"Sure enough, nothing beats having all the water you want!"
Ye Fei installed the faucet in the yard, turned it on, and cupped some water to wash his face. Although tap water wasn't quite the same as drinking water, it was enough for his everyday needs.
Since the special event rewarded him with a treasure chest, Ye Fei didn't have to worry about dismantling his prey this time. The Fox Wolves' bodies had all despawned directly.
After calculating what he would normally have gotten from dismantling them, Ye Fei felt that getting a treasure chest instead seemed like a loss.
After putting the roof back in place, Ye Fei opened the event treasure chest inside his house.
[Obtained: Fine Iron Longbow/Reinforced Wooden Arrows crafting recipes, Selectable Energy Orb (Small)]
Opening the event treasure chest revealed two recipes and a transparent orb small enough to hold in his palm.
The recipes were for a longbow and wooden arrows. His previous ones had only been a basic bow and arrows, so this Fine Iron Longbow would definitely be better.
After learning the recipes, Ye Fei went to the Crafting Bench, which he had put back in the yard, to check their requirements.
[Craft Fine Iron Longbow: fine iron ingot ×10, beast sinew ×10, intermediate leather ×5] [Craft Reinforced Wooden Arrows: iron ingot ×2, reinforced timber ×5]
The main material for the Fine Iron Longbow was fine iron ingots.
Iron ore could be forged into intermediate products such as iron ingots, iron sheets, and iron wire.
Processing iron ingots again produced fine iron ingots.
Ye Fei could make them himself, but they required quite a lot of materials.
1 fine iron ingot = 20 iron ingots = 400 pieces of iron ore.
Fortunately, this was a game world governed by numerical data. Otherwise, Ye Fei really wouldn't have known how to smelt 400 pieces of iron ore into a single fine iron ingot.
The Fine Iron Longbow required 10 fine iron ingots, which meant a total of 4,000 pieces of iron ore.
At the current rate of 10 pieces of iron ore per point, this item alone would cost him 400 points.
Looking at his current balance of over six hundred points, Ye Fei went ahead and bought them.
Production of the intermediate materials began. Even though it was fast, he still had to wait a while.
Ye Fei sat on the floor with the two little ones in his arms and began examining the other item he had received.
[Selectable Energy Orb (Small), converted into 200 points of cultivation spiritual energy]
"This is good stuff too."
Ye Fei sat cross-legged, converted the energy orb, and quickly began absorbing it.
Once the energy orb was activated, the spiritual energy surrounded him. He had to absorb it before it could become part of him; it didn't simply increase his reserves directly, as that Junior Schoolmate had previously guessed.
After Ye Fei absorbed those 200 points of spiritual energy, his current total reached 296 points, easily enough for two rounds of body tempering.
But there was no rush now. He could leave that until his evening cultivation session.
For now, he needed to collect the fine iron ingots and start preparing to craft the Fine Iron Longbow.
Besides fine iron ingots, he also needed reinforced timber. That, too, required 20 units of basic timber to synthesize a single unit.
With several crates of basic timber piled up at home, Ye Fei never worried about timber. He simply started processing it, then bought beast sinew and intermediate leather.
He had sold the ones he'd previously had, and now he was buying them back at the same price.
He put everything in to begin crafting. This time, it took a little longer; he would have to wait ten minutes before collecting it.
During that time, Ye Fei swept away the snow at home again. The more snow accumulated, the more the temperature in the yard would gradually drop, which was very bad for the plants' growth.
"Aw, awooo~"
Little White Tiger rolled over on Ye Fei's shoulder. Seeing Ye Fei pick a long, green fruit from a plant, the cub's fur suddenly bristled.
"It's just a cucumber. Feng Bai, want a taste?"
Ye Fei tilted his head to look at the bristling little tiger, curious about what had gotten into the cub.
He had finally spotted a fully grown cucumber and picked one to eat like fruit as an extra snack. How had that managed to scare this normally fearless Little White Tiger?
"Awoo, awoo..."
Little White Tiger quickly shook his head, then jumped onto Ye Fei's other shoulder to seek comfort from Little Fox.
"What are you scared of...?"
Amused by the cub's pitiful appearance, Ye Fei plucked off the little yellow flower that hadn't completely withered yet and took a bite.
The fresh little cucumber was so crisp!
"You really don't want a taste?"
After a few bites, Ye Fei looked at the two little fluffballs. It really did taste good, but it probably didn't suit carnivores' dietary preferences.
"Yip, yip, yip!"
Little Fox shook her head. She wasn't interested either.
They ate meat. They could nibble those leaves for fun before, but they would pass on this...
"Just as I thought. All the vegetables at home will be mine from now on!"
Ye Fei didn't think there was anything wrong with that. Vegetables might be more readily available in some places, but here, meat was by far the most plentiful food.
And he didn't even have to put in the effort himself. The two little ones were very capable hunters.
Munching on his cucumber, he returned to the Crafting Bench.
[Item crafting complete] [Fine Iron Longbow (Blue): accuracy increased by 3%, penetration increased by 5%, requires 6 strength]
Ye Fei examined the blue-grade longbow. It actually had two effects.
It seemed pretty good.
His White Tiger Blade had only had a 10% tearing effect.
But...
The White Tiger Blade's tearing effect seemed to be an additional bonus, rather than the same kind of percentage increase applied to an item's base attributes.
The Wind Spirit Repeating Crossbow, a purple piece of equipment just like the White Tiger Blade, had 15% penetration. Its Heavy Crossbow Bolts also had extremely strong penetration of their own, so they couldn't be judged in the same way.
Picking it up to try it, Ye Fei suddenly discovered, to his dismay, that he couldn't even use it yet...
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