Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

The cold wave was about to arrive, and when that time came, all the warriors of the Tribe would remain within the Tribe, making it an opportunity to accumulate resources.

Once he located a vein of Spirit Iron Ore, he could mass-produce Low-Grade Magic Artifacts. Utilizing this time, it would also not interfere with hunting.

Ying's Strengthening Tendon Pills were effective, but Chu Zheng clearly had no intention of following the Medicine Woman's advice. In just two days, he had consumed nearly fifty Strengthening Tendon Pills. Any mild toxicity was quickly dissipated by the panel.

Nourished by a large number of Strengthening Tendon Pills, Chu Zheng's Qi Strength soared drastically, showing almost a daily transformation. When the medicinal effects were completely spent, without even discussing Yuan Qi, Chu Zheng already possessed colossal strength surpassing eighty thousand jin.

After cultivating steadily for two days, just as Chu Zheng was preparing to leave the Tribe, Lie returned, his body reeking of a dense bloody scent mixed with the smell of medicine powders.

Clearly, during this hunting outing, he had encountered numerous dangers.

Outside the door, the subdued sobs of people could be heard from afar. This hunting trip must have resulted in many warriors not returning alive.

"Uncle Lie, how are your injuries?"

Chu Zheng stood up, and a flicker of Spiritual Light shone in his eyes as he scanned over Lie's body, his expression changing slightly.

The panel information indicated that Lie had sustained serious injuries, even to the point of damaging his life force and reducing his lifespan. Still, it was fortunate that they could be healed.

"It's nothing serious. I encountered an Ice Scale Flood Dragon in its prime, stronger than me. I was ambushed by that beast."

Lie shook his head, taking off his outer robe, to reveal dozens of wounds on his chest, each deep enough to show bone.

He paid no attention to the injuries on his body, his eyes filled with solemn concern:

"The cold wave is imminent."

Ice Scale Flood Dragons generally were active only during the cold wave period. An early appearance was a highly dangerous sign.

"So soon?"

Chu Zheng rubbed his temples, finding the situation somewhat thorny. He had thought there would be at least two more years. Now it seemed that he had been too optimistic.

He needed to hurry to find a suitable Fire Seed as well as Spirit Iron veins.

"Uncle Lie, I'm going out for a while."

Chu Zheng immediately stood up and headed for the door, no longer able to afford wasting time. With the impending cold wave, finding veins would become far more difficult, with a higher chance of encountering top predators with empty stomachs.

Seeing this, Lie did not stop him but simply reminded, "Take the Rune Soldier with you. If you're outmatched, don't try to be a hero."

With Chu Zheng's strength, plus a Rune Soldier in hand, within ten thousand miles, not much posed a threat to him.

"Got it."

Chu Zheng did not look back as he headed straight out of the Tribe.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

By relying on his sensitivity to the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, searching for veins was a trivial matter for Chu Zheng.

Where the Gold Element Qi was dense, beneath it would be Divine Iron, but the harder task was finding a suitable Fire Seed.

To venture into the earth's core and take the Earth Fiend True Flame was one path, but for the current Chu Zheng, it was somewhat difficult.

Without a Fire Seed, even if he had Spirit Mines, it would be pointless.

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It was midday, and the temperature was still hot, but compared to the past, the fierce heat seemed less oppressive.

After a meticulous search, less than three hundred miles away from the Tribe, Chu Zheng found a vein.

Digging less than thirty zhang into the ground, he touched raw ore.

[Silverlight Ore (First Order): A Low-Grade Spirit Mine that can be refined into Silverlight Iron.]

The entire vein was not very large, stretching less than ten miles, and the depth it extended was limited.

After spending two days, Chu Zheng found more than ten veins within a thousand miles of the Tribe, one of which was a Second Order Spirit Mine with a sizeable reserve.

The only difficulty was still the Fire Seed.

Spiritual Fire was hard to find, and natural-born Spiritual Fires, with his current level of Cultivation, were difficult to control.

The current solution was to seek from Savage Beasts' bodies. Some Savage Beasts contained Beast Fire within them, which might just be usable.

Chu Zheng moved slowly through the air, the Yuan Qi in his body flowing subtly as he felt the winds from all directions and discerned the changes of the Five Elements within them.

Quickly, he captured a strand of active Fire-attribute Primordial Qi from the surrounding air and followed its trail.

After chasing for over a hundred miles, a Savage Beast with thick armor and a rhinoceros-like shape appeared within Chu Zheng's line of sight.

