Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 75 Diary (3)

Jiang Yuan could never have imagined that someone would be so bored as to stake out in the middle of the night and discover his connection to the Cloud Grocery Store.

He spent Gold Coins to buy Five-Colored Paper, Parchment, and Gold Foil Paper, and returned to the shop to start crafting a paperman and paper horse army. Besides the most common paper oxen and horses, he invested a lot of thought and time into crafting lifelike paper cranes, elephants, and large hedgehogs using sorghum stalks, bamboo strips, willow twigs, and wheat straw, by tying, pasting, and painting.

Had it not been necessary to reach Level Eight and above to make and use super-large paper crafts, he would have liked to make himself an awe-inspiring paper dragon as a mount.

Paperman Paper Mache Technique needs to be at full level to enable autonomous creation, so to make paper Gundams and battleships for the Otherworld to experience the charm of hot weapons, more effort is required.

"Today, I’m going to Old Dragon Cave to experiment. If the paperman can hold a Mining Pickaxe and mine with me, the mill can soon be built, and new seeds can be unlocked!" Jiang Yuan worked tirelessly until dawn, then gathered the finished products into the Storage Bag and returned to the courtyard.

Wan Mingchuan once again felt that his master was indeed very mysterious.

Based on the current situation, he automatically imagined: perhaps initially unsure if I was sincere or brave enough to reveal his secrets, since witnessing the Paperman Paper Mache Technique of Mr. and Mrs. Tian, my master no longer hid the fact and showed me a more powerful Paper Molding Technique.

The paper transformation into a horse yesterday was already magical enough, and after breakfast today, he casually tossed it, and two large golden eagles swooped down from the sky, flapping their wings with sharp eyes and strong talons, the deep-blue ends of their beaks shimmering with cold light.

If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have believed such beautiful and impressive golden eagles were paper mache!

"Golden eagles are swift, today’s the perfect day to test their flying speed." Jiang Yuan gestured for them to lower themselves, and once the apprentice was safely seated, they ordered them to fly to Old Dragon Cave.

If there is any animal that can both restrain the Ice-winged Eagle and be created with Level Four Paperman and Paper Horse Skill, he pondered for a while and felt only the golden eagle could.

This Paperman and Paper Horse Skill is clearly applicable to the Human World; at least, after reaching Level Four, the items created are still limited to things that exist in reality.

The Ice-winged Eagle belongs to the Wilderness, being a Demon Beast it naturally holds an advantage. To make his paper creations have the power to defeat Demon Beasts, efforts must be made in speed and quantity to win by many, swift, accurate, and fierce.

Last night, he instructed Eagle Fifty-Third to carry him at the fastest speed, saying he wanted to experience the thrill of speeding, but actually wanted to gauge the Ice-winged Eagle’s flying speed and altitude.

Using his self-made golden eagle for comparison today, he was more confident.

Previously, misled by data treating it as a game, naturally, he had more playfulness; now knowing it’s the Otherworld and having only one life, he must be cautious and always prioritize self-protection.

Wan Mingchuan had never seen such a situation, scared, clinging to the golden eagle’s back, shouting, "Master! Master, this is too...too fast!"

"Don’t worry, the golden eagle flies very steadily and won’t drop you." Jiang Yuan rode on the golden eagle’s back, feeling that the speed was still a bit lacking, exclaiming that as a Demon Beast, the Ice-winged Eagle indeed fits the system’s judgment—perfectly suited as a mount.

He commanded the two paper eagles in an aerial duel for a moment before finally landing at Old Dragon Cave.

"Mingchuan, as usual, wait for me here. If everything goes smoothly today, we should return early today." Jiang Yuan left him with lunch, ready to leave but was stopped.

"Could I borrow master’s axe for a moment?" Wan Mingchuan hurried forward to block his master, scratched his head, and explained with a laugh, "I found that during cultivation, simply sitting and breathing doesn’t have great effects. One needs to constantly expend energy until exhausted and then cultivate through meditation for the best result. So I’m borrowing master’s axe, working while cultivating, striving to open all meridians soon!"

Turns out cultivation really requires physical training, Jiang Yuan casually took out an axe from the Storage Bag and handed it over, sincerely praising the apprentice’s wisdom.

Being a fully data-driven master, despite having the title, he couldn’t teach or help anything. The fact that he could understand a faster cultivation method on his own was already excellent.

He entered the cave, walking far along the tunnel he had mined last time, and then breathed on three paper people to transform them into sturdy men about 1.9 meters tall, issued each with a regular Mining Pickaxe purchased from Anping Town and instructed them to start mining.

"Directing paperman mining doesn’t increase skill experience; I still have to do it myself. Also, controlling three paper people is too much, two is the best choice." After trying, Jiang Yuan summarized a bit of experience.

Likely due to the Paperman and Paper Horse Skill not being high enough, when requiring detailed command, he is at his limit controlling two; like last night at Crescent Lake when a swarm battled, there was no limit on numbers and issuing the simplest commands sufficed.

Upgrading the Woodcutting Skill increases basic Physical Strength data, perhaps mining skills can similarly stack base data, and it’s up to him to physically work hard to gain the experience.

Thus, he used the Earth Mirror Book skill to locate the approximate position of Iron Ore, controlling two paper people to accompany him in mining.

"Plop!"

After mining for over an hour, as a large piece of Iron Ore was extracted, soil fell revealing a deep hole.

[Discovered Mysterious Space in Ancient Mine Cave, beware of possible monsters guarding the treasure chest within]

"Another treasure chest!" Jiang Yuan’s eyes gleamed as he immediately released a paper ox.

However, the dark cave echoed with the wailing and laughing of mine ghosts, the paper ox stood bewildered at the entrance, uncertain and couldn’t be spurred, only pawing the ground and looking around cluelessly as if unaware of the enemy’s location.

What’s wrong?

He hesitated for a few seconds, trying to ignite the paper ox and blow the ashes into the hole.

Indeed, after burning and reassembling into paper ash, the paper ox charged into the cave towards the mine ghosts, hooves stomping and horns striking, soon slaying all four mine ghosts.

"I understand, Paperman and Paper Horse Skill has different uses against different monsters, for ghost types they must be burned to have a suppressive effect." Jiang Yuan once again figured out some tricks, feeling very pleased.

Entering the cave, he saw two ancient treasure chests in the west and north corners, feeling even happier!

[Teleportation Talisman +1; Iron Ingot +3]

[Lost Diary +1; Ningxin Grass +8; Spirit Stone +5]

[Ghost Ore +2]

He commanded the two paper men to mine the Iron Ore embedded in the cave walls, taking out the Lost Diary for careful inspection.

This was a roll of yellowed parchment, cautiously opening it, familiar handwriting met his eyes.

[November 1st, cloudy]

There’s surprisingly no dragon in Old Dragon Cave, misled for nothing.

Dragon Scale and Dragon Sinew are not worth considering for now, but this cave has abundant minerals, the name Deserted Island doesn’t fit, clearly a wealthy island. The name Deserted Island surely is because nobody explored the secrets deep within Old Dragon Cave!

Of course, probably nobody else like me has had the patience to explore a mere cave so long to discover its deepest secrets. Use the Compass and dig straight northwards to find a Heaven-Reaching Divine Tree growing within the mine cave, follow its branches downward to reach the cave bottom, and discover Profound Iron Ore, Red Blood Copper Ore, and other rare treasures!

However, along the way, those lonely ghosts and evil spirits are truly annoying. Could Old Dragon Cave’s depths possibly be connected to the Netherworld? Why else would there be so many evil ghosts, cold and frightening, noisy and headache-inducing, fighting and so bothersome!