Everyone is Cultivating Immortals in the Wasteland, My Cave is Full of Goddesses

3: Pyrotechnics“I never expected this rotting corpse to truly be a Yao Beast, and I was the first to kill it. This means that perhaps, besides me, everyone else who encountered a Yao Beast died…”

Currently, Li Ye possesses the Qi Refining First Layer cultivation, but he has no Cultivation Technique or Divine Ability.

If he didn’t have this Profound Rank axe, he might have been killed by the Evil Spirits long ago.

Li Ye let out a long sigh of relief, a wave of lingering fear washing over him.

He took the Evil Spirits meat and some other useless Materials, preparing to continue exploring. Then, another broadcast sounded in his ears.

“Note: There is only half an hour until dark. After dark, the number of Yao Beasts and demons will increase significantly. Players, please return to your Immortal Cave before dark.”

Li Ye hesitated for a moment, then decided to head back.

He didn’t plan to continue exploring. Compared to other players, he only had an axe that could cut down monsters, even though he defeated the Evil Spirits with a single blow.

However, if there were more Evil Spirits and they ambushed him from both sides, he might not be able to cope.

According to the survival manual, the Qi Refinement Stage is divided into the first to tenth layers.

A Low Grade Rank one Evil Spirits should correspond to Cultivators at Qi Refining First Layer to Qi Refining Stage 3.

However, before he went back, he still collected a lot of stones.

The durability of a wooden door is approximately 10.

The durability of a stone door is approximately 20.

However, the large stones in the Wasteland require a pickaxe to mine.

Although the Spiritual Artifact axe can easily shatter stones, the amount of stone obtained will be greatly reduced.

Using a wooden pickaxe would waste fewer stones.

Li Ye thought for a moment and directly used his only stones and wood to craft five wooden pickaxes. Anyway, what he had in abundance now was wood. He used a hundred pieces of wood in total, and digging up ten more withered trees would suffice.

If it were a player without a Golden Finger, they might still be constantly digging trees, preparing to build a wooden door.

The durability of the wooden pickaxe was very low; it broke after digging just over ten stones.

And like wooden doors, stone doors required a full thirty-five stone Materials.

After consuming three wooden pickaxes to efficiently gather over thirty stones, Li Ye returned to his Immortal Cave and crafted a stone door. Just as the sun-like star set, darkness enveloped Li Ye’s location.

At the same time, the temperature inside the house plummeted!

Li Ye felt a chill. He, a dignified Qi Refining Second Layer Cultivator, was actually feeling uncomfortably cold.

“The temperature must be below zero degrees.”

The first night of cultivation in the Wasteland arrived.

Li Ye couldn’t find anything to cover himself with, so he could only continuously circulate the most basic Eternal Life Formula, attempting to Cultivate through meditation to keep warm.

But the effect was very poor.

As a Low Grade Human Rank Cultivation Technique, Eternal Life Formula was the lowest Rank. At this rate, it would take a very long time of meditation to Breakthrough to Qi Refining Stage 3.

Finding new Cultivation Techniques and Cultivation resources was a must for Li Ye.

[Chat Channel] [113th Regional Area] [47th Sub-Area.]

[113th Regional Area Chat Log]

“Hiss, why is it so cold? The daytime temperature was a full thirty degrees, so why is it below 0 degrees at night?”

“This broken Immortal Cave is inside a small hill. Due to the venturi effect, plus the wooden door leaking wind, I’m freezing to death, damn it.”

“Good thing I upgraded to a stone door.”

“What?! To get stones, you need a pickaxe. To get a pickaxe, you need wood and stones. Digging wood and stones by hand is very slow. How did you manage to get a stone door on the first night?”

“Yeah, everyone else has wooden doors right now. How do you have a stone door?”

“Wooden axes, stone axes, and wooden pickaxes, stone pickaxes are too useless. They break after a few uses, and using bare hands is even less efficient…”

“I might just be lucky. I found an iron pickaxe right after I went out.”

