Li Mu took out the black broken wood; its surface was wrinkled and devoid of any spiritual energy, just like an ordinary chopping board.
Under the Talent Divine Power - Identify Myriad Spirits, its true attributes were revealed.
【withered glory year wood Heart】
【Grade: Sixth-Tier Spirit Wood】
【Characteristics: Wither-Glory Transformation, Instant Wither-Glory, Wither-Glory Cycle, Years of Wither, Years of Glory】
【Status: Years of Power condensed, Wither-Glory balanced, unified and returned to ordinary】
【The wood heart of a sixth-tier withered glory year wood with five thousand Years of rings. The withered glory year wood undergoes one wither and one glory every three hundred Years, condensing Years of Power. After five thousand Years of balanced wither and glory, the Years of Power are no longer apparent, returning to an ordinary state. This wood heart is one of the main Materials for refining Years artifacts and Karma artifacts.】
After seeing the attribute information of the withered glory year wood Heart, Li Mu weighed it for a long time, falling into a dilemma, unsure what type of Spirit Treasure to refine with it.
The withered glory year wood Heart, this high-tier Artifact Refining Spirit Material, contained extremely rare Years of Power, making it very precious, which was also why Li Mu selected it from among the many precious pearls of the Snow Fox Clan.
Using the withered glory year wood Heart, this Spirit Material, along with the seventh-tier star beast remnant pearl and the sixth-tier spirit rhyme mysterious tortoise shell—these two high-tier Spirit Materials containing Karma Power—could be used to refine a divination Spirit Treasure.
Alternatively, he could search for other Years Spirit Materials to refine a Years Spirit Treasure specifically for wood-elemental Spiritual Plants.
With the blessing of the Years of Power from a Years Spirit Treasure, the growth time of high-tier Spiritual Plants could be accelerated, which in turn could shorten the time to acquire plant Spirit attributes, or allow for the large-scale cultivation of high-tier Spiritual Plant seeds, expanding the planting scale.
Both plans had pros and cons, and Li Mu found it difficult to choose at once.
The first option was beneficial for safety when venturing out, for divining the future, and for detecting crises in advance; however, with Years of Power combined with Karma Power simultaneously blessing a Spirit Treasure, the difficulty of refining this Spirit Treasure would be extremely high, and Li Mu feared he might fail.
The second option, refining a Years Spirit Treasure, could accelerate Spiritual Plant cultivation, which was beneficial for selecting suitable Spiritual Plants to Cultivate; however, the difficulty was that other high-tier Spirit Materials with Years attributes were hard to find, and he didn't know when he would be able to gather them all.
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Still undecided, Li Mu sighed. Currently, he was in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range - Snow Fox Clan territory, which was not suitable for Artifact Refining. He would wait until he returned to Yin Yang Valley to decide what attribute of Spirit Treasure to refine with the withered glory year wood Heart!
Li Mu put this problem aside. He stored the withered glory year wood Heart in his Storage Pouch, calmed himself, and with a flick of his palm, condensed a ball of Five Elements Spiritual Fire.
He then took out a large quantity of fifth-tier Spiritual Plants and Spirit Medicines from the nine storage spiritual pearl and began refining fifth-tier Medicinal Pills.
With the experience of refining the sixth-tier Too Profound Clear Spirit Pill, Li Mu became more composed and confident when refining the lower fifth-tier Medicinal Pills.
The Five Elements Spiritual Fire was summoned with ease, transforming into a Spiritual Fire vortex. One by one, fifth-tier Spirit Medicines were thrown into it: purple gold spirit flower, golden jade bamboo ganoderma...
The Five Elements Spiritual Fire vortex spun rapidly, quickly melting and condensing each Spiritual Plant into a ball of medicinal liquid, which eventually separated into four uniformly sized, perfectly round, azure Spirit Pills.
In less than a cup of tea's time, Li Mu had refined four fifth-tier Azure Origin Tranquil Heart Pills.
Repeating this process, Li Mu tirelessly refined Spirit Pills, passing the time.
The next day, Snow Cloud Ridge.
Xue'er reluctantly bid farewell to Bai Jinling, and after a good while, followed Li Mu, flying down to land on the massive Dragon head of the Twin-Horned Azure Moon Flood Dragon.
“Roar!”
The next moment, the Twin-Horned Azure Moon Flood Dragon let out a long roar towards the sky, gathering a large amount of clouds and water vapor around its body.
With a flick of its tail, it instantly transformed into a streak of azure light, rapidly disappearing into the horizon, speeding towards the direction under the Human Race's jurisdiction.
The sixth-tier Peak Twin-Horned Azure Moon Flood Dragon flew extremely fast, covering ten thousand miles a day was nothing to it.
Li Mu took Xue'er into the Painting World Treasure Mansion to rest in the four directions house.
