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Chapter 233: Reward Heavenly Kingdom Scepter

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Ang wants to farm! Even if Ha Wei comes, he can't stop his farming. It doesn't matter who comes!

Ang flew into the air for a while, and after landing on the ground, he held the scythe upside down, with the blade pointing down, and ran all the way while scraping the ground, easily scraping out horizontal and vertical auxiliary lines on the ground.

Along these auxiliary lines, the little zombie's hoe flew, rapidly digging out flat ditches, and the dug-out soil was piled to one side, forming ridges. Soon, the farmland with ditches and ridges took shape.

The little angel carried the Earth Holy Hammer and ran around in the field, going over to hammer any large stones she saw.

The brass dragon carried the sowing rack and flew around. Every time its little claws moved, corresponding seeds would fall into the ditches and ridges.

Covering with soil, watering, stepping on footprints, and then looking up at the sky.

The sky was the pitch-black of eternal night.

Got it wrong, do it again.

Collecting gravel, filling in drainage ditches, moving the glowing moss over, and cultivating it.

While cultivating the glowing moss, nursery seedlings were raised, first artificially increasing the soil temperature indoors, providing suitable light, allowing the seeds to germinate, and then transplanting them outdoors.

The workload of this kind of operation would become super large, and Ang and the others couldn't handle it alone.

Ang ran around the relay tower, pulling and dragging as he ran, just like dancing. All the skeletons and zombies sleeping underground were pulled up.

More than three hundred sparse skeletons walked into the field under Ang's control, and soon, chaos occurred.

"This won't work, Ang. These skeletons have no souls and are purely summoned by your King's Arrival. It's easy to let them rush forward and slash, but it's too difficult for them to bend down and transplant crops. You can control three or five skeletons with your will, but so many will definitely be chaotic."

Ang tried to control five skeletons according to Nai Ge Li Si's words, and it was indeed much more orderly than a pile of skeletons crowding into the field.

However, this kind of control only lasted as long as Ang stopped, and the skeletons would also stop.

Finding a sturdy skeleton, Ang condensed soul fire and injected it into its skull, and a skeleton with an autonomous soul was born.

Recalling what the lord did to him at the beginning, Ang also did it to this skeleton, instilling all his planting techniques into it.

However, Ang still thought things too simply. The skeleton instilled with planting techniques would still spin around when it got to the field.

"How could this be?" Ang dragged Nai Ge Li Si over, puzzled.

"Maybe this skeleton's soul is not enough to handle such complex knowledge. It's like a fool. Even if you teach him all the magic knowledge in the world, he won't be able to learn a single spell," Nai Ge Li Si speculated.

"We can," Ang said. He was talking about the skeletons on the farm, including himself, all of whom were low-level skeletons.

Why could he be competent for the farm work, but these skeletons couldn't? Was the knowledge he instilled wrong?

Nai Ge Li Si looked him up and down and said hatefully: "Although I don't want to admit it, no matter from which angle, your intelligence is not low. I really doubt if you are sometimes pretending to be stupid. Maybe you skeletons on the farm were specially selected, or not manufactured by ordinary methods, such as this..."

While speaking, Nai Ge Li Si took out a few round balls. These were all shaken off from the dimensional beast. It is estimated that they were picked up from that undead. These round balls are like the one that contained that terrifying wraith.

"I studied it for a while and found that these round balls can nurture souls. If you put it in a place where the death aura is particularly strong, you can nurture a soul. This round ball already has a soul inside. It is estimated that in three or four months, the soul fire can be nurtured and formed."

"So slow," Ang said, reaching out to take it and stuffing it into the Palace of Rest.

A lonely hand drifted to a large bucket, lifted the lid, and threw the round ball into the bucket.

The bucket was filled with death breath liquid, and a purple-gold skeleton frame was soaked in the liquid.

After soaking for a while, Ang took out the round ball, and a soul fire had already been nurtured inside.

Nai Ge Li Si held the round ball, his heart filled with mixed feelings: "Why didn't that undead run into you earlier? Each of these round balls has soul fragments at different stages. Clearly, that undead collected death aura in batches to nurture them."

If he knew that someone could be so extravagant as to use liquid death aura to urge the birth of souls, he would definitely cry to death on the ground, feeling that the energy he wasted was not worth it.

"I don't know what these round balls are called. I temporarily call them soul balls. There are Du Luo Ken's inscription imprints on them, which should be invented by Du Luo Ken. Seeing this, that undead is really likely to be the night watchman of the cemetery in the Land of Slumber," Nai Ge Li Si muttered.

