I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 182: Chapter 140: Celestial Phoenix Mountain

Celestial Phoenix Mountain, shrouded in yellow fog all year round, devoid of grass, desolate and silent. As far as the eye can see, there are only dry, robust Tier Three Red Spirit Woods, leafless and barren.

Just at that moment, a Thunder Shadow swiftly arrived, crashing heavily onto the mountain rock with a thunderous ’boom,’ creating a deep pit dozens of feet wide, shaking the entire Celestial Phoenix Mountain.

A massive rock rolled down into the pit, and the next moment, a blue thunderbolt shot out from the bottom of the pit.

With a ’crack’ sound, the huge rock, weighing tens of thousands of pounds, instantly exploded and scattered into fragments.

A Thunder Shadow burst forth, gradually landing on the ground, revealing its form. It was a burly giant standing a foot high, with blue hair and blue vertical pupils, its body nude, blue skin decorated with mysterious and powerful thunder patterns, muscular build hinting at terrifying strength.

The fully transformed Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion had restored its strength to peak state, with no injuries on its body. However, as it pursued the human cultivator to Celestial Phoenix Mountain, his aura became increasingly hidden. The Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion expanded its divine sense, but could only vaguely sense his presence, looking around yet unable to pinpoint his exact location.

During the consecutive days of pursuit, not only did the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion’s strength recover, but that human cultivator’s escape skill and ability to conceal his breath also rapidly improved.

Otherwise, the Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion would have resolved him by now.

”Roar!”

Having searched for a long time without sensing the precise location of the human cultivator, the Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion became enraged, letting out a long howl to the sky. The next moment, it gathered a surge of frenzied Thunder Essence all over its body, blasting it towards the surroundings.

”Boom, boom, boom...!” Blue Thunder Serpents, as thick as buckets, crazily surged out, blasting in all directions.

”Cheating again! Pulling this move again!”

Li Mu hurriedly emerged from the earth, flying towards the core of Celestial Phoenix Mountain.

Sensing the dispersing mana, the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion ceased its spellcasting, its figure swiftly following in pursuit.

In an instant, he escaped for more than forty miles, his figure hidden behind a sturdy Red Spirit Wood. Li Mu’s face was pale as he pushed the Reversed Element Concealing Breath Technique and Illusion Breathing Technique to their limits, merging his body with the ancient wood, his breath nearly nonexistent, and his True Essence recovering slowly.

The Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion’s state improved rapidly. Under its frenzied chase, Li Mu couldn’t find any time to recover his True Essence, nearly exhausting it entirely.

Fortunately, Li Mu’s cultivation foundation was extremely solid, and the Celestial Level Technique, the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture, was highly effective in recovering True Essence. As long as he could pause for several breaths, he could regain some True Essence by absorbing the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Spiritual Essence and Yin Yang Qi.

However, that Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion was incredibly cunning. Relying on its demon beast body and High Tier abundant Demon Power, it gave him no chance to recover. Unable to locate his exact position, it used large-scale attacks to force him to reveal himself.

They were now playing a game of hide and seek; Li Mu had to stay extremely vigilant, not daring to project his divine sense, lest the Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion detect him.

Li Mu fled towards Celestial Phoenix Mountain, with no time to use his divine sense to properly inspect the mountain’s situation.

However, the magma pit containing the Spirit Void Earth Fire should be getting closer, as Li Mu could clearly feel the Fire Elemental Spiritual Power in the world becoming more and more intense.

Before long, a ’boom’ resounded, a fierce thundering explosion not far from Li Mu, causing a powerful shockwave to violently shake the Thousand-Year Redwood where Li Mu resided.

Li Mu compressed his divine sense within a hundred-foot radius, and seeing no fatal threats, continued maintaining silence, striving for every second to recover.

Every bit of True Essence recovered meant another chance at survival.

The Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion was so terrifyingly powerful that even a Nascent Soul True Monarch at peak stage struggled to contend with it. Li Mu relied entirely on the Five Elements Escape Technique, derived from the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture, to survive under Golden Core Cultivation.

A great ’boom’ resounded as an even more violent explosion occurred.

