I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 166: Chapter 125: Golden Sword Grass

Time flies, and thirteen years have passed.

Li Mu’s life on Moon Pearl Peak was calm and uneventful, with little significant change.

His daily routine consisted of tending to spirit plants, refining artifacts, making talismans, or crafting puppets. Occasionally, he would explore brewing wine, preparing spiritual cuisine, and about every fortnight, he would take Xiaojin and Xiaowa out to hunt demon beasts for food. Occasionally, Li Mu would personally battle demon beasts to test his own combat strength.

As time passed, batches of spirit plants matured and were harvested, and Li Mu accumulated a vast number of free skill points. Gradually, he increased high-tier techniques like the Nebula Visualization Method - Gathering Spirit Chapter, Profound Iron Sword Array - Basic Chapter, Spirit Devouring Body Nourishing Technique, Spirit Taming Contract, and others to full level.

Although his cultivation had not broken through to the Golden Core stage, his strength had profoundly increased.

Li Mu’s Divine Sense had grown to an astonishing degree, easily controlling multiple Tier Four Spirit Swords and deploying sword arrays, thereby exponentially enhancing his combat power.

In a full-force confrontation, dealing with Tier Four demon beasts was no trouble, and even against late-stage Golden Core cultivators, Li Mu was confident he could hold his own.

With the perfection of the Nebula Visualization Method - Gathering Spirit Chapter, Li Mu comprehended a new divine sense technique - Star Soul Transformation Realm, and simultaneously, new Chapters emerged in the Nebula Visualization Method, including the Nebula Visualization Method - Star God Chapter.

The Nebula Visualization Method - Star God Chapter is akin to the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture; its level requires auxiliary cultivation materials, particularly a spiritual object called Star Source, to further increase the technique’s level.

Li Mu searched for spiritual plants where Star Source could be obtained but found nothing, so he decided to put it aside for now.

The perfection of the Nebula Visualization Method - Gathering Spirit Chapter greatly transformed and enhanced his divine soul to an exceedingly high level, leaving Li Mu very satisfied.

Similar to the Nebula Visualization Method, when the Profound Celestial Sword Array - Basic Chapter reached full level, it introduced new Chapters: Profound Celestial Sword Array - Profound Mystery Sword Array Chapter, resulting in three new sword arrays - Profound Celestial Sword Array, Heaven-Overturning Sword Array, and Supreme Profound Ten Thousand Sword Array,

The spirit swords needed for these arrays respectively were one thousand, three thousand, ten thousand.

With his strong Divine Sense, Li Mu barely managed to utilize the first Profound Celestial Sword Array. As for the other two arrays, he might need to advance to Golden Core cultivation or increase the Nebula Visualization Method - Star God Chapter to full level before they become feasible.

Moon Pearl Peak was enveloped in dense spiritual qi; the mountain forest, water pools, and golden spirit fields were full of spirit birds, spirit fish, and mountain beasts, all exuding an unreal spirit light appearance, ready to transform into spirit artifacts.

In thirteen years, although Li Mu remained discreet, his powerful artifact refining skills produced a thousand Tier Four Spirit Swords for the Qing Xuan Sect, with many more crafted for the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.

Over time, Li Mu easily accumulated the one thousand spirit swords needed to set up the Profound Celestial Sword Array, and among them, over three hundred Tier Four Spirit Swords possessed artifact spirits, earning him great wealth.

More importantly, the high-tier spirit plants that Li Mu had carefully tended were nearing harvest time.

First, the top-grade spirit field covering ten acres was set up with the Golden Essence Array, each stalk of Tier Three Golden Sword Grass stood like a long sword, shimmering with golden light and radiating with dynamic sword qi.

White lotuses bloomed on the surface of the spiritual water pool fed by mountain springs, and the Tier Three Jade Pure Cyan Lotus its clear bottom was also nearing maturity.

Li Mu summoned back seven or eight Tier Four Gold Element Spirit Swords roaming within the Golden Essence Array.

He unleashed a blow of True Essence into the Golden Essence Array, halting the array that had been maintained for nearly fifteen years.

The Golden Essence Array vanished in a flash, and ten acres of Golden Sword Grass simultaneously revealed ’sword aura,’ sensing the environmental change and emitting a ’dangerous’ aura.

Li Mu chuckled softly; they had quite some spiritual energy, but having nurtured them for fifteen years, it was time for them to repay him.

Li Mu gathered gold essence in his hand, sending out streams of golden sabers to execute the Golden Blade Skill on the ten acres of Golden Sword Grass.

”Puff, puff...” A series of heavy collisions sounded as a dozen golden sabers embedded themselves into the Golden Sword Grass spirit field, only managing to harvest less than half an acre of Golden Sword Grass before fizzling out.

