Chapter 187: Chapter 144: Boring Years

The maturity time for the three-tier Five Elements Spirit Plants is around twenty years. With Li Mu’s significant investment and the setup of the Five Elements Elemental Array, the growth time for these Five Elements Spirit Plants has been reduced to fifteen or sixteen years.

This batch of three-tier Five Elements Spirit Plants is already the second batch planted in large quantities by Li Mu, with each species covering about one hundred acres.

The last batch of matured Five Elements Spirit Plants provided a large amount of innate Five Elements Spiritual Power, successfully advancing Li Mu’s cultivation from the early stage to the late stage of the Golden Core, and upgrading the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture – Golden Core Chapter to level six.

This is equivalent to a hundred years of hard cultivation by other Golden Core cultivators.

Now, there’s only a year or two left until this batch of spirit plants matures.

Once this batch of spirit plants matures, it will be time to advance to the Nascent Soul Realm, which Li Mu eagerly awaits, patiently continuing to seclude himself at Moon Pearl Peak, refusing to leave easily without advancing to the Nascent Soul.

“Woof woof!”

In the stone courtyard, the Red Wolf excitedly barked around a puppet as if begging for food.

The puppet carried a steaming clay pot, dishing out several pieces of Demon Beast meat into the Red Wolf’s food bowl, satisfying its request.

The Red Wolf buried its head into the bowl, devouring the food in large bites.

Hearing the commotion, Li Mu’s figure flashed and appeared at a stone table in the stone courtyard.

The puppet had already prepared lunch, with three dishes and a soup on the stone table: braised Demon Beast meat, stewed meat soup, stir-fried spiritual bamboo shoots… steaming hot and fragrant.

As soon as Li Mu’s figure appeared, a beam of white light shot out from the room.

“Chirp chirp!” A one-foot-long Xiaobai bounced onto the stone table, chirping at Li Mu, indicating it wanted to eat too.

“You little one, you’re getting more voracious; you can’t even stand being hungry for a bit!”

Li Mu looked at the food-begging Xiaobai with a sigh, taking out a Soul Absorption Bottle from his Storage Ring and tossing it to it.

“Chirp!” Xiaobai happily bounced up, catching the Soul Absorption Bottle in the air before bouncing back into the stone house.

Since Xiaobai absorbed the Divine Separation of a Divinity Transformation Cultivator – Venerable Huo Tian, it fell asleep, only waking up five years ago.

Xiaobai’s talent significantly improved, originally having only a tier-five potential, it gained potential to break through to tier six; however, its demands for food and quality increased considerably.

Li Mu had no choice but to exchange a large quantity of high-tier Demon Beast essence souls from the sect for its rations, even reducing the refining of spiritual artifacts and artifact spirits.

Yet, just after using a tier-four Demon Beast essence soul to appease Xiaobai, Li Mu soon found himself entangled again.

A golden and a black small figure flew over to him together, their big eyes eagerly looking at him.

It turned out to be the miniaturized Xiaojin and Xiaowa, their figures reduced to half a zhang in size.

Li Mu found their form too large, with overwhelming tier-four momentum; keeping them at Moon Pearl Peak could easily attract other sect disciples, while he couldn’t keep them in the Spirit Beast Bag long-term, so through the Spirit Taming Contract Seal, Li Mu taught them the Shrinking Skill and Hidden Breath Skill.

With the Shrinking Skill and Hidden Breath Technique learned, Xiaojin and Xiaowa’s bodies could maintain a half-zhang height in non-combat status, and their tier-four Demon Beast aura was restrained.

However, although their bodies shrank, their appetite didn’t scale down.

Without hunting Demon Beasts, using contribution points to exchange Demon Beast meat couldn’t satisfy their appetite, forcing Li Mu to resort to feeding them tier-three and tier-four Spirit Beast Elixirs.

Looking at the eager pair with longing in their eyes, Li Mu helplessly took out two pill bottles from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, handing them the Golden Vein Pill and Earth Spirit Pill respectively.

“Squeak squeak!”

“Wow!”

Xiaojin and Xiaowa respectively received the pill bottles, each thanking Li Mu with a sound, leaving contentedly.

Watching the duo embracing pill bottles leave, Li Mu smiled wryly, realizing the expense of nurturing two tier-four Demon Beasts without hunting was indeed immense.

Most of the substantial Spirit Stone wealth accumulated over the years from nine Demon Monarchs had been spent on them.

Once advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm, he plans to take them hunting to make them repay the spent Spirit Pills, with interest.

Watching the pair who treat Spirit Pills as meals, Li Mu thought resentfully.

“Master, this is the last dish, steamed Silver Dragon Fish.” The puppet placed a dish of steamed fish on the stone table, transmitting to Li Mu via divine sense, introducing the dish, then respectfully stood to the side.

