Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 274: Eliminated, Breakthrough, Green Lotus Grass

"Ring number three, Meng Ning's tenth match begins now!"

"Ring No. 41, Chen Hua's eighth match, begins."

"Ring number seventeen, Zhu Xing's ninth match, begins."

"Ring number 50, Tong Xingsheng's tenth match begins."

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The main road in the inner city is bustling with people.

As the referee's voice sounded, swords and sabers flew across the arena surrounded by fifty wooden stakes. Some of the opponents with a huge difference in strength decided the winner in just over ten breaths, while some of the opponents who were evenly matched were so hard to decide that the winner could not be determined even after hundreds of breaths.

"Dad, come on!"

"Come on, Daddy. Come on, Daddy!"

At the side of the No. 21 ring, the brother and sister Xiang Yan and Xiang Rong were cheering for their father Xiang Ping on the ring at the top of their lungs with red faces, not caring at all about the teasing looks from the people around them.

"How many rounds has this been, father?"

Suddenly, two hands patted the brother and sister's shoulders. They turned their heads at the same time and smiles appeared on their faces.

"Brother, has the selection for the logging group ended?"

"Brother, have you advanced?"

Xiang Liang did not answer, but just nodded and smiled.

"Brother, I just heard that only seven teams advanced. You are so strong!"

"Big brother is the best."

Seeing the smile on their eldest brother's face, the brother and sister immediately understood that he must have advanced, and they cheered in surprise. Xiang Rong, who was only eight years old, couldn't help but throw herself into the arms of her eldest brother Xiang Liang.

Xiang Yan and Xiang Rong had always admired their elder brother Xiang Liang since they pacified Japan, especially when Xiang Liang risked his life to escape from the camp to present treasures to Daxia and exempted his family from corvée labor. The brother and sister admired him even more.

But the two of them didn't notice that Xiang Liang's face was obviously a little disappointed.

However, Xiang Liang did not say much. He looked at Xiang Ping who was fighting with his opponent on the stage and asked again, "Father, which round is it now?"

Xiang Yan immediately replied with a hint of pride: "Father has won four games in a row, and now it's the fifth game."

It’s only the fifth game…

Xiang Ping sighed slightly as he watched his father showing signs of defeat on the ring.

The father should not be able to get out of the line!

Although the preliminaries in the lumberjack realm were difficult, it was a team selection after all. As long as one was lucky enough, there would be hope of qualifying, and he himself was an example.

The digging realm is different.

It is said that there are ten chances to fight, but in fact, if you lose one game you will be eliminated directly, and there is no chance for subsequent fights at all. Moreover, even if you win ten games in a row, you cannot be guaranteed to advance, because you have to compete with other people who have won ten games in a row to win the time.

Xiang Liang had just come from the outer city. He had passed by many arenas and had heard a lot of information. In the Digging Realm group, more than 128 people have won 10 games in a row, so it is inevitable that they will have to compete in terms of time to win. In the arena, his father Xiang Ping had only fought the fifth game when he was already showing signs of defeat, so naturally there was no hope for him to advance.

clang…………

"Admit defeat!"

The fact was just as Xiang Liang had expected. On the ring, as Xiang Ping's sword was directly knocked away by his opponent, he chose to admit defeat.

"Xiang Ping lost in the fifth match and was eliminated!"

"Zhou Yingkai won the seventh match, took 126 breaths, and is preparing for the eighth match."

As the referee of the Supply Department called out the result of the match, Xiang Ping was not angry about losing the match. Instead, he bowed to his opponent and said with a smile: "Congratulations, Brother Zhou, for your breakthrough. Maybe you can advance to the next round!"

Xiang Ping believed that his fighting talent was not weak, but his weakness was basic strength. Before joining Da Xia at the beginning of the year, his strength was close to 15,000. Half a year later, relying on Da Xia's abundant meat resources, his basic strength soared to 19,000.

With a basic strength of 19,000, it is rare to be able to last until the fifth game.

The martial arts selection for the Digging Realm groups is said to be completely randomly matched with opponents, but if you observe carefully, you will find that your opponents become stronger as time goes by, so it is basically impossible to win ten games in a row without breaking the 30,000-jin limit.

