Night Soul Grass and Level 4 Resources

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the Lost Land, Cao Fengqi finished off the three Calamity Rats one by one.

"These beasts really are cunning. If I didn't have a cheat, I'd definitely have died here."

Cao Fengqi was still a little shaken.

The three Calamity Rats had been too smart. They had hidden so well that he couldn't see them at all, and with his physique, he couldn't have reacted to their sudden attack.

Fortunately, he had the script. When the Calamity Rats attacked him, it displayed them in red as a warning.

It also showed him how to dodge and counterattack.

"But I still need to be more careful. This isn't a game, after all. I can't just click the mouse and move into position. I have to react myself."

"Besides, if I run into some powerful evil spirits or evil beasts, even a warning from the script will be useless if my reactions aren't fast enough."

That was without even mentioning evil spirits or evil beasts with control abilities.

Cao Fengqi silently resolved to stay alert.

Stay steady. Don't get reckless. I may have a cheat, but it doesn't make me invincible or lock my health.

He went up to each of the three Calamity Rat corpses and used the Gathering Technique.

[Calamity Rat meat, 4 jin] × 3

[Calamity Rat hide] × 3

"Tsk, tsk. A magical Gathering Technique like this counts as a supernatural means in itself. If humanity hadn't received Blue Star's blessing and couldn't enter the Lost Land, it would probably have been wiped out by now."

Cao Fengqi looked at the rat meat and hides in his hands, his eyes burning. "Calamity Rat meat! I can finally eat meat."

In the three years since this body had entered the Lost Land, it had killed only nine Calamity Rats.

These things generally fled if their sneak attacks failed, so they weren't easy to kill.

Cao Fengqi put the Calamity Rat meat and hides in his backpack and turned his gaze to the spirit herb ahead.

[Night Soul Grass: level 3 quality]

[Effect: Taking it directly increases spirit by 2 points and improves eyesight to a certain extent. It can also be used to refine medicine for a greater effect.]

"Good stuff!"

Cao Fengqi's eyes lit up when he saw it.

Without hesitation, he picked it and swallowed it.

Once the Night Soul Grass reached his stomach, he distinctly felt more alert, as if he had slept for ten hours. He was full of energy.

His vision also became a little clearer.

"Keep going, keep going!"

Cao Fengqi gripped his dark iron staff tightly and looked toward the level 2 resource more than six hundred meters away.

He advanced bit by bit, somewhat wary, and reached his destination a few minutes later.

But when he looked at the level 2 resource buried six meters underground, he frowned.

"Six meters is too deep. How long would it take me to dig that out? Besides, a level 2 resource buried underground is probably just some kind of metal."

Cao Fengqi chose to give up.

Of course, the reason he gave up a level 2 resource so easily was that, after he had traveled more than six hundred meters, his cheat had detected new resources.

[Scan complete within a one-kilometer radius. Newly detected: 3 level 1 resources and 1 level 2 resource.]

Following the directions, Cao Fengqi continued toward the level 2 resource.

When he arrived, he looked at the small pool of water before him.

The pool was five or six meters across. After testing its depth with his dark iron staff, Cao Fengqi walked straight in.

When he reached the center, he reached down and scooped it up.

"A jade bottle?"

His eyes lit up when he saw the item.

[Living Spirit Liquid: level 2 quality]

[Effect: Can be taken internally or applied externally to heal minor internal and external injuries. An uninjured person can also take it to increase physique by 0.5.]

"This stuff's healing effect is comparable to Bone Spirit Paste, and it can increase physique too. It's top-tier even among level 2 resources."

Cao Fengqi couldn't help laughing. He thought for a moment and decided not to take it.

He would save it for now.

"There aren't any level 2 resources within a kilometer of here now. I'll keep moving."

Cao Fengqi put away the Living Spirit Liquid and walked straight ahead.

The distance was shrouded in haze, so he could only pick a direction at random and rely on his cheat to search.

"There's another one."

