Li Mu spent two days in the ice mountain, constantly harassing the cultivator Feng Xi, and finally killed him.
He picked up a cultivation manual and a storage bag from the ground.
With the Longevity Manual, whether he needed the Primordial Chaos Burning Heaven Manual or not was irrelevant to him; it was something he picked up for free, just something he picked up casually.
The fact that Feng Xi was able to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment Realm using only one technique without any guidance suggests that the technique must be quite good.
The storage bag contained nothing but two jade boxes and a few ordinary weapons.
When the two jade boxes were opened, Li Mu's eyes lit up.
Two jade boxes, one empty, the other containing a pure ice lotus – what a pleasant surprise!
One can't help but wonder if this Extreme Ice Pure Lotus has become as common as cabbage, with two already appearing in such a short time.
Li Mu even sensed that there had once been an Extreme Ice Pure Lotus in that empty jade box, which Feng Xi had used to build his foundation.
In the absence of foundation-building elixirs, using natural treasures is also the best way to establish one's foundation.
Thinking of using spiritual objects to build a foundation, he suddenly realized why Feng Xi had failed to build a foundation using spiritual objects from heaven and earth.
It must be that the cultivation technique and the spiritual object are incompatible.
Feng Xi cultivates the fire-attribute Primordial Burning Heaven Technique, while the unrefined Extreme Ice Pure Lotus is a highly nourishing spiritual substance of the ice attribute.
Taking the Extreme Ice Lotus at the critical moment of Foundation Establishment caused his body to experience both ice and fire, making it impossible for him not to fail.
"Why!.."
Li Mu sighed inwardly.
He put away the two jade boxes, then casually threw out two fireballs, burning the bones and Feng Xi's corpse on the ground to ashes.
If we disregard human nature, Feng Xi is indeed a cultivation genius.
According to him, he began cultivating after obtaining the Primordial Chaos Burning Heaven Technique from the Inner Hidden Sect, and it took him forty years to reach the Foundation Establishment stage.
In other words, he was originally a martial artist who revived immortal techniques and, without any guidance, managed to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage on his own.
It is truly not easy to achieve this, but it is because this person has lost all moral principles and even eats people.
Feng Xi may have started eating people because he failed to establish his foundation, which rendered his lower body immobile, and he was in the ice and snow of the far north.
Regardless, such people have lost their reverence for life and are no longer worthy of living.
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Li Mu casually brushed away the ashes from the burning corpse and walked towards the large black plate.
When his hand touched the large black plate, there was a ripple in his mind, and the Golden Pearl World reacted.
What's going on here? Could this large black plate have some connection or origin to the Golden Pearl World?
Holding the large black plate in my hand, I couldn't tell the difference in material.
When he tried to pick up the large black plate, he couldn't move it no matter what he did.
At this moment, after some thought, Li Mu came up with a certain possibility.
Is this the lid of the big black pot?
With that thought, Li Mu took the Golden Pearl World from his sea of consciousness and conjured an entrance in his palm.
When the entrance to the Golden Pearl World appeared, a miraculous scene unfolded: the large black plate that he couldn't move actually entered the Golden Pearl World on its own.
Li Mu then entered the Golden Pearl World as well.
He had just entered when he felt dizzy and the whole world seemed to be shaking.
A deafening roar erupted from the Golden Pearl World, as if the world were being transformed; the sky began to expand, and the ground swelled along with it.
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After a moment of upside-down chaos, the world of Golden Pearl returned to calm.
Li Mu had been in a daze, but now that he was slightly more awake, he felt as if the world had expanded more than tenfold.
This change delighted him; he truly hadn't expected to find the lid of the Yin-Yang Pot in this freezing cold.
Moreover, once the Yin-Yang pot, representing the fire element of the Five Elements, was complete, the entire world expanded more than tenfold.
Although he was in the midst of this change in the Golden Pearl World, he didn't know how long it took; it could be very short or very long.
