Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 167 Daoxiang
Liu Hen looked at the villagers in the distance and said, "All of you are the same. As long as you perform well enough to satisfy this village chief, everyone will be rewarded."

"Thank you, village chief."

"Thank you, village chief. We will definitely work hard."

Upon hearing this, the villagers hurriedly expressed their gratitude, and the enthusiasm in their eyes became even greater.

"By the way, Wu Yuanming, you guys come over and get a set of tables and chairs."

Liu Hen waved to the Wu brothers and sisters in the distance, and at the same time took out four more sets of tables and chairs.

During this period, the Wu brothers and sisters followed Hong Ming and helped him.

Although the four of them never made any outstanding achievements, as the first people to follow him, they naturally cannot be treated unfairly.

"Do we have it too? Thank you, my lord!"

The four Wu siblings were overjoyed and ran over quickly.

"Alright, those who have received tables and chairs, go do what you need to do."

Liu Hen looked at Hong Ming again and said, "Hurry up and treat the people in the Raw Stone Tribe and ask them to join the mining team. I need a lot of iron ore to expand the village."

"Expand the village? Okay." Hong Ming nodded.

The day passed quickly.

When another late night came, after Liu Hen received the ten spiritual fields he had made, he suddenly remembered to make a cooking stove.

"Although it's not urgent, I'll make it first."

He immediately found the recipe for the cooking stove and put the ingredients in.

The cooking stove is quick to make, only taking a minute.

After the cooking stove was made, Liu Hen discovered that all the food recipes made in the campfire's cooking function would appear in the cooking stove.

The number of cooking grids in this cooking stove is also much more than that of the campfire.

Moreover, there are more cooking boxes in the cooking stove than in the campfire, and there are more combinations. If you have patience, you will definitely be more efficient in inventing new foods using the cooking stove.

Obviously, this is equipment specifically used for cooking.

After making the cooking stove, Liu Hen continued to make the spiritual field.

There is already a wood crusher, which is the one synthesized before.

There are not many people in the travel village now, so one wood chipper is enough, or even just one, and it doesn't need to be turned on all day.

"First, create 100 spiritual fields. You don't need to place them immediately. We can do that after the village is expanded."

Liu Hen felt that after the village was expanded, the specifications might need to be rearranged.

By then, there will be more areas available in a village that is at least two hundred meters long and wide, which can be used to set up special areas for spiritual fields.

"We may need more later on, and a hundred spiritual fields may not be enough."

Because he planned to separate the spiritual fields where dried shrimps were grown from the spiritual fields where flowers of heaven were grown.

However, even if it is just a hundred spiritual fields, it is not easy to make.

Because it takes an hour to make a piece of spiritual field.

Even if nothing is produced during this period, it will take a total of 100 hours.

Fortunately, the current silver-level creation workbench has ten crafting slots. After putting the materials in, you don’t have to worry about them. Just wait 10 hours to collect them.

After putting the materials into the crafting bar, he went straight to the bed and fell asleep holding the little black stone.

The next day, after getting up, Liu Hen first took the spiritual field that had been prepared, and then continued to put in the spiritual field materials.

He did not leave the village chief's residence immediately, but carried out today's ten syntheses first.

But my luck was bad today and I didn’t synthesize anything.

Because I decided to only synthesize 10 times a day and not be a gambler.

So after 10 failed synthesizing attempts, he decided to end it decisively.

When he arrived outside the village chief's residence, the first thing he saw was the paradise flower seedlings that had grown to more than two meters tall.

The buds of Paradise Flower are mainly dark brown.

According to Hu Jinshi, although the paradise flower is ugly now, its color will be very beautiful when it blooms.

As the name suggests, the paradise flower will bloom.

The only parts that can be used are the petals.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, a paradise flower will only bloom one flower, which is very precious.

However, the paradise flower seedlings now have so many branches that it doesn't look like they will only produce one flower.

Liu Hen thought it was because spiritual fields were different from ordinary fields.

Of course, it must also have something to do with the high-quality seeds he chose.