His opponent in this round, Zhou Yingkai, originally had a basic strength of more than 29,000. Relying on his rich combat experience, Xiang Ping finally fought with the opponent for dozens of breaths. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yingkai actually broke through in the battle. When he exceeded the limit of 30,000 pounds, his membrane changed. He immediately realized that he could not win, so he simply admitted defeat.

The opponent has broken through the 128-jin limit and is qualified to advance to the top . If he continues to pester him, he will just increase the time for him. Instead of doing this, it would be better to go with the flow and give him a favor. Maybe the other party will remember the favor.

Zhou Yingkai obviously saw Xiang Ping's intention, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It seems that Brother Xiang didn't pay much attention to the grouping of the Digging Realm. If you want to advance to the top 128 now, your basic strength must be at least pounds. I definitely have no chance."

Forty thousand pounds, how is this possible!

Xiang Ping was stunned when he heard this, his face full of disbelief.

But the Digger from the Supply Department who was presiding over the No. 21 ring smiled and nodded, saying, "Indeed, among the top 128 contestants, the lowest basic strength is over jin. There are still more than half of them who haven't competed yet. This standard will definitely be raised to jin in the end."

Among the current top 128, the lowest basic strength is !
Xiang Ping's expression froze instantly, his pupils filled with disbelief.

There were more things that he found unbelievable.

Zhou Yingkai saw Xiang Ping's expression and knew that he didn't pay attention to the situation in other arenas. He sighed and said, "Brother Xiang doesn't know yet. In the first half of the night, the group selection for the Digging Realm began. In the first round, Ying Xuan, Ying Yi, Zou Yuankai, and Tong Xinglong broke through to the Cold Resistance Level and were announced to advance directly. Later, I heard that several others also broke through. Like me, there are probably almost 200 people who have broken through to the 30,000-jin limit. I don't even have any hope of advancing!"

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Xiang Ping was still dizzy until he walked off the stage.

He had come to Daxia at the beginning of the year, and after joining the hunting team, he had no direct experience of the overall situation of the camp. He only knew that Daxia was very strong, but he did not expect it to be so strong.

According to what Zhou Yingkai said just now, there are many people who have broken through the cold-resistant level, and the limit of 30,000 pounds is nothing at all. Then, with a basic strength of not even over 20,000, he is not even considered a middle-level person among the digging-level group in the camp?

"How many Digging Realms are there in Daxia?"

Xiang Ping's mumbling happened to be heard by Xiang Liang who came towards him.

He had also heard the conversation on the ring just now, and knew the confusion in his father's heart at the moment. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Before the martial arts competition, it was probably more than 4,600, but I estimate that after this martial arts competition, it will probably double, or even more!"

One times, that’s more than nine thousand, tens of thousands.

how can that be!

Xiang Ping's expression suddenly froze, and when he turned around he found the three siblings standing beside him.

Thinking that his eldest son Xiang Liang was helping out in the camp supply department, he must be familiar with the camp population situation, so he continued to ask: "How come there are so many?"

Xiang Liang shook his head helplessly and said, "The number of people in our camp who are in the Lumberjack Realm is already close to 20,000. Add the 12,000 in Longyou, and the total number has exceeded 30,000. Ever since the announcement of the martial arts competition last month, everyone has been suppressing their cultivation and not breaking through. As soon as the martial arts competition started tonight, people have been breaking through. The Digging Realm group is actually not bad, but the breakthrough situation of the Lumberjack group is simply..."

frenzied!

Xiang Liang could only use these four words to describe his situation at the moment. Since he was grouped too late, he watched the entire selection of the logging group.

Starting from the fourth round when Zhao Yuankong's group advanced, in the fifth round of assessment, there was a group of three people who broke through to the Digging Realm at the same time in the iron cage. The breakthrough was nothing, the key point was that Qiu Peng did not stop the assessment, but allowed that group to successfully hunt the cold beast and pass the level. In this way, everyone knew that breaking through to the Digging Realm during the assessment was not a violation.

Realizing this, the rest of the group went crazy.

There was nothing else to do once they entered the iron cage. Anyone who could break through started to do so. After all, the difficulty of hunting the cold beast would be reduced after the breakthrough, and the hope of advancement would be greatly increased.

Moreover, the rule of grouping before the game was that each group was equipped with a dozen people at the peak of the Lumberjack Realm. As a result, people who broke through to the Digging Realm emerged one after another like mushrooms after rain.

