Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Xu Xin smelted some steel fires and handed them over to Li Wenxi. At the same time, he also gave Li Wenxi some coal.

According to his observation just now, a piece of coal (green) can make the furnace burn for an hour, which is shorter than the burning time of a piece of green wood.

But coal is easy to get. I don’t know how long that pile of coal mines will be mined, and with a pickaxe, you can get a dozen or twenty yuan. Compared with green-level trees that only produce five pieces of wood, it is indeed cheaper Much easier to obtain.

Most importantly, coal increases furnace efficiency.

"This is coal!" Li Wenxi was also very pleasantly surprised, "It can actually improve the efficiency of the furnace! Did you find a coal mine?"

"Well, it's near my tree house, buried five or six meters underground."

"It turned out to be buried in the ground. I said that I have never been able to find the coal mine... You found everything underground!" Li Wenxi blinked, "Could it be that your alchemy ability helped you find it?"

"It should be about the same as your ability to find ore." Xu Xin raised the corner of her mouth and said.

"...Hey, I'm going to help you practice steel blocks!"

After hanging up the video, Xu Xin came to the art room and sat in front of the sculpture and painting workbench.

At his current speed, a small carving can be produced in fifteen minutes, and 40 points of decoration can be produced in one hour.

After eating an orange to keep her mental strength at its peak, Xu Xin picked up the carving knife and immediately entered the state.

Soon, the first sculpture, the small sculpture promised to Li Wenxi, was made. This time, he carved a little beauty standing on the spot with her hands on her hips. The proportions of her head, body and legs were perfectly restored, and even her figure was perfectly restored. .

The prompt sound reminded him to increase the decoration by ten points. Xu Xin put the small engraving aside, took out a green-grade crystal, and continued engraving.

Immersed in the carvings, Xu Xin could not feel the passage of time. Soon, small carvings were created from his hands. The images of the small carvings were all animals, such as blood-patterned rabbits, blood-patterned cats, and blood-patterned cats. Sailfish, these are the three mid-level mutant beasts he has killed.

When the fourth carving, the blood-striped swordfish's carving out of the water, was completed, Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief, put down the carving knife, and leaned back on the chair. He glanced at the time, there were four carvings, no more, no less, exactly one hour.

Really good, one hour, 40 points of decoration.

This time, however, the beep has changed.

[Mutated Sailfish Red Crystal Carving (Green) was detected in the tree house, tree house decoration degree +10, current tree house decoration degree: 319.68 (266.4+53.28)]

[The number of crystal carvings (green) in the tree house has reached the upper limit, and continuing to increase will not increase the decoration. 】

...Sure enough, there is an upper limit to the number of crystal carvings of the same level, but the upper limit is much higher than that of basic materials that have not been processed.

Art has limits too.

Xu Xin did some calculations. Before today, he carved a statue for Ke Ke, Mimi, A Fu, Yin Wang, Ai Concubine, and the two little guys, a total of six small green-level sculptures. Inside, there are sculptures that will be given to Li Wenxi, and sculptures of three mid-level mutant beasts.

In total, ten.

The maximum number of crystal carvings (green) is ten. Each crystal carving (green) can increase the decoration degree by 10 points. , bringing him a total of 120 points of decoration.

A lot, after all, green crystals that have not been processed can only add 6 decoration points in total. His unprocessed amethyst crystal can only add 5 points of decoration.

However, Xu Xin was a little disappointed. In fact, he hoped that the decoration could be infinitely increased. Now it seems that it is still necessary to use other materials and methods to increase the degree of decoration.

There is no need to worry at the moment, he can also use mahogany paper for painting to increase the degree of decoration, and mahogany is also one of the carving materials.

Taking out another green grade crystal, Xu Xin started carving again. After all, one of these statues was given to Li Wenxi, so he naturally wanted to make up for it.

The carving is finished, it is a small carving of a wild boar. Unsurprisingly, sure enough, there was no hint of an increase in decoration this time.

Xu Xin put the statue on the bookcase, and was about to contact Li Wenxi to inquire about the steel block refining situation, when suddenly, a notification sounded in his ear.

[Sculpture proficiency is achieved, and the artist level is upgraded to entry level. 】

...The artist level has increased?

Xu Xin immediately clicked on the [Artist] option, and found that the small words about the level had changed.

Artist level: advanced level.

The artist level has reached the next stage of advancement!

The reminder said that he was promoted because of his carving proficiency. Xu Xin did some calculations, and together with the two sculptures given to Li Wenxi, he made a total of twelve small sculptures before finally being promoted to the entry level.

His own level is indeed an entry level, but with the blessing of the deep sea pearl (blue), the artist level has increased and reached the advanced level!

Are advanced artists already able to handle blue-level crystals?

