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Chapter 220: Upgraded Gains!

Chapter 220: Chapter 220: Upgraded Gains!

The courtyard at dawn is very quiet.

Jiang Yuan pushed open the door and came out from the grocery store, seeing the pleasant scenery of the Furong Spirit Pool, where Yun Mo was crouching under the cherry tree, wrapping his body with wings, blending into the night;

After Wan Mingchuan discovered that staying in his bedroom to cultivate had the same effect as being close to the Spirit Pool, he returned to his room to cultivate diligently;

Occasionally, there was the sound of water splashing lightly, which was Bai Yunqi stirring the pool water leisurely in the Spirit Pool.

Everything in the courtyard made people feel at ease. He glanced around his estate, looked up at the now Level Three, more secure protective shield, and pondered about finding time to upgrade the workbench.

The wooden fence and the rough wooden gate of the courtyard didn’t look so good; upgrading the workbench would allow for the creation of better-looking courtyard walls and gates. Although it only serves an aesthetic purpose, Jiang Yuan felt that he was no longer trapped in the early weak and dangerous dilemma, and could afford to allocate a small part of resources to decorate the courtyard, making it correspondingly splendid with the upgraded buildings.

[Would you like to consume Profound Iron Ingot X100; Iron Ingot X100; Copper Ingot X100; Fire Charcoal X200; Flower Snake Vine Trunk X5, to upgrade to Profound Iron Axe?]

Entering the Treasure Forging Workshop, Jiang Yuan placed the axe on the counter, clicked upgrade, selected the materials, and quickly considered whether the upgrade approach was reasonable.

Firstly, you can choose artifact refining materials to enhance the quality of tools independently, regardless of the massive amount of charcoal needed in the Melting Workshop or the large demand for wood for building and upgrading buildings. Upgrading the axe first using the best refining materials available ensures there is no wastage in acquiring basic materials;

Secondly, although very excited to upgrade the scythe later for harvesting vines and exploring caves, its usage scope is ultimately limited to harvesting various kinds of grassy plants. Other basic materials have already been accumulated sufficiently, so refining materials can be chosen as slightly ordinary ones; even if they don’t add much quality attribute, it’s not important;

The mining pickaxe is essential, but now it is affordable to buy, albeit spending a thousand bucks at a time, currently it’s still acceptable;

As for the hoe and shovel, scissors, milk bucket, their uses are fixed, not so important, and can be temporarily made do with.

Determined not to waste even a single material, Jiang Yuan clicked upgrade.

"Ding ding dang dang!"

The sound of machines operating and crafting tools echoed inside the Treasure Forging Workshop, crafting the Profound Iron Axe demanded three hours of consumption. Pressing the upgrade, the interface popped out with an acceleration button, wanting immediate completion requires spending three hundred Spirit Stones.

"Time truly is money!" He exclaimed, noticing the substantial balance, he immediately chose to spend stones to save time.

[Profound Iron Axe upgrade complete, usable for chopping ordinary trees in the wilderness to obtain large amounts of basic materials. Flower Snake Vine Trunk increases 10% critical strike rate, critical hits can randomly yield larger quantities of materials]

The seemingly mediocre axe now glimmered with a black luster. Touching it felt cool; the axe handle grew longer from before, bearing simplistic black patterns, allowing for more comfortable gripping than before.

Jiang Yuan hurriedly placed the scythe on the counter, selected materials, clicked upgrade, and spent stones to hasten; within less than ten seconds, a new Profound Iron Scythe was upgraded as well. Because inferior trunk material was used, it only had a 1% critical strike chance, allowing random acquisition of slightly more materials.

With a few minutes left until Wilderness Ascension, he stored the scythe into the Storage Bag, grabbed the axe, and went to the newly opened farm fields by the Wilderness to test the effects of the new tool on the leftover Ironwood Trees.

"Crack!"

The trees in the wilderness, previously unshakable, now had a notch cut out with one chop. As Jiang Yuan kept chopping, the bark of towering trees, about ten meters high, rapidly fell, collapsing into a scattering of green light spots upon hitting the ground.

