Chapter 299: Chapter 194: Chasing the Spirit Array Disc

However, before reaching the cave entrance, Li Mu slammed into a transparent barrier, a series of complex array patterns emerging to block his escape route.

What’s going on?

When was this array set up?

Li Mu was shocked, carefully observing, and discovered the array’s flowing patterns. Even with his knowledge of the Nine Dragons Slaying Immortal Array, he couldn’t break it in a short time.

At that moment, the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon extended a gigantic claw, covering the sky and grabbing towards Li Mu, instantly freezing the surrounding seawater, trapping him inside.

The giant dragon claw grabbed the ice block, gripping and crushing it forcefully.

With a crack, the large block of ice shattered into countless fragments.

The ’human cultivator’ inside the ice did not bleed or show signs of life. Instead, his body turned into a puddle of clear water, flowing down with the broken ice.

The Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon’s crimson eyes flashed with a red light, furious, scanning the entire water area, releasing powerful resentment.

Li Mu emerged from a massive rock wall using Earth Escape, concealing his aura, his heart pounding with fear.

Just now, thankfully he reacted in time, using a Water Escape Clone to create an illusion, dodging a disaster. Otherwise, the extreme chill would have frozen his body and divine soul.

Li Mu was less than thirty feet away from the cave entrance. Taking advantage of the dragon corpse’s search, he decided to make a desperate bid, once again performing the Thunder Five Elements Escape Technique, charging straight for the entrance.

Just as Li Mu was about to rush out of the rock cave, a massive ancient claw suddenly slammed down, blocking his path.

“Despicable and shameless human race! I will tear you to pieces!” the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon spat out human words, its crimson eyes filled with boundless killing intent.

Feeling the frenzied killing intent of the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon, Li Mu’s heart sank. Taking a deep breath, he contemplated a strategy for escape.

The Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon swung its giant claw, releasing endless resentment.

Li Mu reached out with his hand, and a Tier Five Thunder Talisman Spirit Book emerged. In an instant, two Tier Five Body-Locking Thunder Prison Talismans activated, transforming into countless Thunder Serpents, counterattacking the skeletal claw.

Immediately, Li Mu shouted, performing his Innate Divine Techniques – Self-formed Sword Realm. Countless Sword Qi appeared out of thin air, sweeping through the sea’s silt, mixing countless sharp Sword Qi with the silt and seawater, obscuring everything around.

The gigantic claw of the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon was blocked by violent thunder, and in an instant, the entire space was filled with thunder, ice, resentment, and Sword Qi, turning into a chaotic world.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Mu muddled through, taking out the Tier Seven Grotto Heaven Spiritual Treasure – Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, and entered it.

The Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, with its size at will, transformed into a grain of dust in the seabed sediment, concealing its aura, and vanished without a trace.

Having escaped into the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, Li Mu collapsed onto a stone chair, wiping the sweat from his forehead in lingering fear, never having felt so close to death.

Although he could hide inside the Tier Seven Spiritual Treasure, the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon couldn’t do anything to him.

However, staying hidden like this wasn’t a solution.

Li Mu never liked sitting and waiting for doom, so he sat cross-legged, emitting a faint Star Concealing Divine Thought, controlling the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion to observe the surroundings.

The Tier Seven Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon suddenly noticed the disappearance of the human cultivator, which immediately enraged it. It frantically unleashed its demon power, freezing the underground cave into an ice cavern. The massive skeleton rampaged, smashing with its big claws, recklessly unleashing demon power, thoroughly ravaging the entire area.

The immense destructive power crashed against the array, but the external array tier was extremely high. Even under the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon’s attack, it only caused waves of ripples, quickly restoring to its original state.

However, this provided an opportunity for Li Mu. Seizing the moment when the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon’s mind was in chaos, he controlled the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, transformed into gravel, and slipped out of the cave.

Having escaped from danger, Li Mu was still concerned that the mysterious array wouldn’t withstand the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon. Without delay, he emerged from the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, retrieved his Grotto Heaven Spiritual Treasure, and ran, using Thunderbolt Wings and alternating the Five Elements Water Escape to flee at the fastest speed towards the distance.

Thunder shadows flickered, water shadows flashed across hundreds of miles, Li Mu broke through the sea surface, surveying the surroundings which were still an endless ocean, unsure of his location.

Fleeing for thousands of miles in one direction, Li Mu finally relaxed his tightly wound nerves.

Summoning the Celestial Shuttle Spirit Ship from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, Li Mu entered it, sitting cross-legged to recuperate and restore his greatly depleted spiritual power.

This encounter was the most perilous adversary Li Mu had faced, even surpassing the Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion he encountered at the Golden Core Stage.

It was truly terrifying! The dreadful resentment and dragon’s might, the powerful Ice Domain—any misstep, and Li Mu would face death and the destruction of his Dao.

No wonder the Nine Dragons Slaying Immortal Array could be replaced with Flood Dragon Bones. Seeking True Dragon Relics posed such a high risk to one’s life!