However, Ang was not interested in his words and operated on his own, introducing the soul in the round ball into a skeleton frame. All the emptied round balls were thrown into the bucket of death breath liquid. After a while, he fished them out, and there was an extra soul fire inside.

Just like this, Ang had dozens of soul fires. However, this nurturing method consumed a huge amount of death breath liquid. Soon, the death breath liquid in the bucket was reduced by a section, exposing the eye sockets of Luo Ke's head to the water surface, which was quite creepy.

This was already Ang's last bucket of death breath liquid. If he didn't return to the Abyss of Rest, it would be very difficult to get such pure death breath liquid.

Well, dozens of soul fires were enough for the experiment. Ang introduced them all into those skeleton frames and turned them into sixty undead skeletons.

After researching and comparing these skeletons, Ang found that their intelligence seemed to have indeed increased by a tiny bit. If selected carefully, three of them had particularly high intelligence, and Ang instilled planting knowledge into them, which they could master partially.

How much they mastered was not the key. The key was whether they could use it. These three skeletons could use some simple things, such as hoeing, transplanting, watering, and sowing.

That was enough. The skeletons on the farm at the beginning could basically do these things. Many of Ang's abilities were learned later.

With the help of three more skeletons, Ang's transplanting speed was much faster. Plus the little zombie, he had five people who could transplant green seedlings. As for why not add the little angel? She couldn't do such delicate work, and it would be good if she didn't ruin all the green seedlings.

Soon, rows of glowing moss appeared on the pitch-black earth, and between the moss, green and strong seedlings were arranged neatly.

Ang walked to the center of the farmland and stepped on footprints. Three hours later, all the seedlings were malnourished, yellow and thin, and couldn't even form flower spikes, so they withered and died.

Nai Ge Li Si scratched his head and said frustratedly: "It seems that the light intensity provided by the glowing moss is not enough to meet the needs of the Speed Death Halo. Why don't we stop planting for now and wait until the eternal night passes?"

No one responded. Turning his head to look, he saw Ang squatting on the ridge of the field, hands supporting his chin, looking at the farmland in front of him quietly, as if thinking about something.

The little angel and the little zombie squatted on his left and right, the big bones squatted on one side, and the big cat covered the big bones' head like a fur hat. The scene was quiet and peaceful.

Seeing this scene, Nai Ge Li Si suddenly realized, oh yes, they don't need to eat, so whether it can be planted or not doesn't seem important. Discovering problems, thinking about problems, and solving problems might be Ang's fun.

From planting glowing moss, holy mushrooms, to planting beets, long-grain rice, saltwater rice, and world trees, Ang is not obsessed with what to plant. As long as he is allowed to plant, he is satisfied.

As long as he can farm, where did the monarch go, the army in the Land of Slumber, are they important? Not important. Even for Nai Ge Li Si himself, it's not important. He just wants to satisfy his curiosity.

Realizing this, the frustration in Nai Ge Li Si's heart suddenly dissipated. He sighed, flew to the other side of the ridge, squatted down, and looked up at the brilliant sky.

It was the first time he had calmed down to look at the sky of eternal night. The inverted light bands were the only light source of the eternal night. Although not very bright, they could reflect the outlines of many things, just like a night with a moon.

Looking and looking, Nai Ge Li Si suddenly felt a shock and widened his eyes, muttering: "These light bands, could they be the turbulence sprayed out by spatial rifts?"

Unfortunately, there was nothing that could let him fly up to investigate clearly, so he could only stare blindly and guess wildly. Just then, Ang suddenly turned his head to look into the distance, only to see a cloud of smoke drifting over from the distance, looking like it was ready to run away at any time.

It wasn't until it saw the tall and conspicuous big bones that the speed of the smoke cloud accelerated. From afar, it shouted to indicate its identity: "It's me, it's me, my lord, it's me, Fei Li Ke."

The smoke drifted over, revealing Fei Li Ke's form.

"Greetings to all lords, here... what happened here? Isn't this the No. 4 Relay Tower? How did it become like this? Is Huo Er Qiu Ke here?" Fei Li Ke was stunned.

As an undead merchant, he ran around all day. Although there were no business opportunities here, he would occasionally pass by. It was originally a desolate and dead place. How could it suddenly become like this?

So many neat farmlands—wouldn't this be something that a human settlement of thousands of people could produce? But where are the people?

"Oh, Fei Li Ke, we just made these fields. It's a small matter, don't make a fuss. What are you doing here?" Nai Ge Li Si said with his hands on his hips, looking like it was no big deal.

