When Li Mo woke up again, three days had already passed.
He opened his eyes in a daze, the seclusion room was in disarray, and there were dozens of empty glass bottles scattered before him.
Li Mo had lost count of how many temporary arms he transplanted in the process of refining Corpse Mountain.
He glanced at his side; the wounds there had long since healed completely, though faint scars remained as evidence of the severity of past injuries.
A reckless move like Li Mo’s would probably be unparalleled in the Cultivation World.
Three Innate Taoist Bodies indeed grant him audacity—even the flaws of using temporary arms can disappear in the span of a brief nap, with his Spiritual Energy as pure as ever.
Li Mo yawned.
After tidying up the seclusion room, he turned his attention to the Magic Artifact Embryo of Corpse Mountain.
Corpse Mountain, standing ten ters tall, was a barren desolate hill. If Li Mo infused enough Spiritual Energy, it could even swell to a height of a hundred ters or more.
When the Magic Artifact Embryo fused with internal organs, under the effect of the Five Poison Five God Heart Sutra, it transford into a massive hermit crab.
The hermit crab erged from the base of the hill, its body glowing red, and its two massive pincers filled with jagged openings brimming with poisonous fluid.
The most terrifying aspect of Corpse Mountain lies in its ability to shrink and ingest living beings into its ridge.
If those beings fail to escape, they are corroded by the pervasive Yin Qi, ultimately reduced to corpses, forever providing Yin Attribute Spiritual Energy to Corpse Mountain.
Li Mo showed a hint of regret—Corpse Mountain hadn’t reached the level of a High Grade Magical Artifact. It seed clumsy and diocre in its use.
Controlling his consciousness, he directed the hundred-year dicine potency of the Nourishing Yuan Fruit to fuse with Corpse Mountain like a flowing light.
The Tattooed Beasts began to exhibit peculiar behavior, unable to resist the allure of the Nourishing Yuan Fruit.
Feeling it still was not secure enough, Li Mo glanced at another ten-year potency Nourishing Yuan Fruit and simply threw it into Corpse Mountain as well.
After absorbing the dicinal power, Corpse Mountain began to emit waves of vitality.
However, as Li Mo was only in the Early Stage of Youth, he couldn’t discern the depths of Corpse Mountain, opting to let the Magic Artifact undergo transformation on its own as he resud his seclusion.
The ti left until the Heart Beast Sect’s fifteen-year Outer Door Competition was running short.
Even if Li Mo had concerns, he couldn’t evade them—he had accepted Hu Wen’s Green Robe and, moreover, Han Cai would also participate in the Outer Door Competition.
Fortunately, even without Corpse Mountain, Li Mo’s thods were sufficient for self-preservation.
Li Mo originally assud Corpse Mountain’s transformation would take at least half a year, but to his surprise, in only ten days, the Magic Artifact underwent an earth-shattering transformation.
The refining marks on Corpse Mountain vanished entirely, the artifact beca flawless and seamless.
Li Mo even noticed that Corpse Mountain’s terrain now exhibited subtle variances in soil quality depending on elevation, mirroring a real environnt.
Yet, if Corpse Mountain was to beco verdant, further refinent would be required.
Li Mo was overco with joy.
But he refrained from recklessly activating Corpse Mountain; a High Grade Magical Artifact demands prolonged refinent and attunent, else it cannot be precisely controlled.
Li Mo’s Cultivation level was too low—any mistake could lead to Spiritual Energy depletion.
He compiled an extensive list of spiritual materials and handed it to Jin Li to help collect them, focusing primarily on materials for the first twenty refinents of Corpse Mountain.
The upper limit of a High Grade Magical Artifact is a Hundred Refinents, but unlike Mid and Lower Grade Magical Tools, each step of the refinent process for a High Grade Magical Artifact requires completing twenty refinents in one go.
Once refining begins, Li Mo cannot stop partway; otherwise, the spiritual materials will have difficulty integrating into Corpse Mountain.