This adventure left Li Mu with a profound lesson: he need only focus on farming to continuously enhance his cultivation; there was no need to risk venturing into such dangerous places if unnecessary.

Fortunately, despite the scare, this time he safely acquired two sets of Double-Horned Cyan Moon Flood Dragon bones, along with a large amount of spirit grass, spirit medicine, and spiritual artifacts—a significant harvest indeed.

As for that mysterious cave and the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon trapped within its powerful array, Li Mu had no interest in probing further. He would come to fetch the dragon bone when his strength had improved.

Putting aside thoughts of the Cyan Illusionary Vengeful Dragon, Li Mu calmed his mind, deciding to first capture the Double-Horned Cyan Moon Flood Dragon.

He took out the scales of the Double-Horned Cyan Moon Flood Dragon and extracted a piece of Star Wood from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, using the Star Wood as a medium to craft an array artifact.

The requirements for refining a tracking array artifact weren’t high; with the aid of the Celestial Fire Refining Furnace, Li Mu’s current artifact refining technique allowed him to refine it without expending too much energy.

Under the wrap of spiritual power, the Star Sinking Wood was sent into the Celestial Fire Refining Furnace. With the addition of some Tier Four materials and the tempering of the Extreme Yang Celestial Fire, numerous refining materials melted and mixed to form a chessboard-shaped artifact embryo.

Li Mu’s hands formed seals as one array marking after another fused into the chessboard artifact embryo.

Then, Li Mu took out a Soul Absorption Bottle, preparing to put in the Eight-Clawed Demon King’s essence.

Upon opening the Soul Absorption Bottle, the Octopus Demon was still in a frenzy, actually rushing toward him to attack.

“Courting death!”

Li Mu swung his hand to conjure a Five Elements Spirit Fire, which transformed into a fiery hand to pin down the Eight-Clawed Demon King’s essence, delivering a slap infused with Five Elements Spirit Qi right to its face.

The Eight-Clawed Demon King’s essence, having been infected by Earth Fiend resentment for a relatively short time, finally recovered its clarity under the cleansing of the Five Elements Spirit Fire, gazing innocently at Li Mu.

“Obediently become the artifact spirit, or do you wish to die?”

The Eight-Clawed Demon King’s essence naturally had no choice, albeit begrudgingly, it shot Li Mu a glance before flying into the chessboard artifact embryo.

Li Mu couldn’t help but chuckle; this was his first experience in not using the Extreme Yang Celestial Fire and Xiaobai’s ability, yet making a Tier Five Demon King’s essence obediently become an artifact spirit.

It seems that giving the other party a good beating sometimes has its benefits!

With the artifact spirit injected, the chessboard released a brilliant blue light, ripples spreading with thick water energy, causing the temperature around to drop by over ten degrees, full of spiritual energy.

The chessboard quickly transformed into a small, palm-sized octopus that actively flew out and wrapped its eight limbs around Li Mu’s arm.

[Artifact Name: (None)]

[Grade: Tier Five Middle Grade Array Artifact]

[Attributes: Star Surrounding Disc, gather the world, track and locate]

[Status: Spiritual Qi emerging, perfectly rounded]

[Primarily composed of Star Wood, infused with Mercury Soul, Taiyin True Water, Observing Profound Iron, and a Tier Four Tracking Array forming a spiritual artifact, though it lacks offensive capabilities—by carrying it, one can track over thousands of miles.]

Li Mu was quite satisfied with the targeted tracking functionality of this array artifact.

Remarking that it hadn’t been named yet, Li Mu pondered for a while, then said to the octopus artifact spirit, “I’ll give you a name, let’s call you ’Spirit Tracking Disc’!”

The little octopus, upon receiving its new name, nodded joyfully, climbing up Li Mu’s arm to his shoulder.

Li Mu grabbed it with one hand, ready to use it to search for the whereabouts of the Double-Horned Cyan Moon Flood Dragon, placing the previous scales in front of the ’little octopus’.

The little octopus extended its eight limbs to retrieve the cyan scales, transforming them into a ’chessboard’. Soon, the array pattern in the chessboard emitted bursts of white mist, enveloping the cyan scales.

In the blink of an eye, the Flood Dragon scales, with durability comparable to Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts, were completely disassembled.

On the chessboard, one after another chess pieces appeared—they unexpectedly began to morph, some into endless mountains, others into azure seas, and even more into countless schools of fish…

The countless chess pieces transformed, painting a surreal scene.

One of the general chess pieces wriggled and transformed into a Double-Horned Cyan Moon Flood Dragon, and at the center of the chessboard, a red pointer emerged, indicating the position of the Double-Horned Cyan Moon Flood Dragon.

Upon the manifestation of the tracking result, Li Mu was overjoyed and immediately piloted the Celestial Shuttle Spirit Ship, rapidly heading towards the direction indicated by the arrow.

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