bookrandom Chapter 163 The Touching Fisherman
Chapter 163 The Touching Fisherman
"Phew... I'm still quite a ways from the third tier..."
It took Cangnian and the little sable nearly a day to work together to separate all the evolution factors from the ashes left by the dodder.
The Black King Serpent, having received permission from Cangnian, began to devour ashes.
However, it did not devour indiscriminately. Instead, it stopped eating when it evolved to the point of molting.
The exact amount is roughly one-tenth of all the ash.
It's not that it can't continue eating, but rather that it knows the amount of ash it gets this time can't compare to the amount left by the previous army of mycelium.
If it eats freely, this ashes might not even be enough.
The remaining ashes yielded a total of fifty kilograms of evolutionary factors.
With so many evolutionary factors, Cangnian guessed it was because the fox had previously manipulated the dodder to inject the energy it had secretly obtained from consuming the corpses of evolved creatures into those nearly twenty evolved creatures, creating pseudo-second-tier beings.
Therefore, all that remains are the evolutionary factors of dodder itself, and perhaps even a significant portion of those factors have been lost.
If so many evolutionary factors were fed to a single evolved creature according to the previous pattern, it might create a third-order evolved creature.
But everyone contributed to the battle that lasted for more than ten hours, and Cang Nian didn't have the face to eat it all by himself.
So let's keep it simple and straightforward: everyone will split the spoils equally.
Excluding the black king snake that had already been eaten, there were eight people in total: Cang Nian himself, Tiger Dad, Tiger Mom, Tiger Brother, Little Sable, Fisherman and Pipi, and Pine Tree. Each of them received a little over six kilograms.
Fortunately, the remaining corpses of evolved creatures on the ground could be used as energy supplements during the process of consuming evolutionary factors.
After a period of intense eating, Cang Nian felt that he had become much stronger. His weight had increased to around 220 kilograms.
Thinking of this, Cang Nian couldn't help but open the system panel to check his current attributes.
【Strength: 160】
【Speed: 200】
[Defense: 160]
[Stamina: 160]
【Spirit: 160】
Maximum free attribute points: 50%
[Maximum Overlimit Burst Attribute Points: 20%]
"Not bad, not bad. All attributes have improved significantly. We should be a big step closer to the third tier."
With nearly twenty points of improvement in all attributes, what could Cangnian possibly be dissatisfied with?
"By the way, I wonder how many pine nuts are left!"
Speaking of attribute enhancement, Cangnian remembered that the Spirit-Nourishing Pine Nuts also had the effect of promoting evolution and enhancing attributes.
He remembered that a single pine cone could produce one or two hundred pine nuts.
If that's the case, even if it's split evenly, I can still get around twenty or thirty pieces, increasing all my attributes by more than twenty points!
Of course, this is an ideal situation that does not take into account drug resistance, but even if it is only half or even one-third of the ideal situation, it is still very good!
"Ow~!"
So Cangnian looked at the little sable and asked it to take out all the pine nuts.
Zhizhi~!
Upon hearing Cangnian's command, the little sable waved its paws twice, and a halo appeared. Then, the broken pine cone shells, pine nut shells, and unopened pine nuts fell out with a clatter.
"Uh... how come there's only so little?"
After thoroughly searching through the items in the little sable's storage space, Cangnian finally found 16 unshelled pine nuts.
This greatly disappointed him.
Shouldn't there be hundreds?
Zhizhi~!
At this moment, the little sable picked up a pine cone fragment and held it up in front of Cang Nian.
Among the pine cone fragments, there was a dried and broken pine nut shell, with only a shriveled little thing that looked like a pine nut inside.
Next, Cangnian took another closer look and realized that most of the pine nuts were actually unformed.
"Could it be that the pine tree's strength, or the nutrients it absorbs, are insufficient for all the pine nuts to successfully plump up and take shape?"
Including the eight used earlier, only 24 pine nuts have formed in total?
Upon seeing what the little sable was showing him, Cangnian nodded in understanding.
Then, Cang Nian felt relieved.
The effects of these Spirit-Nourishing Pine Nuts are truly miraculous, so it's understandable that they can't be produced in large quantities.
Unfortunately, his daydream of eating dozens of these pills and experiencing a massive increase in all his attributes was shattered.
"Then this thing can't be used as candy to promote evolution."
On the contrary, the effect of taking just one pill to restore one to full strength can be used as a supplement in critical moments.
Additionally, if there are any other evolved creatures that are friendly to our family and have potential for development, we can give them one so that they can gain the ability to evolve to the next stage ahead of time.
However, with the Black King Serpent in terms of combat power and the Little Sable in terms of functionality, plus the strength of our family, we don't have any weaknesses. This functionality is secondary..."
This outcome forced Cangnian to change his original plan.
This stuff is now a strategic resource!
However, Cangnian estimates that the ability to fully restore one's condition with a single pill is only possible for evolved creatures that consume it, especially those at the second tier.
After all, these pine nuts are born from second-tier pine trees. If they could replenish the status of third-tier evolved creatures, that would be too incredible.
However, it is estimated that even a third-tier evolved creature could recover a significant amount of its condition by eating one, and it could be used as a life-saving measure.
"多" has many uses, and "少" has few uses.
"Ow~!"
Then, Cangnian took out four pine nuts from the remaining sixteen.
Then, he pointed with his paw at the four pine nuts on the ground, and then at the fisherman and Pipi.
The fisherman and Pipi made significant contributions in this battle.
Especially the fisherman, if it weren't for his group law, which gave his family a boost every now and then during battle, his family might not have lasted until the pine nuts matured. The impact of those first-tier evolved creatures alone would have overwhelmed them.
"This... Tiger, are you going to give this treasure to me and Pipi?"
No, no, there aren't many of these. You've already given two to me and Pipi. How can I take any more?
"Tiger Lord, you should keep these. If you encounter danger, take one to recover. Isn't that better than giving them to me?"
Seeing Cang Nian's actions, the fisherman was flattered and surprised.
The angler had made many attempts to get his hands on the pine nuts after they had ripened.
Previously, due to the urgency of the war, Cangnian had given one to each of him, Pipi, and the dog, thus fulfilling his previous expectations.
He was deeply aware of the benefits of pine nuts; once he got to Kangcheng, he estimated that no amount of money could buy them!
He had already eaten such valuable things; how could he dare to take more?
Ouch~!
Cang Nian was about to explain when Tiger Dad couldn't stand the fisherman's affectation any longer. He put his paw on the fisherman's shoulder and growled.
Just take it if your little one tells you to!
Tiger Dad's attitude towards the fisherman changed from initial wariness to slight gratitude after learning that his family was saved because of the fisherman.
By now, it has come to fully endorse the fisherman.
She has the ability to do anything, a very righteous character, and a sweet tongue, which makes her father, Tiger Dad, very happy to flatter her.
Even if Cangnian didn't mention sharing the spoils with the fishermen, Tiger Dad would have!
"Then...then I'll accept it. Thank you, Tiger Lords. If it weren't for you, I don't know where I would be now."
You've all been so good to me. Aside from my own parents, no one has ever been this good to me...
From now on, you will be my own father and mother in my eyes..."
The fisherman was almost knocked to the ground by the tiger dad's paw, but he was deeply moved and wiped his eyes.