Chapter 2236: Collecting Resources

Mohu had been watching Ye Liuyun and asking the Tiger King what Ye Liuyun was doing.

Upon learning that some soldiers had this concern, they immediately offered a suggestion: they have a herb here that can increase breeding numbers, and it really works.

It's just that they now have too little territory, so there's no need to use it, but Ye Liuyun could take it for the half-beast population's propagation.

In the end, Ye Liuyun also made a decision.

"Agree to them, but tell them that when we leave we will take away a large amount of this metal ore, as well as the trees here and that herb they mentioned."

After the Tiger King said that, Mohu also gladly agreed.

For them, these resources are everywhere.

Ye Liuyun and the Tiger King also led a large army, followed them back to their garrison, and found that they lived at the foot of a nearby mountain, and the big mountain behind them contained abundant black gold for mining.

However, the way they ensured the agreement was carried out involved a rather cumbersome ritual.

Ye Liuyun also didn't know whether this ritual had any binding effect on them.

But he didn't intend to back out, so he complied completely.

After the ritual ended, they finally passed the technique to Ye Liuyun and the others.

Then they led Ye Liuyun and the others to mine black gold ore.

But when it came time to mine, Ye Liuyun realized that they actually lacked any mining capability.

Because this black gold is unusually hard, they could only pick up some fallen fragments.

Ye Liuyun had the Tiger King lead troops to mine, but found that their weapons could mine, yet wore out too quickly; an eighth‑grade weapon would break after thirty to fifty strikes.

Ye Liuyun hadn't anticipated this, so he called upon Purple Flame Divine Lord and those Artifact Refining Masters for ideas.

"That's simple; we'll first refine these ores into mining tools, and then you can use the tools to mine."

The tools are refined from this ore, and with the power of the Formation, dealing with them won't be a problem."

This inconvenience is nothing at all for Purple Flame Divine Lord and these Artifact Refining Masters.

So Ye Liuyun had them immediately forge tools on the spot, while he let Mohu take him and a scouting party to investigate the Demon Race.

A Demon Race tribe dwells just outside this Mi Lin.

There are over five thousand, their size similar to these half-beasts; to Ye Liuyun, they merely lack beast hide and fur, have hands and feet, and otherwise aren't much different from half-beasts.

Their dwellings are built from large blocks of black gold.

Their weapons aren't very refined; they only forged the shape of weapons.

They have knives, spears, bows, shields, mace‑like wolf‑tooth clubs, etc., not many types.

And they have no armor.

Within the tribe they are still using traditional blacksmithing methods to forge weapons.

Because their techniques are like those of these Demon Race half-beasts—no cultivation of Golden Core nor of Soul—they can only use natural fire to forge weapons.

After understanding the situation, Ye Liuyun immediately retreated to the Demon Race half-beast garrison.

After returning, Mohu introduced a herb from the Mi Lin to Ye Liuyun and taught him how to make it into a herbal juice.

He also had many half-beasts drink it.

Mohu felt that with Ye Liuyun's help they could quickly expand their territory, so they also needed to increase their population.

Ye Liuyun immediately ordered soldiers to gather this herb, instructing them to pull up the whole roots so he could transplant them to his clone's Space World.

As for the big trees in the Mi Lin, he left them untouched for now, lest they attract the attention of the outside Demon Race.

Purple Flame Divine Lord and those Artifact Refining Elders easily forged many mining tools; the soldiers kept mining while they kept refining.

Mohu was amazed at their method of forging tools.

The tools they forged, Mohu also asked Ye Liuyun to leave for them when he departs, and Ye Liuyun agreed.

"Where is the Magic Crystal Mineral Vein you mentioned?"

Ye Liuyun asked Mohu.

He thought that if possible, the soldiers could first excavate the Magic Crystal Mineral Vein.

But unexpectedly, he was fooled by that Mohu.

It turned out the Magic Crystal Mineral Vein Mohu spoke of lay within the Demon Race's controlled area.

Ye Liuyun hadn't expected him to play such a trick.

But he didn't mind; after all, those Demon Race aren't a match for his army, so it's just a matter of helping out.

Purple Flame Divine Lord and the other Artifact Refining Masters produced ordinary tools very quickly; they didn't need to refine the ore too finely, and within a few days forged several thousand tools.

Tens of thousands of soldiers took turns using the tools to mine ore, a commotion that naturally wasn't small and soon attracted the Demon Race's attention.

They sent a squad to investigate and discovered that there were so many diminutive half-beasts here, thought them easy to bully, and launched an attack outright.

Unexpectedly, they were shot dead by several volleys of arrows from the large army.

Their weapons were immediately seized by those Demon Race half-beasts, and the corpses were taken as food.

Ye Liuyun also dispatched the soldiers who refused to become Demon Beasts to patrol, while all other soldiers hurried to cultivate new techniques to increase strength.

Even he, his clone, and Lei Ming were cultivating this technique.

However, the power he infused into his bloodline was Buddha Demon Power, two forces that can transform into each other.

After cultivating this technique, his Mysterious Origin combined with the bloodline's power made his attacks even stronger.

Ye Liuyun discussed with Purple Flame Divine Lord and others: "The Demon Race has already noticed our activity here; we must act quickly.

They will probably come again soon.

On one hand we need more mining tools for extracting big tree roots; on the other hand, we still need to forge weapons.

Our current weapons have no real advantage against the Demon Race, only sheer numbers."

Thus, Purple Flame Divine Lord and several Artifact Refining Masters divided tasks: two forged weapons, one forged tools.

Ye Liuyun had Purple Flame Divine Lord first forge the weapons for the over five hundred Demon Race half-beasts.

The weapons they need are much larger.

Moreover, equipping them first also lets them take part in the fight.

Then they finely forge weapons for their own people.

Thus, more than five hundred crude weapons were quickly made, and they lacked any Formation to enhance attack.

But after all, being the work of the Artifact Refining Master, these over five hundred weapons were already far better than those forged by the Demon Race.

Mohu was also very satisfied, and led the half‑beasts to practice using them.

Lie Yan Shenjun and the others returned to the Space World to forge weapons for their own soldiers.

The armor couldn't be refined for the time being, so they could only provision weapons first.

At the same time, after the tool for uprooting tree roots was made, Ye Liuyun immediately assigned people to pull up the big trees in Mi Lin one by one and transplant them into the clone's Space World.

Numerous resources began to be gathered simultaneously.

He also, together with his clone and Lei Ming, went into the Xuan Kong Shi to speed up cultivation.