Li Mu assumed the Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion had gone berserk again and prepared to use his escape technique to leave. However, this time the shockwave included dense Fire Spiritual Essence, the searing Fire Spiritual Essence mingling with frenzied Thunder Essence, vigorously assaulting the earth.

Fortunately, the explosion’s source was slightly off by four to five miles from Li Mu’s position, allowing him to withstand the shockwave.

Soon, explosions continued one after another, endlessly reverberating.

The high-pitched, mournful sparrow calls and frenzied, angry lion roars resounded fiercely, with explosive sounds incessantly occurring, each shockwave more potent than the last.

Li Mu’s eyes lit up with delight as a favorable situation unfolded: the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion had started fighting with the Tier Six Demon Sparrow of Celestial Phoenix Mountain!

It made sense, after all, as the Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion entered Celestial Phoenix Mountain and recklessly destroyed its territory, behaving so arrogantly that it was bound to provoke a response from the local owner.

Having learned a lesson from the last surprise, Li Mu dared not release his divine sense to observe the battle between the two Tier Six demon beasts. Instead, he continued maintaining his Hidden Breath state, focusing on recovering his depleted True Essence.

As time ticked away, a quarter of an hour quickly passed.

The intense collision and explosion sounds grew fiercer, as if they truly ignited, with the explosion’s source moving farther and farther from him. Li Mu’s status recovered to about fifty percent, yet he still refrained from releasing his divine sense for observation.

Li Mu directed his divine sense to the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl.

In the next second, a palm-sized Butterfly Puppet, inconspicuous in its appearance, suddenly appeared on the main trunk of a Red Spirit Wood.

Li Mu attached his divine sense and observed the battlefield through the Butterfly Puppet’s ’compound eyes.’

Sixty or seventy miles away, the two Tier Six demon beasts revealed their true forms—a Tier Six Demon Sparrow, with wings spanning three to four feet wide, covered in white flames that distorted the void, and a Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion more than two feet tall, engaged in a fierce aerial battle.

The Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion was as fast as lightning, while the Tier Six Demon Sparrow flew amid flames, its speed equally impressive. The white hot flames blazed, the thousands of Thunder Dragons ran rampant, and they fought fiercely, blow for blow.

Seeing this, Li Mu couldn’t help but smile: ”Fight! Fight well, and don’t hold back.”

This time, Li Mu had no intention of reaping the benefits of their conflict. Having been chased for so many days, he knew firsthand that Tier Six demon beasts were not something he could provoke at the moment.

Li Mu planned to wait until he advanced to Nascent Soul, refine several Tier Five Spiritual Artifacts, and then come back to settle the score with the Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion.

As for now!

Li Mu intended to see if there was an opportunity to achieve his goal for this trip. Taking advantage of the Tier Six Blue-Scaled Thunder Lion’s distraction with the Tier Six Demon Sparrow, he headed towards the Tier Six Demon Sparrow’s lair to obtain a Fire Element Spirit Beast.

Li Mu held his breath and remained in his Hidden Breath state, focusing on three tasks: paying attention to the battle conditions of the two Tier Six demon beasts and attaching his divine sense to the Butterfly Puppet.

With a ’whoosh,’ Li Mu manipulated the Butterfly Puppet to rapidly flap its wings, racing towards the Tier Six Demon Sparrow’s nest.

The Butterfly Puppet vibrated a pair of cicada-like bone wings at high frequency, like a phantom, swiftly and silently flying nearly a hundred miles.

An orange-red giant tree emitting illusory flames appeared in Li Mu’s ’vision.’

There it was, the Tier Six Blazing Phoenix Wood mentioned by Qingyang True Monarch.

Sure enough, at the top of the forty to fifty-foot massive Blazing Phoenix Wood was a giant nest built by the Tier Six Demon Sparrow. However, the enormous nest was empty, neither containing eggs nor chicks.

Could it be a wasted effort, returning empty-handed?

Unwilling to give up, Li Mu continued to control the Butterfly Puppet, flying towards the Blazing Phoenix Wood.

The Butterfly Puppet quickly approached the Blazing Phoenix Wood, and Li Mu’s heart suddenly skipped as he made an unexpected discovery.