Xu Xin immediately took out a blue crystal. Compared with green grade crystals, blue grade crystals are much larger. Green grade crystals are only the size of an egg, but blue grade crystals are as big as a fist.

There are still a few traces carved by him last time on this blue grade crystal. That time he only carved a few knives and then couldn't do it anymore.

When Xu Xin lifted the carving knife, the immersive feeling reappeared, which made him overjoyed.

Sure enough, he can handle blue-level crystals and make blue-level carvings! This made him feel a little lost after learning that the crystal engraving had an upper limit, and he immediately immersed himself in the engraving.

After an unknown amount of time, the vibration of his watch woke him up from his state, and it was Li Wenxi who sent a video call.

Although he felt smooth and flowing when he was carving, and his knife seemed to be assisted by a god, but at this time, the completion of the blue-level carving under his hand was very low, not even a single piece.

Looking at the time, Xu Xin frowned.

It has been an hour since he started carving this blue crystal!

This... isn't even 10% complete in an hour? !

This blue-level engraving is really time-consuming! Looking at it this way, even if you want to complete a blue-level engraving, even if you don't do anything, it will take a whole day!

...It's a waste of time. For the time being, let's use other methods to increase the decoration level. After all, he can make many green-level artworks in an hour.

Green-level painting and green-level mahogany carving can both improve the decoration. After upgrading to the advanced tier, he should be able to create art faster.

Fill up all these first, the number reaches the upper limit, add some boost points to the art room, and then consider the higher blue-level crystal statues.

The watch was still ringing, and Xu Xin connected to the video.

"What are you doing? You haven't answered for so long." Li Wenxi asked a little puzzled, holding a metal block with bright silver metallic luster in his hand.

"I'm carving it for you," Xu Xin raised the carving of the little beauty in his hand, and teased, "You almost let me give up all my previous efforts and almost broke your legs."

"Ah? Oh, then... is it not broken?" Li Wenxi suddenly lowered her voice a lot, and asked cautiously with an expression of "I was wrong" on her face.

"I lied to you, it's okay, it's perfect." Xu Xin threw the statue in his hand.

Li Wenxi's eyes widened, and she hurriedly stopped: "Hey, don't throw it away! What if it breaks, it's 'me'!"

Xu Xin took the statue and stood it on the table. He had already seen the piece of steel in Li Wenxi's hand. There was a blue light on the piece of steel, and it was obviously a blue-grade steel piece.

"How is the refining process of the steel blocks? Is the speed fast?" Xu Xin initiated a transaction with Li Wenxi and asked at the same time.

Li Wenxi also directly accepted the deal, held the statue in her hand, and looked at it fondly.

"Hurry up, it's been refined a lot. Well, wait a moment, I'll put the statue in place first!"

She got up and went to another room, carefully placing the statue on a shelf. On the shelf is still the statue that Xu Xin gave her before, which carved her lying on the sofa.

After doing this, she sat back on the sofa and picked up the silver-white steel block that had just been placed on the wooden coffee table.

"That's it, steel block! I have refined some green and blue steel blocks. The refining time of this steel block is also related to the level. The time for refining green level steel blocks is much shorter than that of blue level steel blocks. Hmm... …It only takes a few tens of seconds for a green grade, and it takes fifteen minutes for a blue grade to refine a piece.”

Sure enough, professional people should do professional things.

It takes Xu Xin 50 minutes to refine a piece of blue-level steel, and Li Wenxi can do it in 15 minutes.

And she also has many furnaces. With the blessing of the smelting room increase, even if there are many furnaces, it can ensure that the indoor temperature will not be too high, which will not cause a fire. It is also possible to enter the smelting room to control the furnace without cooling down. This directly doubled the refining speed several times.

"Also, a bottle of steel fire can continuously refine five green-grade steel blocks, but only one blue-grade steel block can be refined. By the way, does your steel fire consume a lot of materials?"

A steel fire only needs one kilogram of mutated vine juice and 25 pieces of coal, which is not a lot.

Coal is currently inexhaustible. Even if Aifei dug more than a thousand pieces of coal, the coal mine didn't seem to have changed.

Even if the mutated vine juice is exhausted, with his current strength, he can go to the edge of the protected area and jump repeatedly to attract the vines to go out, then kill it, and then collect the juice.

"It's not very material-intensive. Give me the steel block first, and I'll see what I can make."

"good."

Li Wenxi also sent him all the steel blocks.

"...Is he so rich?" Looking at the materials in his hand, Xu Xin felt a little numb.

Xu Xin gave her a total of twenty pieces of steel fire, and she also returned him twenty-eight pieces of steel.

Among them, only ten pieces are green-level steel blocks, and the remaining eighteen pieces are all blue-level steel blocks!

The moment he got the steel block, his formula about steel was quietly unlocked.