Since Li Mu opened his eyes, some strange things have happened, leaving him no time to think about where he is.

Looking at the small pool in front of him, Li Mu took out a few spirit stones from his ring, hoping to help his body recover.

However, no matter how he circulated his cultivation technique, he could not absorb the spirit stone, leaving him speechless once again.

Although there is no spiritual energy left in my body, I should still be able to absorb the spiritual energy from the spirit stone.

Could it be because the body is too depleted and lacks a trigger?

He pondered for a moment, then placed his hand holding the spirit stone into the small pool, intending to absorb the spiritual energy from the stone in the water.

He originally just wanted to try it out this way, but it actually worked.

In an instant, the spirit stone in his hand turned to ashes, and his body was indeed filled with spiritual energy.

Looking at the pool again, the water that was just within reach has receded a foot.

He had a strong feeling again that the water in this small pond absolutely must not dry up.

Otherwise, the place where you are might collapse or disappear.

After absorbing a few spirit stones, Li Mu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Given more time, her cultivation level and strength will be restored.

Although his strength is now only a fraction of what it used to be, he still feels that his spiritual consciousness, which is at the fifth level of Qi Refining, is still intact.

However, divine sense seemed to be of little use in this misty atmosphere, as the distance was about the same as what the naked eye could see.

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Li Mu is finally starting to think about his current situation.

He sensed no spiritual energy here, and he had never been to this place before.

Since he couldn't touch the pool, he decided to wander around it to familiarize himself with the area and find a way out.

After he turned around and took a few steps, he looked back and the pool had disappeared from sight; the surroundings were shrouded in mist.

He tried walking back a few steps, but still couldn't find the small pond.

He initially thought it was a natural formation, but after walking in one direction for about a whole day, he realized it was definitely not a formation.

Moreover, he could sense that he was walking in an upward direction, as if he were walking from the center of a large lake to the shore.

You can even sense that if you keep going, it will be hard to reach the end.

Li Mu wasn't sure if this feeling was right, but he didn't want to go any further, so he simply sat down on the ground.

After sitting on the ground and meditating for a long time, he took out two spirit stones from his ring again and began to cultivate to replenish his spiritual power.

There was no way to keep track of time here, and no one knew how much time had passed before the spirit stones in their hands turned to ashes.

He neither took out any more spirit stones nor stopped cultivating.

Li Mu had entered a state of selflessness, akin to sudden enlightenment.

Cultivating here involves no external spiritual energy replenishment, and since we don't use spirit stones anymore, it's essentially a simulated cultivation process.

This kind of cultivation without the absorption of spiritual energy cannot increase one's cultivation level or strength. It seems boring, but it is also very mysterious.

Moreover, when practicing, the circulation of Qi in the body is very smooth, which is an experience I have never had before.

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Li Mu was unaware of how long it took during the simulated cultivation, and only stopped when he reached the seventh level of the technique.

He stopped not because he couldn't continue cultivating, but because that profound and mysterious feeling was gone.

When he opened his eyes, he felt that if he received a replenishment of spiritual energy, his cultivation level should be able to reach the seventh level of Qi Refining.

In other words, he jumped directly from the fifth level of Qi Refining to the seventh level.

Of course, this is just a feeling, and whether it can actually be done remains to be seen.

After taking a fasting pill, Li Mu got up and continued walking forward.

This time, after only taking a dozen or so steps, he felt as if he had left the great lake.

He had previously worried that he would never be able to leave the great lake, but now he had left so easily, and he could hardly believe it.

Looking back, with the fog shrouding the area behind him, Li Muxin remarked, "This place is truly eerie."

However, after he took another ten or so steps forward, something even stranger happened.

Without any apparent reason, a patch of withered grass appeared before him, and on the grass lay a rotten wooden stick.

To the naked eye, this wooden stick, which looks like a rolling pin, seems fragile and easily damaged by the wind.

Li Mu tried to walk forward, wanting to get closer to the stick, but no matter how far he walked, the distance between him and the stick remained the same.

He tried moving back a little further, but the situation remained unchanged.

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After trying for most of the day, stopping and starting, Li Mu had to give up.

He wondered if this strange place was connected to the small pond from before.

After recalling his memories, he took out two more spirit stones from his ring and began to cultivate on the ground.

Once again, I entered that mysterious state of enlightenment, and entered into a selfless simulated cultivation.

When he opened his eyes again, his simulated cultivation had reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.

He roughly estimated the duration of this simulated training to be around ten days.

This cultivation experience felt different to him; if he were to leave this place, his spiritual sense would greatly increase.

He felt that his spiritual sense would definitely be more than twice as strong as his current fifth level of cultivation, at least reaching the spiritual sense strength of the seventh level of Qi Refining.

After getting up, Li Mu ate another fasting pill. He didn't walk towards the rotten wood again, nor did he retreat; instead, he left to the side.

If he insisted on going in that direction, his intuition told him that it might turn rotten wood into ashes.

This time, things changed again after he had walked a short distance; he saw a pool of black mud.

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When strange things happen repeatedly, they are no longer strange.

Now, no matter what changes occur, they will no longer seem strange to Li Mu.

He now really wants to plant some flowers and grass in this mud, and even took out two medicinal herbs from his ring to plant in the mud.

Unsurprisingly, it's impossible to get close to the black mud here either.

As before, I used spirit stones to cultivate again, which took about ten days.

Li Mu's understanding after this simulated training was different again. He felt that he could identify the age of medicinal herbs with an accuracy down to the month.

In other words, if he holds a medicinal herb in his hand, he can naturally know how many years it has grown, and even how many months.

Next, he saw a large, rusty iron pot.

The pot, which looked like a large iron pot, gave him the feeling that it was a furnace for alchemy or weapon forging.

It's an intuition, there's no reason why.

This time, instead of simulating cultivation, he sat down here to deduce the Dao of alchemy and the Dao of weapon crafting.

In the end, they even took out medicinal herbs and cold iron to try refining it, but due to the lack of spiritual energy, the refining all failed.

Although he failed, it did not affect his understanding of alchemy and weaponry.

He could sense that once his body recovered, he could refine pills or forge flying swords at any time.

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