Yang Bei stared firmly at the towering trees in front of him, and he had already made a decision in his heart: stop thinking about other things and devote himself wholeheartedly to the task of cutting down trees.

He tightly gripped the black iron and wooden axe in his hand, and every swing was accompanied by a sound of breaking wind.

The dull sound of the axe colliding with the tree trunk was like an exciting war song.

If he continues at the current pace, he only needs to wait another 20 days before he can successfully obtain the coveted Dark Spirit Vein Map.

Time passed quickly like a white horse passing by, and in the blink of an eye it was the 20th day since Yang Bei stepped into the land of darkness.

In the past few days, he has devoted almost all his time and energy to the black iron wood axe.

After a long period of sharpening and hammering, this axe has now been successfully upgraded to level four, and its sharpness is far beyond before.

Even just a few casual chops can easily bring down a big tree.

However, despite having such a powerful tool, Yang Bei did not dare to act recklessly. He knew that he had to carefully hide the sharp edge of the black iron axe to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

So, while chopping down the tree, he deliberately slowed down his movements and pretended to be struggling.

Finally, when he successfully sold the last black iron tree to the Dark Shop, he finally had 100 black iron copper coins in his hand.

Looking at the heavy copper coins in his hand, Yang Bei walked to the exchange office without hesitation and chose to exchange them for the Dark Spirit Vein Map.

At the moment the exchange was completed, a mysterious and powerful force surged directly into his mind.

A detailed map of the dark spiritual veins was clearly displayed in the depths of his consciousness. At the same time, methods on how to practice and absorb the power of darkness and unlock the dark spiritual veins in the body were also presented.

Yang Bei was extremely excited at this moment, because he knew that his path of cultivation was about to officially begin…

The Dark Spirit Vein Map is like a mysterious treasure map, hiding 18 extremely powerful Dark Spirit Veins waiting to be unlocked.

However, it is not easy to uncover the secrets in this map, because unlocking each spiritual vein requires a huge amount of dark power.

Only by constantly accumulating and absorbing this mysterious and powerful power can one gradually open the seal of the spiritual vein, thereby significantly improving one’s own strength.

When Yang Bei finally succeeded in purchasing this precious Dark Spirit Vein Map, his tense heartstrings finally relaxed a little.

At this moment, the primary task before him is to embark on the arduous path of cultivation, but how long will it take to unlock all 18 dark spirit veins?

This question was like a fog shrouding his mind, making it difficult to understand.

Just when Yang Bei bought the Dark Spirit Vein Map, Zhou Qing, who was standing beside him, looked at him with a smile on his face.

Zhou Qing seemed to have seen through Yang Bei’s inner eagerness and desire, and chuckled and said, “After going through so much trouble to collect 100 black iron copper coins, you must have been unable to contain your excitement and chose to buy this dark spirit vein map without hesitation.”

Then, Zhou Qing encouraged: “Since you already have it, then go and try to practice bravely.”

But at this moment, Zhou Qing changed the subject and added solemnly: “But before that, there is one important thing I must tell you.

After you successfully unlock the first dark spirit vein, please be sure to come to me.

By then, there will not only be surprises waiting for you, but also a new job opportunity that is better, more challenging and well-paid. “

After listening to Zhou Qing’s words, Yang Bei didn’t say much, but just nodded slightly to show that he understood.

Analyzing the current situation, the other party is merely exploiting him to some extent, but has not yet done anything too outrageous or extreme.

At least so far, the other party has not had the intention of harming him.

However, after he successfully unlocks the first dark spirit vein map, whether he will choose to come and look for Zhou Qing is a matter of subsequent plot development. He does not need to worry too much about it or think about countermeasures anxiously for the time being.

At this moment, the first thing he had to do was to figure out how long it would take to unlock the Dark Spirit Vein Map by hanging up.

So he quickly opened the hang-up panel, fixed his eyes on the screen, and carefully checked the relevant data information.

Before long, the progress of the Dark Spirit Vein Map’s upgrade and the required idle points were clearly presented before his eyes.

It turns out that if you want to successfully unlock the first dark spirit vein, you need a total of 100 idle points.

Fortunately, this hang-up panel can provide him with 12 hang-up points stably every day.

Calculating this way, if everything goes well and the acquisition speed remains unchanged, it will probably take at least more than eight days to unlock the first dark spirit vein.

Although this time span seems a bit long, in fact, for such a difficult task, this speed is already extremely fast and extremely rare.

During these long twenty days, he was by no means a person who did nothing and wasted his time.

During this period, he spent a lot of energy and thought to deeply explore the specific cultivation situation after obtaining the Dark Spirit Vein Map.

As far as he knew, if he wanted to successfully unlock the first dark spirit vein, even with abundant black spirit rice as support, it would take at least half a year of hard practice to achieve the goal.

Moreover, the “ample” mentioned here is not the quantity in the general sense, but requires that one consumes a full ten kilograms of black spirit rice every day for cultivation!

You know, these ten kilograms of black spirit rice are very valuable, it is equivalent to a black iron copper coin!
By this calculation, ten kilograms would be consumed a day, so in a month, the total cost would be thirty black iron copper coins, which is a huge price.

Judging from the numbers alone, it seems that the cost is not too large.

However, the actual situation is far from that simple, because there is another crucial prerequisite – that is, during the entire practice process, you must always maintain a cross-legged sitting posture, devote your whole body and mind to it, and not be distracted by any other matters!
Only in this way can we finally break through the bottleneck after half a year under the ideal condition of sufficient supply of black spirit rice.

But fortunately, he now has the magical hanging panel in his hands.

With the powerful help of this mysterious panel, he was able to easily overcome this difficulty and successfully complete the breakthrough in just a little more than eight days.

