Chen Fan climbed onto the half-ruined city wall, looking towards the busy people inside the camp. He rested his hands on the parapet, gazing at the horizon without speaking.
He named this migration "Earth Dragon Migration."
For some reason, he really liked giving names to the things he did. It held no great significance but helped him remember. If his death came one day, he at least wouldn't feel his life had been spent in vain and without achievement.
Including him, the camp had nine people.
Aside from him, everyone was bustling around.
Dayu, Wang Mazi's former subordinate, didn't follow Zhou Mo out to scavenge resources like yesterday. Instead, she joined them in dissecting, quickly extracting the Eerie Stones from the Eerie Creature corpses.
Qi Chong, along with his pig-raising brother A'Le, was sorting through the intact resources in the warehouse. They were also transplanting the Eerie Flesh Mother-Child Seeds from the farmland that had survived last night, preparing to take them to the new base.
Crippled Monkey went to the rubble inside the wall, stuffing pots, bowls, clothes, and other items into a large porcelain vat.
The Mourning Specter doppelgangers had no Eerie Stones in them.
But the corpses were usable.
There were over a thousand corpses of Mourning Specters. They couldn't take all these along; they would only carry a portion to use as farmland fertilizer. The rest would be used for sacrifice.
"Hah..."
Chen Fan let out a light sigh, not wanting to delay any longer. He walked towards the "Sacrificial Tower" in the center of the camp ruins. This Tower was still intact. Wang Mazi and a few others were quickly moving the corpses, from which the Eerie Stones had been extracted, beside the Tower.
The camp was bustling with activity in the gloomy rain.
Moving corpses was a backbreaking job.
There were over a thousand corpses here, which would take considerable time. He looked down at the Eerie-hide map in his hand, estimating the time it would take to travel to the natural Eerie Fire zone to the north.
Moving was not an easy task.
Besides, there was also such a large battlefield to clean up.
...
Two shichen later.
Noon.
Almost no one had stopped in the middle. They had no time to eat or rest.
At this moment, a Level 2 cultivator's advantages had spoken for themselves. Zhou Mo clearly had better stamina than the others. Fortunately, they had all consumed the fitness-boosting Monkey-Head Mushrooms a few days ago, so they weren't exhausted yet.
"..."
Chen Fan looked at the one-meter-tall, seven-story miniature Sacrificial Tower made of bluestone.
"Sacrifice Eerie Creature corpses to obtain special resources."
"The stronger the Eerie Creatures and the greater their number, the more valuable the special resources you would receive."
Most of the Eerie Creatures he had killed these days, after skinning and bleeding, had been sacrificed to this Tower. But he hadn't obtained any special resources yet.
Below the Sacrificial Tower's panel, there was a progress bar.
"198/500 Sacrifice Points."
"Upon completion of this sacrifice, you can obtain a Green-grade special resource."
His first sacrifice got him "100 Sacrifice Points." He threw in 100 ordinary Eerie Creature corpses and quickly filled the progress bar. If he had chosen to complete the sacrifice back then, he would have obtained a White-grade special resource.
But he decided against it.
He suddenly realized that reaching 500 Sacrifice Points wasn't that difficult, yet could yield a Green-grade item.
Among them, the corpse of the female Eerie Creature, Qiu Kui, contributed 20 Sacrifice Points.
He originally planned to save up 500 Sacrifice Points before completing the sacrifice.
But...
Now they had to move. This Sacrificial Tower couldn't be taken with them, and this unfinished sacrifice progress couldn't be transferred either. So, he planned to complete the sacrifice before leaving.
As Eerie Creature corpses were thrown before the Sacrificial Tower one by one, they began to rapidly melt. Like the Flesh Worm Ghost's self-destruction, they turned into odorless mucus and were absorbed by the Tower. The original bluestone Tower began to slowly change.
The first storey of the Tower quickly turned milky white.
As the progress bar increased, the second storey of the Tower was gradually covered in a dark green hue.
Soon!
500 Sacrifice Points were reached.
"500/2000 Sacrifice Points."
"Upon completion of this sacrifice, you can obtain a Yellow-grade special resource."
"Yellow grade..."
Chen Fan was stunned. This was the first time he encountered a Yellow grade. If he completed the sacrifice now, he could obtain a Green-grade special resource. Doing it a few more times could yield several Green-grade special resources.
Green was already a relatively high grade.
He currently didn't have many Green-grade Extraordinary Treasures in his possession.
But Yellow...
He had never seen it before, and he was dying to get it.
Still 1500 Sacrifice Points short, meaning 1500 ordinary Eerie Creature corpses. They definitely didn't have enough. Crippled Monkey and the others had already taken inventory. Even counting the half-rotten corpses pulled from the farmland, they only had 1320 Eerie Creature corpses.
Still 180 points short.
He could either stop the sacrifice now, take the Green-grade Extraordinary Treasure, and leave, or leave first and come back to this site later to complete the sacrifice.
"Bring me the corpse of that Mourning Specter boss."
Chen Fan ordered Crippled Monkey.
Although he couldn't see the level of the Eerie Creature, he thought that since it was one of the Ghost King's four bosses, it might be worth 180 Sacrifice Points.
Soon.
The Mourning Specter boss's corpse was brought over and thrown before the Sacrificial Tower.
After it was sacrificed, 50 Sacrifice Points were gained.
...
Chen Fan laughed.
He suddenly felt that Mourning Specters, which could replicate themselves, were goddamn adorable. He wished he could encounter more of them in the future. One boss corpse yielded 50 Sacrifice Points, and he still had 15 such corpses.
All split from that Mourning Specter boss.
Continue the sacrifice!
Soon, all Eerie Creature corpses were thrown before the Sacrificial Tower. The sacrifice progress quickly reached 1850 points. After lugging over 3 more Mourning Specter boss corpses, the sacrifice progress hit exactly 2000 Sacrifice Points.
The third storey of the Sacrificial Tower had turned a pale yellow.
Complete the sacrifice.
The three colors on the Tower's surface quickly faded, returning to the bluestone color. As mechanical sounds of gears turning came from inside the Tower, a box popped out from the top, holding a blueprint as thin as a cicada's wing.
"..."
Chen Fan picked up this Yellow-grade building blueprint. A flash of shock passed in his eyes, followed by an uncontrollable excitement that made him grin.
All the buildings in his camp were White grade.
He didn't even have a single Green-grade building.
But now!
He had got a Yellow-grade building blueprint.
There were many types of special resources, such as Eerie Stones, Extraordinary Treasures, Eerie Materials, building blueprints, etc.
Among all special resources, building blueprints were undoubtedly the most valuable. He was quite lucky. This blueprint would help a lot when he developed his base in the north.
"Extraordinary Treasure Name": Vehicle Workshop.
"Extraordinary Treasure Grade": Yellow.
"Extraordinary Treasure Effect": Building blueprint; can manufacture various vehicles.
A succinct description, yet it contained sufficient information.
He crushed this building blueprint. Soon, he saw a new constructible building in his panel.
"Vehicle Workshop."