Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 227: Cold-resistant level classification, harvest and deception

"The total area of ​​Longyou is about 13,000 square kilometers. More than 70 years ago, there were at least 200 camps of all sizes. At that time, everyone was very weak, their activities were limited, and they had little contact with each other. But after Li Tianhua became the leader of Longshan, the situation changed..."

To the east of Longshan Mountain, the Blood Guards marched slowly eastward. Hou Hu was alone with Xia Hong, telling him the history of Longyou.

“Li Tianhua not only has a high talent for cultivation, but also has the strength of the Digging Realm at the age of 20. His combat talent and hunting ability are also extremely amazing. What is even more valuable is that his talent in developing camps is also not low.

When he first became the leader, Longshan was just a medium-sized camp with a population of just over a thousand. He relied on Longshan to continuously accommodate the surrounding camps. In just ten years, he developed Longshan to a scale of 10,000 people, with more than a thousand people in the Digging Realm and more than 40 hunting teams..."

When talking about Li Tianhua, Hou Hu's eyes showed both admiration and fear, and it can be seen that he has quite complicated feelings towards this person.

This is not surprising. Judging from the fact that he previously called Li Tiancheng "uncle master", he and Li Tianhua obviously have a master-disciple relationship.

Just listening to Hou Hu telling about Li Tianhua's legendary experiences, although Xia Hong pretended to be shocked, his real feelings in his heart were strangely nervous.

In ten years, Longshan has developed to a scale of 10,000 people, and there are over a thousand people in the Digging Realm. This achievement is certainly very strong compared to Bingyuan.

But if compared with Daxia, it is too insignificant.

Of course, Xia Hong was not so vain, so he would not interrupt Hou Hu's story. He just continued to listen to what Hou Hu was going to say.

"After Longshan's strength increased greatly, it began to accelerate the annexation of surrounding camps, either by favor or by coercion. In the following few years, there were almost no other camps within a radius of 20 kilometers around Longshan, and the population of Longshan reached 40,000. Li Tianhua's super combat body had the power of eight manes when he broke through the cold-resistant level. At that time, he was in the limelight. All the human camps in Longyou were vying to merge with Longshan..."

Super combat body, with the power of eight manes after breakthrough!
This sentence made Xia Hong's mind slightly moved, and he pretended to be shocked and said:
"As soon as you break through, you will have the power of eight manes. After breaking through to the middle and late stages, won't your strength be even more amazing?"

Hou Hu nodded and said, "Of course, for the three realms of the Cold Resistance level, each time you break through a realm, your basic strength will double. According to Li Tianhua's strength when he broke through, he had sixteen manes in the middle stage and thirty-two manes in the late stage. When he breaks through to the peak of the Cold Resistance level, his strength will be sixty-four manes. Not to mention Longyou, I estimate that it will be difficult to find a stronger Cold Resistance level than him in the entire Pingxi Plain."

Now, Xia Hong finally knew the strength division of the Cold-Resistant Class.

Just breaking through the cold-resistant level is considered the initial stage, followed by the middle, late and peak stages. Each time you break through, your basic strength will increase once. According to Hou Hu, the extent of the increase is still calculated based on the basic strength at the time of the breakthrough.

When I broke through, I had nine manes, and now I have seventeen manes, which means I am only one mane away from the middle stage. My strength will be thirty-six manes in the late stage, and when I break through to the peak stage, my strength will be as high as seventy-two manes.

Eight times stronger than Li Tianhua!

Hou Hu has the power of sixteen manes, the peak of the Cold-Resistance Level. If we deduct from the past that when he just broke through to the Cold-Resistance Level, he only had the power of two manes, which also means he had a top-notch combat physique.

Li Tiancheng's strength is only slightly stronger than his, and it seems that he is just a superior combat body at most.

Not only did Xia Hong know the strength division of the Cold-Resistant Class, but he was also able to deduce the combat aptitudes of Li Tiancheng and Hou Hu from it. His mood instantly improved a lot.

"All the human camps in Longyou want to join Longshan, then what?"

Hearing Xia Hong's initiative to ask, Hou Hu immediately continued:

"As I said before, there were more than 200 camps in Longyou at that time, with a total population of nearly 150,000. Even if Li Tianhua was very capable, he couldn't afford to support so many people, so he refused to merge with other camps and was only willing to gradually increase the population according to the development of Longshan."

Xia Hong nodded slightly. Li Tianhua’s choice was very reasonable.

The characteristics of the Ice Abyss world dictate that only people who are at the Digging Realm and have hunting abilities can have a positive impact on the development of the camp. Otherwise, no matter how many people there are, they will only be a burden.

However, the Digging Realm must be cultivated with beast meat, and the demand for beast meat will increase after breaking through the Digging Realm. Even after the Digging Realm, the demand for beast meat and blood resources will continue to increase step by step.

In the case of limited resources, blindly expanding the population is not only useless, but will have a strong negative effect. At the very least, it will hinder the development of the camp. In serious cases, it will also lay hidden dangers and cause the camp to collapse.

