Cultivating the Dao, Starting with Farming

About half an hour later, Li Mu left and returned, and his sword fell in the stone courtyard.

Seeing the three-tailed demon fox lying down on the recliner to rest honestly under the supervision of Xiao Jin and Xiao Wa, Li Mu smiled slightly and waved his hand. Before the three-tailed demon fox, Xue'er, had time to react, Li Mu immediately put it into the spirit beast bag.

"What are you doing! Let me out!" The three-tailed demon fox Xue'er was shocked, and her consciousness came out from the spirit beast bag.

"Let's rest inside for a while! Next, I have to concentrate on refining the weapon, and I don't have time to greet you." Li Mu responded through the sound transmission of his spiritual consciousness.

The next moment, Li Mu poured spiritual power into the spirit beast bag, causing the three-tailed demon fox Xueer to fall asleep.

Next, Li Mu was going to refine a fifth-level mask spiritual weapon, which would use high-level fox demon materials. In order to prevent the three-tailed fox demon from causing trouble, he put it in the spirit beast bag and sealed it.

It is extremely difficult for a high-level spiritual weapon to grow and evolve into a weapon spirit, and the conditions for its creation are also extremely stringent, such as the properties of the materials used to refine the weapon, the spiritual strength of the spiritual weapon, and the chances of encountering the spiritual weapon, such as : Careful maintenance after the master becomes strong, spiritual enlightenment from experts, blessings from heaven and earth, etc.

All in all, the chance of an ordinary fourth-level or fifth-level spiritual weapon giving birth to a weapon spirit on its own is extremely slim, almost non-existent.

Only those innate spiritual weapons, or high-level spiritual weapons refined by experts, have a certain chance of producing weapon spirits after a long period of time.

Of course, the spiritual strength and attributes of the spirit produced by each spiritual weapon will also be related to the foundation of the spiritual weapon itself.

However, Li Mu used the divine refining and spirit-melting weapon refining method, and with Xiaobai's help, when the spiritual weapon was about to be refined and formed, the spirit of the monster was smelted to produce the acquired weapon spirit.

This kind of weapon spirit refined from the spirit of monsters and beasts is a spirit that is refined the day after tomorrow, and is essentially different from the spirit weapon that is born by itself.

If the properties of the monster spirit used do not match the properties of the spiritual weapon, the probability of the weapon refining failure will become extremely high, and the power given to the spiritual weapon will be far weaker than the weapon spirit that naturally grows in the weapon.

However, the power and spirituality of a spiritual weapon that can produce weapon spirits will be increased several times, dozens of times, and the value of the spiritual weapon is far higher than that of ordinary spiritual weapons.

Being able to refine a spiritual weapon with a spirit, Li Mu would never want to refine an ordinary spiritual weapon.

In order to increase the success rate of refining the weapon, Li Mu had no choice but to find the spirit of a monster that corresponded to the attributes of the spirit weapon. It was best at illusion transformation, and there was nothing better to disguise it than the spirit of a fox spirit.

Therefore, this time when he went to Taixuan Peak and Contribution Hall, Li Mu successfully exchanged a fifth-level jade-faced fox demon spirit and a fifth-level jade-faced fox demon belly skin.

everything's ready.

After rewarding Xiao Jin and Xiao Wa with a bottle of elixir, Li Mu took Xiao Bai and plunged into the weapon refining room, gathered the five elements of spiritual fire, and started refining the weapon.

"Jiji!" Xiaobai sat on Li Mu's lap and shouted urgingly.

"Little glutton, work first, and then I'll give you something delicious to eat after you finish the work." Li Mu replied angrily.

"Jiji!" Xiaobai nodded his head and focused his eyes on the spiritual fire in Li Mu's hand, signaling that he understood.

I don’t know how many monster spirits he had helped Li Mu scare. Xiao Bai was familiar with the tricks. With his small mouth bulging, an astonishing soul power emerged from his body, brewing a terrifying soul-sucking power.

