Landing 500 Years Early, I Became a God by Digging for Treasures 94

The mother bear trembled, unable to defy Old Lu. Even with one arm missing, she was still afraid.

“Just keep hammering, understand?” Lu Yuan grabbed her paw, providing one-on-one instruction. “Hammer hard! A reward for every hit!”

“Clang!”

Following Lu Yuan’s hands-on guidance, the mother bear tried it once and received a small pomegranate as a reward.

Another hit, another pomegranate.

She stood there, utterly bewildered, her massive bear head swiveling left and right, suspicious and uncertain. She seemed to be pondering the connection between hammering and receiving pomegranates.

Whatever, I’ll just keep hammering.

Hammering gets me food; I can’t lose.

“Boom!”

The hammer sliced through the air, a black shadow flashing past. Pebbles scattered everywhere. A large hole was pounded into the ground!

Lu Yuan covered his eyes, roaring in anger, “Damn it! You almost hit your own toes, you idiot! Are you trying to kill yourself?!”

The bear’s head turned, its eyes filled with confusion.

Trash Cat, having finally reassembled itself, rattled over, using two thick pieces of sheet metal to protect the bear’s paw. “Comrade, you should have let it smash its own foot. Then it would be paralyzed from the lower body, unable to move, and could work here without distraction. The upper body is all that’s needed anyway.”

Lu Yuan shivered, surprised, considering the feasibility of this plan.

It turned out the mother bear wasn’t too stupid. After the “toe crisis,” she gradually mastered the precision of hammering. Lu Yuan also lengthened the hammer handle so she wouldn’t hit herself anymore.

The food training method proved effective. In just three days, without Lu Yuan supervising, she began hammering excitedly on her own.

She was now a hardworking Palu! (referring to the bear as a worker) And she was a bear with “monster strength,” possessing far greater explosive power than Lu Yuan, making her far more successful at shattering the gemstones.

“Hit it, you get food; miss it, you get nothing.”

“My demands will constantly increase.”

Removing the gemstones and returning them to the furnace was relatively complex, but the robot cat could handle that—it wanted to kill this demon more than anyone. It would react instantly to any movement of the black gemstone.

Of course, the demon called “Shadow of Zhao” was indeed depleted of energy and offered no resistance.

…

As for the wolf pack, nothing much happened there. Spring arrived, and they resumed their normal hunting, occasionally bringing back game to offer to the “Wolf King”—Lu Yuan just gave them some snacks; they still had to do most of the hunting themselves.

The old wolf, once again in a state of seductive madness, was busy with his reproductive endeavors. He wasn’t content with his current she-wolves and was already seducing new young ones!

Lu Yuan suddenly realized he had a mature Palu army: cat, bear, and wolves. With the industrial assembly line established, he didn’t even need to work himself—plenty of food and clothing, high pay, low workload. Was this the joy of being a capitalist?

He started writing a novel today: “I’m a Capitalist on the Pangu Continent”…

Since he had nothing better to do, he focused on using the Transcendent Fire Seed to heal his body. Missing a hand was a real inconvenience.

…

Time passed day by day, spring turned to summer. It was Lu Yuan’s 402nd day on the Pangu Continent…

Summer in this region of the Midea Civilization wasn’t overly hot, with the highest temperature only around 30 degrees Celsius.

The primeval forest once again thrived, filled with the incessant chirping of insects, and the ever-present threat of venomous insects and snakes.

The scorpion army and the king snake army, which had migrated, returned. Both armies had lost about half their numbers. They had left strong and proud, but returned as defeated remnants. It seemed the outside world wasn’t so easy to conquer…

Over the months, the burned skin on Lu Yuan had been replaced. The new skin was white and tender, giving him a more “city dweller” appearance. His severed left arm was slowly regenerating. However, the arm muscles hadn’t fully developed yet, and it was still weak. It would take much longer to fully recover.

“It takes a hundred days to recover from a severe injury; I’ve made it!”

He clenched his fist, throwing a punch! A fierce gust of wind accompanied the blow, like autumn leaves being swept away.

Over these four months, the Transcendent Fire Seed’s energy was entirely used for healing, so his attribute values didn’t change much. But Lu Yuan felt he had somehow grown stronger…

The feeling was subtle. Maybe…he’d discovered his advantage: he could fight using “a life for a life” against strong enemies?!

The innate fighting ability of the terrifying upright ape is actually not weak; once enraged, it can easily kill dogs or leopards of similar weight. The reason why most people can’t defeat wild animals is that they are afraid of being injured. In modern people’s minds, injury equals defeat, and the pain of being bitten is unbearable.

Lu Yuan used to be afraid of being injured too. Because he was alone, injury could mean death…

But now, he had companions (Palu), and as long as he was still breathing, they would get him to safety to recover. And with his regeneration ability, he would be a good man again in a hundred days.

This change in mindset boosted his morale. Having a support team felt great!

On that very day, a loud “boom” echoed from the outside, like a high-explosive bomb detonating nearby. The entire world trembled slightly.

Lu Yuan rushed to the door and saw smoke billowing; the mother bear was lying on her back on the ground. A strange black light emanated from the furnace area. Even as a seasoned veteran, his sixth sense was acutely heightened, as if a momentous event was about to unfold.

“What happened?”

Trash Cat’s neutral electronic voice sounded frantic: “Today…today!! The gem cracked! Comrade, we’re about to succeed!!”

“Quick, quick, quick, kill this cunning demon! It’s making a final stand! Use your Transcendent Fire Seed!”

In its excitement, the robot cat’s components began falling off again.

