18: Skills are elusive! Opportunities await!

"Good heavens! I actually obtained a Skill!" Su Lie exclaimed upon seeing this.

He looked at the Skill again.

[Illusionary Haze (Monster): Upon activation, you can transform into a humanoid Mist Monster, consuming 1 point of Spirit per second. Note: You only possess high deception in appearance and aura; it does not mean that after turning into a Mist Monster, you possess the ability to be immune to monster contamination. Note: Daytime sunlight will ignite you; please do not use it when the sun is out. Note: The strength of the monster you transform into is closely related to your own level. Do not expect high-level monsters to turn a blind eye to you while you are transformed into a monster.]

"A Skill with three warnings, this ability..." Su Lie felt a bit shaken after reading it.

He was a bit hesitant to try the idea he had in mind.

For now, he looked down at the corpses on the ground and decided to dispose of them first.

He used the Permanent Treasure Refining Skill and found the refining method for Illusionary Haze Pills. Before long, he had 11 ordinary-quality Illusionary Haze Pills in his hand.

He placed the Illusionary Haze Pills on the dining table, then looked at the silver scroll that No. 6 Little Skeleton had obtained from the White Wolf's pouch.

"What could it be?" Su Lie unfurled the scroll. The scroll transformed into a mission window that appeared in Su Lie's field of vision.

[Opportunity Mission: Deep in the jungle surrounding your Shelter, there is a mine cave. Rumor has it that the White Wolf King's treasury is hidden deep within the mine cave!]

[Mission Requirements: Explore the mine cave, open the White Wolf King's treasury, activate the Lord of Lofty Mountains' formation within the treasury, and purify the soul of the Lord of Lofty Mountains.]

[Mission Rewards: 100 Experience Points; 1000 Mist Points; Basic Shelter Resources (wood * 5000, Stone * 5000, iron * 5000); 1 random building blueprint]

[Mission Failure: No penalty]

[Mission Limitation: Please complete this mission within 7 days, otherwise the mission will be automatically canceled.]

Su Lie looked at the Mist mission before him and thought of the message brought by No. 4 Little Skeleton: "It must be that place!"

Thinking of this, he accepted the mission immediately.

Su Lie called over No. 6 Little Skeleton and questioned it in detail about this exploration. According to No. 6 Little Skeleton's description, it had encountered a White Wolf drinking water by a small stream deep in the jungle. It had originally intended to take a detour, but later, finding it impossible to shake off the White Wolf, it had returned.

Su Lie looked at No. 6 and asked: "Why did you explain just now?" "Wrong is wrong! There is no reason!" The Little Skeleton solemnly described its thoughts. This surprised Su Lie.

He looked at the White Wolf again: "I wonder what this White Wolf can be refined into?" He was hesitant. The White Wolf's pelt could actually withstand the attacks of the Little Skeleton's Soul Fire Bullet. Clearly, it possessed a certain level of magic resistance. If this were refined into pills, wouldn't it be a huge loss?

"This White Wolf is a treasure from head to toe! It would be such a pity to just refine it like this!" Su Lie muttered softly: "I must hoard more food!"

Thinking of this, he took the Little Skeletons and skinned the wolf. Then, he taught the Little Skeletons how to cut the wolf meat. He tossed the monster crystal obtained from the wolf's head into a bamboo tube on the side and examined the various materials separately.

These materials were all ordinary materials. The wolf meat and wolf blood contained special parasites. These parasites would, imperceptibly, transform the consumer's body into a Mist Monster and modify the consumer's body into a parasitic environment suitable for the parasites to survive.

Su Lie poured out the big hairy chestnuts that had already been purified, placed the wolf meat into the purification bucket to purify, and arranged for a Little Skeleton to keep track of the time there. Once the wolf meat was purified, the wolf blood would be put in for purification.

At this moment, Su Lie saw No. 7 gnawing on a wolf's toe bone. He looked at No. 7 and asked: "No. 7, what are you doing?" Clatter! No. 7 was startled and hurriedly knelt on the ground, trembling all over, babbling as if saying: "Master, spare me! Master, spare me! I was just too hungry!"

"Hungry? You Skeletons get hungry too?" Su Lie asked, speechless. Only then did he realize that these little things he had refined might require extra resources to sustain.

The most intelligent one, No. 2 Little Skeleton, stepped forward to explain: "Master! If we don't fight or act, we can go 5 days without eating! But once we fight or act, we need to eat!"

"If we don't eat, we will gradually wither and die! Turning into a pile of real white bones!" "Master! We don't eat meat! We don't eat chestnuts!" "We only eat bones!" "We only need one meal a day!" "Eating bones can also heal injuries, allowing severed arms to regrow!" "It can also improve our attributes and help us grow!" It took a full half hour to express what it wanted to say.

"Is that so!" Su Lie thought of the several hundred catties of bear bones he still had, plus these wolf bones, which should be able to support them for a while. He walked to the corner of the Shelter and took out the bear bones: "You eat these first! Eat until you are full!"

Clatter! The Little Skeletons looked at Su Lie in disbelief, and they all knelt and kowtowed in unison: "Thank you, Master, for your great kindness!"

However, they didn't start eating immediately. Instead, they followed Su Lie's request to first strip off the White Wolf's meat and internal organs, placing them individually into the bamboo tubes. Then, No. 1 and No. 2 ate first. Next were No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5, and then No. 6 and No. 7. No. 6 ate a bit more.

Miraculously, after eating 3 catties of bear bones, the cracks on No. 6's body recovered at a Speed visible to the naked eye. After eating another 4 catties of bear bones, its severed arm regrew.

After the 7 Little Skeletons finished eating, Su Lie calculated carefully. He discovered that these 7 Little Skeletons needed to consume 40 catties of bones per meal. This time, because No. 6 was injured, it ate more. Calculated normally, each Little Skeleton only needs to consume 5 catties of bones per meal.

"With the bear bones and wolf bones, there's about 800 catties! It can last the Little Skeletons for 20 days!" Su Lie exhaled in relief after calculating. At least for now, he didn't need to worry about the Little Skeletons' rations. However, this matter also had to be put on the agenda.

Thinking of this, he had more thoughts in his mind: "I am still too weak! Today, when dealing with the White Wolf, if I had more combat experience, perhaps it would have been very easy!" "No!" "I must go fight, to accumulate combat experience!"

Thinking of this, he recalled the Illusionary Haze Skill he had just obtained: "I'll just stay at the entrance of the Shelter; I shouldn't encounter any powerful monsters, right?"

As he spoke, he first arranged tasks for No. 2 to No. 5 Little Skeleton. He had them take the purified wolf meat to the fireplace to be roasted into jerky, to be used as reserve food. No. 7 would continue to look after the spiritual field, and No. 6 would be responsible for purification.

After arranging everything, he picked up the Demon-Subduing Wolf Fang Hammer and instructed No. 1 and No. 2: "You two come with me, the rest of the Little Skeletons stay here. Whoever knocks, do not open the door!"

Subsequently, he used the Illusionary Haze Skill. A layer of Mist swirled around his body. After the Mist passed, Su Lie's appearance transformed into a Dried Corpse monster. He looked at his hands, feet, and body, seeing that he was no different from the Dried Corpse he had seen during the day. Only then did he excitedly lead the two Little Skeletons to open the door and walk out...