53: Danger! The Ghost King's army is passing through! The special effects of the divine bamboo shoots!

"And it's a green fine quality Treasure Chest?" Su Lie's eyes lit up. He used his Enhancement Talent to Enhance it into a god-tier treasure chest.

Only then did he reach out and open the Treasure Chest.

Buzz!

The moment the Treasure Chest opened, a red light flashed.

Inside the Treasure Chest, three items appeared: one Basic Food Exchange Coupon, one Watchtower Construction Blueprint, and one ordinary quality Pet Evolution Core.

The Basic Food Exchange Coupon was an ordinary quality coupon, redeemable for 10 kilograms of flour, 10 kilograms of eggs, 10 kilograms of pork, and 10 liters of pure water.

The Watchtower was an ordinary construction blueprint, showing only its requirements and quality.

It required 2,000 units of Stone, 1,000 units of iron, and 3,000 units of wood to be successfully constructed.

Its height was 10 meters.

After tidying up the items, he glanced at the small lake, which was now just a pool of sludge: "The biggest resource here has been taken by me! The rest are just some wild mountain goods. Unfortunately, my limited knowledge prevents me from obtaining more resources!"

Afterwards,

Su Lie collected some rotting tree stumps nearby that had fungus and hairy mushrooms growing on them.

Only then did he ride the Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad towards the bamboo forest area.

The Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad jumped for less than three minutes, arriving at the open area next to the bamboo forest.

There was also a collapsed Shelter here.

This was exactly what Su Lie had done last night.

He turned his head and looked around, realizing that the area where the Shelter was located covered one-third of the bamboo forest area.

At this time,

No. 4 had already led its nine Little Skeletons to chop down a large number of bamboo tubes.

The bamboo tubes were piled up, forming a small mountain.

Beside them were some bamboo leaves and bamboo shoots they had collected.

Seeing that it was already late, Su Lie instructed the Little Skeletons to carry out the final cleanup work.

After the Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad swallowed the bamboo tubes and other resources,

Su Lie led the Little Skeletons onto the Golden Toad's back.

Once they were seated securely, the Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad leaped towards the direction of the mine pit again.

While flying,

Su Lie suddenly heard a violent roar.

He saw.

A mountain growing rapidly in the far distance to his left, expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Its expansion caused intense tremors in the surrounding area.

Startled by this, over a dozen enormous birds with wingspans exceeding ten meters flew up from the jungle below the mountain.

Because of the distance, Su Lie's Monster Prompt Skill could not take effect.

The Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad's eyes narrowed, and it quickly lowered its jumping height, keeping it below the treetops at all times.

Su Lie could no longer see such a spectacle at this point.

He asked the Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad, "Are those big birds your enemies?"

"Yes! They are Mist Phoenix Birds. They possess the Phoenix Bloodline and specialize in elemental attacks!" The Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad replied, "Croak! Those birds are bad news!"

Soon,

the Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad brought Su Lie to the mine pit.

Just as Su Lie jumped down from the Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad, he heard a series of reward notifications.

[Congratulations on successfully collecting 10,000 units of Stone! Reward: 100 Mist Points!]

... [Congratulations on successfully collecting 10,000 units of Stone! Reward: 100 Mist Points!] There were three notifications in total.

Su Lie smiled and signaled the No. 2 Little Skeleton to stop working.

After the Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad swallowed these resources, Su Lie finally led the Little Skeletons back to the Shelter.

This time, they took more than ten minutes.

The Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad dared not jump too high and could only return by making low-altitude, short-distance, rapid jumps.

Upon arriving at the Shelter,

[Congratulations on successfully collecting 10,000 units of wood! Reward: 100 Mist Points!]

... A total of four notifications flooded his vision.

Su Lie turned his head and saw that the 1-kilometer radius around the Shelter had been completely mined out.

The view was wide and open.

Under his command, the Little Skeletons working in the distance packed up their belongings and returned to the Shelter.

As everyone entered the Shelter, the sky gradually darkened.

The dense Mist began to descend.

A large number of crimson eyes appeared in the Mist.

