I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm-Chapter 422 - 249: Cyan Jade Ginseng King (Part 2)
Some of them come from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, some from trade fairs, and many are provided by the Snow Fox Race... Over the years, Li Mu has expended considerable effort, finding ways to plant and nurture them, curious about the attributes of the Plant Spirit he could extract upon their maturity.
The talent of Plant Spirit Absorption is the foundation of Li Mu’s existence in this world. As his cultivation realm continually improves, the plant spirit attributes provided by low-tier spirit plants gradually weaken. He must plan ahead, select suitable high-tier spirit plants to cultivate, to provide effective plant spirit attributes.
After years of planting, Li Mu can confirm one thing: tier four spirit plants suitable for the Nascent Soul Stage become ineffective as his realm continues to elevate while tier two spirit plants lose their Plant Spirit value.
In the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, tier two Celestial Phoenix Grass is planted in abundance, almost harvestable every two to three months. As his cultivation progresses to the mid-stage Nascent Soul, the plant spirit attributes obtained, along with the free skill points, dropped one level, some even have no plant spirit yield.
Fortunately, Li Mu has accumulated billions of free skill points, so in the short term, even if unable to find corresponding spirit plants, he need not worry about these attribute points.
Next time, when cultivation improves, he must be prepared to identify tier three spirit plants that can yield free skill points and plant them in large quantities.
As for higher-tier spirit plants, Li Mu has no way to plan.
The growth and maturity of tier five and six spirit plants can easily take decades, or even centuries, and require massive amounts of high-level resources to support their growth. It is destined that the extensive cultivation of high-tier spirit plants is an incredibly arduous task.
The rewards from this hardship are worth it. He doesn’t need to cultivate day and night like others, seeking adventures for realm breakthroughs and tier promotions, searching for opportunities everywhere.
All he needs is to focus on farming, cultivating large batches of suitable spirit plants, and await the harvest for a significant increase in cultivation and enjoy the fruits of his labor.
The talent of Recognizing Ten Thousand Spirits allows precise mastery of each spirit plant’s growth status.
Li Mu satisfies their growth needs one by one, and if unable to meet them, he seeks alternate methods or temporarily sets them aside if not feasible.
Five days passed by in a blur.
Li Mu stayed in his secluded chamber without stepping foot outside, tending to the spirit plants within the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.
Until Xiaojin informed him through the Spirit Taming Contract Seal that someone was visiting, Li Mu then emerged from the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, left the chamber, and headed to the hall to meet the guest.
"Master, we found the last spirit medicine - Kui Yin Spirit Grass, and successfully obtained it! There are five plants, with a medicinal age of around seven hundred years. Is it enough to refine the Supreme Profound Clarity Pill?" Bai Tianya, weary from travel, saw Li Mu and presented a jade box as a gesture.
"Hmm! Not a supplementary ingredient for the Primordial Pill Formula, so the success rate will decrease. I’ll do my best!" Li Mu took the jade box, responding hesitantly.
Like his artifact refining skill also at level 6, alchemy on level six for refining tier six spirit pills leaves Li Mu unsure. Firstly, he only learned ordinary alchemy, unlike artifact refining where he learned the Eightfold Celestial Fire Forging Method. Secondly, over nearly a hundred years of refining numerous low and high-tier spiritual artifacts, he mastered quite a bit of advanced artifact refining skills through practical experience.
Level 6 alchemy is different; Li Mu only learned one ordinary alchemy technique where spirit pill refining was occasional, meant to utilize harvested spirit plants while preparing for his Beast Taming purposes as he doesn’t need much auxiliary spirit pill himself.
Though alchemy advanced to level 6 for several years, Li Mu has yet to truly attempt refining tier six pills successfully. Moreover, this time refining also requires substituting a supplementary ingredient, making success even more uncertain!
"Understood, Master, you refine at leisure. If it’s unsuccessful, we will consider other options! The cost of this spirit medicine should not be a concern." Bai Tianya nodded in understanding, speaking respectfully and sincerely.
A figure like a tier six alchemy master, even within the Great Immortal Sect of the human race, exists among the Sect Elders high above, impossible to casually approach. Now, his willingness to stay as a guest benefiting from Xue’Er, let alone being willing to refine pills for the clan leader.
Even if all spirit medicine fails in refining, Bai Tianya dares not hold Li Mu in contempt.
