CHAPTER 122: CHAPTER 97: SQUARE EARTH BLOCK

Li Cunxu lay limp on the ground, a pool of sweat beneath him, his hands had unknowingly grabbed the bedding and torn it apart.

Little White Spider gently helped Li Cunxu onto the bed, blood was at the corner of his mouth, and she pried open his mouth to check.

The blood was from biting his tongue, plus he had broken a canine tooth.

"How much pain must there be! He even bit off a tooth,"

Little White Spider exclaimed in surprise.

Half an hour later, Li Cunxu woke up.

He wasn’t waking up because he had enough sleep, but because he was startled awake. He had a nightmare, one that repeated the pain of expanding his Beast Taming Space.

Little White Spider thoughtfully handed over a bottle of Joy Water.

Joy Water is true Joy Water, with the juice of the Emotional Joy Fruit added. Drinking it really can make someone happy for a whole day, and it isn’t addictive. Unfortunately, the Emotional Joy Fruit yields very little, making Joy Water expensive and rare in the market.

If it weren’t for his sister’s help, Li Cunxu might not have been able to buy it.

The pain of expanding the Beast Taming Space is not ordinary pain; it’s the kind of pain that can leave psychological scars.

Some Beast Masters are so frightened by the pain they dare not break through to the next level.

But if you have just endured the pain of expanding the Beast Taming Space, a bottle of Joy Water can greatly alleviate the psychological trauma that the severe pain brings.

Just as Li Cunxu was about to drink the Joy Water, he felt something in his mouth. Spitting it into the trash, he expelled a half-congealed blood clot.

Little White Spider quickly handed him a glass of plain water for Li Cunxu to rinse his mouth.

A warm feeling flashed through Li Cunxu’s heart, and he stroked the head of the sensible Little White Spider.

"Thank you."

He rinsed his mouth and drank down the Joy Water.

Emotionally and physically exhausted, Li Cunxu felt a rush of joy fill his heart, and his mood instantly lightened, slowly restoring his spirits.

"How long did I endure the pain?" Li Cunxu asked.

"Forty minutes, double the time of others."

Little White Spider, who recorded the time, replied.

The expansion and stabilization of a Bronze-level Beast Taming Space typically takes twenty minutes.

Li Cunxu muttered, "Doubled again."

The last time he developed his Beast Taming Space, it also took him twice as long as others.

Li Cunxu inwardly viewed his Beast Taming Space, noting its increased size, and exclaimed that the pain had not been in vain.

For most, a Bronze-level Beast Taming Space maxes out at fifty cubic meters, but Li Cunxu’s is a hundred cubic meters.

The carrying points were also similar to before, double that of others.

Black Iron breaking through to Bronze and stabilizing the Beast Taming Space can earn up to ten carrying points, but Li Cunxu earned twenty.

Altogether, Li Cunxu has thirty carrying points; after using six to embed four curiosities, he still has twenty-four points left.

The Cornerstone Dice took up one point, the Pure Water Source took five, the Medicinal Soil Block repaired by Inferior Water of Rebirth took one point, but this point was rolled by the Cornerstone Dice to one, negating it, thus it’s not occupied, and the Emergency Escape Device also took one carrying point, but it was obligatorily rolled to one by the Cornerstone Dice, negating it as well.

Li Cunxu brought out the three-star curiosity, Dragon Blood Gem (Golden Dragon), gifted by Lin Qingwei, and embedded it into his Beast Taming Space.

[Curiosity: Dragon Blood Gem (Golden Dragon)]

[Carrying point: 8]

The unassuming Cornerstone Dice rolled and spun continuously.

Li Cunxu silently chanted, "Roll a six, roll a six."

Lady Luck didn’t favor him; the six didn’t appear, but it wasn’t bad. This time it didn’t roll just the obligatory one point, but two points instead.

8-2=6

This means that embedding the Dragon Blood Gem (Golden Dragon) only cost Li Cunxu six carrying points.

