Xu Cuihua, you are one ruthless person!

Driven by hatred, the members of the Li Family practiced with increasing diligence.

As Li Xiang was focusing intently, he noticed that on the screen, Li Dalong had gathered everyone in the Li Family except for three-year-old Li Yaowen, and they were currently heading toward the Silver Iron Forest.

He hurriedly clicked on Li Dalong's icon.

The screen instantly began to follow the family's movements.

"The medicinal pills bestowed upon us by our ancestor are running low, but when I entered the Silver Iron Forest last time, I encountered fruit trees with a very enticing aroma!"

"This time, I need my family to work together with me!"

The family was united in purpose.

Li Xiang, in front of the screen, held his breath, ready to use his skills at any moment should they encounter danger.

The Silver Iron Forest was not like the Wild Boar Forest from before; it was teeming with demonic beasts.

Even though Li Dalong had been going in and out of the Silver Iron Forest, he had always stayed in the outermost areas, and it was quite convenient for him to move alone.

This time, however, the whole family was going together, and they were a group without much hunting experience.

Yet, Li Xiang did not stop them.

If the Li Family wanted to grow, they needed to endure many hardships; if they just wanted to stay in front of the altar waiting for his charity, they might as well be destroyed.

Before long, the family entered the Silver Iron Forest.

They also encountered their first skirmish.

A cat demon with a tail burning with flames and a body covered in golden fur!

Li Xiang manipulated the mouse and clicked on this strange cat demon, instantly obtaining information about it.

[Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat (Common)]

[Introduction: It is small in stature but possesses extreme speed, allowing it to survive on the outskirts of the Silver Iron Forest. Beware of its speed, and... its tail.]

Looking at this demonic beast, Li Xiang was somewhat surprised. After the spiritual energy recovery, demonic beasts existed on this planet and had even formed large races.

However, Li Xiang had never seen this type in the school curriculum.

He searched online, but could not find any useful information.

But Li Xiang knew that common demonic beasts were mostly within the range of the Qi Refining stage.

And at this moment.

This Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat was fleeing for its life under the pursuit of Li Dalong.

"Whoosh!"

The sound of an arrow piercing the air rang out; it was six-year-old Li Yaotie of the Li Family drawing his bow and nocking an arrow!

"Meow!"

The Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat barely dodged the arrow, turned its head, bared its teeth, and meowed; judging by the sound, it was likely cursing quite foully.

But the next moment, it couldn't curse anymore!

In the direction it was fleeing, the Li Family had already set a trap.

Xu Cuihua and her daughter Li Yaoqing darted out from behind two trees, clutching a large brown net, and covered the fleeing Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat head-on. Their bodies were smeared with ash, apparently to mask their scent.

The flames on the Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat's tail ignited wildly, but their net seemed to have been prepared in advance and could not be burned through at all.

Just as the Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat was biting and clawing at the net.

Li Yaozu approached from the front, forming hand seals with his fingers. The net emitted a cyan luster, completely trapping the Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat!

"Meow, meow, meow!!!"

When the family gathered around, looking down at the Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat, the cat cursed even more foully.

[Captured a common demonic beast--Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat. It glares angrily at everyone in the Li Family, but after being fed and petted by Xu Cuihua, it reveals a barely perceptible look of comfort.]

"Are they planning to keep the Flame-Tailed Spirit Cat as a pet?"

Li Xiang looked at the cat locked in the cage and raised an eyebrow. Clearly, the meat of this cat wouldn't even be enough to fill the gaps between one's teeth; using it for breeding or having it guard the house was a good choice.

However, the game screen did not reveal the clansmen's thoughts.

They had already begun preparing for the next hunt.

In Li Xiang's memory, Li Dalong had encountered many demonic beasts before, but when he was alone, regardless of whether he could win or not, the beasts would often run away. Now, with the family dividing the labor and working together, Li Dalong found it much easier.

Not long after.

Li Xiang watched as the family fought demonic beasts one after another in the Silver Iron Forest, almost all of them small-sized beasts; most of the time, the size of the beast also represented its combat power.

This time, they stayed in the Silver Iron Forest for five days.

[Captured a common demonic beast--Shadow Hunting Dog. After a sound beating from Xu Cuihua, it stuck out its tongue with a fawning expression. Once Xu Cuihua walked away, it started barking wildly again.]

[Captured a nest of common demonic beasts--Baili Pigeon. Xu Cuihua took out a long flute, and listening to the strange music from the flute, the Baili Pigeons began to feel dizzy and mesmerized.]

[Captured a common demonic beast--Anteater...]

Hmm?

They've captured so many spirit beasts?

Li Xiang scratched his head. Looking at the situation, it seemed this family intended to capture and raise all the spirit beasts they could find. However, taming spirit beasts required skill, and all of this had to do with Xu Cuihua.

"Holy crap, Xu Cuihua, you've been hiding your talents! You actually learned Beast Taming behind my back?"

He opened the information for Li Dalong's wife.

Li Xiang was suddenly enlightened.

[Xu Cuihua]

[Realm: Qi Refining Level 1]

[Skills/Arts: Naqi Technique, Beast Taming Technique]

[Trait: Spirit Beast Affinity]

[Can simply perceive the emotions of spirit beasts, making it easier to get close to them; the success rate for taming spirit beasts is increased by 100%!]

Just as Li Xiang was feeling puzzled.

The Li family members in the Silver Iron Forest were gathered around a campfire.

Under the moonlight, Li Dalong took out the ancestral tablet and began to burn incense and kowtow before it.

"Ancestors, please bless this journey to be smooth and successful. It is all thanks to the cultivation manual bestowed by the ancestors that your unworthy descendant, Li Dalong, has found a way to strengthen the family."