"Alright! Come find me in three days!" Li Mu nodded with a faint smile, seeing Bai Tianya off.
"Very well! Master, busy yourself!" Bai Tianya responded respectfully, unknowingly adding a hint of reverence to how he addressed Li Mu.
After witnessing Li Mu summon the tier seven - Extreme Yang Celestial Fire, which managed to suppress and mostly eradicate the demon qi within the clan leader, Bai Tianya no longer dares to treat Li Mu as an ordinary human race Nascent Soul cultivator. Moreover, this man’s few spirit beasts, the tier seven Fire Phoenix, six-tier Flood Dragon, possess extraordinary talent with potential high achievements in the future.
After seeing Bai Tianya off, Li Mu picks up the jade box containing tier six - Kui Yin Spirit Grass, turns, and walks into the secluded chamber to begin an attempt at refining tier six - Taiqing Calming Pill.
Alchemy and artifact refining have fundamental differences yet share some similarities. Both require testing the fire control level of the refiner, followed by demands on divine sense and cultivation, becoming more complex with higher tiers.
Logically speaking, with Li Mu’s mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation, refining tier six spirit pills shouldn’t be possible. However, having practiced the Celestial Tier Divine Thought Technique - Star Nebula Visualization Method, reaching the state of perfection in the Star Gathering Chapter, grants him divine sense far beyond Nascent Soul cultivators, reaching the divine sense strength of late-stage Divinity Transformation cultivators. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖
Similarly, his cultivation surpasses that of Nascent Soul cultivators, reaching beyond the Divinity Transformation cultivators’ initial stage, aided further by high-tier recovery spirit pills satisfying hard requirements for refining tier six spirit pills.
Li Mu needs only to focus during the refining process of tier six Supreme Profound Clearing Spirit, attending to extraction, melting, pill transformation, condensing, and other precise and complex alchemy steps.
Li Mu closes his eyes, concentrating his mind, simulating the alchemy steps repeatedly in his mind.
After about an hour, Li Mu confirms no errors in the alchemy process, then begins extracting alchemy materials from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl.
Besides the primary ingredient for refining the Supreme Profound Clearing Spirit Pill - Nishen Spirit Grass and Vermilion Flame Fruits, seven tier six supplementary ingredients, and thirty-six tier five supplementary ingredients... fill the alchemy platform.
Li Mu beckons, summoning the tier seven - Chi Lian Fire Phoenix from the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.
"Chirp chirp!"
The Chi Lian Fire Phoenix appears, its pea-sized eyes staring at Li Mu, seemingly puzzled as if asking why it was summoned when sleeping so soundly!
"Little Feng, lend me the Celestial Fire Tripod; I want to refine pills!" Li Mu said, negotiating with the sleepy Chi Lian Fire Phoenix.
After incubating the tier seven - Chi Lian Fire Phoenix, Li Mu gifted the Celestial Fire Tripod to it, serving as its lifebound spiritual treasure. Now, to use the Celestial Fire Tripod for alchemy, he must discuss it with the phoenix.
"Chirp chirp!"
The Chi Lian Fire Phoenix cherishes the Celestial Fire Tripod as its nest, unwilling to lend it upon hearing Li Mu’s intention to borrow it for alchemy.
"Uh! This is the fee for borrowing the tripod! Are you sure you don’t want it?" Li Mu chuckled, taking out a pill bottle exuding high temperature from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl.
"Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp!"
The Chi Lian Fire Phoenix immediately chirped eagerly, and with a "whoosh", a Celestial Fire Tripod with flames appeared.
"You’re stingy like an eagle that won’t hunt unless it sees the rabbit!" Li Mu grumbled, throwing the pill bottle to the Chi Lian Fire Phoenix.
A ’fire chain’ sprouted from the Chi Lian Fire Phoenix, catching the red pill bottle to a corner to enjoy obliviously.
Seeing this, Li Mu couldn’t help but laugh softly, no longer caring about it.
With the use of the Celestial Fire Tripod, Li Mu solemnly opened the tripod lid to start refining the Supreme Profound Clearing Spirit Pill, orderly placing the alchemy materials into the tripod.
Once each spirit medicine entered the tripod, Li Mu activated the Celestial Fire Furnace, releasing a gentle and constant fire to refine the spirit medicine, gradually liquefying it.
