61: Cat Iron, a material with added skills! Misty Sky!

“Is this thing a Night Cat? It looks more like an Ass Beast!”

Su Lie shook his head.

Based solely on the information provided by the passive Skill Monster Prompt.

Anyone would think the Night Cat was just a cat.

At the very least, a mutated feline monster.

Who would have known.

This turned out to be a disgusting monster with the body of a cat, the head of an ass, and metallic claws growing on its four limbs.

Now, the Night Cat's claws had melted into a pool of metallic liquid under the high temperature of 12,000 degrees Celsius.

The Night Cat's body instantly burst into flames, like ignited gasoline.

In the blink of an eye.

All that remained on the ground was a puddle of molten metal still burning with blue flames.

Judging by the residue.

This Night Cat's skeleton was also composed of metal.

Su Lie turned around, collected all the remaining monster crystals, and finally used the Lofty Mountain Flying Sword to carry the metal—which hadn't fully cooled and had just solidified—back to the Shelter.

After tossing the metal near the entrance.

He headed off in other directions.

It wasn't until half an hour later.

That Su Lie hurried back to the Shelter entrance, bringing the metal, which was still over 100 degrees hot, inside the Shelter.

The reason he returned this time.

Was because he sensed a force that made him feel extremely suppressed.

Based on his past judgment, whenever he felt this way, it signaled the appearance of a powerful Mist Monster.

Therefore.

Su Lie decisively returned home.

Clang!

Once the iron door closed.

That feeling of suppression immediately faded.

At this time.

His experience points had reached 489.

He still needed 411 experience points to level up.

He had killed another 244 monsters.

The number of monsters he killed tonight was the highest he had achieved in recent days.

In total, he harvested 395 level 1 monster crystals this time.

Including his previous haul.

His current count of level 1 monster crystals was 431.

Additionally, by incinerating the Night Cat monsters, he obtained some metal.

Under Su Lie's gaze.

The attributes of the metal appeared.

[cat iron: Green fine quality metal; Using it when forging weapons can grant the weapon a speed attribute buff. It also comes with the Skill: Night Wind.

Night Wind: Consumes 1 point of Spirit per second, transforming into a black whirlwind that moves at 300 meters per second. Attacks made while moving grant a 30% critical hit rate!]

“Good stuff!”

Seeing this, Su Lie no longer hesitated and used Enhance to turn it into Red God-level Quality metal.

After the cat iron was Strengthened.

The Night Wind Skill no longer required the consumption of Spirit points and could directly transform into a black whirlwind.

Moreover, the speed increased to 1,000 meters per second, and it provided a 100% critical hit chance.

“This is easily 10 kilograms!”

Su Lie weighed the cat iron in his hand, a light bursting in his eyes: “If I encounter monsters like the Night Cat, I must kill them! I need as much of this metal as I can get!”

Clang!

He tossed the metal onto the pile of iron nearby.

He turned and walked toward the Solid Wood Bed.

At this moment.

The Little Skeletons had already entered the underground mine in batches to dig for elemental stone ore.

Su Keqing and Su Liya were sitting on wooden stools beside the large iron pot, chatting.

Number 7 Little Skeleton was sowing seeds in the spiritual field.

Several jujube trees along the edge of the spiritual field had already grown to about 1 meter.

Seeing this, Su Lie walked straight to the spiritual field: “Was this the harvest of Sunlight Wheat?”

Number 7 quickly nodded, gesticulating with clicking sounds.

Su Liya pulled Su Keqing over to Su Lie. After the two of them bowed, Su Liya said: “Number 7 says that these 3 stalks of Sunlight Wheat yielded a total of 15,000 seeds. The spiritual field is too small to plant them all!”

The yield of each god-tier Sunlight Wheat plant was 500 seeds.

Because the spiritual field has a Harvest Effect, which brings a 10x harvest boost to crops.

This is why the harvest was so plentiful this time.

“Mm. Plant as many as you can!”

Su Lie nodded at Number 7 and said.

Number 7 excitedly pointed at the jujube trees nearby and gesticulated again.

Su Liya spoke again: “Master! It requests that these jujube trees be transplanted to the Garden!”

“Alright!”

Su Lie said to Su Liya: “You handle the arrangements! Plant them next to the qi and blood great red date tree!”

“Yes, Master!”

Su Liya nodded.

She quickly turned and selected seven or eight Little Skeletons who were staring blankly by the bed to transplant the jujube trees.

Currently, the Garden has a total area of 6,400 square meters.

Transplanting these small trees was more than enough space.

After finishing the arrangements here.

Su Lie went to the basement.

He saw that half of the basement was already piled high with elemental stone.

He had just entered when he saw two reward notifications.

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

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

“It seems I can only gain Mist Points from mining in the future!”

Su Lie murmured softly.

When he previously Strengthened the salt crystal, the reward he received was also Mist Points.

The same goes for elemental stone.

This led him to a hypothesis.

The one leading the elemental stone mining was No. 3 Little Skeleton.

Su Lie gave it instructions: “Stop mining once you have collected 10,000 elemental stones every day! This material is not scarce for us right now; in fact, we have a surplus!”

No. 3 Little Skeleton excitedly pointed at the mine and rattled off a stream of words.

Su Keqing, who was following Su Lie, explained: “Master! Number 3 says they have plenty of strength! Plus, with the bone precious pill supporting them, no one is tired! They are very willing to work for their Lord! Rest, in its view, is a waste of time!”

“The ore vein is right here; we can mine it freely anytime! There's no need to extract it all at once!”

Su Lie shook his head and said solemnly: “Follow orders!”

Whoosh!

No. 3 Little Skeleton immediately knelt and nodded, as if saying: “Yes, Master!”

Su Lie returned contentedly to the Solid Wood Bed.

On the other side, Su Liya was leading the Little Skeletons in transplanting the jujube trees.

He, meanwhile, hugged Su Keqing and fell asleep.

After one hour of deep sleep.

Su Lie woke up.

Su Keqing stretched lazily. When she realized Su Lie was looking at her intently, her cheeks flushed, and she quickly got up: “I apologize, Master! I fell asleep!”

She was a little flustered!

“It's alright!”

Su Lie smiled.

Su Keqing's nervous appearance deeply moved him.

“Master! Have some hot water!”

At this moment, Su Liya brought over a bowl of freshly boiled Exorcism Holy Water.

She placed the fresh fish from the pot into a wooden bucket and put it on the Eight Immortals Table to keep it fresh.

Su Lie nodded. After drinking the water.

He instructed Su Liya: “Gather all the Little Skeletons here!”

Su Liya nodded, then asked: “Should I also call over the 6 Little Skeletons on duty in the Watchtower?”

After Su Lie gave the mission assignments.

She immediately assigned Little Skeletons No. 49 through No. 54 to carry out the Watchtower's guard and lookout duties.

“Call those who are not currently on duty!”

Su Lie gave his decision.

Before long.

The Little Skeletons gathered by the Solid Wood Bed.

Su Lie lay semi-reclined on the bed and began teaching the Little Skeletons.

This time, he wasn't teaching a manufacturing class but a cognitive class.

Time flew by.

Click!

Accompanied by subtle, almost inaudible sounds of the window opening.

Dawn broke!

Su Lie stretched, and his first action was to look out the window.

Outside, the Mist was thick and hazy.

Visibility was less than ten meters.

“It seems today isn't suitable for going out!”

Su Lie murmured softly.

He wasn't sure if regional spatial transfer events would occur during misty weather.

Under these circumstances, the best approach was to stay near the Shelter.

“I wonder what the situation is for everyone else!”

Mumbling to himself, Su Lie opened the Chat Channel...