When he closed his eyes and sensed the world, it seemed as if something was different.
The large black plate was now covering the black pot, confirming that it was the pot lid, also known as the "yang pot" (a type of pot used for cooking).
Li Mu walked towards the Yin-Yang Pot. The large black pot, which he had been unable to reach before, was now within his reach.
In the real world, a pot lid that is impossible to move can be easily picked up and put down here.
Moreover, he had a feeling that using the Yin-Yang Pot to refine elixirs would achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Because his dantian was damaged, he did indeed need to refine a batch of Snow Mulberry Pills, but he was missing some auxiliary ingredients.
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This trip to the Arctic, while causing him injury, also yielded tremendous gains, the biggest of which was completing his collection of Yin-Yang pots.
He thought of the club Hua Tian had given him, which he had initially suspected was the handle of the Heaven-Opening Axe.
It now seems that the club was not the handle of the Heaven-Opening Axe, because the Golden Pearl World did not sense anything when the club was held in its hand.
After carefully examining the inside of the iceberg, Li Mu found nothing unusual.
Although the iceberg is concealed by an array, it is not a secret realm. Perhaps it was a cultivation place of some cultivator thousands of years ago.
It's unclear whether the lid of the Yin-Yang Pot was already there or brought by Feng Xi.
Feng Xi must have found this place after discovering the rare and precious Ice Lotus in the far north, and then accidentally wandered into it to prepare for Foundation Establishment cultivation.
Since taking the pot lid back, Li Mu's spiritual sense has recovered to a range of several thousand meters.
As for why the lid of the Yin-Yang Pot could shield divine sense and also had the function of covering the sky and blocking out the sun, he didn't have time to study it at the moment.
His dantian is currently damaged, and without a large amount of spiritual energy, it would be impossible for him to fly back using his flying sword.
After leaving the iceberg space, he did not leave immediately, but began to search for medicinal herbs in the surrounding area.
Near spiritual objects, especially spiritual plants, there are usually some auxiliary medicinal herbs.
As global warming progresses, glaciers and snow-capped mountains in the far north continue to melt every year, resulting in a continuous increase in the area of exposed permafrost.
This might not be a good sign for the entire planet, but for Li Mu, it greatly increases the chances of finding medicinal herbs.
He spent about ten days searching for more than ten kinds of medicinal herbs within a radius of 100 kilometers, but only two or three of them could be called auxiliary medicines.
Because he frequently practiced alchemy, he always kept some common medicinal herbs in his ring, and he also cultivated some medicinal herbs in the Golden Pearl World.
With the herbs found in this icy and snowy land, the ingredients are barely enough to prepare a batch of Snow Mulberry Pills.
Li Mu returned to the iceberg space, where he was going to start refining pills.
Snow Mulberry Pill is a second-grade pill, mainly used to repair the dantian of cultivators below the Golden Core stage, and it is not too complicated to refine.
His main problem now is that because his dantian is damaged, his body lacks spiritual energy, and he is worried that this will cause him to fail in alchemy.
In order to increase the success rate of alchemy, he had to take out all the pills that replenished spiritual energy and meditate for two days before starting the furnace to refine pills.
Several hours later, with Li Mu continuously replenishing his spiritual power with the Great Qi-Nourishing Pill, he finally refined the Snow Mulberry Pill.
Four Snow Mulberry Pills were successfully made, one of which was a defective pill, and the other three were of low quality.
Li Mu looked at the slightly yellowish snow mulberry in his hand, and unconsciously shook his head, feeling a little disappointed.
He was a second-grade alchemist, but due to insufficient spiritual power, he could only refine the worst Snow Mulberry Pill, which he found somewhat regrettable.
If there were a single mid-grade Snow Mulberry Pill, just one would be enough to heal the injury to the dantian. It's unclear whether taking three at once would be effective.
This is precisely the biggest difference in the efficacy of pills based on their grade; higher-grade pills not only have fewer impurities but also stronger medicinal power.
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