“What?! An European Emperor.”

“European Emperor is awesome.”

“What?! Doors can be upgraded? How did you guys know?”

“I’m speechless. Even if the one upstairs is cured, they’d still drool.”

“There’s a monster scratching at my door. It’s over, brothers, we’re BBQed.”

…

“It seems our area is very cold. What about the larger region and the whole world?”

Li Ye continued to check and found that the chat channels there were also the same; everyone was complaining about the cold, and it seemed to be below zero degrees at night everywhere.

At this moment, in the sub-area’s chat channel,

“Please, if any of you have an extra blanket, can you bring it to me? I’m a girl, and I have a great figure!”

“Heh heh, who has a blanket now? Why don’t you send me your coordinates, and I’ll come to favor you. After I favor you, you won’t be cold anymore.”

…

“I did find a cotton quilt in one place, but why should I risk going out at night to bring it to you?”

Watching everyone’s comments, Li Ye nodded. If it were him, he wouldn’t do that either.

His Immortal Cave indeed needed a goddess, but he wouldn’t do something so foolish as to go looking on the first night.

Women who needed others’ protection to survive would eventually become a burden, and their appearance might not even pass, and their loyalty remained to be seen.

Li Ye analyzed for a while, then continued to Cultivate through meditation. Although a night of Cultivation had little effect, it was better than suffering from cold and hunger.

After Cultivating for a while, he noticed that a trade button interface had not yet been checked.

Then, he clicked it.

[Trade]

[One clean bread for one bottle of clean water.]

[Bread + water for a cotton quilt!]

[One bottle of clean water for fifty pieces of wood, long-term cooperation possible!]

…

Various trade messages were dazzling, and Li Ye even saw broken Spirit Stone.

However, there were no Cultivation Techniques, no Divine Abilities, and no Spiritual Artifacts.

Things that Cultivators needed were almost nowhere to be found.

“So, it seems that most of the things Cultivators need are in the Secret Realm, but the Yao Beasts and demons in the Secret Realm must be even more numerous…”

Li Ye exchanged wood for water and bread, first enjoying a good meal. Anyway, he had plenty of wood here. With the Profound Rank Spiritual Artifact axe, he basically didn’t have to worry about wood anymore.

However, one message did catch Li Ye’s attention.

[Human Rank Low Grade Cultivation Technique: Evergreen Formula for any Human Rank Low Grade Spiritual Artifact!]

The Ranks of Cultivation Techniques, Divine Abilities, and Spiritual Artifacts are currently Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Human, and are further divided into High, Mid, and Low.

“What?! Someone actually obtained a new Cultivation Technique.”

Li Ye was very surprised.

One should know that being able to obtain a Cultivation Technique now meant that early Cultivation speed could be doubled.

The survival manual stated that everyone could Cultivate multiple Cultivation Techniques, but a maximum of only five.

“This luck is unmatched…”

Li Ye’s eyes flickered slightly. After he was full and well-fed, he continued to Cultivate through meditation.

Other buttons were basically still grayed out.

Such as the leaderboard, Fellow Daoist adding, and so on.

This proved that these were not yet open.

Early in the morning, Li Ye slowly opened his eyes, feeling completely refreshed. He had just dozed off for a while. Cultivators didn’t require much sleep; generally, their brains rested during Cultivation.

Eternal Life Formula could also be considered a health-preserving Cultivation Technique.

[Ding!]

[Second day of survival.]

[Reward One: An 80-point beauty, enduring but loyal, a little beauty.]

[Reward Two: A Human Rank Low Grade Technique for the Fireball Technique.

Fireball Technique: Can consume one point of Spiritual Qi to create a small flame.]

[Reward Three: A top-grade goddess’s white socks, worn for three years and unwashed.]

Li Ye was speechless. His System was just like him, always so improper…