According to what we have seen before, the total area of ​​Longshan must be larger than that of Hongmuling, and the cold beasts and other types of resources must be extremely abundant.

The problem is, no matter how rich the resources are, you cannot successfully obtain them if you do not have enough strength; just like Daxia, the exploration of Redwood Ridge is still ongoing. If Xia Hong remembers correctly, when he went out, the depth that Daxia hunting team could enter into Redwood Ridge was only seven kilometers.

Moreover, only the stronger intermediate hunting teams can go.

This is Da Xia, where there is still a system and the speed of development is rapid.

No matter how capable Li Tianhua is, he is still restricted by the cruel environment of Bingyuan. The best way is to steadily increase the population of the camp and expand the sphere of influence according to his ability to grab resources.

"If Longshan only refused to allow other camps to join, that would be fine. After all, we are the weaker party. But the problem is that after refusing to allow other camps to join, he also forcibly occupied all the outer entrances of Longshan!"

After hearing this, Xia Hong roughly understood it.

He had been curious about this before. Among the twelve families in Longyou, there is the Longshan camp, needless to say. They are at the foot of the mountain. In addition, the Fengchao and Yanglu families are next to Hongmu Ridge, so they have a place to go for hunting. What about the other nine families?

You know, most of Pingxiyuan is plain area with low vegetation coverage. Although there are cold beasts, there are too few of them. Not to mention supporting nine giant camps, even two or three may not be possible.

Live off the mountain. From the perspective of distance, it is obviously much more convenient for them to go to Longshan. Li Tianhua occupied all the outer entrances to Longshan for the development of his own camp, which is understandable. However, this means that the living space of other camps is occupied.

The subsequent development is not difficult to guess.

"Longshan acted tyrannically, and the remaining camps began to unite and resist in order to protect themselves. In the following years, some of them merged, some resisted, and some were eliminated. Finally, they used their strength to force Li Tianhua to make a few breakthroughs. However, out of more than 200 camps, only more than 20 remained."

Although this passage consists of only a few words, the fact that there are only more than 20 camps left from more than 200 camps is enough to prove how cruel and bloody those years in Longyou were.

Hou Hu was one of the hostages held in Longyou thirty years ago. At that time, he should have been just the son of a leader, that is to say, he had not experienced that period of time. But his tone was still heavy, probably because he had some deep feelings about the experiences of his father's generation.

"But even so, the fight hasn't stopped yet!"

Hou Hu looked solemn and continued, "To be honest, in terms of single strength, none of us can compare with Longshan. The reason we were able to force Li Tianhua to make some concessions was because we were more than 20 people of the same clan. Over time, Longshan began to divide us, so the fight never stopped."

That is inevitable!
Opening the mouth of Longshan means giving up one's own interests. If the camp wants to continue to develop, it must occupy more resource areas. The ultimate goal of all camps is to annex others to strengthen themselves, and Li Tianhua is no exception.

"Everything turned around in the first year of Longyou..."

At this point, Hou Hu's face suddenly darkened, and he continued, "That year, my father, Hou Hai, discovered a winter apple tree in Longshan..."

Han Ping Yu Lu! Hearing this name, Xia Hong immediately remembered the three great medicines that the pharmacist surnamed Liu had mentioned in the Beehive.

One of them is called Hanping Yulu.

Moreover, when he eavesdropped on the conversation between Hou Tong and others later, Hou Tong also said that as long as Fengchao switched to Zhaoyang, after overthrowing Longshan, each family's share of Hanping Yulu would double.

"Brother Hong should know how precious the Hanping tree is. It is one of the three most important ingredients for boiling jade bones, and it is also the hardest to find. My father knew it was unrealistic for one person to monopolize such a treasure. Based on the cooperation with other camps at the time, he told the news of the Hanping tree, hoping that everyone could unite to protect it."

At this point, Hou Hu's expression suddenly became angry.

"But I didn't expect that there were already two families secretly joining Longshan!"

After hearing this, it’s not difficult to guess what happens next.

The Hanping tree was a treasure that was important for cold-resistant cultivation. Even if Li Tianhua was not right, he would definitely try to snatch it.

It is even more impossible to give up other camps for nothing.

"A war broke out, and half of the more than 20 camps were destroyed. Although Li Tianhua was strong, the remaining camps were not weak after the great changes. The war intensified, and both sides were furious..."

It turns out that the Longyou Alliance was built on this basis.

A glimmer of understanding flashed across Xia Hong's eyes. When he first heard about the Longyou Alliance from Yuwen Tao, he thought it was an alliance formed by the twelve Longyou families in order to resist interference from external forces.

Now it seems that Li Tianhua brought together the remaining eleven families to jointly negotiate and establish this organization in order to avoid the expansion of the war in Longyou.

"The Hanping tree eventually returned to Longshan, but Li Tianhua also made a promise to the eleven of us that Longshan would take 30% of the Hanping Jade Dew produced each year, and the remaining 70% would be distributed according to the number of people at the cold-resistant level in the eleven Longyou families."

