Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

Chapter 140 Azure-Gold Wind Feather Giant Crossbow

Although it was stabbed, the giant bird did not lose its ability to move. After struggling frantically, it actually took off again from the rocky ridge.

"A naive imperial edict!"

But Lu Ling had already condensed a special talisman in her hand. As she chanted softly, she gently flicked her fingers and released it, which instantly transformed into a huge ice vortex that enveloped the giant bird.

The enormous ice vortex, like a raging tornado, enveloped the giant bird. In a very short time, countless ice crystals appeared around it. Even a bird as large as this could not break free in a short period of time and was frozen solid.

Although frozen by extreme cold, the giant bird was not dead. The azure energy on its body continued to surge wildly, and the sound of ice cracking rang out frequently, like porcelain about to shatter.

But Lu Ling did not stand idly by. She took a step forward, her spear poised to strike, the icy blue light on the spear shaft growing ever brighter, as if she were gathering power.

Not only Lu Ling, but Wang Zhen and Fang Si had also been waiting on the side, their weapons glowing brightly with energy, and they were also gathering their strength, trying to strike the giant bird that was about to break through the ice.

"Click~ Click~ Click~ Click~"

The massive block of ice ultimately failed to trap the giant bird, and countless ice fragments scattered and flew everywhere. Erhu stood in front of Sui An, his long sword flashing rapidly, shattering the flying ice fragments one by one.

Meanwhile, Lu Ling, Wang Zhen, and Fang Si had already unleashed their full power in unison, launching three attacks from three directions. Even though the giant bird was incredibly powerful, it was still weakened after breaking free of the ice.

"boom!"

The three attacks simultaneously shattered the remaining cyan source energy on its body. Although two of the attacks smashed the source energy protection and shredded the thick Peng feathers, they could not penetrate further and stopped after only half a foot.

Only the powerful strike from the spirit pierced through its neck, and a burst of strong ice energy erupted, even blasting half of its neck open. The huge bird head drooped to the side, and its massive body crashed uncontrollably onto the nearby rocks.

Amidst the swirling dust, a flash of purple light streaked past.

"Huh? It's shipped!"

"Purple loot!"

The crowd gasped in surprise, all eyes turning to the area beneath the giant bird's corpse. Wang Zhen used his spear to deflect the bird, producing a purple trophy orb.

Wang Zhen glanced at it casually, and his eyes lit up.

"This is good stuff!"

Sui An and Erhu had also arrived. They took the instrument from Wang Zhen and examined it, immediately understanding why he had called it a good thing.

[Building Name]: Azure Feather Giant Crossbow Platform [Building Type]: Single Building [Building Level]: Level 4 (can be upgraded to level 7)

[Building Quality]: Purple [Building Effect]: The Azure Feather Crossbow automatically condenses bolts, which can attack targets within a certain range. Each bolt can fire one giant Azure Feather Crossbow bolt.

This crossbow bolt has a long range, high speed, and strong armor-piercing properties. It explodes upon hitting an enemy, causing secondary damage.

The Azure Feather Crossbow requires a combat professional to operate and fire. Metal-element combat professionals can use their own source energy to charge and enchant the crossbow bolts, thereby enhancing their armor-piercing effect. The enhancement effect is strongest when the level of the charging combat professional matches the level of the building.

The giant lapis lazuli wind feather crossbow bolt takes six seconds to condense and can store up to ten bolts in advance.

【额外消耗】：中级源质材料【製造需求】：中级金属性晶核（0/1）、中级风属性晶核（0/1）、中级源质材料（0/10）、4级源石（0/8）、领地核心等级（lv4）

【升级需求】：中级金属性晶核（0/1）、中级风属性晶核（0/1）、中级源质材料（0/10）、5级源石（0/8）、领地核心等级（lv5）

In a sense, this was the first time Sui An had obtained a purple-level architectural blueprint from the Origin Realm, and it was for a very practical intermediate-level building.

Because intermediate metallic crystal nuclei are made from a material called crystal.

Crystals are a very basic source material that not only do not require alchemists to refine, but can also be used directly as materials for many professions.

These crystals are more practical than raw minerals, and they are produced through natural agglomeration.

In places with relatively high energy concentrations, there is a chance that crystals will naturally precipitate.

Low-grade and medium-grade crystals are all naturally obtained white materials. The reason for the difference between low-grade, medium-grade and high-grade crystals is the difference in the concentration of environmental energy sources that formed them.

Crystals are one of the most basic alchemy materials. By combining some other basic attribute materials with a certain number of crystals, one can easily refine green-quality attribute crystals.

Attribute crystals are not the upper limit for crystal synthesis; they can also be refined into attribute crystals of blue materials or even attribute crystal cores of purple materials.

Therefore, attribute crystal cores should be the simplest and easiest purple material to obtain. I heard that the materials needed to synthesize attribute crystal cores are not even blue, but only green materials, although the required amount is not low.

