I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm-Chapter 253 - 176: Waves Rise Again

Li Mu entered the seclusion chamber, setting up an illusion array to block divine sense prying, and left a substitute puppet to guard the chamber.

He took the Tier Seven Grotto Heaven Spiritual Treasure - Painting Realm Treasure Mansion out of his storage compartment.

With a flicker of his silhouette, Li Mu vanished on the spot, plunging into the world within the grotto heaven spiritual treasure.

Being cautious by nature, Li Mu avoided using the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion on someone else’s territory to avoid unnecessary trouble.

However, through the spirit taming contract seal, Li Mu received bad news from the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape, prompting him to take a moment to personally inspect the inside of the cave mansion spiritual treasure.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape, slick and hardworking, had become a ’full-time steward’ managing Li Mu’s pocket world, primarily overseeing the status of spirit plants.

Should any anomaly or change occur with the spirit plants, it would notify him through the spirit taming contract seal immediately.

As soon as Li Mu appeared in the pocket world, the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape rushed over.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape greeted respectfully and reported to Li Mu, "Master, you finally came! There’s a problem with the Dragon Blood Celestial Grass."

"Hmm! Let’s go!" Li Mu responded and flew directly towards the problematic spirit field.

The Tier Seven Grotto Heaven Spiritual Treasure - Painting Realm Treasure Mansion possesses a space of a hundred thousand acres, with most spiritual land suitable for planting low-tier spirit plants.

However, planting high-tier spirit plants has special environmental requirements and needs the setup of a spiritual element array, a yin-yang array, etc., to create a special environment, limiting the number of spirit fields truly usable for each high-tier spirit plant.

Soon, under the guidance of the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape, Li Mu arrived at the underground lava cave where Dragon Blood Celestial Grass was planted, filled with strong fire spiritual essence.

However, the seedlings of Dragon Blood Celestial Grass planted in the lava cave’s spirit field drooped, looking wilted and dismal.

"Master, it seems like the Dragon Blood Celestial Grass lacks some essential spiritual material, causing a sudden stunted growth for reasons unknown," The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape nervously reported, fearing Li Mu’s blame. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Li Mu’s gaze swept over the Dragon Blood Celestial Grass seedlings, and under the Innate Divine Power - Recognition of Ten Thousand Spirits, he immediately knew their growth status.

[Dragon Blood Celestial Grass]

[Grade: Tier Four Spirit Plants]

[Attributes: Contains intense innate fire sources, highly nourishing for fire element practitioners.]

[Status: Lacking nourishment from high-rank flood dragon python energy, growth stagnant.]

[Dragon Blood Celestial Grass grown in the Land of Extreme Fire, born accompanying high-rank fire-attribute flood dragon python energy, takes root for five years, blooms in thirty years, and bears Blood Dragon Fruit in a hundred years. Blood Dragon Fruit nourishes fire spirit roots, enhances blood qi, and is a great supplement for practitioners of fire element techniques.]

Seeing the growth status of the Dragon Blood Celestial Grass seedlings, Li Mu sighed; where could he find a high-rank fire-attributed flood dragon python at this time!

"Hmm! I know how to solve it, it’s not your fault," Li Mu casually responded to the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape while frowning in thought.

Since the Spirit Taming Sect specializes in spirit taming beasts, they might know where to acquire a high-rank fire-attribute flood dragon python.

Li Mu decided to consult Liu Chang about this later.

Li Mu continued checking the growth status of other spirit plants; the growth of the other two types of Tier Four Spirit Plants - Dragonfly Jade Fruit and Earth Dragon Spirit Ginseng was decent, and the thousand-acre Celestial Wind Grass was lush and thriving, probably ready for another harvest in about a month.

After advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm, the Free Skill Points provided by Tier Two Celestial Phoenix Grass had significantly decreased.

However, within this pocket world, the growth speed of Tier Two Celestial Phoenix Grass had increased, and there were plenty of spirit fields available; they could plant as much as they wanted. By setting up a Water Mist Spirit Array for regular Spirit Rain irrigation, Li Mu didn’t have to worry too much and only needed to harvest a batch of free proficiency periodically, which was very easy.

Unlike the cultivation of other Tier Four Spirit Plants, where Li Mu had to constantly monitor their growth status.

Once he got his hands on the Extreme Yang Celestial Fire, Li Mu planned to retreat to a spirit mountain to continue cultivating Purple Sun Spirit Ginseng and Yin Soul Fruit.

These two Tier Four Spirit Plants require the assistance of Purple Sun Jade and Supreme Profound Moon Dew, in addition to copious amounts of Heaven and Earth Yin and Yang Qi for nurturing. The Yin Yang Qi within the grotto heaven spiritual treasure is limited and cannot sustain them long-term, so they must be cultivated elsewhere on a spirit mountain found externally.

After concluding his inspection of the spirit plants, Li Mu retrieved the storage bracelet of the Blood Refining Demon Monarch from his storage compartment to assess his spoils.

After killing the Blood Refining Demon Monarch, Li Mu was entangled by the True Monarchs of the Spirit Taming Sect and hurried to the sect, leaving him no time to properly tally his gains from the encounter.

With ease, Li Mu refined the storage bracelet. As he probed it with his divine sense, his brows furrowed, feeling an inexplicable aversion towards the ’spoils’ within.

Enclosed within the storage bracelet, the Blood-Colored Ghost Head Demon Artifact was acting wildly, flitting madly and exuding a terrifying bloody aura, akin to a genuine demon, opening a gaping maw and unleashing a roar that was nothing short of captivating.

It sought to escape the storage space.

Seeing this, Li Mu concentrated his divine thought to suppress its demonic nature, removed it from the storage bracelet, and forcibly injected spiritual power into it, invading the artifact array’s core to forcibly refine it.

The Blood-Colored Ghost Head Demon Artifact roared incessantly, with red streams dispersing wildly, accompanied by a pungent, foul odor of immense corrosive power, attempting to escape Li Mu’s control and prevent being refined.

Nevertheless, having just lost its master and suffered a grievous blow, the demon artifact was instantly refined as Li Mu’s divine thought invaded it and powerful spiritual power was infused, crushing it with overwhelming force.

Successfully refined the Tier Five Magical Artifact - Blood Coagulation Skull.

Li Mu frowned, not being a demon cultivator, and upon successfully refining this ghost head demon artifact, a malevolent thought surged out from the artifact, attempting to invade his Sea of Gods for a counterattack.