242: Crown feather, true spirit blood

“Phew…”

Mu Feng let out a long sigh of relief.

The pressure the Three-legged Crow exerted on him after advancing to the seven-tier was still quite significant.

If he hadn't used some decisive measures to nip it in the bud, it would have been hard to say who would win or lose.

After sending out a few more sword glows to ensure the Three-legged Crow was completely dead, Mu Feng quickly approached its corpse.

With a wave of his hand, he recalled the Golden Lightning Arrow that had previously shot into the Three-legged Crow’s body.

Multiple attacks had completely depleted the Evil-warding Divine Lightning on the Golden Lightning Arrow.

It would need to be re-nourished for a period before it could be used again.

The Evil-warding Divine Lightning played a major role in killing this Three-legged Crow.

After putting away the Golden Lightning Arrow, Mu Feng checked the Soul Yuan Bowl in his hand again.

After the Three-legged Crow Advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, the Soul Yuan Bowl had blocked several of its impacts.

Although he successfully killed the Three-legged Crow, the Soul Yuan Bowl's durability was almost at rock bottom.

It was covered in cracks.

From the looks of it, it probably couldn't be used for defense anymore.

It was half- Wasted.

However, compared to the Black Emperor Blade, the Soul Yuan Bowl was still in good condition.

Under the scorching flames of the Three-legged Crow’s True Samadhi Fire, the Black Emperor Blade had already melted into molten iron.

It had merged into the magma pool.

Mu Feng couldn't even find it to repair it.

To be honest, the Black Emperor Blade was really useful.

Its speed was ghostly.

It was a Magic Treasure he used quite well.

Mu Feng felt quite upset that it was destroyed like this.

Fortunately, he finally dealt with the Three-legged Crow.

He believed that the Materials from its body should compensate him for his losses.

Thinking that this was a Primeval Exotic Beast with a trace of True Spirit Bloodline, Mu Feng immediately became excited.

After putting away the Soul Yuan Bowl, he began to harvest from the Three-legged Crow.

System Reminder: Three-legged Crow Primordial Spirit x1

System Reminder: Three-legged Crow Inner Core x1

System Reminder: Three-legged Crow Crown Feathers x2

System Reminder: Three-legged Crow Meat x5

System Reminder: Three-legged Crow Blood x500ml

A total of five Materials were collected.

“Three-legged Crow Blood!”

Among the series of red prompts, Mu Feng immediately spotted the Yao Beast Blood he was most interested in.

He couldn't help but become excited.

Blood had always been the best part of the Immortal Cave Yao Beasts.

So far, it had never disappointed him.

However, the reason he was so excited this time was because this blood might contain a trace of True Spirit Bloodline.

If so, he would have made a huge profit!

“Let’s look at the Three-legged Crow Blood first!”

This was a major matter concerning his Body Tempering Medicinal Bath.

Whether or not his Physical Body could be elevated to the Core Formation Realm depended entirely on whether this Three-legged Crow Blood contained the True Spirit Three-legged Golden Crow Bloodline.

Picking up the container with the Three-legged Crow Blood, Mu Feng, with anticipation, began to investigate.

Three-legged Crow Blood: Blood possessing a trace of Three-legged Golden Crow Bloodline Power. If consumed while warm, it can greatly increase the body’s affinity for fire elements and enhance the flame power of fire-type Cultivation Techniques.

“It really has it!”

Seeing that the Three-legged Crow Blood indeed contained a trace of the Three-legged Golden Crow's Bloodline Power, Mu Feng was overjoyed beyond words.

This was the main Material for his Body Tempering Medicinal Bath!

Whether he could raise his Physical Body strength to Core Formation depended entirely on it.

However, to be fair, the blood's attributes were also quite impressive.

Not only could it increase the body's affinity for fire elements, but it could also enhance the flame power of fire-type Cultivation Techniques.

This was a heaven-defying treasure for all Cultivators who primarily Cultivated fire-attribute Cultivation Techniques.

If he weren't Cultivating a non-fire type Cultivation Technique, he truly wouldn't bear to use it for preparing the Body Tempering Medicinal Bath.

Taking out a jade bottle from his Storage Ring, Mu Feng poured all the Three-legged Crow Blood from the container into the jade bottle to prevent the Spiritual Qi from overflowing and reducing the medicinal bath's effectiveness.

After confirming there were no mistakes, Mu Feng turned his head to look at the remaining items.

Three-legged Crow Primordial Spirit: The Primordial Spirit of the Primeval Exotic Beast, the Three-legged Crow. It is the best choice for an artifact spirit to be integrated into fire-attribute Magic Treasures.

Three-legged Crow Inner Core: A seven-tier demon core, containing powerful fire attributes. It can be used to refine some special fire-attribute Medicinal Pills, and also has other important uses.

