The road is vague

Chapter 324 Wujin Tower

Ten years later.

Li Mo went into seclusion on Coral Island and finally managed to stabilize his Golden Core stage cultivation.

For a Golden Core cultivator, this is but a fleeting moment, but for many Qi Refining cultivators and mortals, it is a rather long time.

It's enough to turn a sprightly young man into a stooped middle-aged man.

Li Mo did not consolidate his realm using the two demon cores he obtained during his advancement, as the True Demon clone had expected. The reason was that to refine these two demon cores into pills, he would need the assistance of related thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. However, when he arrived at Coral Island, he secretly investigated for more than ten days and confirmed that there was no market here where Golden Core cultivators could buy materials.

It's not just that there are no large-scale trading markets on coral islands.

In the entire Four Treasures Island sea area, only on Rainbow Shell Island is an auction held publicly once every three years, and the items at the auction are at most usable by Foundation Establishment cultivators.

It's nearly impossible for Li Mo to gather all the thousand-year-old medicinal herbs needed to refine the elixir.

However, if he were in the Great Qian Kingdom, with the millennia-old heritage of numerous sects, he could easily gather the necessary spiritual herbs in Yuancheng, Jingzhou, just like buying everyday items.

"wrong."

Li Mo suddenly thought of the thousand-year-old bamboo rat spirit from the Southern Wilderness Plains.

Since there are mountain spirits skilled in planting in the southern barbarian lands, it is inevitable that there will be similar deities here. So far, he has only been active in the edge of the sea where humans hide. These are just wild islands without spiritual veins. Perhaps the so-called Xuanwu Island and Qianzhen Island can gather the relevant spiritual herbs?

With this in mind, Li Mo got up from the futon and stretched his limbs a little.

"Ten years have passed; it's time to plan something about the Thunder Yuan Sect."

As if sensing something from the main body, the True Demon clone arrived at the place where Li Mo's main body was in seclusion on Coral Island at this very moment, after replenishing its evil spiritual power in the Misty Dream Realm.

"Two days ago, Venerable Lei Yuan left Da Bao Island and went to Xuanwu Island. He is most likely going to carry out the next step of his plan, to join forces with the slave-catching ships to plunder Cai Bei Island, which is under the jurisdiction of Venerable Jin Gui. In addition, the Great Zhou Tian Seven Star Altar will be secretly built on Da Bao Island within six months at most."

"Well, how's the situation on Little Zhen Island?"

Li Mo learned that Xiao Zhen Island had sent people to look for him, but because he was in seclusion on Coral Island, the search was ultimately abandoned.

Compared to saving the people on Little Zhen Island, what's more important to him is to improve his strength as quickly as possible, since he's just a passerby after all.

"Those who could leave have all escaped. After years of development, Sibao Island is no longer the edge of the outer sea it once was. Not only have slave ships taken notice of this place, but more and more man-eating sea monsters have also been attracted here. Leaving this place early is perhaps a kind of luck for them."

Li Mo nodded and then looked at the various materials on his body.

Although he didn't know when Lei Yuan Venerable would return, since he was preparing to take action against him, he naturally had to make good preparations. Ideally, he should take advantage of the six months before the Seven Star Great Heavenly Altar was completed to refine a true magic weapon.

Although half a year was a short time, Li Mo, as a master weapon refiner, was not incapable of overcoming it.

The key is the materials. Low-level auxiliary refining materials are easy to obtain; he had acquired quite a few during his time as a bounty hunter at the First Line of Heaven in Jianmen Mountain. However, the key to refining magic weapons lies in magic weapon-grade materials that contain the power of heaven and earth.

After pondering over the many materials in his hands for a long time, Li Mo finally came up with a relatively feasible plan. He planned to combine the strange conch shell he obtained after killing the hermit crab sea monster with the remaining piece of black gold, and then add a large amount of gold essence and spiritual materials to refine a magic weapon specializing in gravity defense.

He obtained two pieces of black gold and a mysterious bamboo vine sword sheath in the ruins of Lingzhao Mountain in Wild Wolf Valley.

One of the pieces of black gold was consigned to an auction house because it lacked spirit stones, leaving only one piece of black gold remaining.

Black Gold: It is jet black in color, indestructible, incorruptible, does not reflect light, and is extremely heavy. It is an excellent material for refining gravity-type magic weapons and hammer-type magic weapons with gold essence. It can also be added with an equal amount of Tianling Jade to be refined into Tianwu Jade Gold, and combined with sufficient gold essence to be refined into top-level defensive magic weapons.

Combining black gold with this mysterious conch shell and then refining it using special spirit-summoning techniques to create a specialized gravity-defense magic weapon is also a good treasure-refining plan.

Modern human cultivators can categorize the crafting of magical artifacts into five types: advanced, specialized, spiritual, true, and innate.

Each type of magical artifact has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Needless to say, the natal magic weapon possesses immense power and the ability to continuously grow.

However, if a cultivator's natal magic weapon is destroyed, the cultivator will pay an unbearable price.

Because the Misty Box automatically became Li Mo's natal magic weapon after he advanced to the Golden Core stage, he no longer needed to consider this aspect. His ability to master the dualistic chaotic lightning so quickly was also inextricably linked to the Misty Box.

As for the specialized magic weapon he plans to refine next, it is characterized by its simplicity in refining, single function, and powerful reliability, and is also the mainstream type of magic weapon in the Central Plains today.

The downside is that it is relatively easy to control.

Li Mo immediately began to busy himself with planning. At the same time, he suddenly thought, why not imitate that hermit crab sea monster and refine a humanoid combined attack puppet in the Golden Core stage?
Although the combined attack puppet was destroyed, he managed to collect all the Wood Spirit Orbs again.

