I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Tier Two Profound Feathered Eagle

Time flew by, and two days passed.

Li Mu completed the cultivation of a hundred acres of Spirit Field, built a stone house, and rode his sword away from Cyan Dragon Valley, preparing to visit Little Liang Mountain to water eleven acres of Wind Spirit Grass with Spirit Rain.

However, just as he flew out of Cyan Dragon Valley, the shadow overhead immediately startled Li Mu.

Li Mu finally understood why such a spiritual land as Cyan Dragon Valley, with such an excellent environment, had not been occupied by anyone.

Whether or not there was a ”Cyan Dragon” in Cyan Dragon Valley was uncertain, but the Spiritual Valley formed by the two Spirit Mountains might very well be the territory of some high-tier Demon Beast, and the Tier Two Profound Feathered Eagle soaring overhead was likely one of them.

The Profound Feathered Eagle spotted its prey, folded its wings, and dived down directly, attacking him.

”Hmph!” Li Mu snorted lightly, totally fearless.

The next moment, five Spirit Swords of different colors—gold, red, green, white, and scarlet—appeared out of nowhere beside him, along with a golden shield suspended in front of him to fend off the diving Profound Feathered Eagle.

How could this be an innocent, plump prey! It was clearly an armored, human-shaped weapon!

Seeing this formation, the Profound Feathered Eagle flapped its wings in fright, attempting to alter its flight path.

However, it was a step too late; the five Spirit Swords shot out, quickly combined into one large sword, and slashed down swiftly and fiercely, sharply unstoppable.

”Sizzling!” In an instant, the Five Elements Giant Sword sliced past the side of the Profound Feathered Eagle, and immediately, blood splattered, and feathers flew.

Suddenly sustaining a heavy injury, the Profound Feathered Eagle couldn’t maintain its flight and its massive body plummeted towards the ground.

What was a Tier Two Demon Beast in front of five Tier Three Top-Grade Spirit Swords? Its body was no tougher than paper.

Hiding behind the Geng Metal Shield and Divine Sense focused on the Tier Two Profound Feathered Eagle, Li Mu couldn’t help but let out a breath of relief upon ’seeing’ this scene, feeling quite satisfied with the results of the Five Elements Sword Array’s creation.

Simultaneously controlling five Tier Three Top-Grade Flying Swords to set up the Five Elements Sword Array in just two breaths, with Five Elements Unification, Li Mu consumed a significant amount of mana and energy for this feat.

Nonetheless, this move was a trump card; the Five Elements Giant Sword succeeded in heavily injuring the Profound Feathered Eagle, yielding excellent results!

The Five Elements Giant Sword disintegrated in midair, splitting into five Spirit Swords that successively flew back to Li Mu’s side.

”Boom!” With a loud crash, the massive body of the Profound Feathered Eagle slammed into the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The life force of the Tier Two Profound Feathered Eagle was extremely tenacious; even though heavily injured, it still had enough strength to struggle, flapping its gigantic wings, attempting to fly back into the air.

In an instant, earth and rocks seethed, and shattered branches flew.

Strike while the iron is hot, and send it to oblivion!

Li Mu certainly wouldn’t let it return to the sky—not a chance. With a swing of the sword technique, the five Spirit Swords beside him shot up ’whoosh, whoosh’ in rapid flight, swiftly forming a Five Elements Sword Array above the Profound Feathered Eagle.

As the Five Elements Sword Array formed, the hundred-zhang area surrounding the Profound Iron Eagle was immediately enveloped by a vast Five Elements Spiritual Power, the air infused with flames of Sword Qi growing hotter, the ground grew moist, vines sprawled wildly across the earth, and a sharp Golden Sharp Qi pervaded...

Within the Five Elements Sword Array, all Five Elements Spiritual Qi transformed into Sword Qi, swarming fiercely toward the Profound Feathered Eagle.

Within the Five Elements Sword Array, the Profound Feathered Eagle struggled intensely for a moment; in less than ten breaths, it completely lost vitality, dying stiff on the ground.

Li Mu formed a hand seal, dispersing the Five Elements Sword Array, and quickly retrieved two Pill Bottles from the Storage Bag, swallowing an Essence Pill and a Spirit Revitalizing Pill.

