Chapter 185 : Chapter 185
Chapter 185: Great Heavenly Immortal Art
The people of the Lu Family were quickly all arrested and brought to justice.
All of the Lu Family’s assets were seized.
The Old Master of the Lu Family was an old man already nearing the end of his life.
Li Mu gave him one final chance.
If he handed over the secret method for producing high-grade spiritual liquid, Li Mu could spare their lives and allow them to spend the rest of their lives in the Death Row Camp, making up for their crimes through service.
Although Li Mu did not think much of this so-called method for producing high-grade spiritual liquid, if it could be popularized on a large scale, its influence would undergo a qualitative change through accumulated quantity.
It would be even more useful than his own spiritual liquid.
After all, his own spiritual liquid could not be popularized.
Perhaps because a man’s words are kind when death is near, the Old Master of the Lu Family looked up to the sky and wept bitterly for a while before handing over the Lu Family’s secret method in full.
The Lu Family’s secret method was actually a rapid cultivation method for medicinal herbs.
They refined low-grade medicinal herbs into a kind of nutrient solution, then used it to irrigate high-grade medicinal herbs and promote their growth.
After that, they used the Lu Family’s ancestral high-quality techniques to refine the high-grade medicinal herbs into spiritual liquid.
The later technique for refining the spiritual liquid was actually not especially astonishing.
The key lay in refining low-grade medicinal herbs into a growth-promoting spiritual liquid.
In essence, it had the same function as Li Mu’s spiritual spring water.
The cost of this method was actually not low. Low-grade medicinal herbs also cost money.
That was why they had been unable to fight a price war with Li Mu.
Li Mu then sent a copy of the secret method to Wang Longcheng and another copy to Bloodsea Military District.
He submitted all of it in exchange for merit.
Li Mu did not need money very much right now.
Just from the last great sale of high-grade spiritual liquid, Li Mu had received four billion through share dividends.
He now basically did not touch money.
He had no interest in money!
All of his attention was focused on Triumph Points.
Over the next ten days, Li Mu was always the first to enter the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree.
The test results for the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree also gradually became clear.
It could be opened once every other day.
Each time it opened, it could accommodate between fifty to sixty thousand people and still ensure a surplus of Exit Stones for the next opening.
When Li Mu entered for the sixth time, his Triumph Points finally broke through the one million mark.
On the eleventh day, Li Mu came out of the Mystic Realm with 1.13 million Triumph Points.
He went straight back to his Head Instructor’s office.
After arriving at the office, Li Mu opened the system.
His cultivation had long since reached Yellow Rank Ninth Grade Peak.
The bottleneck to the Profound Rank was already faintly loosening.
But right now, he was not paying attention to his cultivation. Instead, he stared at the [Tier Up] option behind Mid-Grade Heavenly Immortal Art.
His heart was excited.
His hands trembled.
One million Triumph Points.
“Let’s go!”
[1,000,000 Triumph Points consumed. Mid-Grade Heavenly Immortal Art has advanced!]
[Great Heavenly Immortal Art: Gain 499 years of lifespan! Deepen your understanding of all cultivated arts by 500 years. The divine body is wondrously formed, True Qi flows and breathes freely, and spellcasting suffers no delay. The three special effects of “Returnspring,” “Replenishment,” and “Bone-Piercing” are displayed at tenfold strength! When attacking an opponent to the verge of death, myriad forms of destiny may all be seized, and outstanding ones may condense into Destiny Spirit Crystals! Whenever any Divine Ability is upgraded, one other Divine Ability may randomly increase once.]
“Good, good, good!”
Li Mu was wildly delighted.
Aside from the changes to his understanding of cultivation arts, this had also strengthened his ability to plunder destiny.
Previously, Li Mu had only plundered destiny when killing people with talents.
Now, the restriction of having to kill a talented person had been removed. That meant that no matter what he killed, there was a chance he could plunder destiny.
However, the other party’s destiny still had to be outstanding enough.
Killing trash probably still would not produce Destiny Spirit Crystals.
From this moment onward, Great Heavenly Immortal Art had already reached its limit.
Li Mu no longer needed to accumulate such an enormous amount of Triumph Points.
Next, he had to gradually raise each Divine Ability until he had no shortcomings.
Unexpectedly, Great Heavenly Immortal Art had even directly given him a buy-one-get-one-free effect!
Looking at the 138,000 Triumph Points he still had in his pocket, Li Mu turned his gaze to several newly appeared Divine Abilities.
[Great Sage’s Battle Regalia], [Gather Form and Scatter Qi], [Undying Hairs].
Together, they only cost 20,001 points.
Li Mu: “...”
Looking carefully, [Great Sage’s Battle Regalia] only required 1 Triumph Point!
The other two both required 10,000 points.
There was nothing more to say. Two words: cost-effective!
