Li Meng discovered many caves where goblins once lived.

  Ihey were empty, with nothi.

  Not even a whole bone could be seen.

  Only some fragments of bones remained.

  "Could it be the nomadic barbarians?"

  Li Meng thought to himself as he looked down at the sand table.

  Something was off, really off!

  But Li Meng couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong.

  After all, the hree years iure line would be very peaceful.

  No major events would occur.

  If it were the nomadic barbarians, they couldn't have been gone for so long.

  Those barbarian tribe ruins had clearly been abandoned for many years.

  "Fet it, better focus oribe's development for now!"

  Shaking his head, Li Meng dismissed his wild thoughts.

  The disappearance of the barbarians might not be a bad thing.

  Without petitors, the tribe's development would be much smoother.

  After all, wars e a lot of popution.

  And post-opution recovery takes a lot of time.

  Two hours ter, Benbeurned.

  He brought back yellow d water.

  Li Meng began expanding the sand table again ihrone cave.

  During the day, he expahe sand table, and at night, of course, he focused on reprodu.

  The new batch of tributes finally experiehe might of the Big Iron Rod that night.

  This also sighe end of their peaceful days.

  Time passed little by little, day after day.

  On the fifth day, leaders of some tribes began to leave the throribe.

  They would return to their own tribes.

  At some poi year, they would return to the throribe again.

  And bring bae higher-ranking goblins to receive rewards from the leader.

  Two months ter, they would leave with adolest goblins.

  Their offspring would take the adolest goblins to tinue expanding and building new sub-tribes.

  This was the development model Li Meng had established.

  It was a new day, in the m.

  Throribe, throne cave.

  "Gobu Mo, has any ghost beastman e looking for us this past year?"

  In the wooden house, Li Meng was making a sand table.

  His tall body sat beside the sand table.

  His hands tinuously khe cy.

  Gobu Mo obediently k at the doorway.

  "Boss, I haven't seen any ghost beastmen!"

  Gobu Mo's answer was as Li Meng expected.

  Iure line, "Ghost Hand" appeared very te.

  It would take at least a year and a half to appear.

  "Are all the Goblin Soldiers assembled?"

  Though ihe wooden house, Li Meng could hear the side.

  The sounds outside were chaotid bustling.

  Gobu Mo nodded vigorously.

  "Boss, they're all here!"

  Li Meng stood up and walked outside.

  Gobu Mo's tall body quickly moved aside at the doorway.

  In just a year, Gobu Mo had evolved into a Goblin Warrior.

  He was only half a head shorter than Li Meng.

  Only after the boss walked out the door did Gobu Mo quickly stand up.

  "The boss is out!"

  "Shh, quiet!"

  When they saw the boss walk out from the doorway.

  Hundreds of Goblin Soldiers outside quickly fell silent.

  They looked at the tall figure at the doorway with fanaticism.

  Although many Goblin Soldiers had never seen the boss.

  They had heard how mighty the boss was.

  And now, they finally saw the boss.

  That imposing figure, those fierd intimidating eyes made many Goblin Soldiers shiver.

  Looking at the sea of Goblin Soldiers outside, Li Meng grinned.

  That grin made all the goblins lower their heads in fear.

  "Starting today, your task is only one: prepare two months' worth of dry food!"

  The boss's words made the Goblin Soldiers, who had their heads lowered, show expressions of joy.

  Although jerky wasn't tasty.

  Preparing dry food meant there would be anht.

  That's great!

  Behind Li Meng, Gobu Mo was also full of excitement.

  He had been guarding the throribe for a year.

  He was long tired of the monotonous days.

  "Go, you have half a month!"

  The higher-ranking goblins outside the throne cave scattered.

  Nearly three hundred Goblin Soldiers rushed into the depths of the forest.

  "Boss, boss, who are we going to fight this time?"

  Gobu Mo asked ingratiatingly.

  "No one!"

  Li Meng turned a bato the throne cave.

  Outside, Gobu Mo uzzled as he watched the boss's figure ihe house.

  If they weren't going to fight anyone, why prepare two months' worth of dry food?

  Gobu Mo left, somewhat disappointed.

  After a while, Li Mehe throne cave again.

  He hurriedly left the throribe through the nate.

  Half an hour ter, at the Iron Cave.

  "Try to mine as much of this ore as possible, just store it for now, it will be useful ter."

  By the underground river, Li Meng examihe ores emitting a white glow ier.

  Gobu Ge thought the glowing ores ier looked beautiful.

  So he mined some and dumped them into the underground river.

  This turhe underground river into a shimmering silver river.

  "Got it, boss, I'll have the Lizardmen mine some."

  "Boss, boss, I found some glowing stones in the cave again, want to take a look?"

  Found some strange ores again?

  Li Meng was intrigued.

  "Show me!"

  What new discovery would Gobu Ge have?

  Li Meng was very curious.

  Gobu Ge ran into the depths of the cave.

  Soon, Gobu Ge returned.

  He was holding a rge fiery red crystal.

  [Fire Crystal]

  [Fire Element Magic Power:]

  The system actually had an information prompt!

  "Boss, boss, this is it!"

  Li Meng took the Fire Crystal from Gobu Ge's hands.

  Looking down at the Fire Crystal in his hands, Li Meng was thoughtful.

  This thing was simir to human crystals.

  Except human crystals had unknown attributes.

  While the crystal in his hand had fire element attributes.

  "Boss, this thing glows as up when it meets water, it's hot!"

  Glows as up when it meets water?

  Li Meng's eyes lit up, and he hurried to the water's edge.

  At the water's edge, Li Meng threw the Fire Crystal into the water.

  "Plop!"

  With a "plop," water spshed everywhere.

  The Fire Crystal submerged ier emitted an e fme glow.

  That area of water even started to steam.

  Soon, the water surface began to boil.

  The information on the Fire Crystal ier also ged.

  The fire element magic power value was tinuously decreasing.

  But the decrease was slow, only a little every few seds.

  "Iing!"

  The property of the Fire Crystal heating up when it meets water made Li Meng grin.

  This was a good thing.

  With this, maybe he could create a steam engine.

  Though the structure of a steam engine was retively simple.

  Actually making one was still a bit challenging.

  It would take time to explore bit by bit.

  "Gobu Ge, have you tried putting it in fire to see what happens?"

  The Fire Crystal heats up when it meets water, but what about fire?

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