Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 201 Bonfire at the Source of the Town
It is worth mentioning that as the time that the Journey Village has been located here has increased, some small trees nearby are actually growing slowly.

Other tree roots buried deep in the earth also showed signs of sprouting new life.

This is because of the chain reaction caused by environmental warming.

If the Journey Village stays here long enough, it might even change a large area.

Because it is said that this world also had the sun countless years ago, and those plants must have grown in a warm environment countless years ago.

Now they are just forced to adapt to darkness and extreme cold, but their nature of liking light and warmth has not changed.

Otherwise, those plants would not become so short and stunted. They have to grow like this in order to adapt to the extremely cold environment. Most of them even grow underground and have well-developed root systems.

Liu Hen waited patiently for three more days before he finally gathered enough logs to upgrade the bonfire at the source of the village to the maximum level.

This speed is actually quite fast, after all, hundreds of villagers are working at the same time.

As the Pickaxe of All Things was upgraded to the gold level, although the total number of storage slots of the Gathering Axes was still only ten, the storage capacity of each slot increased to four hundred pieces of the same material.

This invisibly increases the collection speed and does not require them to run back and forth too frequently.

When the bonfire at the source of the village rose to level nine, the size of the village blueprint reached 690 meters in length and width.

Since there were enough materials, Liu Hen didn't delay and continued to upgrade.

Another hour later, the bonfire at the source of the village reached the maximum level.

At this time, the size of the village blueprint had reached 770 meters.

"Sure enough, raising a full-level village bonfire to a town bonfire also requires tree cores, but the quantity is a hundred times greater."

Liu Hen looked at the materials needed for the upgrade and secretly calculated in his mind. He felt that the tree cores he had stored were more than enough to upgrade the bonfire at the source of the town to the maximum level in one go.

This is why storing supplies is important.

If there is no early storage of supplies, it is almost impossible to quickly upgrade the campfire now.

After all, he had only found a few tree cores near the Hongluo camp.

"Fortunately, it's only the tree core material that's increased a hundredfold; the magic crystal consumption remains the same."

With a thought, he directly consumed the materials in the locker to upgrade the bonfire at the source of the village.

The upgrade time is the same as that of a normal campfire, which is ten hours.

The next moment, in the dimension that only he could see, the fog slowly spread outward.

During this process, the village blueprint also reappeared and slowly began to evolve.

Liu Hen did not add any conditions this time and let it evolve on its own, wanting to see what the town evolved from the bonfire would look like.

Ten hours is still a long time, and he didn't want to wait here foolishly. But as the bonfire was being upgraded, he suddenly felt that his body seemed to be undergoing some special changes.

Perhaps it was because he had equipped this Source Bonfire in the [True Self Interface], so during the upgrade of the Source Bonfire, his body also seemed to begin to transform.

"Could it be that my growing strength is really related to the bonfire?"

Liu Hen sat down cross-legged in front of the campfire, silently feeling the changes in his body.

This transformation was very special. He had clearly transformed once when he was upgraded to the gold level through the Pickaxe of All Things, but now, it seemed that he was beginning to transform again.

And this time the transformation is particularly strong.

It's not an improvement in physical fitness.

In other words, physical fitness has also improved, and the improvement is significant, but the main transformation is something else.

It was as if it was an elevation of the life level, a special evolution, and one's body seemed to be about to develop some characteristics.

No one else noticed the change in Liu Hen, but Heishi was the first to discover the abnormality. He hurried outside and looked at his master curiously.

In her vision, Liu Hen's body was slowly changing from a normal flesh and blood state to becoming somewhat illusory, and the tendons and veins in his body were actually showing a tendency to transform into chains.

"Your Excellency... there are actually rules derived from you? Are those rules?"

Heishi didn't quite understand. Everything she knew was instinctive, or perhaps it was the message conveyed to her by heaven and earth.

Ever since she merged with the Stone of Wishes, she has been able to receive some information from the heaven and earth from time to time. For example, she also learned about the changes in Hong Ming from the heaven and earth.

