The night was deep and quiet, with a cool breeze outside the house.
After confirming that the old Daoist would not come looking for him, Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief, took out the Twenty-Four Season Swordplay, and, just like last time, used scissors to cut open the hidden interlayer on the last page, retrieving a thin Jade Slip.
Thin Jade Slip: Four inches long, two inches wide, the thickness of four or five sheets of paper, a vibrant green, carved with mysterious spiritual patterns, full of the traces of Years.
Li Mu took out the thin Jade Slip and placed it in his palm; his Heavenly Talent - Identifying Myriad Spirits took effect, and a virtual box immediately appeared in his field of vision with relevant information.
Legacy Jade Slip
Grade: Second-Order Spiritual Item
Characteristics: Divine Sense Transmission, Imperishable for a Thousand Years
The Jade Slip records a Profound Rank Puppet Legacy Cultivation Technique. By extending your Divine Sense into it, you can read this Cultivation Technique Legacy.
Looking at the information about the Jade Slip, Li Mu's heart stirred with excitement. He immediately closed his eyes, silently circulated his Divine Sense, condensed his limited Divine Sense power, and immersed it within.
With a 'boom,' Li Mu's Divine Sense entered the Legacy Jade Slip. The next second, a large stream of information, a Legacy spell called Thousand Machine Puppet Art, and various methods for refining Puppets appeared one by one.
Paper Puppets, Wooden Puppets, Metal Puppets, Foundation Establishment Puppets, Yao Beast Puppets, Flying Puppets, etc., large and small, of all kinds, a total of 72 types of Puppet refining methods, Puppet control methods, and various kinds of Puppet knowledge were presented completely and comprehensively.
Li Mu immediately felt his head sink, as if someone had hit him hard with a hammer. A large amount of Puppet-related knowledge filled his mind, and his brain was overloaded, not functioning smoothly.
A quarter of an hour passed, and Li Mu opened his eyes, excitedly waking up from the state of receiving the Thousand Machine Puppet Art Puppet Legacy.
The Thousand Machine Puppet Art recorded a total of seventy-two Puppet refining methods, ranging from low to high grade. This included nine types of Flying Puppets, Puppet secret patterns, Puppet core source refining methods, and Divine Sense Cultivation Techniques for controlling Puppets, all presented within.
It was a very complete Puppet Legacy, allowing one to Cultivate to the Golden Core Realm.
If one could achieve success in Puppet Art, refining a Puppet army, it would be easy to fight a hundred enemies in the future.
However, it was a pity that Puppet Art had a fatal flaw: the Materials required to refine Puppets were too expensive. Even refining the lowest-level Paper Puppets required specially made Puppet parchment, Yao Beast essence souls, specially made spirit ink, and so on. A single, simplest Paper Puppet would cost hundreds of Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
Next were Wooden Puppets, which required special quality spiritual wood for carving Puppet patterns, and Puppet cores to drive the Puppets, etc. The cost of refining a Wooden Puppet was three to four times that of a Paper Puppet.
Above Wooden Puppets, there were also Metal Puppets and Yao Beast Bone Puppets. Their quality was higher than that of Wooden Puppets and Paper Puppets, but their cost also rose accordingly.
In short, for Li Mu, wanting to build a Puppet army in a short time was a pipe dream.
Li Mu sighed, his gaze turning to the character attribute panel.
Ding, you have successfully accepted the Thousand Machine Puppet Art Legacy. You have learned Puppet Refining Art and Puppet Control Art.
As expected, two Cultivation Techniques that needed to be improved appeared in the character attribute panel.
Li Mu was both delighted and worried. Qingmu Spell, Fire Control Art, Mystic Water Art, and the uncultivated Profound Earth Art—just one Metal-attribute Cultivation Technique was missing to complete the Five Elements. Adding Puppet Art, Quenching Spirit Art, Talisman making, Sword Control Technique, and other miscellaneous Cultivation Techniques, the effort and Cultivation time required were increasing.
There were too many Cultivation Techniques, and he didn't have time to calm down and thoroughly Cultivate a specific Domain, not to mention managing spirit plants and newly opened spiritual fields.
Li Mu's head felt as big as a bucket; he wished he could split himself into several people.
One by one, he would endure it slowly!
Li Mu sighed, composed himself, and began to refine Exorcism Talismans.
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Over the next month, Li Mu once again became a farmer. During the day, he cared for spirit plants and opened new fields. At night, he cultivated Quenching Spirit Art, refined Exorcism Talismans, practiced Sword Control Technique, swordplay, etc. His three meals a day consisted of simple spirit rice with wild vegetables, living a simple and repetitive life.
After a month of hard work, Li Mu cleared a large area of weeds and bushes between the two spiritual fields, leveled the hillside, and newly cultivated five mu of land.
However, these newly cultivated fields still needed a Spirit Gathering Array to draw in spiritual power for nourishment, and then fertilizer needed to be accumulated for the land before the five mu of spiritual fields could gradually be transformed into Low Grade spiritual fields.
“I hope I can catch the planting season for White Jade Spirit Rice!” Li Mu took a deep breath, put down his farm tools, tidied himself up, and prepared to go to the Qingxuan Sect's station to ask an array cultivator to set up a Spirit Gathering Array.
Three hours later, as dusk approached.
Li Mu spent 500 lower spirit stones and successfully invited Xu Shixiong to set up a Spirit Gathering Array around the five mu of spiritual fields in Xiao Liang Mountain.
“Li Shidi, I have already set up the Spirit Gathering Array. Next, this array will require a fresh batch of Spirit Stones every ten days, and it needs to be maintained for about three months. Then these five mu of fertile land will be stably nurtured into Low Grade spiritual fields!” Xu Lijin looked at Li Mu with a tired expression, reminding him.
“Three months! How many Spirit Stones will that burn through!” Li Mu's expression changed as he complained bitterly.
“It must be three months. If you give up halfway, this batch of spiritual fields will be ruined,” Xu Lijin solemnly instructed.
“Then, during these three months, can these five mu of fields be used to plant spirit plants?” Li Mu nodded and asked with concern.
“You can plant a small amount! But don't expect a good harvest. That's all, I should go now,” Xu Lijin instructed, signaling.
“Understood! Xu Shixiong, it's getting late. Why don't you have a meal before you go?” Li Mu politely tried to persuade him to stay.
“No need, it's dangerous on the road after dark!” Xu Lijin waved his hand, finished speaking, released a spiritual sword, flew up, and left using Sword Control Technique.
Watching Xu Lijin's disappearing figure, Li Mu showed a hint of envy. However, looking down at the Spirit Gathering Array Xu Lijin had set up, his face immediately turned grim.
Li Mu somewhat didn't understand why Xu Lijin had given such an instruction before leaving, making him waste Spirit Stones for nothing.
Was he doing it on purpose? Or was it a precaution?
Through his Heavenly Talent - Identifying Myriad Spirits, Li Mu had already confirmed that the Spirit Gathering Array had begun to take effect.
The scattered remnants of the Spiritual Vein near Xiao Liang Mountain were gathering towards the newly cultivated fields, gradually forming a momentum. The five mu of new fields were gradually receiving spiritual nourishment and undergoing spiritualization.
However, at the current rate of transformation for the spiritual fields, they would probably become Low Grade spiritual fields within half a month to a month. Continuing to put Spirit Stones into them would be a complete waste. The Spirit Gathering Array required a change of Spirit Stones every ten days, and each time it needed 30 lower spirit stones. Three months would require 270 lower spirit stones.
Xu Shixiong was trying to scam him to death!
Li Mu sighed, once again feeling the hardship of this world.