In the valley, hundreds of white foxes surrounded the city in a circle, crawling on the ground in unison. There was a large rock in the middle of them, and a snow-white fox with seven tails was crouching on the stone and looking up at the sun. In its arms, there was also a cute little fox, the one who signed a contract with Tang Yunfeng.

As the deep voice of the seven-tailed sky fox continued to sound, runes flashing with glittering light appeared in the air, and the runes slowly floated in the air. When the seven-tailed sky fox's voice stopped, the runes dimmed in unison, and then shone brightly, forming a glowing spatial gate in the air.

The sky fox glanced at Tang Yunfeng standing on the hillside, grabbed the little fox who was squeaking at Tang Yunfeng and flew directly to the door of space. Tang Yunfeng waved goodbye to the little fox from afar, and he didn't know if he could see it. After the seven-tailed sky fox and the little fox submerged into the spatial gate, the gate returned into runes and dissipated into the sky.

At this time, Tang Yunfeng's mind suddenly appeared with an official propaganda slogan of "The Vast Continent". "A whole new continent, a world of dreams, anything you want, it's possible."

Since entering the game, Tang Yunfeng has almost always been on the main road of the development history of human civilization. Whether it is the discovery of fire, or the manufacture of tools, clothes, and houses, the spread of martial arts, except for the fact that the magic skills are slightly out of the main line of history, are basically in line with the main direction of the development of human civilization, including the bronze mine he is looking for now.

But this scene just now completely subverted his thoughts, a seven-tailed sky fox that existed in the legend opened a spatial portal and disappeared out of thin air. This scene has only been seen in fantasy novels, and if "The Vast Continent" is designed completely according to the trajectory of human development and civilization, then this scene should not appear. Even for the sake of the plot, a sci-fi spaceship taking them on a time travel is far more acceptable than this scene.

The appearance of this scene means that "The Vast Continent" has not completely evolved in accordance with the development direction of modern human civilization. Even the direction of evolution is not science fiction, but fantasy.

Tang Yunfeng stood on the hillside, thinking hard about what kind of main line was hidden in "The Vast Continent". He can only be sure that fantasy is one of the main lines of development of "The Vast Continent", but he is not sure whether it is the most fundamental line.

The scene of Sky Fox shuttling through time and space opened up a whole new world for him, and also disturbed his thinking, making him afraid to be sure whether his direction was correct or not, and he was determined to find whether the matter of the bronze mine could be realized.

After thinking for a long time, Tang Yunfeng stomped on his numb legs and feet, and looked up at the place where the Sky Fox and the Space Gate had disappeared. No matter how many main lines are hidden in "The Vast Continent", at least for the time being, this kind of mysterious space shuttle is not something he can access. Let's honestly work hard in the direction that you can see and touch! Thinking of this, Tang Yunfeng rekindled his fighting spirit and continued to follow the direction of the mountain to find the indicator plants of the ore veins and the color change of the mountain.

The white foxes in the valley have dispersed, because of the little foxes, Tang Yunfeng doesn't want to conflict with this group of white foxes, as long as they don't take the initiative to attack themselves, it's best for everyone to be safe.

He went down to the valley and looked at the stone that the seven-tailed sky fox had squatted on before Feitian, and there was nothing abnormal, it was just an ordinary stone.

The mountains on both sides of the valley are not steep, and you can see the slopes on both sides when you walk in the middle of the valley. Tang Yunfeng simply searched along the valley, and the ore veins were generally below the halfway up the mountain, and few ore veins appeared on the top of the mountain.

The valley meandered along the mountain range, Tang Yunfeng continued to search along the valley, and there were occasional white foxes flashing in the valley and on both sides, mostly hiding between the mountains and forests to watch him, and did not meet him directly.

After turning a hill, the mountains on both sides of the valley began to steepen, the vegetation on the mountains gradually thinned, there was no longer the shadow of a white fox in the mountains, and occasionally two ape cries echoed in the valley.

Tang Yunfeng slowed down and began to watch the movements on the mountains on both sides, if nothing else, this was already the territory of the monkeys. He didn't have much of a relationship with the monkeys, and he had a fight with them at the zoo as a child. Thinking of the interesting things when he was a child, Tang Yunfeng was a little gloomy, and the carefree time was always fascinating, but it could only be left in the memory.

A stone the size of a bowl struck through the air with a sharp whistling sound, interrupting his memories. Tang Yunfeng looked angrily in the direction where the stone was coming, a monkey covered in spotted, bare hairless, and with unusually long arms, was picking up a stone, ready to smash it at him again.

Tang Yunfeng would be polite to it, and with a wave of his staff, a wind blade slashed towards the long-armed stone armor monkey. The stone armor monkey jumped nimbly, avoiding the wind blade, and with a flick of his long arm, the stones shot straight at Tang Yunfeng like cannonballs. This time, Tang Yunfeng finally saw the movements of the stone armor monkey clearly, the long arm of this monster was like a trebuchet, no wonder the stones smashed out were sinking vigorously.

A man and a monkey started a chase battle in the valley, the monkey always wanted to hit Tang Yunfeng, and Tang Yunfeng always wanted to find an opportunity to give it a vital attack. The long arm of the stone monkey can not only attack, but also help it effectively use the terrain when running, and run and climb in the mountains extremely fast.

Tang Yunfeng observed the characteristics of the stone monkey while chasing, trying to find out its weakness. The Stone Monkey has excellent speed, petrified skin is also highly resistant to spells, and the Wind Blade and Ice Bullet are not effective, but the newly learned Shadow Swamp can not only limit its speed, but also has a certain corrosiveness to its petrified skin.

