by Lazy Bird
Li Siwen felt very satisfied and comfortable in his heart now.
Sense of security+0.01.
chapter 37
The Sun has set, the light in the forest instantly darkened a lot. Flocks of birds landed and flew off from the tree branches. In the distance, an eagle flew past proudly, quickly entering the clouds.
In the deeper part of the forest, there were roaring sounds from some unknown beast that Li Siwen had never heard before.
The night was about to come, the other side of the mirror was going to present itself. It would be way more dangerous than it was in the daytime.
Knowing this, Li Siwen quickened up to build his treehouse.
According to the side length of the treehouse, he moved the logs over, like stacking toy blocks, placing them on the inside of the four big trees, forming a quadrilateral.
In this way, the four big trees outside would intercept, so there was no need to worry about the collapse of the treehouse or not being stable enough.
For every four logs placed, Li Siwen used vines to securely bind the two ends of the logs to the large tree outside, and then moved four logs and continued to build them into a quadrilateral shape, continuing to tie them with vines.
After tying 20 logs in one breath, the treehouse already had an outline. Five logs on each side form a four-sided wooden wall, almost three meters in height.
Of course, in the process, there were definitely gaps that were large enough for a person to pass through. This was due to Li Siwen’s workmanship. It was unavoidable.
He didn’t care about that, anyway. Li Siwen continued to use the remaining ten plus logs to lay them evenly on the top of the treehouse. He didn’t need to leave an entrance too. Using vines to bind them and stacking large amounts of twigs on them, a rough-looking tree house was built.
Squeezing in from one of the enormous gaps, Li Siwen sat down on a flat stone placed in the center. This kind of treehouse couldn’t protect him from poisonous snakes or insects, but it was enough to defend against large-sized beasts.
Of course, if he encountered a Tyrannosaurus, he could only blame it on his own bad luck.
While resting, Li Siwen pondered over his future. He had already consumed the demonized wheat seeds. This was a problem. Unless he didn’t plan on farming anymore, he would have to make a trip to the Feudal Lord’s territory again.
“Farming is a must, it’s my biggest insurance to survive the winter. However, I can’t just go back hastily like this. Who knows what changes there would be there?”
“Therefore, I have to do three things next.”
“First, find a source of food.”
“Second, increase Spirit Development to 30%.”
“Third, continue to explore the potential and upper limit of the basic attributes to increase my chances of survival in this world.”
“Other than those, I must also save up some daily strategic reserves, for example, storing five Vitality Points in the green orb for times of need, and five Spirit Points in the yellow orb for using Spirit Vision. As for Heavenly Workmanship Point, it’s best to not use it until finding a way to replenish it.”
Thinking up to this point, Li Siwen laid down on the stone. This was his second night going solo. Because this was unfamiliar territory, unlike the logging hut, he must reserve means for special circumstances.
Not only must he reserve some Vitality Points, but he must also reserve that 15 Spirit Points.
As for now, he forced himself to sleep. If not, the consequences would be very severe.
After sleeping for not sure how long, he was woken up by severe pain in his arm. He instantly sensed a cold and slippery mass on his chest.
“Snake? Iron Ring Black Snake!”
After a second of fear, Li Siwen tolerated the impulse to activate Spirit Vision and continue to let the snake bite him. He quickly opened his attribute bar and instantly heaved a sigh of relief.
His Health Points only dropped by one.
Then, below the attribute bar, there was a line of red figures constantly flashing.
“100%… 90%… 80%…”
These figures didn’t seem to make sense, but Li Siwen understood after looking at them again.
Because every time it jumped by 10%, his Stamina would decrease by one point.
So this was the snake venom from the Iron Ring Black Snake?
The Stamina attribute was indeed exceptional.
Of course, the three points in Defense were not bad too.
The former could dilute the snake poison, while the latter reduced the loss of health. Thinking back on Old Zhao’s words of how half a life was lost with one bite, the attack power of this Iron Ring Black Snake should be around four to five points, plus poison damage at the same time.
