Longevity Strange Immortal
Chapter 110 - 111: A Few Matters About Farming on Corpse Mountain

Chapter 110: Chapter 111: A Few Matters About Farming on Corpse Mountain

Li Mo watched the Military Punishment Hall leave, and then the Calligraphy and Painting Hall also began to move.

His expression grew solemn, but it was fortunate that the Calligraphy and Painting Hall didn’t head straight to the Slaughterhouse, providing at least a ten-minute buffer.

"Truly a barefoot doctor..."

It was clear that Tian Changwen had no intention of involving Li Mo in the beast calamity at the Slaughterhouse.

Given the value Li Mo demonstrated, losing him in the beast calamity would be too great a loss, as his skills in Artifact Refining and Medical Skills far surpassed those of an average youth during the Weak Crown Period.

The Calligraphy and Painting Hall traversed through thick fog.

Li Mo didn’t rush to meditate and recover; his first task was to continue fortifying the building, as escaping outside depended on the Calligraphy and Painting Hall.

Logically, after the incident with Master Duomu, Tian Changwen would certainly pay attention to the safety of the Calligraphy and Painting Hall when placing his chess pieces.

But Li Mo felt anxious.

According to the information Jin Li gathered, the bounty on him at the Puppet Cultivation side had already increased to 1,500 Mid-grade Spirit Stones, equivalent to the shop manager during the Late Teenage.

Li Mo couldn’t guarantee that some Puppet Cultivator wouldn’t take a risk.

He decisively spent over 1,300 Contribution Points to purchase a batch of spiritual materials for the renovation of the Calligraphy and Painting Hall, most of which were "Spirit Concealing Wood".

The characteristics of Spirit Concealing Wood are very clear: it can block the prying of Eye Magic and also hinder the flow of Spiritual Power. The main body of the inner rooms was made of Spirit Concealing Wood.

With the Calligraphy and Painting Hall renovated using Spirit Concealing Wood, coupled with Li Mo’s own leakless body and the mysterious thick fog covering Rong Town,

it can’t be said to be foolproof, but at least conventional methods find it hard to track him down.

Li Mo initially wanted to replace the walls and floors with Spirit Concealing Wood but later felt it wasn’t worth it and thought it better to refine a room Magic Artifact.

He brazenly asked Han Cai for a copy of the Magic Artifact Catalog.

[Qingya Pavilion]

Although the Qingya Pavilion was just a Low Grade Magical Artifact, its complexity matched that of a Mid-grade Magical Artifact, requiring a large amount of wood attribute spiritual material to merge.

For an ordinary Artifact Refiner, it might take four or five people working together to refine it.

However, Li Mo was an anomaly, possessing the soul power of memorization, and multitasking was a breeze for him, allowing him to even meditate simultaneously.

Spirit Concealing Wood piled up in the courtyard, with the Eight-Armed Spine Nerve precisely cutting the logs, and even the wood shavings were properly collected.

The refinement of the Qingya Pavilion proceeded smoothly, while Li Mo also kept an eye on the Slaughterhouse.

It was quite strange.

The exploration of the Slaughterhouse had been ongoing for some time, yet the Calligraphy and Painting Hall had never received any wounded from the Slaughterhouse.

Could it be that the death rate was too high?

Li Mo secretly denied it. Even if the death rate from the beast calamity was high, it was impossible for there to be no wounded at all. There must be some hidden secrets.

Additionally, the information that could be collected about the Slaughterhouse was scarce, and even Han Cai only had a limited understanding.

Li Mo tried asking Hu Wen, but the latter couldn’t be contacted at all. Jin Li, on the other hand, was on the outskirts of the Slaughterhouse, but Childhood Cultivators couldn’t get close to the source of the beast calamity.

Jin Li did mention many strange phenomena in the Slaughterhouse.

For instance, the Slaughterhouse constantly had the sound of sheep bleating, becoming more incessant over time, seemingly exceeding a hundred sheep.

In Rong Town, where birds and beasts had vanished, it definitely involved Inner Sect Beasts.

Sheep? Goats?

Li Mo also noticed that Tian Changwen had already started altering the strategy toward the Slaughterhouse, sending some cultivators to other beast calamities.

There were reportedly two other beast calamities being prepared for handling.

When the Qingya Pavilion refinement was complete, a fifth of the cultivators withdrew from the Slaughterhouse, including Li Qingfang and his siblings.