Li Mo calculated that the Middle Stage of Youth might give him a chance to complete the first twenty refinents of Corpse Mountain. After all, the first five refinents only require Low Grade Spirit Materials, while the subsequent fifteen refinents call for Mid Grade Spirit Materials, all Earth Attribute in nature.
Li Mo glanced at the spiritual tablet’s records during this period.
Duozhi Mountain posed no major concerns—it was nothing but Li Mo darting around, and the transfer of ownership for a layer of dicine fields was re child’s play.
However, the regions beyond Duozhi Mountain showed signs of turmoil.
Li Mo squinted his eyes and quietly left the Four-legged Taoist Temple, standing at the edge of a cliff overlooking the northwest.
After progressing to the Weak Crown stage, even without imprinting his eyes, his vision had greatly improved.
He saw herds of wild beasts galloping through the mountain ranges near Duozhi Mountain, like a mighty, surging river.
It wasn’t limited to Duozhi Mountain—within a two-hundred-mile radius centered on Rong Town, countless beasts seed driven by instinct, migrating aimlessly.
Li Mo’s expression turned grim.
He understood that these beasts were living humans wearing beast skins, and such unusual movent was undoubtedly linked to the Outer Door Competition.
Li Mo suspected the upper echelons of Rong Town might have made arrangents for the competition, leading to the collective beast frenzy—a testant to the impending dangers.
"Hundred Beasts Blood Body, what on earth is Rong Town scheming?"
He observed the beast tide for a long ti before turning back to the Four-legged Taoist Temple.
Li Mo couldn’t influence these events directly, so his priority remained on enhancing his strength—first refining all four Mid Grade Magical Artifacts ten tis.
Mid Grade Magical Artifacts, after ten refinents, undergo significant enhancents.
In a certain sense, it’s like Mid Grade Magical Artifacts awakening a Divine Skill.
Thus, even artifacts of the sa type, as refinent progresses, can develop remarkably different functionalities.
The spiritual materials had been prepared long ago, and with the refinent of Corpse Mountain complete, Li Mo was in pri condition.
The first to undergo ten refinents was Breath Fog, infused with toxin-enhancing spiritual materials, making its lethality frighteningly potent.
The most astonishing result for Li Mo was that insectified poison bees beca semi-transparent.
Flying swiftly through the night, their trajectories were impossible for others to detect, and reverting to Breath Fog made them even harder to spot with the naked eye.
Evergreen Tree, after ten refinents.
Its appearance seed not much different—a giant bamboo stick insect—but its interior had expanded to accommodate spiritual materials.
While spiritual materials grown on the Evergreen Tree lacked the nurturing benefits of a dicine field, it was sufficient for Li Mo.
Especially since many flesh-based spiritual materials needed to be soaked in complex dicinal liquids; otherwise, prolonged neglect might degrade their quality.
The Eight-Ard Spine Nerve’s ten refinents resembled an ingenious hollow transformation, allowing the eight arms to stretch and retract freely, significantly improving flexibility.
The True Word Sect’s Secret Bone was the most peculiar—despite its integration of Earth tal spiritual materials, it resulted in transformations related to flesh and blood.
Li Mo’s expression turned odd as he summoned the True Word Sect’s Secret Bone.
The artifact, now a shield devoid of inscription patterns, was utterly transford.
After ten refinents, when Li Mo infused Spiritual Energy into it, the surface of the True Word Sect’s Secret Bone erupted with masses of flesh buds.
Li Mo frowned deeply as the Secret Bone sprouted flesh and even sparse hair within the blink of an eye, transforming into a blood-drenched skullcap.
"This indeed reeks of the Esoteric Buddhist Sect’s eerie handiwork."
Testing the Secret Bone’s defense with Tattooed Beasts revealed noticeable improvent, with the newly grown flesh rapidly regenerating damage.
Li Mo shook his head, tucking away the True Word Sect’s Secret Bone.
After refining the four Mid Grade Magical Artifacts, the ti remaining until the Outer Door Competition was down to one year.
Although Hu Wen had not urged him, and Han Cai’s response remained ambiguous, Li Mo knew it was about ti for him to move, getting ahead to uncover the truth behind the competition.
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