MC's career as foreign lord

He distinctly remembered that in Minecraft, there shouldn't be trees that were so slender and straight, with even the canopy trimmed. Although it was only two stories tall now, there definitely shouldn't be trees like this.

He walked closer for a better look. "Wait, isn't this the location of the tree farm? Why didn't I see this tree just now, but I can see it now?"

Zhou Ren walked directly towards the tree farm area. He had just walked back from there. If there was a tree like this, there was no reason he wouldn't have noticed it!

A hint of suspicion appeared in his eyes as he silently walked forward until he reached the edge of the tree farm. Only then did he realize that the tree had disappeared again without him knowing when!

"Huh?" The suspicious look on Zhou Ren's face deepened. He continued forward with some curiosity, walking to the edge of the gate. He didn't see that tree again, even while looking at the tree Jim was chopping.

Jim tilted his head, finding it a bit strange that his new master was running back and forth at the entrance, but he still carried out his orders.

"Hey! I don't believe it!" Zhou Ren was unconvinced. This was really strange. What kind of bizarre supernatural event had he encountered? This was Minecraft, not some outer world of magic. All the rules should follow the most basic Minecraft principles!

So, Zhou Ren returned to the position where he had started. Sure enough, he saw the tree again, tall, upright, and straight.

He didn't continue forward but instead pondered deeply. "This tree… this tree…"

Zhou Ren thought about it and suddenly looked up. "This is the Tree of Life! The fruit that Shia brought. Did it sprout?"

At the instant he suddenly remembered, the whole world seemed to change at that moment. Mysterious natural phenomena and a unique mark of life successfully appeared!

On the other side, Shia was originally recovering her strength, and then she suddenly jumped up!

"What's wrong? You're acting unlike yourself, so jumpy!" Anna lay on the ground, her huge dragon head swaying with her breath. "Did someone send you a message?"

"No!" Shia solemnly shook her head. "Heavenly mandate revelation! My Tree of Life—it has sprouted!"

She began to look towards Zhou Ren's territory!

After Zhou Ren understood that this tree was the Tree of Life, he discovered that its somewhat illusory body rapidly began to solidify, and the tree, which was originally untouchable, was now within reach.

"Is this the Tree of Life?" Zhou Ren exclaimed. Just this kind of modification and protection of perception already made him feel a sense of enlightenment!

This wasn't a disregard or questioning of the Minecraft system. Instead, it was more like a modification and adaptation of oneself. After Zhou Ren had knowledge of the Tree of Life, he successfully saw the tree's trunk, which was planted at the entrance of the tree farm.

[Tree of Life]: As a descendant of the World Tree Yggdrasil, it possesses enormous potential as a war guardian and friend of the city. They will be the most steadfast figures in a territory.

There was actually information about it. Zhou Ren found the tree's mark in his crafting guide. He even found some methods for using its leaves or branches for crafting.

For example, the leaves of the Tree of Life could be used to craft a headband that increased magic recovery, while the branches could be made into magic staffs and planting tools. (Give me a break, you want to exploit me when you're so small?)

But what Zhou Ren found most interesting was that the place where the Tree of Life was planted would have a huge increase in life energy, roughly equivalent to increasing one's own vitality while radiating it to the surroundings.

"This is a tree version of the Spring of Life!" Zhou Ren said. "I wonder if the elves' trees have this function?"

He was very curious because Shia had once said that every Tree of Life was a guardian of a city. They were not plants but real living beings. They would communicate with the elves and could sign a contract with an elf.

The greatest contributors to the Silvermoon Empire's ability to guard such a large territory, besides those legendary powerhouses, were the lands guarded by the Tree of Life.

"Hiss! Something's not right! This tree doesn't move?" Zhou Ren discovered the problem. The Tree of Life, which should have been a living being, didn't have any thoughts at all and was like a real tree.

"Forget it. It seems that my land can't grow something with real life!" Zhou Ren said. "Being able to enhance vitality is pretty good too! Next time, I'll build a pool here. Hmm, let's call it the Spring of Life!"

This Tree of Life was obviously not grown up. How could a tree that could protect a city be so small? Zhou Ren felt that he needed to do some new thinking. This was the Tree of Life, not an Elven Fruit.

