Upon Awakening.
Li Mu felt refreshed, and the headache from yesterday had also disappeared.
After preparing breakfast and feeding Crimson Wolf, Li Mu continued to focus on the character panel, improving his Cultivation Technique.
Due to a lack of sufficient first-order spiritual swords, the Sword Array Basic Chapter of the Profound Heaven Sword Formation Twelve Chapters had not yet been inscribed on the character panel, making it impossible to add free proficiency points.
Li Mu turned his attention to Quenching Spirit Art. The increase in Rank of this Spirit Refining Cultivation Technique had the most significant effect on his strength. Besides combat, it also provided assistance in daily life and production by enhancing Divine Sense.
"Ding, you consumed one free proficiency point, and Quenching Spirit Art proficiency +1."
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"Ding, you consumed one free proficiency point, Quenching Spirit Art proficiency +1. Quenching Spirit Art Rank has increased to Rank five. The quality of your Divine Soul has improved, and your Divine Sense range has increased by +1000 feet. You have comprehended the Divine Sense derivative skill: Divine Sense Whip."
Consuming 10,000 free proficiency points, he pushed Quenching Spirit Art to Rank five.
With a "boom," Li Mu's Divine Soul vibrated, feeling as if his entire Soul had been sublimated. Simultaneously, a Divine Sense damage skill, like an instinct, was spontaneously comprehended. It allowed him to materialize the power of Divine Sense into a long whip to attack the enemy's Divine Sense.
Li Mu joyfully released his Divine Sense, and the range of his Divine Sense perception doubled, now covering most of Xiao Liang Mountain.
After his joy, Li Mu continued to improve his other Cultivation Techniques.
"Ding, you consumed one free proficiency point, Qingmu Spell proficiency +1."
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"Ding, you consumed one free proficiency point, Qingmu Spell proficiency +1. Qingmu Spell Rank has increased to Rank five. Your Cultivation has partially improved, your wood-element Spiritual Root has been partially strengthened, and you have comprehended the wood-element minor Divine Ability: Wood Escape."
"Ding, you consumed one free proficiency point, Mystic Water Art proficiency +1."
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"Ding, you consumed one free proficiency point, Mystic Water Art proficiency +1. Mystic Water Art Rank has increased to Rank five. Your Cultivation has partially improved, your water-element Spiritual Root has been partially strengthened, and you have comprehended the water-element minor Divine Ability: Water Escape."
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"Ding, your Five Elements Technique has reached the Minor Achievement Realm, and your Aptitude has improved. Your Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root has advanced to Five Elements Low Grade Spiritual Root. Your Cultivation has greatly improved, and you have Broken through to Qi Refining eighth layer."
A powerful Spiritual Pressure suddenly erupted from Li Mu's body. He consumed 50,000 free proficiency points, separately raising Qingmu Spell, Mystic Water Art, Profound Earth Art, Fire Control Art, and 《Glazed Gold Skill》 to Rank five, achieving unexpected gains.
After each Cultivation Technique entered the Rank five Minor Achievement Realm, he obtained a minor Divine Ability—an escape technique. Even more unimaginably, his Spiritual Root Aptitude also improved, from a Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Root to a Five Elements Low Grade Spiritual Root, and his Cultivation also increased by one layer.
Li Mu felt an urge to raise all five Cultivation Techniques to max Rank, but he had too few free proficiency points, nowhere near enough.
Li Mu suppressed this urge and used the remaining free proficiency points to continue improving other Cultivation Techniques.
"Ding, you consumed one free proficiency point, Sword Control Technique proficiency +1."
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"Ding, you consumed one free proficiency point, Sword Control Technique proficiency +1. Sword Control Technique Rank has increased to Rank five. Your sword control ability has improved, Flying Sword control power has increased by +1000, and you have comprehended the sword control minor Divine Ability: Sword Control Thought Projection."
Consuming 10,000 free attribute points, Li Mu then raised Sword Control Technique to Rank 5, immediately grasping Sword Control Thought Projection. The function of this Divine Ability skill was that he could attach his Divine Sense to the spiritual sword, allowing the Flying Sword to achieve a much greater control distance.
Li Mu waved his hand, took out the first-order High Grade gold sword, attached his Divine Thought, and controlled the spiritual sword to fly out.
Under Li Mu's remote Divine Thought sensing, the first-order High Grade gold sword flew out and instantly left the range of Xiao Liang Mountain.
