Cave Refuge-Chapter 243 - 241 Understanding the Cave_1
Standing in the cave mansion, Dong Tianyu was somewhat stunned, unsure if his recent experience was just an illusion. However, it would be very simple to confirm this by just glancing at the data layout.
After confirming that the cave mansion’s level displayed in the data layout was the Initial Sky Level, Dong Tianyu continued to check the changes in the data layout.
At this point, the original data layout was divided into two interfaces: character and cave mansion.
Character Data
Name: Dong Tianyu
Cultivation: Foundation Building Fourth Layer (Cultivation Progress: 80%)
Cultivation Method: Chaos Decision
Talent Ability: Transformation (consumes survival points, transforms technological items in the cave mansion into mystic items)
Survival Points: 2215 (10/daily) (Catastrophe wave number 6+ cave mansion level 4)
Cave Name: Peach Blossom Cave Sky
Cave Owner: Dong Tianyu
Cave Level: Initial Sky Level (0%)
Cave Area: Diameter 200 metres (Spherical).
Features: Located in Chaos - The cave is hidden within chaos.
Ability: Decomposition Absorption - Absorbs items in the cave mansion to enhance the cave’s foundation, reducing the consumption of upgrading the cave and buildings.
Decomposition Transformation - Can absorb chaos energy and transform it into any form of energy (spirit energy at this stage). 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Self-growth: Can absorb chaos energy to expand the internal space of the cave mansion.
Gain effect: Suitable Climate, Abundant Grains, Flourishing Livestock, Favourable Weather.
Spirit Vein Level: Elementary Spirit Vein
Spirit Vein Features: Stability (Stabilizes cave mansion space strength, reduces the influence of space energy on the cave), Self-evolution (Various mineral deposits will evolve in the spirit vein, which can absorb spirit energy to generate spirituality).
Special Buildings inside the cave mansion:
Spiritual Spring: Makes the spirit energy in the cave mansion more active. When the spirit energy in the cave mansion reaches a certain concentration, it will condense to get a Spiritual Energy Crystal.
Hall of Longevity (First Layer):
Guided cultivation (Cultivation in standby).
Spirit Gathering Array (Improves cultivation speed).
Clear Mind (Reduces the chance of deviating in cultivation).
Hall of Longevity (Second Layer): Scripture Hall (Consumes survival points, obtains cultivation methods, arts and knowledge about cultivation).
Hundred Fruit Tree: Swallows seeds and produces hundred catties of fruit on the tree (Seeds swallowed: Qilin Watermelon, Kyoho Grapes, Red Fuji Apple, Dandong Strawberry.
(Even though there is a system, it rarely appears, just knowing that this thing exists is enough, not relying on these data to increase the word count.)
Although the cave mansion was upgraded to the Initial Sky Level, there wasn’t much change in the data layout, apart from separating character attributes and cave mansion properties.
The rest aren’t much different from before, the character attributes still remain as brief as ever, only now there is an added cultivation progress, which can let Dong Tianyu have a more direct understanding of his current cultivation situation.
As for the cave mansion, it’s still the same. Apart from consuming survival points to obtain building blueprints and using survival points to build buildings, those buildings built by himself, as well as the farmlands, ponds, rivers and decomposition pits developed, are not displayed in the data layout, the system does not recognize these.
Like the cultivation level in character attributes, originally it can only depend on checking how many survival points are needed when upgrading to check the upgrading progress, but now it’s directly shown on the data layout.
Without this, it can be as before, to judge the upgrading progress by reducing the number of survival points after decomposition. Having it is even better and more clear to see the upgrading progress.
After upgrading, the space of the cave mansion should be considered to have enlarged.
The original ground area was 200*200 metres, the height was only 40 metres, a rectangle. Although adding the Shadow Space, the total height could reach 80 metres.
But after upgrading, it directly turned into a spherical ball with a diameter of 200 metres.
After a rough estimation, the volume should have increased by about four times. Although the static storage space has increased a bit, able to store more items, the practicality of the non-static space is not much different from before.
After all, although the non-static space has risen somewhat in height, the ground area has not only not increased, but it has gotten smaller. However, Dong Tianyu’s original utilization of the land within his cave mansion wasn’t optimal, so a bit of reduction doesn’t affect him much.
When the cave mansion is upgraded to a Cave, the shadow copying skill that originally controlled the Shadow Space has disappeared. In its place, Dong Tianyu can freely open a portal to the active area on the upper layer of the Cave or a portal to the time-static area on the lower layer.
At this point, the Cave has disappeared from Nameless Mountain. Upon opening the metallic gate on the surface of the mountain, one sees a huge cave, the inside of which is more like the appearance of Dong Tianyu’s initial excavation before obtaining the System, rather than a naturally formed bumpy cave.
The attribute of being located in chaos indicates that the Cave has disappeared from Blue Star so Dong Tianyu no longer has to worry about his Cave mansion being discovered by others.
