That figure slowly raised his head.
In the silence, Li Mu seemed to hear a long sigh of relief.
"Refine this Chu stone, and you can go out."
As his voice faded, the outline of Qu Yuan's voice slowly disappeared.
This was a strand of worry that he had left behind in this place. Now that he had met the person he was waiting for and found out what he wanted to know, the obsession dissipated, and the worry also disappeared.
Li Mu bowed for a long time before he stood up.
He knew that if he wanted to leave this small space, he had to refine this Star Stone that Qu Yuan called Chu stone. That was the only way.
It suddenly occurred to Li Mu that according to the legend on Earth, Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River with a stone in his arms. At that time, the stone Qu Yuan was holding couldn't be this Chu Stone, could it? But how did Qu Yuan hold such a big stone in his arms?
No, Qu Yuan was a powerful man after all. Maybe he shrunk the stone at that time?
Li Mu's mind was in a mess. Then, he sorted out his thoughts and began to refine this Star Stone full of wood Spiritual Qi.
In the Five Emperors' Immortality Scriptures he was practicing, he had finished the first step of the Fire Emperor's Heart-nourishing Scripture. According to the normal order, the second step, the Liver-nourishing Scripture of the Green Emperor, needed a large amount of wood energy.
"The liver contains the soul. The acquired soul is the wandering soul, and the innate benevolence. If the soul is empty of joy, the soul will be stable. The wood qi of the Eastern Wood Emperor …"
In the Mud-pill Palace, Li Mu activated his spiritual force to open the long jade slip of the Five Emperors' Immortality Scriptures and slowly unfolded it. Taoist sounds filled his Sea of Spirit. Li Mu's spirit sank into it and began to comprehend it as if he were listening to an ancient god preaching.
Then, it was time to refine the Star Stone.
In the small space, there was no concept of time.
Li Mu tried his best.
After a long time, his spirit withdrew from the Mud-pill Palace. After listening to the entire Liver-nourishing Scripture of Emperor Qing Di, he began to comprehend the mystery in it. Only when he thoroughly understood it could he really start to absorb the power of wood.
After entering the Celestial Being Realm, every step was a natural barrier. He could not be careless.
After an unknown period of time.
Li Mu slowly opened his eyes.
"It's done."
He slowly stepped onto the wood-type Star Stone, sat cross-legged on it, and began to operate his cultivation technique. The true energy in his body flowed along a special meridian path, eventually converging into his liver, and then from there to his heart.
Since Li Mu had already mastered the Taoist True Fire, the operation of his natural qi was extremely smooth. After running it according to the method of the Liver-nourishing Scripture of Emperor Qing Di, it directly formed a strange field inside his body, which released a strange force and automatically absorbed the wood energy in the Star Stone under him.
Wisps of cyan mist flowed out of Chu Shizhi and swirled around Li Mu as if they were evaporated. In the end, they seeped into Li Mu's body through his mouth, nose, and pores.
Two hours later, Li Mu's body became completely translucent, just like when he practiced the Mental Scripture of the Fire Emperor for the first time. But this time, it was not only his flaming heart that had changed, but also his liver that was gradually turning emerald green.
As Li Mu continued to absorb the wood elemental energy from the Chu stone, his liver became more and more emerald green, like a piece of jade, releasing a vigorous vitality.
Time flew by.
No one knew how many years had passed.
Li Mu's liver had become green and flawless, as if it were the most perfect jade in the world. The vitality contained in it was like a small world.
And the Chu stone he was sitting on gradually dimmed.
In the end, the brilliance of the Chu stone completely disappeared, and it became a plain stone.
In Li Mu's body, the green natural qi and the red natural qi were constantly running in the meridians, nourishing his body, and the originally transparent body gradually began to become flesh and blood.
After dozens of hours, the natural qi in Li Mu's body became more and more skillful. The qi of the Southern Fire Emperor and the qi of the Eastern Wood Emperor blended together like milk and water, without any flaws or rejection.
Li Mu opened his eyes and slowly stood up.
He estimated that it had been more than ten days.
In general, it took him less time to practice the Liver-nourishing Scripture of Green Emperor than to practice the Heart-nourishing Scripture of Fire Emperor. That was because of the existence of the Chu stone that contained extremely pure and brilliant wood elemental energy. It was much faster to rely on the wood elemental energy than to absorb the fire elemental energy drifting between heaven and earth when he was in the Everlasting Heaven.
Moreover, because the qi of the Southern Fire Emperor that he had cultivated his heart was helpful to the cultivation of the other four major internal organs. Fire itself was a tool for refining weapons, and it could also refine the body and spirit. Therefore, it had a beneficial effect on the cultivation of the other four qi.
That was also one of the reasons why the Heart-nourishing Scripture of Fire Emperor must be practiced first in the Five Emperors' Immortality Scripture.
"After practicing the Liver-nourishing Scripture of Green Emperor, I have entered the second step of the Celestial Being Realm. However, when I was in the first step of the Celestial Being Realm, I was already able to fight against Sages and the initial stage of the Sage. Now that I have entered the second step of the Celestial Being Realm and cultivated the wood qi of the Green Emperor, to what extent will my combat capability increase?"
Li Mu lowered his head and stared at his hands.
