I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 496 - 281: Profound Wood Essence

The Earth Element Spirit Ship flew into the Yin Yang Valley.

Li Mu carefully tended to the Purple Jade Reishi and Yin Soul Fruit, then plunged into the Artifact Refining Room.

Retrieving the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion from the Storage Compartment, which had not yet fully advanced in tier, it hovered before him. Li Mu gazed at it to investigate its current status.

Under the Innate Divine Techniques of Recognizing Ten Thousand Spirits, the detailed information of the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion was revealed.

[Painting Realm Treasure Mansion (In Upgrade)]

[Grade: Tier Seven Grotto Heaven Spiritual Treasure]

[Attributes: Size at Will, Trapped Enemy, Gathering Spirit (forms a small world within itself), Devouring Elemental Spirit, Five Elements Spirit Realm, ...]

[Status: Devouring Dragon-shaped Spiritual Vein, Earth Vein Spirit Marrow, upgrading speed increased.]

[Formed by refining the Profound Mother Divine Stone, Ten Thousand Flowers Divine Marrow, Void Spirit Boundary Stone, Tier Eight Daoist Soldier Fragment, and Eightfold Celestial Fire. This Spirit Treasure creates a small world of its own, consuming massive spiritual objects, producing a hundredfold Spiritual Qi, enticing enemies into its world, suppressing cultivation, sealing spirit and stealing essence, refining their spirit and incorporating it into the Five Elements Spirit Mountain. It devours large amounts of high-tier spiritual materials; laws form on their own, advancing itself, continuing to devour high-tier spiritual materials, and can advance to a Tier Eight Grotto Heaven Dao Artifact within a hundred years.]

Li Mu looked at this information, feeling a mix of emotions. The Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, this supreme treasure after starting its advancement, had been fed with a vast amount of high-tier spiritual materials, even refining a Tier Six Spiritual Artifact - the Five Elements Spirit Mountain, and incorporating the Earth Vein Spirit Marrow and a large amount of Tier Five and Six Five Elements Spiritual Materials.

However, after decades, its advancement still seemed lifeless.

The requirements for the upgrade of the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion far exceeded Li Mu’s imagination.

At this moment, the status of the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion showed that it had devoured the Dragon-shaped Spiritual Vein, and the Earth Vein Spirit Marrow was in a state of sped-up upgrading, yet at this time, without a large amount of continued supply of high-tier spiritual materials, its advancement speed would inevitably stagnate.

Li Mu sighed softly with helplessness. The Painting Realm Treasure Mansion is crucial to him. The space houses countless acres of Spirit Field and the planting of a multitude of Spirit Plants, which are essential for his future cultivation advancement and establishing the Dao Foundation.

No matter how high its consumption, it must be fully fulfilled, assisting in its early advancement.

After a moment of contemplation, Li Mu’s figure flashed and entered the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.

Inside the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, the Spiritual Power was abundant. In the center stood a Five Elements Spirit Mountain, exuding Five Elements Spiritual Light. Below the Five Elements Spirit Peak, numerous Five Elements Spirit Fields were growing various Spirit Plants.

These Spirit Plants were all affiliated with the Five Elements, each containing the Essence Qi of Heavenly Creation. Yet at this moment, these Spirit Plants appeared somewhat wilting, obviously due to Li Mu’s neglect of care recently, lacking moisture, or because of the absence of supplementary growth spiritual materials, ...

With a wave of his hand, Li Mu cast the Clear Wind Rain Summoning Skill.

Soon, a cloud of Spiritual Rain gathered, dripping onto each Spirit Plant. The Spirit Rain contained rich extreme spirit nourishing all things, and upon landing on the Spirit Plants, was quickly absorbed by them. Over time, the previously wilting Spirit Plants began gradually regaining vitality.

In the space of the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, the concentration of Spiritual Qi was several times that of the Yin Yang Valley. The effect of the Earth Vein Spirit Marrow was still present, and dense Spiritual Qi surrounded the high-tier plants growing on the Spirit Field of the Five Elements Spirit Mountain, flourishing prominently.

After casting the Clear Wind Rain Summoning Skill, Li Mu continued to inspect the Spirit Field. The thousand acres of Celestial Phoenix Grass had already matured, and he casually harvested them, gaining tens of millions of free proficiency points.

Li Mu executed a technique, transforming into a skilled Spirit Plant Cultivator, sowing Spirit Seeds, planting a thousand acres of Celestial Phoenix Grass, and tending to the thriving Spirit Fields.

After a day spent taking care of the Spirit Fields in the Treasure Mansion Space, Li Mu flew up, landing in the Spirit Mansion situated on the peak of the Five Elements Spirit Mountain, where he summoned the Celestial Fire Refining Furnace to start disassembling the Cyan Wood Sacrificial Staff to extract the Profound Wood Essence within.

Before refining artifacts, Li Mu first dealt with 25 pieces of Ancient Artifacts, either re-refining them or purifying them to extract the spiritual materials and Power of Time within, to nourish the Cyan Jade Ginseng King, or to feed back into the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.

"Chirp Chirp!"

This crisp cry, as if a phoenix’s song, echoed in the void. It wasn’t loud yet clearly reached Li Mu’s ears.

Immediately, he saw a scorching purple-gold light forming in the void, and in the blink of an eye, a Fire Spirit had already taken shape; it was none other than the Purple Gold Fire Phoenix transformed from the Extreme Yang Celestial Fire!

As soon as the Purple Gold Fire Phoenix appeared, it started calling out to Li Mu, its voice full of urgency and urging him for benefits.

"This guy, some habits never change!" Li Mu chuckled wryly, having anticipated this scene, and promptly tossed a prepared batch of Fire Spiritual Materials towards the Purple Gold Fire Phoenix.

The Extreme Yang Celestial Fire had a fiery temperament. As its master, although he could command it, he couldn’t overwork it, hence had to resort to this method to appease it.

The Purple Gold Fire Phoenix spread its wings, swallowing all the spiritual materials into its belly. Then its form flickered, and it obediently condensed a furnace of purple-gold flames in the air.

This refining furnace emitted scorching golden flames, as if even the void trembled from the heat, indicating its immense temperature.

Li Mu beckoned with his hand, summoning an Ancient Artifact—the Cyan Wood Sacrificial Staff—from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl.

The Cyan Wood Sacrificial Staff, having endured the wear of millennia, had become a very ordinary wooden staff, similar to a piece of Kumu wood. Its surface was pitted and cracked, clearly aged.

However, possessing the Innate Divine Technique of recognizing Ten Thousand Spirits, Li Mu could discern the valuable spiritual materials it contained.

This time, Li Mu was not refining the Ancient Artifact itself, but the unique spiritual material contained within it—the Profound Wood Essence.