With the cooperation of the Shadow Swamp and the Thunder Technique, it took more than ten minutes for Tang Yunfeng to finally kill this difficult stone armor monkey. Although it took a lot of effort and the harvest was not bad, after Tang Yunfeng cast the Cu Ding Jie Niu on the stone armor monkey, he obtained the skill Kaihua - Volume 1 of the Stone Skin Technique and a small piece of enchantment material: Obsidian.

The appearance of obsidian made Tang Yunfeng a little excited, which meant that this area was producing ore, and it didn't make sense that enchanting materials had appeared, and there would be no ordinary ore. He took the area where the stone monkeys appeared and looked around, and encountered two more stone monkeys in the middle, both of which appeared one by one, and there was no phenomenon of groups of people. Fortunately, the stone monkey is not like an ordinary group of monkeys, otherwise he would have to flee in the wilderness. These two stone armor monkeys are not very particular, not only do they not have skill scrolls and obsidian, but they don't even have the fur and flesh of ordinary monsters. Also, this kind of monkey, even if there is a piece of meat, he doesn't have the courage to eat it.

After wandering around this area for more than two hours, he finally found the bronze mine he had been dreaming of in the depression of a mountain. Finally, the system is still a little conscientious, the purity of the bronze ore is relatively high, and it is embedded in the sedimentary rock layer in the form of mineral crystals, so that he will not be helpless.

Finding a convenient stone, Tang Yunfeng started his own mining work. The first few ore crystals were relatively simple, but the rest needed him to deduct them a little bit. Until the sun set in the west, Tang Yunfeng collected a total of more than a dozen fist-sized bronze ore crystals, but he did not see a very important associated metal tin. In this case, whether the bronze can be smelted is still a matter of two words.

Marking the location of the ore vein on the map, Tang Yunfeng began to return to the territory. The night of "The Vast Continent" is too dangerous, the battle with the stone armor monkey during the day is so difficult, and if he mutates at night, he doesn't think he can take advantage of anything. And he needs to get back to the camp as soon as possible to see if the bronze ore can be smelted, and if not, he has to find tin ore to lower the melting point, or find a way to increase the furnace temperature.

After returning to the camp, he went directly to the money shopkeeper to buy the drawings and charcoal of the kiln, went to the backyard of the Fengxue Inn, and built the kiln with construction techniques. Tang Yunfeng couldn't wait to throw the bronze ore into the upper layer of the kiln, and ignited the charcoal on the lower layer, which was the best smelting method summed up by the ancestors.

In order to speed up the smelting of bronze, Tang Yunfeng didn't even eat lunch, squatted directly on the edge of the kiln, and built another bellows that he had made before, constantly increasing the charcoal fire. From the time it was dark to start smelting on fire, until the sky was white, Tang Yunfeng heard a pleasant ding.

"You have mastered alchemy, gain +10 reputation, +100% proficiency, and get a share of the reward."

"You made the first bronze artifact, opened a new chapter in human civilization, and won the title of "Peak of Civilization", with +100 reputation, and the gold comprehension ability was raised to the maximum."

Tang Yunfeng excitedly opened the kiln and saw that it was a rectangular flat bronze block, just like a thickened ring ruler. He took it in his hand and waved it twice, and the heavy feeling unique to metal made Tang Yunfeng excited. With this bronze stick, his efficiency in mining ore will be greatly increased.

It is said that the iron should be struck while it is hot, and Tang Yunfeng is also ready to smelt copper while it is hot. Carrying the bronze ruler, he hurried to the location of the bronze mine all the time, preparing to get some bronze first and get a few weapons for himself to make up for the weak melee ability after losing the Youzhu spear.

This time, Tang Yunfeng no longer practiced spells and vital attacks, and dodged the monster's attacks if he could, and if he couldn't dodge, he used the Great Fireball Technique and the Thunder Technique to quickly kill them, and rushed to the location of the ore vein as quickly as possible.

With the bronze ruler, mining is really different, he took a big stone as a hammer, and used the bronze ruler to pry out the pieces of bronze ore crystals from the stone layer, which is much easier than smashing with stones.

In less than two hours, Tang Yunfeng got a backpack full of bronze ore crystals, if he didn't move on his back, he still wanted to continue to pry. Carrying a package full of bronze ore spars, facing the rising sun, stepping on the golden brilliance, Tang Yunfeng happily returned to the camp.

Just when Tang Yunfeng began to smelt his second furnace of bronze and began to prepare his own forging table. Thousands of miles away, in the ancient capital of Chang'an, in a beautifully decorated villa, a young man took off his helmet and lit a cigarette depressedly.

Ou Jinyuan is the descendant of the Ou family and the descendant of Ou Yezi, the legendary originator of sword casting. After the release of "The Vast Continent", Ou Jinyuan entered it, ready to show his strength in this new metaverse game. He has been trying to find the ore vein, and yesterday he finally broke through the blockade of the monster, found the ore vein, and brought back some ore. Unfortunately, he got back chalcopyrite, and he had been busy all morning this morning, adjusting the furnace temperature and auxiliary materials, but the metal ore in this furnace could not be smelted. Until after lunch, for some unknown reason, the ore that had not changed, suddenly smelted bronze. But before he could be happy, he found that there was no reward for the system he expected.

He hurriedly ran to the system store to take a look, and sure enough, on the skill shelf of the system store, a brand-new skill book "Alchemy" appeared. After working hard for more than ten days, he was a little bit worse, how could he not be depressed! But there is no way to do it, who let him find chalcopyrite, not bronze!