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  Meanwhile, the remaining seeds, rhizomes and grass were brought back to the tree house to be air-dried. He was going to attempt to make a kind of hemostatic and anti-inflammatory herb easy to store and carry around.

  When the night slowly unfolded, Li Siwen waited till his Stamina was more or less restored before he continuously extracted Spirit Points from the small yellow orb and added them to his Spirit attribute.

  These days he could no longer find that state where there was a flash of light, he could only rely on such a method to force it.

  Fortunately, with every point of Spirit added, he would gain a few seconds of super big brain effect. It allowed him to swiftly recall many previous logging actions and techniques of battling wild beasts and whatnot.

  It could be said to be enjoying in adversity.

  An hour later, Li Siwen slumped on the ground, not wanting to budge at all. His mind felt like it had blown open. His original 20 points of Stamina had been directly expended to just two points in the red zone. One word, exhausted.

  He laid on the ground for a good four to five hours, only recovering when it was almost midnight.

  He opened the Attribute Bar.

  Name: Li Siwen

  Health: 30

  Stamina: 25 (12/25)

  Strength: 18

  Agility: 9

  Defense: 3

  Spirit: Grey (Development 30%)

  Talent: Level 3 Spirit Vision, after release, the secondary spirit force field formed will last nine minutes, covering a 20 meter radius, intensity is relatively high and can be forcefully activated twice within six hours.

  Skill: Farming Level 3, Logging Level 3

  Green Orb (Vitality Point): 6/15

  Yellow Orb (Spirit Point): 2/15

  Yellow Orb (Heavenly Workmanship Point): 3/15

  “Not too bad, huh?”

  Li Siwen was rather satisfied. He really valued the aspect of Spirit Development, he still remembered the scene back then where the level 1 Spirit Vision had been mercilessly crushed and suppressed by the green wolf using purely aura.

  Damn it, henceforth I’ll get myself to level 10 of Spirit Vision, I’ll see how you suppress it?

  With this thought, he moved away a big hole in the tree house, reached one of his arms in and began his daily work of fishing. After all, at the current stage, he could only rely on breakfast snakes and pastry rats to maintain this state.

  The present forest no longer had the heat from the day. Once the slight cool breeze blew, Li Siwen’s dizziness instantly became a lot better. At the same time, he also found that while the forest shrouded in the darkness appeared to be quiet, it was actually vivacious. Many tiny insects and beasts were active in their own territory. Mosquitoes as big as a finger were even beeping as they flew. He could hear them from far, but there was no longer a need to fear them now. 3 points of Defense wasn’t a brag, it was really impenetrable.

  “Hmm, hold on, since when did my ears become so sensitive?”

  Li Siwen was startled and carefully experienced it. Indeed, he had heard the beeps of the mosquito. Moreover, after hearing the sounds of the mosquito, he’d even instinctively locked in its flight trajectory.

  One second later, his fingers clamped together nimbly, the beeping abruptly ended.

  And all of this had happened in the dark, in the situation where his eyes were blocked by the tree house and his Spirit Vision unactivated.

  “Heck, what was this, listening to sounds and discerning the location!”

  Each one that came was crushed to death. After adding nine points of Agility, Li Siwen’s fingers were unexpectedly nimble. He felt that he could even challenge one of the legendary necessary occupations of male idols—Eagle Claw[2] or Piano Master!

  “Hum hum——”

  The beeping sound of a mosquito broke off suddenly. Actually, it was merely a passer-by mosquito, but the gentle breeze from the flapping of its wings exposed its trail. Hence, it was smashed with a Q ultimate skill[3]—spatial determination by a certain finger and it was sliced to death.

  Time slipped away bit by bit, Finally, the familiar rustling sounded. That’s right, it was this. Li Siwen curled his finger. In his mind, he was already stimulating the Iron Ring Black Snake’s subsequent act of attack to catch its food.

  “Three,”

  “Two,”

  “One!”

