6: A low-grade spirit stone

Li Ye cautiously approached the main entrance.

His current door was still a stone door, with durability around 20.

The next level was an iron door, but an iron door required refined iron, and obtaining refined iron required iron ore.

The stone door's durability was slowly dropping, and perhaps when it dropped to 0, it would be time for the demons to break through.

Li Ye swallowed, then directly opened the stone door; rather than sit and wait for death, it was better to take a gamble, especially since his cultivation was at Qi Refining Second Layer, ranking among the top of all Cultivators.

After opening the stone door, a monster covered in purple with glowing green eyes appeared before him.

Li Ye, without a word, swung his Spiritual Axe at the monster, and instantly, the monster exploded.

You defeated a First Order Low Grade Yao Beast, a Juvenile Ghoul.

Ghoul?

Is it a Yao Beast of the same grade as a Evil Spirits?

Li Ye saw a pile of minced meat on the ground and picked it up.

Juvenile Ghoul Meat x 10.

Note: Only edible for Qi Refining Stage 3 and above.

Just like Evil Spirits meat, it had a Realm requirement.

After defeating the Juvenile Ghoul, Li Ye built many bonfires at the entrance and lit them, hoping to use the flames to scare away the Yao Beasts; if he was disturbed like this all night, he would definitely be annoyed to death.

Li Ye returned to the wooden bed, covered himself with a quilt, and Cultivated by circulating the Eternal Life Formula.

Tomorrow's goal: find supplies, then upgrade the Immortal Cave, and hopefully encounter some Yao Beasts, as Yao Beast meat must be better than Yao Beast meat.

Unlike now, he couldn't eat it.

...

A night without words,

Survival Day 3.

Reward 1: A top-grade goddess's unwashed mask worn for a year during the epidemic.

Reward 2: Obtain ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Low-Grade Spirit Stone: Can be used for Cultivation and for crafting items.

Reward 3: A Profound Rank High Grade Spiritual Pickaxe.

"Hiss... these three rewards are all very difficult to choose from, that unwashed mask worn for a year must smell really good... so I choose Reward 3!"

Li Ye said with a chuckle, and a cyan pickaxe appeared in his hand.

The reason for choosing this was mainly because a Profound Rank pickaxe required a Spiritual Pickaxe blueprint and twenty-five Low-Grade Spirit Stones, so choosing the Spiritual Pickaxe was definitely not a loss!

As for Reward 2, although ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones could be used freely, for now, besides using them for Cultivation, there seemed to be no other use for them.

After speaking, Li Ye took the Spiritual Pickaxe and went out.

With the Spiritual Pickaxe, he would basically not lack stones.

Soon, Li Ye spent a morning building five chests in his Immortal Cave, filled with stones and wood.

Moreover, when Li Ye dug downwards into the ground, he also obtained a lot of useless soil.

He piled all the soil on top of a small hill; as his Immortal Cave grew larger in the future, the mountain outside would also grow larger.

Soon, he gathered all the resources needed for a Level 2 Immortal Cave.

Level 2 Immortal Cave, do you want to upgrade?

Upgrade!

A golden light flashed, and Li Ye saw his small hill visibly grow larger.

And the scene inside, which was originally only two meters high, now had a height of three meters, and the area had increased to 15 square meters.

Li Ye was very excited and hungry, so he roasted two pieces of meat, drank a bottle of water, Cultivated for an hour, and then checked the trap, but unfortunately, there was nothing in the trap.

"Let's go to the west today, hopefully, I can find a stable water source or encounter other Immortal Caves, or a Secret Realm today."

All the way west, it was all Withered Tree Forest; Li Ye's Immortal Cave seemed to be in the middle of a Withered Tree Forest.

However, soon, he mainly reached a small hill, and within the small hill, there was an abandoned Immortal Cave.

"Hmm? I actually found an abandoned Immortal Cave, let's see what's inside."

After thinking for a moment, Li Ye walked in and was instantly dumbfounded; before him was a wolf with blood-red eyes and three heads.

"Oh my, could this be the Immortal Cave of that unlucky person who encountered a three-headed wolf at the beginning?"

The three-headed wolf saw Li Ye, let out a roar, and pounced towards him.

As a Cultivator of the Qi Refining Second Layer, Li Ye's reaction speed was much faster than that of an ordinary Qi Refining First Layer.

However, compared to this hungry wolf, he still seemed weak.

He continuously swung the Spiritual Axe in his left hand and the Spiritual Pickaxe in his right, striking wildly.

Fortunately, Li Ye was relatively lucky, and the Spiritual Axe split open one of the hungry wolf's heads.

However, this seemed to enrage the evil wolf, and its remaining two heads bit at Li Ye.

Li Ye's right arm was bitten, but fortunately, the Spiritual Axe in his left hand killed the three-headed wolf.

You killed a First Order Low Grade Yao Beast, Three-Headed Wolf.

...

You obtained First Order Low Grade Yao Beast Meat x 10.

You obtained First Order Low Grade Yao Beast Blood x 10.

You obtained First Order Low Grade Yao Beast Bone x 10.

The dazzling rewards occupied three of Li Ye's inventory slots; although Li Ye was injured, he was very satisfied.

He checked his panel.

Name: Li Ye (150/200)

Cultivation: Qi Refining Second Layer (3%)

Spiritual Root: Wood-Fire-Thunder Three Spiritual Root.

Cultivation Technique: Eternal Life Formula (入門)

Divine Ability: Fireball Technique (入門)

"Hiss, that bite from the three-headed wolf just now bit off 1/4 of my health; if a Qi Refining First Layer's health is 100, it could kill a Qi Refining First Layer in two bites."

Li Ye felt a wave of lingering fear.

After packing his things, he rested and meditated for an hour, fully recovering his vitality, healing his wounds with Spiritual Qi, and continued exploring westward.

He explored many houses he encountered along the way.

His luck was pretty good.

Obtained Low-Grade Spirit Stone x 1

Obtained Steel Pipe x 3

Obtained Cloth Strip x 2

Obtained...

"I didn't expect to get a Spirit Stone; I wonder how much Cultivation one Spirit Stone can increase."

Li Ye directly picked up the Low-Grade Spirit Stone.

Use Low-Grade Spirit Stone x 1 for Cultivation, do you want to use it?

Use!

Cultivation increased by 5%.

Now Li Ye's Cultivation was already Qi Refining Second Layer (8%).

"Oh my, one Spirit Stone can actually be worth three or four days of Cultivation, I hit the jackpot."

In that case, could twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones allow him to Breakthrough to Qi Refining Stage 3?

No, in novels, breaking through minor Realms always requires Medicinal Pills; it shouldn't be that simple.

Moreover, Realm advancement is definitely not linear; in the future, the same stage might require more and more Spirit Stones.

After a period of preparation, Li Ye discovered a blue-green light ahead.

First Order Secret Realm, do you want to enter?

Li Ye hesitated for a moment, would it be dangerous to enter now?

After thinking about it, he decided against it for now, he would record the path and wait until tomorrow when he had better countermeasures.

Subsequently, he wandered around the vicinity of the Secret Realm a few more times until his backpack was full; one grid in the backpack could hold ten of the same item.