The viewpoint locks onto the top of Uluru’s head.
This was a cave deep underground in the mountains between Yao City and Salt City, and after entering the specific underground scene, the original third-person tilted viewpoint became a horizontal viewpoint.
The screen was Avray dark, with only the three Uluru radiating a subtle light.
In front of them was a T-shaped black mud puddle with a small puddle at the top and a bottom that trailed into the unseen depths of the underground.
“Uluru-san, the black magic still can’t be collected.”
A pixelated villain holding a torch next to him said, “The black magic is heavy and slippery, and it’s like it can sense us, it oozes away underground whenever it tries to get close.”
Another backpacking cave monster adds, “It’s dangerous. Cave monsters have legends about this underground black water, they come and go without a trace, they can penetrate walls, and they will steal stockpiles of food and leave a trail of oil.”
A mess showed up on Uluru’s head.
He raised the writing pad in his hand and a dialogue box popped up.
“The black ooze is that which was born from the black devils, which have been seen by a number of people in the Uzi tribe, but if anyone tries to touch and collect them, the black devils disappear without a trace.”
“I consulted Lord Zelkuku of Uda City, and it also said that the Black Devil itself has a special structure and prefers hot areas, and usually the areas where the Black Devil appears are accompanied by fire wells, which are dangerous.”
“You guys have to be careful and keep your torches away from the cracked area to avoid a fire well eruption.”
He admonished the two assistants travelling with him.
Lu Yao clicked on the black devils in the pits.
……
[Black Devil LV46
Life Value: 17566/17566
Mana: 0/0
Damage: 0
Defence: 25
Speed: 50
[Fusion
A fusion is created between the same class, followed by stronger expansion and survival.
[Deep Extraction]
Will extract and purify the wrapped substance, the extraction effect depends on the level of this ability and the level of black magic.
[Carrion Mystery LV2]
Further grows by devouring corpses or decaying matter.
[Mad Excretor]
Any unwanted impurities are continuously precipitated from the body.
……
The Black Devil was shaped like a pool of black mud, but was essentially a living thing.
Due to the fact that Black Devils moved too fast underground, Yao civilisation’s current man-made tools and even Apostles were unable to capture them, at best observing them as Uluru did, but unable to obtain actual living samples.
If it wasn’t for Lu Yao’s ability to check the backstage encyclopaedia, he would only be able to sigh in despair.
This group of Black Devils liked warm and hot places and had a strong desire to feed, they were relatively primitive underground beings that acted on instinct, so they only needed to target their instinctive desires and they would have a solution.
Lu Yao’s mind thought of a place to place the Black Devils.
[Egil’s Fire].
He gave the capture task to Slymod, and also tested this Master Teacher’s practical ability.
After receiving the order, Slymod’s avatar quickly arrived at the scene.
Seeing the green-clothed man who suddenly appeared underground, exclamation marks popped up on the heads of the three Uluru, and they took a step back.
“Please don’t be nervous, I’ve come over to help you deal with the Black Demon.”
“First of all, thank you for your survey and input. Although a being like the Black Demon is not aggressive, its characteristics make it so that it must be made to behave accordingly.”
“Now it’s up to me to try.”
A large group of identical green-robed men arrived.
They divided up the work clearly, some led the sandworms to carry large piles of supplies, some began to install fire vapour furnaces, some made markings on the ground, some surveyed the location, and some were dedicated to observing the black demon’s condition ……
The people in green went about their duties as if they were in charge.
Uluru inquired, “May I ask who you are?”
“Forgot to introduce myself.”
One of Slymod’s grubby limbs said to them, “First time I meet you, my name is Slymod, an apostle of Lord Yao Shen.”
The three Uluru were startled and hurriedly addressed the Apostle-sama.
The Slemods finished their preparations and began capturing.
They dropped a large amount of rotting matter all the way to lure them, and with the fire steam furnace to increase the temperature as an aid, they gradually lured the black devils a little bit from their original position.
While the sandworms were moving and digging in the front, the Slimerds were pulling the black devils, slowly moving all the way from the underground, and finally arriving at the underground of Egil’s Fire.
As soon as they approached the place, the Black Devils became excited. A large amount of black grease seeped out of the ground and gushed into the ground, like a black fountain, with many bubbles rising from it.
A light bulb lit up above Uluru’s head who was watching from the sidelines the entire time, as if he understood the key.
“Gentlemen, my work is done.”
Slemod told them, “The method you have already seen. By using the rotting things that the Black Demon likes as bait, and then continuously raising the surrounding temperature, you can make the Black Demon lean in that direction.”
“It’s a strange life, and in addition to eating rot, it also greatly prefers high temperature environments.”
“And naturally, the most suitable for the Black Demon at the moment is the volcanic wonderland.”
“I’ll leave the rest to you all, please pay attention to safety, hard work.”
After saying that, the many green-robed people quickly left the scene and quickly disappeared without a trace.
The three people left behind looked at each other in disbelief.
Lu Yao was satisfied with this action of Slimer’s.
He had imparted key experience and methods to Ululu and the others without making this group of discoverers lose their sense of involvement, doing a good job of guiding and inspiring as an apostle should, and being efficient and concise throughout.
