[Redwood Seedling (Purple): Ornamental plant, greening points +100]
A purple-grade ornamental seedling had given him a full 100 greening points. Ye Fei saw the notification just as he finished clearing the snow and was about to head back inside.
He had planted it yesterday and only learned the result after twenty-four hours. Now, it looked pretty good.
[Greening points have reached 100. Homestead temperature adjustment unlocked]
With his greening points above 100, a new feature had unlocked.
Ye Fei opened the temperature adjustment feature and took a look. It allowed him to raise or lower the temperature within his homestead from its original level, but only by up to 5°C in either direction.
Thinking of how slowly his vegetables were growing in the cold weather, Ye Fei decisively raised the temperature by 5°C.
[Current temperature: 11°C]
After the adjustment, the new temperature appeared.
That was the result after raising it by 5°C, which meant his yard had previously been only 6°C. It was already impressive that those vegetable seeds had managed to sprout.
The fierce winds and blizzard continued outside the yard. After sweeping the yard and adjusting the temperature, Ye Fei carried the two Little Dumplings back into the wooden cabin and began preparing dinner.
Three meals a day, and now he had two more meat lovers at home. Looking at his remaining lamb chops and fox meat, he felt that his food consumption would only keep growing.
The little fox could eat a third of a piece of meat, while the little white tiger could eat two-thirds. Those were just their current portions.
Once they grew a little bigger, several pieces of meat per meal would probably be normal. As for a fully grown white tiger, the food a body that size would need...
"Go to sleep."
After dinner, Ye Fei placed the two little ones beside his pillow.
He sat on the bed and continued cultivating.
Cultivation was not sleep, but it could still count as rest.
However, his cultivation at night was much slower than during the day.
Perhaps it was because he was sitting on the bed.
After cultivating for several hours, Ye Fei got off the bed and tried sitting on the floor instead.
But the results were the same. It was still much slower than during the day.
*...*
Glancing at the two sleeping Little Dumplings, Ye Fei opened the door and went outside. He simply sat down in the yard, calmed his mind, and circulated the Spirit-Guiding Art.
[Qi intake successful, spiritual energy +1]
His speed more than tripled, making it even faster than when he cultivated during the day.
Hooked on cultivating, Ye Fei stayed in the yard and kept at it until dawn.
[Cultivation realm: Qi intake, spiritual energy 83/1000]
It had actually only been half a night, yet by morning, he had gained more than he had over an entire day.
Although his attributes still had not changed, accumulating spiritual energy now felt to Ye Fei just like getting addicted to saving money.
If the blizzard outside had not weakened enough for him to go out, he would have quite liked to spend another day cultivating.
[Today's random quest: Hunt ×5, quest progress 0/5, completion rewards: 15 survival points, 1 Level-One Hunting Pack] [Special event random quest: Clear the debris left behind by the blizzard, random rewards]
Besides today's random quest, Ye Fei saw a new quest appear when he stepped out of his yard to check the snow.
A special event random quest-so that meant natural disasters like this blizzard, right?
The once-smooth Snow Mountain was now a complete mess. Wind still gusted erratically, but it no longer prevented people from moving through the snow.
After confirming that the wind would keep weakening today, Ye Fei went home, put breakfast on to cook, and went to sweep the yard.
Once the yard was clean, he ate breakfast with the two little ones before taking them outside.
"Don't run too far. I'll clear the area around our home first."
Ye Fei was in no hurry to look for prey. Having debris scattered all around his home felt wrong no matter how he looked at it.
After letting the two little ones go play, he took his axe and gave the dead trees on the ground a few chops, turning them into items in his inventory.
[Basic timber ×3, poor-quality timber ×6, tangled branches ×9]
Clearing away the two sections of dead trees outside his gate only gave him three units of basic timber. The remaining poor-quality timber and tangled branches were all gray-grade items.
However, once he cleared a 10 × 10 area, a reward suddenly appeared.
[Cleared debris left behind by the blizzard, survival points +1]
Clearing this area had rewarded him with survival points directly. Ye Fei knew what he would be doing next.
He began clearing the area around his yard, section by section.
Since it was all dead wood and broken branches, his axe lost very little durability. Working it out, this was actually a little more cost-effective than chopping down trees.
[Cleared debris left behind by the blizzard, Level-One Blood-Replenishing Pill +1] [Cleared debris left behind by the blizzard, Iron Ingot (Green) +1] [Cleared debris left behind by the blizzard, Pine Seedling +1]
These random rewards really were extraordinarily random, though the highest quality so far was only green.
After quickly clearing the area around his yard, Ye Fei continued farther out. Meanwhile, the two Little Dumplings he had let roam freely as soon as they left home had not been idle either.
"..."
Ye Fei felt that his understanding of his pets' strength was still somewhat lacking.
They had been out for less than an hour, and the two of them had already returned, huffing and puffing as they each dragged a wolf.
They seemed to have gotten used to leaving the final breath for Ye Fei to deal with, so both wild wolves still had a sliver of health when they were dragged back.
"Yip!"
"Awoo!"
The little fox dropped the wild wolf she had dragged back in front of Ye Fei, then lifted her little head and held her neck high, showing off her pride and delight.
Beside her, the little white tiger copied the same movements, though its large feline eyes held a little more innocence and confusion than the little fox's.
Clearly, it did not quite understand why it needed to do this. It simply learned by copying whatever the little fox did.
"Thanks for the hard work. Want to rest for a bit?"
Ye Fei reached out and stroked both little pets' heads. As they rubbed their heads against his palms, he praised them for working so hard to drag back two prey animals.
With his axe, he knocked away the last sliver of the two wolves' health bars, then Ye Fei placed his two pets on his shoulders and began harvesting the bodies.
Once he had finished processing both wolf carcasses, he went home and put all the meat in the Storage Cabinet, then listed the beast sinew and beast bones he could sell.
When he went out again, the two little ones ran off together once more.
Ye Fei no longer worried about their safety. Mainly, worrying would not help anyway, since he could not possibly keep up with them.
[Cleared debris left behind by the blizzard, Unhatched Egg +1]
"An egg?"
Ye Fei stopped and opened his inventory. Looking at the "Unhatched Egg," he was momentarily bewildered.
[Unhatched Egg (?): Can be hatched]
Like the seedling of unknown quality from before, it was a mysterious item. He would only find out what it was after using it.
Still unsure whether it was something like a pet egg, Ye Fei left it in his inventory and continued clearing the next area.
A little while later, Qingxue the Little Fox and Feng Bai the little white tiger returned, each carrying prey in their mouth.
The prey were much larger than they were. The two tiny creatures ran along on their four short legs, dragging their prey over the snow while also dodging all the uncleared debris blocking their path...
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