[Earth Flame Dragon (Second Order): A variant containing a strand of Flood Dragon bloodline, a carnivorous predator with fire poison contained within its body.] Enjoy exclusive chapters from empire

The size of the Earth Flame Dragon was extremely large, more than twice the size of the Shadow Lion Chu Zheng had previously hunted, resembling a small mountain and radiating intense heat.

Wherever it passed, it left behind huge, pitch-black footprints as if scorched by flames.

The movement speed of the Earth Flame Dragon was quite slow, and Chu Zheng estimated its path, then repeated his old trick, using a portion of the Spirit Mines as the foundation to set up a large Array once again.

One day later, Chu Zheng lured the heavily armored Earth Flame Dragon into the Array.

However, the defensive power of the Earth Flame Dragon exceeded Chu Zheng's expectations and, with inadequate preparation, the first round of sword light did not even severely wound it.

After pondering for a few moments, at the instant the second round of sword light shot out, Chu Zheng took up the Dragon Bone Spear and pierced through its skull with one blow.

After dispersing the Array, Chu Zheng quickly grasped and extracted a red ball of Spiritual Fire from the still-warm corpse.

[Earth Flame (Second Order): Spiritual Fire nurtured within a beast's body, whose ingestion aids cultivation, contains fire-avoiding power, and can slightly enhance the cultivation speed of Fire Attribute creatures.]

Second Order Spiritual Fire was already sufficient to melt Second Order Spirit Mines, and for the now-beginning Wangshan Tribe, it was already enough.

Chu Zheng swallowed the Spiritual Fire into his belly, forcibly refined it with the help of the repair panel, and then after hunting a few Savage Beasts, he placed their skins as padding and dragged tens of thousands of pounds of Spirit Mines to begin the return journey.

When he returned to the Tribe, the atmosphere was somewhat somber.

During the last hunting expedition, the Tribe had lost nearly ten warriors, and Uncle Lie was seriously injured, which was an extremely heavy blow for this small Tribe.

"Zheng Chu, what do you need so many rocks for?"

Someone quickly noticed Chu Zheng's actions and was filled with curiosity.

Chu Zheng didn't answer; explaining through actions would be faster. He went straight for a slightly smaller Low Grade Spirit Mine and brought forth a ball of Spiritual Fire in his palm.

Moments later, the Spirit Mine melted into liquid and gradually congealed into an arrow.

Once the arrow took shape, Chu Zheng dispersed the Spiritual Fire, and a point of Spiritual Light surged from his fingertips, inscribing onto the arrow the simplest of Formation Patterns.

Formation Patterns appeared before the eyes of the Dongyuan Human Clan for the first time.

Immediately, a murmur of amazement arose all around:

"Is this... a Rune Soldier?!"

"Does it look sharper than those made from Beast Bones to anyone else?"

"Can stone be refined into Rune Soldiers?! Aren't we going to make a fortune?"

Uncle Lie hurried over and, upon seeing this scene, his eyes flickered with surprise and doubt, "Zheng Chu, what is this?"

The pattern on the arrow was something he had never seen before, but it was somewhat similar to the Heavenly Patterns on Rune Soldiers.

Chu Zheng stood up, pointing at the Spirit Mines behind him:

"Ore, if refined, can be turned into weapons, much more convenient than from Beast Bone."

For the people of the Wangshan Tribe, Chu Zheng's actions were undoubtedly revolutionary, and their faces were covered with astonishment and doubt.

After a long while, Uncle Lie suddenly gestured to the crowd: "Shan, Tuo, you two come try it."

Two figures walked out from the crowd, both middle-aged Great Men dressed in Beast Skin; in Chu Zheng's eyes, they also had abundant Fire Element Qi flowing within their bodies.

The two walked up to the pile of Spirit Mines, casually picked one, and then spewed out a ball of Spiritual Fire from their mouths to begin melting the ore.

Seeing this, a flash of realization crossed Chu Zheng's eyes; he had forgotten that these people, bearing totems, already possessed some unique Divine Skills, so it was not surprising that some could control Fire.

Under the refining of the Spiritual Fire, impurities in the ore quickly faded away, turning into a pool of liquid that was then shaped into an axe under the control of Spiritual Fire.

A glimmer of joy flashed in the eyes of the two men as they drew a drop of fresh blood and drew a Heavenly Pattern on the blade of the axe.

Having experience in creating Rune Soldiers, this step was not difficult for them.

As exclamations of amazement kept rising from the Tribe's members, the witch, leaning on a walking stick in the distance, stood for a long time before turning and leaving.

She silently returned to the inside of the Green Stone Grand Hall, took a clean Desolate Beast Skull, and vigorously inscribed some words to record the events of the day.

This would be a change affecting the entire Tribe and even the entire Dongyuan Human Clan.