Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 164 0163: An unexpected new soul slave; third update!
Cheng Zongyang fell into deep thought.

His original intention was to have someone investigate, and if there was plenty of food, he would think of buying it there for free.

His food was the food left before the harvest in the village, and he could not take it out to supply the county town, nor could he supply it. If he wanted to survive the rest of the day, he could only look for it from other places.

While Li Lu was looking for medicinal herbs, he was also exploring the food situation.

There are almost no villages and towns, so the only thing that may be abundant is the county government.

As for whether people in other places would have difficulty living because of this, that was not something he considered.

If the county can't survive, the county residents will leave to seek a way to survive. Maybe they will come here, or maybe they will go to other counties and towns.

But now it seems that the situation in Qingfeng County, which is the closest to the city, may be even more bleak than that in Yufeng County.

Finally, Cheng Zongyang said, "We have to investigate the situation in person to know the final situation. Li Xian, find a few people who are agile, bring some dry food and water, and investigate the situation even if it takes a month. But since you are going, do more."

"Your Excellency has made it clear." Li Xian bowed.

“First, investigate who is in control of the food.

Second, forces, understand what other forces exist.

Third, check whether there are any foreign forces stationed there, and also understand the situation of the foreign personnel who originally requisitioned food."

After listening to Cheng Zongyang's arrangement, Li Xian thought about it, took note of it, and agreed to it.

Nowadays, there are no livestock such as horses, cows, and donkeys in the county to travel or pull carts, so people can only rely on their own strength.

Even Li Lu left Yufeng County on foot.

After arranging the time, Cheng Zongyang let them go about their business.

At noon, outside a shed on the farmland outside the city.

Under the arrangement of Zhao Laoqi and others, thousands of craftsmen from all walks of life lined up in an orderly manner.

These craftsmen were differentiated according to their occupations.

Cheng Zongyang looked at them and was quite satisfied.

Surrounding them were a large number of county residents, and in the distance there were only a few hundred farmers tending to the land.

Cheng Zongyang looked at them and roughly repeated what he had said to the bricklayers yesterday.

There is no cost to make big promises, but the results are excellent.

Besides, what he promised was not empty words.

Everyone can participate in training, but whether they can become warriors in the future depends on their qualifications and luck.

In the future, these people will be incorporated into various gangs. When Li Lu brings back medicinal materials, the people who perform medicinal baths will also be selected from the gangs.

Therefore, the screening of thousands of people depends entirely on each person's qualifications and luck.

After giving them the instructions, Cheng Zongyang took them to see the location and showed them the design drawings.

When they were clear about the overall scope, the craftsmen began to arrange the personnel very experiencedly.

They cleaned the site, cut down trees and carried soil, and also arranged for people to sort and select the things left over from the original village ruins that could be reused.

As the place is quite large, almost the size of two villages, some craftsmen with more qualifications and experience act as leaders to divide each area in detail, so as to avoid too many people and unclear division of labor leading to chaos.

Cheng Zongyang was very satisfied when he saw them bringing their personnel to divide the area according to the map and carry out construction work.

This is called professionalism.

Professional matters should be left to professionals.

Zhao Laoqi and others continued to arrange personnel and listened to the arrangements of these craftsmen to ensure that there were people working in every position.

But this also means an increase in food consumption.

With the fixed food distribution, ordinary people who did manual labor could not increase the amount of steamed bread, but they continued to consume dried fish soup. The number of pots and fires also increased significantly.

Cheng Zongyang didn't have much to say, except that they provided the food. Nothing else, but there were still a lot of dried fish.

With the arrangements made by these skilled craftsmen, Cheng Zongyang felt relieved. According to the normal progress, there would be no problem in completing the construction of the village before the grain harvest.

So, taking advantage of the fact that there were no external interferences, he took a detour back to the cave in the inner mountain, killed those warriors and sent them into the wilderness world.

Their value during their lifetime has been exhausted, and it is time to realize their value after death.

At the door of the market hut.

Cheng Zongyang glanced at Ma San and others who were already doing their respective tasks, and did not disturb them. He carried the six bodies to the door alone.

One mid-level soul crystal requires three bodies to be sacrificed. Two soul crystals are arranged separately.

The following is a familiar process. This point has not changed.

As the three corpses disappeared, the red mist condensed and transformed into two new bodies.

This time, Cheng Zongyang randomly selected their faces. He was too lazy to think of any characters.

He also wanted to be reborn as a woman, but if the soul was a man, it would be disgusting. His taste was not that strong.