“Mm! No need for your service, go arrange materials in the material room!” Li Mu nodded, glancing at the puppet, and instructed.

“Yes!” The puppet respectfully accepted the order and turned toward the material room.

Watching the puppet leave, Li Mu showed a satisfied expression.

This puppet was refined using a Demon Monarch’s Nascent Soul, erasing divine sense, constructing a Soul Source Core using the Soul Wood Heart and refining the body with tier-five Star Wood. Not only did it possess strength near the tier-four peak, but it also had a certain degree of autonomous consciousness, completely risk-free of betrayal through Spirit Taming Contract Seal and Puppet Artifact Pattern dual control.

The tasks Li Mu taught it could be easily mastered; now it was capable of cooking, pet care, organizing daily hygiene… and other tasks, already becoming a helpful assistant in his life.

Li Mu relished the sumptuous meal prepared by the puppet.

Half an hour later, Li Mu finished lunch, leaving the cleaning to the puppet, who would take care of tidying up and washing later.

Li Mu flew onto a recliner under a Spiritual Peach Tree, gently rocking the chair, habitually taking a nap.

Having finished lunch, the Red Wolf lay down beside Li Mu, closing its eyes for a rest as learned.

Li Mu chuckled, reaching out to gently stroke the Red Wolf’s head.

Enjoying a quiet and leisurely life.

Thirty-five years passed, with Li Mu fully lying flat at Moon Pearl Peak, apart from occasionally tending to the three-tier Five Elements Spirit Plants. He even reduced the times for refining spiritual artifacts, drawing Spirit Talismans, and refining puppets.

Enjoying the days served by the puppet,

most of Li Mu’s time was preferred relaxing in the recliner, reading, stroking the Red Wolf, leisurely passing time.

Watching days pass, waiting for the spirit plants to grow.

Li Mu glanced at the character’s virtual interface with the corner of his eye, realizing with a touch of nostalgia that he was already in his seventies!

[Character: Li Mu]

[Gender: Male]

[Lifespan: 78/1850]

[Spirit Root: Five Elements Sacred Body]

[Innate Divine Techniques: Recognize Ten Thousand Spirits, Plant Spirit Absorption]

[Cultivation: Late-stage Golden Core: 165M/9000M]

[Cultivation Method: Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture (Celestial-level Top Grade) level 24: 24M/18000M, Nebula Observation Map (Celestial-level Top Grade) level 10: 1M/300M, Profound Celestial Sword Array (Earth-level Top Grade) level 13: Perfection, Spirit Devouring Body Nourishing Technique (Earth-level Top Grade) level 9: Perfection, Spirit Taming Contract (Earth-level Lower Grade) level 9: Perfection, … ,]

[Skills: Clear Wind Rain Summoning Skill (level 9): Perfection, Sword Control Technique (level 9): Perfection; Talisman Making Technique (level 5), Artifact Refining Technique (level 5), Array Formation Technique (level 5), …]

Minor Divine Techniques: Great Five Elements Escape Technique, Five Elements Illusion Body, Illusion to Reality, Divine Refining Melting Spirit, Star Gathering Strike, Soul-Devouring Bone Tempering, Sword Heart Transformation, Thousand Feet Sword Realm, Divine Soul Star Transformation, Gathering Stars and Focusing Spirit, Yin Yang Eyes, Yin Yang Rejuvenation Vein, …

Free Skill Points: 287.1 million points

…

After reading the character’s attribute information, compared to his late-stage Golden Core lifespan of nearly two thousand years, the seventies seemed akin to an early childhood phase.

Other Golden Core cultivators usually live five to six hundred years, with those more long-lived reaching only around seven hundred years; only by breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm can one extend lifespan to over a thousand, around two thousand years.

However, by practicing the ancient Cultivation Method – Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture, breaking through Foundation Establishment, forging the Golden Core, and undergoing successive marrow washing, first achieving the Five Elements Spiritual Body, later achieving the Five Elements Sacred Body, his lifespan is two to three times greater than other average Golden Core cultivators.

Further enhancing the Spirit Devouring Body Nourishing Technique to full level, his physique and lifespan also saw an improvement.

Upon advancing to the Nascent Soul, Li Mu believes this lifespan count could increase to over three thousand years.

Living too long, it becomes a bit boring!

Li Mu chuckled at himself, his thoughts slightly complicated.

Once advancing to the Nascent Soul, he decides to venture out again.

Guarding the spirit plants’ growth at Moon Pearl Peak, so many years have passed, and Li Mu feels rather motionless.

However, those Five Elements Spirit Plants require one or two more years before harvest, leaving Li Mu forcing himself to calm down and continuing his watch over Moon Pearl Peak.

A bit bored, Li Mu released his divine sense, performing the Star Concealing Skill, stealthily using divine sense to observe happenings within the Qing Xuan Sect.

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