I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 26: Chapter 26: Basic Sword Array Chapter

The battle raged fiercely.

The Tier Two Demon Bear was trapped within the array, besieged by five Qi Refining cultivators. Xu Lijin maintained the array while the others either launched flying swords or cast a giant golden silk net cover, inflicting damage on the demon bear.

The Tier Two Demon Bear roared repeatedly, relying on its tough skin and thick flesh to withstand the damage. However, it couldn’t break free from the Demon Suppression Array to counterattack.

”Quickly, use any trump cards you have! If it breaks free, we’re doomed!” Xu Lijin continued to pour spiritual power into maintaining the Demon Suppression Array, urging the others anxiously.

”Watch me!” With a wave of his large hand, Mo Yuanzhou flung five flying swords out of his storage bag, which then converged into a giant sword that descended from the sky with thunderous force.

”Roar!” The Tier Two Demon Bear roared in agony as the giant sword plunged deep into its back, causing a massive wound.

”Sword Array! Well done!” Xu Lijin was overjoyed. The Tier Two Demon Bear’s ferocity drastically decreased due to this blow, significantly reducing the pressure on the array.

Seizing the opportunity, Xu Lijin took out a Spirit Revitalizing Pill and swallowed it, continuing to output spiritual power to maintain the array.

”Fellow Daoist Du, Fellow Daoist Zhou, lend a hand!” Fei Zizhong took out a giant crossbow, about a zhang wide, from his storage bag, and signaled to Du Shilong and Zhou Guangzhi.

Upon hearing this, Du Shilong and Zhou Guangzhi flew over on their swords to help Fei Zizhong hold the giant crossbow. Fei Zizhong pulled out a long spear crossbow arrow, about two zhangs long, and started to painstakingly draw the giant crossbow.

The Tier Two Demon Bear, sensing the threat of death, roared madly, disregarding its own injuries, and furiously pounded the array cover.

Under the pummeling of the Tier Two Demon Beast, several giant array pillars of the Demon Suppression Array began to tremble. Xu Lijin, pale-faced, held a middle-grade Spirit Stone in his hand to replenish his spiritual power, struggling to maintain the array.

From a thousand meters away, Li Mu, hidden among the trees, observed this scene and grew anxious. This demon bear must not be killed so easily by them.

Li Mu’s spirit lifted as he identified the key to breaking the stalemate. As long as external force could break the array restraining the demon bear, releasing the Tier Two Demon Bear, the tables would turn on them.

With this thought, Li Mu quickly summoned a Slave Puppet from his storage compartment and took out an Earth Element Spirit Talisman—Mud Transformation Talisman.

Li Mu attached his Divine Sense to the Slave Puppet, directing it to carry the Mud Transformation Talisman and dash towards the Demon Suppression Array.

Under Li Mu’s control, the Slave Puppet entered the battlefield, targeted a giant stone array pillar, and activated the Mud Transformation Talisman.

The next second, a gray Spirit Light shot out from the Slave Puppet’s hand, sinking into the giant stone array pillar, which instantly turned to sand.

The array patterns etched on the pillar lost their effectiveness due to the transformation into mud, causing the Demon Suppression Array to collapse.

Realizing that the array confining it had vanished, the Tier Two Demon Bear was momentarily stunned, then bared its teeth in a savage grin, its bloodshot eyes fixed on the five people.

Who?

Xu Lijin was shocked out of his wits. Looking at the damaged array pillar, his eyes fell on a wooden puppet, and his Divine Sense detected no one.

What!

Fei Zizhong, Zhou Guangzhi, and Du Yulong, who were preparing to fire the crossbow arrows, stared wide-eyed in disbelief as they watched the Tier Two Demon Bear break free from the array. They all felt the chill of impending doom.

Stricken with fear, Fei Zizhong immediately pulled the trigger of the giant crossbow.

With a ”swish,” the long spear crossbow arrow vanished in the blink of an eye, carrying tremendous piercing power straight at the demon bear’s chest.