Nothing is immortal; nothing is eternal. After years of “fire and ice,” plus the relentless hammering of a powerful bear, the black gem had finally worn down, developing a tiny crack today!

That battle robot, Old Cat, had worked so hard. It had been attached to the demon for countless years, witnessing untold events, losing almost all its memories, and finally seeing the dawn…

From this perspective, it had a much harder time than Old Lu.

It rolled and screamed on the ground, acting like it was going mad.

Lu Yuan’s heart pounded several times. He leaped from the doorway, roaring.

“Die!!”

He dashed towards the black gem at lightning speed. The demon was indeed making its last stand, but the black light was continuously overflowing.

“Light curtain”!

The balance of power had reversed. Lu Yuan’s Transcendent Fire invaded relentlessly, forcing the strange black light to retreat. The cracks on the gem grew larger.

Then Lu Yuan picked up the hammer and struck with all his might!

“Crackle!”

The blow produced a shower of sparks! He heard a crisp sound, like shattering glass—both pleasing and exhilarating.

The black gemstone was instantly pulverized. The intense black light disappeared. The mother bear’s nearly hundred days of arduous work, and the cat comrade’s countless years of struggle, came to a temporary end…

The robot Old Cat suddenly let out a mournful “Meow!!” The sound was so sharp, the emotions so complex, a mixture of bitterness, sourness, spiciness, saltiness, culminating in a touch of sweetness.

“We won…”

Only the core small sphere remained, clicking and whirring. It might have wanted to lament its difficult life. But then it remembered it was just a robot; there was no need to lament…

Was its existence meaningful?

It was created solely to kill this demon. Did its civilization… still exist?

It didn’t know. Where should it go?

Its mission was accomplished; now it could go with them. It might be the last trace of its civilization.

“Is it dead? Hey, is it dead? Man, we can’t let the powder escape!” Lu Yuan held the hammer; the recoil made his arm numb.

Old Cat’s core metal sphere bounced once, reconnecting to the speaker; its components were drawn back in. “Confirmed dead…My adsorption ability can’t find a target. It’s dead, it’s finally dead!”

“Comrade, we really killed it…It was a natural disaster.”

“It’s dead! My highest priority mission is complete, it’s dead! Meow!!”

Lu Yuan was also deeply moved. Seeing the robot cat rolling on the ground, the huge weight on his heart lifted. He looked for fragments of black gemstones that had escaped the box.

【The remains of the demon called Shadow of Zhao possess the abilities: Domain•Attribute Absorption, Dark Teleportation, Shadow Hand, Possessing Rebirth, and Mental Tremor.】

【Consuming these remains will grant you these 5 Divine Techniques directly.】

【However, your ideology will be affected; you will have to fight it for life, until the day you are consumed by the demon.】

【Note: Once a “Shadow of Zhao” is born, the rest of the remains will become useless. Only one “Shadow of Zhao” can exist in the world.】

Well, the value of this thing…

Eating it would get you 5 Divine Techniques!

5! That’s a lot.

But the side effects are unbearable…at least for the current Lu Yuan, it wasn’t that tempting; he already had 6 Divine Techniques!

He used his eyes to their maximum capacity, thoroughly searching the surrounding ground…okay, it was alright; his preparations were quite good; not much powder escaped.

He said haughtily, “Comrade, don’t be so dramatic.”

“It was just a minor difficulty in my life!”

In his excitement, he hugged the robot cat and roughly petted it twice. The rusty metal scraped his hand painfully.

“Lu Yuan, I admit you are a powerful warrior,” the cat twisted around, offering rare praise.

“I admit that the civilization that created you was a great civilization!” Lu Yuan returned the compliment.

Mutual flattery. Credit boosting.

The next moment, the sky changed. A huge black vortex appeared in the heavens!

“Boom!”

Wind, rain, and thunder suddenly poured down. The falling raindrops created countless ripples and sounds from trees, gravel, insects, animals, birds, and grass—countless creatures reacted to the sudden downpour.

Lu Yuan quickly sought shelter under the eaves. He blinked, feeling a pang of fear. He was glad he had collected the black gemstone fragments in time; otherwise, the wind and rain might have scattered them everywhere.

“Old Cat, do you know what a ‘god’ is?”

“God is a religious term. Many civilizations have this term to comfort their fragile hearts,” Old Cat replied solemnly. “The more backward the civilization, the more it worships nonexistent gods. Am I wrong?”

“Alright, I’ll show you what a god is.”

At that moment, a lightning bolt struck before Lu Yuan. The high-voltage electricity made his hairs stand on end, his hair bristling like a hedgehog.

A faint murmur appeared in his mind.

【You completed the Unique Milestone: (*…*%？？)】

【Your civilization received a Unique Milestone reward of 5000 points. (This function is not yet enabled.)】

The voice was very soft, almost inaudible. There were no flowery judgment phrases; it jumped directly to the last sentence.

Lu Yuan blinked, his forehead feeling hot.

He sighed deeply, feeling supremely lonely.

“Could it be that this extremely difficult milestone was completed too early…”

“That the evaluation statement hasn’t been created yet, and the milestone was already completed?”

Killing a demon was indeed extremely difficult; it was likely a milestone that could only be triggered in the late stages of the Ninth Epoch. First, the number of demons should not be too high, otherwise, the world’s ecosystem would have been destroyed long ago.

The one Lu Yuan encountered was extremely unlucky. These catastrophic monsters should mostly still be asleep…The one next to the Midea Civilization suddenly awakened, likely because it sensed Lu Yuan’s civilization (Humanity 18 Civilization).

Finally, Lu Yuan actually killed it!

The combination of these three factors resulted in a late-stage milestone being inexplicably completed in the early stages.

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