Less than ten minutes later, Cao Fengqi's eyes lit up at a notification from his cheat.

He immediately headed toward a spot more than nine hundred meters ahead and to the right.

[Scan complete within a one-kilometer radius. Newly detected: 3 level 1 resources and 1 level 3 resource.]

Before Cao Fengqi reached the level 2 resource, a notification for a level 3 resource appeared.

He was delighted.

But before long, Cao Fengqi was somewhat speechless.

[Broken spear: level 2 quality.]

[Effect: A spear forged from refined iron. Once repaired, it has decent killing power.]

[Blood demon stone, 10 jin: level 3 quality]

[Effect: Can be used to build a shelter that resists attacks from evil spirits and evil beasts, or to refine equipment.]

Both were materials, worth less than the level 2 Living Spirit Liquid.

Of course, the level 3 blood demon stone could still be used to build and expand a shelter.

The Cao family's shelter currently covered 42 square meters. The entire structure used 821 jin of level 3 metal materials and 3,000 jin of level 2 metal materials.

It was a mid-grade level 3 shelter.

Even a mosquito was still meat, however small. Ten jin of blood demon stone could still improve it somewhat.

After picking them up, Cao Fengqi continued toward the newly detected level 2 resource.

Buzz!

Suddenly, a warning came from the script cheat.

Startled, Cao Fengqi quickly tightened his grip on the spear and looked to his right.

In his field of vision, a strange, distorted shadow was rushing toward him. It was extremely insubstantial; if the script hadn't colored it red, he probably wouldn't have noticed it until it was three or four meters away.

And the strange shadow wasn't slow.

"It's a level 1 Shadow Specter, the most minor form of evil spirit. Under the influence of an evil god's aura, the filthy shadows of the world gather together."

Cao Fengqi recognized it immediately. "A level 1 Shadow Specter's attacks are weak, but it can possess a body. Someone with a strong enough physique can resist it, but their physique will decrease afterward, and they might even fall seriously ill. The original owner of this body lost one of his lives indirectly because of a Shadow Specter."

Watching the Shadow Specter approach, he attacked it with Golden Snake Flicks Its Tongue, a move from an ordinary staff technique.

Shadow Specters had no physical form, and firearms from human civilization couldn't harm them.

But the dark iron staff in Cao Fengqi's hand was a level 3 staff forged from special metal from the Lost Land. It could hurt the Shadow Specter.

Shadow Specters were less intelligent than Calamity Rats. Whenever they encountered a being of flesh and blood, they would attack and possess it.

The dark iron staff churned through the Shadow Specter again and again, causing it to gradually disperse into harmless clouds of black mist. They floated in the air, writhing as they slowly gathered and merged.

Cao Fengqi had no way to destroy it completely. Seeing that the Shadow Specter was harmless, he continued onward.

"Broken armor and weapons. Sigh, not much use."

After visiting two level 2 resource locations in succession, Cao Fengqi shook his head.

Seeing another level 2 resource appear to his right, he immediately headed over.

"Another Moon Spirit Stone. Nice, nice. Looks like these things are also essential for humans in the Lost Land to fight evil spirits. There are a lot more of them than I remember."

Cao Fengqi put away the third Moon Spirit Stone he had found.

After the torrential rain and mud, the fist-sized Moon Spirit Stones were hard for others to find, but for him, with his cheat, it was very easy.

[Scan complete within a one-kilometer radius. Newly detected: 2 level 1 resources and 2 level 4 resources.]

Just then, another notification came from his cheat. Cao Fengqi froze when he saw it.

"Level 4 resources? They're actually level 4, and there are two of them?" His eyes widened, his face full of delight.

Although there was only one level between level 3 and level 4, the gap was like the difference between a low tier and a middle tier.

All level 4 resources had some supernatural effects.

Cao Fengqi's breathing quickened slightly as he looked toward a spot a kilometer to his left.

He tightened his grip on the dark iron staff and immediately headed toward the level 4 resources.