The Dragon Blood Gem (Golden Dragon) reduced by two, the Pure Water Source reduced by one, the Medicinal Soil Block reduced by one, and the Emergency Escape Device reduced by one.

Unwittingly, the Cornerstone Dice had already saved him five carrying points.

"It’s not an exaggeration to call it a Divine Artifact, and the further along, the more it saves,"

The golden vein developed under the acre of medicinal soil derived from the curiosity, Medicinal Soil Block.

Li Cunxu frowned; to fully unleash the effect of the Dragon Blood Gem (Golden Dragon) and develop gold, he needed more soil.

The golden vein will only develop underground in soil.

Without enough soil, the development of the golden vein will be limited.

Li Cunxu planned to buy some curiosity, Rectangular Soil Blocks, to lay a layer of soil over the Beast Taming Space.

The soil derived from Rectangular Soil Blocks is ordinary, unlike the medicinal soil derived from the Medicinal Soil Block specialized for cultivating herbs. Thus, Rectangular Soil Blocks are not as valuable. Moreover, their production is relatively high, making them one of the few curiosities Li Cunxu can afford and find.

A one-star, one-point Rectangular Soil Block can develop one acre of soil.

A one-star, two-point Rectangular Soil Block can develop ten acres of soil.

A one-star, three-point Rectangular Soil Block can develop a hundred acres of soil.

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With each additional carrying point, the soil derived from Rectangular Soil Blocks increases tenfold.

Many would rather embed a three-point, higher-quality Rectangular Soil Block because it’s more cost-effective.

For example, with a three-point Rectangular Soil Block, they obtain a hundred acres of soil with only three carrying points, while a one-point Rectangular Soil Block would require a hundred pieces, occupying a hundred carrying points, to reach the same one hundred acres of soil as the three-point Rectangular Soil Block.

As a result, one-star, one-point Rectangular Soil Blocks are hardly in demand, and the market is flooded with them.

Abundant and cheap.

One-star, one-point Rectangular Soil Blocks cost only six thousand each, affordable for Li Cunxu.

Li Cunxu bought a hundred one-star, one-point Rectangular Soil Blocks in one go through online shopping. Due to the bulk purchase, he even received a 5% discount, spending only 570,000.

Once the package arrived, Li Cunxu proceeded to embed them, and soon, a layer of soil covered the Beast Taming Space.

The golden vein quietly expanded beneath the soil.

Speaking of the golden vein, Li Cunxu felt a bit troubled. Clearly, the Divine Guard Continent is rich with underground resources, yet despite the Miner Slimes digging for so long, not a single golden vein has been found.

Besides iron veins, other metal veins are nowhere to be seen, and even the iron veins found are small. After only a few days of mining, they’ve been exhausted.

"It’s impossible for there to be no veins underground. Am I just that unlucky to not encounter a single one, or has someone extracted all the veins under Muye Plain?"

Li Cunxu leaned toward the latter suspicion.

No one can be so unlucky as to not pick up even one piece of gold in a place overflowing with it.

Moreover, Li Cunxu doesn’t consider himself an exceptionally unlucky person.

"Wait, something’s odd. For months, I haven’t seen a shadow of the golden vein. I should have realized earlier that the veins under Muye Plain might have been extracted. Why did I only realize this after breaking through to Bronze-level?"

"Could it be that someone has set a cognitive barrier to make people overlook the extraction of underground veins?"

"All this sneaking around doesn’t seem like something the aboveboard alliance would do."

"Could there be some conspiracy involved?"

"Does the Geological Survey Bureau of Tongdu know about this?"

"Should I report it?"

Li Cunxu thought it over and decided to report it!

If something happens in Tongdu, when the city gates catch fire, the fish in the moat will be affected.

He’s just that little fish in the moat.

"Who should I report this to?"

"I’ll report it to Grandpa; he’s the only person I know who’s trustworthy. Besides, I need to stop by my sister’s place; her Eternal Contract is due, and it can allow the villain to absorb the pollution of the Evil God."