”If it were a Five Elements Second-Order Spirit Sword, it’d be better, but controlling five Tier Three Five Elements Spirit Swords simultaneously, even though the Five Elements Sword Array’s power is greatly enhanced, the consumption is too excessive! In the second form of the Five Elements Sword Array, the Five Elements Sword Domain can only last for 10 breaths!” While exhilarated, Li Mu was a bit overwhelmed, as the Five Elements Sword Array almost drained his True Essence, and his Divine Sense was considerably depleted too.

To deploy the Five Elements Sword Array with Tier Three Spirit Swords, at least Foundation Establishment Cultivation is required to exert its full power.

Li Mu recalled the Five Elements Spirit Sword, storing them into the Storage Compartment before using Sword Control to fly toward the Profound Feathered Eagle’s body, ready to claim his spoils of war.

He landed with his sword in front of the Profound Feathered Eagle’s corpse, looking at the blood-stained ground, and the Profound Feathered Eagle’s body, towering like a small mountain, made Li Mu both excited and overwhelmed.

This was Li Mu’s first time slaying a Tier Two Demon Beast; the process was incredibly smooth, and also extremely abrupt.

Now, with the Profound Feathered Eagle’s body laid out before him, Li Mu felt dazed, finding it hard to believe that he had personally hunted this giant creature.

Seeing the body of the Tier Two Profound Feathered Eagle up close, Li Mu was startled by its enormous size.

The Profound Feathered Eagle was colossal; it had a pair of sharp, enormous talons, as large as half of Li Mu’s body, capable of clutching an ox without difficulty. Its gray-brown feathers were hard like iron sheets, but were scarred all over with sword marks, its entire body covered in sword wounds, its blood dyeing the ground a red river.

Even in death, the Profound Feathered Eagle’s body exuded a dense, fierce aura, its massive talons and sharp beak looking immensely intimidating.

”What a pity! Such good feathers and hide wasted.” Looking at the Profound Feathered Eagle’s body, shredded and mangled by the Five Elements Sword Qi, Li Mu sighed with frustration.

This Tier Two Profound Feathered Eagle was a Gold Attribute Demon Bird; if the hide could be removed intact, and then treated, it could yield nearly a thousand sheets of Tier Two Gold Rune Paper at least.

However, the Tier Two Profound Feathered Eagle died under the Five Elements Sword Array, its entire body was rendered useless for Artifact Refining; the feathers suitable for refining artifacts and the hide usable for Talisman Making were all too damaged, even the blood for refining Spiritual Ink was almost drained away. From the entire Profound Feathered Eagle’s body, only the demon bird meat and bones held value; the rest was destroyed by Sword Qi.

This hunt reduced the earnings by more than eighty percent, and Li Mu felt heartbroken, clutching his forehead in anguish.

The loss was too great!

Normally, hunting a Tier Two Demon Beast, especially a demon bird beast, would yield profits exceeding a thousand middle-grade Spirit Stones.

The higher the level of the Demon Beast, the greater the profits gained; Demon Beast hide, meat, blood, even its inner core, and Spirit Plants growing or hidden Spirit Ore in its nest all bore great value, which is why many Hunter Cultivators risked their lives to hunt Demon Beasts.

Sometimes, to avoid damaging the valuable parts of a Demon Beast, hunters would often use methods that caused the least harm.

Only someone with no hunting experience would make such mistakes.

Li Mu sighed, deeply reflecting on this lesson, deciding that unless absolutely necessary, he would refrain from setting up sword domains using Sword Arrays in future hunts, or else the hunting profits would diminish too much.

Li Mu quickly retrieved a ceramic jar from the Storage Bag, slicing open the neck of the Profound Feathered Eagle with the Profound Iron Sword to collect the remaining blood.

He then placed the entire Profound Feathered Eagle’s body into a large Storage Bag, planning to clean it when he returned to Little Liang Mountain.

It’s been two days since watering the Wind Spirit Grass with Spirit Rain, and Li Mu dared not delay any longer. Once he secured the Profound Feathered Eagle’s body, he soared with Sword Control, heading toward Little Liang Mountain.

In less than half an hour, Li Mu arrived at Little Liang Mountain, ready to fly into the Illusion Array, only to have a thunder-like Flying Sword suddenly zoom forward, aiming straight for his neck.

Li Mu’s pupils dilated in shock, his soul nearly leaving his body from failing to detect the ambush.