Look at the big watermelons, each weighing at least twenty jin, with about ten on a single vine.
Due to Yi Tian's miscalculation, the vines covered the greens and cabbage completely.
With sixty patches of watermelons, over six hundred large ones were harvested in total.
As for the greens and cabbage, Yi Tian wasn't in a hurry to harvest them. He planned to wait until they bloomed and seeded before harvesting. From the looks of the auction house, old greens and cabbages still sell well.
Yi Tian took out a Celestial Dao Stone, opened the Level 1 Tool Platform, and as the light curtain shifted, various ordinary tools appeared.
According to the Celestial Dao Stone's introduction, ordinary tools could be directly crafted using the Level 1 Tool Platform without needing blueprints. Anything of a higher grade requires a blueprint.
Ordinary Watermelon Knife: 1 unit of iron.
Crafting cost: 10 Spirit Coins.
After Yi Tian confirmed the crafting, a heavy watermelon knife appeared in his hand.
Eagerly, he cut open a big watermelon; it was sweet and very juicy. Yi Tian felt his appetite grow, and before long, he'd eaten almost half of it.
The watermelon quenched thirst and also sated hunger.
When he opened the auction, there were still no fruits being sold. Looking at the collected watermelon seeds, Yi Tian's eyes twinkled.
He extracted all the seeds from the other half of the watermelon and put them up for sale.
From this type of watermelon, only a small number of seeds from the heart can be used for further planting.
"Seedless Watermelon. 5kg. Price: 10 Celestial Dao Coins! Note: Fragrant and refreshing, sweet and thirst-quenching."
Yi Tian figured that those races immediately slaughtering wild boars, brown bears, and lightning pythons weren't short of money.
Rare things are valuable, but maybe in ten days or half a month, fruits wouldn't be worth much anymore.
With a try-it-and-see mindset, the watermelon was bought within three seconds of listing.
Suddenly, Yi Tian felt he'd found a lucrative path.
This time, Yi Tian set aside more than sixty watermelons and listed the six hundred intact ones. Each watermelon was priced at thirty Celestial Dao Coins.
"Premium Watermelon 10kg, price: 30 Celestial Dao Coins. Note: Large and sweet, both edible and plantable. Getting this is a profit, quantity 600, first come first served."
In less than a minute, eighteen thousand Celestial Dao Coins were credited.
"Eighteen thousand Celestial Dao Coins, which equates to one million eight hundred thousand Spirit Coins. Water of Life isn't a divine object, but it surpasses one. I should now be the richest in Zone 10086, right? Let's set a small goal first, make a hundred million."
Afterward, Yi Tian cut the remaining watermelons in halves, removed the seeds, and put them up for auction.
Picking watermelon seeds was troublesome, a big task, even if only choosing a small portion from the center. During the process of picking seeds, Yi Tian opened the regional chat channel to see what other survivalists were up to.
"Has everyone seen, there's someone selling watermelon at the auction, the flesh is red, but his heart is black."
"Damn it, what a profiteer. One watermelon for three thousand Spirit Coins."
"He doesn't even sell them individually, otherwise I'd buy a portion."
"Where did he get watermelons from, my watermelon seeds take at least eighteen days to mature."
"In this world, nothing is impossible. There are so many selling the three-harm meat in the auction. The Celestial Dao is so unfair."
"Speaking of which, is there anyone in the area who can get rid of the three-harm? I heard there's a big reward for those who do it first."
Upon reading this, Yi Tian was intrigued. With such an advantage, there's no reason not to clinch first place.
The main issue now is being overly reliant on certain areas, making him a bit uncertain.
"Once the watermelons are listed, I'll work some overtime tonight and finish building a log cabin." As it was getting dark, Yi Tian sped up. Originally, one watermelon could yield thirty seeds, but Yi Tian symbolically picked ten. Although there were hundreds of seeds in the watermelon, most weren't plantable.
Reading the chat from various races, two out of three comments were cursing black-hearted merchants, half of which were aimed at the watermelon seller. Yi Tian couldn't help but type a message: "What did everyone eat today?"