"How much of this Hanping Yulu can be produced in a year?"

"Brother Hong is smart, he got to the point right away!"

Hou Hu marveled at Xia Hong's sharpness, his tone full of praise.

Xia Hong was a little confused, but as Hou Hu continued to explain, he understood why the other party reacted like that.

"That winter apple tree was supervised by the twelve of us in the beginning. From the first year of Longyou to the twentieth year of Longyou, it produced about 200 drops every year. But later, Longshan stopped us camps from supervising it. From the twenty-first year of Longyou, the output became less and less every year. By the fortieth year of Longyou, it only produced 40 drops. Brother Hong, if you say this is your fault, do you believe it?"

………………

Xia Hong remained silent. Regardless of how much of Hou Hu's words were true or false, he understood the meaning of his words.

"Not only did Longshan seize the treasure discovered by Brother Hou's father, he also didn't intend to keep the promises he made to your camps earlier. It's obvious that he is concealing the production of Hanping Yulu and deliberately withholding your share. Such a domineering behavior, Longshan..."

After saying this, Xia Hong showed a bit of indignation, and then continued in a deep voice: "This is simply too much!"

"Yes, Brother Hong is really smart and he understands everything at once."

Seeing Xia Hong's reaction, Hou Hu's eyes flashed with joy. After a sound of approval, he continued in a deep voice: "It's not just the matter of the cold apple tree. In the past few years in Longshan, on the one hand, they used the name of the leader to make us pay annual tribute, iron ore, coal mines, medicinal materials, and various resources. They plundered countless things from our eleven families. On the other hand, they expanded wildly in Longshan and did not allow other camps to enter. Even the coal and iron mines we found ourselves would be immediately snatched away by them once they were discovered.

Such behavior is no different from that of a bandit or a jackal. The eleven families in Longyou have suffered for a long time. Hou is fed up and has no choice but to fight back. In the end, it is for myself and I want to seek justice for them..."

The atmosphere is here!
Xia Hong looked up and saw the expectation in Hou Hu's eyes, and immediately spoke angrily:
"It has been half a year since I left the camp, but I have never seen such a domineering camp. It would be fine if I didn't run into it, but now that I have, I must deal with it. Don't worry, brother Hou. I don't have anything else important to do, so I will stay in Zhaoyang Camp for the time being and work with brother Hou to deal with Longshan. I don't believe there is no justice."

There really are such honest people!
It actually worked. The trick was successful...

Hou Hu looked at Xia Hong, slightly absent-minded, but his acting skills were not bad either, and he quickly adjusted his expression. He looked extremely moved, and bowed to Xia Hong:
"On behalf of all the people in Longyou, I would like to thank Brother Hong for his righteous actions!"

“Hey, this…”

Xia Hong rubbed his hands again at the right time, and said with a little embarrassment:

"Brother Hou, you don't have to do this. I have some selfish motives. To be honest, I came from outside Shuanglong Mountain. The way of boiling jade bones in my camp is a bit backward, so I wanted to go out and ask other camps to see if there are other better recipes. If you don't mind, Brother Hou..."

"Brother Hong, rest assured. I am grateful to you for saving my life. I will offer you the recipe for cooking jade bones. Not only that, I will also offer you 20 kilograms of jade bones and five drops of Hanping Yulu when we return to the camp. As long as Brother Hong can help me overthrow Longshan this time, there will be even greater benefits in the future!"

Xia Hong's eyes lit up immediately, and he nodded heavily, "Okay, then it's a deal, I will lend a helping hand to Brother Hou."

At this moment, Hou Hu's heart finally settled down.

If this Hong Xia had no needs and was really eager to help him, he would be suspicious. It would be right if he had needs.

The recipe for boiling jade bones is not a big secret for the Warm-resistant class in Longyou. Besides, this Xia Hong knows Hanping Yulu and obviously has his own recipe. He just wants to improve it, so it doesn't hurt to tell him.

As for the twenty kilograms of jade bones and five drops of cold apple jade dew, if Zhaoyang can really overthrow Longshan this time, what are these things?
"Being able to force Li Tiancheng to retreat, this Hong Xia's strength is roughly equal to mine. With such a powerful helper, as long as the follow-up arrangements are made properly, the hope of overthrowing Longshan can be increased by at least 20%. The era of Zhaoyang dominating Longyou is about to come!"

While Hou Hu was walking, he turned his head and looked far to the west. He saw the shadow of Longshan Mountain in the night. He clenched his fists slightly, his eyes full of desire and ambition.

"The strength classification of the cold-resistant level and the recipe for boiling jade bones are so easy to obtain, and......"

Twenty pounds of jade bones, five drops of cold apple jade dew.

Xia Hong's face behind the mask was full of smiles.

It was really worth it to force Li Tiancheng back.

The key point is that Hou Hu, at this moment, is probably also secretly happy like him.

He still hasn't figured out who the one being fooled is!
(End of this chapter)