I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm

Chapter 348: Chapter 215: Transformation Thunder Tribulation

After assigning tasks to the Shadow Tiger, Li Mu continued casting spells, expanding another two hundred acres of Spirit Field, planting each with Celestial Phoenix Grass Spirit Seed.

Having finished planting the Spirit Plants, Li Mu’s figure flashed, and he appeared at the location of the Top-Grade Spirit Vein.

At the edge of the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, a new mountain suddenly appeared, quickly replacing the previous area which had degenerated into a Middle Grade Spirit Vein area.

In an instant, the Spiritual Qi returned to its original level, even slightly increasing. The density of the Spiritual Qi pervading the heavens and earth even formed a thick Spirit Cloud.

Feeling the change in the surrounding Spiritual Qi, Li Mu couldn’t help but feel a sense of comfort throughout his body. The pleasant sensation of nurturing Spiritual Qi was beyond words.

Gazing at the beautiful scenery around him, the wisps of mist enveloped the heavens and earth, making the already breathtaking Painting Realm Treasure Mansion seem like it was draped in a layer of gauze, comparable to a mythical fairyland.

Seeing this scene, Li Mu smiled with satisfaction and then, his figure flashed, appearing directly in the Artifact Refining Room of the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.

The gains from the auction, along with the artifact refining materials gifted by the Kun Family, were enough for Li Mu to refine Spirit Artifacts for a period of time.

In the Refining Room, Li Mu sat cross-legged, taking out the two Double-Horned Cyan Moon Flood Dragon Bones with severely damaged spirituality from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl.

The enormous bodies of the two ”Dragon Bones” almost filled the entire Qi Refining Room. Fortunately, Li Mu controlled the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, able to manage everything under his protection with precise control, the size at will.

Thus, the Refining Room could also expand at will, instantly stretching two thousand zhang, leaving ample space for the two Dragon Bones.

The Tier Five Flood Dragon was over a hundred zhang long, while the Tier Six Double-Horned Cyan Moon Jiao was over a thousand zhang long.

The spirituality of the two ”Dragon Bones” was significantly damaged, yet the ominous evil qi exuding from the remains was still chilling, making one shudder in fear.

Li Mu waved his hand, pouring out a massive amount of Spirit Essence, ”attaching” to the Dragon Bones.

The Dragon Bones became suspended in the air, and then he again took out two million catties of Profound Nether True Water from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl. In an instant, the cold qi dropped the temperature sharply in the Refining Room, with frost quickly forming all around.

Soon, the Profound Nether True Water transformed into a torrent, wrapping the two Dragon Bones, with a faint blue light gradually merging into the cerulean Dragon Bones.

After handling the Dragon Bones, Li Mu stored them away and began refining Spirit Artifacts.

Time flew by,

a month passed by in no time.

In Yin Yang Valley, beneath the Spirit Mountain Waterfall, it was like spring all year round.

The faint purple glow emitted by the Purple Sun Reishi Seedlings rustled under the blazing sun, resembling a violet ocean.

In the Four-sided House Refining Room, the Celestial Fire Furnace was suspended mid-air. The extreme yang flames caused the space to warp, with Li Mu seated before it, his fingers continuously forming hand techniques.

Piece by piece, Tier Five Refining Materials were thrown into the refining furnace to burn. Inside the Celestial Fire Furnace, with the assistance of the purple Celestial Fire, the Tier Five Refining Materials quickly had their impurities removed, melting down to their material essence, forming two Sword Embryos. Li Mu then reached into the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, grabbing one tiger and one wolf demon beast essence soul.

The two demon beast essence souls tried to escape, but the Purple Gold Fire Phoenix immediately leaped out from the Celestial Fire Furnace, its beak opened wide, blocking their path with two tufts of Extreme Yang Celestial Fire.

In utter horror, the Tiger Wolf demon beast essence souls obediently burrowed into the Sword Embryos under the adept herding of the Purple Gold Fire Phoenix.

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Soon, two swords flew out of the Celestial Fire Furnace, with the purple Fire Phoenix following from within, becoming tangible and landing on Li Mu’s shoulder. Its eyes were lively as its beak opened and closed, as if inviting praise.

”Good, let’s forge two more and be done.”

Li Mu smiled happily, softly coaxing it, more like calming a child.

With the assistance of the Extreme Yang Celestial Fire, Li Mu was even able to multitask, refining two Tier Five Spirit Artifacts simultaneously, no longer limited to crafting only one Spirit Artifact at a time as before.

