Cultivating the Dao, Starting with Farming

Time flies and three days pass.

Li Mu successfully carved seven puppet source cores, but failed to carve another puppet source core. At the same time, he also carved nine humanoid combat puppet bodies from twenty square spiritual peach trees.

Open the hidden compartment on the chest of a combat puppet, place the puppet's source core into it, and then take five medium-grade spiritual stones and embed them into the driving spiritual power array.

Li Mu stretched out his hand to inject spiritual power, and his spiritual consciousness covered the core of the puppet.

The next second, the spiritual light of the puppet array pattern on the puppet's body flashed away. The battle puppet came to life. It stretched out its limbs and became flexible. It stood upright in front of Li Mu. The puppet's body exuded powerful spiritual pressure, with the Qi Refining Nine. The level of peak level.

Li Mu's heart moved, and his consciousness controlled the puppet and walked towards the center of the yard.

The battle puppet took mechanical steps and stood in the middle of the yard in an instant, nailed to the ground like a piece of wood.

"Come, let's have a fight!" Li Mu's spiritual consciousness gave the battle order to the battle puppet, preparing to test the combat effectiveness of the battle puppet.

The next second, the battle puppet glared with both feet and flew out quickly.

"Snapped!"

Li Mu dangerously stretched out his hand to block the puppet's punch, but was knocked back two steps.

However, before Li Mu could stabilize his body's center of gravity, the battle puppet followed closely, and with a sweeping sweep, a thick wooden leg quickly came into view, with thunderous force.

Li Mu's expression changed and he was forced to resist with both hands.

"Snapped!"

Li Mu blocked his face with his hands and blocked the attack of the battle puppet again. His body was kicked away and his arms were burning with pain.

"Stop!" Li Mu was startled, and his spiritual consciousness immediately ordered the battle puppet to stop fighting.

"Hoo!" A wooden fist stopped in time when it was more than ten inches away from Li Mu. The wooden fist carried a sharp punch and blew away his bangs.

Li Mu escaped from death with a pale face.

"I'm going! It hurts so much, it's all blue!" Li Mu looked at his arm, his eyes filled with tears from the pain.

Li Mu forgot that he had not learned any close combat skills, and he had been farming in the mountains and had not experienced many battles.

Previously, the victory in two life-and-death battles relied entirely on the power of external objects such as second-level spiritual talismans and spiritual swords. Li Mu himself did not have much fighting talent.

However, the battle puppet is different. The puppet source core is carved with complex battle puppet patterns, which gives the puppet a strong fighting instinct. It will continue to absorb combat experience and improve its own combat system. Coupled with its hard wooden body, it is not afraid of death. characteristic.

The difference in fighting quality is too big, there is no need to fight!

Li Mu's face looked ugly. The outer disciples' assessment seemed to involve a battle test.

Li Mu thought of something and rummaged through his storage bag. From the storage bag, he took out "Flicking Finger Power" and "Twenty-Four Seasons Sword Techniques", two ordinary-level combat techniques, and quickly started to learn them.

"Flicking Finger Power" is a fingering method that can be used for close combat or long-distance attack.

Li Mu followed the Finger Flicking Exercise route and concentrated spiritual energy on his right hand. He put his index and middle fingers together, and with a "pop" sound, a stream of spiritual energy shot out along the two fingers.

A beam of true energy visible to the naked eye hit the ground, a shallow mark appeared, and a few wisps of dust were raised.

"This power is too small, that's all for ordinary skills!" Li Mu frowned dissatisfied, and then looked at the character's virtual box.

[Ding, you have learned the ordinary level skill - Finger Flicking Strength, Finger Flicking Strength proficiency +1.]

Li Mu immediately saw the prompt written on the character panel with a snap of his finger, and then added free proficiency points.

