Ten acres of gold sword grass, stimulated by the Gold Essence Formation and two fourth-order Spiritual Artifacts of the metal element that had transformed into spirits, had begun to sprout successfully.
Their growth was similar to that of Wind Spirit Grass, with very good results.
According to the growth rate of the gold sword grass, which originally required five years to harvest, it now looked like it could be shortened to four years, or even three and a half years.
However, the consumption was a bit high; not to mention the cost of the two fourth-order Spiritual Artifacts that had transformed into spirits, just maintaining the Gold Essence Formation and its effect of condensing metal element Spiritual Essence required three hundred and eighty medium spirit stones per month.
Maintaining it for about four years, an ordinary spirit rice farmer would probably not be able to afford to cultivate it.
The success of the Gold Essence Formation also gave Li Mu the determination to catch up and plant Fourth Order Spiritual Plant - Purple Yang Spiritual Mushroom and Yin Soul Fruit.
After carefully studying the Yin and Yang Qi, Li Mu also found a Formation that could enhance the Yin and Yang Qi, which was the "Yin Yang Heavenly Evolution Formation."
Qingxuan Sect's founding Ancestral Master, Daoist Qingxuan, primarily cultivated the Azure Lotus Creation Scripture, possessed heaven-defying cultivation, and was proficient in seven Absolutely: Spiritual Talismans, Artifact Refining, Alchemy, Astrological Divination, Formation, Music, and Medicine.
The "Yin Yang Heavenly Evolution Formation" was one of the Formation techniques Daoist Qingxuan had mastered in his early years.
Li Mu focused on the Yin Yang Mixed Yuan Formation among the twelve sub-Formation diagrams of the "Yin Yang Heavenly Evolution Formation."
Deploying this Formation could mix the Yin and Yang Qi, causing those trapped within to lose their minds and senses, their five senses failing, leaving them at the mercy of others.
At the same time, it also had the ability to harmonize and separate the Yin and Yang Qi.
By deploying this Formation over thirty acres of High Grade Spiritual Field and utilizing its ability to harmonize and separate the Yin and Yang Qi, it could then provide Yang Qi and Yin Qi growth environments for Purple Yang Spiritual Mushroom and Yin Soul Fruit respectively, killing two birds with one stone.
The only trouble was that Purple Yang Spiritual Mushroom grew towards the sun and inherently loved Yang Qi.
Yin Soul Fruit grew towards Yin and would wither and die upon seeing Yang Qi; the two were extremely opposite and could not grow in the same Spiritual Field simultaneously.
This problem was a bit tricky!
The thirty acres of High Grade Spiritual Field selected for them ultimately could not be used.
Li Mu flew up on his sword and searched all over Yue Qiong Peak, looking for a place where both Yin and Yang existed and was suitable for reclaiming Spiritual Field.
Although Yue Qiong Peak was short, its occupied area was a full thirty to forty thousand acres.
The location Li Mu had set up his Spiritual Field occupied only a very small area, which was the essence of the main Spiritual Vein.
It was still possible to find another area with both Yin and Yang aspects!
Soon, Li Mu found a suitable location in a shaded Spirit Valley.
In a secluded valley downstream of a spirit stream, there was a place where many first-order Yin Wind Grass grew, and the foot of the mountain on the other side of the Spirit Valley was completely exposed to the sun.
Li Mu confirmed with his Spiritual Vein Tracing Technique that the Spirit Valley and the mountain's location were at the end of Yue Qiong Peak's main Spiritual Vein.
Setting up a Gathering Spirit Formation and Spirit Gathering Array, completely reclaiming and spiritualizing over a hundred acres of land, and transforming them into Medium Grade Spiritual Field was more than enough.
As for advancing to High Grade Spiritual Field, it would require time and a large consumption of Spirit Stones.
However, it already met Li Mu's requirements.
He placed this secluded valley and the Spiritual Land on the other side within the Yin Yang Mixed Yuan Formation.
With Yang rising and Yin falling, and Yin and Yang separating, this terrain was excellent.
The issue of High Grade Spiritual Field could be completely solved by throwing Spirit Stones at it.
Li Mu's heart pounded, and he immediately took action, rapidly forming hand seals.