Three-legged Crow Meat: The flesh and blood of the Primeval Exotic Beast, the Three-legged Crow. It is delicious, and long-term consumption can increase the body’s affinity for fire elements, with a chance to increase the flame power within the body.

Three-legged Crow Crown Feathers: The pair of crown feathers on the Three-legged Crow’s head are the essence of its entire body, making them a High Grade Material for refining fire-attribute ultimate treasures.

Four items, each with excellent attributes.

The Primordial Spirit could be integrated into a Magic Treasure, becoming its Lifebound Treasure spirit, increasing the Magic Treasure's power.

Especially for fire-attribute Magic Treasures, integrating it would bring many profound benefits.

There were not many ways to enhance a Lifebound Treasure.

Integrating a compatible artifact spirit was one such method.

Mu Feng believed that if he were willing to sell it, it would surely drive all Cultivators who primarily Cultivated fire-type Cultivation Techniques insane.

Of course, he wouldn't choose to sell it in the short term.

To maximize the benefits, he would have to wait until everyone's Cultivation Realm had reached Core Formation.

And he would only sell it if he could obtain something he was satisfied with.

Otherwise, Mu Feng would rather keep it.

Besides the Primordial Spirit, its inner core was naturally not bad either.

A seven-tier Yao Beast's inner core was an important item no matter where it was.

However, Mu Feng already had plans, so he wouldn't sell it.

Several of his Medicinal Pills and medicinal baths required seven-tier Yao Beast inner cores.

Naturally, his priority was to use them to enhance his own strength.

The remaining Yao Beast meat and Three-legged Crow Crown Feathers were equally extraordinary.

Now that everyone's strength had increased, the value of Yao Beast meat had dropped significantly.

However, Mu Feng dared to guarantee that if he listed this Three-legged Crow meat on the Transaction Channel, there would definitely be many people vying for it.

Unfortunately, Mu Feng would not sell it.

He always prioritized consuming such items with additional attributes that could enhance his own strength.

As for the Three-legged Crow Crown Feathers, there was no need to say more.

They were High Grade Materials for refining fire-attribute ultimate treasures.

They certainly wouldn't be bad.

“Tsk tsk, as expected of a Primeval Exotic Beast with a trace of True Spirit Bloodline, its whole body is a treasure!”

After examining all five Materials, Mu Feng was extremely satisfied.

One could only say that the Three-legged Crow was indeed a Primeval Exotic Beast with True Spirit Bloodline; everything was a good treasure.

After organizing all the Materials from the Three-legged Crow, Mu Feng did not rush forward.

Instead, he turned and moved towards the scattered huo yan grass and Zhu Guo in the magma pool.

System Reminder: huo yan grass x1

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System Reminder: Zhu Guo x1

After a period of harvesting, Mu Feng had more than twenty huo yan grass in his hand.

The number of Zhu Guo was even higher, a full fifty.

Enough for him to brew Vermilion Fruit Aphrodisiac Wine.

Name: huo yan grass

Age: Three Thousand Years

Description: A spiritual plant that grows near magma. It matures in one thousand years, and after maturity, the huo yan grass will emit sparks.

Effect: Widely used, useful in both Alchemy and Artifact Refining.

....

“Three thousand years, no wonder it looks different.”

Mu Feng nodded.

The huo yan grass he had obtained before were all thousand-year-old ones.

These three-thousand-year-old ones were three times older than the ones he had previously obtained.

It was natural for their color and size to be different.

After pulling out a few more to examine and confirming there were no special changes, Mu Feng put them all into his Storage Ring.

With the Spiritual Plant and spiritual fruit harvested from the magma pool, Mu Feng still didn't rush forward.

He had just fought a fierce battle with the Three-legged Crow, and his condition was a bit poor.

He needed to recover.

Beyond this magma pool was the Piaomiao Garden.

Mu Feng was unsure if there would be other dangers inside.

It was better to fully recover his condition first.

....

After the blood modification from the spirit concealing poison wall, Mu Feng's body had strong self-healing abilities.

In less than half an hour, his superficial wounds had almost completely recovered.

As for his Magic Power True Qi, it had only just recovered more than half.

However, he had ten thousand year spirit liquid in his hand.

If he encountered danger, he wouldn't have to worry too much about insufficient True Qi.

So, Mu Feng didn't continue to Cultivate to recover.

After a simple scan, and confirming that he hadn't left any items behind, Mu Feng stood up and walked towards the nearby Piaomiao Garden.

Actually, there are quite a few Warm Stones in the magma pool. You can dive down and take a look.

“Hmm? Warm Stone!”

Mu Feng, who was about to leave, saw the prompt and his eyes lit up.

Without thinking, he plunged into the magma pool.

Like soul nourishing wood, Warm Stone was also one of the important Artifact Refining Materials for refining his Lifebound Treasure.

He had been worried about not having enough Warm Stone on hand.