Uluru embarked on a follow-up study of the Black Ooze.
Black Ooze has always been plentiful as a safety suit for the Uzi, and their need for it is growing by the day as the Uzi increasingly infest the surface.
However, Uda City’s reserve excavation could no longer keep up with the growing daily needs of the Uzi tribe, resulting in many of them wanting to come to the surface but not having the opportunity or conditions to do so.
Right now there was finally a solution.
The Black Devil settled under the volcano and began to spit out a large amount of Black Ooze.
As long as it devoured rotting matter, the Black Devil would secrete Black Woolly Mud until it fell into a brief state of rest after localised saturation. After recovering, the process would continue again.
The bottleneck that was restricting the Uzi Clan from going everywhere was finally broken this time.
While Uluru was excited, thoughts popped up in his head.
“It turns out that the Black Uzi Mud is the product of the Black Devil’s elimination of impurities after eating food.”
“Since the black ooze excreted by the black devils is usable, what about those oils?”
After the Black Devil eats, after secreting the Black Ooze, it also creates a lot of yellowish, clear grease.
Ululu collected them and found that these oils were actually a superior fuel better than stone charcoal, and with just a little bit of oil, the flames could be made to last for a long time.
The game interface was then displayed.
[Uluru has discovered magic oil.]
Lu Yao said in his heart that’s right.
I’ll point you in the right direction, it’s up to you to choose how far you can go next and what route to take.
As a matter of fact, there are no records related to Magic Oil in the Golden Wilderness Backstage Encyclopaedia. It was only after Uluru’s discovery that the Magic Oil entry formally appeared, with the synopsis and description exactly replicating the conclusions of Uluru’s experiments.
This proved that the pixelated little people were both experiencers of the Yao civilisation and writers of world records.
But what Lu Yao himself was most looking forward to was the [Deep Extraction] effect of the Black Devil.
From the description, this was properly an Advanced Refinement ability.
The Yao civilisation was currently in the initial stages of development in all fields, the breadth was enough, but the precision was still poor.
High-precision techniques and depth cognition required a long period of ploughing and experimentation, and there was no use in rushing. I wonder if [Depth Extraction] could shorten this process in some ways.
Lu Yao observed the pixel world.
It didn’t take long, just as he had predicted, the Yao Clan’s development of the Black Demon further unfolded.
The refining and removal of metals could be done through the Black Demon – provided that one gave it food and kept the surrounding temperature high enough.
The Black Demon would engulf iron ingots and copper blocks, and then quickly spit them out again; metals were not in its recipes. The copper and iron extracted by the black devil was one size smaller, with a large number of impurities stripped out and turned into a very pure metal.
This immediately drew the Dwarf Hammer Endless.
As a skilful craftsman, a material purifier like black magic could not be left untried.
Hammer Endless boldly attempted to put a set of Twin City Armour into the quagmire formed by the Black Devil, and it wasn’t long before the armour was spat out, scattering into a field of copper flakes.
Dwarf did not give up, he changed his method, split the dual city armour, put it in as the most basic parts, carry out repeated extraction, and then combine and assemble it after reforging and shaping it ……
After repeated tests and busyness, a big smile emoticon emerged from the dwarf’s brain on his brain, “It really works!”
“What a marvellous, incredible fellow!”
“From now on, we have one of the best refining masters!”
Hammer Endless hugged the refined Twin Cities Armour and danced happily with the armour.
Lu Yao clicked on this armour.
……
[Twin Cities Armour LV2]: a fine armour that covers the entire body, extracted and refined, gained [Heavy Strike LV1] after equipping it.
Life Value: 480/480
Defence +5
……
The refining gave the Dual City Armour +80 Life and +2 Defence, a considerable enhancement.
Lu Yao didn’t even think that Deep Extraction could actually strengthen equipment.
In his head, he also couldn’t help but think, with dozens of Fire Props in his bag, wouldn’t it be possible as well?
Lu Yao found a piece and tried it out, only to have the Black Demon swallow it in one gulp and almost give it a direct digestion. He hurriedly took it back to the props bar.
One of the causes of the Black Devil’s genesis included the Fire Prop, and to it, it was an unparalleled nutritional tonic.
The fire prop refining plan was declared a failure.
Not long after, the Yao Clan’s pixellets disassembled all of the [Brass Furnace Dragon] and used the Black Devil to extract and reshape the metal skeleton and torso parts, and the name became [Brass Furnace Dragon LV2], with all of its stats slightly upgraded.
From then on, black magic refining gradually became a regular processing means, and was widely used in the manufacture of various props and devices.
Geologists and archaeologists, on the other hand, were also on the lookout for other Black Devils everywhere, and using the method taught by Slemod, they converged them one by one under the Egil’s Fire.
The black devils merged with each other, and their levels grew higher and higher, and their abilities slowly increased.
……
At this time, Lu Yao had already cast his perspective to the outside world.
The Yao Race World had entered a period of rapid development that had never been seen before, and with the Apostles sitting on the scene, there was no need to worry, the current focus was on creating the external environment for the outer cycle of civilisation.
Lu Yao had decided after repeated thoughts to build a new type of pilot city in the Cloud Temple to serve as a bridge and link to the outside divine Kingdom.
