Chapter 150: Of Course I Have to Go With You
Li Mu’s current Divine Abilities should be considered starting from his own Internal Cultivation Method.
[Mid-Grade Heavenly Immortal Art: Grants four hundred and ninety-nine years of lifespan! Deepens your insight and understanding of the cultivation arts you have practiced by three hundred years. Your Dantian Sea and Meridians are as vast as the ocean, allowing dense True Qi to move freely. The three special effects, “Returnspring,” “Replenishment,” and “Bone-Piercing,” are displayed at five times their strength! When attacking an opponent, if the opponent possesses a talent, you will seize that talent when they are on the verge of death and condense it into a Destiny Spirit Crystal!]
[Returnspring: Greatly increases the recovery speed of True Qi.]
[Replenishment: When attacking an enemy, plunders a small portion of their True Qi and returns it to yourself.]
[Bone-Piercing: Massively increases the penetrating power of attacks.]
Just seeing the addition of four hundred and ninety-nine years to his lifespan nearly brought tears to Li Mu’s eyes.
However, this was still only the Mid-Grade Heavenly Immortal Art.
According to the original work, only after avoiding the three calamities of “Heavenly Lightning,” “Yin Fire,” and “Devastating Wind” could one truly achieve eternal life.
Each of the three calamities came once every five hundred years.
Since this had added four hundred and ninety-nine years, it definitely meant he could not get past the first calamity.
He wondered whether upgrading it to the Great Heavenly Immortal Art would directly help him skip over the three calamities.
Li Mu had to admit that he was a worldly man.
As the Great Sage had said, across the Three Realms and Six Paths, no one could resist the temptation of eternal life.
Aside from his Internal Cultivation Method, there were also these:
[Listen Close: Hide the divine weapon in the Xumi Space inside your ear canal, constantly gaining enlightenment and cultivating at 500% of the normal cultivation speed. You can hear the ill wind of an enemy’s attack and instantly activate your current strongest defensive cultivation art unconsciously and without cooldown. Its effectiveness is 10%.]
[Divine Weapon Art: Grants weight to a weapon. Current weight: 12,000 jin.]
[Mountain-Bearing Art: Increases strength by the force of one dragon and two tigers.]
[Immobilization Art: Shout “Freeze” to immobilize the target enemy in place for 0.5 seconds. Consumes 5% of your own True Qi value. Cooldown: 40 seconds.]
[Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze: When activated, allows you to see through the movement path of True Qi within the Meridians. It consumes a tremendous amount of True Qi.]
In addition, Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze came with named special effects.
[Habitual Use: Halves the True Qi consumption of Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze.]
[Counter-Calculation: See through an enemy’s attack. When counterattacking at this moment, True Qi strength increases by 30%.]
[Miasma-Piercing: See through all illusions.]
[Miasma-Casting: Allows you to learn illusions you have seen through and cast them in a stronger form.]
[Clear Insight: With your eyes open, you can perceive the finest details. With your eyes closed, you can see through your surroundings.]
[Mastery of All Arts: When observing others in battle, you perceive all their strengths and blend them into your own abilities.]
Further down was this:
[Wine-Borrowed Might: Drink a mouthful of wine. As the wine aroma spreads, a domain of pressure forms within five meters around you. Enemies within the domain suffer a blow to their courage and move sluggishly, while your courage greatly increases and your allies’ movement speed rises by 5%. Duration: 15 minutes.]
On top of that, he had also unlocked [While drinking, different effects are produced according to the force contained within the wine.]
The wine currently inside Li Mu’s Wine Gourd was the enhanced version of the wine his mother had brewed!
[Wine Grade: Rare-Grade. Provided Effects: True Qi strength increases by 10%, damage reduction increases by 30%, and all speeds increase by 40%.]
This wine was the result of Yang Suying’s alchemy over the past month.
She had used some leftover medicinal ingredients from Li Mu’s pill refinement.
Even those leftover medicinal ingredients could not be bought on the market no matter how much money one had.
It could be said that now, whenever Li Mu drank a mouthful of wine, he gained three layers of buffs!
The effects were extremely pure, and they could directly push Li Mu’s combat power up by an entire level.
Next were his two alchemy treasures: Alchemy Art and Blessed Field Art.
[Alchemy Art: Search for ingredients according to a pill formula. Once the ingredients are prepared, the immortal pill is completed.]
At present, he had the Low-Grade Body-Fortifying Pill, High-Grade Body-Fortifying Pill, Low-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill, High-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill, Earthvein Spirit Blossom Pill, Ghost-Axe Destiny Pill, and Jade-Pure Bone-Cleansing Pill.
[Blessed Field Art: Creates a land of Spiritual Energy where the Divine Soul can reside, cultivating spiritual plants and spiritual objects for your own use.]
[Current area: 200 mu. Infinite-cycle Spiritual Spring river channel, fivefold Spiritual Spring, fertility equal to two years per day. People can enter.]
[Every three days, you can choose one mu of land to receive sweet rain. Each rainfall can increase a plant’s maturation period by fifty years.]
[Seventy-Two Transformations: Transform into all things, obtain their traits, and retain your physical strength. Maintaining a transformation continuously consumes True Qi.]
Currently unlocked: Flying Mosquito, Bird Transformation, and Eagle Transformation.
[External Incarnation: Transform into clones that fight alongside you or perform some tricks.]
[Externalize five clones that inherit 100% of your strength, Divine Weapon Art, and Mountain-Bearing Art. When the main body uses Immobilization Art, the clones can also use Immobilization Art once. Clones last for 10 minutes. Cooldown: 5 minutes.]
Then came his defensive arts.
[Bronze Head and Iron Arms: Your body instantly becomes as hard as metal and stone, increasing defense by 100 times! Duration: 2 seconds. Cooldown: 1 minute.]
