I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 197: Chapter 149: Spirit Fox Mask

About half an hour later, Li Mu returned and landed with his sword in the stone courtyard.

Seeing the Three-tailed Fox Demon under Xiaojin and Xiaowa’s watch, resting honestly on the lounge chair, Li Mu smiled slightly, waved his hand, and before the Three-tailed Fox Demon - Xue’er could react, he put it into the Spirit Beast Bag.

”What are you doing! Let me out now!” The Three-tailed Fox Demon - Xue’er was shocked, its divine sense transmitted out from the Spirit Beast Bag.

”Rest inside for a while! Next, I need to focus on artifact refining, I don’t have time to entertain you,” Li Mu responded with a transmitted divine sense.

The next moment, Li Mu injected Spiritual Power into the Spirit Beast Bag, causing the Three-tailed Fox Demon - Xue’er to fall asleep.

Next, Li Mu prepared to refine a Tier Five mask Spiritual Artifact, using high-tier Fox Demon materials, and to avoid the Three-tailed Fox Demon causing trouble, he put it into the Spirit Beast Bag and sealed it.

For a high-tier Spiritual Artifact to grow and evolve an Artifact Spirit, the difficulty is immense, and the conditions for nurturing it are extremely stringent, such as the inherent attributes of the refining materials, the strength of the Spiritual Artifact’s spiritual energy, and fortuitous encounters such as: the owner’s meticulous care after gaining power, a sage enlightening its spiritual energy, the blessing of destiny, ... and so on.

In summary, the chances of a normal four or five-tier Spiritual Artifact spontaneously giving birth to an Artifact Spirit are extremely slim, virtually nonexistent.

Only those innate Spiritual Artifacts, or high-tier Spiritual Artifacts refined by masters, have a certain chance of producing an Artifact Spirit after a prolonged period.

Of course, the spiritual energy strength and attributes of each Spiritual Artifact’s resulting Artifact Spirit will also be related to the foundation of the Spiritual Artifact itself.

However, Li Mu utilizes the Divine Refining Spirit Fusion Artifact Refining Technique, along with Xiaobai’s assistance, and when the Spiritual Artifact is about to take shape, he melts demon beast essence souls to produce a postnatal Artifact Spirit.

This type of Artifact Spirit refined using demon beast essence souls is postnatally transformed into a spirit, fundamentally different from an Artifact Spirit spontaneously born from the Spiritual Artifact.

If the demon beast essence soul used does not match the attributes of the Spiritual Artifact, the chances of refining failure become very high, and the power granted to the Spiritual Artifact is far weaker compared to that of an Artifact Spirit naturally grown within the artifact.

However, a Spiritual Artifact capable of generating an Artifact Spirit will have its power and spiritual energy increased several times, even dozens of times, making its value far exceed that of an ordinary Spiritual Artifact.

If capable of refining a Spiritual Artifact with an Artifact Spirit, Li Mu would absolutely not settle for refining an ordinary Spiritual Artifact.

To enhance the success rate of artifact refining, Li Mu had to find a demon beast essence soul corresponding to the attributes of the Spiritual Artifact, and nothing was more adept at illusionary transformation and disguise than the Fox Demon Spirit.

Therefore, this time, at Supreme Profound Peak, Contribution Hall, Li Mu successfully exchanged for a Tier Five Jade-faced Fox Demon Spirit, as well as a piece of Tier Five Jade-faced Fox Demon Belly Hide.

Everything was ready.

After rewarding Xiaojin and Xiaowa with a bottle of Spirit Pills, Li Mu, along with Xiaobai, dove into the Artifact Refining Room, gathered the Five Elements Spirit Fire, and began artifact refining.

”Ji ji!” Xiaobai sat on Li Mu’s lap, urging with its calls.

”You little glutton, let’s work first and then you’ll get your treats afterward,” Li Mu replied with feigned annoyance.

”Ji ji!” Xiaobai nodded its head, its gaze focused on the spiritual fire in Li Mu’s hands, indicating its understanding.

Familiar with the process after having helped Li Mu intimidate countless demon beast essence souls, Xiaobai pouted its small mouth, exuding an astonishing soul power, brewing a terrifying soul-devouring power.

Soon, Li Mu’s divine sense invested in the Nine Treasures Spirit Plants, a piece of Tier Five Ruyi Stone, a mass of Tier Five Illusory Breath Spirit Soil, a piece of Tier Five Illusion Blood Spirit Crystal, and a piece of Tier Five Jade-faced Fox Demon Belly Hide, all appeared out of thin air, suspended around the Five Elements Spirit Fire.

Li Mu fully opened his divine sense, controlled the Five Elements Spirit Fire to grill several tier-five materials, guiding them to merge into one.

The Tier Five Jade-faced Fox Demon Hide is not a mineral-type material, its texture is rather fragile, and Li Mu had to expend a large amount of divine sense to condense a mass of Five Elements Spirit Water to cool and protect it.

Melting it into a high-temperature molten form of the Five Elements Materials, slowly engraving patterns onto the Jade-faced Fox Demon Hide, merging with it, thereafter, micro-carving the Spiritual Artifact Base Array, arranging the Artifact Pattern Base Spirit Grade Position, ....

Time flew by, and two days passed.

In the Artifact Refining Room, Li Mu had already condensed the embryo of the Tier Five mask Spiritual Artifact, with its mixed Tier Five materials, complex Artifact Spirit Base Array, and the Artifact Pattern Base Spirit Grade Position, all perfectly etched within the artifact embryo.

Next, only one step remained, to insert the Tier Five Jade-faced Fox Demon Spirit, completing the spirit fusion step of this Tier Five Spiritual Artifact, then proceed to the final step of condensing the artifact pattern.

Li Mu took a deep breath, paused for a moment, and next, he needed to spirit refine the Jade-faced Fox Demon Spirit, soul-temper to refine spirit, allowing it to fit into the spirit array of the artifact embryo, which was no simple task.

The Jade-faced Fox Demon Spirit, originally a Tier Five Demon King, had strength comparable to a Nascent Soul True Monarch, despite lacking a physical body, its prowess in illusion, even in its Yin Soul state, made it exceptionally troublesome.

However, Li Mu had a special Guardian Insect meant to counter soul states, next, it was Xiaobai’s turn to be useful.

”Xiaobai, wake up, it’s time to start!” Li Mu called to wake the dozing Xiaobai, reminded it.

”Ji ji!” Xiaobai awakened, yawned, and called out to Li Mu, displaying a perplexed expression on its little face.

”I got it! This time it’s for real, not tricking you anymore, I didn’t know before that refining Fox Demon Hide was this troublesome!” Li Mu awkwardly smiled, explaining.

Li Mu had refined numerous Spiritual Artifacts, including various Spirit Swords and Spirit Shields, typically using high-tier mineral refining materials, or wooden materials; refining a Spiritual Artifact with high-tier demon beast hide was a first.

Li Mu had to adapt the artifact refining technique to successfully complete the artifact embryo refining.