He had been thinking of searching for Volcanic Secret Realms later to see if he could acquire more.

He hadn't expected to find them right here in the magma pool.

Naturally, he jumped in without hesitation.

His heat resistance was maxed out, and with the Cold Ice True Energy providing cooling, these boiling magma had almost no effect on him.

The only discomfort might be that his Divine Sense couldn't be used, which would greatly slow down his search speed.

The Warm Stones are located where the Three-legged Crow emerged earlier. That was its usual resting place, and those Warm Stones were formed by absorbing its energy.

As if understanding Mu Feng's thoughts, a red prompt appeared before his eyes.

“The place where the Three-legged Crow came out?”

Mu Feng nodded.

He remembered that the Three-legged Crow had initially rushed out of the magma pool to his right.

“Found it!”

With a general direction, Mu Feng's search became much easier.

Soon, he saw the Warm Stones scattered in the magma pool.

Mu Feng excitedly picked them up.

System Reminder: Warm Stone x1

System Reminder: Warm Stone x1

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System Reminder: Warm Stone x1

Before long, Mu Feng had picked them all up.

Counting them, there were quite a few, a full nine pieces.

Adding the one he obtained earlier in the Volcanic Secret Realm, there were a total of ten pieces.

This was completely enough Materials for him to refine the entire Soul-Devouring Bee Cloud Sword set.

After putting away the Warm Stones, Mu Feng swam out of the magma pool.

After a simple rest, he set off again.

After passing the magma pool, Mu Feng entered a green space filled with abundant Spiritual Qi.

It seemed to be the location of the Piaomiao Garden mentioned in the prompt.

However, what puzzled him was that although the Spiritual Qi here was very dense, he didn't see the Piaomiao Garden that the System had mentioned.

The Piaomiao Garden is in the spatial rift above your head.

“Above my head?”

He really hadn't thought to investigate above his head.

“In a spatial rift?!”

Mu Feng was slightly surprised.

“Then how do I get in? Don’t tell me this spatial rift isn’t harmful?”

The power of a spatial rift was very strong; even Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators couldn't withstand it directly.

As a mere Core Formation Cultivator, it was impossible for him to safely enter the Piaomiao Garden amidst the pulling force of a spatial rift.

I didn't say that; I just told you the Piaomiao Garden is in the spatial rift.

As for how to enter, it's simple: there's a teleportation array inside. You just need to find the hidden teleportation array nearby, and you can enter through it.

Of course, if you find it troublesome to look for the teleportation array, you can also directly resist the spatial force of the spatial rift and drill in from above, but you will most likely be torn in half by the spatial force inside.

…

Mu Feng directly ignored the latter part of the red prompt.

He diligently searched for the hidden teleportation gate nearby.

Directly resisting the spatial force was no different from seeking death.

He would never do such a foolish thing.

“Found it!”

After a search, Mu Feng quickly used his Spiritual Eye Divine Power to find the green teleportation gate hidden behind several large stones.

However, he didn't see any light indicating teleportation, perhaps because the teleportation gate was old and in disrepair, or for some other reason.

System Reminder: The Spiritual Qi of this teleportation gate has been depleted. You need to inject Spirit Stones to reactivate it.

While he was wondering, the red prompt appeared.

“Needs to be reactivated?”

“I wonder how many Spirit Stones it will take.”

“Hope it’s not too many.”

Although he had quite a few Spirit Stones on hand now, they were all for upgrading his Advanced Immortal Cave.

Strictly speaking, he was still in debt.

So, he could only pray it wouldn't be too much.

System Reminder: Activating the teleportation gate requires ten High-Grade Spirit Stones.

“Ten High-Grade Spirit Stones!”

“Holy crap, why don’t you just rob me?!”

Seeing the quantity of Spirit Stones required for activation, Mu Feng couldn't hold back.

Ten High-Grade Spirit Stones converted to Low-Grade Spirit Stones would be over ten thousand.

That was a considerable amount.

“Forget it, for the sake of the Ten Thousand Year Soul Nourishing Wood!”

Complaining aside, the Spirit Stones that needed to be spent still had to be spent.

Compared to the Ten Thousand Year Soul Nourishing Wood, ten High-Grade Spirit Stones were truly nothing.

Anyway, Mu Feng had already decided.

As soon as he teleported out, he would dismantle this teleportation array.

Whatever he could recover would be a bonus.

It just so happened that his newly built Advanced Immortal Cave also needed the Materials from the teleportation gate.

Every bit of recovery helped.

As the ten High-Grade Spirit Stones were placed, the entire teleportation array began to emit a soft glow.

Having experienced multiple teleports, Mu Feng knew this was a sign of imminent teleportation, so he immediately stepped inside.

With a flash of white light, Mu Feng arrived in a Medicinal Garden filled with rich Spiritual Qi.