[Wood+42; Ironwood Bark+8; Grey Feather Bug+11; Emperor Parrot Egg+1]

[Emperor Parrot Egg: An egg laid by wild airborne Emperor Parrot, can be incubated. In Spirit Beast Bag can hatch into a bird, bondable for training; Emperor Parrot is colorful, speaks human language, and makes a great play pet; eating raw adds 41 points of physical strength; can be cooked in the stove to become food increasing special attributes]

"Chopping trees can yield bird eggs?! Isn’t the Emperor Parrot just the wilderness version of a parrot?" He became interested, clicked to check the Spirit Beast Bag, and found it quite remarkable.

It’s called a "bag" but it’s a superficial appearance, looking similar to the Storage Bag, yet it has an individual universe.

The most basic Spirit Beast Bag is a simplified version of a pet paradise, having a small nest, food bowls, and even a tiny courtyard for Demon Beasts to move around; it becomes more luxurious as it upgrades, almost resembling a miniature Demon Beast world, capable of nurturing various types of Demon Beasts with level advancement.

"Becoming a Beast Tamer isn’t bad, tossing a paper craft in one hand; a ground full of Demon Beasts in the other, doing that sounds very cool indeed!" Jiang Yuan decided to search for some Beast Tamer books in the real world afterward to see if the protagonists have any tricks to borrow.

Of course, the biggest obstacle to becoming a Beast Tamer now is lacking a Spirit Beast Bag.

That item requires the home to upgrade to Level Four, the privilege store would unlock some pending blueprints, just like when upgraded to Level Three with the Pill Formula, it demands a large amount of Spirit Stones to purchase blueprints, then materials can be gathered and refined in the Treasure Forging Workshop.

Jiang Yuan stored the Emperor Parrot Egg, chopped down the remaining few Ironwood Trees, gathered materials, right on time for Wilderness Ascension to usher in a new day.

Almost at the moment of the departure of daylight from the Wilderness, the farmland crops shook in the breeze, ripening rapidly, heavy fruits hung on the branches; even the cherries on two cherry trees swiftly turned from partially red to fully red, swaying, ready for picking.

"Sshhh!"

He didn’t collect the mature crops nor rushed to the stove to prepare meals nor paid attention to the notification of new orders ringing in; instead, he took out the new scythe from the Storage Bag, wandered to the cliff behind the wooden house, looked up at the hanging Iron Wire Vine, swung the scythe, and started harvesting.

[Iron Wire Vine+28]

[Iron Wire Vine: Wilderness-grown vine plant, usable in Textile Workshop for weaving into thread; blend with other materials in Bait Workshop to make fodder; usable in workbench to craft items. Harvest every three days]

"This thing can be harvested regularly?" Jiang Yuan assumed cutting down the hanging vine would be a one-time deal, didn’t expect it could be harvested every three days.

Not only can it provide some raw materials, if unable to manage them, it can hang again to obscure secrets inside the cave, that’s very right!

"Whew!"

Almost at the moment when the vine was completely harvested revealing the dark cave, a humid and cold breeze blew out from inside the cave.

He tidied up his hair ruffled by the wind, didn’t dare rush in directly but peeked into the cave from the entrance.

Approximately the height of a person, about one point five meters wide entrance looked naturally formed after some excavation, the inside was flat, about three to four meters deep, at its center stood a stone-built worn-down small structure, looking like a stone platform on the ground at first glance.

[Broken Teleportation Array: An ancient teleportation array left by unknown persons, very worn-out now. Upon repair, Spirit Stones can be used for teleportation, upgrading to Level Three allows teleporting to other worlds]

"Am I finally leaving Newbie Village?!" Jiang Yuan was excited yet nervous, feeling slightly comfortable inside—finally, the mystery kindled since entering Shuiyun Lake unfolded in front of him, what kind of new continent could the Teleportation Array inside the cave lead to?

Was the diary owner’s speculation correct? Was the courtyard once really an Immortal Cave Mansion?