Cultivating the Dao, Starting with Farming

Painting World Treasure House, Refining Room.

Li Mu sat cross-legged and summoned three groups of heavenly fire one after another.

Three groups of heavenly fire - Yin Yang Thunder Fire, Extreme Yang Heavenly Fire and Earthly Heavenly Fire, appeared around Li Mu one after another. The flames of the heavenly fire were of different colors, emitting unique light and heat, competing with each other, and instantly raising the temperature of the refining room to a new height.

The fire spirit of Yin Yang Thunder Fire is a blue and green dragon python, the fire spirit of Extreme Yang Heavenly Fire is a purple gold fire phoenix, and the fire spirit of Earthly Heavenly Fire is a red fire dragon. They are under the control of Li Mu. They were originally incompatible with the different fires, but now they can live in peace.

Li Mu formed seals with his hands and operated the Eightfold Heavenly Fire Hammer Refining Method. The vast true essence of the middle stage of the Void Refining Realm surged out, and he suddenly shouted in a deep voice: "Heavenly Fire is the furnace!"

As soon as the voice fell, three groups of Heavenly Fire quickly gathered together, and in front of Li Mu, gradually evolved into a huge three-color Heavenly Fire furnace. The furnace body was condensed by Heavenly Fire, and the flames were blazing. The appearance of the Heavenly Fire Refining Furnace was extremely shocking.

The entire Heavenly Fire Refining Furnace was nearly ten feet high, floating in the air, towering like an ancient fire temple. The furnace body was interwoven with three kinds of Heavenly Fire, showing the blue of Yin and Yang Thunder Fire, the purple gold of Extreme Yang Heavenly Fire, and the red of Earthly Fire. The three colors intertwined together, and the gorgeous light reflected the entire refining room, dazzling.

On the surface of the furnace, the flames jumped, as if countless small fire spirits were playing in it. The flame spirits sometimes turned into fire pythons, fire phoenixes, and fire dragons, which were extremely agile and powerful. The furnace cover condensed by three-color flames was surrounded by flames, forming a hot flame barrier, which blocked the heat and light in the furnace.

The three-color sky fire refining furnace exuded strong heat waves and light, as if a huge fireball was burning in the refining room. The surrounding space was distorted by this heat wave, forming a series of heat wave ripples, emitting a heart-pounding high temperature.

Li Mu stared at the three-color sky fire refining furnace in front of him, and his mood could not help but be a little excited. This was his first refining after he collected three groups of sky fire, the eight-fold sky fire hammering method was raised to the perfect state, and he was promoted to the refining realm. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be a refreshing refining experience.

Li Mu took a deep breath, calmed the excitement in his heart, and formed seals with his hands to guide the flames in the sky fire refining furnace.

I saw that the flames in the three-color sky fire refining furnace began to tumble regularly under his control, forming a three-color flame vortex inside, like a tornado, sucking the spiritual power in the refining room into it, further raising the temperature of the sky fire refining furnace, turning it into a huge high-temperature furnace.

Li Mu's mind moved, and the storage ring on his finger automatically spewed out the seventh-level refining spiritual materials: meteorite crystal core, sky crystal Hongshi, red crystal essence,...

As the seventh-level refining spiritual materials were put in one by one, the three-color sky fire refining furnace instantly boiled. It made a "hissing" sound, was swallowed by the three-color sky fire, and melted quickly.

However, this was just the beginning.

Under the smelting of the three-color sky fire, the spiritual materials melted quickly, forming a mass of viscous liquid. These liquids kept rotating as Li Mu's mind stirred, becoming more and more pure, and the impurities and defects in them were quickly removed.

Li Mu's mind constantly adjusted the temperature of the Heavenly Fire Refining Furnace, controlling the uniform heating and melting of the molten liquid of the spiritual materials. At the same time, he used the magical power of refining the heaven and earth to start refining the embryo and arrange the array in the core of the embryo.

Li Mu's mind was like a thread, accurately controlling each ray of flame, using the Eightfold Heavenly Fire Refining Method and the magical power of refining the spirit - Heavenly Fire Casting, integrating the essence of the spiritual materials into a new form through the power of the Heavenly Fire.

Soon, under Li Mu's control, a round embryo gradually took shape in the Heavenly Fire Refining Furnace. The surface of this round embryo was full of light and contained endless power.

As the embryo took shape, Li Mu once again used his magical power of refining the weapon - the divine refining and melting spirit. He used his divine thoughts as a pen and his spiritual power as ink to begin carving a complex array in the round embryo. This array was based on the "Yin Yang Star Array", and was intertwined and nested with the Golden Sharp Array and the Fiery Array, forming a mysterious mother-child knot, forming an extremely complex three-talent array, which could mobilize the power of heaven and earth and give the Taoist soldiers powerful power.

Time passed by bit by bit, Li Mu operated the Yin Yang Five Elements Sutra, and his spiritual power and true essence were endless. He easily refined the weapon, and various magical powers of refining the weapon: the pattern of the weapon became a momentum, the momentum of the weapon contained the spirit, the control of the weapon contained the Tao, ..., were at his fingertips.