Aided by Su Lie's passive Skill, Monster Prompt,

he discovered that the monsters roaming nearby had all become Level 15 or higher.

Moreover, the monster horde was dense, like a swarm of locusts passing through.

Su Lie took out the Lofty Mountain Flying Sword.

He wanted to use the Shelter's exorcism effect and the Lofty Mountain Flying Sword's flight capability to kill high-level monsters from a distance.

Just as he was about to make his move, a strong sense of danger flooded his heart.

He heard a faint sound coming from directly above his head.

The sound was like someone breathing heavily.

"What?" Just as Su Lie was about to look up curiously, his head suddenly froze in place: "No! I mustn't look! If it's a massive monster... if I make eye contact with it, I will definitely be contaminated..."

Thinking this, he decisively put away his sword.

He turned and walked into the Shelter.

Clang!

The large iron door of the Shelter slammed shut violently.

One hundred meters outside the Shelter, high up in the dark sky, a pair of crimson eyes shifted their gaze away from the Shelter and looked towards a mass of Mist also hidden in the darkness.

The pair of eyes blinked slightly, and the next second, they vanished without a trace.

The monster horde near Su Lie's Shelter continued to advance silently, with seven or eight-meter-tall monsters occasionally passing through the ranks.

[Buzz!]

[You have received a notification from the Mountain God!]

[If you encounter this kind of event in the future, hide in the Shelter and do not come out! This is the passing of the Ghost King's Army. Once provoked, it will be Undying!]

"A notification from the Mountain God? Is he warning me not to cause trouble?" Su Lie's heart skipped a beat.

It seemed that after the Holy Skeleton Mage Yi exposed his Disguise, the Mountain God stopped pretending and started directly interfering with crisis events.

"Doesn't the mist rule regulate this?" Su Lie muttered softly.

"No! It's precisely because the mist rule exists that the Mountain God cannot fully interfere with my Mist survival! And this is my chance!"

After thinking, he returned to the fireplace, took off his shoes, and placed them aside to warm up.

Then, he accepted a bowl of water brought to him by Su Liya.

When he saw the wooden bowl, the corner of his mouth curved slightly.

Grabbing Su Liya's hand, he said, "Liya! You are making these wooden bowls better and better!"

"Mm! I made 102 wooden bowls today, and I only found the correct method when I made this one!" Su Liya said earnestly.

Gulp!

Su Lie praised her a few more times, then drank the Exorcism Holy Water in the bowl.

He summoned the Treasure-Swallowing Golden Toad and had it spit out the resources harvested this time, one by one.

This time, the Little Skeletons had collected a total of 36,000 units of Stone, 41,030 units of wood, 6,010 bamboo tubes, 3,000 bamboo shoots, 1,000 palm-sized bamboo leaves, and 300 three-meter-long bamboo sticks.

These were all ordinary resources.

Su Lie checked them one by one and attempted to Enhance them.

Most of the resources could only be Strengthened into green quality resources.

The bamboo shoots were edible and non-polluting.

After being Strengthened, they were promoted to green quality bamboo shoots, but the flavor was fresher than before, gaining a crispy and fresh special effect.

Su Lie instructed a Little Skeleton to bring over the bamboo shoots obtained from the divine breath bamboo last night.

After inspecting them, he found that these bamboo shoots were also edible raw.

After being Strengthened, the divine breath bamboo shoots were directly promoted to god-tier quality bamboo shoots.

[divine breath bamboo shoot: Red God-level Quality ingredient; an extremely precious ingredient that, when paired with other god-tier ingredients, can be cooked into an unparalleled delicacy. Consumption Effect: Grants a Talent related to the Mountain God upon use. Note: Limited to one consumption per life form.]

"Is this because the bamboo tubes were contaminated by the Mountain God's aura, underwent a strange transformation and activation, and became divine breath bamboo? And the function of these divine breath bamboo shoots must also be related to the Mountain God?"

Excitement flickered in Su Lie's eyes: "If that's the case! I could use this to obtain more similar items from beings of the same rank as the Mountain God... then Enhance them... and thereby gain their related abilities..."