His Health Points only decreased by one so far, meaning that the three Defense Points had at least prevented three points of damage.
After analyzing this, Li Siwen gently slashed at the snake’s head with his axe. His expression remained the same for the entire process. No, he was actually quite surprised. He could never forget the taste of roasted snake meat.
Thank you, dear breakfast snake!
After treating his wound, Li Siwen hesitated, then extracted his five Vitality Points and added two to Health, then added three to Stamina.
After all, he was quite afraid of dying. With high Health and Stamina, he wouldn’t need to worry about being killed in a single attack.
Then, Li Siwen extracted two Spirit Points and added them to the woodcutting skill.
He had too many Spirit Points saved up, that two Spirit Points from the Iron Ring Black Snake were wasted just now since he could only have 15 points in the ball.
Very quickly, the woodcutting skill leveled up successfully.
Woodcutting Level Two. Description: You have gained three years of experience in woodcutting. Therefore, you can distinguish the quality of a tree at a glance and use it effectively.
Activating condition: Activate once every 24 hours.
“Use it effectively? What does this mean?”
Li Siwen was slightly disappointed. The description of the woodcutting skill was too vague, unlike the farming skill.
However, the cooldown for the farming skill was an entire month, while this only needed 24 hours.
“Wait, let’s not rush to the conclusion. Let me level it up some more first.”
Then, he extracted another eight Spirit Points to increase the woodcutting skill to level three. Just from this point alone, the effect of level three woodcutting skill shouldn’t be too lousy, just that the description was too unclear.
“Woodcutting Level Three. Description: You have gained 10 years of experience in woodcutting. You can discover the quality of a tree more effectively and excellently use it.”
“Actually, I just need to test it to know the effect.”
Li Siwen instantly activated Spirit Vision and went out of his humble treehouse. He found a tree that needed two people to hug it, focused his attention, and activated level three woodcutting.
In this instance, he saw from Spirit Vision that the tree was covered in a faint layer of light, but that was all.
After thinking for a while, Li Siwen hacked at it ferociously.
A while later, the tree fell to the ground. From the start until now, he felt nothing different from previous times, until he opened his attribute bar.
“What the heck!”
Li Siwen was astonished because he had accumulated three Vitality Points in the green orb.
So he gained three Vitality Points from cutting down one tree!
This was almost three times the effect of cutting down a tree in normal conditions! (Author’s note: A bucket thick tree can provide 0.5 Vitality Point, a tree needing two people to hug can provide about one Vitality Point.)
Without a doubt, this was the effect of the level three woodcutting skill.
So this seemingly useless skill could increase the Vitality Points that he could g
ain?
Nice!
chapter 38
The sky had lighted up.
A wisp of green smoke was mixed in the morning mist, not very conspicuous.
Inside the treehouse, a pile of fire was burning. Because of the enormous gaps, the ventilation here was excellent, and the rising smoke could quickly dissipate.
Beside the fire, Li Siwen was roasting the two Iron Ring Black Snakes.
When he activated his Spirit Vision and went to cut the tree last night, he bumped into another serving of breakfast.
As for the fire, it really cost him quite a sizeable amount of effort. He used up three Stamina Points before successfully making the fire. Therefore, from now on, he would kill anyone who said that it was easy to make a fire by rubbing wood against wood.
After eating about 7.5 kilograms of snake meat, Li Siwen went out and carried a few piles of rock back from the flooded valley. Then, using the embers of the fire, he built a simple stove. As for the more advanced operation of preserving the fire, he didn’t plan to do it yet. Except for the lack of skill, it was mainly because of the fear of exposing himself. He would rather drill wood once a day to get fire. Maybe he would become proficient at it by practicing every day.
Next, he went out to carry back some large rocks, medium-sized rocks, and some small rocks, blocking out all the gaps in the treehouse was within a height of two meters.
Yup, sense of security+0.01.