"There are eighteen rounds of selection in total. Starting from the fifth round, after each group entered the iron cage, there were almost 5 to 7 people who broke through to the Digging Realm. In general, the number of people who broke through, from what I saw, was at least seven or eight hundred. The key point is that these are only the people who broke through in Xiacheng, Jinggu, Wuyuan, and Longyou. The number of people who broke through must be over a thousand.

Moreover, this is the first day of the martial arts competition. Since breaking through to the Digging Realm does not affect the subsequent martial arts competition, the number of people who break through to the Digging Realm in the next few days will definitely increase......"

After hearing his son's words, the surprise on Xiang Ping's face gradually disappeared, leaving only numbness, and finally a trace of loneliness flashed in his eyes.

Before Hefeng was incorporated into Daxia, it was a medium-sized camp. As the leader, Xiang Ping naturally had some ambition.

After being incorporated into Daxia at the beginning of the year, he did not sink into despair. Instead, he quickly chose to join a hunting team. He relied on the contribution points earned from hunting to exchange for resources and practiced hard, hoping to gradually improve his status after becoming stronger.

If possible, he also wanted to create a hunting team of his own, and then gradually join the upper echelons of Daxia.

But now it seems that this idea is obviously a bit naive!

The Hunting Department currently stipulates that an individual's basic strength must be at least 25,000 to be eligible to create a team. He has not even reached this standard, not to mention that this is only one of the standards.

Seeing the loneliness in his father's eyes, Xiang Liang comforted him: "Father, don't be discouraged. After all, we have only been in the camp for half a year. It is normal to have a gap with others. As long as we catch up bravely, it is only a matter of time before we stand out!"

Xiang Ping nodded, and a hint of fighting spirit gradually rose in his eyes.

Although he is already 38 years old this year, according to the average life expectancy of over 40 people in Bingyuan, he is definitely in old age. But as long as he breaks through to the cold-resistant level and increases his lifespan by another 60 years, he will still have plenty of time and opportunities.

Thinking of his son who also participated in the selection of the logging group, Xiang Ping immediately asked: "Ping'er, have you advanced?"

"Big brother has advanced, he is the best!"

Before Xiang Liang could speak, his sister Xiang Rong in his arms answered for him.

Upon hearing his son's advancement, Xiang Ping's face was immediately filled with surprise. His son's basic strength was just 6,000 kilograms, which was definitely not outstanding among the lumberjacks in the camp. His advancement was completely beyond his expectations.

Apparently, my father still didn't understand the selection mechanism for the logging group.

After Xiang Liang explained the selection process for the logging teams, he shook his head and said:

"I'm in Group 168. I'm lucky. Our leader, a man named Zhu Wu, has advanced with our entire team. The second round will begin tomorrow night. It's the same as the Digging Realm grouping. Each person will have 10 fights, and the top 128 will be selected to enter the finals. I definitely don't stand a chance this round!"

Xiang Ping finally understood that his son's promotion was based on luck. Hearing the frustration in his son's tone, he smiled and said, "Didn't you just advise me? Now you feel discouraged. This is only the first year. Why are you so nervous? I heard from our captain that this martial arts competition will be held every year in the future. If you work hard, you may be able to enter the top 100 next year."

This is true. With Da Xia's current abundant supply of animal meat, Xiang Liang will definitely reach the peak of the logging realm before June next year, and then his hope of breaking into the top 100 will be great.

"I understand, father. I'll just take this as an opportunity to gain experience. Next year, I will strive to be in the top 100. No, top 10!"

Xiang Liang's expression brightened slightly, and he raised his goal a lot.

Not only the top ten, but considering my age, if I want to catch up with the best people in the camp, I have to at least be in the top three next year to have any hope!
"Ambitious!"

Seeing the determination in his son's eyes, Xiang Ping naturally encouraged him, and then took his three children to another arena to watch the excitement.

The more he looked at it, the more frightened he became!

"Those who have just broken through to the Digging Realm are just making up the numbers. Those who can win ten games in a row all have a basic strength of over 30,000 kilograms. Some of those who are at the Digging Realm limit with bad luck even lost in the ninth game. No wonder Zhou Yingkai just said that he has no hope of advancing."

After watching the situations in more than a dozen arenas, Xiang Ping gradually became confused and couldn't help but turn around and ask Xiang Liang.

"Ping'er, we in Daxia now have a base strength of over 30,000 jin, the limit of the Digging Realm. Do you know exactly how many people there are?"

