Two hours ago, after checking the information on the Star Stones Zheng Cunjian sent, Li Mu undid the Life-and-Death Spell in Zheng Cunjian's body and let him go.
This could be considered to have completely ended the binding relationship between the two of them.
From now on, they would go their separate ways.
Li Mu did not do that out of kindness.
Although Zheng Cunjian had done a lot of harm to Taibai County, he had been tortured by the Life-and-Death Spell at a fixed time these days. After all, he was familiar with Zheng Cunjian. It would be too cruel to kill him with one hack. Li Mu would not do that to an acquaintance.
Moreover, the most important thing was that Li Mu was getting more and more worried about Zheng Cunjian.
It did not mean that Zheng Cunjian was not afraid of the Life-and-Death Spell.
It was because Li Gang, the magistrate of Chang 'an, had begun to adjust his attitude toward Li Mu.
Before Huang Wenyuan died, in Li Gang's eyes, he was the chess player and Li Mu was just a chess piece. Even after Li Mu broke through the Natural Realm and fought against Celestial Beings, he had become a more powerful chess piece.
However, when Li Mu gained the power to fight against a Sage, it meant that the chess piece was no longer under Li Gang's control, no matter whether it was by himself or by external help.
Would Li Gang continue to support an uncontrollable chess piece in the dark?
Certainly not.
Unless Li Gang was a fool.
Therefore, in such a situation in Beijing, how much of the information Zheng Cunjian passed to Li Mu as Li Gang's lackey was true? Even if Zheng Cunjian was intimidated by the Life-and-Death Spell, was he not afraid of Li Gang's means?
How much of a message could Li Mu believe from such a rat in the bellows, a Zhu Bajie who was neither human nor human?
Therefore, Li Mu might as well "set Zheng Cunjian free".
"Get out of here and play with that scumbag. I don't need you anymore."
That was Li Mu's attitude.
By then, three days had passed since he killed Huang Wenyuan and his companions.
In the past three days, Li Mu had put aside his usual cultivation and focused on one thing — perfecting the Dragon-assembling Pattern and increasing its stability and power as much as possible.
Li Mu once said that he was invincible in Taibai County.
He wasn't trying to be pretentious.
Instead, he was stating a fact.
More than a month ago, the Dragon-assembling Pattern had been preliminarily built. The power of geomancy and the power of the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the entire Taibai Mountain Range, with the Earth Vein Qi and the Earth Evil Polaris Formation in the yard of the old county government as the core, gathered the Qi of Earthveins and the power of mountains within a radius of nearly a thousand miles. How terrifying the power contained in it was!
Li Mu used the Five Elements Sky-flipping Seal as a vessel to guide the transformation. He could borrow the power of the Dragon-assembling Pattern and was comparable to a Sage.
Even if a Sage came, Li Mu was not afraid.
This was already invincible in a certain sense.
The shortcoming was that once he stepped out of the Taibai Mountain and went to the outside world, he would no longer be able to use that power to restore his fighting capacity to his original level, which was at the peak of the Natural Realm. Even a Celestial Being above the second step would have to kneel on the spot, let alone a Sage.
But why would a wretched man like Li Mu walk out of Taibai County if he was not sure?
That was also why Li Mu dared to kill Huang Wenyuan.
The reason why Li Mu directly displayed that kind of power on that day was, of course, to show off. Most importantly, he wanted to appease the people in Taibai County. Otherwise, even Feng Yuanxing, Ma Junwu, and the others might not be able to resist the pressure brought by the behemoth Guanshan Pasture, let alone the ordinary people.
Taibai County was the base of Li Mu's plan.
If a single spark wanted to start a prairie fire, the kindling must be preserved.
Li Mu still had to find a way to maintain the people's morale.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to lead the team if they lost their morale.
For Li Mu, the next few days were of the utmost importance.
After using the power of the Dragon-assembling Pattern for the first time, Li Mu noticed all kinds of flaws in the tactical deployment he had set up, so he had been repairing and perfecting it day and night.
In Taibai Mountain, there were thousands of tactical deployments of different sizes. Li Mu, like a hardworking engineer, was debugging each tactical deployment over and over again. The huge Dragon-assembling Pattern was tight and orderly, like a machine that needed to be tested, debugged, tried, and debugged again.
But now, he had succeeded.
The power of the Dragon-assembling Pattern had been upgraded to another level.
Three days had passed, but the revenge of the Guanshan Pasture as he imagined had not come yet. So, Li Mu simply tried to open Huang Wenyuan's and the second prince's intertreasure pouches. With the power of the Five Elements Sky-flipping Seal, he finally opened Huang Wenyuan's intertreasure pouch after many tries.
Among them, there was a large amount of money, various treasures, cultivation manuals, and several weapons, all of which were spiritual treasures. Among them, there was a yellow two-handed sword that was 1.6 meters long and as wide as two palms. It was of the highest grade. The body of the sword was like yellow soil, and the power of earth in it was extremely rich. It must have been Huang Wenyuan's sword. Unfortunately, he was killed by Li Mu before he had a chance to use it.