There is no doubt that this amazing speed of cultivation is far superior to everyone else.

Because of this, the wisest choice before him at this moment is to quietly complete this breakthrough without making any noise, and then patiently wait for his own strength to gradually increase to a sufficiently strong level.

Until then, we can calmly explore and understand more of the secrets hidden behind it.

Now that I have made up my mind, the next thing to do is to continue to practice in idle mode without distraction.

Changed the idle target from Dark Ironwood Axe to Dark Vein Map.

Currently, the AFK panel can only select one AFK target at a time.

As for whether this AFK target will become two or more in the future, he is not sure. But he thinks it is very likely, because the AFK panel also has levels, as long as the level of the AFK panel is upgraded, then his idea may not be impossible to achieve.

Time flies, passing by like a white horse passing by, and just 8 days passed in the blink of an eye.

As the experience points gained from hanging up continued to accumulate, the mysterious dark spirit vein map began to undergo an amazing transformation without anyone noticing.

At this moment, within Yang Bei’s body, a powerful and profound energy was slowly gathering and condensing.

Gradually, a spiritual vein as black as ink gradually emerged clearly, and finally took shape completely in his body!
When this black spiritual vein was completely stabilized in his body, Yang Bei immediately and keenly noticed something strange – wisps of dark aura continuously emanated from the spiritual vein and lingered around him.

At the same time, he clearly felt that his originally ordinary body seemed to be injected with endless power and was rapidly expanding at an astonishing speed!

The growth of this power is first manifested in the thick dark aura.

After careful perception and exploration, Yang Bei was pleasantly surprised to find that the newly generated dark spiritual vein could actually accommodate and store a full 100 strands of extremely pure dark magic power!

You know, possessing such a considerable amount of dark magic power will undoubtedly be a great help in his future practice.

Of course, since dark magic exists, the corresponding dark spells will naturally not be absent.

However, at present, Yang Bei has not yet obtained any specific dark magic secrets or inheritance.

Despite this, he firmly believed that as long as time passed, through his unremitting efforts and exploration as well as by chance, he would be able to master those powerful dark spells.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to significantly improving his own strength, these dark magic powers also have a very practical effect – they can directly enhance the strength of Yang Bei’s physical body.

However, it should be noted that this increase is only temporary and cannot be sustained for a long time.

But even so, for Yang Bei at this moment, it is already a valuable gain.

In any case, with the successful formation of the first dark spiritual vein in his body, Yang Bei finally gained a certain degree of self-protection ability.

Although he may still be weak compared to a truly strong man, at least he is no longer as helpless as before when facing unknown dangers.

In the following days, Yang Bei decided to continue to keep a low profile and chose to stay idle quietly.

Because now is not the best time to show your true strength.

If he wants to stay idle successfully until the second dark spirit vein is fully formed, he still needs to accumulate 200 points of idle experience.

After some calculations, this will take about 17 days.

Therefore, he could only suppress his inner anxiety and wait patiently.

You know, usually it takes at least half a year for a dark spirit vein to condense from nothing into something.

Therefore, even though Yang Bei currently has a certain ability to protect himself, he is still a long way from being able to go deep into the dark forest full of dangers to find out what is going on.

Today, he is at best just a rookie who has just started practicing cultivation and has only a slight understanding and control over the power of this mysterious world.

Despite this, Yang Bei knew that he must not be complacent or take it lightly.

So, he calmed down, discarded all impetuous emotions, devoted himself to hanging up, and waited patiently for the perfect opportunity that belonged to him to come.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another 17 days have passed!
On this seemingly ordinary day, Yang Bei was pleasantly surprised to find that he had successfully condensed a second dark spiritual vein in his body!
As this new spiritual vein finally took shape, he clearly felt that his physical strength had been significantly improved and became even stronger!
At the same time, the amount of dark magic power that can be contained in his body has increased from the original 100 strands to a full 200 strands!
Next he needs to hang up to release the third dark spirit vein.

If he wants to hang up and get the third dark spirit vein, it will take him about 3 days.

But in total, only two months have passed.

Keep hanging up!

This time, Yang Bei couldn’t wait peacefully for 40 days for his third dark spiritual vein to condense and take shape in his body.

In the past three days or so.

The whole village suddenly fell into an extremely tense atmosphere.

Zhou Qing and others came out directly and told all those who were cutting trees and farming to return to the village.

The danger from the Dark Land is coming!
After hearing the warning from Zhou Qing and others, the old men who arrived before him quickly returned to the village without saying a word.

Yang Bei did not feel any rebellious psychology when he saw this situation.

He immediately followed the main force back to the village.

After everyone returned to the village, the village gate was immediately defended.

Each of the skilled guys stood guard at the village gate with weapons in hand.

Judging from the reactions of these people, Yang Bei could basically guess what had happened, that is, some dark creatures might be attacking their village.

Yang Bei’s thought didn’t last long.

Soon there was movement outside the village.

At present, in the minds of Zhou Qing and others, Yang Bei has no cultivation, so he should be treated the same as ordinary people and stay in the village honestly.

It is impossible to observe the situation outside the village because the village also has wooden walls. If you want to see the situation outside, you can only climb up the wall.

Seeing that the village was in danger, Zhou Qing and his group stepped forward to protect the village.

Yang Bei’s views on these people changed for a while.

Originally he thought that these people were completely exploiting them, the newcomers, but now it seems that while they gain some benefits from them, they will also pay the price.

They can get the protection of Zhou Qing and others by paying a price.

But Zhou Qing and the others did not explain all this.

It seems that he is too lazy to explain.

But no matter what, maybe he needs to have a deeper understanding of these people. (End of this chapter)