Chapter 177: Basic Scope


    First, he unloaded a pile of 30 demonic beast carcasses before releasing his Mind Devouring Bug. Then, tugging along Liu Sanbao’s broadsword, he withdrew from his simple and crude looking demon nurturing room. When he returned to the grand hall, he proceeded to excavate towards the opposite right.


    Dawn soon emerged. Wielding his destructively sharp broadsword, with the grand hall as his starting point, Wei Suo had bore deeper into the mountain; creating two tunnels and another two rooms of near identical size to his demon nurturing room. The two rooms were respectively for his Earth Furnace and a warehouse.


    As for a cultivation and resting isted quiet room, concoction and artificing room, martial skill technique and artifact might testing room, Wei Suo prepared to ce them deeper in. Consecutively, he would drill out more tunnels that will stretch out in all directions like abyrinth. Following that, he would install certain snare mechanisms within those tunnels, before devising for several back exits and others. In this manner, even if a redoubtable foe came barging in, it would still be difficult to locate Wei Suo.


    In spite of the work, Wei Suo was feeling rather fatigued by this point. After retrieving a mattress crafted with Silver-thread Grass, he directlyid down and slept.


    Nearing midday, the awoken Wei Suo wasn’t in a rush to proceed with the construction of his cavern abode. Instead, he pushed aside the debris blocking the entrance. After cautiously surveying around and ensuring the absence of any cultivator or demonic beast, he descended and begun scrutinizing the Immortal Exterminating Vine he nted yesterday.


    Previously, the Immortal Exterminating Vine sapling was approximately the length of a Treasure Elemental Jade Case. Yet in a single night, this sapling grew by 1 metre; thus beginning its ascension up the mountain cliff.


    It seems like the growing speed of an Immortal Exterminating Vine nurtured with spirit medicines and demonic beast fertilizer, couldn’t bepared with the famished Immortal Exterminating Vines of Sky Valley.


    In a blink of an eye, Wei Suo produced a Low-tier level 2 Rot-meal Eagle carcass from his Treasure Receiving Pocket, and tossed it to the Immortal Exterminating Vine. Instantly, he drew in a breath of cold air.


    Like a tiny prune serpent, the vine speared in with unbelievable pace and coiled around the Rot-meal Eagle carcass. Then, a branching vine of the stem drilled into the flesh of the carcass. Soon after, the carcass disyed clear signs of shrivelling and drying up.


    That branched out vine swiftly turned blood red after consuming the flesh of the Rot-meal Eagle. An incense worth of timeter, that portion slowly digested the nutrients and recovered its original prune luster.


    At this moment, the metre long Immortal Exterminating Vine still clung around the shriveled Rot-meal Eagle carcass unyieldingly, as though it could still draw out much needed nutrients.


    Wei Suo drew out Liu Sanbao’s broadsword again, and 3 metres away from this Immortal Exterminating Vine, he dug another pit. Simrly, he buried several carcasses and covered them with ayer of soil. Next, he heaved the broadsword and abruptly sliced down onto that branching vine, which was still coiled around the shriveled Rot-meal Eagle.


    This broadsword forged with Taiyi Essence Metal could even cut through solid mountain rocks as easily as slicing tofu. However, when shing down onto a finger-sized thick Immortal Exterminating Vine, it actually couldn’t leave even a single scratch.


    Only when Wei Suo channeled in his true energy,pletely unleashing the full might of the broadsword and chopping down an entire 20 plus times, did that Immortal Exterminating Vine branch severed into two.


    Without pausing, Wei Suo immediately stabbed that severed Immortal Exterminating Vine into the pit, and followed up by irrigating its roots with that dark-red medicinal liquid.


    ording to what the Old Man informed him at Sky Valley previously, a severed Immortal Exterminating Vine would grow into a new stalk of Immortal Exterminating Vine. Only by adding a bottle of the same medicinal liquid, would it maintain its servitude to Wei Suo.


    Wei Suo then observed for a long while, affirming that the spirit aura of this Immortal Exterminating Vine branch did not dissipate away, and would probably grow into a new Immortal Exterminating Vine. Then, Wei Suo returned to his simple and crudely fashioned cavern abode, and continued his excavations.


    During the span of an afternoon, the Earth Furnace room, warehouse and several misceneous stone rooms were fully constructed.


    To his surprise, while he was deliberately dissecting the tunnels and establishing several dead ends, the faint sound of flowing water drifted into his ears.


    Tracing the sound, Wei Suo continued digging for roughly several metres. Soon, a clear mountain spring came pouring down in torrents from within the mountain body.


    This scene delighted Wei Suo immensely. Mustering his strength, he hacked the surrounding terrain to iste this area. Then, he discovered this clear mountain spring invading the crevice was unexpectedly as thick as several arms. It appeared that apart from the rain, the exteriorke was also replenished with the spring waters of this mountain belly.


