The Legend of Fangren

"La la la~ la la la~"

After a few days in the mountains, Fang Shi had been having a wonderful time.

Although life within the sect was not bad, it was not as carefree as living in the mountains and wilderness. In addition, he had opened up a small four-dimensional space within his body, giving him a large area where he could carry more than a thousand times more items. Furthermore, he had the Book of Knowledge to decompose items, making things extremely convenient.

When night falls, he clears out a space, takes out planks and bricks, and builds a small hut on the spot. The next morning, he packs it up again, making it easy to come and go as he pleases.

When he first arrived in the mountains, he even went to check out his simple little cave.

In just one month, the place was covered with green grass and moss, and even the entrance to the cave was mostly buried. If it weren't for recognizing this open platform, it would be really hard to find.

In the past few days, Fang Shi has mainly spent his energy experimenting with his own abilities.

He temporarily regarded the strange space within his body, the square platform, as his spiritual platform; that space was the miniature Four Directions Realm.

He called the dozens of small square spaces inside his body "Mini Square Boundaries".

The small squares in the left and right hands can be activated with just a slight thought, while the formula blocks for the Book of Storage and Knowledge can only be activated by closing the eyes and calming the mind.

As for the square platform in the small square realm, he can only enter while he is asleep.

Looking at it this way, his mental platform is truly frightening, with sides measuring hundreds of centimeters, roughly estimated at around three hundred centimeters.

The space is divided equally between the ground and the air, so the materials can be piled up to a height of nearly 150 meters. Such a huge space can accommodate many things, and it would probably be no problem to dismantle the Heaven and Earth Pavilion and stuff it inside.

Having figured out how to use his abilities, he began his journey of gathering resources in the mountains.

When it comes to collecting, tools are indispensable. Times have changed. With the recipe from the Book of Knowledge, he is able to make tools.

There are five tool recipes in total: sword, axe, hoe, pickaxe, and shovel.

Use a shovel for soil and sand, a pickaxe for iron and stone, an axe for wood, a hoe for dense and mixed materials, and a sword for tangled and intertwined materials.

Five tools were used for mining, and they were always successful.

Furthermore, the tools obtained from the formula can be connected to the square patterns in the hand, extending the power of dissolving and greatly improving efficiency.

Fang Shi first made a wooden platform, which he named a worktable.

This block is a functional block. Through his experiments, he found that all functional blocks possess magical powers and effects in this reality.

This workbench, for example, can turn four recipes into nine to synthesize more complex substances.

A wooden pickaxe is made by placing a wooden block in each of the first rows of a 3x3 grid, and then placing a wooden stick in the middle vertical space.

All tools can increase efficiency, but the wooden pickaxe, being the cheapest tool, did not improve efficiency by much.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages. With tools, Fang Shi no longer had to worry about hand pain and could use his strength without restraint. Therefore, with his brute force, his mining efficiency was indeed several times faster.

However, after digging out three stone blocks, the wooden pickaxe became fuel for the furnace.

Wooden pickaxes have a durability of only three.

Speaking of durability, the tools obtained from the recipe are also quite magical. Their durability is not determined by actual hammering, but by the number of times they are deconstructed, which corresponds quite well to the game.

Thus, these tools synthesized using formulas are not simply combinations of substances; they also incorporate certain spatial regulations.

This advantage naturally meant that Fang Shi didn't have to worry about damaging his tools with brute force, and thus he was finally able to dissolve the stone he had been longing for.

"As expected, the blocky people still have to mine."

Over this period of time, he has come to realize that his abilities are those of a blocky being, not the game Minecraft.

How do we know this? It's because the materials used in the tools all correspond to things that actually exist in the mystical world, and are not the names of substances set in the game.

Just like the framework of game rules, the names of the materials within it are adapted to local conditions.

Therefore, the distinction between wooden pickaxes, stone pickaxes, gold pickaxes, etc. in the game is eliminated, and the efficiency and durability of tools depend on the materials of each part.

Fang Shi must deconstruct various substances to combine them arbitrarily, thereby arriving at the optimal combination.

Fortunately, the tools are simple to make, using only two materials: inexpensive skywood sticks and the most common gray stones found in the mountains. This combination makes the most cost-effective tools.

However, during the mining process, he also discovered that the tools did have mining grades.

In the game's design, tools of different qualities have limitations on the mining of certain items, subject to material constraints.

In the Xuan Realm, this level becomes the grade of a spiritual object.

Ordinary Skywood and Gray Stone are both mortal items, so they can only be mined from mortal items and spiritual items of a higher rank. This is one of the common functions of all tools.

However, Fang Shi couldn't have been happier.

What is this? This is clearly a natural artifact detector!

Once you dig up something that can't be decomposed, you can judge the level of the spiritual object based on the grade of the tool. It's so easy to find the gold and minerals among the soil and rocks in the mountains.

Thus, Fang Shi uttered the aforementioned sentiment.

In the Five Elements, metal originates from earth.

Earth is the source of accumulation, gathering and condensing scattered matter into gold. However, because the gathered matter is fragmented, gold in the earth is difficult to find and comes in many varieties.

These are no longer problems; he only needs to dig through the mountains and create caves to encounter a wealth of surprises.

Because of the rich spiritual energy and the spiritual essence of the soil, Azure Dragon Peak produces many spiritual metals. The mineral content of this mountain is even richer than that in the game.

How could this not be addictive for Fang Shili?

Although he didn't know about these metals, why was he in such a hurry?

Once you've collected a whole backpackful, wouldn't it be a delightful surprise to go back and check it out?

"What if this is some rare treasure? Wouldn't I be rich? From now on, I can take Hezi to the pinnacle of life and live a comfortable life even without cultivating immortality."

Fantasizing about a bright future, the already addictive mining journey makes one forget about time.

From the outside, it looked like a small hill, but once you dug inside, it was pitch black. Fang Shi had to use the flat ground he carved out with his power of transformation as a height guide to avoid digging too deep into the ground.

Even so, a small hill was enough to take him several days to clear.

These happy days of mining should have lasted a few more days.

However... it's over!!!

In the past few days, he discovered that there were extremely rich mineral deposits on a small hill, so he has been digging in the mountain for days.

As the saying goes, you can't cheat just one person, and you can't just fleece one person.

After a few days, the small hill finally succumbed to the weight and collapsed into rubble.

It didn't even roll down the mountain; it just shattered into a pile of pebbles on the hillside, showing how riddled with holes it had become over the past few days.

Fang Shi was sweating profusely and decided to hide in the mountains to avoid trouble and behave himself.

Otherwise, going straight back would be too abrupt.

"..."

Unfortunately, you can hide for a while, but you can't hide forever.

They had just emerged from the cave that day, and guess what?

Haha! The eight elders surrounded him, and directly opposite him was Qu Yang, whose face was half black with rage.

"Um, Master..."

Fang Shi cautiously approached.

"That mountain struck first!"

Thud! The words had barely left his mouth when he was struck on the back of the head and immediately lost consciousness.

One person grabs it, one bag is placed on it, and it's carried away without explanation.

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P.S.: I forgot to set the timer for Chapter 2, so it's a few minutes late. Sorry.