Successfully promoted to the middle stage of refining the void, Li Mu's true essence in his body was like the sea, surging and surging, and his divine thoughts were more condensed, like a materialized filament, precise and powerful, and could easily control and perceive every subtle change in the process of refining the weapon.

As the magical power of refining weapons continued to be displayed, Li Mu seemed to merge with the Heavenly Fire Refining Furnace and resonated deeply with it.

As the refining of weapons deepened, the refining of Dao soldiers soon came to a critical moment.

Li Mu used the magical power of refining weapons - the divine refining weapon pattern, injected powerful spiritual power into the weapon embryo in the furnace, and began to help the weapon embryo condense the weapon pattern of yin and yang attributes.

First, the Yin attribute weapon pattern - Xuanyin was condensed on the weapon embryo, guiding the true essence to outline a magical weapon pattern on the weapon embryo, symbolizing the depth and mystery of the Yin attribute. As the Xuanyin weapon pattern took shape, the weapon embryo emitted a breathtaking cold light.

Then, the Yang attribute weapon pattern - Chiyang was condensed. The true essence burned a hot golden pattern on the weapon embryo, symbolizing the brightness and heat of the Yang attribute. The Chiyang weapon pattern made the weapon embryo shine with dazzling light, as hot and dazzling as the sun.

Continue, the condensed is the instrument pattern of Yin and Yang attributes - Liang Yi. Liang Yi instrument pattern represents the intersection and fusion of Yin and Yang, and is the core part of the Sun and Moon Essence Wheel.

The next instrument pattern - Hun Yuan,

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Soon, the round wheel embryo in the Tianhuo Refining Furnace, the surface of the instrument pattern emerged one after another, 28 instrument patterns shone with spiritual light, emitting the light of Yin and Yang interweaving, like a piece of interweaving Yin and Yang pattern tightly wrapped around the embryo, gradually nurturing a Yin and Yang formation with innate instrument spirit.

Li Mu designed in advance, and the refined 'Sun and Moon Essence Wheel' nurtured a powerful spirituality in the refining furnace. A Yin and Yang force gradually took shape in the furnace, with a huge momentum, as if to tear the void and shake the world.

At this moment, in the refining room, a round wheel with alternating sun and moon jumped out of the Tianhuo Refining Furnace and floated in front of Li Mu. The light was brilliant, and the Yin and Yang intertwined, reflecting the entire refining room full of mysterious atmosphere.

However, at the moment when the ‘Sun and Moon Essence Wheel’ was born, an invisible and powerful force penetrated the space of the treasure house and locked it down, exuding a majestic and terrifying aura.

Li Mu clearly sensed this aura and knew that this was the weapon calamity that the Taoist soldiers had to go through when they were born. He couldn't help but smile bitterly. He didn't expect that this casual refining of the weapon would actually trigger the weapon calamity.

The quality of the Yin-Yang Essence Wheel was higher than he expected.

Li Mu sighed helplessly, put away the ‘Sun and Moon Essence Wheel’, and his figure disappeared from the Painting World Treasure House. His figure appeared on the back mountain of the Seven Profound Sect, the Tribulation Platform.

Soon, the thunder tribulation came quickly like a hound smelling a bone. The sky above the Tribulation Platform was soon covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and waves of terrifying power of heaven and earth began to gather.

At this time, the elders of the Seven Sects also noticed the abnormality of heaven and earth, and flew over from the seven main peaks one after another.

"Which fellow disciple is going through the tribulation without notifying us in advance!"

"This thunder tribulation is not simple!"

"Master, who is going through the tribulation? No, this is not the thunder tribulation of the spirit transformation,..., this is actually the weapon tribulation, Master, you have refined a Taoist soldier that needs to go through the tribulation!"

"Great! This is the first time I have seen a Taoist soldier go through the tribulation."

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Several elders of the Seven Sects, Fang Shixin, Qin Wentong, and Zhong Zilin appeared beside Li Mu one after another, staring at the 'Sun and Moon Essence Wheel' above the tribulation platform, excited and talking about it.

"You are here! Watch the tribulation!"

Li Mu smiled helplessly at everyone and gestured.

As soon as Li Mu finished speaking, the power of the thunder tribulation in the sky increased sharply, as if responding to his understated attitude. The power of heaven and earth around the tribulation platform became more violent, and between the lightning and thunder, it seemed that even the space was torn apart.

"This thunder tribulation is indeed extraordinary!" Qin Wentong's eyes flashed with excitement. As a master of weapon refining in the sect, he naturally knew that the quality and potential of the Taoist weapon that could trigger such a powerful weapon tribulation must be extraordinary.

"Master, did you just refine this Taoist weapon?" Fang Shixin asked in surprise. He admired Li Mu's weapon refining ability and never questioned it, but he never thought that the master had reached such a high level and refined a top-grade Taoist weapon.

The Taoist weapons that need to experience weapon tribulation and the Taoist weapons that do not need to experience weapon tribulation are two levels of existence.

