I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

Lu Yuan guessed that the characteristics of these Insect Soldiers might be related to their food and living environment.

When these guys munch on grass all day, don't they just become herbivores?

"Every civilization has its own culture, and the culture of human civilization is—struggle and confidence!"

"Even if you're an insect, you must have confidence!"

"For insects that like to struggle, we should feed them better… Maybe set up an incentive plan?"

"Bibi!" A Leviathan came rushing over, showing off its labor achievements to Lu Yuan.

With its huge horns, it dug up a shiny "Pandora Crystal Stone."

"Well done!" Lu Yuan immediately praised it and stealthily handed it a small pomegranate from his pocket.

The Leviathan walked away excitedly.

"The most important thing is still the equipment..."

"If these insects could also wear equipment that accelerates growth, we could save a lot of resources."

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but continue to immerse himself in his "Mythical Equipment Research."

He was extremely passionate about it.

Indeed, no matter the industry, even the top scientists cannot create value that compares to creating "Mythical Equipment."

Even Legendary Equipment, just producing one piece, is immensely valuable.

Because equipment can be used over a long period.

Permanent items are definitely more valuable than consumables.

...

The entire mining operation went very smoothly, without any unexpected accidents.

Six months later, the warehouse was filled with oil, enough for several years, and the Pandora Crystal Stones could lift approximately 18 billion tons of rock mass, which was already sufficient to expand Sky City by a hundredfold.

So the city took flight once again.

Flying and stopping like this, it took a year to cross the desert and reach that arid land.

Here, there was finally some rainfall, and sparse animals and plants appeared.

To explore the possible existence of treasures, Lu Yuan specially prompted a vine from the Tree of Life to the edge of the city.

He kept this vine constantly activated with "Explorer's Eye."

At the same time, he arranged a scouting team, consisting of a group of "Eagle Eyes", "Super Perceivers", and a few Treasure Hunters.

Whenever they spotted wealth, the soldiers rode flying insects to search for treasures on the land.

And indeed, the carpet-style searching really unearthed quite a few good things.

Things like Black Iron Ore, Thousand-year-old stone marrow, unknown animal bones, Thunderstruck Wood, Red Rocks, and some mutated animals and plants.

These Supernatural Materials mostly were of "Ordinary Level" and "Inferior Level", but humans took all they found.

Occasionally, there were "Rare Level" treasures!

They even found a small Mithril mine, so the city landed and mined Mithril for several months.

What is called "basis" is indeed accumulated little by little.

However, one has to admit that the resources of Pangu Continent really weren't abundant enough to have treasures everywhere; on average, a treasure was found every 1000 kilometers. The current search radius was about 10 kilometers.

That is, in ten thousand square kilometers, one might find a piece of Extraordinary Mineral. (This doesn't rule out some that were missed)

If there were no Sky City, and just running around on legs on the ground, the cost would indeed be sky-high.

In the scouting room at the edge of the city, several on-duty soldiers were intently observing below.

Next to them were two "Flying Dragons", a type of large insect that could fly and spit liquid acid.
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"At least bring something a bit rarer. At this rate, when will we ever find Superior Level treasures."

"Finding anything at all is good enough... I'm telling you, when I was on duty last week, I didn't catch a single hair, it was so boring." An older soldier suddenly pulled out a document, "Do you know how Supernatural Mines appear?"

"What do you mean?"

"According to the literature of Green Grass Civilization, it seems related to... Qi Fortune fluctuations! The whole Pangu Continent also has the concept of Luck."

"In the early and late Epoch, the fluctuations of Luck are especially significant, hence Supernatural Mines tend to be richer."

"Ah? By that logic, one stone per ten thousand square kilometers is considered high density now?"

It really is considered high density.

As the middle of the Epoch approaches, the number of civilizations increases, naturally making searching more difficult.

Fortunately, most Extraordinary Minerals can be recycled and reused, and with the passage of time, a substantial amount will inevitably accumulate.

On the other hand, biological materials, being consumables, always have a shortage.

So finding plants and flowers would also be a good gain.

"Captain's here, keep it down."

The captain of the scouting team was named Lu Ying; his "Lu" surname shows that he is a child raised by public funds...

In principle, after the age of 24, one can change their own name, but most people don't change it randomly, because careful thought was put into it at the outset.

Lu Ying had a pair of "Treasure Hunting Eyes", a Divine Skill he was born with.

His vision was far superior to normal people, and he was also the person in the team who found the most treasures, known in the military as the "Treasure Hunting Whiz."

"Everyone, no need to be so tense, we're almost approaching Rize Civilization's territory."

"This is the homeland of Commander Lu Da, it was searched once before, so there probably won't be any missed treasures... but still, don't be careless."

Everyone burst into laughter, the treasure hunting operation heavily relied on the vine gifted by the Great Commander.