Li Mu sat near the cliff for more than two hours until it got dark and there was no one around before he appeared on the cliff.

I absolutely must get my hands on the bitter thorn fruit. Although this fruit is inedible and cannot increase cultivation, it is a good thing for body tempering.

With his Wind Control Technique activated, Li Mu gently landed on the trunk of the Bitter Thorn Tree.

There were more than a dozen fruits on the tree, so I picked them without thinking.

Thinking that the girl must have knocked down a lot of fruit after falling off the cliff, he used his divine sense to scan the area below. Sure enough, there were more bitter thorn fruits on the ground than he had picked from the tree.

With another wind manipulation technique, Li Mu landed steadily at the bottom of the cliff.

After collecting all the bitter thorn berries, Li Mu began to set his sights on the bitter thorn tree, putting them all into a plastic bag.

The bitter thorn tree is a good material for crafting magical artifacts. It can be crafted into offensive or defensive artifacts depending on the needs. Even if you don't craft them, placing them at home can ward off evil spirits.

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Li Mu slowly approached the cliff face, looking at the roots of the bitter thorn tree growing from the crevice. They were damp and even exuded a faint spiritual energy.

"Spiritual energy!?" There's a spiritual source hidden here.

Li Mu's eyes gleamed, and a burning desire arose in his heart. He quickly released his divine sense to look into the crevice in the rock. There was no spiritual source, but there was a narrow and thin waterway.

Exploring along the waterway, the winding path extended deeper into the mountain, the spiritual energy becoming increasingly concentrated. After penetrating over a hundred meters, a spring the size of a washbasin appeared within the mountain.

"Could this be a spiritual spring?" But even if it were a spiritual spring, with my current strength, I couldn't even go inside to cultivate, let alone take it away.

"Ah! Such is life. Some things you can't just get by chance," Li Mu sighed at the stone wall.

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Li Mu did not return to the cliff. He encountered the spiritual spring but could not take it with him, so he was in a bad mood and could only wander around at the bottom of the cliff, trying to vent his dissatisfaction.

After wandering around for a while, Li Mu unknowingly stumbled into the territory of a wild boar den and came face to face with a wild boar king weighing about 300 pounds.

An ordinary person would run as far away as possible from a wild boar, but the wild boar encountered no ordinary person today, it encountered Li Mu. Already in a bad mood, it was only right that this beast suffered.

Before the wild boar could charge, Li Mu launched himself forward and kicked the boar's head several times, sending the 300-pound boar flying more than ten feet away.

After a muffled thud, the wild boar grunted twice and then fell silent.

After kicking a wild boar to death, Li Mu felt a little better. Looking around, he saw no trace of the cliff within his divine sense, which covered a radius of 500 meters. He estimated that he was currently quite a distance from the cliff.

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Unable to discern the direction of the cliff, Li Mu randomly followed one direction. He had gotten used to wandering in the mountains these past few days; as long as he headed in one direction, he could always find a way out.

After walking a hundred or two meters, Li Mu sensed movement ahead, guessing it was another wild boar, so he slowed down and released his divine sense.

To his surprise, a night traveler appeared in his consciousness. Could this person be looking for an opportunity, just like him?

The sudden appearance of the night traveler in Longmo Mountain puzzled Li Mu. Why would this ordinary person be traveling in the wilderness at night?

The person, carrying a machete and a backpack, staggering along, was heading straight for him. He thought he'd wait until the person got closer before speaking.

"Hmm! Friend..."

Li Mu saw that the night walker was less than ten meters away from him and wanted to greet him first. However, he forgot that he had divine sense and could see the other person clearly, but the other person could not see him.

"Oh my god!" Li Mu suddenly exclaimed, startling the night walker so much that he screamed and fell to the ground.

The night walker reacted quickly, immediately pulling out a flashlight from his pocket and shining it on Li Mu. He pointed the knife at Li Mu and asked, "Who, who are you? Oh my! You're scaring people like this, you'll scare them to death."

"I came here to camp, but I'm lost. Could you tell me how to get to the entrance of Longmo Mountain?" Li Mu chuckled inwardly as he looked at the night traveler who seemed quite frightened by him. He immediately became more alert; the man's machete reeked of blood.

The night traveler patted his chest to calm himself down, took two steps forward, pointed his flashlight behind Li Mu, and said, "The mountain gate is in that direction. Just follow me."

As Li Mu turned to look in the direction the flashlight was pointing, the Night Walker raised his machete and brought it down on Li Mu's neck. He muttered, "Brother, I'm sorry! In the next life..."

Li Mu had already sensed it through his divine sense; the night traveler's sinister eyes gleamed with malice as he spoke—sure enough, he was no good. As he raised his machete, Li Mu turned and delivered a punch.

"Ah!" With a muffled groan, the Night Walker's chest caved in a fist's depth, sending him flying two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters) through the air. Like a wild boar, he landed motionless, clearly dead beyond any doubt.

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Li Mu took the backpack from the night walker and casually kicked the corpse several distances. This kind of trash dared to attack him; he was truly courting death.

The backpack contained a few pieces of clothing, some money, and miscellaneous odds and ends.

Li Mu changed his clothes, left the money, dumped everything else on the ground, then put the plastic bag containing the bitter thorn fruit and the wooden box into his backpack, slung it over his shoulder, and left.

Go down the mountain and go home.

After killing a pig and a person, Li Mu's state of mind changed drastically. He was simply fed up with this life of hiding.

Using the Wind Chasing Step, Li Mu appeared on the mountain path for tourists half an hour later.

Guided by the mountain path, Li Mu arrived at the gate of Longmo Mountain in just ten minutes. The gate was tightly closed, but this could not stop Li Mu.

In less than an hour, Li Mu returned to the yard of his villa, picked up the plastic bag on the ground—it contained the medicinal herbs that Nurse Liu had helped him buy.

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The moment Li Mu entered the house, he removed two pieces of jade decoration from the living room wall, made several jade boxes, and then transferred the mushrooms and bitter thorn fruits into the jade boxes for preservation.

In this world, where there aren't many options, the mushroom will be a crucial cultivation resource for me as I progress from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment stage, so I have to be careful.

I opened the plastic bag that Nurse Liu brought. There were two ingredients missing from the prescription I had written before, but now there was mushroom. The missing ingredients wouldn't have much of an impact on the Qi-nourishing soup I was going to make.

The Qi-Nourishing Soup cannot increase the spiritual energy within the body, but it can increase the speed at which spiritual energy is absorbed. Even if the spiritual energy of this world is depleted, it still exists. As long as the speed of spiritual energy absorption is fast enough, the flow of spiritual energy will accelerate, thus increasing the amount of spiritual energy absorbed.

Li Mu washed the earthenware pot used for simmering chicken soup, weighed the various medicinal herbs, placed them into the pot one by one, filled it with water, and began to simmer. The pot contained about ten bowls of water, and it would take at least three hours to simmer into one bowl of nourishing soup.

While simmering the herbal decoction, Li Mu took out ten bitter thorn berries and ground them into powder. The bitter thorn berry powder, combined with just a few medicinal herbs, could be simmered into a potent tonic, which he happened to have on hand. The tonic didn't require a long simmering time, just over two hours.

Now, two burners on the gas stove are burning simultaneously to simmer the medicine, which Li Mu plans to take both internally and externally at the same time.