One of his palms was surrounded by emerald cyan qi of vitality, and the other was swirling with crimson qi of flame. With a thought, he slowly put his hands together.
"Boom!"
A new wave of energy was generated.
The horrifying energy fluctuations, like the wrath of an immortal or a demon, burst out in that small space, causing the space to distort.
"What a terrible power! It's no less powerful than the broadsword Ying Shanxue, the Emperor's Broadsword, displayed when he attacked the All-side Starlight Deployment. Moreover, in terms of the quality of the power, it's even higher."
Li Mu himself was taken aback.
"When the qi of the Southern Fire Emperor fused with the qi of the Eastern Wood Emperor, its power is not only doubled?"
"Yes, wood feeds fire, and wood feeds fire."
"Wood can fuel fire."
Li Mu was enlightened.
He began to try again to fuse the power outside his body.
After dozens of attempts, an orange-yellow ball of fire that looked like gold jumped and flickered agilely in his palm. The destructive power like the wrath of an immortal or a demon was contained in that ball of fire.
"Even if this ball of fire is not as good as the Three True Fire, its power is not weak. It is the combination of the qi of the Southern Fire Emperor and the Eastern Wood Emperor, the power of two emperors. Let's call it … Emperors' Fire."
With a stir of Li Mu's mind, the mass of Emperors' Fire in his palm kept expanding and shrinking. When it expanded, it was hundreds of meters long, but when it shrank, it was as small as a grain of rice or a needle. Li Mu could control it at will.
He moved his body and felt the incomparably powerful power flowing in his body.
The five-step Celestial Being, one step at a time, one step at a time.
This was a martial arts theory proverb in this world, and it was the most suitable for Li Mu. With the cultivation of a second-step Celestial Being, he could not simply go against the natural order to kill a Sage, but he could kill a Sage.
If he had to fight Yingshan Snow-eagle, the Emperor's Broadsword, again, Li Mu was confident that he could defeat him.
That was the advantage of Cultivation Methods.
What Li Mu practiced were all immortal Cultivation Methods.
For example, a turbocharged engine would definitely accelerate faster than a naturally aspirated engine with a larger displacement. It was no longer a matter of displacement, but the superiority and inferiority of technology.
About half an hour later, Li Mu felt that the small space began to become unstable. It was probably going to disappear.
Li Mu knew he could finally get out.
His eyes fell on that huge Star Stone.
After the pure wood power inside it was absorbed, it became a piece of ore, which still had the activity of wood. It was the best refined ore for refining weapons. It would be a pity to leave it here. So, he had to take it out.
At that time, a voice sounded, "Don't let outsiders know what happened here. Everything here belongs to you. Don't let outsiders know!"
It was Qu Yuan's voice.
The last wisp of this great sage's spirit that existed in this small dimension had completely dissipated.
After hearing that, Li Mu secretly felt sorry for the Yue Mountain Faction. He didn't want to keep it to himself, but now it seemed that this huge Star Stone was not prepared for the Yue Mountain Faction.
He unsheathed the Samsara Saber and chopped the huge ore into pieces. It took him more than a dozen storage devices to store all the ore.
By the time he was done, the entire small plane space had completely collapsed. A repulsive force surged over and pushed Li Mu out of the space.
By the time Li Mu realized what had happened, he had returned to the space inside the mountain of the All-side Starlight Deployment of the Yue Mountain Faction. The mountain walls were shining like stars in the sky, and he was standing on the ninth layer of the nine-layer altar made of flat black stone.
On the other hand, the line 'The road ahead is long, I will search high and low' had already disappeared, as if it had never appeared in the first place.
The small space disappeared, and so did the words.
Li Mu roughly understood that it must be because he had fixed the All-side Starlight Deployment and activated the power of the stars in the sky. Thus, he had activated the small space and made it exist. The poem "The road ahead is long, but I will explore it from top to bottom" was a primer, a key that would pull people into the small space of the plane.
But there was also a test in it.
The reason why Qu Yuan had set up the illusion array that showed the complete picture of the Earth was probably to identify the people who entered the small space as descendants of the Earth. Anyone who could walk out of the Earth and come to this planet must have seen the complete picture of the Earth in the starry sky.
Everything in the small space was prepared for the descendants of the earth.
"I don't know how long it has been. Let's go out and have a look."
Li Mu turned into a flash of lightning and flew to the exit of the space.
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"Where did Third Brother go?"
Qiu Yin stood at the door of the main hall, looking anxious.
Xu Sheng, Xu Yue, and other senior members of the Yue Mountain Faction were also standing in front of the main hall, looking anxious.
Because outside the All-side Starlight Deployment, blood had begun to flow.
On the Flying Whale Shuttle were dozens of people, all of whom were Li Mu's acquaintances in Chang 'an. Three of them had been beheaded, and blood was spreading in the void.
"Humph, Li Mu still won't show up? Kill him again. "
Yingshan Snow-eagle, the Emperor's Broadsword, said flatly.
The wife of Ning Jing, the concubine of the Ning Mansion in Chang 'an, was pushed out. A steel broadsword was placed on her neck. Ning Jing struggled desperately, but he could not break free. He could only watch his wife being put on the execution platform.
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