Li Mo had Jin Li keep an eye on any anomalies at the Slaughterhouse and gather information from the Government Office while busying himself with the follow-up refinements of the Qingya Pavilion.

The Qingya Pavilion’s outward appearance was that of an ordinary shop, somewhat resembling the Qinghong Flower Tower.

However, the Qingya Pavilion had only a single-story structure.

Li Mo razed the Old Painting and Calligraphy Hall to the ground, even renewing the soil to prevent any hidden tricks.

Due to the excessive use of Spirit Concealing Wood in the Qingya Pavilion, Li Mo only completed the Second Refinement before halting, focusing again on concealing aura.

After a simple decoration, he moved into the Qingya Pavilion for peaceful cultivation.

To refine the Qingya Pavilion, nearly 2,000 Contribution Points were spent, causing Li Mo some heartache even if he didn’t plan on exchanging for the Little Human Head.

Fortunately, due to Li Mo’s skills, opportunities to earn Contribution Points soon presented themselves.

Tian Changwen signaled via a spiritual tablet.

After reading the transmission from the tablet and digesting the information left by Tian Changwen, Li Mo found the task was to refine Mid-grade Magical Artifacts, with the Magic Artifact Catalog provided by Tian Changwen.

A total of two Mid-grade Magical Artifacts were needed, each requiring at least the Eight Refinements.

Li Mo was overjoyed, as each artifact would be worth 500 Contribution Points, with resources to be delivered by the log house in a few days.

Given his current cultivation, the refinement of Mid-grade Magical Artifacts was not particularly difficult.

Gaining 1,000 Contribution Points was a sure win.

While waiting for the log house, he summoned Corpse Mountain into his palm.

Corpse Mountain had a material that seemed both stone and flesh, with vague shadows struggling within it—those were the remains of Master Duomu trapped inside.

Li Mo examined Master Duomu, who had lost all spiritual wisdom and was in a very unstable state.

If the Yin attribute spiritual power contained in Corpse Mountain were just a bit more intense, it could smoothly devour Master Duomu, becoming one of the nutrients of the Medicine Field.

Li Mo hesitated for a few breaths.

He absorbed the Eternal Tree into Corpse Mountain, instantly revealing a towering tree atop the mountain.

The Evergreen Tree subtly swayed its trunk, dropping Deceit Beast flesh from its branches, and Corpse Mountain hungrily swallowed the flesh.

When Corpse Mountain began to feed, it revealed a horrifying side.

Blood-and-flesh tendrils emerged from rocky crevices, greedily wrapping around the corpse pieces and pulling them into the mountain, while the head of a hermit crab emerged.

The hermit crab feasted with its pincers, causing the Corpse Mountain to swell in size.

The growth potential of a top-grade magic artifact was astonishing. Even as an artifact embryo that had not undergone the First Refinement, its power continued to increase.

Li Mo felt slightly overwhelmed, as maintaining Corpse Mountain consumed more spiritual power.

Yet he didn’t stop, pouring tons of Deceit Beast flesh into it while releasing the Blood Soaked Gourd to hover above Corpse Mountain.

Blood rain poured down, nourishing every inch of Corpse Mountain.

The size of Corpse Mountain had already doubled, and Master Duomu was no longer visible, likely swallowed deep within the mountain.

Soon, a thin mist of Yin attribute spiritual energy spread out.

For a magic artifact to have the effect of nurturing spiritual energy was a testament to the wonder of top-grade magic artifacts. It’s hard to imagine what a magic treasure might be.

Once the Deceit Beast carcasses were entirely consumed by Corpse Mountain,

the Yin attribute spiritual energy released by Corpse Mountain equaled that of a Low Grade Spirit Stone, though the quality of the artifact itself was somewhat unstable due to forced upgrades by the Nourishing Yuan Fruit.

"If I were to awaken a soul power related to Artifact Refining in the future, would there be a chance to advance Corpse Mountain further, turning it into the legendary magic treasure?"

Li Mo couldn’t imagine it.

But he felt that just Corpse Mountain alone was sufficient to use until the Uncertainty Nascent Soul, making it indeed worthwhile to invest resources into, as the stronger the trump card, the better.

Li Mo directly picked a Nourishing Yuan Fruit with 300 years of medicinal power.