Earth Human Race's Qin Fanshuang: "Although surrounded by the three harms, the Celestial Dao showed mercy. There are some wild fruits and vegetables on the northern plains, barely enough to stave off hunger! I looked around, there's quite a bit of resources on the plain that can be used."
Clearly, Qin Fanshuang recognized Yi Tian's Earth Huaxia name and replied.
The entire territory covered ten square kilometers. The lake occupied two square kilometers; the mountains took up another two. There's two square kilometers of farmland suitable flat land south of the lake; and the plains, including the areas north and northeast of the lake, span about four kilometers. The forest was just a small patch connecting to the southern flat lands.
Since most of the day was busy, Yi Tian hadn't explored the plains.
Wind Race Chief Feng: "Speaking of the plains, I got lucky today and caught two wild rabbits on the plains."
Being able to chase down one rabbit on the plains might be luck, but catching two suggests real speed, with agility surely over thirty.
Celestial Gift Race Skage: "Who's got booze, I'll trade an axe for it. Last message, won't wait long."
This message was deliberately ignored; couldn't even afford water, let alone wine.
Pigman Race Pig Boar: "I'm so thirsty, any big shots willing to give me some water?"
Forest Elf Mumu Qingqing: "The Celestial Dao Stone stated that both opportunity and danger will appear. Solely relying on the plains makes it hard to eliminate the three harms. My agility exceeds fifty, and while gathering firewood in the forest, I was almost caught by a brown bear. But thankfully, once out of the forest by ten meters, the bear gave up the chase. If anyone in the area has agility over seventy, they can easily access resources in the forest and mountains."
Turtle Race's Gui Jie: "My agility is only 3 points, and according to the rules, the highest agility I've seen in the region is 53 points. Master above, you've been validated."
The three-dimensional aspects for the Human Race were generally low, as Yi Tian knew the attributes of the Trial Takers in the zone wouldn't exceed sixty.
The Elf Race should be one of the kings in the zone, having previously seen Light Elf and Dark Elf, they shouldn't be much worse than Forest Elf.
Once it got dark, Yi Tian left only one watermelon. Now, he had nearly twenty thousand Celestial Dao Coins in hand.
"The most crucial thing is to construct a dwelling."
With a thought, the Celestial Dao Stone's light curtain lit up.
Level 1 Tool Platform, Level 1 Building Platform, Level 1 Weapon Platform, Level 1 Refining Platform, Technology Platform: Unlocked.
Among the five upgradeable features within the Celestial Dao Stone, Yi Tian saw that upgrading costs were significant, even just to Level 2.
The Level 1 Weapon Platform could only make ordinary knives, spears, swords, halberds, and basic bamboo bows. Upgrading required one thousand units of iron, one hundred units of copper, and ten thousand Celestial Dao Coins.
The Level 2 Tool Platform required much less, only a tenth of the cost to upgrade the Weapon Platform.
Meanwhile, to upgrade the Level 2 Building Platform, he needed to unlock the Technology Platform and another fifty thousand Celestial Dao Coins.
Unlocking the Technology Platform required ten thousand Celestial Dao Coins. Yi Tian decided not to dabble in technology for now.
Browsing the Level 1 Building Platform, Yi Tian found that it could only construct wooden houses and stone houses.
Stone houses needed a lot of stones, and seeing the expensive prices in the auction house, it was just opportunistic robbery. There were plenty of stones on the mountains to the west, Yi Tian wasn't about to waste money that way.
Simple straw hut, simple wooden house, sturdy wooden house.
Yi Tian clicked on the sturdy wooden house. It required 200 units of wood and 50 nails.
Nails could be crafted at the Level 1 Tool Platform, with each nail requiring only 0.1 unit of iron and 1 Spirit Coin.
Once all was prepared, he chose a construction site on a flat area south of the vegetable fields.
"Build."
Clicking the button on the light curtain, he witnessed a magical moment. An invisible force orchestrated the building materials, and within a minute, a thirty-square-meter small wooden house took shape in front of Yi Tian.
Right after, wooden beds, tables, chairs, basins, and barrels followed, small but complete in their essentials.
Subsequently, Yi Tian built two more sturdy wooden houses next to the bedroom, one as a warehouse and the other as a kitchen.
Then he built a restroom behind the bedroom, which cost only a third of the wooden house's expense.