[Ding, you consume one free proficiency point, and your finger snap proficiency will be +1. 】

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Li Mu spent 9,600 free proficiency points in one breath to upgrade Finger Flicking Strength to level four. A large amount of experience in using Finger Flicking Strength and key points of techniques appeared in his mind.

At this moment, Li Mu seemed to have used his finger snap thousands of times. With a flick of his hand, there was a soft "chirp" sound, and a sharp force of true energy shot out, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The next second, there was a "pop!" and a small hole half a finger deep suddenly appeared on the ground.

Li Mu was pleasantly surprised. This energy was quite powerful. It was released cleverly and unexpectedly. It could pose a considerable threat to the monks in the late stage of Qi refining.

Li Mu was very satisfied with the power of the fourth-level finger snapping technique. The ordinary-level technique was upgraded to the advanced level, and he also had good combat effectiveness.

Next, it’s time to practice the "Twenty-Four Seasons Sword Technique"

Li Mu took out a first-order black iron sword from his storage bag and started practicing the sword moves of the twenty-four seasons.

Perhaps, Li Mu mastered the meaning of the sword and the reason for the sword domain. He practiced the twenty-four seasons sword technique with the sword and immediately understood the key points of changes in this sword technique. The twenty-four seasons sword technique corresponds to the twenty-four solar terms: the beginning of spring and the rain. , Jingzhe, Spring Equinox, Qingming, Guyu,...,

At the beginning of spring, everything gradually revives, the sword moves are slow but still tough; rain and humidity gradually rise, frost and dew often appear, the sword moves are fast and slow, and the cold light explodes;...

[Ding, you have learned ordinary swordsmanship - twenty-four seasons swordsmanship, twenty-four seasons swordsmanship proficiency +1.]

After finishing a set of "Twenty Four Seasons Sword Art", Li Mu immediately saw a new improvement appear in the character's virtual box.

Li Mu used the Phantom Breath Jue technique to restrain the sudden burst of sharp sword intent. After practicing the sword technique "Twenty Four Seasons Sword Technique", he felt that it was unusual. The sword technique actually had a natural meaning. Endless aftertaste.

[Ding, you consume one free proficiency point, and your twenty-four seasons swordsmanship proficiency will be +1. 】

[Ding, you consume one free proficiency point, and your twenty-four seasons swordsmanship proficiency will be +1. 】

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With the same strength as the snap of his fingers, Li Mu also upgraded the Twenty-Four Seasons Sword Technique to the fourth level, gaining a lot of experience in practicing the Twenty-Four Seasons Sword Technique and the essence of sword moves. Apart from that, he had no other special gains.

Li Mu frowned, a little confused, feeling that this swordsmanship shouldn't be that simple.

After learning two mortal-level skills and upgrading them to level four, the original 20,350 free proficiency points were reduced to only 1,150. Li Mu's melee combat ability has been greatly improved, which is extremely valuable.

Li Mu put the Xuan Tiejian income storage bag, holding a wooden stick, using a stick as a sword, and continued to move with the fighting. Flying, extremely intense.

The battle lasted for half an hour, and the fighting puppet's body was wounded by his sword intent. Li Mu then stopped fighting with the puppet without hesitation.

Through this battle, Li Mu confirmed the true strength of the second-level battle puppet. It indeed has the combat power of the ninth level of Qi refining. If it is equipped with suitable weapons, it should be able to fight against the monks in the early stage of foundation building for a period of time.

However, it consumes too much spiritual stone.

Li Mu took out the puppet source core and replaced it with a new puppet body, only to find that the five middle-grade spiritual stones had already shrunk in a circle. Under the fierce battle, it would not take four or five hours.

Li Mu also installed the other 6 combat puppets with puppet source cores, embedded them in medium-grade spiritual stones, and then put them into storage compartments so that they could be released to serve as a trump card in dealing with crises.

Next, Li Mu began to draw second-level spiritual talismans and refine defensive spiritual weapons, making final preparations for the upcoming trip to Gangyang City.