Enchanting Table Containing the 'Great Dao'

Crazy Dave's Backyard.

Shen Jin was reinforcing the perimeter walls inside, while Yang Ao patrolled outside.

The super-evolved Zombie from the laboratory had given Shen Jin a considerable sense of crisis.

Walls like these simply could not stop that kind of Zombie.

A few charges and some corrosion, and it would soon blast a gap through the one-meter-thick stone wall.

This time, Shen Jin raised the walls to eight meters and increased their thickness to three meters.

Only then could Crazy Dave's Backyard become a truly safe base.

It was a massive undertaking!

Shen Jin had taken out almost all the stone blocks he had collected from digging.

He was in a relatively low-lying area of Q City, where the ground below was mostly usable farmland, so there was not much stone.

After using up all the stone blocks this time, Shen Jin planned to dig some from the ancestral mountain in the suburbs of Q City.

A small goal: dig out a mountain first.

"Hey! Have any Mutated Zombies shown up yet?"

Standing atop the wall, Shen Jin saw Yang Ao staring tensely ahead and could not help asking.

"Yes, one's already here!"

Yang Ao wore a full suit of iron armor and held a sword in one hand. Another Iron Sword, streaked with blood-red light, was strapped across his back.

A Zombie suddenly sprang out from the haystack ahead, racing forward on all fours at incredible speed!

A Jumping Zombie!

There were no defenses around Yang Ao, nor did he have Shen Jin's ranged support. Yet he remained calm, not even switching to the energy Iron Sword.

The Jumping Zombie leaped into the air, choosing to pounce directly on its prey.

Its mouth opened wide in midair, revealing blackened teeth and a festering oral cavity.

A stench like a sewer filled with dead rats rushed into his nose.

Feeling the power in his body, Yang Ao seized the instant the Jumping Zombie lunged through the air.

He gripped his sword with both hands.

Then he leaped up!

Dust burst beneath his feet.

The blade sliced precisely across the Jumping Zombie's crown.

"Pshh!"

Half the Jumping Zombie's skull was peeled open, exposing a yellowish clump of brain matter, within which something eerie and red pulsed.

One strike was enough to kill the Jumping Zombie!

"Boom!"

The Jumping Zombie hit the ground, its body twitching. It clearly had not yet fully entered its feigned-death hibernation state.

"Brother Jin, come finish it off!"

"Mm."

Shen Jin kept a straight face, but inwardly he clicked his tongue. Damn, this gene optimization drug was way too powerful! If every human used it, what chance would Zombies have left?

Shen Jin drove an Iron Sword through the Jumping Zombie's skull and extracted the blood crystal from inside.

He then burned the corpse with fire, ensuring it could never revive again.

Ding~ The mission 'Further Understanding of Zombies' had been completed. Reward: 10 World Coins, 5 obsidian.

Obtained: World Coins ×10

Obtained: Obsidian ×5

Shen Jin completed this system mission with ease.

That day, while Shen Jin repaired the walls, Yang Ao kept using Zombies to test his abilities.

With his current reaction speed and agility,

he had no fear when facing a lone Jumping Zombie and could kill one easily.

Against a lone Iron Bucket Zombie, he needed the energy longsword to kill it.

Yang Ao's overall physical qualities had indeed doubled, just as he had guessed!

His eyesight, reaction speed, resistance to blows, explosive strength, and endurance had all doubled!

That doubled improvement caused his combat power to soar!

Where he had once struggled against three ordinary Zombies, he could now chase Evolved Zombies around and beat them senseless.

He had directly become a top-tier fighter.

Of course, under Shen Jin's instructions, Shen Jin always delivered the finishing blow and dealt with the corpses.

And so, that day,

while Shen Jin stacked up the walls, the mission was completed.

Before nightfall, Shen Jin finished the work. The entire perimeter wall was now impregnable!

"Haha! When spring comes next year, we'll sow a whole field of seeds."