Fei Li Ke looked Nai Ge Li Si up and down, laughing awkwardly, revealing an expression of "I don't believe you." However, he didn't dwell on this, but responded to Nai Ge Li Si's question:

"My lord, I've been transferred. I'm no longer a merchant. Now I'm a clerk in the Trade Department under the Great Sage, responsible for trade work. This time I came to find channels to buy grain," Fei Li Ke said excitedly.

As a weak merchant, Fei Li Ke's most painful thing was having no backing. Everyone dared to bully him. When he met Bu Lan Du, he knew how skilled he was in this regard.

Now that he had the opportunity to rely on a big backer, and it was the biggest backer in the Fallen Land, the Great Sage—don't look at Ha Wei's strength being stronger, but the one who manages the entire Fallen Land is the Great Sage.

With the Great Sage as a backer, let's see who dares to collect his taxes when he runs business in the future!

Nai Ge Li Si curled his lip: "You were transferred because your business route was broken, right? If you weren't transferred, you couldn't be a merchant either, because your customers were all gone."

Well, being seen through the real reason at a glance, Fei Li Ke's entire form was about to collapse, and he said frustratedly: "There is also part of the reason for this. We broke through the human defense line. Those humans who didn't have time to run all became prisoners. Where can anyone come to buy things?"

"If they don't buy, they don't buy. You don't need to eat, are you afraid of starving to death? You have now defected to the Great Sage. If you don't complete the task, you will be punished," Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Yes, yes, yes, we have indicators. If we don't complete the task, we will be punished. Lord Huang Tong Dragon, you are really wise, you know everything," Fei Li Ke enthusiastically flattered.

"Hahaha, you also have a good eye." Nai Ge Li Si put his hands on his hips, and his tail was raised.

"In order to avoid being punished, I beg my lord to help me," Fei Li Ke said, taking advantage of the situation.

Nai Ge Li Si revealed an expression of "as expected," and asked: "Want to buy grain?"

Fei Li Ke nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice.

"How did you think of finding us to buy grain? Do we look like we have grain?" Nai Ge Li Si asked curiously.

"Yes!" Fei Li Ke said decisively: "In that cave, there were farmlands opened by my lord, and there are also a large number of newly opened fields here. My lord must be good at farming. If you don't have grain, then I don't know where there can be extra grain."

Nai Ge Li Si nodded and praised: "Observed very carefully." After speaking, the voice turned: "Unfortunately, we don't have any. The grain was planted, but it didn't grow. The ones in the cave haven't sprouted yet, and the ones here, you can see for yourself, they all withered."

Fei Li Ke had already seen it when he drifted over. Hearing this, he sighed disappointedly: "My lord, you don't have any either? That's too miserable. Those humans are too miserable. Most of the humans have withdrawn from the Fallen Land. In the future, the supplies transported over will decrease or even be cut off. The population that could be supported in the past will definitely not be supported in the future. Most of them must die. The taste of starving to death is too uncomfortable."

Hearing this, Nai Ge Li Si couldn't help but remain silent. This is a very realistic problem. The Fallen Land is barren and desolate, and it is not suitable for living things to survive at all. It is not even as good as the Abyss of Rest.

The Abyss of Rest at least has a complete day and night alternation. Here, eternal night comes once every three months. Crops must have a growth cycle of three months. The yield of selected crops is very small and cannot meet the needs of the population.

It is inevitable that external input is needed. Over the years, the main plane has supplied 70% of the food for the Fallen Land, supporting 70% of the population.

This means that if the supply from the main plane is cut off, at least 70% of humans will starve to death. This is a very terrifying disaster.

However, Nai Ge Li Si didn't dare to sell grain indiscriminately. If a large amount of grain is supplied, it will inevitably involve the Great Sage. How to explain the source of the grain then?

Tell him that Ang has a dimensional beast that can travel through planes? What if the other party asks to take out the dimensional beast? What to do?

Don't forget why they were blocked here. Isn't it because they couldn't go home? If they could travel through planes, would they need to be blocked here and fight the human defense line desperately? Just teleport back to the Abyss of Rest, right?

"The Great Sage also said that if anyone can solve the problem of grain channels, he is willing to reward the Heavenly Kingdom Scepter, the spoils of war obtained more than a thousand years ago, to the other party. It's a pity," Fei Li Ke said regretfully.

Nai Ge Li Si's ears perked up: "What did you say?" ===== CHAPTER 234 =====

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