Smiling towards the Sun, Li Siwen carried his ax and blade with him to the river to obtain water. Then, he patrolled the territory more meticulously, and also collect all kinds of weeds and wildflowers in this area, including their roots.
After going one circle, he had a deeper understanding of this area now.
“The area that can be used and cultivated into farmland is not small. It is about 150 meters long from north to south, and about 180 meters long from east to west. If I want to farm, I need to cut down at least 2,000 trees. But with so many Vitality Points, why should I still farm? Isn’t being a woodcutter much better.”
Li Siwen laughingly thought to himself. But the next second, the image of the boorish Feudal Lord appeared in his mind. Instantly, it was as if someone threw a bucket of cold water over him. If he got complacent, he would end up losing his life.
“Spat! Weeding and farming are the best.”
Carrying a bunch of weeds and wildflowers, he jumped into the treehouse and laid them on a flat piece of rock.
Then, Li Siwen took off his shirt and checked the wound on his left arm.
His body diluted and neutralized the poison that could kill a normal person. Only the wound remained. His Health also couldn’t recover fully too.
“Then let me become Shennong this time and try out a hundred herbs.” [1. Shennong is a mythical deity who tested hundreds of different herbs to find medicines for different diseases.]
Choosing a weed that looked more pleasing to his eyes, he rushed it together with its stalk and roots, then applied it on the wound.
Next, Li Siwen opened the attribute bar and checked for any changes, at the same time sensing for changes on his wound.
At first, there wasn’t any feeling. After a few minutes or so, the surroundings of the wound obviously hurt. Then, it became extremely itchy. Lastly, after ten plus minutes, it was as swollen as a bun.
As for the attribute bar, his Stamina started diluting.
“What the heck, it’s poisonous! And the toxicity is not low either, I need to spend more effort on grooming this.” Li Siwen was surprised and remembered the appearance of this weed in his mind, naming it the Iron Ring Poison Grass.
Then, he patiently waited for half an hour to make sure all of the toxic was neutralized by his body.
Next, Li Siwen insipidly chose another weed, crushed it, applied, checked its effect, exchanged for another one, and repeated this process non-stop.
When it reached the evening, he had tested all 27 weeds. Also, there were six more wounds on his arm. After all, he needed to test the stop bleeding effect too.
The result was not bad. Out of the 27 weeds, 25 were poisonous, and one of them was extremely poisonous. It directly caused Li Siwen to have dizziness, coma, vomiting, and high fever. It deducted as much as five points from his health.
He named this poisonous grass Iron Wolf Poison Grass.
Then, there were three medium poisonous weeds. They were the Iron Ring Poisonous Grass that could cause irritation and swelling of wounds, the Iron Dog Poisonous Grass that could cause numbness and blueness to the wound, and the Iron Head Poisonous Grass that could make the wound bleed non-stop.
As for the remaining 21 poisonous weeds, they weren’t able to cause his Health Points to drop, but only to cause slight numbness, itchiness, and pain. Basically, he still needed more testing on them.
As for the last two non-poisonous weeds, Li Siwen classified them as beneficial.
The first one had leaves that were jagged-looking. After he mashed the roots, the white sap of the weeds would have analgesic, anti-itching, and anti-swelling effects when applied to the wound, but it wouldn’t restore health. However, Li Siwen suspected that this weed should be able to reduce inflammation, so he named it the Iron Teeth Anti-Inflammatory Grass.
The second weed was very inconspicuous, small, short roots, a few spots on the leaves, hairy edges, and rather ugly. Li Siwen only discovered it after trying out the other 26 weeds.
At that time, he just finished testing the Iron Head Poisonous Grass, his wound was bleeding profusely. Therefore, he directly mashed up the last weed and applied it to the wound. A miracle then happened. In just ten plus seconds, the bleeding stopped.
This discovery caused Li Siwen to be elated. Therefore, he cut another wound on himself to test again. It was very effective.
“great, Iron Spots Blood-stopping Grass, this name can only belong to you!”
After finishing with this, Li Siwen only had seven Health Points left, and it seemed to be still dropping.
