I Just Want to Cultivate Quietly and Farm-Chapter 346 - 214: Collecting the Spirit Vein

[Status: Spirit Realm self-condenses, Five Elements self-forms, Spiritual Power Loss in progress.]

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Under the Innate Divine Techniques — Recognize Ten Thousand Spirits, Li Mu saw the current state of the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.

Spiritual Power Loss in progress!

Li Mu slightly frowned, his Divine Sense enveloping the entire Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.

Within the Treasure Mansion, a Spirit Vein had already degraded from a Top-Grade Spirit Vein to a Middle Grade Spirit Vein, the Spiritual Qi vastly inferior to before.

In another few hundred years, this Spirit Vein would completely dry up.

Understanding the current state, Li Mu realized that regardless of the level of the Spirit Vein, if the Spiritual Qi was continuously drawn away over the long years, it would ultimately reach a moment of exhaustion.

The Painting Realm Treasure Mansion held dozens of Top-Grade Spirit Veins, providing a hundredfold Spiritual Qi, greatly cultivating Spirit Plants, and naturally increasing consumption.

Since Tianyan Divine Monarch’s fall, this treasure had been unattended for over a thousand years, and with some Top-Grade Spirit Veins drying up, it was inevitable.

It seems time to capture a Spirit Beast and along with it seize a new Spirit Vein, Li Mu had made up his mind.

Li Mu soared away from Yin Yang Valley, transforming into a streak of Flowing Light, flying towards a wild forest beyond Linggu.

A few hundred miles away from Yin Yang Valley, there lay a Demon Beast Mountain Range, where capturing a High-Tier Demon Beast to guard this place was not difficult.

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Roar!

In the Demon Beast Forest, a Tier Five Mid-Stage Shadow Tiger, looking frenzied, continuously crashed through the large trees along the way, occasionally looking back, as if pursued by a terrifying enemy.

The Tier Five Shadow Tiger leaped toward a gorge, sudden changes occurred, and a thousand-zhang Spirit Mountain suddenly descended.

The Shadow Tiger, in a great fright, found it utterly impossible to escape the range of the crushing mountain, too terrified to flee anymore.

With a ’boom’, the Shadow Tiger collapsed with its limbs on the ground, pleading pitiably to Li Mu, "Spare me, senior, spare me. I am willing to become your Spirit Beast, please do not kill me."

The originally descending Five Elements Spirit Mountain abruptly stopped two zhang above the Shadow Tiger’s head.

Li Mu flickered and appeared before the Shadow Tiger, looking at the kneeling creature with a hint of a smile, "If you knew this would happen, why didn’t you submit at the outset?"

"Yes, yes, yes..." Surviving the scare, the Shadow Tiger dared not disobey and obediently prostrated itself on the ground.

Li Mu cast a Spirit Taming Seal, which the Shadow Tiger naturally knew what it was, dared not resist, allowing it to enter its Divine Soul.

This person was too terrifying. Despite only having Early-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivation, he dared intrude on its territory, arrogantly claiming he would subdue it.

The Tier Five Shadow Tiger was enraged, intent on devouring him, but whether in close combat or ranged ambush, it could not gain any advantage. It keenly sensed that the other party indeed did not wish to kill it, or it would already have met its end.

Preserve the green hills, no worries about wood to burn, naturally, the Shadow Tiger obediently chose submission.

Soon, the Spirit Taming Seal successfully formed, and it became his Spirit Beast.

"Master!" The Shadow Tiger, exceedingly obedient, approached Li Mu, rubbing its furry body against him, appearing extraordinarily docile.

"Very good, do not resist; first, I’ll place you into the Treasure Mansion Space, and later you’ll be assigned work." After Li Mu finished speaking, he patted his waist, and the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion formed a massive black hole in the external world, immediately sucking the Shadow Tiger in.

Inside the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion, the Shadow Tiger fell from the sky onto a mountain range. Upon landing, it was filled with awe, gazing at the picturesque scenery like a utopia, with countless Spirit Grass and Spirit Fruit everywhere, brimming with Spiritual Qi more than a hundred times that of the outside world.

With just a simple intake, the vast Spiritual Qi entered its body, flowing through the meridians, an indescribable comfort.

Its master seemed not so simple as appeared; perhaps it had struck it rich, following a great figure, with no worries for food and drink in the future!

In the Shadow Tiger’s heart, there was no submission after being enslaved, but rather tremendous gratitude; here, staying for merely four to five hundred years, it could advance to the Tier Five Peak, far stronger than the precarious life outside, frequently targeted by Demon Extermination Cultivators.

While the Shadow Tiger was rejoicing in its fortune, it noticed the ground ahead undulating. The next second, Li Mu entered the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.

"Master!"

Upon seeing Li Mu, the Shadow Tiger immediately stuck to him like a leech, full of flattery.

Li Mu raised his hand to push it away, he said sternly, "I didn’t summon you to act the clown, follow me."

"Yes, Master!"

The Shadow Tiger obediently followed behind, quickly arriving at the Spirit Field where the Celestial Phoenix Grass was planted.

"Stay here a while first, I will inform you of your tasks later. Do not wander during this period; Spirit Grass and Spirit Fruit below Tier Three are up to you to eat, but anything above Tier Three, remember not to touch." Li Mu instructed, looking at the Shadow Tiger.

"Understood!" The Shadow Tiger examined its surroundings and replied respectfully.

Many of the Spirit Grass and Spirit Fruit here could be refined into Pills, useful for the future.

The next second, Li Mu’s figure flashed, leaving the Painting Realm Treasure Mansion.

When capturing the Shadow Tiger, Li Mu happened to discover a Top-Grade Spirit Vein beneath the gorge in its territory.

Besides the Shadow Tiger, there were four Tier Five Demon Beasts, led by the Shadow Tiger, surrounded by numerous Tier Four Demon Beasts, along with many High-Tier Spirit Grass and Spirit Fruit.

The presence of so many Demon Beasts and the abundance of Spirit Fruit and Spirit Grass could all be attributed to this one Top-Grade Spirit Vein.