"Village Chief."

Hu Jinshi was still guarding here. He treasured his paradise flower very much and did not dare to go to sleep at all.

Anyway, the village on the journey was very warm, and as he came from a barren village, he was not picky about the sleeping environment.

Apart from visiting the two babies, he spends most of his time here.

Even though his subordinates are very trustworthy, he still likes to do things himself.

Especially since Liu Hen had instructed him to take good care of the spiritual field, he dared not neglect it.

Liu Hen nodded slightly, then looked at Haimi's sprouts, which was what he valued most.

If dried shrimps are really similar to rice, I can just wait for this dried shrimp plant to mature and then I can grow a lot of them.

That way, it might not be too long before we can eat rice.

More than two days later, although the height of the dried shrimp is still only 1.5 meters, it has shown signs of blooming and a faint fragrance of rice can be smelled.

"Are the rice ears about to form?"

He was looking forward to it.

Suddenly there was a noise at the village gate.

Liu Hen turned his head and saw Kuiba Mo and his men walking towards him.

Zong Ni has already brought people to meet them.

"Trading longevity pills?"

He ignored her. A mere first-level psychic was not worthy of being received personally by him as the village chief. Zong Ni would handle it herself.

Judging from the mysterious force's test of their realm last night, Zong Ni should also be regarded as a person with special abilities, and is more than capable of receiving a person with special abilities at the first level.

Moreover, Zong Ni is also the person in charge of internal affairs of the Travel Village. To some extent, Zong Ni's importance exceeds that of Hong Ming, a fourth-level psychic.

Having her personally receive him was a great honor to Kuiba Mo.

A hundred meters away from the village, Kuiba Mo was in mixed mood.

Coming to this warm place again, he was not in a good mood.

Originally, his Kuiba camp had over 300 people, but due to the involvement of the Journey Village, there were only about 100 people left. Although almost all those who escaped here were elites, and now his pressure was much less, he no longer had to be responsible for feeding and clothing so many people.

But his camp model determined that population was also a resource. With too few people, he couldn't even keep up with the speed of refining the longevity elixir.

However, he did not dare to cause trouble for the Travel Village, so he could only bury his resentment in his heart.

Didn’t you see the Iron Tree Camp and the Falling Rock Camp and didn’t dare to cause trouble for the Travel Village?

During the previous migration, Iron Tree Camp and Falling Rock Camp must have been affected.

However, the losses of those two camps should be smaller than his.

Who made his Kuiba camp the weakest camp?
"Chief Kuiba, all the food you requested is here."

Zong Ni had two hundred portions of food brought over and asked directly, "Where's the longevity pill?"

They had already had contact once before and had already determined the transaction amount, so there was no need to waste time talking now.

Through what happened last night, she has realized that she should barely be considered a person with superpowers. She is also the person in charge of internal affairs in the Travel Village, and her status is almost the highest except for Liu Hen.

Therefore, when facing the leader of the Kuiba camp, she did not feel inferior and her tone was neither humble nor arrogant.

Kuiba Mo looked at the steaming food in front of him, his nose twitched, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes, and then he took out a packet of longevity pills: "It's all here, Miss Zong Ni can count it."

Zong Ni asked her men to bring the longevity pills over, carefully counted them, and after confirming the correct quantity, she nodded and said, "Then, happy trading."

I learned the four words "happy transaction" from Liu Hen.

In the past, she didn't think trading was enjoyable at all, only painful, because every transaction might lead to a fight, and she would be easily targeted at that time.

There's no way. As a girl and short in stature, she looks easy to bully.

"Pleasant to work with."

Kuiba Mo took a look inside the Journey Village and saw Liu Hen and Hong Ming at a glance.

Seeing that the two men completely ignored him, he felt a little unhappy.

However, he was very clear about his identity and did not dare to get angry. He asked his men to take the food and leave.

In fact, he was reluctant to leave because it was so warm here, and the strong winds had died down as they approached here. Even if he just found a place to lie down outside, it would be countless times more comfortable than his own camp.

