Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 46 The Rapidly Growing Wheat Field

Fang Dongbai remained silent, only silently finishing off the phantom beast that Cha Nan disliked with a single sword strike, and then picking up the fallen skin, flesh, or other materials from the ground.

In the world of fantasy beasts, mythical beasts disappear automatically upon death, leaving only some of their body materials on the ground. This is a way of preserving this characteristic of the game. However, there may be some special reasons behind this, which is not something that Cha Nan should be concerned about at the moment.

After sweeping through the area, the three of them quickly arrived at the deepest part of the underground cave. Unfortunately, they did not find the so-called cave-guarding BOSS, only two slightly stronger Pona Rabbits, around level six or seven. Cha Nan still had to wait for Guo Jing to reduce them to low health before using five Palo Balls to capture them all.

This mythical beast is not carried by the user and serves as a combat Palu, but it has five work abilities: planting, gathering, crafting, medicine making, and transportation. Although they are all at the lowest level, they are quite comprehensive.

Especially in pharmaceutical manufacturing, this skill is relatively rare within the entire mythical beast community.

Perhaps these two Pona Rabbits could serve as Shi Shugang's helpers, assisting him in making some medicine to tame magical beasts.

Although there is no boss guarding the entrance and you can't farm ancient technology points or important ancient civilization components, there are indeed two treasure chests at the deepest part of the underground cave.

Without needing a key, Cha Nan opened both treasure chests directly.

The first treasure chest contained a regular technology book, which, depending on luck, could grant one to three technology points.

Cha Nan didn't rush to use it. She would find an opportunity to avoid Guo Jing, summon Guo Fu, and warm her hands before using it.

Besides the science book, there was also a Grass-type skill fruit and a ruby ​​in this box.

The Grass-type Skill Fruit is a green, striped fruit that looks somewhat like a pomegranate. Holding it in your hand, you can feel the surging vitality it exudes, which is quite different from the feeling that the Fire-type Skill Fruit gives Cha Nan.

Cha Nan carefully placed the contents of the first treasure chest, rubbed his hands together, and then opened the second treasure chest.

The second treasure chest contained a blueprint for a triple bow and three low-level Paluk balls. With the blueprint, Chanan could craft the bow at the crafting table even without unlocking the corresponding technology.

Overall, the results were pretty good. As long as Cha Nan doesn't get so unlucky as to only get the minimum payout when using the science book later, then Cha Nan has basically achieved the basic goal.

After rummaging through the underground caves and collecting any portable medicinal herbs they could find, such as cave mushrooms, the three of them left.

As for mining the three minerals—iron, charcoal, and black stone—in the cave, we can wait until we have more Paludo before having Uncle Shi lead the team to dig them out.

As long as this cave is not occupied by a large number of magical beasts again, there is no such thing as 'resetting'.

Of course, if Cha Nan leaves this place idle, given the unique environment of this cave, it would be perfectly normal for it to attract some more mythical beasts to stay there.

But by then, there probably won't be any treasure chests left to open.

Cha Nan naturally couldn't just stay in one cave and keep developing and reusing it.

After leaving the cave, Cha Nan did not immediately take his trusted aide Guo Jing back to the stronghold. Instead, he and Guo Jing went to the location of the open-pit mine of the Palu Mine. Cha Nan pointed to the two large birds in the nest on the cliff and asked, "Uncle Guo, can you handle those two birds?"

Guo Jing looked at them, and after thinking it over, he said, "They can fly. With my lightness skill, if I were to launch a sneak attack, I would have a 20% chance of pulling them down. However... if I had a three-stone bow, they would have absolutely no chance of escaping!"

In the Song Dynasty, a bow with a stone weight of 50.2 kilograms and a three-stone bow weight of nearly 180 kilograms were powerful enough to shoot arrows at short to medium distances. Guo Jing was not only highly skilled in martial arts, but also a master archer who studied under Jebe of Mongolia.

When dealing with flying mythical beasts, Guo Jing does have an advantage as long as he has a suitable bow.

