Chapter 107

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Chapter 107: Grapes

"By the way, here’s something for you. Think of it as a thank-you gift for letting Qianer and me go out together."

Wang Yulun handed Xu Fan a transparent Absolute Spirit Stone, which contained a space ring inside.

"I came across this at a merchant association. They called it a Blind Box; the space rings inside were taken from the bodies of slain cultivators."

"It’s sealed with Absolute Spirit Stones, costing 1 million spirit stones each. Whatever you get is what you get. I thought it was intriguing, so I bought one for you."

"If there’s nothing valuable inside, don’t blame me."

After saying this, Wang Yulun left with his wife.

"No wonder it’s such a BUG-like attribute, it’s incredibly powerful."

"Good thing I went out with my buddy back then; otherwise, I might have missed out on this hundredfold return opportunity."

Xu Fan never doubted that there would be something valuable in this space ring. Anything found by someone with a hundredfold return ability was bound to be good.

He ignited a spirit fire and began to refine the Absolute Spirit Stone covering the space ring.

As the Absolute Spirit Stone slowly dissolved, Xu Fan started to feel a bit nervous.

Once the Absolute Spirit Stone was completely melted away, Xu Fan quickly grabbed the space ring and focused his mental strength to explore its contents.

“Holy crap!!!”

Inside the space ring, Xu Fan immediately spotted a massive chunk of Spirit Heart Ore, as big as a small mountain. The entire space ring was packed with rare spirit ore from the cultivation world, and there was even 5 pounds of time-space sand.

Xu Fan couldn’t even begin to estimate the value of the spirit ores in the space ring; there was just so much.

Just the large-capacity space ring itself was worth 1 million spirit stones.

Xu Fan pulled out a piece of Soul Crystal and gulped. Even a Great Ascension Master would probably be envious of this; there were three more pieces in the space ring.

At that moment, far away, Ye Xiaoyao suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart, as if he had lost something very important, sensing a hint of destiny.

Soul Crystals were essential for crafting a second clone technique because they could form a second soul for the clone.

The crucial part was that if the main body died, a wisp of true spirit sealed within the Soul Crystal would emerge to take over the clone and bring it back to life.

At this moment, Xu Fan was revising his plans.

"With this treasure, my previous plans seem too modest. This time, I’m going to craft a quasi-artifact-level control center," Xu Fan said with enthusiasm.

………………

Pang Fu sat in his shop, staring blankly at the communication artifact in his hand. It had been three days; why hadn’t he received a reply yet?

Master Xu didn’t want to see me? That couldn’t be; with someone helping him earn a lot of spirit stones, wouldn’t he want that?

Could it be that Master Xu had found a better option than me?

As the wait for a reply dragged on, Pang Fu’s mind started to race, imagining the scene of meeting Xu Fan again and how he could reestablish their partnership.

The young man watched his father, who had become obsessed, feeling helpless—this wasn’t something you could just wait for like this.

Just then, there was a ‘beep’ sound; the communication artifact had received a message.

Pang Fu jumped up.

“Sky Blue Zhao, Lin Sen Fairy City, Ten Thousand-Mile Giant Lake, largest island!” Pang Fu excitedly read out the address.

"Shuo’er, call your Aunt One, Aunt Two, Aunt Three, and Aunt Four. We’re all heading to Lin Sen City!"

"Got it!"

At this moment, Xu Fan set aside everything and began to calm his mind, as he was about to refine the most important magical artifact since he started his cultivation—a treasure that could replace him in crafting magical artifacts, creating puppets, storing data, and performing intelligent analysis.

"Since my system isn’t powerful enough, I’ll create my own system. I’ve even thought of a name: Infrastructure Madman System."

"As long as I gather resources, I can create anything I want."

Xu Fan suddenly remembered the Red Alert game he played as a kid, which also involved mining and building stuff.

At this point, Xu Fan’s energy had reached its peak, and he took out the refined spirit ores to begin his crafting.

"Soul Crystal, Spirit Heart Ore, Moon God Stone, Starfall Iron, and Hundred Paths Spirit Heart…"

He casually laid out these treasures, any one of which could attract deadly trouble, placing them beside him in preparation for refining.

For some reason, Xu Fan felt particularly good today; all the spirit ores seemed to blend into an optimal state, especially when he was engraving runes. The arrangement of all rune formations and their engravings reached a level of perfection.

Xu Fan entered a strange state where every step of the artifact crafting achieved perfect balance.

However, he was unaware that above Hidden Spirit Island, a layer of thunderclouds was slowly gathering. The terrifying energy within seemed to be waiting for something, ready to pour down at the right moment.

As Xu Fan delved deeper into rune engraving, his strange state grew increasingly profound, and the energy in the thunderclouds became more fearsome.

Just as the last rune was about to be engraved—only one final stroke remained—Xu Fan’s hand suddenly trembled, causing the last stroke to be slightly off.

In an instant, Xu Fan snapped out of that profound state, feeling as if he was at the peak of pleasure when suddenly someone pricked him with a needle.

At that moment, the magical artifact before Xu Fan flickered, as if it had come to life.

And the thunderclouds above suddenly felt uneasy, as though something was right on the verge but wouldn’t come out.

Stuck in a dilemma, the clouds finally erupted with a tremendous sound; the thunderclouds self-destructed, but the energy was constrained by some sort of law and ultimately condensed into a lightning stone, falling towards Hidden Spirit Island.

Looking up at the sky, Xu Fan remarked, "Luckily, I finished refining it. I guess in the future, I should add a noise barrier when refining artifacts."

After saying that, Xu Fan turned to look at the completed magical artifact, which was a purple cube.

"Master, what commands do you have now?"

An electronic voice sounded. He originally wanted it to be a sweet, feminine voice but gave up on that idea knowing it contained a copy of his own soul and memories.

While copying his soul and memories, Xu Fan discarded all emotions, leaving only the most rational part.

Having watched too many novels and movies about intelligent rebellion, Xu Fan subconsciously prepared for it.

"Upgrade the puppet army, refine underwater mining puppets and underwater battle puppets."

"Refine the spirit iron ore production line."

"Also, develop and renovate the entire Hidden Spirit Island."

Xu Fan intended to say more but was interrupted by the purple cube.

"With the resources Master currently possesses, if there is no influx of spirit stones, only a few of the projects Master mentioned can be maintained."

"Uh, then okay, let’s continue with these projects for now."

Xu Fan took out several space rings and placed them inside the purple cube.

"By the way, I haven’t named you yet."

"Since you’re entirely purple, your name will be Grape from now on."