If one wants to enter the Cave now, one can only rely on Dong Tianyu opening a transportation channel, as the Shadow Space has disappeared.
Dong Tianyu can store and retrieve items anywhere, he’s no longer limited by distance as he once was.
As Dong Tianyu had guessed, the primary Cave’s ability to convert chaos energy into Spirit Power is quite limited. If he wants to gain Spiritual Stones by converting chaos energy, it basically requires waiting for a long time.
Similarly, wanting to enhance the size of the space within the Cave by absorbing chaos energy is virtually a pipe dream. To increase the size of the Cave, the most realistic method is still to upgrade the level of the cave mansion.
The enhancement effects of the cave mansion, which used to not be shown in the Data layout, have appeared after the upgrade. However, although they are now shown, they haven’t given any new enhancement effects after the upgrade, making their meaning insignificant.
The greatest gains from this upgrade, other than moving the Cave mansion into chaos, would be that the Veins within the Cave have been upgraded from regular large veins to Spirit Veins.
Even though it’s only the lowest-ranked Spirit Veins, they can stably produce Spiritual Stones. Unfortunately, the numbers are not abundant.
However, with Spirit Veins, Dong Tianyu can plant or breed plants or animals with spiritual nature within the Cave. While there are none now, normal creatures that live long term in the Spirit Veins also stand a chance of awakening and gaining spirit.
This means with enough time, all animals and plants bred and planted inside the Cave, have a chance of obtaining spirit.
Besides, the Vein’s inherent stability has become a reduced effect on the Cave’s spatial energy after being upgraded to a Spirit Vein. This could mean that someone with teleportation ability who can normally teleport 100 meters outside, could only teleport up to 50 meters after entering the Cave. Of course, Dong Tianyu is unaffected inside the Cave.
Besides this, the upgraded Cave is not much different from the former Cave mansion.
However, the glittering building column in the Data Layout constantly reminds Dong Tianyu that with the cave mansion’s upgrade, there are a lot more building blueprint options in the System.
Dong Tianyu can’t help but click in to take a detailed look at these blueprints. Even though they are very useful to him, the marked prices on them leave Dong Tianyu a little bit helpless.
He can certainly afford to buy, but it requires time to accumulate survival points. Perhaps picking the side of the mystery could grant a long life according to the blueprints currently for sale in the marketplace. Calculating based on the current daily gains of survival points...
Even the cheapest one requires Dong Tianyu to accumulate for three to five months before he can buy without using his survival points.
Peeping at the price of a few interesting building blueprints, the continuous trailing zeros bring a bitter smile to Dong Tianyu’s face.
Some things are better off not knowing. The more you know, the more worries you have.
Upon closing the Data Layout, Dong Tianyu prepares to personally inspect the situation within Nameless Mountain.
Although the ability to open the transmission channel has just been obtained, it’s already instinctual. As long as Dong Tianyu has this thought in his mind, the transmission channel will open anywhere within 20 meters around Dong Tianyu.
The size of the transmission channel is not limited. However, if the area of the channel greatly exceeds Dong Tianyu’s physique, it would eat up his mind at a geometric rate.
If carelessly opening the channel too large exceeds the limit of Dong Tianyu’s mind, Dong Tianyu could directly fall into unconsciousness.
Perhaps because it’s only a primary Cave now, Dong Tianyu can only open the transmission channel in a fixed area. Simply put, the site where one enters the Cave is the same location one will exit from.
However, the size of the transmission channel is controlled by Dong Tianyu. Before leaving, Dong Tianyu can first open a small crack, checking with his Divine Sense to ensure that it’s safe on the other side of the transmission channel before expanding it to normal size.
Dong Tianyu did exactly this. After all, the Cave has just been upgraded and Dong Tianyu didn’t enter the Cave from the outside world, so he doesn’t know where the other end of the channel is.
However, fortunately, the System didn’t cause mischief. When Dong Tianyu used his Divine Sense to inquire about the circumstances on the other end of the transmission channel, he confirmed that it should be located in the belly of Nameless Mountain.
The reason why he could confirm this was because Dong Tianyu had seen the metallic door on the side of the mountain via his Divine Sense.
Although Dong Tianyu paid very close attention, there was no sensation when traversing the transmission channel. It was like crossing through a door on flat ground. If it weren’t for the view changing in his line of sight, Dong Tianyu wouldn’t have detected that he had crossed the transmission channel at all.
When Dong Tianyu exited the transmission channel, he paid close attention to this end of the channel and found that although he could clearly sense that the transmission channel was right in front of him, there was no abnormality in his field of vision.
The entrance side of the transmission channel had already merged with the environment.
Besides this, Dong Tianyu instinctively knew...
If he was unwilling, even if there were things or creatures passing by the location of the transmission channel, they wouldn’t enter the Cave.
Only with his permission could they enter the Cave via the transmission channel.
Looking at it this way, the practicality of the transmission channel is much stronger than Dong Tianyu had imagined.
