Chapter 150: Volcano Difficult Problem
In the end, Ekaterina still chose to leave. Before departing, Ekaterina and her Pokémon all turned back reluctantly and glanced at that broken sword.
“Companions, cheer up!” Ekaterina continued to encourage, “With your qualifications, breaking through to champion is just a matter of time. Only if you’re alive is there a future.”
“But this thing can also help us break through to the divine realm,” Jynx whispered.
Breaking through to champion with their qualifications is indeed just a matter of time, but the problem is that champion is easy to enter but the divine realm is hard to access.
Ekaterina’s facial expression darkened as she could only comfort them, “This place is only known to us. We’ll come back to get this thing after we break through to champion.”
This time, Jynx did not object again.
Taking advantage of the Ancient Sword Leopard not returning, Ekaterina quietly left the snow mountain from the other side of the mountaintop.
Although she didn’t find Kyurem’s Pokémon egg, for Ekaterina, this harvest was absolutely no less than finding that Pokémon egg.
“As expected of your future ideal messenger, indeed someone with great opportunity. This time we snatched someone else’s opportunity,” Ekaterina sighed.
Jynx suggested, “Just compensate him well after we get out. Consider it an early investment.”
Ekaterina nodded.
“I wonder if he received that seed.” Ekaterina said as she picked up the tablet computer.
This snow mountain was probably hopeless. Ekaterina decided to search herself. To not delay getting stronger, Ekaterina set a time limit for herself.
If she didn’t find that egg within half a month, she would have to go back.
Moreover, she needed to inform the family about the news here: a newly discovered Tier 3 God, and one representing disaster.
Evil Gods generally have higher combat power than good gods. An ice attribute evil god—this matter must be made known to the family.
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Under Lu Li’s tireless efforts, the smelting furnace was finally designed.
Due to insufficient localization of artifact refining, a magic treasure level smelting furnace was definitely out of the question, so Lu Li had to settle for the next best thing and design a magic tool level smelting furnace.
In the cultivation world, magic treasures are divided into: magic tool, magic treasure, spirit tool, immortal tool.
The biggest feature of magic tools is that non-cultivators can also use them. The drawback is that magic tools generally cannot be used as weapons, and they are very troublesome to use.
After the smelting furnace design was completed, Lu Li went to the villa doorway.
Next was the real test of artifact refining skill.
Just as Lu Li was preparing to start refining, a sharp cry suddenly rang out in the sky.
A Bidoof descended from the sky and landed in front of Lu Li.
The Bidoof was clutching a small box. After glancing at Lu Li, the Bidoof tossed the box to Lu Li and flew away without looking back.
Lu Li looked at the come-and-go-like-the-wind Bidoof in confusion.
Out of caution, Lu Li carefully scanned the box on the ground and found no dangerous items inside before picking it up.
After opening the box, there was a note inside.
Lord, this is the Branch Lychee Fruit seed you wanted.
Looking at the content on the note, Lu Li instantly recalled Ekaterina’s previous promise.
“So fast?”
Lu Li’s mouth corners curved up slightly.
Another big shot was coming to compete on the list. This was a good thing for him.
Although Lu Li disliked trouble, if trouble could bring greater benefits, Lu Li didn’t mind a bit more of such trouble.
The effect of Branch Lychee Fruit is similar to Sand Scale Fruit; the former enhances Pokémon’s attack, the latter enhances Pokémon’s speed.
Both are very precious berries, with planting difficulty almost the same as Sand Scale Fruit.
Lu Li just put away the seed and didn’t rush to sow it.
Lu Li planned to plant this seed after Ekaterina left the Asian Alliance. Lu Li didn’t want Ekaterina to know he could plant rare berry trees yet.
A 16-year-old berry planting master—this was somewhat deadly these days.
After putting away the seed, Lu Li began refining the magic tool.
Refining a magic tool level smelting furnace was very troublesome and required the help of core lava.
Then Lu Li called Onix.
“Onix, do you know where there are lava veins nearby?” Lu Li asked.
Finding underground lava was what Onix was best at. After all, wild Onix must rely on underground lava deposits to evolve.
In terms of finding underground lava, the Onix tribe was undoubtedly the expert.
“In the places I can sense, it seems only Qingfeng City’s Secret Realm has underground lava. If the trainer needs to find underground lava, I do have a method, though it takes some time.”
Hearing this, Lu Li roughly knew what method Onix was referring to.
That was to directly dig through the earth’s crust and search for lava deep in the mantle—the simplest and most direct method.
But the problem was, this world’s earth’s crust is about 40 kilometers thick. Placing the smelting furnace there would make transporting materials a hassle later.
Although as a cultivator he could endure the high temperatures in the mantle, the issue wasn’t just high temperature.
Qingfeng City’s Secret Realm was definitely out of the question; it was a secret realm controlled by the alliance. Even with Yu Zhonggang’s background, he couldn’t frequently enter that secret realm.
Moreover, steel refining would require transporting large amounts of metal materials, and that secret realm had too many people and eyes—too easy to expose his secrets.
As for finding a nearby volcano?
Lu Li specifically checked geographical information; the closest volcano in the real world was over a thousand kilometers away from him.
Right!
While worrying about how to solve the field problem, a spiritual light flashed in Lu Li’s mind.
How could he forget that place.
The Qingyun Mountain Range wasn’t just the secret realm deep in the mountains.
You know, Tropius’s homeland is a large secret realm, and such secret realms definitely have volcanic zones.
However, considering it was a large secret realm, Lu Li ultimately suppressed his suicidal idea.
It was just finding a volcano; no need to be so desperate.
“Looks like I’ll have to go around Kyushu University to find a volcano then,” Lu Li thought helplessly.
Refining steel essence requires a smelting furnace and lava. Now that the smelting furnace problem was solved, the lava problem was even bigger.
After figuring out a countermeasure, Lu Li began artifact refining.
Since it was the first time refining a magic tool level smelting furnace, Lu Li spent a full day and a half to complete it.
Including design, Lu Li had used nearly three days.
If not for Wei’s reminder, Lu Li would have almost missed the regional competition.
Hurriedly putting away Charmander and Milotic, Lu Li rode Tropius toward Qingfeng City.
No way around it, Tropius’s flight speed was too slow. He had to borrow an elite level Bidoof from Aunt Liu’s ecological park to use as a mount.