As the Tattooed Beast began to stir, he tossed the Nourishing Yuan Fruit into Corpse Mountain, which then sprouted a large amount of fungus on its surface.

He withdrew Corpse Mountain, letting the magic artifact undergo transformation.

It was then that he noticed the Evergreen Tree clinging to the apex of Corpse Mountain, inexplicably taking root and sprouting, losing connection with him.

Corpse Mountain indiscriminately absorbed the Evergreen Tree’s nutrients, with the magic artifact on the verge of destruction.

Li Mo felt a bit regretful.

Fortunately, at Cai Market, to accommodate the mountain of blood and bones, he had already extracted the spiritual material from the Evergreen Tree.

However, recreating the ecological box within the Evergreen Tree was no easy task, especially considering that the group of beasts had been caught at great expense from Xinji Ridge.

Li Mo shook his head slightly, closing his eyes to replenish his cultivation.

Just as his Spiritual Power was about seventy to eighty percent recovered, the log house brought the resources for Artifact Refining.

He dared not delay, prioritizing the completion of the task to avoid offending Tian Changwen and being cast into the beast calamity as cannon fodder.

The log house contained various metal spiritual materials, mixed with some white bone spiritual materials, with the Magic Artifact Catalog placed on top of the materials.

Li Mo stowed the pile of spiritual materials into his Storage Bag, then took the Magic Artifact Catalog in hand, examining it carefully as he leisurely walked toward the Calligraphy and Painting Hall.

The contents of the Magic Artifact Catalog were exceedingly detailed, most likely not obtained from an auction house.

"Mid-grade Magical Artifact, Bone-locking Body Sealing Chain."

"Quite interesting."

"It’s actually similar to the Immortal Binding Chain, more accurately described as a Beast Binding Chain."

"By integrating bone powder of beasts, birds, or insects into the artifact, the Bone-locking Body Sealing Chain gains terrifying suppression over the respective targets..."

Li Mo stood frozen on the spot.

The white bone spiritual materials provided by Tian Changwen turned out to be elephant bones.

The Inner Sect Beast at the Slaughterhouse should have been a sheep, making it unlikely to involve elephants, looking more like a precaution against An Gang.

Li Mo did not believe it was a coincidence; suggesting An Gang had turned traitor as a Beast Cultivator also seemed unlikely.

What kind of strangeness is there in the Slaughterhouse for Tian Changwen to be so cautious against An Gang?

"Even Qingfang Daoist had already gone to the Slaughterhouse, how could it be so perilous?"

Li Mo remained expressionless, commencing the refinement of the Bone-locking Body Sealing Chain.

The first Bone-locking Body Sealing Chain took a full three days and nights, with unsatisfactory quality, but finally stumbled through the completion of the Eight Refinements.

Through refining the Bone-locking Body Sealing Chain, Li Mo grew more convinced it was intended for An Gang, as the elephant bone spiritual materials used clearly shared the same origin.

In fact, the materials were likely extracted from An Gang’s body.

Once the Bone-locking Body Sealing Chains were all completed, Li Mo promptly handed them over.

While probing the intricacies of the Slaughterhouse, he focused all his energy on meditation and cultivation, occasionally painting some Mountain King Maps for practice.

After half a month of dormancy, Corpse Mountain finally absorbed the 300 years of nourishment from the Nourishing Yuan Fruit.

Li Mo eagerly looked at the magic artifact; though the Corpse Mountain itself had grown to over a hundred meters tall, more importantly, the Yin attribute spiritual energy it emitted had barely met the threshold for planting spiritual materials.

The Eternal Tree hadn’t turned into nutrients and still stood high on the mountain crest.

Li Mo communicated with the Evergreen Tree, discovering it had reverted to the state of an original spiritual material, void of any internal space and with no signs of refinement.

However, it retained its spirituality, actively attacking any living threats within its range.

Li Mo’s expression became nuanced, incredulously inspecting Corpse Mountain, finding that this top-grade magic artifact had become aligned with the Yin Earth, Wood, and three attributes.

What facilitated Corpse Mountain’s fusion with the Evergreen Tree was the 300 years of essence contained in the Nourishing Yuan Fruit.

Li Mo suspected that the essence contained in the Nourishing Yuan Fruit, nurtured by the Paoxiao Swallowing Body, was not postnatal essence but the innate essence only present at the birth of a baby.

Hence, it allowed Corpse Mountain to undergo a complete metamorphosis.