With the appearance of two new soul slaves who were nearly 1.8 meters tall, Cheng Zongyang noticed that one of them looked like Luo Dingran!

This situation really surprised Cheng Zongyang.

This has actually changed?

If he remembered correctly, if the appearance of the body after being reshaped was random, it would only be a random one among the corpses.

Luo Dingran had seen it before, but he had never imagined that he would be randomly transformed into a soul, nor did he think that he would gain control of the new body.

"It seems that the random function of this intermediate soul crystal has also changed."

But the next moment, Cheng Zongyang's eyes lit up.

Luo Dingran is a descendant of a noble family and was once a county lord, so he naturally has more intelligence information about the situation in Daliang.

That’s good now. I can learn more from him later.

As for the other person, Cheng Zongyang had never seen him before.

"Owner."

After the two of them got used to it, they knelt down and shouted at Cheng Zongyang at the same time.

Cheng Zongyang did not answer, but looked at their attributes.

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Name: Luo Dingran (can be modified)

Constitution: 50
Power: 50
Stamina: 50
Agility: 40
Skills: None (Can copy the skills of the soul master, can be upgraded, cannot be changed, remaining time: 23:58:46)

Attribute Talent: Commander (passive talent, can enhance the four-dimensional attributes of the ruled by 20%)
Unallocated attribute points: 20]

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Name: Zhang Jinquan (can be modified)

Constitution: 60
Power: 30
Stamina: 50
Agility: 40
Skills: None (Can copy the skills of the soul master, can be upgraded, cannot be changed, remaining time: 23:58:46)

Attribute Talent: Self-Healing (Passive talent, after being injured, the self-healing speed is 50% faster than that of ordinary people.)
Unallocated attribute points: 20]

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Looking at their attributes, Cheng Zongyang also smiled.

"Adding up these twenty points of attributes, I'm afraid their strength will be at the seventh level." Immediately, Cheng Zongyang increased Luo Dingran's attribute to strength.

His four-dimensional attributes are relatively balanced, so instead of dividing them evenly, it would be better to highlight one point.

His talent as a commander meant that he would be in charge of all soul slaves in the future. Even if he didn't lead the troops in the future, he couldn't be weak.

Next comes skills.

He glanced at his skill interface.

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Skills: Archery (12352/20000, Expertise); Pharmacy (104/3000, Intermediate);

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During this time, he did not learn any skills in the inner mountain. He could not learn ironwork, carpentry, or clothing making, could he? These were not something that could be mastered in just two or three days.

The main reason is that he doesn't have the time, so he didn't learn it.

After thinking about it, he realized that the soul slave skills condensed by the intermediate crystal stone could be upgraded, so he immediately gave the archery skill to Luo Dingran. This could also enhance the combat effectiveness of him as a future manager.

Next is Zhang Jinquan.

His self-healing talents include blood and endurance, each adding ten points.

Skills copied Pharmacy.

Finally, looking at their attributes, he nodded slightly.

As their attributes were all determined, Luo Dingran and Zhang Jinquan also felt the changes in themselves, and both bowed respectfully to Cheng Zongyang again and said:

"Thank you for the gift, Master!"

"Get up." Cheng Zongyang responded at this time: "From now on, just call me Sir."

Next, Cheng Zongyang called Ma San and ten other people, and introduced the two of them to the rest.

Afterwards, he looked at everyone and said:

"Luo Dingran will be the supervisor here from now on. Ma San, you will be Luo Dingran's deputy and tell him the rules and things to do here."

"Yes, sir!" Ma San bowed and said without any objection.

"Zhang Jinquan, you will be in charge of pharmacy from now on. Study the various medicinal materials and prescriptions here. Han Mo and Jing Xuan also have pharmacy skills and can cooperate with you. Let them know some prescriptions. By the way, there are three volumes of Huangdi Neijing on the shelf of the hut. You can also take a look."

"Yes, sir, I've made note of it." Zhang Jinquan replied with a bow.

So, later Cheng Zongyang asked Ma San and others to do the work, and he alone talked with these two people about their deeds and circumstances during their lifetime.

During this conversation, Cheng Zongyang had almost no intention of stopping.

Cheng Zongyang knew Luo Dingran's identity in advance, and he was only surprised at first. But Zhang Jinquan's background surprised him.

He is actually a martial arts doctor!
As the name suggests, he was a doctor who specialized in treating warriors. He was also a seventh-rank warrior during his lifetime and later died of poison.

This poison was not poisoned by others, but he repeatedly used his own drug recipes, causing the drug poison to accumulate in his body. If it were not for his strength and strong physical fitness, he would have died in the drug testing. But in the end, the drug poison broke out and he died of the poison.