The Taoist weapons that need to experience weapon tribulation are another level of existence. They incorporate the power of heaven and earth in the refining process and establish a subtle connection with heaven and earth, so they can trigger the test of thunder tribulation. This kind of Taoist weapon is not only of excellent quality, but also has infinite potential, and can exert unimaginable power in the hands of practitioners.

At this moment, the 'Sun and Moon Essence Wheel' suspended on the Crossing Tribulation Platform is a top-grade Taoist weapon that needs to experience weapon tribulation. The light of the sun and moon flows on its surface, and the power of yin and yang interweaves in it. Every bombardment of the tribulation thunder is not enough to cause fatal damage to it, as if it is born with the ability to control the thunder path and has the foundation to continue to advance.

In comparison, the Taoist soldiers who do not need to experience the weapon tribulation are much inferior. Although they are also at the same level as the Taoist soldiers, they lack the connection with the power of heaven and earth. Naturally, their quality and potential cannot be compared with the "Sun and Moon Essence Wheel", and they cannot continue to advance.

"It's just luck." Li Mu smiled faintly, and his mind controlled the "Sun and Moon Essence Wheel" to help it survive this weapon tribulation.

Above the tribulation platform, thick thunders roared like a giant dragon and rushed towards the "Sun and Moon Essence Wheel". However, the "Sun and Moon Essence Wheel" seemed to have spirituality. It kept spinning and flashing under the attack of thunder, dissolving the power of thunder one by one.

"Good!" Elder Zhong Zilin couldn't help but exclaimed, "This 'Sun and Moon Essence Wheel' is indeed extraordinary. It can dissolve the power of thunder tribulation so easily!"

Li Mu's mind has been completely immersed in the confrontation with the thunder tribulation. Now is not the time to relax. Only when the thunder tribulation is completely over can it be considered that this Taoist weapon has been successfully refined.

Under the control of Li Mu's mind, the 'Sun and Moon Essence Wheel' showed its magical ability in the thunder tribulation.

Only the light of the sun and the moon on its surface quickly flowed, and the yin and yang forces were constantly reversed and transformed between the wheels.

The yin and yang forces of the 'Sun and Moon Essence Wheel' were stimulated to the extreme. Thunder bombarded the wheel. The violent thunder force was pulled by an invisible force and instantly decomposed into tiny thunder particles. Under the action of the yin and yang force, it was quickly absorbed and transformed into the power of the 'Sun and Moon Essence Wheel'.

Not only that, the 'Sun-Moon Essence Wheel' exerts the power of reversing the two poles, transforming the violence and destructive power of thunder into gentleness and vitality. Every time thunder strikes, it seems to be cleverly guided by the 'Sun-Moon Essence Wheel' and transformed into nutrients for its own growth.

The thunder calamity in the sky seemed to feel the tenacity of the 'Sun and Moon Fine Wheel', and the thunder struck down one after another. However, under Li Mu's control, the 'Sun and Moon Fine Wheel' always maintained a stable rotation, turning the thunder. The power is resolved one by one.

As time goes by, the power of the thunder tribulation gradually weakens, but the light of the 'Sun and Moon Essence Wheel' becomes more and more brilliant, becoming an existence that cannot be destroyed by thunder.

Finally, when the last thunderbolt dissipated in the air, the 'Sun and Moon Jinglun' successfully survived the calamity. It flew from the sky above the calamity crossing platform to Li Mu, and the Yin and Yang wheel rotated smartly, showing its power to everyone. Powerful and gorgeous.

"Sect Master, congratulations on your success in refining such a powerful Taoist weapon!" Fang Shixin took the lead to step forward, cupped his hands and congratulated him, his eyes full of admiration: "This Taoist weapon is not only of excellent quality, but also has such miraculous abilities. It has been promoted to the eighth level. The Taoist weapon is just around the corner!”

"Yes! Master, your weapon refining skills have taken another step forward and have reached the pinnacle! Congratulations!" Qin Wentong looked at Li Mu with admiration, full of admiration.

He was also a master of weapon refining and had been guided by Li Mu several times. However, Qin Wentong was still unable to take the last crucial step. He could only watch Li Mu go further and further away. At this moment, his mood was inexplicably complicated.

"Elder Qin, the key to refining weapons lies in the state of mind and perception." Li Mu smiled softly, discerning Qin Wentong's state of mind, and quickly reminded him: "Your skills are already superb. You just need to calm down and continue to study, and you will be able to do it." Break through the bottleneck.”

Hearing this, a flash of understanding flashed in Qin Wentong's eyes, and he bowed deeply to Li Mu and said gratefully: "Thank you, Sect Master, for your guidance!"

At this time, other elders also gathered around and praised Li Mu's weapon refining achievements.

Li Mu responded one by one, humbly but without losing his grace, put away the 'Sun and Moon Jing Wheel', bid farewell to the elders, and disappeared in a flash.

Li Mu planned to keep the Taoist weapon 'Sun and Moon Jinglun' for his own use. The three Taoist weapons entrusted to be refined by Wanbao Pavilion had to be refined all over again.

In the next step of refining weapons, Li Mu plans to stop his efforts and no longer pursue breakthroughs in the limits of weapons. Instead, he will focus on the practicality of Tao weapons and simplify the complex. (End of chapter)