The Legend of Fangren

In less than half a day, Fang Shi helped the elderly in the village build a wooden shed.

He let Luohe go first, actually to make it easier for him to use his ability. The old folks, seeing how fast he was going, would only think of it as a cultivator's amazing ability and wouldn't think much of it. Even if they told others, no one would give it a second thought.

Furthermore, he finished his work in less than half a day, leaving him the remaining time to go to the mountains and fields to take care of other matters.

When he first went to the Dragon River Sect with Immortal Zhang Kongming, he followed the main path. Now that he has just returned from the mountain and has some cultivation, he wants to explore the wilderness in Cangmu Valley.

Although the wilderness lacks the dense spiritual energy of Azure Dragon Peak, Azure Dragon Peak has a protective array that makes high-level spiritual treasures extremely rare, and even birds and beasts are not commonly seen. In terms of the upper limit, the wilderness is still the place to go.

When the bandit begged for mercy, he told him that many villages near Qingye City had suffered from wild beasts. Some people had reported it to the authorities, but the city could not send any soldiers. Recently, there have been many rumors that Qingye City is in turmoil and the people's hearts are wavering. Therefore, some skilled disaster victims have chosen to become outlaws.

"Sigh, if you're so capable, why don't you choose to unite? Why do you have to turn against your own people?"

Don't dwell on it; the thief is already dead under the axe, why bother thinking about him?

Arriving at a secluded and deserted valley forest, it was clear that few people had ever been here. The vegetation was extremely lush, with thorns growing everywhere, making it difficult to move without protective gear.

Fang Shi wielded his sword to clear a path, using it to break through the entanglements.

Since acquiring his new ability, he seems to be invincible, but in reality, he is extremely invincible, or in short, 100% invincible.

Why? Simply because his source of profound energy has been expanded.

In the many recipes of Block Man, various functional blocks have their own roles.

Many functional blocks can produce experience orbs, which are refined Xuan Qi, when they are in use.

The easiest to obtain is the furnace, which requires eight cobblestone blocks arranged in a circle within the nine-square grid of the crafting table.

The furnace block is divided into two sections, one above the other. Place items that can be smelted on the top section and items that can be used as fuel on the bottom section, and it will automatically start a fire to smelt them.

Fang Shi had already tested it in his body a few nights ago, and it was indeed feasible to produce experience orbs by burning items in the furnace. This shows that the furnace's real function is to refine the profound energy in items through burning.

It should be noted that many non-living things can also be burned, such as wood into charcoal and stone into stone. Although the amount of profound energy produced by each is extremely small, this is a skill that only cultivators at a very high level can possess.

Nowadays, which cultivator of Fang Shi's age doesn't rely on food to absorb Xuan Qi? I've never seen anyone who can eat stones and wood, which shows just how terrifying their abilities are.

Furthermore, scarcity cannot withstand abundance. Take the example of Fang Shi hollowing out a mountain; not counting the mineral deposits, the pile of waste rocks alone filled four or five backpacks.

When stones are mined, they become cobblestone. In reality, this block is equivalent to a pile of broken stones pressed together. It can be smelted in a furnace into a whole stone of the corresponding material. The stone can also be smelted into smooth stone with a smoother and more even surface. This is the smelting recipe, and it is also one of the recipes.

Both processes can produce experience balls, so Fang Shi made two large rows of furnaces out of round stones at night, then burned the piled-up logs into charcoal, and then used the charcoal to smelt the round stones, and then burned them into smooth stones.

Thus, logs-charcoal, cobblestone-stone-smooth stone are the three layers of experience orbs produced.

In the game, one piece of charcoal can burn eight items, and the process isn't very fast, so this huge pile of stuff won't burn out in one night.

Therefore, Fang Shi had no choice but to enter his body every night to stuff things into the furnace and retrieve things from it, while the produced items and blocks were stored in wooden boxes.

Similar to the furnace recipe, it also consists of eight items arranged in a circle, except that the wooden crates are made of plank blocks, and each crate has the same volume as the backpack, which is 27 squares.

In this way, the materials produced from a mountaintop only occupy the corners of the square platform.

Even so, Fang Shi still tried to take the functional cube out of the external space to use it, but the result after taking it out was that the cube's power disappeared and it became an ordinary thing.

The same applies to objects; if someone else holds a tool, it cannot perform its intended function.

Therefore, the power of blocks and items ultimately originates from the history of the blocks themselves, not from external forces, and cannot be taken away.

This put his mind at ease.

However, this ability is not without its limitations.

The functional blocks in the game work fine from beginning to end, but to unleash their power here, they need to be crafted using materials of the corresponding tier.

In other words, if you want to synthesize an item of a certain grade using materials of a certain grade, then the crafting table for synthesizing this item must also be synthesized using materials of that grade. Its powers are strictly based on grade, and it can only accommodate those below it and not those above it.

Only tools and items can transcend one level to exert their powers, which is consistent with the game's setting.

Wooden pickaxes are used to dig stones, stone pickaxes to dig iron ore, and iron pickaxes to dig diamond ore. When you come to the Xuan Realm, a first-tier pickaxe can dig a second-tier one, a second-tier pickaxe can dig a third-tier one, and so on.

This forced Fang Shi to search for materials of various grades.

Currently, the most abundant materials in his body are ordinary Skywood and ordinary gray stone dug from the mountains. Since both are ordinary, the blocks and items he synthesizes are naturally also ordinary.

It goes without saying that higher-level items can be refined to produce more profound energy. As one's cultivation level increases, the amount of profound energy required will increase exponentially. Moreover, he has not yet felt his body filled with profound energy, which shows that his demand for profound energy is extremely high.

Secondly, the weapons and tools at hand cannot be too inferior in quality, otherwise they will break one by one when fighting, just like the wooden stick he used to fight the thieves, which is too unwieldy.

"Heave-ho~"

The sword's edge sliced ​​through another patch of thorns, and Fang Shi hesitated whether to continue deeper.

He came to this dangerous place because the environment was treacherous, and wild animals could not enter. It was considered safe, but he wondered if any spiritual creatures might grow there.

Unfortunately, the ordinary stone sword slashed through the ground with great success, but didn't find anything good.

"..."

Since there's nothing good in the woods, I'll just take the woods with me.

With a flick of the axe, all the greenery vanished, and the mountains and forests were bald again in the blink of an eye.

"Huh? These grass seeds look so plump."

Unexpected gains always come suddenly.

It wasn't that he didn't remember that cutting grass could produce seeds, but compared to that towering tree, most grass seeds were useless, and the grass that grew was all weeds.

But the seeds in his hand now are round and plump, with a bright green sheen, which must have been obtained by accidentally knocking on some spiritual plant.

"Hehe, I might as well take it back and plant some, and see if the bone meal really has a miraculous effect."