"It's fine. It's not like we're short on a Soul Skill or two anyway," Li Chen said, patting Wine Fox on their way back.
Absorbing the Soul Ring had made Wine Fox a little taller, but she still wanted him to pat her head, so she bent slightly at the waist to let him reach.
How come absorbing Soul Rings never makes me taller? Playing favorites? Faced with this, he could only grumble inwardly.
"Master, I'm a Soul Elder now. Leave your fifth Soul Ring to me."
"Sure. We'll slaughter whichever one we come across."
On the way back, a thousand-year snake tried to ambush them, but Wine Fox spotted it before it could get close and used her second Soul Skill to strengthen her third Soul Skill, catching it.
Not a single scale on the snake's body remained intact, and its original color was no longer recognizable. Fortunately, he landed the finishing blow quickly, then promptly sat cross-legged to absorb its Soul Ring.
[Congratulations! The player has surpassed level 50! You may add 1 more MOD.]
As usual, Li Chen ignored the system notification. Entering a command into the Command Block took priority. After all the thinking he had done recently, he entered the following command for his fifth Soul Ring: /itemcopyentity@sweapon.mainhandentity@sweapon.offhand (copy the main-hand item to the off hand).
This was a choice he had made after careful consideration. Although the range of items he could take from Creative Mode kept expanding as his strength increased, the variety of items he needed was also growing.
What's more, plenty of items couldn't be stacked, while others could only be stacked up to 16.
Copying just once didn't seem all that useful, but what if he combined it with a Shulker Box? That would mean copying 27 stacks of items at once.
If he filled a box with Totems of Undying, a single copy would give him what would otherwise take six activations of Creative Mode to obtain.
More importantly, Creative Mode couldn't provide resources like Soul Bones or Immortal Herbs, but copying might work on them.
If it worked, he could wholesale Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and Immortal Herbs.
After waiting a while without the Command Block reporting an error, he went ahead and confirmed it.
Only after confirming his Soul Ring did he check what new MODs the system had rolled for him this time.
[Please select one of the following three MODs to add.] [Everything Is a Totem of Undying]: You can use all items as Totems of Undying. This may not necessarily be a good thing. [Mineral Farming]: Adds mineral seeds for coal, copper ingots, iron ingots, gold ingots, diamonds, lapis lazuli, redstone, quartz, and netherite. Mature seeds yield the corresponding mineral and are guaranteed to drop 1 additional seed. [Redstone Technology Expansion]: Adds various redstone components, including the Redstone Drawing Table, Redstone Miniaturization Table, Wireless Redstone, Storage Network, and Void Prospector.
"The MODs I rolled this time are pretty good."
For the first one, all he would need was to take out those Gold Soul Coins, or even exchange them for Copper Soul Coins. Wouldn't that make him invincible?
As for the second, he might have chosen it if he were playing pure survival, but he could grab these minerals stack after stack in Creative Mode-and take whole blocks at that. Pass.
Finally, there was Redstone Technology Expansion. This one could raise the ceiling of what redstone could do. Rather than researching Soul Tools from scratch, he would prefer to work with redstone, which he already knew something about.
As for unlimited Totems of Undying, he could rely on Creative Mode and copying later. Having enough would do.
He soon made up his mind and chose Redstone Technology Expansion.
After choosing the MOD, he opened his eyes. "Let's go."
When they reached the canyon entrance, Li Chen stopped. He wasn't sure where in the Star Dou Great Forest they were, but there was nothing a Teleportation Stele couldn't solve.
He activated Creative Mode and immediately took out 1 stack of Teleportation Steles, 1 stack of Shulkers, 1 stack of chests, and 2 stacks of Bottles o' Enchanting.
He could only take one Shulker Box at a time, but taking the materials would let him craft half a stack, with half a stack of chests left over.
He set down a Teleportation Stele and ordered the Iron Golems to guard the place, then stepped forward to activate it. This time, he could sense many more destination nodes.
Fortunately, every node was named, so he wouldn't struggle to find the one that would take him back.
After returning to the village, he used the nearby Crafting Table to craft a Shulker Box, packed everything in his inventory into it, and copied it.
Another Shulker Box appeared in his left hand, with all the items inside copied as well.
He took out the obsidian, End Portal Frames, Eyes of Ender, Monster Spawners, Villager Spawn Eggs, and Iron Golem Spawn Eggs that he would need shortly, then gathered all the remaining mineral blocks, Enchanted Golden Apples, and Bottles o' Enchanting into a single Shulker Box.
That way, tomorrow he could turn two sets of the items inside the Shulker Box into four. Unfortunately, the limitations of Shulker Boxes prevented endless exponential growth. At most, he could turn 27 stacks into 54.
But that was enough. With 27 stacks of Bottles o' Enchanting every day, wouldn't he easily pour his way up to level 100?
Next, he placed a Monster Spawner in the center of the village. Before confirming its use, he used his second Soul Skill to obtain some information about it and see whether anything had changed.
[Name]: Monster Spawner (level 1) [Type]: Other block [Function]: After a complete creature/Spawn Egg is inserted, continuously generates corresponding creature entities. Efficiency is affected by the Monster Spawner's level and the creature's strength. When Spawn Eggs are inserted into the Monster Spawner, inserting 1/16/64 eggs produces inferior juveniles/inferior adults/normal adults, respectively. When a complete creature is inserted into the Monster Spawner, a living creature produces normal adults, while a corpse produces inferior adults. Note: Creature entities generated by the Monster Spawner are not copies. The growth potential of all generated entities is capped at 8/9 of the original's. [Upgrade]: Placing Monster Spawners on top of one another increases their level. Stacking 4/16/64/256 Monster Spawners upgrades the Monster Spawner to levels 2-5, respectively. Level 2 efficiency: 200% Level 3 efficiency: 400% Level 4 efficiency: 800% Level 5 efficiency: 1600% Efficiency primarily affects the number of days needed to generate an entity. The minimum generation time is 1 day; once the minimum generation time is reached, efficiency increases the number generated instead. [Consumption]: A level 1 Monster Spawner consumes 1 Block of Redstone per day of operation; a level 2 Monster Spawner consumes 2 Blocks of Redstone per day; a level 3 Monster Spawner consumes 4 Blocks of Redstone per day; a level 4 Monster Spawner consumes 8 Blocks of Redstone per day; a level 5 Monster Spawner consumes 16 Blocks of Redstone per day. Remaining energy allows 0 days of operation. [Currently generated entity]: None
Monster Spawners actually had levels, and they even consumed Blocks of Redstone to operate. It seemed he would have to take out some Blocks of Redstone tomorrow before he could use them.
For now, he stacked the two stacks of Monster Spawners into two level 4 spawners, then inserted 1 stack of Villagers into one and 1 stack of Iron Golems into the other.
Without Blocks of Redstone, the Monster Spawners couldn't start operating yet, so Li Chen had to work on the Nether Portal frame first and see whether anything had changed in the Nether.
With 2 stacks of obsidian on hand, he built a 3-by-3 portal frame nearby, took out his Flint and Steel, and struck it inside the Nether Portal frame. The flame ignited only to go out instantly, but no portal appeared right away.
First, cracks gradually appeared in the obsidian block he had ignited, with purple light spilling from within. It looked as though it had turned into the crying obsidian from Minecraft.
Then the cracks rapidly spread in both directions until the entire portal frame had turned into crying obsidian. Only then did the portal's vortex appear within the frame.
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