Turning Earth Technique, Mud Transformation Technique, Drying Technique, Soil Solidification Technique… various spirit rice farmer's techniques, all powerfully struck the secluded Spirit Valley and the Spiritual Mountain behind the valley.
Soon, seven Mystic Iron Swords flew out, transforming into Formation brushes, carving complex Formation patterns onto the valley walls.
In less than half a day, the secluded valley had changed its appearance.
A large area of Spiritual Field that was not under the mountain's shaded ground was reclaimed.
The Spiritual Qi concentration increased at a visible rate, and on the other side of the secluded valley's Spiritual Field, a large area of neat new fields radiated vibrant vitality under the sunlight.
Li Mu looked down from the sky, a satisfied smile on his face.
The Gathering Spirit Formation, Spirit Gathering Array, and Yin Yang Mixed Yuan Formation were all deployed together, not interfering with each other, each performing its own function.
While gathering Spiritual Qi, they guided the fields to spiritualize, and guided the Yin and Yang Qi of the fields to separate into two, incompatible parts.
Yin Qi gathered at the bottom of the rocky Spirit Valley, and Yang Qi enveloped the Spiritual Field on the valley peak.
Once the two newly reclaimed fields successfully transformed into Medium Grade Spiritual Field, Purple Yang Spiritual Mushroom and Yin Soul Fruit could be planted.
With the enhancement of the Yin Yang Mixed Yuan Formation, the auxiliary resources consumed by both Spiritual Plants could be reduced, and at the same time, their effectiveness would be improved, significantly increasing the growth time of the Spiritual Plants, achieving multiple benefits.
"Haha! I truly am a Genius!"
Seeing his design perfectly achieved, Li Mu laughed heartily with joy.
Li Mu disregarded the consumption of Spirit Stones and, regardless of cost, set the Spirit Gathering Array and Gathering Spirit Formation to their maximum efficiency, accelerating the spiritualization speed of the two Spiritual Fields.
After completing all of this and confirming there were no problems, Li Mu returned to his stone house on his sword and began to research the cultivation of the other four types of third-order Spiritual Plants.
Purple Yang Spiritual Mushroom and Yin Soul Fruit now had better Spiritual Land for cultivation, and the other third-order Spiritual Plants could continue to be cultivated as planned.
…
Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, more than two months had passed.
On the mountainside of Yue Qiong Peak, a delicate courtyard built of bluestone stood.
A clear spiritual spring mountain stream flowed past the courtyard, and on both sides of the stream were Spiritual Fields with various Spiritual Plants.
Patches of half-zhang tall Wind Spirit Grass swayed with the mountain wind, dense and flourishing.
Twenty acres of Cui Ling Fruit Seedlings were verdant green, growing vigorously… and the Yellow Tooth spirit rice seedlings had grown milky white sprouts, radiating an egg-yellow spiritual halo under the sunlight, full of vitality…
At the end of the three hundred acres of terraced Spiritual Fields was a clear pond where the spiritual spring mountain stream converged.
Beneath the spiritual water of the pond, water lotus tender branches and delicate seedlings with tender leaves grew, waiting for the opportunity to break through the water's surface.
Beneath the clear pond, sometimes a large white fish, sometimes a green spiritual fish, would swim by.
However, when they leaped out of the water, in the blink of an eye, they transformed into a white Spiritual Sword, or a green ribbon.
It turned out that the four or five large fish in the clear pond were actually high-grade Spiritual Artifacts that could transform into spirits.
They exuded abundant water element Spiritual Qi, making the water element Spiritual Power gathered in the clear pond extremely concentrated.
"Clang clang…" In a golden Spiritual Field not far from the clear pond, five golden Spiritual Swords, sometimes transforming into eagles, sometimes into Dragons, seemed to be fighting for territory, refusing to yield to each other.
When they collided, they emitted bursts of Sword Qi, overflowing with sharp Sword Qi.
…
In less than three months, Yue Qiong Peak had already changed its appearance.
"Stop arguing! If you damage the Spiritual Field, I'll use you as firewood! Or put you in solitary confinement."
Li Mu flew out on his sword, annoyed, and angrily reprimanded the several fourth-order Spiritual Swords wandering in the Gold Essence Formation.
There were too many refined Spiritual Artifacts, and Li Mu couldn't monitor them all with his Divine Sense, so he let them be free.
Who knew they had such tempers, constantly arguing over trivial matters every day, making it impossible to have peace.