Soon, Li Mu's spiritual consciousness was invested in the Jiuzang Spirit Plant, and a fifth-level Ruyi Stone, a fifth-level phantom breath spiritual soil, a fifth-level phantom blood spiritual crystal, and a fifth-level jade-faced fox demon belly skin flashed out of thin air. , suspended around the Five Elements Spiritual Fire.

Li Mu's consciousness was fully activated, and he controlled the Five Elements Spiritual Fire to calcine several fifth-level materials and pull them into one.

The fifth-level jade-faced fox demon skin is not a mineral material, and the cortex is relatively fragile. Li Mu had to spend a lot of spiritual consciousness to condense a ball of five elements spiritual water to cool down and protect it.

The Five Elements material was melted into a high-temperature melt and slowly carved on the jade-faced fox demon's skin, integrating with it. Then, the spiritual weapon array was micro-carved, and the weapon pattern grid was laid out...

Time flies, two days pass.

In the weapon refining room, Li Mu has already condensed the embryo of the fifth-level mask spirit weapon. The fifth-level materials mixed in the embryo, the complex weapon spirit base array, and the basic spiritual grid position of the weapon pattern are all perfectly carved into the weapon embryo.

Next, there is only one step left, which is to put in the soul of the fifth-level jade-faced fox demon, complete the soul-melting steps of this fifth-level spiritual weapon, and then proceed to the final step of condensing the device pattern.

Li Mu took a deep breath and paused for a moment. Next, he had to refine the soul of the jade-faced fox demon, temper the soul and refine it, and make it fit into the Embryo Spirit Formation. This was not a simple task.

The jade-faced fox demon spirit was originally a fifth-level demon king. Its strength was comparable to that of the Nascent Soul Lord. Although it lost its physical body, it was proficient in illusions and was extremely difficult to mess with in its ghost state.

However, Li Mu also has a special insect that can restrain the soul state. Next, it is Xiaobai's turn to come in handy.

"Xiao Bai, wake up, it's about to start!" Li Mu woke Xiao Bai up from his nap and reminded him.

"Jiji!" Xiaobai woke up, yawned, and shouted at Li Mu, with a resentful expression on his little face.

"I know! It's true this time. I'm not going to lie to you. I didn't know that refining fox demon skin was so troublesome!" Li Mu smiled awkwardly and explained.

Li Mu has refined many spiritual weapons, including various spiritual swords, spiritual shields, etc. Generally, he uses high-level mineral refining materials or wooden materials. This is the first time that he has used high-level monster skins to refine spiritual weapons.

Li Mu made some changes in the refining method to successfully complete the refining of the weapon embryo.

Li Mu used the Five Elements Spiritual Water to participate in the refining of the mask and the spiritual weapon, and the effect was very good. With the intervention of the Five Elements Spiritual Water, he successfully preserved the spirituality of the fifth-level demon fox skin.

However, the refining speed also slowed down this time. Li Mu originally only had to spend half a day refining the weapon, but it was extended to two days to refine the weapon embryo, making Xiao Baikong wait for a while.

The little guy was angry with him.

After appeasing Xiao Bai, Li Mu quickly took out a cyan soul-sucking bottle from the Jiuzang Spirit Bead.

"Chiji!" Xiaobai shouted softly, his expression became serious, and his small black eyes stared at the soul bottle.

Seeing that Xiao Bai was ready, Li Mu smiled slightly and opened the bottle.

With a "pop" sound, the cork of the soul bottle was opened, and a gloomy mist emerged, transforming into a giant fox demon, staring at Li Mu with red eyes, teeth and claws.

However, before the spirit of the fox demon could pounce on him, a huge amount of soul power surged out of Xiao Bai, and all of a sudden, the soul of the jade-faced fox demon was frozen in mid-air.

The red light in the eyes of the jade-faced fox spirit disappeared in a flash, with a look of horror on its face. It stared at the little white insect as if it had encountered a natural enemy. Its soul was uncontrollable and it was filled with uncontrollable fear.

