I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm-Chapter 120 - 101: Foundation Establishment (Part 2)
"Hungry? Got it, I’ll get you some food right away. You must not show yourself when there are people around, understand?" Li Mu smiled and nodded, instructing Xiaobai before tucking it into his pocket. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
"Jiji!" Xiaobai responded obediently, indicating it understood.
Soon, Li Mu changed into a clean magic robe, took a short rest, and flew on his sword towards Yang City, planning to get food for Xiaobai from Wang Wenbao and settle the bill, while also mentioning his departure.
Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Reception Hall.
"What! Master Li, you’re leaving tomorrow? So soon? Didn’t you say you would stay for another half month?" Hearing that Li Mu was about to leave, Wang Wenbao was immediately anxious. He had brought in a large amount of high-tier refining materials from other places, and they hadn’t been refined yet. If Li Mu left, wouldn’t these things become a burden?
Wang Wenbao promptly informed Li Mu about the gathering of high-tier spiritual objects and requested him to refine these materials into spiritual artifacts before leaving.
"Shopkeeper Wang, you’re making it difficult for me! Didn’t I tell you I might leave at any time? Why did you bring in so many materials?" Li Mu sighed, unsure how to respond.
"Master Li, please, help me! Most of these materials are tier four and only you can refine them. If I send them back, I’ll lose a lot of spirit stones in the process. If I don’t get them out, I can’t handle such a large stock. Considering our pleasant cooperation so far, please help me this time!" Wang Wenbao pleaded earnestly.
"Shopkeeper Wang, I have urgent matters that prevent me from staying long. How about this? You convert the commission I earned from refining during this time into refining materials. I’ll help you process some of it and spend two more days refining artifacts. If there are still materials left, I can’t do anything about it!" Li Mu suggested after thinking for a moment.
"Thank you, thank you, Master Li. It should work. Please wait a moment, I’ll go immediately to the accounts office to calculate the finances." Wang Wenbao replied gratefully.
"Don’t forget the Demon Beast Essence Soul!" Li Mu reminded with a smile.
"Rest assured, I always remember what you instruct!" Wang Wenbao responded with a smile, then hurried to the accounts office to settle the accounts.
About a quarter of an hour passed.
Shopkeeper Wang returned, hurried over, holding two storage bags and an account book, and handed them to Li Mu, saying, "Master Li, during this period, you refined a total of 127 tier three spiritual artifacts, including 92 of high grade and 35 of top grade. The prices and your commission are recorded here, after deducting the cost of Celestial One True Water and an advance you took earlier. The remaining spirit stones have been exchanged for tier four refining materials and Demon Beast Essence Souls. This is the detailed account and the exchanged items. Please verify."
Li Mu received the two storage bags and the account book, skimmed through the account book, and confirmed the numbers were correct.
"These tier four refining materials are exchanged for you at cost price, Master Li, are you satisfied?" Wang Wenbao looked at Li Mu with a bitter expression, indicating his meaning.
Li Mu laughed softly, knowing the words of merchants are not always reliable, just listen and don’t take them too seriously.
However, this time the gains were considerable. Buying so many tier four spiritual objects at the market price at once is indeed not a simple matter.
"Master Li, there’s another batch of tier four refining materials for you to refine. Should the commission be in materials or converted to spirit stones?" Wang Wenbao asked.
"Half and half! Do you have the leather materials of high-tier Thunder Beasts? If so, exchange some for me as well." Li Mu thought for a moment and responded.
"Yes, yes! Recently, Thousand Thunder Island delivered a batch, and there are a few pieces of tier two Thunderbird hide. Master Li, how many pieces do you want?" Wang Wenbao quickly replied.
"Give them all to me! By the way, do you have a spirit treasure for storing spirit plants? I need one." Li Mu thought for a moment and asked again.
"Storing spirit plants? Master Li, is it for transplanting a large number of spirit plants?" Wang Wenbao asked, probing.
"Yes! Do you have it?" Li Mu confirmed and asked.
Next, Li Mu planned to go to the headquarters of the Qing Xuan Sect to occupy a Spirit Mountain. However, the eleven mu of spirit tea and half a mu of various spirit plant seedlings left at Little Liang Mountain couldn’t be left unattended. Now, they’re just missing a storage spiritual artifact that can temporarily store transplanted spirit plants and maintain their vitality.
"Such storage devices require a large number of arrays and spirit soil inside, making them very complex to refine and quite costly. They’re not frequently bought, and I have no stock on hand. I’ll need to get them from other stores, and I’m afraid it might not make it in time." Wang Wenbao apologized.
