I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 112: Chapter 97: Thousand Insects Refine the Spirit

After taking care of the 82 acres of lower grade spirit fields, tomorrow I’ll go find some wind spirit grass to plant.

Li Mu returned to the manor courtyard and entered a sealed stone room.

Li Mu sat at a stone table, taking out the Hundred Refinement Gu Furnace, Amber Jade, and Soul Nurturing Jar from the Nine Treasures Storage Spirit Pearl, placing them on the table.

Picking up the Amber Jade, Li Mu hesitated.

Unlocking the Tier Four Demon Insect for the first time, then catalyzing the insect eggs, refining the Puppet Spirit, a series of steps is quite complex. If any step goes wrong, it all goes up in smoke!

Looking for such an opportunity again would be difficult!

Li Mu visualized the operation and setup repeatedly in his mind. Relying on his powerful divine soul and rich experience in artifact refining, puppetry, and drawing spirit talismans, his face slowly showed a determined look.

Lingering in hesitation wasn’t Li Mu’s style. Fully opening his divine sense, he focused on the Amber Jade, taking out the Tier Five Thunder Talisman Spirit Book from the storage compartment, inputted spiritual power, and used its thunder power to generate thunderfire, which could melt the Amber Jade.

[Golden Amber Stone]

[Grade: Tier Four Spiritual Object]

[Attributes: Time Stasis, Water and Fire Immune]

[Amber stone formed from the juice overflow of Tier Four Golden Amber Wood, possessing time seal and frozen vitality effects, immune to water and fire, only meltable by thunderfire roasting.]

The attribute information of the Amber Jade appeared in the virtual character frame. Holding the Tier Five Thunder Talisman Spirit Book, Li Mu injected a large amount of spiritual power, generating thunder spirit essence. Numerous blue electric serpents gathered, birthing a blue thunderfire.

Under Li Mu’s manipulation of divine sense, the Amber Jade flew up by itself, hovering over the blue thunderfire, its solidified golden amber rapidly turning into wisps of blue smoke and dispersing, filling the sealed stone chamber with a fragrance of amber.

Under the roasting of the blue thunderfire, the Golden Amber Stone melted swiftly, revealing the Seven-Colored Illusion Demon Butterfly encapsulated within.

Li Mu’s divine sense flickered, immediately controlling the ’Soul Nurturing Jar’ to fly up, open its lid, quickly slicing the fully unlocked Seven-Colored Illusion Demon Butterfly’s abdomen, extracting a mass of insect eggs and placing them into the Soul Nurturing Jar.

Li Mu manipulated the Soul Nurturing Jar with his divine sense, preventing the life soul from escaping, and then observed the changes in the insect eggs within the jar. He saw over a thousand insect eggs unconsciously absorb the power of the living soul from the jar, their vitality slowly strengthening.

[Illusion Demon Insect Eggs]

[Grade: Tier Four Demon Insect]

[Attributes: Lethal Illusion, Soul Absorption and Soul Stealing]

[Status: Vitality Weak, Soul Power Infusion in Progress.]

[Unhatched illusion demon insect eggs, tier four demon insect, good at creating hallucinatory creatures, feeds on soul raids, with an abundant supply of power of the living soul restoring them, expected to hatch successfully in 27 days.]

With the divine talent of Recognizing Ten Thousand Spirits, the complete status of the insect eggs was clearly displayed. Seeing their real-time state, Li Mu’s worried expression vanished, replaced by a hint of joy.

Over a thousand illusion demon insect eggs, most of them alive. Once they hatch and are nurtured for some time, their numbers will be enough to place into the Hundred Refinement Gu Furnace for refining into a Puppet Spirit.

Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief, closed the Soul Nurturing Jar, and left it on the table, allowing them to recover slowly.

After stowing the Thunder Talisman Spirit Book in the storage compartment, Li Mu’s gaze fell on the corpse of the Seven-Colored Illusion Demon Butterfly. He frowned, pondering how to refine it into a demon insect puppet. The puppet formulas in the Thousand Mechanism Puppet Technique did not include methods for refining small demon insects, only large ones like the Nine-Mother Earth Spider and the Death Demon Mantis Puppet.

The Seven-Colored Illusion Demon Butterfly’s body was too small to plant a puppet source core.

Suddenly thinking of something, Li Mu’s mind moved, taking out a Slave Puppet from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, opening its central puppet source, extracting the puppet source core refined from the Tier Four Soul Wood Spirit Seed, a core only the size of a pinky suitable for the palm-sized Seven-Colored Illusion Demon Butterfly.

Li Mu’s eyes shone brightly with enthusiasm. From the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, he retrieved spiritual materials specifically for refining demon insect puppets—demon bone, pungent spiritual liquid, engraving knife, vessels, and various other miscellaneous spiritual objects and tools—to begin the transformation and engraving of puppet patterns on the Seven-Colored Illusion Demon Butterfly’s form.

Using divine sense as the engraving knife, with the corpse of the Seven-Colored Illusion Demon Butterfly as the base, Li Mu carved the puppet pattern, replacing the demon butterfly’s colorful wings with tier three demon bone carved feathers, with the soul wood puppet core as the main component. After three days of refining, he finally created a petite and exquisite Illusion Butterfly Puppet.

No, it was no longer an Illusion Butterfly but a Tier Two Miniature Insect Puppet, created from a Tier Four Illusion Butterfly Insect Corpse, tier three demon bone feathers, and a Tier Four Soul Wood Spirit Seed puppet source core.

It lacked the terrifying soul-stealing ability of the Seven-Colored Illusion Demon Butterfly and had no attack capabilities of a combat puppet. Instead, it was refined into a miniature scouting puppet, barely half a palm size, with extremely fast flight speed.

”Sss” came the faint sound of light buzzing, as the butterfly puppet, at high speed, flew around Li Mu, moving left and right, up and down, as fast as thunder, barely visible to the naked eye.

The butterfly puppet flew rapidly for a while, its small body flashing with spirit light, eventually losing power and slowly descending into Li Mu’s palm.

Li Mu sighed. The design concept of this butterfly puppet was indeed correct, fully meeting the design requirements. Its stealth, speed, and agility were sufficient, only the endurance was a problem.

The butterfly puppet must be driven by spirit stones. However, its body was too small, it could only use three little finger-sized broken spirits cut from middle-grade spirit stones to power the operation of this butterfly puppet.

When flying at full speed, the butterfly puppet’s velocity rivaled that of the Light Cloud Spiritual Ship, but this amount of spirit stones wouldn’t be enough for it to fly fifty miles.