 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 his attitude towards him was very good.

He also knew that Clan Chief Liu lived in the city recently, but it wasn't that the Liu family moved to the city like some loose 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 being wiped out like the Hao family.

The other three immortal cultivators were also dealt with in the same way as the Liu family.

In the general perception of loose cultivators, at most they persisted until after the Immortal Ascension Conference, and everything would be fine.

It is precisely because of the Immortal Ascension Conference that so many cultivators came to the Central Capital. They also took this opportunity to earn more Spirit Stones in the cities of the Central Capital.

Li Shiming's visit was greeted by Patriarch Liu himself at the door.

"Why is Daoyou Li free to come to my place?" Patriarch Liu invited Li Shiming into the living room. After the two parties were seated separately, Patriarch Liu asked with a reluctant smile.

"I learned from my daoist brother that some monks used corpses to make trouble, and I came here to find out the details!" Li Shiming didn't go around in circles, but directly stated his intentions.

"I do know about this~lightnovelpub.net~ Yesterday, Daoist Gu, who was on the third floor of Qi refining, was killed by corpse refining less than a mile away. Daoist Gu has reported it to the sect. In addition, the loose cultivators also received Daoist Gu. The task released is to track the whereabouts of the corpse cultivator!" Clan Chief Liu explained with a worried face.

Li Shiming now understands why Gu Jia reminded him that a cultivator was killed in a murder case in Zhongdu City.

At other times, even if the monk was killed, it had nothing to do with Gu Jia.

But this group of loose cultivators came to look for Gu Jia's protection, but they were killed. If Gu Jia did not act in this matter, it would be difficult for Tianhai Sect to restrain these loose cultivators in the future.

"Is this cultivator strong? Brother Gu is actually going to report to the sect?" Li Shiming asked in surprise.

Gu Jia was the strongest cultivator in the neighborhood, and even he had to report to the sect, which made Li Shiming feel the seriousness of the situation.

"I don't know how strong it is, but it won't be weaker than the middle stage of qi refining, and it may even be the same late stage of qi refining as fellow Daoist Gu!" Clan Chief Liu replied with a wry smile.

Li Shiming couldn't help but stand up. A powerful cultivator who hides like a hunter is too dangerous for a rookie like him at the second level of qi refining.

No wonder Gu Jia sent him the 'Baili Messenger Talisman', it turned out to be so dangerous.

"The cultivators are trying to gather together as much as possible now, and they don't dare to act alone. We suspect that the cultivator here is related to the cultivator who destroyed the Hao family half a year ago!" Patriarch Liu continued.

"I hope to find this cultivator sooner, otherwise I won't be able to sleep at night!" Li Shiming couldn't tell the truth, he said in a deep voice.

When he got the news, he didn't bother Clan Chief Liu too much, and went home while it was still early in the sky.

He didn't want to walk outside in the dark, that would be the prey of the monks hiding in the dark.