Safety

In the study, Li Shiming wore goggles over his eyes. Inside them was a monitor modified from the LCD screen removed from the Fiber Fusion Splicer.

Two hundred meters above the courtyard, a camouflaged drone hovered in the air.

It had already been ten days since the cultivators' gathering ended, yet Central Capital City was still steeped in a festive atmosphere.

Over these days, Li Shiming had remained on high alert, constantly watching his surroundings to guard against a sudden attack by cultivators. Because of that, he had not even left the city.

The cultivators he was worried about never appeared. Instead, he managed to make the drone.

In truth, with the disassembled Fiber Fusion Splicer's parts and the database inside the IBMz15 for both the software and hardware, making the drone was not difficult. The real difficulty lay in the high-precision lens.

Over several days, he used the Electric Arc Furnace to produce glass with the best transparency, then repeatedly ground it inside the Server Room Space before it finally met the design requirements.

And that was only because his consciousness inside the Server Room Space could achieve micron-level control. Otherwise, who knew how much longer it would have taken?

Fortunately, once he had gained experience, making the other lenses afterward became much faster.

The drone had been disguised so that, when seen from below, it looked like a Great Xia Eagle. The Great Xia Eagle was a species unique to Great Xia and was held in high regard by the Great Xia Royal Family. At least within Central Capital City, no one would attack a Great Xia Eagle.

The only pity was the drone's endurance. Even with extra batteries added, its maximum flight time was still only twenty minutes.

However, Li Shiming no longer had to worry about outsiders invading his courtyard. While making the drone, he had also made four camera probes, which connected wirelessly to the monitoring goggles he wore on his head.

At this moment, the goggles displayed the drone's perspective, while four smaller windows to the side showed the feeds from the four camera probes. Any of them could be switched to the main display window at any time.

If not for the fact that there were too few usable chips, he would have liked to make even more probes. But after dismantling the Fiber Fusion Splicer, the chips he obtained were only enough to make these.

Both the drone in the sky and the camera probes on the ground had two modes. The first was daytime mode, which relied on high-precision lenses for monitoring.

The second was nighttime Infrared Thermal Imaging mode. In this mode, the monitoring effect was even better than during the day, because no one could escape the tracking of thermal imaging.

Of course, that was mainly because no one knew Infrared Thermal Imaging existed in this world. Otherwise, with a cultivator's methods, hiding their own heat signature would not be difficult.

Li Shiming extended his Spiritual Power tendrils and controlled the remote to bring the drone back.

He used the Object Manipulation Spell to control the remote and operate the drone, while also practicing the Object Manipulation Spell. It killed two birds with one stone.

The drone flew in through the window. He removed its battery and replaced it with a spare one. This time, he did not send the drone out again, but put it away.

With a fairly complete security system in place, his uneasy heart finally calmed down.

His consciousness entered the Server Room Space. As for the grafted Unknown Spirit Plant, he now knew what kind of spirit plant it was.

The graft had been very successful. Tender shoots had put forth leaves. Though the leaves were small, it could still be seen that this was a tea tree.

A Spirit Tea Tree. Li Shiming did not know what the Spirit Tea Tree had gone through to be damaged so miserably.

If not for the roots and two branches left behind, if not for grafting techniques, if not for the artificially created sterile environment inside the Server Room Space, if not for the manually prepared Nutrient Solution, if not for him continuously casting the Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Art—without so many prerequisites, this Spirit Tea Tree would have died long ago.

It could be said that reviving the Spirit Tea Tree was a perfect combination of the technology from his Previous Life and the spells of this life, which was how the current Spirit Tea Tree came to be.

Although the Spirit Tea Tree had grown leaves, the plant itself was still too small. Li Shiming did not dare pick any at all. Only after the Spirit Tea Tree produced new branches could he consider harvesting spirit tea.

Nor would he drain the pond to catch the fish. If he picked spirit tea leaves now, he would only get a few tender leaves. How could that compare to the comfort of drinking spirit tea every day in the future?

Li Shiming took off the goggles on his head and set them aside, then drew in a long breath to steady his mind.

Because he had drunk spirit tea at the last gathering, the Spiritual Power in his body had grown quite a bit. The number of times he could cast the Body Lightening Art each day had increased by five.

In ten days, he had practiced drawing the Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman nearly a hundred times, and likewise failed a hundred times.

However, the experience he summarized had brought him infinitely close to successfully drawing the Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman. Starting with the simplest Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman had made him understand just how difficult cultivation truly was.

With the help of the IBMz15, he could find the cause of every failure, yet even so, he had still gone through over a hundred failures.

How many failures would an ordinary cultivator need before they could truly complete a single Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman? The Snow Spirit Brush was lifted and dipped in Talisman Ink. The amount of Talisman Ink was neither too much nor too little; this was experience he had summarized after four failures.

Spiritual Power gathered inside the Snow Spirit Brush, and the Talisman Ink fused with Spiritual Power at the brush tip.

The brush tip landed on the Talisman Paper, and the true essence of the Convertible Sports Car gathered at the tip along with it. The Snow Spirit Brush moved with unhurried restraint, gliding across the Talisman Paper.

His expression was focused, his mind fully immersed in Talisman Crafting.

The instant the tip of the Snow Spirit Brush left the Talisman Paper, the body-lightening runes on the Talisman Paper emitted a strong azure light. The azure light then quickly dimmed, and the Spiritual Power spread across the Talisman Paper contracted into it.

Li Shiming watched the changes in the Talisman Paper. A small sheet of Talisman Paper had solidified the Body Lightening Art within itself right before his eyes.

Nothing had gone wrong. It had gone smoothly beyond his expectations.

He sensed the Spiritual Power inside his body. He had lost the amount of Spiritual Power needed to cast the Body Lightening Art once. Today, he had only cast the Object Manipulation Spell once, so the Spiritual Power in his body was still quite abundant.

Riding on that recent success, he took out another sheet of Talisman Paper. The Snow Spirit Brush dipped into Talisman Ink, and he once again began drawing the Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman.

It was still smooth. Azure light lit up the study, and Spiritual Power was gathered into the Talisman Paper.

"Didn't they say the success rate of Talisman Crafting wasn't high?" Li Shiming set down the Snow Spirit Brush in his hand and began to think.

Other cultivators crafting talismans and Li Shiming crafting talismans both relied on experience, but the two kinds of experience were different.

The experience other cultivators summarized was vague. They knew how to get close to success, and when they encountered failure during the process, they would attribute it to a matter of probability.

But the experience Li Shiming obtained through the IBMz15 was clear. He knew the root cause of every mistake, and after personally experiencing the process of those mistakes many times, he completely avoided making the same ones.

When the third Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman was successfully drawn, he understood his own success rate.

Though he did not dare say it was one hundred percent, the success rate was definitely close to one hundred percent. And as he continued crafting talismans and accumulated more summarized experience, his talisman-crafting success rate would only grow higher.

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