"I'll scrap all these swords and sabers and use them as materials to refine the Samsara Knife."
Li Mu yearned for the Primitive Gold of All Things, so he decided to continue his hodgepodge way of refining broadswords. He would combine thousands of metals to make his own Primitive Gold of All Things. Now, the Samsara Knife was only at the spiritual treasure level. It would take a long time to upgrade it to the magic treasure level or the Taoist treasure level.
Unsurprisingly, there were also Star Stones in Huang Wenyuan's intertreasure pouch.
Moreover, the number of Star Stones was far more than Liu Chong's. There were as many as ten of them, most of which were yellow in appearance. Among them, the energy in nine had been absorbed. Li Mu sensed a very special fluctuation of power in the last one.
"There is still some energy left in this Star Stone. It hasn't been completely absorbed by Huang Wenyuan …" Li Mu was very curious.
That day, when Liu Chong mentioned that the Star Stones contained extraterrestrial power that could enhance a martial artist's strength, Li Mu began to suspect that the Star Stones might contain some cosmic radiation. That stuff might even cause cancer on Earth. After all, superheroes such as Green Lantern were rare in the real world.
"Will there be any sequelae if I absorb the extraterrestrial power in this way?"
After thinking for a while, out of caution, Li Mu did not absorb the energy in the Star Stone himself. Instead, he summoned the Five Elements Sky-flipping Seal and absorbed the energy into it.
The fire part of the Sky-flipping Seal glowed and then returned to normal. On the surface, there seemed to be no special change.
However, the Star Stone that had its energy absorbed by the Sky-flipping Seal changed. The stone powder on its surface fell off with a rustle. Eventually, it was reduced to one-tenth of its original size. From a yellow stone, it turned into a strange metal with an irregular shape, flickering with yellow shimmer.
The strange yellow metal was very heavy. Although it was only the size of a fist, it weighed more than 50 kilograms.
"Is this the extraterrestrial metal?"
Li Mu was lost in thought. Then, a delighted smile appeared on his face.
Judging from the standards of all the relevant materials provided by Zheng Cunjian, this was definitely a piece of extraterrestrial metal of extremely high purity.
In theory, refining the extraterrestrial metal in the Star Stone was extremely difficult. Even many great star tactical deployment masters and great alchemists needed special conditions, equipment, and time to have a certain chance of success. After all, there was no steel mill in this world.
But now, he had accidentally used the Five Elements Sky-flipping Seal to purify and smelt a piece of Star Stone and got a high-purity Extraterrestrial Gold?
The Star Stone with residual extraterrestrial energy could be refined and purified out of the extraterrestrial metal. But what about the Star Stone that had lost its energy activity?
Li Mu repeated the same trick and did the same thing.
It worked.
Although the Five Elements Sky-flipping Seal was not interested in the Star Stone that had lost its energy activity, it would still melt the stone and purify the extraterrestrial metal in it.
The ten Star Stones in Huang Wenyuan's treasure pouch were all purified into irregular yellow extraterrestrial metal.
According to Li Mu's repeated observation, the ten pieces of strange yellow extraterrestrial metal were very compatible with the Spiritual Qi of the earth attribute and could enhance it. They also had excellent conductive effect on the Spiritual Qi of the other attributes but could not enhance it.
Later, he refined the other Star Stones he got from Chu Nantian, Huang Wenyuan, and the others.
In the end, he got four pieces of silver extraterrestrial metal of the gold attribute, five pieces of crimson extraterrestrial metal of the fire attribute, and one piece of green extraterrestrial metal of the wood attribute. Plus the extraterrestrial metal of the earth attribute, there were 20 pieces in total, of different sizes. There was no extraterrestrial metal of the water attribute, so he did not have enough of the five elements.
As for the use of these extraterrestrial metals?
Li Mu thought for a while and did not integrate them into the Samsara Knife at once.
Li Mu needed to practice and ponder how to make good use of this strange extraterrestrial metal. He subconsciously felt that the use of the extraterrestrial metal in this world might be at a low level. If he used the extraterrestrial metal according to the information collected by Zheng Cunjian, it might be a waste.
Li Mu vaguely felt that the extraterrestrial metal was far more precious than what he could see now.
The revenge of the Guanshan Pasture was slower than Li Mu expected.
Therefore, he simply continued to refine the Samsara Knife.
The weapons and minerals in Huang Wenyuan's and Liu Chong's treasure pouches were directly destroyed by Li Mu and turned into raw materials. Then, he refined them with the fire power of the Five Elements Sky-flipping Seal and integrated their essence into the Samsara Knife.
Finally, on the fourth day, before the Samsara Knife was finished, a voice that Li Mu had been waiting for for a long time sounded over Taibai County.
"Li Mu, get out here and answer me."
Huang Shengyi's voice was like thunder, shaking the entire Taibai County violently. The unparalleled killing intent rolled over like an avalanche.
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