However, Li Mu quickly felt that the spiritual sword's own spiritual power was insufficient to support it flying too far.
Li Mu quickly manipulated the Flying Sword to return.
First-order spiritual swords were ultimately too low-Rank. Only High Grade spiritual swords were suitable for using this special Sword Control Divine Ability.
Once he successfully refines fifth or sixth-order spiritual swords in the future, using the Sword Control Thought Projection ability to control them to take the head of an enemy a thousand li away will be no problem at all.
"Excellent, excellent! This Divine Ability is amazing!"
Li Mu joyfully put the spiritual sword into his Storage Pouch and walked to the Artifact Refining Room, preparing to refine the seven spiritual swords for learning the Seven Stars Sword Formation, so that he could register the Profound Heaven Sword Formation Twelve Chapters - Basic Chapter Cultivation Technique on the character panel.
In the Artifact Refining Room, after more than a month, the second-order Yanyang Refining Furnace was activated again. The Yanyang Great Formation inside the furnace quickly generated Yan Yang Spiritual Fire.
Li Mu opened a Storage Pouch filled with spiritual ore, taking out all the first-order Profound Iron Ore and first-order Crimson Essence Iron.
Under Li Mu's Divine Sense manipulation, chunks of Profound Iron Ore and Crimson Essence Iron floated up and automatically entered the Yanyang Refining Furnace. Under the scorching heat of the High Temperature Yan Yang Spiritual Fire, they quickly liquefied into a large mass of metal solution.
Under Li Mu's Divine Sense manipulation, the liquefied Profound Iron and Crimson Essence Iron solution quickly melted, Impurities automatically peeled away... It was as if a mysterious large hand was controlling it, dividing it equally into seven masses of metal liquid, and then stretching them, gradually transforming them into seven three-foot-long liquefied sword shapes...
The Rank five Quenching Spirit Art made Li Mu's Divine Sense extremely powerful. Not only could he easily manipulate the artifact embryo with his Divine Sense, but he could also go a step further, achieving the ability to use his mind for seven tasks simultaneously, refining seven spiritual swords at once.
Time passed bit by bit, and the Profound Iron Sword embryos quickly solidified into shape.
After the seven liquid sword embryos solidified in mid-air, Li Mu held iron tongs in one hand and a spiritual hammer in the other. He clamped one sword embryo down, placed it on the forging platform, and began hammering and forging it.
After the sword embryo was hammered and forged dozens of times, Li Mu condensed the spiritual power in his palm and began to condense artifact patterns for the artifact embryo.
With his Refining Skill elevated to Rank 5, Li Mu had clearly become a Refining Great Master. Every move he made in Artifact Refining was filled with confidence.
The first artifact pattern: Solid, the second artifact pattern: Spirit Control, the third artifact pattern: Sharp, the fourth artifact pattern: Sword Qi. Li Mu, in one go, condensed four artifact patterns for the Mystic Iron Sword, reaching the Rank of a first-order High Grade spiritual sword.
Li Mu hesitated for a moment, then continued to raise his spiritual hammer, injecting spiritual power into the Mystic Iron Sword to condense the fifth artifact pattern: Star Radiance.
Rank five Refining Skill bestowed Li Mu with a vast amount of Artifact Refining experience and knowledge. From the original eighteen basic artifact patterns, he now learned and mastered 124 artifact patterns, including both basic and special ones.
Star Radiance is an artifact pattern closely related to starlight. With this artifact pattern, the spiritual sword can better adapt to the Seven Stars Sword Formation.
With a crisp "ding," the Mystic Iron Sword suddenly burst forth with spiritual light, and the sword body hummed, as if celebrating its rebirth.
It's done!
Using first-order Artifact Refining materials, he condensed five artifact patterns and refined a second-order Low Grade Profound Iron Sword.
Li Mu let out a sigh of relief. The Rank five Refining Skill granted him powerful Artifact Refining capabilities. He pushed the material of the Mystic Iron Sword to its limit, successfully refining a second-order Low Grade spiritual sword, which was a world of difference from his previous Artifact Refining experience.
With the first Second-Order Profound Iron Sword successfully refined, Li Mu now needed to refine six more second-order spiritual swords of the same attribute and Rank to form the Seven Stars Sword Formation.
Li Mu held the spiritual hammer and continued to condense artifact patterns for the next Mystic Iron Sword.
The clanging of hammers and the humming of swords... For a moment, the Artifact Refining Room seemed to be playing an immortal melody, lively and bustling.