Xia Ruofei was stunned.
What did the heat of the jade leaf mean? It meant that there was a Boundary Stone nearby! This magical item was much better than ordinary jade materials when it came to upgrading the space!
Now that the Space of the Spiritual Map had leveled up to a certain level, every level up had become extremely difficult. If Xia Ruofei were to rely solely on buying jade materials, he might not even be able to level up one or two levels even if he used all of his wealth.
However, it just so happened that obtaining World Stones was completely dependent on luck. The Sensory Jade Leaf that Xia Qing created could only detect World Stones within a range of ten kilometers.
Compared to the vastness of the world, a range of ten kilometers was too small. If he were to use the sensing jade leaf to search, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
This time, being able to sense the existence of a Boundary Stone in Na Qu was definitely an unexpected surprise for Xia Ruofei.
Xia Ruofei took two deep breaths to calm his mind. He was not in a hurry to find the Boundary Stone.
This was because this was the wilderness and there were no signs of human habitation within a radius of ten kilometers. This Boundary Stone was definitely not kept at home by someone, but in the wilderness. Therefore, there was no need to rush.
As for the matter of the caterpillar fungus, Xia Ruofei had basically reached his destination. He could start working on it now.
He tried to climb a little higher, and then felt the temperature of the jade leaf. He was very happy to find that the temperature of the jade leaf had increased by a small margin.
This meant that he was a little closer to the jade leaf.
Then, he could not delay either of them.
Xia Ruofei began to climb higher. At the same time, he also diverted some of his attention to feel the changes in the jade leaf's temperature.
When Xia Ruofei's wristwatch showed that he was close to 5800 meters above sea level, he gradually slowed down his pace.
Under the illumination of the strong flashlight, Xia Ruofei found a bat moth hanging upside down on a small tree branch. When the flashlight shone on it, the bat moth immediately flapped its wings and flew toward the light source.
With a thought, Xia Ruofei used his mental energy to wrap around the bat moth and drag it into the Ring-Tu space.
In the Ring-Tu space's Mountain Sea Realm, there was a huge gauze cage. This was something that Xia Ruofei had prepared long ago. The bat moth directly appeared in this gauze cage out of thin air. Now, Xia Ruofei's control of his mental energy had improved. He could very accurately control items to appear in any position in space. error was almost negligible.
In this gauze cage, there were already more than ten bat moths fluttering about.
They were all caught by the bat moths that Xia Ruofei had encountered on his way up.
After Xia Ruofei caught the bat moth, he stopped and carefully observed it with the flashlight. He found that there were many bat moth eggs on the grass and in the soil in this area.
With a thought, a military shovel appeared in Xia Ruofei's hand out of thin air. First, he delineated an area of about two meters by two meters. Then, he began to carefully dig with the shovel, trying not to damage the vegetation on the surface of the soil. Within this area, about ten to fifteen centimeters of soil was dug up together with the vegetation on the surface.
For ordinary people, this might not be easy to control, but Xia Ruofei did it very easily.
He quickly dug up a twenty-centimeter square of soil and then sent it into the Ring-Tu space with a thought.
Within the Mountain Sea Territory of the Spirit Map, there was a piece of land about 2 mu of land that had been dug up by Xia Qing. The soil that contained the eggs of the Bat Moth and the mycelium of the Cordyceps had been sent to the surface of the land.
Xia Ruofei worked very quickly. The soil and vegetation in the area he delineated were quickly dug up piece by piece and sent into the Ring-Tu space.
After doing all this, Xia Ruofei carefully dug up some soil from nearby and backfilled the area he had dug up.
Although the color of this area was obviously different from the surrounding area, it was now over the Cordyceps production season. There would not be any Tibetans in this mountain area. When the Cordyceps Fungus was dug up next year, it would not be obvious.
After doing all this, Xia Ruofei continued to search around.
According to Ge Sang, almost all the soil in the nearby mountains contained Cordyceps mycelium. It was just that whether the bat moth eggs could hatch larvae, whether the larvae could drill into the soil, and whether the mycelium in the soil could infect the larvae, all of these depended on a lot of random factors. Therefore, the Cordyceps production was so low.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei mainly looked for areas where the bat moth eggs were more concentrated. He collected the vegetation and soil in the entire area and moved them into the Ring-Tu space.