    After some contemtions, Wei Suo bluntly erected a stone room in this mountain spring area. Following that, he dug out a pond and carved out several crevices to allow the spring water to pour into the pond. After making slight adjustments, he maintained an equilibrium state of the pond.


    The water quality of the spring was exceptionally outstanding. With this, Wei Suo could use it as clean water, and even the water necessary for concoctions was solved.


    After touching up that stone room, Wei Suo returned to the room that housed the Earth Furnace. Next, he iid the blocks of Cold Jade he purchased in Moonfall City around the walls of that stone room.


    When he finished installing arge quantity of Cold Jade, the temperature of this stone room declined exponentially. Even the breath that Wei Suo exuded would turn to countless mini ice kes.


    By now, the outer sky had darkened once again.


    ……


    “Pretty remarkable preparations eh?” The green gowned Old Man hovered out from the Ghost Raising Jar, and scanned this stone room embedded with Cold Jade.


    “Let’s begin then.”


    Seated in a meditative position, Wei Suo slowly opened his eyes. Shuttling his vision around briefly, he finally announced to the Old Man. Although he had listened to the exnation of constructing an Earth Furnace, Wei Suo who had utterly zero experience didn’t dare to attempt this alone. Otherwise, if he couldn’t control the earth fame, he could very well go up in mes with his iplete cavern abode.


    Since it was approaching nightfall, Wei Suo waszy to go out and decided to rest for a short while. Never did he expect, resting in this Cold Jade environment brought about great benefits to his spirit and physique. It seemed like such an environment suited Ice Spirit Root cultivators splendidly. It was no wonder Ice Spirit Root cultivators frequently loved to train in Ice pces. Some even carried thousand year profound ice with them, as icy aura circted around their bodies at all time.


    “Of course it isn’t a problem for me. Start whenever you wish to start.” Watching the prudent Wei Suo, the Old Man very indifferently answered.


    Nodding, Wei Suo produced a dish and ced it on the ground. Next, he retrieved ten crystals of various colors and 7-8 jade talismans,ying them on the holes distributed along the dish.


    ording to the Old Man, this dish had surfaced over 30,000 years ago. It could allow cultivators without much knowledge of formation arrays, to urately ce materials needed, and set up aplex formation array. Otherwise, It would bepletely inconceivable for Wei Suo to construct a formation to link for earth veins.


    “Alright, there shouldn’t be a problem.” The Old Man shed a gaze of approval to Wei Suo. This brat truly demonstrates the zenith of prudency when it pertains to matters implicating his measly life. He actually managed to urately arrange the 10 materials of this formation array.


    “Then I shall begin.” Wei Suo inhaled deeply and channeled a wave of true energy into a yellow crystal.


    Following the cirction of true energy, apart from that yellow crystal, all the other crystals and jade talismans within the formation array lit up.


    Wei Suo didn’t stop as he incessantly streamed in his true elemental energy.


    Seven red crystals in the formation array abruptly spat out seven fiery zing streaks. Within a split second, they melted into the rocky ground beneath; repeatedly burning through the ground.


    In no time under the unceasing pervasion of the zing streaks, 9-12 metres within a circr arc beneath the formation array had been utterly melted through, subsequently forming into an incinerating magma pool.


    Yet strangely, the few crystals and jade talisman of the formation array remained motionlessly floating atop the magma. Like pieces on a chessboard, they sparkled radiantly and formed aplete body.


    After two full incense worth of timeter, the entire mountain was emitting a low muffled rumbling. Faint tremors soon followed. It was as though a titanic dragon of astonishing might was charging out from the magma pool!


    “Seal!”


    Wei Suo’s expression changed and summoned out a ck talisman, as though in preparation for a major foe.


    Boom! When that skill talisman activated, an earth me mixed with infinite ck gas erupted. In that instant, his ck talisman conjured out ck rays that pressured the ck gas. Simultaneously, a bronze circr furnace cauldron with its mouth decorated with a pattern of 72 golden toads surfaced from his Treasure Receiving Pocket. In a sh, it firmly settled atop the magma pool.


    “Sou!”


    As Wei Suo channeled in his true energy, the entire Earth Furnace Cauldron glittered splendidly. Beneath it, the conjured earth me poured into the cauldron through the formation array beneath it.


    Following that, a boiling erupted continuously within the cauldron, casting a brilliant red radiance onto the entire room. Soon, the magma pool beneath the ground solidified, leaving only a tiny patch of churning magma right beneath the Furnace cauldron.


    Wei Suo then heaved a huge sigh of relief. After a daunting experience without mishaps, this 72 Gold-toad Earth Furnace was finally constructed!


    With thepletion of an Earth Furnace, it inaugurated the dawn of dwelling in this cavern abode.