"I'll give you two choices, either become the weapon spirit of this weapon, or be eaten by it." Li Mu smiled slightly, and sent a message from his spiritual consciousness to the jade-faced demon fox spirit, threateningly.

Xiaobai's attack was almost invincible.

After refining hundreds of thousands of spiritual weapons with acquired weapon spirits, almost every demonic beast spirit made the choice of "living on in an ignoble existence" and became the weapon spirit of the spiritual weapon.

As for the spirits of some stubborn and untamed monsters, they all fell into Xiaobai's mouth and became his food.

The jade-faced demon fox spirit looked towards the masked weapon embryo and felt a familiar smell. Without thinking, it plunged into the masked weapon embryo and settled in the core of the weapon array.

Seeing this, Li Mu smiled slightly, looked at the mask embryo, and fired out a burst of spiritual power. A bright spiritual light emerged from the mask embryo, and the first weapon pattern - hidden breath, was condensed in the blink of an eye.

Next, Li Mu repeatedly condensed his true energy, injecting bundles of thick spiritual power into the embryo. The mask embryo shone with spiritual light, and the patterns of the instrument alternated and formed one after another.

The second weapon pattern-hidden spirit, the third weapon pattern-phantom appearance, the fourth weapon pattern-summoning spirit, the fifth weapon pattern-mimicry,...

This time when refining the weapon, the patterns that Li Mu condensed for the mask embryo were almost all remote and cold patterns such as deflection, disguise, change of form, face, breath, etc.

As the weapon patterns condensed, the spiritual brilliance of the mask weapon embryo bloomed, and the aura attributes became more and more powerful.

The material properties of the mask embryo could not allow it to continue to improve. Li Mu stopped injecting spiritual power and did not upgrade it to the level of the fifth-level top-grade spiritual weapon.

In the end, the mask weapon embryo shone nineteen times with the spiritual light of the weapon pattern, becoming a fifth-level high-grade spiritual weapon.

[Ding, you have successfully refined the fifth-level jade fox mask. Your weapon refining skill level is full, proficiency: +0. Please upgrade the weapon refining skill level as soon as possible. 】

Li Mu took a look. In the character's virtual box, a text prompt popped up in the log column. A hint of joy appeared on his face, and then he looked helpless again.

He successfully refined another fifth-level spiritual weapon. However, due to the lack of spirituality, the fifth-level weapon refining technique was stuck and could not be improved, thus wasting the acquired weapon refining proficiency.

Li Mu sighed, stretched out his hand to grab the spirit fox mask suspended in the air, covered it with his divine consciousness, injected a refining spiritual power into the core of the weapon array, and attached a trace of divine consciousness mark, refining it easily.

The next moment, the spirit fox mask turned into a spiritual light, transformed into a small white fox, landed on Li Mu's shoulder, and rubbed his neck affectionately.

The fifth-level demon fox spirit has been tempered by the spiritual fire. After settling in the weapon array, the remaining memory of the demonic beast has been melted and dissipated, leaving only a little bit of instinct. After Li Mu refined the spiritual weapon and attached it with spiritual consciousness, he and The weapon spirit has formed an indelible spiritual link and will only respect him as the master, without the possibility of betrayal.

Li Mu's eyes fell on the jade fox mask, checking its attribute information.

【Spirit Fox Mask】

[Grade: fifth-level spiritual weapon]

[Characteristics: Fox Breath Phantom, Wishful Change, Change of Face, Phantom Breath Invisibility, Phantom Ghost Attack. 】

[Status: The weapon spirit is reborn, and its spirituality is unstable. 】

[There is a fifth-level wishful stone, a fifth-level phantom breath soil, a fifth-level phantom blood crystal, a fifth-level spirit fox skin, and a fifth-level spiritual weapon refined by the fifth-level fox demon soul. This weapon is spiritually born and has its own fox demon talent. -The fox breath phantom can be as big or small as you like. It can memorize the breath and physical signs of other creatures, transform into illusions, swap fake ones for real ones, change body shapes, and is extremely difficult to see through. 】

After looking at the attribute information of the fifth-level spirit fox mask in the character virtual column, Li Mu was overjoyed, with a happy smile on his face.

