The Legend of Fangren

Searching through the methods of nourishing the body, and following the somewhat abstract illustrations, Fang Shi finally found the textual record of the triangular deer.

[Azure Branch Deer]: A common first-tier wood-type mystical beast in the eastern border forest system. It is solitary, likes to eat tender branches and leaves, and has an extremely sensitive sense of smell for spiritual fruits. Its antlers contain natural wood poison. If you are injured by it, you can apply a small amount of fire-type wound medicine. When the wound stops itching and only hurts, rinse it with clean water and bandage it.

After reading the text, Fang Shi nodded. The elder had just bandaged a senior sister's wound in this way, and the book was correct.

However, despite being a text about mythical beasts and spirits, it didn't mention the location of their spirits and flesh.

It seems that wild beasts do not understand the methods of cultivation, and the accumulation of profound energy depends entirely on fate.

Holding a piece of Cangzhi deer rib in his hand, Fang Shi tore off a thin, chewy piece of meat membrane and found the roasted deer rib to have a refreshing taste, which was no less strange than cucumber-flavored potato chips.

Fortunately, he's not picky about food.

It's fine if it's light.

After finishing the meat, everyone rested for a while before starting to practice their martial arts in the nearby forest. Fang Shi stayed behind by the fire, sneakily picking through a pile of charcoal ash and finding the skull of the Cangzhi deer.

After the burning, the bones of the deer had all turned into brittle charcoal, except for the hardest part, the skull, which was still preserved.

By gently tapping it on the ground a few times to remove the surface carbon layer, Fang Shi obtained a miniature version of the Cangzhi deer skull.

As for why he did this, it was simply because he wanted to make some props for himself.

Although the recipe allows him to synthesize various items in the game, some items in the game do not yet have their recipes unlocked because the materials are not yet available.

There's no such thing as too many methods; it's always good to try both.

According to the book, the poison of the deer antler wood is the most potent. He smashed it with a pickaxe, then pounded it into a fine powder in a wooden bowl, mixed it with water to make a poisonous mud. Hmm... that's how a knife poison was made.

He peeked out to check on the others, and when no one noticed him, he quietly walked a short distance into the woods in another direction. He came to a place where the grass was thick and the trees were dense, dug a two-by-two deep pit, covered it with branches and leaves, placed a few fresh spiritual fruits on it, and then retreated to the side.

At the bottom of the deep pit were several sharpened wooden sticks coated with poison. The drop of more than ten meters ensured that any prey that fell in would die instantly, even faster than the effects of poison.

What use is poison then?

Hmm... whatever, let's just consider it as preventing zombies from coming back to life.

Fang Shi, nestled in the tree, hid furtively among the branches and leaves, only his eyes showing.

In a moment, with just a gentle pull on the vine in his hand, the prey will be within his grasp.

I'm starving. I really hope the prey will take the bait soon.

Perhaps the heavens heard his prayers, for a short while later, a commotion arose from the bushes and trees nearby.

Oh ho~ It's a fully grown Cangzhi Deer. It poked its head out of the grass, clearly attracted by the spiritual fruit. After looking around and finding no danger, it couldn't wait to walk forward.

Before Fang Shila could even set the trap, the weight of the Cangzhi deer made the trap appear to be about to collapse, and it jumped up in fright.

"Oh no, we're going to jump out!"

In his haste, Fang Shi wielded three iron axes, instantly killing the deer right next to the trap.

He then quickly got down, preparing to butcher the whole deer, only to find an extra piece of meat in his backpack.

"Huh? I haven't even broken it down yet, how come there's meat as soon as I get close?"

Take the meat out and tap it; you'll find it's two pieces of meat [Item/Deer Meat Steak].

Oh, right. Killing animals in the game also drops meat chops, but the probability is much higher in the game. In reality, considering the context, these meat chops should be spirit meat.

After taking the meat out and examining it briefly, Fang Shi quickly put it back in his backpack. Without a doubt, the tender and glossy appearance indicated that it was spirit meat, completely different from the meat ribs he had extracted from the corpse of the mystic beast.

But he had killed several mystical beasts before, so why didn't any spiritual flesh fall out?

Five gray fish, one mud frog... Not counting his training trips down the mountain, he had basically never personally learned about mystical beasts, so—were those fish and frog-like mystical beasts too low-level?

It seems that the power of dissolution also has standards for judging the spirit and the body.

All in all, this is a good thing, saving him from having to cut his own flesh.

After dismembering the deer carcass and hiding back in the tree, the trap can even be reused.

Taking advantage of the free time, he checked the inventory in his backpack.

He had previously dissected various types of mystical beast meat and thrown it into his spiritual space, so now he only had the meat from the Azure Branch Deer.

Total breakdown yields: [13 Cangzhi Deer Meat Ribs], [2 Cangzhi Deer Spirit Meat Ribs], [10 Cangzhi Deer Bones], [5 Cangzhi Deer Leather]

"Wow... this is so much better than in the game. A deer that's barely as tall as a person can produce so much stuff."

I didn't feel anything when I was dissecting and picking up the corpses before, because most of the Xuan Beast corpses were incomplete. But now that I'm dissecting a complete one, I feel a great sense of satisfaction.

This pork chop is really thick, as thick as a thumb joint and as wide and long as a palm. No wonder the blocky character in the game can get full after eating two pork chops.

Hurry up, before the senior and junior sisters finish practicing their skills, he needs to quickly stock up on food and prepare for an extra meal for himself.

Soon, another deer appeared.

Wow, there are quite a few deer in this forest! It's truly a wild ecosystem with plenty of animals.

The later deer was about the same size as the first one, and even the process of emerging was the same.

"Oh no, we're going to jump out!"

Three gray iron axes clattered and clattered.

The deer on the green branches cried out and fell to the ground, all in the same posture.

"Hmm... I feel like this trap doesn't really stand out."

They climbed back up the tree and repeated the same trick.

When the third deer came, the same process repeated itself. Fang Shi was puzzled. He suspected that these deer had some kind of intelligence problem. One after another, were fresh spiritual fruits really that rare?

Believe it or not, it really is that rare. After all, for a spiritual fruit to grow to be plump and round, it has to avoid being eaten by various insects and pecked by birds.

But after thinking it over, Fang Shi came up with another, more reasonable possibility.

Don't forget that this spiritual fruit is an [item]. Since it is an [item], it has the same powers as other items in the game.

Fang Shi hadn't unlocked his backpack before, so the items that fell out landed directly on the ground, and he had completely forgotten about it.

Now that I think about it, could it be that the power of this fruit is the same as [attracting animals] in the game?

Thinking about it this way, it seems to explain why the gray fish were so eager to eat when I was fishing in the pond in the mountains.

Wow... So all he has to do is figure out what the various mythical beasts like to eat, and he can make them happily fall into his trap.

He even looked forward to another power of food and objects: [taming and reproduction].

As those who have read the previous article know, it is extremely difficult to tame the mystical beasts in the mystical realm. Even He Zi's ability to ride a horse is astonishing.

In that case, if he could tame all sorts of mystical beasts...

Hahaha~ Fang Shi couldn't even imagine how awesome that would be.