I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 85: Chapter 81: Spirit Plant Department Affairs

With the inconvenience of carrying the Red Wolf, sword flight was not feasible. Li Mu summoned the Spiritual Ship from his Storage Bag and flew through the air at ease. It wasn’t long before he reached the Cyan Dragon Valley, diving right into the Linggu hidden by the Illusion Array.

”Whoo, whoo...” As soon as the Red Wolf landed, it excitedly ran around, lifting its leg now and then to urinate and mark its territory.

Seeing this, Li Mu felt a slight urge to smack it with a twig, but considering the vastness of the Linggu, it made sense to let it leave some scent markers.

Watching the Red Wolf gleefully run to the Cyan Pool to drink water, Li Mu left it to its own devices and walked into a stone house. He entered a storage room and began setting up an Ice Element Array, transforming it into an ice cellar.

Carving micro-array patterns on the stone wall, embedding Spirit Stones into the array hub... Li Mu proceeded step by step, methodically setting up the Array according to the diagram of the Ice Element Array.

Of course, Li Mu would incorporate some of his own thoughts while carving the array patterns.

Li Mu attempted to integrate modern scientific theories he had learned from the original world to analyze the working principles of the Ice Element Array.

The Ice Element Array operates by driving spiritual power through the array patterns, forcibly stripping away other attribute spiritual power to create a zone that forcibly purges Fire Attribute Spiritual Qi, cooling the array area and achieving a refrigeration effect.

The power maintaining the Ice Element Array comes from the Spirit Stones embedded in the array hub.

Dozens of array patterns serve various functions: stripping certain spiritual qi, isolating spiritual qi, rejecting spiritual power, outputting spiritual power, stabilizing the array, regulating spiritual qi, and so on, incredibly complex.

This kind of array that strips and rejects certain attribute spiritual power, Li Mu thought with some modifications, could create many different avenues.

For instance, collecting the Fire Element Spiritual Qi stripped by the Ice Element Array could create a greenhouse for cultivating Fire Spirit Plants. Or, modify it to strip Thunder Elemental Power, forming a Thunder Element Array to restore that Tier Five Thunder Scripture, ... there are countless research directions.

Half an hour later, Li Mu successfully engraved the array patterns of the Ice Element Array, and embedded eighteen Middle-grade Spirit Stones in the array hub. With a light ’buzz’, the Ice Element Array was activated, expelling the Fire Element Spiritual Power from the storage room.

The temperature inside the storage room plummeted swiftly; soon, patches of white frost began to form on the walls. The Ice Element Array was effective, and the temperature fell below freezing.

Glancing at the Spirit Stones embedded in the array hub, Li Mu noticed the eighteen Middle-grade Spirit Stones collectively ’shrank’ a bit. At this consumption rate, it would last for about ten days to half a month; the consumption speed was somewhat alarming.

However, this should be a special case due to the first activation of the Ice Element Array. Once all the Fire Element Spiritual Power in the storage room has been expelled, only array maintenance will be necessary, significantly reducing the Spirit Stone consumption of the Ice Element Array.

Li Mu opened the Storage Bag and took out Demon Beast Meat, placing chunks neatly on the storage room shelves.

Then, Li Mu sliced off a piece of the Profound Feathered Eagle Leg Meat, about two to three pounds, closed the storage room door, and headed to the kitchen to prepare lunch.

Li Mu retrieved pots and pans from the Storage Bag, arranging them on the wooden rack beside the stove. He then proceeded to the trough with running water derived from the Cyan Pool to clean the eagle meat. The newly built modern farmhouse kitchen made cooking a delightful endeavor.

In the kitchen, Li Mu worked joyfully, stir-frying some wild vegetables, making a dish of braised eagle meat. Still unsatisfied, he went straight to the Cyan Pool, and with a sweep of his Divine Sense, immediately caught a seven to eight-pound Black Spirit Fish, gutted it, scaled it, and cleaned it for steaming.

Before long, a steaming hot steamed Black Spirit Fish was ready.

”Whoo, whoo, whoo...” The Red Wolf, having long been waiting impatiently under the dining table, barked at Li Mu, lured by the meat aroma.

”Your bowl is over there! Bring it over,” Li Mu directed, pointing to the wooden bowl prepared for the Red Wolf in the corner.

”Woof!” The Red Wolf barked excitedly, wagging its tail as it trotted over, fetching the dog bowl to Li Mu.

Li Mu chuckled, scooped a large ladleful of Spirit Rice into the dog bowl, tore off half a piece of braised eagle meat, added a fish tail, and placed it in front of the Red Wolf: ”Eat up!”

The Red Wolf grabbed the meat chunk and gobbled it down, swallowing a massive piece in one go, its eyes immediately bulging.

The Red Wolf lay down on the ground, suddenly losing its interest in food.

”What’s going on, choked?” Li Mu bent down to check the Red Wolf’s mouth, finding nothing abnormal.

”Hmm!” The Red Wolf replied to Li Mu, indicating that it was fine and just needed a moment to recover.

Li Mu let go of the Red Wolf’s head in exasperation, sat down at the table, and began enjoying his meal.

Li Mu relished a mouthful of Spirit Rice, picked up a small piece of braised eagle meat, and after eating, realized why the Red Wolf had such a reaction.

The power contained in Tier Two Demon Beast Meat is more than ten times that of Tier One. Even a small piece created a slight feeling of fullness for Li Mu, leaving him warm and comfortable throughout his body.

Li Mu struggled to finish his meal, leaving more than half of the braised eagle meat uneaten.

”I should go to the Sect to exchange for a Body Refining Technique sometime!” Looking at the remaining braised eagle meat, Li Mu couldn’t help but think.

Li Mu was no longer a cultivation novice and knew that the primary reasons he couldn’t digest Tier Two Profound Feathered Eagle Meat were his insufficient physical strength and the low level of his Cultivation Techniques. The five Five Elements Techniques he practiced were all merely Yellow Level Techniques with poor spiritual power absorption, making it difficult to fully absorb the spiritual power contained in higher-tiered foods.

Noting the Red Wolf still lying idle on the ground, Li Mu sighed, requiring no more demands. Raising the Red Wolf was like having a pet husky; it was merely for companionship and leisure, and Li Mu didn’t expect it to possess much combat prowess.