“Take these Medicinal Pills to use! You also need to Cultivate well while with me. If your cultivation is too low, I won't be able to count on you for help in the future,” Li Mu said, waving his hand to take out several bottles of Medicinal Pills and handing them to Xue'er, instructing her solemnly.
“Thank you, Lord Li! I will!” Xue'er's eyes lit up, and she happily accepted the Medicinal Pill bottles.
Following Li Mu, life was much more comfortable than in the Snow Fox Clan. The Treasure Mansion world had abundant Spiritual Qi, and she had Little Gold and Little Wa as companions.
She could also consume Spirit Pills to increase her cultivation, making Cultivation twice as effective with half the effort, and not difficult at all.
Li Mu turned and walked towards the secret room in the four directions house.
“Lord Li, these are the Artifact Refining Materials I begged my mother for! Didn't you promise to help me refine a Spirit Treasure? Here!” Xue'er suddenly remembered something, called out to Li Mu, took out an ancient Storage Pouch, and handed it over with both hands.
The Storage Pouch was ancient and worn, with its original embroidered patterns already too faded to clearly see.
This was easy to understand. The Snow Fox Clan was not skilled in Artifact Refining, so this Storage Pouch must have been spoils of war from a Human Race Cultivator, used for many Years.
“Mm! I’ll help you refine it in a bit.” Li Mu smiled as he took the Storage Pouch, then turned to walk towards the Artifact Refining Room.
Suddenly remembering something, Li Mu turned to look at Xue'er, asking with concern, “Oh, by the way, did you tell your mother that I can refine artifacts?”
“My mother did inquire about your origins, but don't worry! My lips are sealed, I didn't say anything at all. Lord Li, so you can also refine artifacts!” Xue'er giggled, looking at Li Mu in surprise, feigning astonishment as she asked.
When she first met Li Mu, Xue'er had already witnessed his caution. That wretched fat man and his Senior Brother had been imprisoned in a cage for several Years, in utter darkness, truly miserable.
After so many Years of interaction, Xue'er deeply understood Li Mu's temperament. To continue following him in the future, when her mother inquired about Li Mu's information, Xue'er was careful not to reveal too much useful information, concealing what she could.
Now, this decision was clearly correct.
“You mischievous Spirit Monster, go play! I’ll refine another Storage Magic Treasure for you later; this Storage Pouch is too ugly.” Li Mu was very satisfied with Xue'er's answer, smiling happily as he gestured.
“Thank you, Lord Li!” Xue'er's eyes immediately sparkled with joy, and she thanked him happily.
Li Mu waved his hand and walked straight into the Artifact Refining Room.
Watching Li Mu enter the Artifact Refining Room, Xue'er skipped and hopped, excitedly going to find Little Gold and Little Wa.
Three days passed in a flash.
Inside the Artifact Refining Room, Li Mu was halfway through refining an artifact when he suddenly sped up the refining of a fifth-tier Spirit Sword. Then, his figure flickered, and he disappeared from the Painting World Treasure Mansion.
“Master, do you want me to help them?”
As soon as Li Mu appeared, the Twin-Horned Azure Moon Flood Dragon looked down, seeing a Venerable Deity Transformation leading four Nascent Soul True Lords engaged in a bitter battle with a sixth-tier Yao Beast, and asked for instructions.
“No need, they're all old acquaintances. I can handle it myself!”
Looking at the five familiar figures, Li Mu smiled brightly and politely declined.
Then, Li Mu reached out, and a small, ancient black mountain shimmered into existence out of thin air. The black mountain grew with the wind, rapidly expanding, and smashed down towards the sixth-tier Yao Beast that the few people had been attacking for a long time without success, and which was making their situation precarious.
The sixth-tier Violent Yao Bear suddenly sensed the danger, but it was too late to dodge. It hurriedly turned, holding its hands in a King Lifting the Tripod , its entire Yao power surging, to resist the impending crisis.
The black giant mountain roared down, with the force of thunder!
“Boom!” A loud crash.
The sixth-tier Violent Yao Bear was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, brutally smashed away. “Crack, crack...” A series of dense bone-breaking and bone-cracking sounds suddenly rang out.
The sixth-tier Violent Yao Bear's massive, brawny body was sent flying several miles. Its powerful, sturdy, enormous body instantly shrank by several parts, sprawling in a rocky pit, turning into a pile of flesh in the blink of an eye, its massive body becoming a tangled mess of flesh and blood, a bloody, blurry state.
The immense shockwave instantly scattered the few people who were attacking the sixth-tier Violent Yao Bear, leaving them terrified.
That was a sixth-tier Yao Beast!
Its body was famously strong and mighty.
However, with just one impact from that black small mountain, the extremely ferocious and wildly violent sixth-tier Yao Beast, whose body was like paper, let out a few miserable wails and then died.
This attack power is terrifying! A black small mountain covered in Spirit Swords, what kind of Spirit Treasure is this? How can it be so terrifying!
The five people all looked at Li Mu, collectively stunned.