  Outside the tree house, an Iron Ring Black Snake over two feet long leaped up from the bushes like lightning and ruthlessly bit down towards that pinky. However, right in this instance, that hand seemed to have foresight. With a gentle dodge, it evaded this bite. At the same time, the wrist flipped and held this Iron Ring Black Snake seven inches below its head [3. Reference to the proverb “hit the snack seven inches below its head”]. Before this black snake could hiss, it had been squashed to death on the spot.

  Perfect!

  He’d grill it!

  [1] Expression used to show disdain when the development of things go against convention, when low-level mistakes appear or to express resentment

  [2] A style of Chinese martial arts

  [3] The ‘Q’ key on the keyboard is often used to release the ultimate skill in games

  chapter 42

  The day broke, Li Siwen stretched himself. It was another wonderful day, as for it being the number what day since he transmigrated?

  He would not consciously give thought to such silly things.

  After finding a spot to relieve himself, he lifted his axe and began his logging and farming plan, earning some Vitality Points while it was at it. His current Vitality Points were slightly lacking. He even could not reach his initial expectation of maintaining a reserve of 10 Vitality Points and 10 Spirit Points.

  This was too difficult.

  He could rely on logging to take care of the Vitality Points while the Spirit Points would have to depend on fishing. He’d probably pinched ten thousand mosquitoes to death last night and only fished two breakfast snakes and one pastry rat.

  Oh, pinching ten thousand mosquitoes to death was an accomplishment, he’d earned one Spirit Point from it.

  Mosquitoes had souls too?

  This was really a joke that wasn’t that funny.

  Henceforth, he might brag about it a little, killing ten thousand of them in one night.

  With the farmland and treehouse as the center, Li Siwen felled the trees all around. Thanks to the stainless steel axe and 18 points of Stamina, he only used an hour to fill up the Vitality Points in the small green orb. Then, as usual, he first added five points to Health and three points to Stamina and then sped up the maturation of two stalks of anti-inflammatory herbs. He was left with three Vitality Points before he knew it.

  However, Li Siwen stopped logging. Instead, he tidied the branches of the felled trees, piling them all at a side, whereas the trunks were chopped into two sections, each about eight to nine meters tall. These were meant for the city wall of the future territory.

  Alright, a city wall was too far away, a fence was more like it. After all, survival was number one. He was alone. Regardless of how high his attributes and how powerful his combat skills were, could he be more powerful than the boorish Feudal Lord? Hence he had to rely on other means for complementation.

  By noon, Li Siwen had chopped 50 round logs for the fence but had only expended 18 points of Stamina. Counting what had been restored, he still had 18 Stamina Points. Such workings were what was comfortable, forever leaving ample cards in hand for himself.

  Something worth noting was that, in view of the increase in the upper limit of his Stamina, Li Siwen had reset the levels for the red zone, yellow zone, and green zone.

  These levels no longer took his body’s condition as the reference point but were set from the viewpoint of strategic safety.

  15 Stamina Points and below made the red zone.

  16 to 25 Stamina Points was the yellow zone.

  26 Stamina Points, and above was the green zone.

  And these stand
ards would continue to change following the increase of his Stamina’s upper limit.

  “I’m still hungry!”

  He lifted his head to glance at the sky. After confirming that there would be no rain today, Li Siwen returned to the treehouse with a breakfast snake that he’d caught this morning in hand. This was the only drawback of increasing the upper limit of Stamina. Last night’s two breakfast snakes were 15 catties, one pastry rat, three catties and he was actually only 30% full, wasn’t this torturing him?

  So he was exceedingly awaiting a tremendous storm to bring another backflow of river water. He was determined to catch a few hundred big fishes and keep them in-store.

  Back at the treehouse, Li Siwen first went to air the few stalks of ripened anti-inflammatory herb and hemostasis herb. Then he started his grill. After grilling, he ate, and after eating; he went to sleep.

