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Chapter 588 - 587: Forging the Dragon Roar Sword

[Do you want to use the Earth Seal to purify the current area?]

After ensuring the last wormhole was dug out and cleared, Jiang Yuan clicked to use the bound seal.

The system popped up a routine inquiry, and after clicking "Yes," the Earth Seal floated up into the air, emitting a soft yet beautiful sacred light.

"Wow!" Qingniao looked up at this scene, unable to contain her amazement.

The valley shrouded in polluted gloom had even the air tinted with a faint black, lacking sunlight and moonlight; everything looked dull and oppressive.

The earth had been thoroughly polluted, the black sticky soil continuously emanating foul breaths.

She spent every day immersed here, having grown so familiar with the filthy environment that it’s beyond familiarity, but at this moment, a small seal suddenly flew up from her brother’s body, emitting a potent force, with radiant light spilling down from mid-air.

The sparkling points touched wherever, the polluted earth shed its foul aura, as if washed clean, transforming back to its original color.

Waves of poisonous miasma turned into mottled flying ash and vanished, the soil returned to its original color, emitting a fresh earthy scent, along with tender green grass sprouting from the ground, stretching out its leaves and swaying in the wind;

Vines broke through the soil and climbed steadily, small tree leaves grew rapidly, and new buds sprouted at the top, blooming into colorful little flowers;

The purified land by the seal rapidly spread into green expanses, small trees strove to grow, flowers bloomed in competition.

Forests sprung up, faint sounds of cicadas could be heard; the wind rustled through the bamboo forest with a gentle sound; in the sunken area of the valley, the earth became moist, gradually pouring out a clear spring, which filled the small valley and transformed into a lake, with excess flowing along the winding low-lying river channel deep into the forest.

"This is simply a miracle!" Qingniao was dumbstruck for a long time, only realizing that the world before her eyes was given new life in an instant, resembling the means of a Creator God?

She was bewildered, and suddenly a bolder thought emerged in her mind—would it be that her brother, who diligently farmed in the small courtyard every morning, was doing something beyond merely planting fields? Could there be another mystery?

"Originally, it was a very beautiful world, but it was destroyed by something strange." Jiang Yuan thought his sister’s shocked eyes were seeing such a beautiful world’s rebirth, he slightly sighed in relief and said: "Fortunately, there’s still hope, but the area over there is quite large and still needs cleaning and purification..."

Not waiting for him to finish, Qingniao excitedly stomped her feet and responded: "Let me, let me! I will help lessen my brother’s worries and solve his difficulties!"

The two purified zones had already joined into one; sword flight past the sky revealed woods, flowers, streams, butterflies, and birds... the entire land was full of vitality.

But it’s unknown how long it will take for the Red Thunder Deer to reappear here.

He must also teach the "Five Elements Thunder Technique" cultivation technique to the Red Thunder Deer race so that they can continue their cultivation.

"Same old rules, you can pass through this barrier, go over there to clear pollutants, and rest here when you’re tired," Jiang Yuan couldn’t feel the presence of spiritual energy, but the system marked the purified area as having faint spiritual energy circulating, so Qingniao could definitely sense it.

Indeed, she nodded excitedly and said: "Although the spiritual energy is not too dense, this area for resting is already excellent, no longer needing full reliance on Spirit Stones. Brother, rest assured, I will diligently clean this place and strive to purify this area completely as soon as possible!"

"Let’s stop here today, they should also be back by now, let’s go have breakfast."

"I want to eat steamed fish! Good brother, the steamed fish you make is the best of the best..."

.......

Exiting the dungeon and returning to the small courtyard, the Wilderness had ascended.

Early in the morning, the sky was overcast with rolling clouds brewing a storm, Jiang Yuan promised Qingniao to make steamed fish, directly heading to the fish pond to click and feed the fish, then clicked to harvest eight fish.

Looking at the Blue-Fin Demon Fish in the storage bag, he recalled the gossip heard at Golden Chicken River, deciding to temporarily store it in the warehouse for future use.

Then opened the courtyard communicator, proceeded to harvest, plant, and water crops in the farm field;

Also added feed to the poultry and livestock barn, harvested livestock products;

In each workshop, he collected what needed collecting and added what needed adding, smoothly processing all, Jiang Yuan pushed open the door and entered the Treasure Forging Workshop, clicked to use a random weapon blueprint.

[You obtained: Dragon Roar Sword blueprint, do you want to use it?]

Opening a random blind box, several types of weapon rendering continuously changed until ultimately a thumbnail appeared—a sharp and imposing long sword, ornately decorated at the guard, two vividly fierce dragons perched on either side, with interlaced bodies winding down the blade’s spine, transitioning from 3D effects to flat patterns as it went downward.

[Dragon Roar Sword: Upgradeable weapon. Add enough forging materials, the current weapon Long Spear can be upgraded to Dragon Roar Sword. Initial effect: Attack Power +2500; Speed +90]

Just from the thumbnail, one could feel the majesty of the Dragon Roar Sword, making other weapon blueprints pale in comparison.

Jiang Yuan was very satisfied, dragging the system-bound weapon Long Spear from the storage bag into the forging slot in the Treasure Forging Workshop, and immediately five empty slots popped up to add artifact refining materials.

"The bronze spike Bai Heqing gifted can be added; the beast bone from the Golden-Horned Thunder Avoiding Beast was forged into a long spear, and now this golden horn can be used to craft the Dragon Roar Sword."