"Well, ask around. If there’s stock, I’ll take one. If not, don’t force it." Li Mu nodded, showing understanding.
After successfully establishing his Foundation, Li Mu’s lifespan extended to 560 years, about 200 more than ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators. He had time to cultivate spirit plants. If he couldn’t buy this transplanting storage spiritual artifact, he’d have to abandon the batch of spirit tea and experiment with spirit plants at Little Liang Mountain, and start again slowly in the future.
However, the batch of Cloud Mist Spirit Tea Seeds obtained last time, the remaining quantity could only plant about one or two mu. It would be quite a pity to give them up.
"Rest assured, Master Li, I’ll do my best to get it for you." Wang Wenbao nodded and promised.
"Great, I’m counting on you, Shopkeeper Wang. I’m going to the Artifact Refining Workshop!" Li Mu nodded with a smile, stood up, and headed towards the Artifact Refining Workshop of the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
After successfully establishing his Foundation and obtaining a batch of tier four refining materials, while refining spiritual artifacts for the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Li Mu also planned to refine a batch of spiritual artifacts for himself.
In the Artifact Refining Workshop, out of the five Artifact Refining Rooms, two stone doors were tightly closed, likely occupied by other Artifact Refining Honored Guest Elders.
Seeing Li Mu approach, Liu Zhong hurried forward, handed over a storage bag, and respectfully said, "Master Li, the Earth Fire for refining is ready. Here are the refining materials."
"Mm!" Li Mu took the storage bag and walked straight to Refining Room No. 2.
With a "rumble," the stone door of the refining room slowly closed. In the vast refining room, a large Artifact Refining Furnace, over ten feet tall, stood in the center.
"Jiji!" Sensing no one else in the refining room, Xiaobai emerged from Li Mu’s pocket.
"I know! I’ll get you food now!" Li Mu chuckled, opened the storage bag containing the Demon Beast Essence Soul.
Inside the storage bag were twenty-seven or eight soul absorption bottles, each containing a demon beast essence soul of first, second, or third tier.
Li Mu selected one to prevent Xiaobai from falling into slumber again, took out a soul absorption bottle containing a tier one demon beast essence soul, and with a "pop," opened the cap.
Before the tier one Demon Fox Spirit inside the soul absorption bottle could escape, with a flash of white shadow, Xiaobai sprang up like a spring and blocked the bottle’s mouth.
In no time, a piercing wail emanated from the soul absorption bottle, the spirit’s final cries of the Demon Fox Spirit were the most terrifying sounds from the depths of its soul.
"Jiji, jiji!"
Xiaobai dove into the bottle opening, eagerly twisting its body, and swallowed the Demon Fox Spirit in one gulp.
"Jiji! Uh!" Xiaobai looked up at Li Mu, let out a satisfied cry, and belched.
Seeing this, Li Mu was unsure whether to laugh or feel afraid. This little guy truly is the nemesis of soul-type creatures!
Thinking of this, Li Mu’s heart stirred, and an idea came to mind, deciding to use Xiaobai to assist in refining artifacts.
"Jiji, jiji!" Xiaobai called to Li Mu twice, looking sleepy, as if telling its owner it wanted to return to the bag to sleep.
"Xiaobai, wait a moment, help me first." Li Mu smiled slightly and suggested.
"Ji!" Xiaobai looked at Li Mu quizzically, unsure what its owner wanted it to help with.
With a slight smile, Li Mu reached out to gather Five Elements Spiritual Power and released the divine technique - Five Elements Spirit Transformation, and in the next second, a mass of Five Elements Spirit Fire condensed in mid-air.
After breaking through to Foundation Establishment, Li Mu’s True Essence Spiritual Power was several times, even ten times thicker than during the Qi Refining Stage. The power of its techniques and divine abilities was also greatly enhanced, making the Five Elements Spirit Fire condensed through the Five Elements Spirit Transformation comparable in intensity to a tier four Red Flame Spirit Fire.
Li Mu took a Ruyi Stone, roughly two pounds in weight, from the storage compartment and began liquefying it with the Five Elements Spirit Fire. Then, he opened a storage bag containing a large number of tier four refining materials; a piece of Meteorite Profound Iron, Ink Dipping Gold, Chaos Dust Crystal, ..., flew out consecutively, and under the burning of the Five Elements Spirit Fire, they quickly melted.