  Even though he was solo now, he strictly controlled his daily work and rest times, determined not to waste any chance to restore his Stamina.

  In life, it’s all about being careful.

  After a nap, he was refreshed and invigorated if he ignored his rumbling stomach.

  He looked at his Stamina; it had been restored to the full 28 points; the speed was really fast. This could be a quality effect. Since he ate protein every day, even if it didn’t fill his stomach, the effect was pretty good, and it could also have to do with his Spirit Development reaching 30%.

  “Let’s get to work!”

  With absolutely no thought of slacking carrying his axe, Li Siwen charged out. He first chose an enormous tree as wide as three people’s embrace and began working with a level 3 logging skill. More than ten minutes later, six Vitality Points were in his pocket, starting on the right foot.

  Next, he switched to a hoe and continued broadening the area of the farmland. He could not forget his fundamentals.

  He swung the stainless steel hoe. Wherever it swept past was truly barren.

  After broadening the cultivated farmland to about one acre at one go, Li Siwen then wiped his perspiration and sat under the tree shade for a break. This round of vigorous work had only consumed six Stamina Points.

  After resting for half an hour, he got up, estimated the time, then carried the long knife on his back, held his axe, and headed to the opposite of the flooded valley, the territory of the wild boars. There was a stretch of vines here, they were not only thriving but also especially sturdy. He planned to get tens of coils of them. In the situation where there were no other fastening means, these vines were convenient and worked well.

  Of course, he’d absolutely no slightest hint of improper desires with regards to his wild boar brothers.

  If he sees them, he would stay away from afar, though he was filled with endless reveries about roasted pork legs.

  Nothing much happened throughout his journey, other than being chased by a wild boar that was taller than two meters and shrieking out loud, his objective was smoothly achieved.

  “These wild boars have definitely become demons.”

  When he was standing back in his territory again, Li Siwen turned back and looked afar. He saw that wild boar snorting from across the flooded valley, swung its tail, and left. It did not cross the flooded valley.

  And according to his earlier investigation, there were at least over 30 of them in this group of wild boars and as many as six adult ones. If they carried out a collective assault, even the boorish Feudal Lord wouldn’t be able to handle it.

  “It cannot be that this wild boar also has a village building order, could it? Hold on, what am I thinking.”

  After shaking his head hard, Li Siwen quickly got to work. Now that he had the vines, the first thing to reinforce was actually the treehouse.

  Holding the hoe, he started digging like mad around the treehouse. This was arduous work, as his tools were not handy. Fortunately, he had ample strength. There were no rocks beneath the soil, it was simply tree roots other than tree roots.

  Leaving behind some main tree roots, he chopped the extra ones off using the axe. Digging till a depth of one meter, he could then carry those prepared round logs over and place them in vertically. He would use the vines to bind them to the round logs already in the structure of the treehouse, then use soil to bury and make compact.

  In this way, it was equivalent to giving the treehouse another barrier, and as they were laid vertically this time, the gap would be shrunk further.

  When the sky was completely dark, a side of the tree house’s wooden wall was finally completed.

  Sense of security+0.01 again.

  “Just that from today onwards, the difficulty of fishing would have increased. But I’ve been watching the sky at night. Within three days, a storm will definitely come!”

  Li Siwen swallowed his saliva. He was already sick of eating breakfast snakes and pastry rats. How about 10 lunch fishes?

  Or——

  His eyes that were almost green with hunger looked into the distance in the north. Then he shook his head resolutely. It was impossible unless there were traps. He couldn’t be becoming a hunter after being a farmer and a woodcutter?

  “Mm, for the sake of roast pork, it seems like it’s not impossible!”

  chapter 43

  At night,

  A breeze blew gently, the mosquitoes buzzed, and a certain Li’s stomach whined.

  But he still had to maintain the appearance of an enlightened master. Squatted on a section of a wooden pile, from time to time, his gaze wandered, from time to time, his outer ear would jiggle, from time to time, he struck like lightning, from time——alright, he was merely fishing.