"What seeds? Are there codes for them?" Yang Ao asked expectantly.

Shen Jin: "..."

That evening, the two returned to the villa and ate the steaming hot food Shang Qian had prepared, thoroughly satisfied.

Seeing Li Moxiao eat like a horse while doing absolutely nothing, Shen Jin's irritation flared up.

"Look at Shang Qian! At least she can cook and has her own value. What about you? All you do every day is hug romance novels and read, read, read!"

Li Moxiao, who was in the middle of eating:

(°ー°〃)

She then began explaining haltingly, "I-I... I... Of course I have value!"

"Oh? Let's hear it."

"Can you give birth by yourself? Doesn't humanity's continuation depend on us women?"

Shen Jin was stunned. "Who said they wanted to have children with you? Don't go falsely claiming kinship!"

Li Moxiao brushed back her hair, revealing her innocent, adorable little face. In a saccharine loli voice that could melt bones, she said:

"Big brother~ Don't you think I'm cute? Just wait another two years, okay~"

Seeing Li Moxiao's expression—one she clearly thought was seductive, but which actually made her look a little dopey—Shen Jin nearly spat out his food.

"Kukukuku~~~ Call me uncle!"

"No!"

Shang Qian could not help laughing as well. The atmosphere was filled with joy, and she found the feeling somewhat warm.

"Alright, I'll stop teasing you. Want to play Catch the Duck?"

"Catch!"

"Absolutely!"

"..."

"Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack~"

But no one noticed that there was actually a trace of seriousness in Li Moxiao's eyes.

After the laughter died down, Shen Jin went to his room and shut the door.

"I have the obsidian now."

Five chunks of purplish-black stone appeared in Shen Jin's hand. Mysterious patterns covered their surfaces, as though they concealed the secrets of nature.

"Obsidian can be used to make an Enchanting Table, a beacon, and an Ender Chest."

"But the Nether Star and Eye of Ender are completely unobtainable, so I can only make an Enchanting Table!"

Shen Jin went upstairs and took one of his little niece's books, The Crooked-Mouthed CEO Falls in Love with Me. Then he took out the two diamonds left over from crafting the Diamond pickaxe and four blocks of obsidian.

He placed the book, diamonds, and obsidian onto the crafting table in order.

Crafting successful!

Enchanting Table

Trait: Consumes World Coins to enchant tools and weapons, granting magical properties. Each item may only be enchanted once.

Advanced: To obtain better enchantment effects, surround the Enchanting Table with bookshelves for stronger enchantment bonuses. Maximum: 16 bookshelves.

"Using World Coins... wouldn't that conflict with upgrading my mods? Let's see how much it costs first. If it's too much... I'll leave it for later."

From Room Xuan-10, where he stored "junk," Shen Jin found an entire warehouse of web novels.

He made sixteen bookshelves and arranged them all around it.

Those web novels seemed to contain the supreme Great Dao itself. Mysterious symbols visible to the naked eye flowed into the Enchanting Table surrounded at the center.

The mysterious book atop the Enchanting Table actually began moving without wind!

It floated in the air and automatically flipped through its pages.

Countless words containing mysterious power were written upon them.

"Heaven and earth are heartless, treating all things as straw dogs!"

"Because you wanted to live like a person, not like a dog."

"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Never bully the poor youth!"

"A man, no matter how useless he is, must at least know how to protect two things: the land beneath his feet and the woman in his arms."

"I want the heavens to never again cover my eyes; I want the earth to never again bury my heart!"

"Heaven and earth have no ranks; truth alone is the path. The Great Dao is formless; strength alone raises it!"

"If heaven had not given birth to me, Li Chungang, the way of the sword would have remained night for all eternity!"

"At the end of the immortal path, who stood at the peak? At the sight of Wushi, all Dao became empty."

"Damn, anyone who can understand these is a true veteran reader. My blood's boiling!"

Shen Jin took a deep breath and placed the Diamond pickaxe on it.