Chapter 9 - Breakthrough

Ye Feng thus continued his routine, in the morning, he'd eat and drink a bit before going outside to shake down some trees, then, he'd cultivate for around 1 hour, bring back the trees and work on making barrels, then cultivate, he'd then start wandering for foods and other things, at least twice a week, he'd go to the lake and kill one fish and use it as an opportunity to cultivate.

Whenever he ran out of water or had a new barrel, he'd go to the lake and while the barrel was slowly getting filled, Ye Feng would take the opportunity to work on a new fishing net, he made dozens of fishing nets before finally getting the hang of it, now, he had finally woven a net that he was proud of.

He slowly put it in water and swooped a fish with it, Ye Feng looked at the fish with expectation, he quickly pulled the net out of the water and put it on the ground, Ye Feng raised a small pike and thrust it into the fish. Directly killing it as it stopped struggling.

Ye Feng removed the fish from the net and wrapped it in leaves, he put the net in the water again and now scooped 2 fishes, when he saw that the net didn't break, he continued until it broke... 4 fishes, that was the number of fishes it took to break his net.

Ye Feng thought that it was fine, he wasn't sure if he could eat fish but if he could, he had now found a perfect way to sustain himself and it allowed him to become stronger. What could this lake not do, there was even a chance at the bottom of the lake, Ye Feng knew that it wasn't in range but sooner or later, his Mental Power would be strong enough to grab that shiny item from afar.

Ye Feng spread his Mental Power around him and thought, '15 Meters, it seems that I'm really stuck at a bottleneck...', he was already at 15 Meters of range yesterday, he thought that it might just be that it became harder for him to cultivate but in all of these sessions, he hadn't even gained 1 centimeter of range...

Ye Feng opened his Attribute Panel. Since it could help him increase his proficiency in his cultivation method, maybe it might help him in breaking through?

[Name: Ye Feng

Race: Furbun

Cultivation Realm: Mortal

Strength: Below Mortal

Durability: Below Mortal

Speed: Below Mortal

Mental Power: 1 Star Warrior Peak (+)

Cultivation Arts: Furbun's Rise (First Level [0.1%])

Talent: None]

'Bingo!', Ye Feng exclaimed, it seemed he wouldn't have the problem of bottleneck like other cultivators, he directly pressed on (+).

[10 Energy will be used to breakthrough.

Proceed?

Yes/No]

Ye Feng looked at his Energy value

[Energy: 43]

He nodded and pressed Yes, and, suddenly, he felt his sight go black and he went unconscious, when he woke up, his mind felt clearer, he directly spread his Mental Power and the range was now 20 meters, he didn't know how much time had passed but it was already dark so he hopped back home without forgetting his barrels.

As for the fishes, he gave up on them since they stunk so much, still, he was stunned when he wasn't attacked by any beast while he was unconscious, it seemed his Luck was truly good! Ye Feng opened his Attribute Panel while hopping back home. As expected, his Mental Power had gone from 1 Star Warrior to 2 Star Warrior.

The Next Day,

Ye Feng stayed at his den and worked on a net, this net was exactly similar to the one the previous day, ever since he had become a Furbun, his memory was amazing, now that he was a 2 Star Warrior it would obviously be even more amazing, doing something like that wasn't much of a problem.

Having finished his net, Ye Feng went to the lake, he put his net into the water and waited...

1 Minute...

2 Minutes...

3 Minutes...

4 Minutes...

Finally, Ye Feng had enough and wondered why fishes didn't go near his net, he still saw a lot of fishes in the water but it seems they all avoided his net, Ye Feng thought for a while and had an idea, he hopped back into the forest and searched for plants and made another net, this time, he made it a bit differently and with a different color from the other and then put it in the water.

Sure enough, the fishes would sometimes pass by this net, it seemed that although they weren't completely intelligent, they weren't idiots too, they knew that 'this one net is dangerous' but they didn't think of other nets. Ye Feng took advantage of that and started hunting them yet again.

When the fishes also understood that this net was also dangerous, Ye Feng decided to go home with all the fishes he had killed, he put one over the fire and then ate it when he judged that it was grilled enough, Ye Feng leaped in pleasure when he finally ate something that wasn't a plant, this fish was truly edible!

Now, he had to make racks, it would help him in drying those fishes, first, Ye Feng removed the leaves and made a cut in the middle and removed all of their innards then their gills then finally, he wrapped them in leaves again as he worked to make a rack with some of the trees he had kept to make barrels.

Luckily, it was easier than the barrels since he could just make shelves and use them as a sort of rack, very quickly, he made enough racks for all the fishes he had gotten. He removed the leaves and gently put them on the racks and called it a day as he munched on the cooked fish until he wasn't hungry anymore.