The system is basically foolproof; once the grid for adding artifact refining materials pops up, all other items stored in the storage bag, warehouse, and storage box turn grey and cannot be clicked on, leaving only the materials that can be added highlighted.

If the quality of artifact refining materials is high, a smaller quantity is needed; if the quality is low, a larger quantity is required, but each type can only be added once and cannot be repeated.

For instance, two pieces of Bai Heqing’s bronze spike were used; one golden horn is enough; while other Demon Beast bones require dozens, choosing the best materials currently available, he clicked on forge upgrade.

A countdown appeared directly above the grid, requiring four days and eight hours to complete.

Want to spend money to speed it up?

Jiang Yuan glanced at several zeros that he couldn’t quite count, feeling a bit dizzy, he promptly closed the money-spending interface. Anyway, there’s no rush, let it slowly forge on its own.

Like most farming games available on the market, as the courtyard level goes up, the difficulty and quality of crop planting, livestock breeding, and workshop processing increases, requiring longer times.

Ordinary farm fields are fine, still maintaining short harvest times of two to three days for planting ordinary crops, longest four to five days; but as the Spirit Field level increases, the harvest times for crops become longer, with the Crystal Spirit Rice from the Level Four Spirit Field taking half a month to harvest.

Want to accelerate?

Butterfly Demon Scale Powder can be used to instantly mature ordinary farm fields, Spirit Fields have higher requirements, some cannot be hastened; others require special items from the System Mall, which are quite expensive.

Fortunately, most public orders require large amounts of produce from ordinary farm fields, sometimes when seasons aren’t right, plant them in greenhouses and use Butterfly Demon Scale Powder from the mill to hasten.

While Spirit Medicines grown in herb gardens take even longer, although considerably shortened compared to external Spirit Medicines which often take over a hundred years to grow, it still takes at least one or two years to mature;

on the Spirit Field, the speed is relatively quicker, yet still calculated by months, the only way to accelerate is to use the acceleration cards rewarded by the system.

After a round, discovering that unless speeding up, there’s not much to be busy with in the next two or three days, Jiang Yuan immediately felt relieved, sensing he could finally slow down.

Since binding the system and entering the Wilderness World, he has been constantly busy non-stop, within a few months accomplishing what would take cultivators several hundred years of effort.

Now, even facing Advanced Monsters is no longer intimidating, it’s time to focus on gathering skills, striving to quickly make the Resurrection Talisman.

And meanwhile, find more main herbs for Alchemy to earn Spirit Stones.

No wonder Elixirs are expensive and scarce, while common Spirit Medicines are plentiful, refining each Elixir requires at least one main herb, often a one-herb challenge.

Besides the system-rewarded herb package, only occasionally public orders might randomly provide one or two, before having a large harvest in one-acre Spirit Fields, are left to accumulate refining points, there’s no other way.

Mysterious Cave can be raided for accumulating points to exchange for resources, although more convenient and fast, basic skills won’t gain experience, with the World Tree upgrade card skill level stuck.

Luckily, for basic skills, it counts quantity not quality; like gathering, picking a mushroom in the Human World forests yields the same experience as gathering a Spirit Medicine in a dungeon. Just pile up quantities to the point, the system will upgrade.

"Starting today, gather mushrooms and ordinary herbs by day; at night gather Spirit Medicines from the Wilderness, if necessary, go to Mist Ridge dungeon to gather. Additionally, rush Incense Making, mill more ordinary powders, can be used directly upon return..." Jiang Yuan, meanwhile crafting dishes at the stove to brush up cooking experience, arranges the upcoming itinerary.

After finding the second Earth Seal in Mist Ridge dungeon, those contaminated raw materials stacked inside the warehouse were purified and restored to normal, orders for Feathered Robes set by the Mermaid Race began being completed one by one.

At current Textile Workshop production speeds, it’s estimated that by the end of the month, delivery can be made, exchanging it for various resources from the Undersea World to be resold to Seven Girl and her friends.

Getting to work, after breakfast Jiang Yuan heads out into the storm to gather mushrooms and herbs in the forest near Shuiyun Lake.

Probably due to abundant rainwater, there were plenty of mushrooms clumped and growing in the forest; now he’s not worried about encountering any wild beasts, head down collecting straight along the path with twenty or more gridloads filled in the warehouse with all kinds of mushrooms.

[Collection Skill upgraded to Level Nine, Physical Strength +100]

Four days later, Jiang Yuan aggressively gathering finally completed his shortcomings, impatiently flies to Old Dragon Cave, this time little elf nodded in satisfaction and accepted with thirty thousand Spirit Stones.

[World Tree warehouse upgraded, expanded to 188 grids]

[World Tree teleportation array upgraded and added to Ancient Teleportation Array list, teleportation available with a click without leaving home]

"Alright, you can now proceed to the third layer." The little elf You Meng reminded: "Be very careful the higher the level, the monsters and ghosts in the mine become more formidable!"

She made a shushing gesture, lowering her voice: "I often hear laughter from vengeful ghosts on the third layer. Fear not the ghostly wail but the ghostly laugh, should you encounter a ghost unable to be dealt with, remember to flee swiftly, for the World Tree suppresses and they dare not exit the mine."

Ghostly laughs?

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuan perked up, awesome! My Soul Refining Banner can finally be satiated!