However, he wasn’t in the least worried. He extracted the five Vitality Points from the green orb and added all of them to Health.
Therefore, his Health Points recovered to 12 points, it felt extremely comfortable.
After that, Li Siwen just hid inside the treehouse, observed his attribute bar, and also sensed changes to his wounds at the same time. Combining the result from both, the result would be more clear and obvious.
After half a night or so, he had a high fever, about 40 degrees. A few of his wounds even have symptoms of suppuration and ulceration. To be honest, Li Siwen was a bit panicking now.
But as his Stamina Points continued to be depleted and only five out of 22 points remained in the morning, the fever finally retreated.
“Great, success in the first war!”
Li Siwen climbed out of the treehouse, feeling his body shaking. Half was from hunger while half was the side effect of a high fever. The wounds on his arm were still in a state of suppuration and festering. A group of red-headed flies flew around from not sure where, buzzing around him, and rushing down fiercely from time to time, preparing to drop their offsprings on this paradise.
Using a rag to bandage his wounds, Li Siwen carried his ax and rushed towards a tree that required two people to hug it. Throwing his level three woodcutting skill on it, he instantly started hacking away.
His wounds naturally tore open and yellowed blood started dripping. He didn’t care though, continuing to cut down the tree and gaining three Vitality Points. Then he started looking for the Iron Teeth Anti-Inflammatory Grass. Luckily, his memory wasn’t bad. He remembered where he plucked it from yesterday, so it was easy to find it.
Finding the tallest and biggest looking Iron Teeth Anti-Inflammatory Grass, Li Siwen grabbed it and used one Vitality Point to enhance its growing speed.
The next second, a soft white light flashed, and this Iron Teeth Anti-Inflammatory Grass started growing at a speed visible to the eye. Originally only five centimeters tall,
it became half a meter tall in a short while. At the same time, it bloomed and bore fruit.
Digging out this Iron Spots Blood-Stopping Grass by the roots, Li Siwen fastened the growth of another Iron Spots Blood-Stopping Grass, then returned to the treehouse. Opening up the bandage and washing the wound with clean water, he mashed half of the fruit from the Iron Spots Blood-Stopping Grass and applied it on some wounds which were getting worse. Then, he mashed the root, applied it on another spot, and did the same for the leaves.
After all, experiments needed to be rigorous.
chapter 39
Sitting in the stuffy treehouse, surrounded by flies, and having a fever again, Li Siwen was still very insipid, even though he was as weak as a half-dead person now.
He wasn’t even interested in chasing the flies again, although he knew that infection from these flies definitely caused the fever.
“With pus, ulceration, and infection on the wound, inflammation is inevitable. Now it’s time to see the efficacy of this Iron Teeth Anti-Inflammatory Grass. In fact, I think it is already working.”
Pinching up fruit the size of a yellow bean, Li Siwen examined it under the Sun’s light. It had a vermilion skin, the inner flesh was a pack of water, which tasted very bitter. But after the bitterness, the tip of the tongue was instead a bit sweet.
One Iron Teeth Anti-Inflammatory Grass would bear about 100 plus of fruits when ripe. He ate 10 and waited to see the result.
About an hour later, the flies were still buzzing around, but Li Siwen’s fever had quickly retreated, and even his Stamina recovered slightly.
Opening up the rag on his wound, Li Siwen used his blade to cut away the decaying flesh on his wounds without batting an eye. Only when fresh meat showed again did he apply the juice from the fruit and the juice from Iron Spots Blood-Stopping Grass onto it.
Then, when flies came flying to him again, his blade flashed, and he cut them into halves.
By noon, there wasn’t a single fly remaining in the treehouse. Instead, there was the smell of Iron Teeth Anti-Inflammatory Grass filling the air. Before it ripened, the smell of this grass was still quite faint. But when fully ripened and crushed, its smell became quite strong and wouldn’t easily fade away. It smelled quite refreshing, and maybe even had the effect of repelling mosquitoes and insects.