Given the existence of the Tree of Life, Elven Fruits would be produced continuously. Their higher-ups wouldn't actually go crazy for it, but… the Tree of Life was different.

Zhou Ren could even guess the elves' crazed appearance for the Tree of Life. He needed to make some preparations…

Actually, he wasn't very worried. At worst, he would just stay here and not leave. Now he was already self-sufficient. With a way out, he could outlive everyone.

"Elves? May they live long!"

"Jim?" While he was thinking about these things, the white skull face was almost touching him. Zhou Ren shook his head and then spoke to the skeleton.

He pushed away the head burning with soul flames. The white skeleton shone with the color of holy light under the sunlight. He held an axe in his hand, opening his mouth and making 'eee eee' sounds.

"Go find Mesa! Let him teach you how to farm and harvest vegetables!" Zhou Ren said. The little skeleton immediately ran away like a gust of wind, leaving only Zhou Ren and a pile of saplings.

He took a lot of wood from the box, about five and a half stacks, and then ran back to the field.

"Mesa, there are enough stones in the box. If there's not enough soil, you can have Jim dig some to fill it. Help me fix this aerial farm!" Zhou Ren instructed Mesa, while he himself slipped back home.

Recently, things were a bit too outrageous. This Tree of Life itself had once again raised Zhou Ren's status by another level. Now he just had to wait for it to grow up and see if any other problems would arise!

Zhou Ren wasn't very anxious. Mesa had told him that as a high-level legendary, he actually had no way to break through the transparent wall of the territory, so Zhou Ren himself was in an invincible position.

Now, after handing over the work of the tree farm and farmland to Mesa, he needed to make some necessary modifications to the kitchen in the room.

First of all, the area. The current area was too small and not conducive to regular use. He would directly widen it, making the outer part a glass-style semi-open air area, and then build a chimney out of stone bricks.

This was also one of the modifications Zhou Ren had thought of before, opening a door to the outdoor part, creating a semi-open space, building a small courtyard exclusively for the kitchen, and then putting the smokehouse and campfire outside.

The inside room would be used for cold dishes, decorations, and storage, while the outside could be used for steaming, boiling, and smoking, thus achieving separation of fire and water and dry and wet zoning.

The campfire is an essential tool for wilderness survival after MC1.14. Once lit, it won't extinguish easily, and you can also cook things on it. It can cook four items at once without consuming fuel.

The crafting recipe is three logs, three sticks, and one piece of coal in the middle; it's very simple.

The cooking time for four items is 30 seconds, while four pieces of meat take 40 seconds in a furnace. The campfire is ten seconds faster than the furnace, only the smoker can match or surpass it.

The smoker is an advanced furnace obtained by upgrading a furnace with four logs. It can only be used to cook food and is twice as fast as a furnace. In other words, it only takes 20 seconds to cook four pieces of meat in a smoker.

So, Zhou Ren also placed this furnace outside, along with the campfire. Similarly, there's also the pot that produces steam when cooking. Wouldn't it be better for these flame-based tools to be outside where the air circulates better?

This semi-open-air kitchen is a distance away from Zhou Ren's tea pavilion because it's in the side yard and doesn't connect to the backyard. However, after Zhou Ren stopped the work in his hands, he thought about building a road first.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder always has a concept of loops. You can't just walk one path to the end, right? Zhou Ren first connected this road to the backyard, and then, after thinking about it, he also connected it to the front yard.

Only then did he come back to continue renovating the kitchen. As mentioned before, the kitchen only has one flowing water source for washing dishes, but cooking requires a water source as well, so he needs to create a clever infinite water source.

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Actually, it's very simple. To avoid damaging the integrity of the house, Zhou Ren added another block next to the one with flowing water, and then went outside the house and knocked open the outside of that water block.

Then, he created a border on the outside, and finally placed two blocks of water to create a four-block infinite water source, and then patched up the gap.

"Hiss! How ugly!" Zhou Ren gritted his teeth, feeling a bit pained. The originally clean and tidy wall now had a protruding section, which looked particularly glaring.

However, as a senior architecture viewer on Bilibili, Zhou Ren quickly came up with his own solution. He went back to make a lot of trapdoors, and then took the scissors he had used once. Adding some scenery should make it look better, right?