Now, similar changes have also occurred in Liu Hen, but the rules of heaven and earth did not give her any hint about this change, as if Liu Hen was completely independent of the world and did not belong to this world.

In the nearby area, besides Heishi, there was another person who also sensed Liu Hen's changes.

In the snow more than 3,000 meters away from the travel village, a group of snow demons who were making snowmen were having fun playing snowball fights like ordinary people.

Xueqin, the patriarch of the Snow Demon Clan, suddenly looked back in the direction of the Journey Village as if he had sensed something.

"The rules are fluctuating?" She was a little confused: "Is it that person? But how is this possible? Isn't that person's realm only the third realm?"

According to legend, rule-based psychics can only manifest the rules and truly master the power of rules after reaching the seventh level.

But how could the village chief of the travel village master the power of rules so quickly?
"Even if he has made a breakthrough recently, he's only at the fourth level, right?"

Xueqin was a little shocked. She had lived a long life and had seen other rule-based superpowers before.

However, those who have rule-based abilities all master the power of rules after reaching the seventh level.

The scene before her somewhat overturned her three views.

'Come back, your mission is accomplished.'

Suddenly, the Snow Girl's voice rang in her ears: "From now on, this person is already a god. He is an outsider and does not need to abide by the rules of this world. If it turns out as expected, six is ​​his ultimate realm. Once his realm exceeds the sixth realm, this world will no longer be able to restrain him."

Xueqin was startled and quickly bowed respectfully: "Yes, Lady Snow Girl. The village of the Snowman tribe..."

She actually came here with a mission, which was to protect Liu Hen when he was weak.

But now, the other party obviously no longer needs shelter.

"Just hand it over to Bai Ling."

The Snow Girl's voice disappeared.

……

The invisible changes continue.

Liu Hen vaguely sensed that the Snow Demon Clan was approaching the Journey Village, but everyone else stayed outside the village. Only Clan Leader Xueqin entered the village and talked with Bai Ling for a while.

At this time, he could already sense the realm of Patriarch Xueqin.

The eighth realm.

This was considered a very powerful realm for him, but for some reason, he felt that the other party in the travel village could not threaten him at all.

"The Journey Village is transforming into a small town. Suppress...suppress the demons...suppress?"

Liu Hen gradually understood something: "So, within the scope of my rules, my rules are invincible?"

He was secretly surprised: "Although this kind of suppression does not seem to be absolute, as long as I disagree, even the rules of this world cannot interfere with the affairs within my domain... How magical!"

Finally, ten hours passed slowly.

When the last second ended, Liu Hen's transformation was completed.

He opened his eyes again and immediately felt different.

First of all, my physical fitness has suddenly improved to an incredible level.

It's not an improvement in strength, but an improvement in physique.

Now his pure strength is actually not that strong, only about one thousand kilograms.

Although it is much stronger than before, compared with the real strong ones, this strength is nothing.

His real strength now lies in his physique, because he now has immortal characteristics, and irregular forces are completely harmless to him and cannot hurt him at all.

"This feeling... is it as immortal as the Black Stone?"

Liu Hen was a little shocked.

In addition to the changes in his own physique, there is also the Journey Village... No, it should be called [Journey Town] now.

The original village source bonfire has been promoted to the [town source bonfire].

At this moment, the bonfire has become very large, with a diameter of two meters and the flame height reaching more than three meters.

The blueprint size of the town is 900 meters long and wide.

But these are secondary.

The most significant change was that as Journey Village became Journey Town, Liu Hen was surprised to find that the residents of the entire town were in a state of awakening.

That’s right, the state of awakening.

It was as if the bonfire at the source of the town had become some kind of supernatural source, and those townspeople with town status seemed to have received some kind of authorization.

However, not everyone becomes a superpower all of a sudden. They just get the key and still need to work hard on their own.

If they are talented enough, they can resonate with the source bonfire and awaken their own special abilities just as they comprehend the original power.

(End of this chapter)