  These days, Iron Ring Black Snakes and pastry rats were rarely seen in the area of the tree house. Hence, in line with the teaching that the skilled are bold, he came to a spot about three hundred steps south of the tree house. As expected, the gains this time were much better.

  In this less than an hour’s time, he’d killed no less than three thousand mosquitoes, as well as two breakfast snakes weighing more than ten catties and two pastry rats. The gains were considerably big.

  “That’s about it, let’s end it here today.”

  Li Siwen leaped off the tree pile. His gaze thoughtlessly stole a look at the dark forest in the north. Earlier, when he was catching the snakes, he didn’t know whether it was because of the rise in his Spirit Development, but he had a vague feeling of being watched. He wasn’t too bothered by this, there were lots of all kinds of wild beasts in the forest, he’d even saw a small beast resembling a fox in the day.

  Hence, so long as they do not disrupt him, everyone would live in peace with each other. After all, he was no longer that cowardly farmer in the past.

  He had Strength!

  Jumping into the tree house, Li Siwen routinely first glanced at his Attribute Bar, mainly to check whether there were any cracks and the like. Right now, three days had passed with him carrying the red name curse. He had to be on guard.

  Name: Li Siwen

  Health: 35

  Stamina: 28 (17/28)

  Strength: 18

  Agility: 9

  Defense: 3

  Spirit: Gray (Development 30%)

  Talent: Level 3 Spirit Vision

  Skill: Farming Level 3, Logging Level 3

  Green Orb: 10/15 (Vitality Point)

  Yellow Orb: 14/15 (Vitality Point)

  Blue Orb: 3/15 (Heavenly Workmanship Point)

  ——

  “Not too bad, my Spirit Points are going to be full again. Then, shall I continue with Spirit Development tonight?”

  At this thought, Li Siwen instantly shivered, wearing a look of terror. He, he, he, he was about to be developed into a madman!

  But with a path he’d chosen himself, he had to finish it, even if it was with tears in his eyes.

  “Slowly, slowly, I’ll first grill a breakfast snake, a breakfast snake is so delicious, and it’ll calm my nerves while I’m at it.”

  Coming to the stove area, Li Siwen hel
d a wooden stick and picked, poked, twisted. Hey, a piece of coal that had yet to finish burning appeared. He felt so pleased with himself.

  What?

  Didn’t he mention previously that he was going to make a fire by drilling wood every day? Please, in life, it’s all about being flexible.

  Moments later, a fire burned brightly. Following that was the aroma of food filling the room——hello dinner, goodbye dinner.

  An hour later, Li Siwen who managed to make himself 20% full rubbed his head, his gaze deep. Then, let’s begin, Sacred Sun Assassin Master Lu had once said, one would go mad before becoming obsessed, mere suffering; is it really worth mentioning!

  …

  Another hour later, Li Siwen was hugging a huge rock. His gaze was still deep and his face pale. He was virtually close to doubting life, but—how nice!

  Although the process of Spirit Development reaching 40% was an unbearable sight, he could already sense the immense difference from before.

  Within a ten meter diameter, without having to activate Spirit Vision, he had this illusion that he’d activated the secondary spirit force field.

  Even if it was in his darkness, he could sense the rough location of some objects in this area.

  Such a feeling was very obscure, he’d even confuse it with vision for a bit, because he couldn’t distinguish whether he’d seen that or sensed that.

  In addition, his hearing could reach up to about a hundred meters, but it wasn’t inclusive of all sounds, instead, he could lock onto the location of a certain frequency more accurately, for example, the calls of insects and the buzzing of mosquitoes.

  Regarding vision, there was probably an enhancement too, but it was night so he couldn’t be sure too.

  Finally, it was his Spirit Vision smoothly leveling up to level 4. After release, the coverage radius could reach up to 30 meter and last 12 minutes. It could be forcibly activated twice within six hours but each activation would consume eight Spirit Points. This would really hurt.