"Great! From now on, you can change into whoever you want. There is no quota limit. This function is much better than the exquisite mask." Li Mu was so happy that he was about to pick up the 'little fox' and put it on his face.

The little white fox turned into a spiritual light and attached itself to Li Mu's face.

As soon as Li Mu's consciousness moved, his face immediately changed, and the clothes on his body also changed, transforming into Wang Jianfeng's appearance. His height and body shape were exactly the same, and his breath and smell also changed.

"Jiji!" Xiaobai was startled, but because of the link with Li Mu through the Spirit Control Seal and its innate ability to recognize souls, he still recognized Li Mu.

"I got it, little glutton!" Li Mu smiled slightly, took out a soul bottle from the Jiuzang Spirit Pearl and threw it to Xiao Bai.

"Jiji!" Xiaobai screamed happily, launched into the air, opened the cap of the soul bottle with a sweep of his tail, leaned on the mouth of the bottle, and began to devour it.

Li Mu smiled slightly, opened the stone door, and came out of the weapon refining room.

The successful refining of the spirit fox mask means that impersonating Wang Jianfeng and using the sect's tribulation platform is no longer a problem.

In the next few days, Li Mu appeared in the underground prison cave from time to time, chatting with Wang Jianfeng and Tian Wenjie about the sect and learning about their personal connections.

In order to impersonate Wang Jianfeng, he borrowed the sect's tribulation platform to prepare for the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation.

…

Time passes day by day, and one year has passed in the blink of an eye.

On Yue Qiong Peak, the Five Elements Spiritual Plants are growing more and more vigorously, and the harvest time is approaching.

Li Mu went to Qingyun City and asked Gongsun Chu of Wanbao Pavilion to lead the tribulation of spiritual objects. If nothing unexpected happened, after a while, he could start to harvest the five elements spiritual plants and survive the Nascent Soul thunder tribulation.

The auction in Wanbao City has ended, and the four fifth-level spirit swords offered for auction can be exchanged for many good things.

Soon, Li Mu saw an apologetic Gongsun Chu in the reception room of Wanbao Pavilion.

"Master Li, I'm very sorry that I couldn't bid for Sky Fire in this auction. However, I did get information about two True Lords who own Sky Fire. In addition, the proceeds from the auction of four fifth-level spiritual weapons will be bid according to your wishes. I purchased a large amount of tribulation spiritual objects, fifth- and sixth-level weapon refining materials and spiritual plant seeds..." Gongsun Chu handed Li Mu a jade slip and a storage bracelet with an apologetic face.

Li Mu nodded, took the jade slip and storage bracelet, put his consciousness into them, and looked at them respectively.

Four fifth-level soul-transforming spiritual weapons were auctioned for a very high price. One price was around 3,000 high-grade spiritual stones, which greatly exceeded Li Mu's expectations. As for the two Nascent Soul Lords who possess Heavenly Fire, they are respectively True Lord Tianhong of the Yuling Sect and True Lord Wanhuo of Xingyue Island, their information is recorded in detail in the jade slips.

The tribulation-transcending spiritual objects purchased by the Gongsun Chu Gang include a batch of fifth-level spiritual seeds, eleven fifth-level spiritual plants, ranging in quantity from dozens to thousands, and five pieces of sixth-level weapon refining materials. Li Mu was very satisfied with this harvest.

"Master Li, after this auction, we got some information that is very unfavorable to Qingxuan Sect. I suggest you leave Qingxuan Sect as soon as possible! Otherwise, your life may be in danger!" Gongsun looked at Li Mu who was checking the harvest. Chu reminded solemnly with a stern look on his face.

"So serious? What's the news?"

Hearing this, Li Mu was surprised. It was the first time that he saw Gongsun Chu conveying something to him so solemnly. It seemed that it was a high probability.

If we don't leave Qingxuan Sect as soon as possible, will our lives be in danger?

Could it be that the Nine Demon Sect is preparing to attack Qingxuan Sect?