19: Puppet Lizard

With a heart full of anticipation, Mu Feng leaned in to check the results.

“System Reminder: Congratulations! Your Puppet Lizard has been crafted successfully!”

It was a success!

A lizard, entirely red with mysterious runes imprinted on its body, appeared before Mu Feng.

It was over a meter long, with a silver horn on its head.

Its body, four limbs, and tail joints were connected by bronze spherical joints.

Its eyes were as black as ink, as if it were wearing a pair of sunglasses, making it look majestic.

“Handsome, so handsome!”

Mu Feng couldn't help but exclaim.

He tapped the Puppet's body with his hand.

A dull thud sounded.

It felt very textured.

It was impossible to tell that it was made of wood.

The more Mu Feng looked, the more he liked it.

“Name: Puppet Lizard (Mutated)”

“Description: Due to the inclusion of Mithril, the Puppet Lizard's body has mutated, and its hardness is ten times that of an ordinary Puppet Lizard.”

“Skills: Bite, Charge”

“Damage: 100/100”

Nice!

It was just as he had thought.

That piece of Mithril could indeed enhance the Puppet's strength.

“System Reminder: Do you want to refine the Puppet?”

“Refine!”

“System Reminder: Please place your Divine Thought onto the Puppet.”

The refining method was similar to refining a Magical Artifact.

After Mu Feng attached his Divine Thought to the Little Lizard, he immediately gained control of it.

“Go, bring me that iron box!”

Upon hearing the command, the Little Lizard's four limbs immediately started moving.

It walked towards the iron box in front of it.

Slowly, it used its head to push the box little by little in front of Mu Feng.

“Interesting.”

This Puppet Lizard was much smarter than he had imagined.

It didn't quite seem like a Puppet; it was more like an AI robot.

Without hands, it still knew how to use its head to bring things over.

Mu Feng was very satisfied with this.

Since he was in his Immortal Cave, Mu Feng couldn't test the Puppet Lizard's combat power.

He could only try attacking it simply with his Beginner Flying Sword.

The conclusion he drew was that this Puppet Lizard had extremely high hardness.

Even when he fully controlled the Flying Sword to strike it, there wasn't even a mark on the Little Lizard's body.

Its hardness was evident.

“As expected of a tenfold increase in hardness, it's really hard!”

He touched the spot that had been attacked.

It was as smooth as new.

There was no sign of it having been attacked.

“It's too dark; I'll go tomorrow.”

Suppressing the urge to immediately explore the Immortal Cave, Mu Feng opened the Transaction Channel.

He had nothing to do anyway.

He planned to upgrade his Immortal Cave during his rest time.

Now, he just needed the Spirit Stones from the sale of Bigu Pills to gather all the Materials.

He entered the Transaction Channel.

“System Reminder: Your listed items have been sold out. The Materials have been sent to your mailbox.”

“It really is a huge profit!”

“It seems I'll have to find an opportunity to refine another batch of Bigu Pills.”

“While everyone is still short on food, I'll make another fortune!”

The popularity of Bigu Pills surprised Mu Feng.

Ten Bigu Pills were completely sold out in less than an hour.

However, this also indirectly reflected that everyone's exploration progress had also picked up.

Perhaps in another day or two, they would be able to sustain themselves.

So, if he wanted to continue making money from Bigu Pills, he had to refine them quickly.

Otherwise, the market might not be as hot later on.

“Forget it, don't think about these things. Let's upgrade the Immortal Cave first!”

The initial Immortal Cave did not have a planting function.

He needed raw Materials to refine Bigu Pills.

Other things were fine, but the main Material, hongxiang fruit, was hard to find.

Mu Feng could only pin his hopes on the medicine garden that would be opened after the Immortal Cave upgrade.

At that time, he would use the essence of vegetation to Birth the hongxiang fruit cores and make them grow.

He opened his mailbox.

“System Reminder: Spirit Stone x10”

“System Reminder: Spirit Stone x10”

“System Reminder: Spirit Stone x10”

...

With the Spirit Stones in hand, all the Materials for the Immortal Cave upgrade were gathered.

“Immortal Cave Upgrade: Stone 50/50, wood 20/32, breathing earth 30/30, Spirit Stone 100/150”

“System Reminder: All your Immortal Cave upgrade Materials have been gathered. Do you want to proceed with the Immortal Cave upgrade?”

Upgrade!

“System Reminder: Stone -50, wood -20, breathing earth -30, Spirit Stone -100.”

As the Materials in the Storage Pouch disappeared, the initial Immortal Cave where Mu Feng was located began to shake, as if an earthquake was coming.

The surrounding walls began to fall off and widen, and the part near the back directly cracked open into a large hole.

This made him both nervous and expectant.

“Swish, swish, swish…”

The Little Lizard resting nearby was also startled awake by the sudden tremor. It shook its head, ran to Mu Feng's side, and looked around with its small eyes, appearing a bit dazed.

The tremor lasted for about a minute.

“System Reminder: Immortal Cave upgrade complete! Current Immortal Cave Rank is General Immortal Cave!”

At this moment, the Immortal Cave no longer trembled.

The internal environment was completely refreshed.

The area was twice as large as before.

The originally uneven ground became flat.

The dark walls became smooth and bright, as if they had been polished.

The primitive stone bed and stone table also gradually became modernized.

Below the bed, there was even a small Formation.

Mu Feng walked over to take a look.

“Small Spirit Gathering Array: Can convert Spirit Stones into Immortal Cave Spiritual Qi. The more Spirit Stones placed, the denser the Immortal Cave Spiritual Qi.”

“Usage: Just throw Spirit Stones into the Formation. Once activated, it can last for 12 hours. A minimum of ten low-grade Spirit Stones and a maximum of one thousand low-grade Spirit Stones can be placed.”

Spirit Gathering Array?

Can convert Spirit Stones into Immortal Cave Spiritual Qi?

He had been wondering why the Immortal Cave had been upgraded, but the Spiritual Qi inside didn't seem to have changed much.

It turned out that he needed to activate the Spirit Gathering Array first.

However, activating it once actually required ten Spirit Stones, which was a bit too expensive.

Everything required money.

Wealth, companions, Dao, land.

Mu Feng finally understood why wealth was placed first.

It really was so expensive!

No, no, he had to earn more money, otherwise it wouldn't be enough for his own Cultivation consumption.

“System Reminder: Do you want to activate the Spirit Gathering Array?”

“Activate!”

The Spirit Gathering Array had three speeds for gathering Spiritual Qi.

The lowest Rank gathering required ten Spirit Stones.

Intermediate gathering required one hundred Spirit Stones.

Advanced gathering required one thousand.

He currently only had 50 Spirit Stones.

He could only activate the lowest Rank Spirit Gathering Array.

After throwing ten Spirit Stones from his Storage Pouch, the Spirit Gathering Array began to glow.

Immediately after, a very dense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi surged out from the Spirit Gathering Array.

In a short while, the entire Immortal Cave became full of Spiritual Qi.

Under this impact of Spiritual Qi, Mu Feng felt his Bottleneck loosening little by little.

“Holy cow, the effect is so obvious?”

Mu Feng was stunned.

“This is still the lowest Rank Spirit Gathering. If it were the Advanced Spirit Gathering with a thousand Spirit Stones, wouldn't it take off!”

The lowest Rank Spirit Gathering Array was already this powerful.

He didn't even dare to imagine how powerful the next two were.

Unfortunately, he didn't have enough Spirit Stones.

Otherwise, he might have opened his eyes to something amazing.