Li Mu's intimidation was very effective; those Spiritual Swords that had transformed into spirits immediately dispersed, not daring to engage in any more petty squabbles.
"Time passes so quickly, the Wind Spirit Grass has matured!" Li Mu's gaze fell on the Spiritual Field where the Wind Spirit Grass was planted below, and he sighed.
Immediately, Li Mu looked at the 180 acres of harvested Wind Spirit Grass, and a golden Spiritual Essence condensed in his hand.
The next moment, crescent-shaped golden blades flew out.
"Puff puff puff…" The golden curved blades, some changing direction, some turning, all brushed past the roots of an acre of Wind Spirit Grass, and patches of Wind Spirit Grass fell one after another.
"Hmm! What's going on?"
Li Mu's Divine Sense covered the area, and the number of Plant Spirit light clusters produced by the 180 acres of Spiritual Field Wind Spirit Grass was pitifully small, only about one-tenth of the original amount.
Soon, clusters of green Plant Spirit light clusters flew up from the Spiritual Field, swarming into Li Mu's body.
"【Talent Divine Power - Plant Spirit Extraction activated, you absorbed a Plant Spirit, free proficiency points +1】"
"【Talent Divine Power - Plant Spirit Extraction activated, you absorbed a Plant Spirit, free proficiency points +1】"
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The character virtual frame's log showed messages of gaining Plant Spirits.
After harvesting 180 acres of Wind Spirit Grass, he only gained about 320,000 free proficiency points in total, and each Plant Spirit light cluster gave +1 free proficiency point.
"What's going on? Is it related to my Foundation Establishment?" Li Mu's expression changed slightly, and he roughly guessed the reason.
It should be like this!
Wind Spirit Grass was a first-order Spiritual Plant, and as his Realm advanced to Foundation Establishment, the effect of the Plant Spirit light clusters was definitely reduced.
He only got 320,000 free attribute points, which wasn't even enough to upgrade the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture by one level.
This meant that the 180 acres of Spiritual Field could no longer be planted with Wind Spirit Grass; he had to switch to other second-order Spiritual Plants!
But which second-order Spiritual Plant would continue to provide free attribute points?
Li Mu frowned, his Divine Sense looking at the experimental field, sifting through various second-order Spiritual Plant seedlings.
"Exquisite Spirit Grass, Heavenly Wind Grass, hmm! The time is both around half a year, let's try these two first!" Li Mu selected for a long time and finally made his choice, preparing to go to the Contribution Hall later to exchange for the Spiritual Seeds of these two second-order Spiritual Plants.
Li Mu took a deep breath, his Divine Sense covering the 180 acres of Spiritual Field, and used the Divine Ability technique - Thousand Foot Sword Domain.
The next second, a magnificent scene unfolded: the cut Wind Spirit Grass all flew up on their own, like Spiritual Swords, soaring into the sky and quickly gathering.
In the blink of an eye, they transformed into a green Dragon in the air, flying towards the back of Yue Qiong Peak.
Li Mu smiled slightly, flew up on his sword, and led the 'green long Dragon' to the back of Yue Qiong Peak, carrying a large amount of Wind Spirit Grass into the mountain forest to serve as fertilizer for the Spiritual Mountain.
After dealing with the large amount of Wind Spirit Grass, Li Mu flew on his sword to the 'Yin Yang Valley' to check the growth of the Purple Yang Spiritual Mushroom and Yin Soul Fruit.
Li Mu gave the secluded valley, which contained the Yin Yang Mixed Yuan Formation, a fitting name: Yin Yang Valley.
Last month, with Li Mu's unhesitating investment of Spirit Stones, the two newly reclaimed Spiritual Fields in Yin Yang Valley had successfully transformed into Medium Grade Spiritual Field, meeting the minimum requirements for planting Purple Yang Spiritual Mushroom and Yin Soul Fruit.
Li Mu eagerly planted the two fourth-order Spiritual Seeds, and almost every day, he had to visit 'Yin Yang Valley' to observe the growth of the two Spiritual Plants.
Flying on his sword to the sky above Yin Yang Valley, Li Mu, who cultivated the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture, immediately felt the rich Yin and Yang Qi within the valley, one rising and one falling, clearly distinct, and the true essence of the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture within his body began to stir.