However, this is someone else's territory after all, and as a person with special abilities, he also has his own pride.

Zong Ni watched Kuiba Mo walk away, then took the longevity pill and walked towards where Liu Hen was.

Soon, she arrived near the spiritual field and handed the longevity pill to Liu Hen: "Kuiba Mo used 100 longevity pills to exchange with me for 200 kilograms of carbohydrate porridge. The longevity pills are all here."

Liu Hen took the longevity pill and took a look at it. He found that it was a silver-white bead the size of a little finger, without any peculiar smell.

In other words, the only smell is that of stone.

He put it into his space backpack and checked the information identified by the space backpack.

"Longevity Pill: Long-term use can significantly extend lifespan. However, after lifespan exceeds 100 years, one will experience ominous old age, grow white hair, and be summoned by the will of an unknown being."

"Old age is truly an ominous sign."

Liu Hen muttered secretly. This time he saw it clearly. It was really 'ominous', not 'unclear'.

This is a double consciousness.

The will of that unknown existence cannot be detected by the current space backpack.

"It seems that the demon in Qiulong Mountain is no ordinary demon."

Various thoughts flashed through Liu Hen's mind, and he finally locked on the word "Temple".

Since that force composed entirely of mutants with white hair dares to call itself the "Temple", there must be some secrets unknown to outsiders.

In particular, next to Qiulong Mountain is the Frame Snow Mountain.

The snow girl in the snow mountain in the frame diagram is the embodiment of rules and is essentially a deity.

Daring to build a temple next to the Snow Girl, yet it was not destroyed, the Dragon Temple might not just be related to the name and the "God".

The monster in Qiulong Mountain that Xiao Heishi sensed before was only as strong as the big conch in Hongluo Camp. There are two possibilities.

One possibility is that the little black stone can only sense existences that strong at most.

Just like the sounds that ordinary people can hear or the information they can receive, there is a limit to the number.

The other possibility is a bit more terrifying.

That is--

The big demon that Xiao Heishi sensed was most likely not a complete form, and it might even be the residual breath after death.

After all, Lord Qiulongshan hasn't shown up for thousands of years.

Under normal circumstances, it would be unlikely for a demon of the seventh realm to lie dormant for thousands of years.

If that's true, it's a bit scary.

The remaining aura after death still has a deterrent power comparable to that of a seventh-level demon even after thousands of years!
How powerful was this demon when it was alive?

Could it really be a god?

"Among the mutants of the Dragon Seeking Temple, some claim to be divine messengers. This is indeed something worth considering."

Liu Hen suppressed these thoughts and said to Zong Ni, "You can continue to trade this longevity pill in the future, but don't let the villagers take it."

Who knows what side effects this thing of unknown origin may have? He doesn't want his villagers to become slaves of unknown existences for no apparent reason.

He took it himself mainly to see what he could synthesize.

"Okay, I'll remember that." Zong Ni nodded.

In the blink of an eye, another day has passed.

This is the third day since planting the dried shrimps.

At this time, the dried shrimps have grown ears, which look very similar to rice ears.

As soon as Liu Hen walked out of the village, he smelled the strong fragrance of rice.

"It's such an addictive smell."

In fact, the smell was not fragrant, it just reminded him of his hometown on Earth.

"Remember you said home is the only place that can make you burst? Keep running towards the fragrant rice river..."

Liu Hen shook his head and laughed, wondering if he was too idle to even have time to reminisce about the past.

But this smell really made him intoxicated.

"This is just one plant. If we plant a large number of these crops in the future, the fragrance will surely cover the entire village and even spread far away."

He was full of anticipation.

Looking at the ears of dried shrimps that looked very similar to ears of rice, he felt something in his heart.

"The reason why the Hongluo Camp calls it [dried shrimp] may be because this crop is related to the sea."

"But my spiritual fields can ignore most growing environments, and this crop is so similar to rice..."

"In that case, from now on, this crop will be called rice in my area."

(End of this chapter)