5: At night, demons come

Returning to his Immortal Cave, dusk had fallen, so Li Ye built several bonfires and lit them with his Fireball Technique.

The firelight illuminated the room, making it quite warm.

Afterward, Li Ye skewered rabbit bones through a piece of rabbit meat and roasted it over the bonfire.

A quarter of an hour later, the aroma of cooked rabbit meat wafted from it, spreading throughout the entire Immortal Cave.

Li Ye contentedly ate the roasted meat, then drank a few gulps of water.

The water he drank was, of course, clean water Li Ye had acquired through trade.

Although Li Ye could drink sewage—as mentioned in the introduction, Cultivators at the Qi Refinement Stage are immune to bacteria in sewage—

if there was cleaner water to drink, why not drink it?

Having eaten and drunk his fill, Li Ye was not in a hurry to Cultivate; instead, he directly opened the trade interface to see the current situation.

He saw:

"One bottle of clean water for two hundred pieces of wood. Long-term cooperation is possible!"

Upon seeing this message, Li Ye immediately frowned. This person must have a method to obtain large amounts of water.

Currently, water and meat were the most precious resources, and their exchange rate for other resources was becoming increasingly worthless, having quadrupled in price.

As a result, the comments below were uniformly scolding him.

"Why has the price quadrupled in one day? This is too outrageous! I was lucky enough to get an iron axe, and I only get about a hundred pieces of wood a day. I can't even afford half a bottle of water."

"Exactly! You have vast water resources, why aren't you kind enough to share the water with us? Aren't you too selfish?"

"Don't you understand that with great power comes great responsibility? One shouldn't be too selfish!"

"..."

Li Ye shook his head at these messages. Why complain when you could spend that time cutting two more pieces of wood?

Despite this, some people still traded the wood they had painstakingly gathered for one or two days for a single bottle of water.

This was because some of them couldn't even find a bottle of sewage.

Searching for food outside meant danger, so most people only dared to cut trees or pick up stones near their Immortal Caves.

Then Li Ye sent him a message:

"One piece of ordinary meat for three bottles of water, deal or no deal?"

Immediately, the other party replied instantly:

"Not that rotten meat, right?"

"Don't worry, it's whole rabbit meat."

"Deal."

"The other party is trading 1500ml of clean water for one piece of ordinary meat. Do you agree?"

"Agree."

Soon, one piece of meat disappeared from Li Ye's side, and three 500ml bottles of clean water appeared.

He hesitated for a moment, then sent another message to the other party:

"How do you have so many water resources?"

"That's a secret."

Seeing this, Li Ye wondered whether he should trade his Fireball Technique to the other party to obtain the method for infinite water resources.

However, it seemed the other party most likely lived near a water source and also happened to have a way to purify water...

"I'll trade three pieces of roasted meat for your method?"

Meat was currently the most premium food, and many people had no way to make fire by rubbing sticks.

This time, Li Ye even offered roasted meat, which proved that Li Ye had a way to make fire.

Inside a small hill not far away, a beautiful woman with delicate features, dressed in a uniform, sat cross-legged at a stone table. She frowned tightly, looking at the message before her.

And she was precisely the trade master who controlled the water resources, named Lin Qiuyao.

"Three pieces of roasted meat? Where did the other party get so much meat and a way to make fire?

In fact, making fire by rubbing sticks is simply nonsense... only experts in wilderness survival can do it..."

Lin Qiuyao muttered to herself, then she typed a few words in reply:

"Deal. Actually, I found a water-attribute Divine Ability, a Low Grade Divine Ability, Waterball Technique, which can consume Spiritual Qi to create water resources."

...

"So that's it. Then wasn't it pointless to ask? Wait, no..."

Li Ye pondered for a moment,

"I can create fire because I possess a Low Grade Divine Ability, Fireball Technique. Do you want to exchange for Waterball Technique with me?

Anyway, we've both already learned our respective Divine Abilities. If we exchange, we won't lose out at all..."

Li Ye's words made Lin Qiuyao's heart stir, and the other party had just given her three pieces of roasted meat. If she didn't exchange, it might make her seem unkind.

"Deal."

Instantly, the Divine Ability in both their Storage Pouches disappeared. In Li Ye's place appeared a blue, blank book.

"Low Grade Divine Ability, Waterball Technique. Do you want to learn it?"

"Learn!"

The next moment,

"Ding! Learning failed. The host does not have a Water Spiritual Root."

...

Li Ye then slapped his forehead. He had forgotten that one could only learn the corresponding Divine Ability if they had the corresponding Spiritual Root.

However, this Waterball Technique was very practical, and he could also use it to exchange for other Divine Abilities with others.

So it wasn't a loss after all.

Subsequently, Li Ye continued to observe the trade interface.

One message surprised Li Ye.

"Level 2 Immortal Cave Blueprint, very rare, only trades for food!"

"There's actually a blueprint for a Level 2 Immortal Cave?"

Li Ye checked the Immortal Cave page. Everyone was bound to their own Immortal Cave, and it could not be abandoned.

Currently, Li Ye's Immortal Cave was a rudimentary Immortal Cave, also a Level 1 Immortal Cave.

Upgrading required three hundred pieces of wood and two hundred pieces of stone, which could expand the entire Immortal Cave by about ten square meters.

The current area was only five square meters.

However, the unique functions of an Immortal Cave, such as increasing Cultivation speed and increasing the Spiritual Qi content of the Immortal Cave, were not yet visible in the novel.

Presumably, these functions would only become available at higher levels.

Li Ye sighed and asked him:

"How about one piece of roasted meat for the blueprint?"

"Deal!"

The other party hesitated for a while but still exchanged. He was currently hungry, and the roasted meat was too tempting for him.

Soon, a blueprint appeared in Li Ye's hand.

His Storage Pouch only had about 10 slots.

So the stored wood and stone were simply insufficient.

Then, he crafted two boxes from the blueprint.

Each box could store 20 slots.

This meant one box could store two hundred pieces of wood.

The disadvantage of a box compared to a Storage Pouch was that it could not be bound to an owner, could not be locked, and its capacity was far inferior.

Just as Li Ye was putting unused materials, such as Evil Spirits meat, rabbit bones, and other miscellaneous items, into the boxes,

a banging and roaring sound came from the main entrance.

"Oh, no, are monsters here?"

Monsters would occasionally attack Immortal Caves at night, and many people had reported this in the chat logs.

At this time, if one didn't have the corresponding means, they would basically be doomed.

Because most people had wooden doors, and some even didn't know that doors could be upgraded...