The Tier Three Golden Sword Grass, having grown long-term in the Golden Essence Array, had roots as tough as red gold and profound iron, making the harvested amount by the Golden Blade Skill very limited.

Li Mu was delighted instead of surprised; with the Golden Blade Skill’s harvest, golden spirit plant light groups emerged from half an acre of Golden Sword Grass, radiantly brilliant.

Li Mu’s Divine Sense encompassed them as the golden plant spirit light groups flew into his body one by one.

[Talent Divine Power - Plant Spirit Absorption is effective. You absorbed a plant spirit; Innate Metal Qi +23, Sword Qi power +7]

[Talent Divine Power - Plant Spirit Absorption is effective. You absorbed a plant spirit; Innate Metal Qi +18, Sword Qi power +5]

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Thousands of golden light groups entered his body, and immediately, Li Mu felt a significant increase in his body’s Five Elements Spiritual Qi - Gold Element Spiritual Qi. Consequently, Gold generating Water and Water generating Wood, etc., led to a collective transformation of the Five Elements Spiritual Power’s purity, resulting in an overall decrease in quantity while hinting at an imminent breakthrough to the next cultivation level.

Li Mu was overjoyed and started pondering how to verify the sword qi’s power.

Li Mu brought his fingers together and skillfully used Finger Snap Force to unleash a golden sword qi.

With a ”Ding”, a streak of sword qi shot out, sharply embedding into a chunk of green rock, creating a foot-deep hole.

Li Mu was elated; indeed, the sword qi’s power had increased, and the enhancement was quite substantial.

Eyeing the remaining nine and a half acres of Golden Sword Grass, Li Mu’s eyes gleamed as he continued to gather spirit essence and wield the Golden Blade Skill.

”Puff, puff...” Streams of Golden Blade Skill flew at the ten acres of Tier Three Golden Sword Grass relentlessly, wildly harvesting the Golden Sword Grass.

Soon, golden spirit plant light groups converged like a swarm towards Li Mu.

[Talent Divine Power - Plant Spirit Absorption is effective. You absorbed a plant spirit; Innate Metal Qi +19, Sword Qi power +7]

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[Ding, the quality of your inner Five Elements Spiritual Power has improved, your cultivation level is now: Foundation Establishment Third Layer.]

[Talent Divine Power - Plant Spirit Absorption is effective. You absorbed a plant spirit; Innate Metal Qi +23, Sword Qi power +5]

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[Ding, the quality of your inner Five Elements Spiritual Power has improved, your cultivation level is now: Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer.]

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Soon, the ten-acre Golden Sword Grass harvest concluded, elevating Li Mu’s cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer. His body’s Five Elements Spiritual True Essence became four to five times thicker, and the strength of the Five Elements Spiritual Power and sword qi experienced a substantial enhancement.

”Fantastic! No wonder it’s a Tier Three spirit plant; the enhancement effect is truly remarkable!” Li Mu was overjoyed, regretting he hadn’t planted more.

Though the Golden Sword Grass’s growth period might be longer, the enhancement effect was remarkable, with the plant spirit light group directly boosting the quality of Gold Element Spiritual Power, indirectly advancing cultivation by promoting Five Elements Spiritual Power.

Feeling the abundant and robust Five Elements Spiritual Power within his body, Li Mu was exceedingly invigorated, realizing he had fallen into a misconception. The Yin Yang Qi served to upgrade the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture technique’s level, not limiting his ability to use other attributes of spirit plants to further enhance cultivation.

However, though spirit plants can aid in cultivation advancement, casting the Golden Core must rely on upgrading the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture technique level.

Compared with other attributes provided by Tier Three spirit plants, the properties enhanced by Golden Sword Grass were far more useful.

In this period, other Tier Three spirit plants were also ripe for harvest successively.

After gathering, Li Mu obtained attributes that were ambiguous in their utility, for instance: Tier Three Celestial Vein Fruit’s plant spirit light group enhanced meridian strength, Tier Three Illusionary Divine Grass enhanced divine soul willpower, and the plant spirit light group of Tier Three Clear Void Spirit Tea strengthened a portion of divine soul and its resistance.

Overall, Li Mu had a preference for the Golden Sword Grass, which could enhance spiritual power quality and increase cultivation.

After harvesting the Golden Sword Grass, Li Mu gathered them, using Tier Three Golden Sword Grass as a primary ingredient for refining Golden Vein Pill, which could sell for considerable Spirit Stones. However, Li Mu was not inclined to sell them and thought Xiaojin might like them, offering them as snacks to grind its teeth.