Xiang Liang thought for a moment and shook his head, "I don't know. I guess only Qiu Sizheng and a few other adults know..."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "It should be more than two hundred!"

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After all, Xiang Liang worked in the Military Supply Department, so his guess was actually somewhat based on facts. However, he did not take into account the impact of this martial arts competition.

After daybreak, in the main building's top-floor hall, Qiu Peng was reporting to Xia Hong with great excitement how exaggerated the breakthrough brought about by last night's martial arts competition was.

"Leader, this is too scary! Among the logging groups, there are 172 groups in Xiacheng alone, and more than 800 people have broken through to the Digging Realm. There are 232 people in Wuyuan, 167 people in Jinggu, and the people in the three garrisons in Longyou are not counted. I estimate that there are at least 1700 new Digging Realm people added last night. This is just the first night. According to this trend, when the martial arts competition is over, the total number of new Digging Realm people will be at least over 3000."

The more Qiu Peng spoke, the more he smiled. Seeing that Xia Hong didn't react much, he continued, "The situation of the Digging Realm grouping is also scary. There were eight people who broke through to the Cold-Proofing Realm last night, namely Ying Xuan, Ying Yi, Zou Yuankai, Tong Xinglong, Zhu Shun, Lu Sheng, Li Longkai, and Xiao Kangcheng. There were even more who broke through the 242-jin limit, a total of 504 people. Including the previous ones, there are already 600 people who have reached the Digging Realm limit in Xiacheng. If you count the people in Longyou, there are at least ."

After hearing these words, Xia Hong's face finally showed some reaction, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

When he returned to Xiacheng before, he speculated that the current limit of Daxia's Digging Realm was only above 200. Now it seems that this was obviously an underestimate.

"Over 600, not bad. How many more days do you think it will take to complete the two-group martial arts competition?"

Qiu Peng immediately replied: "The second round of selection for the logging group will start at night. The people from Longyou should arrive in the second half of the night. It is expected that the top 128 will be selected tonight, and it will be finished at midnight tomorrow night.
The Digging Realm had already finished most of the competition last night. It will be finished in the first half of the night today, and the seven elimination rounds will continue in the second half of the night. It will be soon. I estimate that the Digging Realm will have a result before dawn tomorrow."

The top ten in the Digging Realm will have their results announced before dawn on the third day of June.

There are too many people in the Lumberjack Realm, and we have to decide the top 100, so it is normal to take a little longer. The results will not be known until the night of June 3rd.

Xia Hong nodded, and then said, "The martial arts competition for the cold-resistant group will be held in the second half of the night on the third day of June. Once the top ten in the digging realm and the top hundred in the logging realm are determined, I will choose a place and officially start."

When he heard that the cold-resistant martial arts competition would begin in the late night of June 3rd, Qiu Peng's face suddenly became solemn. He was in this group, so naturally he had to pay attention to it.

"How many people do you expect to break through the limit of the Digging Realm in the future?"

After hearing this question, Qiu Peng thought for a while. The Quartermaster Department had a rough idea of ​​the cultivation status of the camp population. As the chief, he naturally knew more about it than others, and he quickly told Xia Hong the approximate numbers.

"I predict that there should be more than 2000 people in Xiacheng. I don't know the situation of the people in Longyou recently. I will know after the selection results over there come out."

600 plus 200 is more than 800.

If we include those from Longyou, 1000 people should be about the right number.

Xia Hong breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand, saying, "Go and have a rest. Finish the martial arts competition as soon as possible after nightfall."

"Yes, my subordinates are resigning!"

Not long after Qiu Peng left, a string of information prompts appeared in Xia Hong's mind.

[Green Lotus Grass: Animal spiritual medicine, can help animals open their minds and improve their strength. It can also be used by humans to make pills. There is currently no synthetic formula.]

"They are the five trees I brought from the banks of the Ying River!"

Xia Hong reacted immediately, then confirmed the information again, and a look of sudden enlightenment appeared on his face.

"No wonder that red carp was so angry. Beast-type spiritual medicine, does that mean it's specifically for cold beasts? It can also be used to make pills, but there's no synthesis formula. That means there's no medicinal material currently recorded in the alchemy shop that can be used with it."

Xia Hong pondered for a moment, then suddenly remembered something and his eyes lit up.

(End of this chapter)