Cultivation is just so scientific!

The ten cubic meter storage bag also reflected the complexity of the Xuanming Sect Qi Refining Late Stage Cultivator killed by Li Shiming.

Similarly, the items inside the storage bag were a reflection of this complexity, as his consciousness entered the bag and found the most important item among the piles of items.

"How could there be a Jade Scroll?" Li Shiming, who had just received two Cultivation Techniques from his sect, naturally knew how strictly the sect controlled their techniques.

To his surprise, there was a Jade Scroll inside the storage bag.

However, he wasn't excited, because there was a great likelihood that the Jade Scroll was blank, just like the two he received from the Hidden Technique Pavilion, which would erase their content after a certain period.

And the Hidden Technique Pavilion required him to stay within the sect during this period; presumably, Xuanming Sect would have a similar rule.

He took out the Jade Scroll and placed it on his forehead.

A stream of information flowed from the Jade Scroll into his brain, and after absorbing a vast amount of information, his eyes became vacant.

He quickly connected to the IBMz15, wanting to see if he was mistaken or if the content of the Jade Scroll was indeed as such.

In a new document on the IBMz15, he recognized every single character, but put together, he couldn't understand them at all.

"No wonder he dared to carry the Jade Scroll with him, it was encrypted!" Li Shiming quickly figured it out.

Encryption was a common practice in his previous life—in coding computers to prevent third parties from viewing, encrypting communications to prevent interception by enemies. Encryption was used in everyday life, military, aerospace, industry, and more.

Li Shiming couldn't help but laugh, as for the people of this world, decoding an encryption was an extremely difficult task, requiring a huge amount of calculations.

But he had the IBMz15, and massive computations were what this large server excelled in—it's a strong suit.

He pulled up a lot of encryption and decryption data, quickly learned them, and soon began copying and writing a decryption program.

What happened next was out of his hands; the IBMz15 would handle the decryption of the Jade Scroll content based on various possibilities.

His consciousness returned to the storage bag, where he ignored a similar black banner and found five large weapons, all Low Grade Magical Artifacts.

Two giant axes and three giant hammers, though Low Grade Magical Artifacts, given their size, the material alone for one artifact would equate to more than a dozen ordinary Low Grade Magical Artifacts.

He then saw more items wrapped in black cloth, all containing strong Spiritual Energy, evidently very valuable.

"That's it?" Li Shiming mused somewhat perplexedly after his inventory.

The ten cubic meter storage bag was stuffed with piles of things, yet not one of them was useful.

The only thing that might be somewhat useful was the Jade Scroll, and he would need to wait for it to be decrypted before knowing its worth.

In case the Jade Scroll contained a Demon Cultivation Technique, even if he acquired it, he wouldn't dare to cultivate it.

As for the five huge Low Grade Magical Artifacts, although his body had been nourished by Spiritual Power, wielding such gigantic weapons was beyond him; not to mention where he would acquire the compatible combat techniques, his strength couldn't keep up either.

Luckily, the ten cubic meter storage bag itself was a fine gain, as his bag's capacity during the Qi Refinement Realm could be considered top-notch.

A "ding" sound rang in his ear.

This was how IBMz15 reminded him that the decryption of the Jade Scroll had ended.

"That quickly?" Li Shiming knew how formidable the computing power of IBMz15 was, but he didn't expect it to decrypt the content of the Jade Scroll so soon.

The speed was even faster than his coding speed. He had worked hard to code, yet IBMz15 had only taken a short while.

Upon his command, IBMz15 opened the content of the Jade Scroll, and he instantly read the contents.

'Xuanming Corpse Refining Chapter,' this was a Corpse Refining Skill and it was even named after the Xuanming Sect.

Normally, a Cultivation Technique named after a sect was the core Cultivation Technique of that sect.

The content of 'Xuanming Corpse Refining Chapter' was extensive, but the highest achievement was reaching the Iron Corpse level; beyond that, there was nothing more.

Reaching the level of Iron Corpse was possible because at the Copper Corpse stage, a massive amount of advancement resources was required. The 'Xuanming Corpse Refining Chapter' ended with the use of these resources to evolve a Copper Corpse into an Iron Corpse.

The 'Xuanming Corpse Refining Chapter' did not mention how to further advance an Iron Corpse at all. Had it not included the content on evolving Iron Corpses, it could only be considered a Qi Refinement Realm Cultivation Technique. Stay updated through My Virtual Library Empire

Amid the voluminous content, Li Shiming found something that seemed familiar.

"Five Elements Nether Ginseng, Gu Lotus, Erosion Illusion Grass, Evil Water Poison Vine..." These items all came with illustrations, and the more he looked, the more familiar they seemed because he had just inventoried them.

He took out the items wrapped in black cloth from the two storage bags; besides the materials for Corpse Refining, eighty percent of the materials needed to evolve a Copper Corpse to an Iron Corpse were gathered in there.

Only three kinds of materials were missing, and he was somewhat puzzled as to why someone would bring these important resources out to battle.

Moreover, you, a late-stage Qi Refining Cultivator of the Xuanming Sect, aren't accompanied by a refined corpse. Why are you carrying a 'Xuanming Corpse Refining Chapter' and a bunch of Corpse Refining materials in your storage bag? What were you thinking?

What Li Shiming didn't know was that the late-stage Qi Refining Cultivator of the Xuanming Sect he had killed underwater was considered a second-generation Cultivator within the Xuanming Sect.

This expedition alongside Master Uncle Jiang Bing was precisely for gathering Corpse Refining materials.

The 'Xuanming Corpse Refining Chapter' was extremely famous because the corpse refining of the Xuanming Sect possessed formidable combat capabilities and growth potential.

The formidable combat capabilities were easy to understand—it was about the training and tactical design for refining corpses, which had undergone a sufficiently long period of time and myriad generations of Xuanming Sect cultivators had summarized and perfected these skills, achieving great expertise in this area.

The formidable growth potential had to do with the 'Xuanming Corpse Refining Chapter's choice of Corpse Refining materials. Why did the Xuanming Sect possess such a powerful corpse refining skill, yet not many cultivators within the sect practiced it?

Because the Corpse Refining materials required by the 'Xuanming Corpse Refining Chapter' needed spirit root seeds of the highest quality—the best ones being the single spirit roots, and the lesser ones needing dual spirit roots.

As for poorer spirit roots, they weren't even considered by the Xuanming Sect.

Materials from single spirit roots had the potential for growth, while those from dual spirit roots were relatively inferior.

To prevent the sect from turning single spirit roots under its control into materials for corpse refining, the Xuanming Sect went to great lengths, but such matters were fundamentally unavoidable.

Consequently, the Xuanming Sect often sent cultivators out to snatch spirit root seeds from other sects and also catered to the second-generation cultivators within their own sect who were uncontrollable, providing them with materials for corpse refining.

The late-stage Qi Refining Xuanming Sect cultivator that Li Shiming had killed had prepared so many materials to process the obtained bodies as quickly as possible.

At that time, the late-stage Qi Refining Xuanming Sect cultivator had his sights set on Li Shiming, who even at a young age had reached the Qi Refining Third Level, and stood out among many spirit roots like a bright light in the darkness.