The cobblestone was remade into stone fences. Zhou Ren took the scissors and ran to cut a lot of leaves. Finding the leaves took him a lot of effort, after all, the tree farm had just been cleared, so he could only cut some leaves from the distant forest.

Actually, he originally wanted to cut some leaves from the Tree of Life, but this tree was too young, and he was too embarrassed to do it. What if Shia came to see the tree next time and saw a bald tree? He wouldn't be able to explain it, right?

Taking the cut leaves, Zhou Ren surrounded the house with a circle, and then placed the newly made trapdoors. Now the protruding stone was covered, and there was also more green vitality, making it more pleasing to the eye than before.

Now the kitchen was almost finished, and Zhou Ren raised his head with some relief, seeing clumps of bamboo that were much taller than his house.

He remembered that this bamboo was one of the special plants sent by the Werner Mercenary Corps. Zhou Ren hadn't paid much attention to it these past two days. It's grown so tall?

However, this is naturally also great news. Zhou Ren can now try to make those tables and chairs he's been thinking about!

He got up directly. Bamboo that can exceed the house must be at least twelve blocks tall, right? Moreover, he didn't plant just one clump of bamboo, but a scattered row, planting bamboo all around the pool. It should be enough to make some furniture no matter what.

As expected of the fastest-growing plant in MC, Zhou Ren came to the back of the house and saw a spectacular bamboo forest. The dense bamboo even blocked the outside light, with only the sun's rays shining down from above.

It's just that today's sun is black. A black sun emitting white light looks very strange, but the people around are already used to it.

In Mosa's words, it might be the daughter of the Sun God operating the sun. Anyway, as long as it doesn't affect the operation of the Toriel world, even if she makes the sun dance, it's fine!

"Hiss!" Zhou Ren had even thought about this question in the morning. If he could have a PY deal with the Sun God, he would definitely let the people of the entire Prime Material Plane see the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss!

He can't experience this poison alone; everyone has to dance along!

Back to the main topic, the first thing to do is of course to cut bamboo. The collection method of this bamboo is very similar to sugarcane. He cut off the second section of the bamboo with a sword, and the bamboo sections above fell down like that.

He immediately obtained nearly fifteen pieces of bamboo. This is too fast!

This is also one aspect of why bamboo is so easy to collect. It has to be said that no matter which aspect you look at it from, bamboo is too easy to obtain.

Maybe that's why scaffolding is designed to be synthesized from bamboo? Zhou Ren thought so. After all, as a construction tool, scaffolding needs to be simple, fast, and convenient.

And bamboo just happens to be easy to plant, grows quickly, and is light and easy to pick. The elements are all there!

After cutting bamboo for a while, he looked at the sky. Time really flies. It's noon again!

Zhou Ren is still in good shape. He nibbled on an apple to rest for a while, and then ate a banana, just sitting in the pavilion thinking about the next plan.

"First of all, the tables and chairs in the restaurant must be replaced with bamboo chairs," Zhou Ren first made some bamboo planks. Whether it's for making tables and chairs or other things, bamboo planks are an indispensable part of Xiyu Pastoral.

The production of bamboo planks is also very simple. Four bamboos can be synthesized into one bamboo plank, and three bamboo planks plus four bamboos can be synthesized into a bamboo table, square and upright, one meter square.

Zhou Ren made another bamboo table, placing the two tables side by side. This way, six people can sit around the circle, which is enough no matter what.

Next are the bamboo chairs. Three bamboos plus three bamboo planks can make one. This time, the number of bamboo chairs is much larger. Zhou Ren used up almost all the bamboo in his hand, making a full twelve bamboo chairs!

These twelve bamboo chairs, six are placed at home next to the dining table, three are placed by the pool for fishing, and three are placed in the pavilion for drinking tea and enjoying the breeze. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

The remaining less than one stack of bamboo can be combined with torches to make a few bamboo lanterns, placed in the bedroom or pavilion, which is more appropriate than pumpkin lanterns!

The production of bamboo lanterns is even simpler. Eight bamboos surround a wooden stick, and then you can get a bright and beautiful bamboo lantern. It looks very useful!

PS: Ah, Xu Song's variety show is so good, but I still choose to finish writing before watching!

PS2: Aren't you going to praise me?