[When an enemy attacks, they suffer a countershock equal to 30% of their own attack.]
[Body-Protecting Art: Use a weapon to draw a circular barrier on the ground. Range: 30 meters. The barrier’s defensive power is roughly 70% of “Bronze Head and Iron Arms.” At the same time, allies within the barrier gain greatly increased morale, and their True Qi strength increases by 15% when attacking. Duration: 15 minutes.]
Aside from those, there were the two newest abilities he had unlocked.
[Somersault Cloud: Ride clouds and fly. Current maximum speed: 2,480 kilometers per hour. No True Qi consumption.]
[Bimawen: Your mount becomes the lead horse. When other horses follow the lead horse, their speed and endurance are both equal to the lead horse’s.]
After that was Li Mu’s own S-Grade talent, Source of Strength.
Source of Strength had four formidable traits.
[When attacking, adds damage equal to 40% of your True Qi strength.]
[When a weapon attack lands, its force pierces through armor and projects three chi beyond it.]
[Mutates all cultivation arts you have learned, causing them to ascend once toward “Source of Strength.”]
[For every 1% decrease in True Qi quantity, your own True Qi strength, physical strength, and speed increase by 1%.]
This last trait alone meant that the more he fought, the fiercer he became.
There was also the trait that mutated all of his cultivation arts. The Nine Heavens Thunderclap that Li Mu had awakened before possessed something similar.
It was just that it mutated them toward the direction of lightning arts.
Zhang Zhiwei’s long spear seemed to have the same effect, but Zhang Zhiwei now had two mutations, spear and lightning. Li Mu did not know whether it would mutate twice.
Take the Dragon’s Roar Shield among the cultivation arts Li Mu had learned now, for example.
Its original effect was to absorb the energy of an attack, explode, and return it.
After being modified by Li Mu’s Heavenly Immortal Art, it no longer exploded and instead purely and greatly enhanced defense.
However, after being mutated by “Source of Strength,” it became capable of “force dispersal,” absorbing incoming attack energy to replenish Li Mu’s own strength.
What was terrifying was that every cultivation art Li Mu learned would mutate in this direction and become an exclusive cultivation art of Source of Strength.
This was the terrifying aspect of an S-Grade talent.
A few hours later, the airship had already flown above Linyuan City.
What Linyuan City faced was not the Abyss, but the sea. It was a coastal city.
The southern side of Linyuan City faced the ocean, and from above, all that could be seen there were seaports.
Great mountains stretched along both its eastern and western sides.
With mountain ranges as its boundaries on both sides, the enormous Linyuan City lay in the middle and extended toward the northern plains.
It was a massive rectangular city, nearly three times larger than Ironhand City.
At the very center of the city, an enormous Abyss entrance yawned dark and profound, with a steel Fortress above it as well.
The entire city was filled with a sense of technology and vitality.
When the airship came within a dozen kilometers of the city, Li Mu could sense a terrifying aura, powerful enough to envelop the entire city, sweeping toward the airship.
It was a probing sort of energy, and it gave Li Mu the feeling that there was nowhere to hide.
It felt as uncomfortable as being locked onto by a surface-to-air missile.
It was as though it was warning him that this energy could blast him into pieces at any moment.
This was Linyuan City’s Protective Restriction.
Even an Earth Rank Expert would probably have to fear it somewhat.
The airship slowly descended.
The wealthy couple Li Mu had beaten up earlier were already standing at the exit.
The airship could land vertically, so it stopped on the Airship Landing Platform in the plaza.
Below the Airship Landing Platform were the reception staff for this flight, and a small number of them were holding signs.
With one glance, Li Mu saw a group of people with ramrod-straight builds and sharp gazes.
Although they were not wearing the Abyss-Suppressing Army Uniform, one could tell at a glance that they were Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers from Wanren Military District.
Earlier, when the Deputy Commander-in-Chief had called Li Mu, Li Mu had expressed that he did not want to draw too much attention.
Otherwise, he would not have come by taking an airship himself under the pretext of tourism.
He would have taken a military airship or flown there himself long ago.
Therefore, the people Wanren Military District had sent to receive Li Mu were all in plain clothes.
They stood at the back of the crowd, but countless pairs of eyes were fixed on the airship’s exit, as though afraid they might miss Li Mu’s figure.
As Li Mu followed the crowd out of the airship, the people from Wanren Military District recognized him. From afar, they stood at attention and prepared to come forward to welcome him.
Unexpectedly, before they could step forward, a group from the Law Enforcement Department quickly pushed through the crowd and came to the front.
The wealthy woman strode forward and said something viciously to one of the Law Enforcement Captains, then pointed at Li Mu.
After she finished speaking, she and her husband stepped aside and glared fiercely at Li Mu.
Before Li Mu could walk down from the airship, the Law Enforcement Captain led several people and blocked him on the gangway.
“You are under arrest! Come with us!”
That wealthy woman had probably told these people that Li Mu was extremely strong, so they did not dare rush up and pin him to the ground right away.
Instead, they surrounded Li Mu warily.
After all, whether Li Mu would resist the law could be set aside for now. They did not want to suffer an immediate loss.
The gazes of those plainclothes Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers were all on Li Mu.
Now that they saw Li Mu had actually been targeted by people from the Law Enforcement Department, they immediately wanted to come over.
Li Mu gave them a look.
He stopped them.
With just these few small fry, if he made a move now, it would be difficult to drag out the big fish behind them.
In the end, it might only result in a few “temporary workers” being dealt with.
The soldiers were all stopped by Li Mu’s gaze. They looked at one another, but they roughly understood what Li Mu meant.
Li Mu voluntarily stretched out both hands and smiled.
“Of course I have to go with you.”