The bat moth eggs were very small and attached to the leaves of grass. It was difficult to find them even during the day, let alone in the dark of the night.
However, Xia Ruofei's eyesight was amazing. With the help of the strong flashlight, he could find the eggs relatively easily.
In this way, Xia Ruofei kept looking for areas where the eggs were more concentrated in the nearby mountains at this altitude and moved them into the Ring-Tu space.
Of course, this was a stupid method, and it consumed a lot of stamina. If it were anyone else, this would be an impossible task.
But to Xia Ruofei, at most, she felt a little tired — after all, the altitude was there, and with such a large workload, it was impossible for Xia Ruofei to not have any reaction.
But even if he felt tired, it didn't affect his work speed at all.
While Xia Ruofei was looking for bat moth eggs, he would catch the bat moths on the way and put them into a gauze cage in the Ring-Tu space, temporarily "imprisoning" them.
Unknowingly, there were already 60 to 70 bat moths in the gauze cage, and the two acres of land in the space were gradually covered by the vegetation of the plateau in the Ring-Tu Snow Region.
A few hours passed.
After Xia Ruofei finished processing the last patch of vegetation and soil, he finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Now, the two acres of land in the space had completely covered the plateau's vegetation and soil. In addition, there was also a large plastic container that was half filled with the space's soil. On top of the space's soil, there was also a layer of plateau's vegetation and soil.
And this small one square meter plateau's vegetation and soil was specially selected by Xia Ruofei. It contained the most bat moth eggs.
This plastic container was naturally used by Xia Ruofei for the cultivation experiment.
Tonight's operation was undoubtedly a very heavy physical labor. Even if Xia Ruofei's physical strength was super strong, he was already sweating profusely.
He sat on a huge rock, took out some spirit pond water from the space, drank it, and sat down to rest for a while.
During the rest, Xia Ruofei communicated with Xia Qing through telepathic thoughts and gave him instructions. Xia Ruofei had already done some preparatory work before he set out, but there was no guarantee of safety in the wilderness. Xia Ruofei could not enter the Ring-Tu space, so the follow-up work could only be done by Xia Qing.
While Xia Ruofei was resting, his mind was always connected to the space, so he could "see" Xia Qing's every move in the Ring-Tu space.
After receiving Xia Ruofei's orders, Xia Qing immediately began to work on the land covered with bat moth eggs and cordyceps mycelium.
He erected the galvanized tubes that Xia Ruofei had already prepared and inserted them into the holes around the land.
These galvanized tubes were about two meters long, and they were connected to a gauze net. When these galvanized tubes were erected, the gauze net also surrounded the land.
Then Xia Qing unfolded another gauze net that could cover the entire land. Then this gauze net flew up and accurately covered the entire land, forming a whole with the gauze net around it. With Xia Ruofei's permission, Xia Qing, a puppet that was originally born for the Ring-Tu space, could also use the power of the five elements.
Xia Qing quickly reinforced the connection points. He also covered the parts of the gauze net that were in contact with the ground with a layer of spatial soil to ensure that there were no gaps.
Then, Xia Qing carried the gauze cage and walked into the range of the gauze net from the only door that had a velcro switch. He released all the bats and moths in the gauze cage and quickly left the range of the gauze net, patching up the only loophole.
Soon, an "independent kingdom" that was similar to a wasp's living space appeared in the Mountain Sea Realm of the Ring-Tu space.
After completing the first mission given by Xia Ruofei, Xia Qing carried the largest packing box without stopping and traveled to the Archean Realm.
Xia Ruofei's idea was the same as cultivating abalones. He wanted to use the difference in the flow of time in the Archean Realm to experiment and ensure that this method could perfectly simulate the environment where the caterpillar fungus grew.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste of time and expression if he waited a year before discovering that this method was not feasible?
Xia Qing moved the large packing box containing the bat moth eggs and the caterpillar fungus mycelium to the spatial spirit pool, placing it together with the orange plastic box containing the small abalones.
Then, he followed Xia Ruofei's instructions and found a small bottle of diluted spirit heart flower petal solution. He evenly poured the solution on the surface of the soil and vegetation in the packing box.
Following that, Xia Qing wrapped the top of the packing box with gauze nets. This could ensure that there was good ventilation and prevent the hatched bat moth larvae from escaping the box.
