The Lord of Glimmer plants the sun in the eternal night.

About an hour later.

Jiang Chuan frowned slightly and said to Ye Xuan, who had been by his side, "We probably won't get anything tonight. Let's go back to the room and sleep first, and talk about it again later."

An hour passed, and not a single animal trap was activated.

Not a single mole could be seen.

Something's not right here. I don't know if the moles in this area have all been killed, or if they were called away by that big black rat.

He knew too little about what was happening in the eternal night.

Especially since I don't understand many things about this world, should I really go to Haoguang City to study? But I'm not one of those valuable talent sequences, so even if I went, I probably wouldn't be able to get in.

Forget it, I'll just figure it out myself slowly.

But the three animal traps he just bought today haven't even been used yet, and he hasn't caught any monsters.

Perhaps we need to introduce new bait?

But he currently lacks any materials capable of attracting the strange creature, unless he uses that tuft of 'white tiger fur'...

Um...

Jiang Chuan shook his head, deciding it was better not to risk his life and venture into the lion's den.

Late at night.

Jiang Chuan leaned against the headboard, one arm still tightly held, the slender branches laden with large fruit seemingly about to crush his arm.

"Ah Shui~"

Ye Xuan looked worried: "Has our territory offended some unclean thing?"

Are you afraid that monster will attack us again?

"Um."

Ye Xuan nodded: "I've heard that strange creatures generally don't attack areas where there are fire springs."

"..."

Jiang Chuan really wanted to say that it was because he had angered it and attracted many of its underlings, so this guy came to take revenge.

But after thinking about it, I decided against it.

"Sleep well, Xuan'er, I'm here for you," he comforted her.

"Um."

Ye Xuan was already exhausted and fell asleep quickly.

These past few days, she has felt inexplicably at ease.

Jiang Chuan leaned against the headboard, his mind absorbed in the Micro-Light Research Manual.

He currently has 11 Ether left.

"Renovating [the house]?"

After the house reaches level one, three more basic nodes appear: "Level 1 Solid", "Level 1 Sleeping Peace", and "Level 1 Nourishing Spirit".

In other words, he now needs to light up all 7 nodes to level 2 in order to upgrade the house to level 2.

In this case, a total of 17 points of ether and 4 flints are needed as basic materials.

"I'm poor."

Jiang Chuan immediately felt like he had worked for nothing that night.

"Hmm~" Ye Xuan turned over.

Forget it.

While focusing on farming, improving one's physical strength is also extremely important.

Turn to the page about seedlings.

Upon closer inspection, Jiang Chuan felt a pang of sorrow.

The research on crops is also quite costly, simply because they are not lit in parallel, but rather in a chain of nodes.

For example, right now, if Jiang Chuan wants to activate any one of the following: 'Level 1 Production', 'Level 1 Fruit Giantization', or 'Level 1 Glowing', he needs 3 Ether Points.

And so on, to light up another node next time, you'll need 4 points...

"Production is a must; at the very least, we need plenty to fill our stomachs!"

"Then, the fruits grow to enormous sizes and then line up again."

"As for glowing, let's talk about that later. After all, we're still relying on the fire spring to survive for now."

Jiang Chuan gritted his teeth and activated the 'Level 1 Production' feature.

[Level 1 Production: Mutant crop fruit production +1, normal crop production x1.]

"Now we don't have to worry about running out of sweet potatoes anymore."

"But meat is still in short supply, so we need a balanced diet of meat and vegetables!"

Then his thoughts began to wander, recalling water-injected meatballs, mutton dumplings...

"We've crossed the line! We can't go into the mountains now!" Jiang Chuan quickly pinched himself.

...

The next day.

Jiang Chuan was woken up early in the morning by the heat, and there was a warm, damp feeling coming from somewhere.

"Upgraded?"

That was his first reaction.

Focus your attention on the prologue page—

[Lord of the Glimmering Light: Jiang Chuan]

[Talent Sequence: Cultivator (Tier 0, Stage 5) (1%)]

[Sequence Characteristics: Crop Care I]

[Ether: 8]

——Research Directions——

...

As expected, he has reached the fifth level of Seed Power!

Jiang Chuan was overjoyed. However, the upgrade of the cultivator sequence seemed to lean towards the recovery type. He was not seriously injured, and the energy was used to make up for the previous physical depletion.

Even without a mirror, he could still feel the improvement in his energy and spirit, and his physique had returned to its peak state.

"Did the sweet potatoes come from when they were ripe?"

The mutated white tomatoes won't be fully grown until tomorrow morning.

As for why this batch of sweet potatoes could upgrade Jiangchuan, it might be related to the increased yield.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chuan quickly got out of bed, dressed, and went outside.

Looking towards the farmland, sure enough, rows of green plants were swaying in the winter wind.

He immediately ran over, dug out a plant to check, and found that the yield of the ordinary sweet potato was indeed much higher than his previous harvest, almost double.

They were connected one after another, and although they varied in size, there were quite a few of them.

Jiang Chuan dug it all out in one go, cleaned it with the snow on the ground, and piled it in the corner of the house like a small mountain.

Ye Xuan was also awakened by the noise. When she came outside, she was stunned.

How could such a small plot of land bear such abundant fruit on such slender branches? She really didn't know how it grew. She even remembered that Jiangchuan had never irrigated it.

Now we really don't have to worry about food anymore.

"Ah Shui, things aren't easy these days. How about we send some more to Brother Liu's family?" Ye Xuan said as she squatted down to help with the task.

"Yes, I do have that idea."

Jiang Chuan nodded.

Primary farmland can be sown three times, so there is no shortage of this stuff.

He can even plant some common vegetables, which is extremely rare in winter.

However, he did not have any such seeds stored at home, so he had to go to the village again.

Breakfast was still a sweet potato stew. After eating, Jiang Chuan carried twenty pounds of sweet potatoes down the mountain.

But they didn't go too far—

Jiang Chuan suddenly grinned.

Just a hundred meters from Snow Eagle Ridge, on a bend in the mountain road, lay the large black rat from last night, lying quietly in the middle of the snow, its body mostly covered by snow, already dead.

He was clearly seriously injured last night and fled into the darkness. He hadn't run far before collapsing on the spot.

I don't think much of this level of monster.

Jiang Chuan laughed heartily, threw the leather bag on the spot, and strode towards the corpse of the strange creature.

Luckily, I woke up early; otherwise, I might have been picked up by someone else.

certainly...

That's unlikely, since it's such a remote corner of their place that very few people would pass by; they're either human or ghost.

Another point is...

This stinks horribly! Who would pick it up?!

As Jiang Chuan approached, a putrid stench emanated from the corpse of the monster, almost suffocating him.

In addition, his body was ulcerated from being hit by the arrows of light, and black liquid was flowing out, which made him feel nauseous.

Jiang Chuan stood beside the pool of black liquid, examining how to move it back. His gaze swept over the lower half of the large black rat.

It was the thickest tentacle, completely different from the strange tentacles on the other parts of the corpse.

"...That's a tail!"

A thick, long, and flexible tail.

Jiang Chuan hesitated for a few seconds, then gritted his teeth and squatted down. He covered his nose and gagged, but still reached out his hand.

He was wearing a cover, of course, a glove made from the skin of a red squirrel.

He grabbed the tail.

The muscles beneath the skin had a nauseating elasticity, like a giant earthworm, still wriggling slightly.

"Yue, that's fucking amazing..."