The success rate remained as before, without any impact.

Before he knew it, another month had passed. With the help of the Extreme Yang Celestial Fire, Li Mu had almost exhausted the Tier Five Refining Materials, crafting a considerable number of Tier Five Spirit Artifacts.

As for the Tier Six Spiritual Treasures, without improving his Artifact Refining Technique to Tier Six, Li Mu dared not attempt it yet.

The Extreme Yang Celestial Fire lazily responded, as if saying it was the last time, having consumed much of its energy after a month of continuous artifact refining. It would rest after just two more sessions.

”Mm, I know! Just two more times and we’re done!” Li Mu agreed with a smile, continuing to take refining materials from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, throwing them into the Celestial Fire Furnace to begin refining.

With the assistance of the Celestial Fire Refining Furnace, the refining efficiency greatly improved. Without the aid of the Celestial Fire, Li Mu certainly couldn’t have achieved such divine effects as refining two Tier Five Spirit Artifacts simultaneously.

Soon, Li Mu spread his five fingers, channeling Spiritual Power into the Celestial Fire Refining Furnace. Within the furnace, strange changes began to occur, with the Artifact Embryo forming on its own and Artifact Patterns naturally congealing.

About half a cup of tea’s time later, two intertwining auras of ice and fire surged from the Artifact Refining Room, with the Tiger Wolf Spiritual Artifacts flying out, dashing straight towards Li Mu’s face!

”Not bad! Not bad!”

Li Mu gestured, effortlessly catching two Tier Five Top-Grade Spiritual Artifacts, one of Water Attribute and the other of Fire Attribute, nodding happily.

After examining them, Li Mu contentedly stored them into the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl.

”The hundred and eighty-fourth Five Elements Spirit Sword, still a long way from gathering a thousand Tier Five Top-Grade Spirit Swords!” Li Mu mumbled to himself discontentedly.

Immediately, Li Mu took out a large amount of Tier Five Materials, this time selecting materials of the Earth Element and Metal Element.

If he could form the Thousand Sword Domain using Tier Five Spirit Swords, there’s still quite some distance to cover. If he could form the Thousand Sword Domain using Tier Five Spirit Swords, which could replace the previous Tier Four Spirit Swords, the power of laying down a Sword Array would surely increase significantly, perhaps even severely injure a strong adversary at the Initial Stage of the Void Refining Realm.

Of course, this was merely Li Mu’s conjecture. Whether it could actually be achieved remained to be seen once he collected a thousand Tier Five Spirit Swords.

In his first cross-tier battle against a Void Refining Realm cultivator, Li Mu deeply felt the terror of Venerable Kun Yuan.

At the final moment, the opponent’s released combat power was suppressive. Li Mu employed all his techniques, divine thought techniques, puppets, and even released the Tier Six Double-Horned Cyan Moon Flood Dragon, yet he might not hold on even for a short time.

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While Li Mu was focused on artifact refining, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi suddenly surged, and a storm cloud gathered above Yin Yang Valley.

Li Mu’s spirits lifted, and he hurriedly refined two Earth Spirit Swords and quickly flew out of the artifact refining room.

In the next moment, Li Mu focused his mind on the Spirit-Taming Treasure Bracelet and released the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape.

As soon as the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape appeared, it gazed at Li Mu, seemingly wanting to speak, but as the storm cloud above gathered rapidly, it raised its head solemnly, not in the mood to speak anymore.

”I understand, focus on your tribulation crossing!” Seeing this, Li Mu quickly signaled.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape underwent a mutation, exuding the spiritual pressure of a Tier Six Demon Beast. Li Mu realized that it was about to undergo the Transformation Thunder Tribulation.

”Master, I’m going!” At the critical moment, the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape solemnly nodded at Li Mu, then continued to control its inner strength, flying away from the core area of Yin Yang Valley to avoid having Li Mu’s spirit plants affected by the thunder tribulation.

At this time, the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape’s entire body hair was like black steel needles, its muscles swelled, and the bulging veins on its chest looked like giant worms writhing around, extremely terrifying.

The massive transformation of the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape’s body made Li Mu’s eyes light up.

Has the bloodline of the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape advanced?

Li Mu frowned, looked up, and saw darkness across Yin Yang Valley, with terrifying thunder raging, covering the sky.

It signaled that once the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape succeeded in crossing this thunder tribulation, it would truly step into the realm of the Tier Six Transformed Demon Beast.

