Sitting by the riverside, Li Meng's body crackled with a series of "popping" sounds.

  His small frame began to swell, and with a "snap," the animal hide he wore was torn apart.

  Beside him, Benben widened his eyes in curiosity, watg as the boss rapidly grew rger.

  In no time, Li Meng shot up from about 1.7 meters to 1.8 meters tall.

  His body was no longer slender but had bee exceptionally strong.

  "Ah!"

  Wheense pain subsided, Li Meng y on a rock, panting heavily.

  With a thought, Li Meng opened his character panel.

  [Name: Gobu Meng]

  [Race: Goblin]

  [Level: 15]

  [Strength: 175]

  [Defense: 159]

  [Agility: 91]

  [Magic: 86]

  [Charm: 0]

  [Luck: 11]

  [Devour: ce to acquire the skills of a devoured Magical Beast]

  [Steel Muscles and Iron Bones: LV4 (Strength +80, Defense +80, Agility +20)]

  [Wind Bde: LV1]

  [Beion: LV1]

  His attributes had increased signifitly upon leveling up.

  Each attribute increased by 30-40 points.

  "It seems the stronger one's attributes, the higher the attribute bonuses when leveling up."

  Li Meng was quite satisfied with his current attribute values.

  Even without the bonuses from "Steel Muscles and Iron Bones," his attributes were not low.

  After all, he was only level 15.

  The attributes of an ordinary Big Goblin at level 15 raween 15-25.

  His base attributes at level 15 were several times that of a normal Big Goblin.

  Whether this was true or not, Li Meng didn't know.

  It was just a guess of his.

  Perhaps the attribute bonuses when leveling up were reted to skills.

  The more skills, the higher the talent.

  The higher the talent, the higher the attribute bonuses when leveling up.

  "Boss... Boss, have you... have you evolved into a Big Goblin?"

  Gobu Ge, returning with a bundle of firewood, was startled by the Big Goblin by the riverside.

  The familiar st allowed the goblin the boss's identity.

  It had only been gone for a while, and the boss had evolved?

  Li Meng grinned and waved his arm.

  "Yes, I've evolved into a Big Goblin!"

  Gobu Ge dropped the firewood in his hands.

  He ran forward a few steps and slid to his knees, kissing Li Meng's instep.

  "Boss, you're amazing!"

  Time passed bit by bit, day by day.

  In the following days, Li Meng observed the goblin underlings smelting iron as an examiner.

  On the first day, the goblin underlings prepared various materials for smelting iron.

  They searched for dry wood that could be burned.

  They looked for cy to build a bst furnad iron ore needed for smelting.

  On the sed day, they began making charcoal and strug the bst furnace.

  "The furnace wall is too thin, make it thicker."

  Though he was just , Li Meng would sometimes guide the goblin underlings.

  The underlings who were building the bst furnace quickly tore down the foundation and started over.

  Ohird day, at Li Meng's request, the goblin underlings built a bst furnace about five meters high.

  On the fourth day, the goblin underlings begaing iron.

  Iernoon, before su.

  "It's do's done!"

  Cheers erupted by the underground riverbank in the cave.

  A rge group of goblins danced around, watg the molten iron flow tinuously from the tap hole.

  Some goblins hurriedly pced f tools and molds at the tap hole.

  Thus, under Li Meng's guidahe goblin underlings successfully mastered the skill.

  Li Meng wasn't in a hurry to teach the goblin underlings how to make steel.

  The process of making steel was much more plicated thaing iron.

  For now, pig iron was suffit.

  Although pig iron is hard and brittle, making it unsuitable for ons.

  But spearheads and arrowheads don't require high-quality iron.

  After overing this crisis, it wouldn't be too te to perfect the iroing process.

  By then, they could use the Bessemer process to mass-produce steel.

  "Very well, starting tomorrow, you will take tururning to the tribe, with a day of mating rights!"

  Li Meng wouldn't go ba his promise to the goblin underlings.

  Hearing the boss's words, the goblins looked excited.

  After teag the goblin underlings to smelt iron, Li Mehe cave early the m.

  Upon leaving the cave, Li Meng didn't rush back to the tribe.

  Instead, he wahrough the forest.

  "Benben, break this tree!"

  Benben g the boss beside him, then at the sapling in front of him.

  He stepped forward and spped the tree with his palm.

  With a "boom," the tree was snapped in half.

  Li Meng stepped forward and took a piece of wood from the break.

  "Too soft!"

  Li Meng tossed the wood aside and tinued deeper into the forest.

  In this way, Li Meng and Benben searched the forest for hardwood.

  "This is it!"

  On the fourth day, Li Meng finally found a tree suitable for making crossbow stocks and arrow shafts.

  In the dim forest, Li Meng looked down at the bran his hand.

  Even the branch had such strong resilience.

  The trunk's resilience would only be stronger.

  "Benben, carry it back!"

  Beook a few steps forward and hugged the not-se hardwood tree.

  In the forest, there was a series of "crag" sounds.

  The tens-of-meters-tall hardwood tree rooted by Benben.

  Iernoon, Li Meuro the tribe with Benben, who was carrying a rge tree.

  "It's the boss, the boss is back!"

  The boss's retured the goblins.

  But Benben's massive body also filled them with fear.

  In nearly half a month, the tribe had ged signifitly.

  There were more than a dozen new wooden houses simir to the Breeding Room.

  "Boss, boss!"

  Gobu Qiang ran over with a group of goblins.

  "Boss, the first batch of newborns iribe is about to arrive!"

  The thought of his offspring being born made Gobu Qiaremely excited.

  He g the ogre behind the boss and shrank his neck.

  The ogre was se that it could crush him with oep.

  Li Meng g the Breeding Room not far away.

  Judging by the time, it was abht.

  The gestation period fnant female goblins was only about 3-4 weeks.

  "Make sure there's enough food so they grow quickly; the tribe hem."

  Gobu Qiang nodded vigorously.

  "Don't worry, boss, the food needed for those newborns to grow has already been prepared."

  In the following days, Li Meng began researg how to make simple crossbows.

  pared to bows and arrows, crossbows were easier to use.

  Li Meng didn't hope for the clumsy goblin underlings to beaster archers one day.

  Their small frames weren't suited for using bows and arrows.

  Ohird day after Li Meuro the tribe, the first batch of newborns arrived.

  In the rgest wooden house, Li Meng was carving a piece of wood with a small knife.

  Looking around, piles of wood shavings had accumuted in the wooden house.

  Various pieces of wood were scattered all over.

  Li Meng initially thought the structure of a crossbow was simple and not difficult to make.

  But as he worked, various ideas in his mind deyed the progress of his crossbow research.

  The more he sought perfe, the harder it was to get things done.

  "Boss, boss, they're born, they're born!"

  Iernoon, Gobu Da rushed into the wooden house.

  Li Meng put down his tools and got up to go outside.

  Soon, under Gobu Da's guidance, Li Meng arrived at a certain nursery house.

  The entrance of the nursery house was fenced off.

  Inside, a group of little goblins could be seen pying and frolig.

  They were very small, like little puppies.

  There were quite a few of them, more than ten.

  Once born, the little goblins had to be separated from their mothers.

  Otherwise, the hungry little goblins would see their mothers as food.

  At that moment, a group of goblins each carrying two little goblins came over.