"Let's go back to the base first!" Cha Nan thought of the triple bow blueprints he had just acquired, feeling a pang of anxiety.

Not long after, Cha Nan and Guo Jing returned to their base. Cha Nan took out the blueprints and handed them to the mischievous cats, asking them to fetch the materials to make the product.

To make a triple bow, you need fifty pieces of wood, twelve pieces of stone, and thirty pieces of fiber. The first two materials are readily available, and the fiber is not difficult to obtain; it can be made by rubbing tree bark together.

After instructing the Palus on their tasks and letting Guo Jing rest at the base, Cha Nan, under the pretext of needing to urinate, ran into the woods, summoned Guo Fu, warmed her hands on Guo Fu's snowflakes, and then opened the technology book. A bright light flashed, and three technology points were perfectly credited to her account.

"Great!" Cha Nan clenched his fist, put Guo Fu away, and ran back to the stronghold.

Take out the wheat seeds Huang Rong gave him that morning, and move a lot of stones and wood blocks. Find the technology icon for the wheat field and light it up with two technology points.

After lighting it up, Cha Nan found a spot on the edge of the stronghold and began to create a wheat field.

Meanwhile, the two mischievous cats at the outpost temporarily put aside their work on making the triple bow and followed Cha Nan's instructions to create a wheat field.

Blue light shone, and within the framed wooden structure, tender green wheat sprouts were growing at a visible speed on the black soil.

Cha Nan then directed Yun Zhonghe to use hollowed-out wooden stakes to scoop water from the river and irrigate the small wheat field.

At an astonishing speed, the emerald green wheat began to grow, from stalks to ears of wheat, and then to a golden expanse ready for harvest—the entire process taking no more than five minutes.

Although a small plot of land can only yield two bundles of wheat after harvesting, if there are enough wheat fields, the daily wheat yield can reach an astonishing level.

Guo Jing was completely stunned.

In a martial arts world, he would suspect that this might be some kind of illusion.

Although there are few masters of illusion in the martial arts world, they do exist.

He had heard of, even if he had never seen, illusion techniques such as the "divine rope," "planting pears," and "planting melons."

But Guo Jing had personally experienced the wonder and uniqueness of this mythical beast world, so he was willing to believe that Cha Nan truly possessed extraordinary abilities, capable of completing the sowing and harvesting of a crop of wheat in less than half an incense stick's time.

When Cha Nan actually handed him the two bundles of wheat, Guo Jing hesitated for a few seconds, and then his hands trembled slightly.

At that moment, he was thinking not only about whether the soldiers and the rebels had food and could eat their fill.

From tonight onwards, perhaps no one will starve to death, and everyone will be able to eat their fill!
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Guo Jing asked the question once again.

This time, however, there was an added layer of determination, one that was willing to accept any regrets.

No matter what kind of person Cha Nan is, or what he might do, as long as he can feed everyone, Guo Jing is willing to help him and become his henchman.

“Then Uncle Guo, you can go with Yun…Ahe to cut down trees and dig up stones. I need a lot of both.” Cha Nan didn’t stand on ceremony.

With limited manpower, this is not the time to be polite.

Cha Nan herself didn't stop either, continuing to create wheat fields along the outpost with the mischievous cats.

During this process, Cha Nan gradually understood part of the reason why the wheat field grew so miraculously.

The stones used to create the wheat fields contain fragments of primordial energy stones, which are rarer than those in the Palu mine. When these stones are buried underground as a base, they guide and release primordial energy, which can promote the rapid growth of wheat.

Moreover, the stronghold is equivalent to the blessed land controlled by Cha Nan. When he creates wheat fields, the earth's energy here will be drawn in, supplying more and more concentratedly to the wheat fields.

Under these two influences, wheat completes its growth cycle in a very short time.

This also means that if Cha Nan wants to maintain the high yield of the wheat field, he must maintain it regularly, adjust the supply of the earth's energy from time to time, and replace the stones buried in it.

(End of this chapter)