I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 237: Chapter 169: Special Intelligence

Li Mu’s silence made Li Xiaotian a bit awkward.

Looking at Li Mu, Li Xiaotian hesitated and continued to explain, ”Master Ye, the Nine Demons Sect is surely up to no good, and will most likely send disciples to secretly monitor the movements of the Five Sects. If we go to the Spirit Taming Sect now, we might also be targeted by the Nine Demons Sect. Master Ye, could we postpone meeting the Celestial Vast True Monarch? After I handle my family affairs, I will definitely make time to introduce you to the Celestial Vast True Monarch.”

Li Mu frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement: ”Hmm, let’s do as you suggest. This matter is not urgent.”

Several months ago, the Nine Demons Sect attacked the Qing Xuan Sect, and Li Mu personally fought a battle with the Tian Jue Demon Venerable.

The Nine Demons Sect suffered a crushing defeat, losing over twenty Nascent Soul Demon Monarchs, and the Tian Jue Demon Venerable was beaten so badly that he fled for his life, significantly weakened, and couldn’t recover without a period of rest.

However, the fact that they could gather and integrate the forces of the Corpse Refining Sect, Yin Soul Sect, White Bone Sect, Blood God Sect, Celestial Demon Sect, Demon Sound Sect, Celestial Killer Sect, Heartless Sect, and Evil Buddha Sect, not to mention the Nine Demons Sect, means there must be a more powerful force behind the scenes, not just the Tian Jue Demon Venerable, a single Divinity Transformation powerhouse.

Thinking of this, Li Mu couldn’t help but recall the last time he hastily used the Tier Seven Causality Wondrous Object - the Star Beast Relic Pearl, which allowed him to glimpse four future visions from the river of time.

Dark shadow battle beasts filled the land, the sky crowded with warships, an external force waging war against native cultivators, with himself confronting a black-robed figure standing in mid-air atop a black demon dragon, holding a cyan longsword, covered in wounds, and the ground littered with countless dead bodies, millions, billions of demon beast corpses, and cultivator corpses scattered across the battlefield.

It seemed as if only he remained in the world, battling the terrifying demon king, surrounded by the demon king’s army, unable to escape....

Remembering those four future visions once again, Li Mu involuntarily fell into a trance, his mood slightly heavy.

”Master Ye, although we can’t go to the Spirit Taming Sect to find the Celestial Vast True Monarch right now, I’ll find a way to contact him, and if he goes out, I’ll notify you immediately!” Li Xiaotian, not noticing Li Mu’s distraction, gratefully indicated.

Li Mu suddenly awoke from his thoughts, looking at Li Xiaotian.

Celestial Fires, such high-tier spiritual objects, are indeed difficult to obtain. Forget it, matters regarding Celestial Fire will need to be considered in the long term.

”Agreed!” Li Mu nodded cheerfully.

Li Mu indeed urgently needed to collect Celestial Fire to cultivate that Celestial Tier Refining Technique, but for now, it was more important to complete the restoration of the dragon bones of the Bloodthirsty Frenzied Flood Dragon, form the Two Dragons Binding Immortal Array, pair it with the Five Elements Sword Array, significantly enhance his combat power, then refine a batch of high-tier combat puppets made of Star Wood, and prepare some trump cards for future encounters, so visiting the Spirit Taming Sect later would be fine.

After discussing business, Li Mu politely declined Li Xiaotian’s precious gift, and they drank Spirit Wine together, tasted Spirit Fruits, and chatted about interesting anecdotes, making for a relaxed atmosphere.

After a bit of idle chatting, he sent Li Xiaotian off, and Li Mu again entered the Grotto Heaven Spiritual Treasure - the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, harvested a thousand cubic meters of Star Wood, and started refining combat puppets.

In order to successfully carve puppet patterns on the Tier Five Star Wood, Li Mu specifically used the hard and sharp Tier Five Metal Element refining material - Celestial Meteor Sharp Gold, to refine a set of Tier Five Puppet Carving Knives.

In the stone chamber, Li Mu devotedly carved the Star Wood puppet bodies, the knives made from Celestial Meteor Sharp Gold were incredibly sharp, carving and etching wood like slicing through mud.

The wood shavings from the Star Wood, heavy as iron, fell and scattered.

As time passed by bit by bit, a puppet body of Star Wood with silver star dots and covered in puppet spirit patterns gradually took shape under Li Mu’s agile hands.

Soon, Li Mu reached out to open the puppet array source of the Star Wood puppet body, and took out from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl a Tier Four Soul Wood Heart-refined puppet source core, placing it into the puppet core array hub, and then inserted twelve top-grade Spirit Stones into the puppet power array.

A powerful spiritual power fluctuation swiftly emanated from the Star Wood puppet, and the spiritual pressure rapidly increased. Soon, this combat puppet refined from Star Wood reached the spiritual pressure intensity of a Golden Core peak cultivator.

Li Mu looked at the seven-foot-high combat puppet, the Star Wood heavy, hard, exuding a mysterious aura, low-key yet full of strength.

Divine talent - under Recognize Ten Thousand Spirits, the attribute information of this Star Wood combat puppet appeared in the character log box.

[Combat Puppet]

[Grade: Tier Four Top-Grade Puppet]

[Attributes: Star Power Gathering, Unparalleled Defense, Autonomous Combat, Star Gathering Shield, Power of Ten Thousand Jin.]

[The Tier Four Top-Grade Combat Puppet refined from a Tier Four Soul Wood Heart and Tier Five Star Wood, with a Soul Wood source core possessing autonomous combat awareness, the Star Wood puppet body configured with: Star Gathering Protection Array, Star Force Gathering Array, Giant Power Puppet Array, with unrivaled combat power.]

Seeing the attributes of the Star Wood combat puppet, Li Mu couldn’t help but smile from ear to ear, extremely pleased.

Although this combat puppet is only Tier Four and cannot reach Tier Five, combined with the special strength of Star Wood, and several puppet combat patterns related to Star Force applications, though it only has the spiritual pressure of a Golden Core peak stage, its combat power rivals that of an Early-Stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Li Mu possessed a large quantity of Tier Five Star Wood and many Tier Four Soul Wood Hearts, and could refine quite a number of such level combat puppets, constructing a combat puppet army would not be difficult.

A large number of Tier Four Soul Wood Hearts were the spoils after defeating the Nascent Soul Demon Monarch of the Nine Demons Sect and the Tian Jue Demon Venerable, these high-tier Yin Attribute wood materials are the regular items prepared by Soul Refining and Corpse Refining Demon Cultivators, suitable for nurturing and refining souls, and also suitable for refining Tier Four Puppet Cores.