It's a pity that he's now far from the Great Qian Dynasty, otherwise the Arhat Bamboo that Cao Lingjie cultivated would have been put to good use. As for having him use the precious Jianmu branches in his storage ring to make puppets, with his current puppetry skills, it would be a waste of resources, so he immediately abandoned the idea.

"In short, let's reserve some room for future development."

After reserving this idea for the refining plan, Li Mo immediately took out several refining materials and began to work thoughtfully.

Half a year has passed by in a flash.

this day.

Deep inland on the coral island, the earth suddenly shook violently.

"Earthquake! Earthquake!"

People kept running out of the thatched huts, shouting as they ran, and occasionally someone would lose their balance and fall to the ground. As the largest and most barren of the four islands, the inland areas were originally uninhabited.

However, due to the continuous attacks by the evil followers of the Lei Yuan Cult on Dabao Island, some residents gradually began to settle further inland.

The residents of Xiaotan Village became one of the victims of this earthquake.

"Mommy mommy……"

The cries of young children were barely noticeable amidst the earth-shaking tremors.

He lay in his father's arms, watching helplessly as his mother fell behind him in the earthquake, unable to get up no matter how hard she tried.

The thatched huts in the village are collapsing one after another, resembling a living hell.

Upon seeing this, the young child's father immediately turned around, staggered, and pulled the young child's mother up, continuing to flee forward.

However, in that brief delay, the family had already landed and watched helplessly as their neighbors reached the fields even faster. Just as the three were preparing to do everything they could to escape to the other side, a ravine suddenly split open in the ground, swallowing up their panting neighbors before quickly healing itself.

"what……"

The child's mother screamed in terror.

Earthquakes come quickly and go quickly.

Just a dozen breaths later, the earth stopped shaking.

The family, who had narrowly escaped death, quickly arrived at an open field, where they could faintly hear terrified screams and constant knocking sounds coming from underground.

The other distraught villagers also came to their senses, but were helpless to do anything about it, and the sounds below gradually grew fainter and fainter.

The entire village of hundreds of people was plunged into endless grief.

the other side.

A surprised murmur came from Li Mo's secluded cave.

"Finally it's done."

In his hand was a treasure resembling a small tower, its color a deep black-gold, radiating golden essence and interacting with the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth—clearly something extraordinary.

As a specialized magical artifact, this artifact doesn't have many functions. It simply combines the defensive properties of a snail shell with the gravity properties of black gold, allowing it to be enlarged or reduced in size.

Li Mo looked satisfied.

He was already very satisfied that he had refined this treasure in just six months.

"Let's call it Wujinta."

This is a genuine magical artifact that has been blessed by spirits. Even if Li Mo only used it as a temporary measure, it is by no means comparable to a magical artifact like the Five Elements Black Tortoise Shield.

After a simple test, Wujinta was absorbed into Li Mo's body.

As for the earth-shaking tremors caused when he begged for spirits, Li Mo didn't pay too much attention to them. In the Central Plains, the order of heaven and earth was stable, so the process of refining treasures and begging for spirits would not be like this. But this is the edge of the Mountain and Sea Realm, where the rules of heaven and earth are disordered and mottled, so some strange phenomena of heaven and earth will form after begging for spirits.

"With this Black Gold Pagoda, plus the assistance of the True Demon Avatar, and the magical artifact that will transform the Man-Eating Vine Fruit through the Seven Star Heavenly Altar, and with the enemy in the open and us in the dark, we should have at least a 90% chance of success. After all, this Thunder Origin Venerable is only a Golden Core cultivator who has just advanced."

of course.

Li Mo had not forgotten the bamboo and rattan sword sheath in his hand.

As he advanced to the Golden Core stage, his initial understanding of the order of heaven and earth allowed him to barely sense the powerful characteristics contained within the sword sheath, confirming that this treasure must have surpassed the level of a magic weapon.

However, its characteristics are quite bizarre.

The fact that it could take away the flying swords and magical treasures of other cultivators was actually just an outermost, incidental characteristic.

The true nature of this treasure is that it can nourish various offensive magic weapons, passively endowing them with the characteristics of advanced magic weapons, so that they are constantly nourished and strengthened. Unfortunately, Li Mo does not currently have any offensive magic weapons to nourish it.

Besides the natal magic weapon, advanced magic weapons also have the characteristic of continuously growing stronger.

Similar to the Yin Water Pot in Li Mo's hand, it was crafted by imitating the characteristics of advanced magic weapons. Such magic weapons are relatively weak at the beginning, but they will become stronger and stronger as they are continuously improved.

This made Li Mo wonder if the ancient Lingzhao Mountain had specially crafted this treasure for another sword.
As for whether this scabbard possesses any other abilities, Li Mo, at his current Golden Core stage cultivation level, is unable to sense them for the time being.

"It's time to leave."

After Li Mo finished tidying up the hidden cave, he flew into the sky, preparing to head to Dabao Island to meet up with his clone, but he noticed a large field in the distance and couldn't help but pause for a moment.

When he secluded himself here, the place was a desolate wasteland.

When he saw the shattered villages on the earth and the villagers immersed in grief, he suddenly realized that he had unintentionally caused a great disaster. After a brief moment of astonishment, he revealed a look of sadness and sorrow, and further realized the difference between immortals and mortals.

"Is it because of the Lei Yuan Sect that they fled here?"

After a slightly gloomy expression, Li Mo casually took out a bottle of pills and tossed it out as a token of his good fortune before continuing to fly towards Da Bao Island.

(End of this chapter)