The Tier Two Demon Bear roared, and with its immense but clumsy body, evaded the incoming arrow with a side leap.

The Tier Two Demon Bear swung its paw forcefully, and the crossbow arrow grazed its thick shoulder, drawing a spray of blood before disappearing out of sight.

With a loud ”bang,” Fei Zizhong and his two companions, along with the giant crossbow, were swatted away by the demon bear’s thick paw.

”Pfft! Pfft, pfft!” Three violent collision sounds echoed in succession, blood splattered everywhere.

Fei Zizhong and his two companions were slammed into the mountainside, leaving three blossoming bursts of blood, their bodies reduced to shapeless masses of flesh.

Xu Lijin and Mo Yuanzhou turned pale with fright, immediately trying to escape on their swords.

But the Tier Two Demon Bear wouldn’t let them get away so easily.

”Roar!”

The Tier Two Demon Bear let out a deafening roar, releasing a terrifying pressure that immediately disrupted their spiritual power circulation, causing their bodies to go stiff, and their escape speed to plummet.

The Tier Two Demon Bear pounced on them, swatting them to the ground like flies, then leapt up again to bite down on the giant eagle trying to fly away, rescuing its cub successfully.

”Bang, bang” Two loud noises emanated from the ground, as Xu Lijin and Mo Yuanzhou’s bodies crashed heavily, turning into gruesome meat patties.

In the blink of an eye, the demon hunting battle took a dramatic turn.

The blood-soaked Tier Two Demon Bear ignored its own injuries, gently licking its cub instead.

Witnessing the terrifying combat prowess of the Tier Two Demon Bear, Li Mu abandoned any hope of reaping benefits as a bystander. He had the Slave Puppet lay motionless, waiting for the demon bear to leave.

Approximately half an hour later, the Tier Two Demon Bear carried the giant eagle’s corpse away, alongside its frightened cub,

Watching the demon bear’s retreating figure, Li Mu couldn’t help but sigh in relief.

The demon bear retreated not towards Little Liang Mountain but in the direction of Burial Cloud Mountain, reaffirming to Li Mu that the bear’s passage through Little Liang Mountain was entirely due to Xu Lijin and his group.

Li Mu had the Slave Puppet enter the devastated valley, collecting ’compensation’ from the five indistinct corpses.

Before long, the Slave Puppet selected and gathered three storage bags, four Spirit Swords, an Array Disc, ...a pile of miscellaneous spoils.

Eventually, the Slave Puppet’s hands could hold no more. Li Mu had to step in, using the function of 64 storage compartments to successfully take all the spoils back.

I’ve struck it rich!

The wooden table was piled with all sorts of cleaned-up spiritual objects. With the passing of their owners, the spiritual restrictions on the three storage bags automatically disengaged, allowing Li Mu to easily extract the spiritual objects within.

Li Mu’s eyes twinkled joyfully as he counted the spiritual materials on the table.

There were 78 middle-grade Spirit Stones the size of baby fists, 1244 lower-grade ones, a small pile of Broken Spirit worth about 150 lower-grade ones, as well as four Spirit Swords—one top-grade and three middle-grade, all of excellent quality. There were seven or eight cultivation technique books, various beast hides, spirit ores, spirit pills, and spirit grasses, totaling over a hundred items together.

”So much wealth, no wonder they needed storage bags!” Li Mu happily packed all the Spirit Stones into a separate storage bag.

Leveraging his Innate Divine Power - Recognition of Ten Thousand Spirits, Li Mu began to inventory them one by one, immediately spotting five high-tier spiritual objects worth his attention.

”Basic Sword Formation Chapter”

Seeing this Sword Formation Technique Book, Li Mu recalled the scene where the man in black released five Spirit Swords simultaneously, merging them into one to deal a massive blow to the Tier Two Demon Bear.

Li Mu’s interest piqued.