However, what left Li Mu depressed was that Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation still remained a string of question marks and did not display a price!
Forget it. There was no need to dwell on it.
From now on, he would focus on raising all of his Divine Abilities and his own cultivation.
The price would appear sooner or later.
Without hesitation, Li Mu bought all three Divine Abilities.
[Great Sage’s Battle Regalia: The regalia lies in spirit, not form. Though you are in another world and not in a monkey body, you may seek the four spirit treasures of boots, hat, armor, and weapon to forge your own battle regalia. Each time you wear one piece of the regalia, your bearing will greatly improve! When all four parts of the regalia are gathered, you may freely transform.]
Although he still needed to use Triumph Points to forge spirit treasures belonging to himself, spirit treasures were not hard for Li Mu to find now.
This Divine Ability was practically given to him for free.
[Gather Form and Scatter Qi: Gather, and you take form. Scatter, and you become Qi. Freely appear and vanish. During its duration, a large amount of True Qi is consumed. Cooldown: 60 minutes.]
[Undying Hairs: Each time you infuse one hair with True Qi equal to your own, you may gift that hair to another person. The hair may transform at any time into an External Incarnation with combat power equal to yours!]
Li Mu was so angry that he laughed.
This was Undying Hairs?
Was this not life-saving hairs?
But that made sense too.
This Divine Ability had to be slowly upgraded before it could reach the level of undying. Expecting it to grant immortality the moment it was unlocked meant he had been dreaming a little too much.
As he was thinking, new notifications appeared.
[Blessed Field Art: The Blessing Field has expanded to 500 mu.]
[Bronze Head and Iron Arms: Defense has increased to 300 times your own physical strength!]
These two had improved along with Gather Form and Scatter Qi and Undying Hairs. They were the buy-one-get-one-free upgrades.
Great Sage’s Battle Regalia did not give a free upgrade.
Clearly, the Divine Ability that received a free upgrade was also based on the number of Triumph Points he had spent this time.
However much he spent was how much the corresponding free upgrade was worth.
Li Mu now still had 108,000 Triumph Points.
He planned to first find some spirit treasures and upgrade his battle regalia, then leave the rest for when he discovered a shortcoming.
That way, he would not run out when he needed them.
After all, once he reached the Profound Rank, obtaining Triumph Points would actually become more difficult.
Even though killing Profound Rank monsters would give him a large number of Triumph Points, Profound Rank monsters were not as numerous as Yellow Rank monsters.
With that thought in mind, Li Mu rose and prepared to head to the Quartermaster Department.
Although the area around the Sub-Profound Spirit Tree was still packed with people, it was already much more orderly than before.
Moreover, the spirit tree was no longer free.
The external price was half of what the Liang Family had charged before.
That was only around one or two hundred thousand per entry.
Students from Ironbone Military Academy received another fifty percent discount, bringing it down to tens of thousands each time.
Soldiers from Spirit Dragon Military District and Red Horse Military District paid 100 contribution points each time.
Soldiers from Wanren Military District paid 50 contribution points each time.
This was the price Li Mu had promised Wang Longcheng. Aside from the external price, all other prices were quite a bit higher than those at Pearl Military District.
Over these past ten-plus days, Li Mu had already harvested four batches of low-grade Qi-Gathering Pills.
Each batch could produce more than twenty thousand bottles of spiritual liquid.
By now, he had accumulated over one hundred thousand bottles.
Half of them were handed to Zhang Zhiwei to take up and sell in small quantities through hunger marketing.
The other half was purchased by Wanren Military District.
The instructors of the Instructor Department had come up with a new training plan.
Li Mu directly called Military Supply Minister Tu Jian to the Instructor Department meeting.
He told Tu Jian to take out one-third of the military district’s spiritual liquid and use it as rewards for the Instructor Department’s new training plan.
Everyone in the Instructor Department went numb.
Since when had the Instructor Department ever been this forceful toward the Military Supply Department?
That was the Military Supply Department, the wealth god department of a military district, the one that controlled resource allocation and acquisition.
But when it came to Li Mu, he summoned Tu Jian around as he pleased.
Tu Jian felt that Li Mu had not even needed to call him over.
Living ancestor, this spirit tree and spiritual liquid were all things you brought in yourself. You can distribute them however you want. Just give me an order and that would be enough.
Why bother bringing it to a meeting for discussion?
You are giving me too much face!
How touching!
At the meeting, he immediately gave Li Mu a round of assurances.
Now, Li Mu planned to go straight to the top-grade spirit treasure section of the Quartermaster Department and put together a set of battle regalia.
However, just as Li Mu reached the Quartermaster Department, his phone rang.
The call was from An Xing.
“Come to the Commander-in-Chief’s Office for a meeting. Our people discovered a strange giant stone tablet in the Abyss!”