Chapter 1844: Chapter 968: Corpse Refining (2)

The reason why Li Shiming’s success rate in refining corpses is so high is because he has perfected this step to the utmost.

To inscribe ’Refining Corpse Runes’ on a corpse, one must consider the impact of these ’Refining Corpse Runes’ on the corpse’s body.

Ordinary cultivators refining corpses need to inscribe varying numbers of ’Refining Corpse Runes’, ranging from dozens to hundreds. The balance of these ’Refining Corpse Runes’ determines the basic success rate of the corpse formation.

However, Li Shiming needs to engrave billions of ’Refining Corpse Runes’ on the corpse, making energy balance in the corpse even more challenging to control.

IBMz15 was already well-versed in this work and produced a design plan in no time.

Next, Li Shiming employed over a hundred minds, controlling the talisman pen formed by his spirit, using talismanic ink infused with his essence blood, to engrave ’Refining Corpse Runes’ onto the corpse of a dual-winged intelligent creature.

Due to the dual-winged intelligent creature’s corpse having a strength over five times greater than that of three half-step great powers’ corpses, this allowed him for the first time to attempt engraving ten billion ’Refining Corpse Runes’ on the body.

Even with a hundred minds operating, engraving ten billion ’Refining Corpse Runes’ took over thirty days.

This was still because his cultivation had recently improved, making his spirit stronger. Otherwise, engraving ten billion ’Refining Corpse Runes’ could potentially take over three hundred days.

The fact that it took over thirty days just to engrave a single dual-winged creature’s corpse with ’Refining Corpse Runes’ made him very dissatisfied.

Because if he truly wants to refine all seventy-three half-step great power level dual-winged intelligent creatures, it will take nearly a decade.

His time is extremely valuable, especially since he is nearing the period of advancement to half-step great power. He is unwilling to delay his advancement for the corpse refining process.

After pondering for a while, IBMz15 proposed a solution.

Within the machine room space, he had abilities akin to a god, with control over everything. With a precision of 0.05 nanometers, he was able to accomplish things he had never imagined before.

For example, he brought another dual-winged intelligent creature’s corpse into the machine room space, scanning the already inscribed corpse while simultaneously replicating it onto the other.

There’s no need to consider the drawing of individual ’Refining Corpse Runes’. The key is ensuring the runes on both dual-winged intelligent creatures’ corpses are identical.

Here, he had to thank the dual-winged intelligent creatures, as the same gender bodies bore no external differences. Perhaps for this race, reaching the half-step great power level means their bodies also reached the pinnacle of this state, adhering to a uniform standard.

Replicating the runes on two dual-winged intelligent creatures’ corpses became significantly simpler, reducing the task to just three days.

He obtained two dual-winged intelligent creature corpses inscribed with one hundred billion ’Refining Corpse Runes’ each.

He placed one of the dual-winged intelligent creature corpses into the Corpse Refining Array. To accelerate the energy absorption of the Corpse Refining Array, he positioned three vein-locking plates around it to supply spiritual energy equivalent to three Great Cultivator Spirit Veins.

As soon as the dual-winged intelligent creature’s corpse was placed into the Corpse Refining Array, it activated the array, and countless energy threads connected to the dual-winged intelligent creature’s corpse.

Unlike before, this time the external form of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s corpse did not undergo any strange changes.

Whether it was the Duke of Thunder or the Red Demon, previous instances involved corpses of human cultivators, which underwent bizarre transformations during the refining process, resulting in the Duke of Thunder with wings and standing at one point two meters, or the Red Demon with double horns and a body of red skin.

On the dual-winged intelligent creature’s corpse, the ’Refining Corpse Runes’ were illuminating one by one, beginning the transformation of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body.

When ’Refining Corpse Runes’ invoked the Yin Cold Energy inside the Corpse Refining Array to transform the dual-winged intelligent creature’s corpse, the Supreme Yang Energy inside the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body surprisingly retracted back into the pair of wings.

This allowed the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body to easily accept the transformation of the ’Refining Corpse Runes’, starting its transformation into a refined corpse.

Li Shiming also felt a connection forming with the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body that was being refined, signifying the formation of a contract between him and the refined corpse.

Except for the pair of wings, the rest of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body started a new form of resurrection under the influence of the Corpse Refining Array and the ’Refining Corpse Runes’.

The heart of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body began to beat, igniting a soul fire.

Everything proceeded smoothly, as per previous experiences, the next step should be for the remaining ’Refining Corpse Runes’ to start converting into the rule power of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body.

In fact, during the conversion process of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body into a refined corpse, the consumption of ’Refining Corpse Runes’ was negligible compared to ten billion ’Refining Corpse Runes’.

It is the subsequent conversion of ’Refining Corpse Runes’ into the rule power of the refined corpse that truly determines the strength of the refined corpse.

But at this critical moment, the pair of wings on the back of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body suddenly channeled the Supreme Yang Energy back into the body.

The previously dominant Yin Cold Energy throughout the body quickly dissipated when impacted by the Supreme Yang Energy.

Just when Li Shiming thought the refining process had ended in failure, an unexpected event occurred.

The Supreme Yang Energy entered the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body without affecting the newly-beating heart or the ignited soul fire.

However, the energy driving the dual-winged intelligent creature’s heart was no longer the Yin Cold Energy, but had become Supreme Yang Energy.

The originally ghost-blue soul fire turned red, resembling a true flame.

The aura emitted by the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body also underwent an extreme transformation. Previously, the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body exuded a distinct Yin Cold aura characteristic of a refined corpse.

If not concealed, any powerful cultivator could sense the refined corpse aura within the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body.

But now, the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body before him appeared as if it was a living entity, rather than a refined corpse.

Its life form bore no difference from true life, and it was even more positive.

A body filled with Supreme Yang Energy, something no refined corpse could possibly possess.

Through observing the manifestation of the Supreme Yang Energy, Li Shiming was able to confirm that this type of Supreme Yang Energy possesses a very powerful self-healing capability.

When the heart of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body resumed its rhythm, the Supreme Yang Energy within its wings perceived the body as living and instinctively sought to repair it, eliminating any foreign energy within.

Everything happened inexplicably, and thus this dual-winged intelligent creature’s body was revived in such a manner.

However, the transformation process of ten billion ’Refining Corpse Runes’ hadn’t concluded. This time, instead of transforming the body and generating Yin Cold Energy, it fortified the inherent rule power of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body.

Li Shiming expected the corpse to feature multiple rule imprints, and that these rule imprints would be quite formidable because ten billion ’Refining Corpse Runes’, when distributed among multiple rule imprints, are sufficient for strengthening all such imprints.

Yet another unexpected situation arose. Through the contractual connection with the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body, he discovered that only a single rule imprint appeared within the dual-winged creature’s body.

Due to the contractual relationship, he could perceive part of the rule information from the rule imprint.

The ’Holy Spirit Rule’—a rule he had never heard of before, nor found in any texts.

Besides the ’Holy Spirit Rule’, the interior of the dual-winged intelligent creature’s body did not form any other rule imprints, leaving Li Shiming perplexed.