It can be said that Zhang Jinquan is a drug addict.

What made Cheng Zongyang even more excited was that Zhang Jinquan had a lot of prescriptions and special formulas for martial artists to practice.

Luo Dingran gave him a lot of information about Daliang, the clans, and the aristocratic families.

Zhang Jinquan gave him thirteen effective medicinal prescriptions to assist warriors in their practice, nine medicinal prescriptions to treat warriors' diseases, and four special prescriptions that he had researched accidentally.

This is a huge profit for Cheng Zongyang, he won amazingly!

Over the next day or so, Cheng Zongyang was like a sponge, diligently absorbing most of the intelligence and information from the two of them.

The harvest is simply unimaginable.

But compared to the current environment, the biggest gain was a special prescription after Zhang Jinquan wrote down all the prescriptions. It was also a formula he accidentally researched - Wu Gu Nei Bu Wan.

At first, Zhang Jinquan wanted to refine an internal tonic pill that could quickly replenish the symptoms of a warrior's qi and blood deficiency after a battle.

As a result, after an attempt at refining, one of his disciples secretly ate one pill out of curiosity about its effects.

It turned out that his disciples did not feel hungry even after not eating for three days.

Zhang Jinquan knew that the pills he made should not have such an effect. He only found out the reason after asking.

It was because the disciple had just finished his meal and the internal tonic pills did not contain any poisonous ingredients, so he secretly took one to try it out. This led to the following situation.

After subsequent attempts, I found out that if there is food such as grains in the stomach, taking a tonic pill can ensure that you will not feel hungry for three days.

Zhang Jinquan knew that this prescription deviated from his idea, but he continued his research and later added grain powder to the medicinal powder for refining.

Finally, I came up with a recipe that allows you to take one pill without meals, and ensures that you don't need to eat for three days.

Of course, water is for drinking.

Therefore, this unexpectedly obtained prescription was called Five Grains Internal Tonifying Pills by Zhang Jinquan.

The prescription contained only common herbs, with only one herb having a larger amount, so Zhang Jinquan never continued to research it. After all, this was not the real internal tonic pill he wanted to study.

But for Cheng Zongyang, this formula is simply a life-saving straw!
With this formula, it can completely replace grain and allow residents to survive until the harvest.

As for medicinal materials, it can be said that in all the counties and towns, food may be hard to find, but there are definitely plenty of medicinal materials.

He wrote down the prescription, which could be used for emergency treatment, and prepared to use it later.

By the time they both knew each other almost the same, Cheng Zongyang realized belatedly that more than a day had passed.

Leaving the matters here to them to handle, Cheng Zongyang left the wilderness world and quickly headed for the county town.

Fortunately, there was nothing to do in the county town, so I returned to my residence. I have no plans to leave the county town for now.

After midnight, Cheng Zongyang entered the wilderness world again, preparing to practice the breath-holding technique.

At this moment, a prompt sounded from the market hut indicating that the upgrade was completed, and then an interface appeared in front of him -

[The market hut has been updated. The current level is Lv3. The following updates are available:

①: Added a consignment column. You can consign items produced in the Wild World (16%), and the consignment price is determined by yourself. If the consignment is successful, the corresponding points handling fee will be drawn (the higher the level, the lower the handling fee), and no fee will be deducted if the consignment fails. The consignment column initially has three consignment slots, and the number of consignment slots increases as the level of the cabin increases. The same items in each consignment slot can be stacked and there is no limit on the number and size. The consignment interval is three days.

②: The market hut adds authorization function management. Including but not limited to the purchase column, item column, purchase column, consignment column and the authorization use of some functions. The authorization interface can be called out for management.

③: Remove the appraisal function of the market hut and switch to portable appraisal. The appraisal fee remains unchanged. Only available in the wilderness world.

④: The handling fee for the purchase column is reduced to 16%, and the rest remains unchanged.

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After reading the update content on the panel, Cheng Zongyang touched his chin and felt quite excited.

It can be said that this update is a real benefit. The existence of the consignment column means that he can sell his own things. It is also equivalent to a new source of points.

As for authorization management, identification function, and handling fees, they are all pretty good.

Afterwards, Cheng Zongyang shifted his attention to the interior of the market hut.

The style and environment of the house have not changed, but the area has become larger.

Cheng Zongyang took some measurements and found that the area had increased from more than 20 square meters to more than 30 square meters.

It may not seem like much, but the space area has actually increased.

This means that there is ten more square meters of storage space.

(End of this chapter)