Li Mu gazed at the thunderclouds in the sky, realizing that although the thunderclouds of the tribulation were far less powerful than those he had faced, they were more terrifying than the tribulations crossed by ordinary human cultivators.

This was no ordinary thunder tribulation. If the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape succeeded, it would surely not be an ordinary Tier Five Spirit Beast. There was a high likelihood it had undergone an ancestral return, but to what extent was still uncertain.

At this moment, the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape felt the crisis looming in the sky, yet there was no trace of panic—instead, it appeared eager to try.

Golden light shimmered on the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape’s body as it grasped a massive staff, resembling General Biao Hu, staring directly at the thunderclouds, fearless.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape then took a step, astonishingly walking through the air, gazing at the thunderclouds above, while below, the earth surged, and countless giant stone palms rose into the air.

The sky’s thundercloud seemed to sense the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape’s defiance, with purplish-red lightning flickering constantly, thunder roaring, echoing through heaven and earth like the wrath of the heavens.

”It’s the Six-Nine Transformation Thunder Tribulation!”

Recognizing the thunder tribulation in the sky, Li Mu couldn’t help but feel a surge of joy, yet also worried about the fate of the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape.

The tribulations a tribulation crosser faces vary based on their talent, cultivation, and karmic force, and thus are classified into different grades.

For typical cultivators, crossing the Three-Six Thunder Tribulation is the simplest, and although crossing it results in a qualitative change in power, it merely transitions from the Golden Core Stage to the Nascent Soul Stage.

Currently, the majority of cultivators face the Three-Six Thunder Tribulation after advancing, indicating mediocre talent.

However, those with extraordinary talent draw different thunder tribulations upon crossing. The one the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape is facing is the Six-Nine Transformation Thunder Tribulation.

This Six-Nine Transformation Thunder Tribulation, while not as fearsome as the Eight-Nine Purple Sky Thunder Tribulation Li Mu crossed before, is exceedingly rare. Once successfully crossed, the power doubles, making them nearly invincible at the same level, and with the aid of spirit treasures, they can easily battle beyond their tier.

The thunderclouds rapidly coalesced in the sky and soon unleashed a dark red thunderbolt, striking directly at the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape below.

The thunderbolt’s power was immense, equivalent to a full-force strike from a Tier Five Peak cultivator.

Facing the descending thunderbolt, the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape felt joy instead of anger. It pushed off from the ground with its feet, soaring into the sky, its body expanding to a hundred meters, resembling a Jade-faced Vajra, swinging its massive hand to smash the thunderbolt.

With a loud ”boom,” the thunderbolt struck directly against the mighty body of the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape revealed its true form, towering like Mount Tai, standing mid-air enduring the bombardment of the thunderbolt, roaring continuously, its green eyes glanced at the thunderclouds above without a hint of fear.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape swung its fists continuously, countless giant palms rising to meet the thunderlight, which dissipated into nothing in an instant upon collision.

The remaining giant palms surged into the sky, aiming to shatter the weakened thunderclouds, declaring war on the thunder tribulation.

”Not bad, he’s got spirit!”

Li Mu was extremely satisfied; the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape successfully advanced, its power surged, and even the casually emitted attacks were terrifying, far surpassing the past.

The thunderclouds seemed provoked and erupted in fury, an innumerable amount of thunderbolts rained down suddenly, concentrating on the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape.

Li Mu glanced around Yin Yang Valley; the Yin Yang Spirit Plants were just within the thunder tribulation’s range, he could not let the tribulation’s residual power reach the Spirit Field.

Li Mu retrieved the Five Elements Spirit Mountain from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, and with a thought, the Five Elements Spirit Mountain transformed into a cage, covering the Yin Yang Spirit Plants, releasing the Five Elements Domain to shield the Spirit Field.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape fully engaged its abilities, combating the thunderbolts, obliterating countless thunderbolts in an instant.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape was elated, standing mid-air, brimming with fighting spirit in the face of the thunderbolts.

But Li Mu knew that this was only the first wave of the Six-Nine Thunder Tribulation.

The following five waves of tribulation thunder would grow increasingly stronger and more ferocious, making it somewhat difficult for the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape to pass through.

The Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape exerted all its strength, breaking through one thunder tribulation after another, and in the blink of an eye, reached the fifth wave.

Now, the Jade-Eyed Long-armed Ape was riddled with scars, no longer possessing the overbearing demeanor it had before, yet beneath its bloodied body, its eyes remained unwilling to yield, staring defiantly at the sky above.