"This child will surely make good use of the Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual and one day wipe out the Tailin Hu Family to wash away our shame!"

Xu Cuihua also knelt down.

"Dalong's wife, Xu Cuihua, kowtows in gratitude to the ancestors!"

"After eleven years of raising chickens and ducks, I have finally mastered the art of beast taming. With this, I will strengthen the Li Family!"

[Your family has benefited from your blessings and comprehended the 'Beast Taming Technique' from the Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual.]

[Incense +100!]

"Huh?"

Li Xiang was stunned. "The Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual has this kind of effect too?"

He hurriedly opened the course materials from his computer that he had spent an entire year studying at school.

Sure enough, he found various documents.

[Best Cultivation Methods for Spirit Herbs], [How to Communicate and Build Trust with Spirit Beasts], [Division of Labor and Assembly Line for Pills]...

The Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual was equivalent to the middle school textbooks of his previous life.

But for this current world, spirit herbs, spirit beasts, and pills were all handled by specialized personnel or directly monopolized by corporations. The planet's environment had also been heavily developed over the past thousand years, leaving no surplus resources for ordinary students to practice with.

Only those at the Golden Core Realm or above possessed the qualifications for interstellar travel to develop and plant on other planets.

Therefore, aside from the methods for absorbing heaven and earth spiritual energy and the techniques contained within the Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual, most of the students didn't even bother looking at the rest of the curriculum.

"These pieces of knowledge were useless to me, but for the Li family members, the Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual contains a wealth of practical knowledge that holds great potential."

Li Xiang gasped. "I have underestimated this most basic textbook all along!"

As expected, a cultivation manual distilled from the thousand-year history of spiritual energy recovery in Huaxia was a supreme treasure for the novice stage in this world of cultivation!

Time in the game flowed very quickly.

While Li Xiang was still marveling at how the Qi Refiner Cultivation Manual could shine so brightly in the game world, the Li family was already traveling through the thick fog.

Not long after.

A large tree appeared on the game screen, hung with clusters of fiery red fruits!

Li Xiang moved his mouse and saw the information for the fruit tree.

[Beast Blood Fruit Tree]

[A type of fruit tree that can only grow in places where spirit beasts gather. It is planted using the blood of various spirit beasts to produce Beast Blood Fruit. The more powerful the spirit beast blood used, the more potent the spiritual energy produced by the fruit. Some powerful spirit beasts often occupy such trees, hunting other beasts and using their blood to cultivate the tree to aid in their own breakthroughs!]

Following his usual practice, Li Xiang searched for it, but there was no information on this type of fruit tree either.

Yet, Li Xiang could sense the value of this tree. The stronger the spirit beast blood, the more potent the spiritual energy in the fruits; this meant that such a tree had no fixed limit on its grade!

Just as Li Xiang was weighing the value of the Beast Blood Fruit Tree.

On the game screen, a giant snake suddenly appeared, coiled around the trunk of the massive tree. A pair of blood-red eyes were staring at the Li family members. The two giant horns atop its head flickered with lightning, as if warning the family before it that if they dared to come any closer, they would be treated as fertilizer for the Beast Blood Fruit Tree!

"Oh no, it's a peak-level ordinary spirit beast!"

"The last time I saw it, its aura wasn't this strong!"

"Let's leave, Father. It doesn't seem to have any intention of attacking us."

[Thunder Python (Ordinary Spirit Beast)]

[Description: An absolutely powerful existence among ordinary spirit beasts. Once its molting period ends, its transformation is about to begin.]

The Li Family party began to lose their nerve and consider retreating.

However, Li Xiang noticed that it wasn't that Li Dalong was being reckless, but rather that there were two more Thunder Pythons on the Beast Blood Fruit Tree.

"Retreat? How could I possibly retreat?!!"

Li Xiang's gaze sharpened before the screen as he checked the amount of Incense remaining in the game: 180 points left!

"Screw it, even if I burn through all my Incense, I'm not giving up on those Beast Blood Fruits!"

[Used 'Ancestral Patriarch's Fury', consumed 20 points of Incense!]

In an instant.

Li Xiang's Ancestral Spirit Tablet flew out from Li Dalong's clothes and lunged violently toward the Thunder Python!

"The Ancestral Patriarch has manifested!"

Li Dalong was overjoyed. "That's right, we still have the Ancestral Patriarch's protection! Don't be afraid of this snake, take him down!"

In that moment, Li Xiang before the screen and the Li Clan Members worked in perfect unison.

But this time.

Li Xiang also discovered the limits of the 'Ancestral Patriarch's Fury' skill.

Facing a Thunder Python at the peak of the ordinary beast stage, his skill could no longer achieve a one-hit kill; an ordinary beast that reached its peak was capable of putting up a fight even against a master who had just entered the Foundation Establishment Realm!

The Ancestral Spirit Tablet soon collided with the lightning bolts shot out from the horns of the Thunder Python.

The Li Clan Members on the sidelines tried to help, but Li Yaotie's arrows couldn't even scratch the Thunder Python's hide, and the others couldn't even get close.

Not long after.

The skill that Li Xiang had used to one-shot bandits time and time again was actually defeated by the Thunder Python's attack!

"Damn, it's this fierce?!!"

Li Xiang gritted his teeth. "Two more shots!"

He clicked 'Ancestral Patriarch's Fury' in rapid succession.

The spirit tablet on the screen split into two, streaking through the air with purple light as it charged forward once more.

"Don't be afraid! The Ancestral Patriarch hasn't given up, so we, his descendants, must fight to the very end!"

"These spirit fruits, we are determined to have them!!!"

Li Dalong gritted his teeth, his own ferocity ignited as he led Li Yaozu to charge toward the other two smaller snakes!

"Ancestral Patriarch, bless us!"