After confirming that Xia Qing had completed all the work, Xia Ruofei transmitted his praise to him through his divine will.
The reason why Xia Ruofei wanted Xia Qing to complete the work immediately was that he hoped to see the results of his hard work as soon as possible.
Otherwise, he would have wasted a few days by the time he returned to the farm. That was equivalent to wasting a few months in the Archean Realm!
With this arrangement, Xia Ruofei only needed to wait another seven or eight days after returning to the farm in two days to determine if his idea could really create an ecosystem in the spatial realm.
After sitting for so long, Xia Ruofei had basically recovered all his energy. Therefore, he stood up and prepared to do something more important — search for the World Stone.
Just now, when Xia Ruofei was searching for the area where the bat moth eggs were concentrated, he was also paying close attention to the temperature of the jade leaf. He carefully controlled the direction he was moving in, making sure that he was getting closer and closer to the Boundary Stone that the formation had sensed.
Even though he would sometimes deviate slightly from his direction for the nearby bat moth eggs and vegetation, he would quickly return to the correct path after collecting the vegetation and soil.
Now that he had completed the previous work, Xia Ruofei had no more worries. He focused on sensing the minute changes in the jade leaf's temperature and constantly adjusted his direction, heading towards the possible location of the World Stone.
If he was on flat ground, with the precise guidance of the 'radar' that was the sensing jade leaf, finding something within a ten-kilometer radius was nothing for a special combat elite like Xia Ruofei.
However, this was not flat ground, but a continuous mountain range.
Sometimes, the jade leaf would clearly sense a certain direction, but what lay in front of Xia Ruofei was a cliff. This way, he would have to take a long detour to reach the other side.
And after reaching the other side, based on the temperature of the jade leaf, it was very likely that he would have to cross the same cliff at another location and return to the other side.
If it were an ordinary person, they would have long been tortured to the point of losing their minds.
However, Xia Ruofei's mental fortitude was not something an ordinary person could compare to. Moreover, the World Stone was too important to him. No matter how difficult it was, he had to obtain it.
Moreover, this was only a difficulty caused by some natural factors. In Xia Ruofei's opinion, it was still better than the situation where the World Stone was already in someone else's possession.
Xia Ruofei very patiently and nimbly climbed the plateau that was five to six thousand meters above sea level.
After walking for a short distance, he would stop and seriously sense the changes in the jade leaf's temperature. Then, he would either continue in the same direction or make slight adjustments to his route.
Just like that, Xia Ruofei dug in the mountain for three to four hours. It was already the latter half of the night, but Xia Ruofei did not feel tired at all. Instead, his expression became more and more excited because he could sense that the temperature of the jade leaf was getting higher and higher.
This meant that his efforts over the past few hours were not in vain. He was getting closer and closer to the World Stone.
At this moment, Xia Ruofei suddenly stopped.
His sharp sense of danger made him quiver. The moment he stopped, the sound of rustling grass and trees could be heard. Xia Ruofei felt a sense of danger rapidly approaching from behind his head.
He instinctively turned his body to the side. At the same time, the military dagger that had accompanied him for many years appeared in his hand out of thin air.
Xia Ruofei saw a black shadow pouncing toward him from the corner of his eye. He did not have time to think as he swung the dagger while dodging this fatal blow.
The black shadow seemed to have also sensed the killing intent emitted by the cold blade of the military dagger. However, it was unable to dodge in midair. The huge inertia caused it to crash straight toward Lu Sheng.
Xia Ruofei did not do anything. All he did was raise the tip of the dagger.
With a ripping sound, the sharp military dagger slashed open a huge wound on the black shadow's body. After it fell to the ground, it struggled for a moment before it stopped moving.
Xia Ruofei shone the strong flashlight on it. It turned out that it was a wolf that lived in the highlands.
What happened just now was really fast. If Xia Ruofei had reacted a little slower, even if he did not lose his life, he would have suffered a lot under the wolf's sharp claws.
However, Xia Ruofei did not feel relieved after killing the wolf. This was because he had already sensed that the danger had not been eliminated.
He abruptly turned around and swept the flashlight into the distance.
One pair, two pairs, three pairs … More than ten pairs of green eyes were filled with ferocity and greed. They were all staring at Xia Ruofei.
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