This means that crystals are relatively easy to buy, which greatly reduces the difficulty of building this purple building. The high-quality buildings that can be built are the most practical buildings.

Although it is the easiest purple material to obtain, it is not necessarily cheap.

Because of its versatility, it is needed not only by builders, but also by blacksmiths, alchemists, and so on.

Sui An tossed the spoils to the erhu player who was eagerly waiting, and casually asked Wang Zhen a question.

"Brother Zhen, how much is the price for this intermediate metallic crystal core?"

Wang Zhen counted on his fingers and thought for a while before making a decision.

"The price difference between crystals, attribute crystals, attribute crystals, and attribute crystal cores is about 5 times. The price of a mid-grade crystal fluctuates around 30 source stones. So, a mid-grade attribute crystal core is about 3800. According to your blueprint, it would take nearly 8000 source stones to build one."

"Although this type of building is clearly designed to deal with top-tier source beasts and is not very suitable for area attacks, exchanging eight thousand source stones for a mid-level purple attack building is actually quite worthwhile."

Although Sui An had some expectations, he still felt the bill was a bit expensive after calculating the costs. This was only because there were plenty of attribute crystals available, and he wasn't worried about not being able to buy them.

My cheat code cost me 9600 Originium and I got six level 4 purple buildings and three level 3 purple buildings.

Rounding down, it's roughly equivalent to getting nine level 4 purple buildings with 10,000 Originium, averaging just over 1,000 per building.

It looks cheap, but it's actually incredibly cheap.

However, the purple blueprint library is time-limited, and their growth level is already limited to level 4.

The purple blueprint library has been closed for two months, but the new purple blueprint library has yet to be opened, and I don't even know the conditions for opening it.

On the contrary, the golden blueprint library itself knew roughly the trigger conditions.

Sui An even suspected that the purple blueprint library wouldn't wait until he broke through to the intermediate level before opening up once, and then give him three special building blueprints?

Because it was first opened as a side event after the permanent pool was opened.

The permanent blueprint library gives you a new blueprint at each level, and it's very likely that you'll get an intermediate blueprint at level 4, as construction levels start from level 4.

Therefore, Sui An has reason to suspect that the purple blueprint library is only opened once in a major phase.

In fact, if you get three purple buildings that can be upgraded in each major stage, that's enough to dominate that stage. After all, there's also a permanent blueprint library that gives you a blueprint at each level, not to mention the gold blueprint library that opens when disaster strikes.

Furthermore, he can use the high-quality blueprints he receives through his cheat system as a foundation for snowballing, and obtain high-quality buildings like the Expedition Fortress from the Source Realm.

He has already started to build up this snowball, and even the workshops and kitchens haven't fully started to take off yet.

But Sui An was still a bit greedy, hoping to obtain more blueprints.

"Hey, you haven't even reached the intermediate level yet, but the intermediate blueprints are already starting to turn purple." After Erhu and Fang Si finished looking at the attributes, Erhu tossed the spoils to Sui An.

"The materials needed for this building are not complicated. As long as you have money, you can do it. If you have five or six of them, a level four arrow can kill a level five source beast, and maybe even seriously injure a level six one."

"It's alright." Sui An suddenly seemed a little disheartened, probably because he was thinking about his cheat ability. He put the spoils into his pocket. Now that he couldn't summon the territory's secondary core, he naturally couldn't learn the blueprints.

After glancing at the flat-roofed area in the distance, Sui An turned his gaze to the compass in his hand. The giant bird had been too fast; it had barely issued a warning on the compass before it spotted them and flew over.

After all, this thing's detection range is only a hundred meters. Although the compass has returned to silence, he is still somewhat uneasy.

Sui An looked at Lu Ling beside him.

"Shen He, check if there are any other source beasts within a hundred-meter radius. If so, kill them all."

Lu Ling remained silent, but her figure soared across the mountaintop like a white crane, quickly scanning the surroundings without finding any other source beasts.

Wang Zhen glanced around and said softly, "It seems that this mountaintop is the nest of this level 6 source beast. There are probably no other source beasts living here."

Fang Si picked up where Wang Zhen left off: "The flying source beasts that can live on the mountaintop are usually the top hunters in this region. It seems that the powerful source beasts in this secret realm are probably around level 6."

Erhu reached out and touched the stone wall beside him, sighing, "I think it should be about right. This is the first time I've climbed such a high mountain!"

Upon seeing the spirit return, Sui An asked again, as usual, "Are there any spirit-gathering objects here?"

"No." This time the spirit responded, but there didn't seem to be anything special about the mountaintop. However, the large area at the foot of the mountain was enough for him to use to build his territory in the future.

"Let's go take a look and see what this secret realm is like!"

The group headed towards the mountaintop again; from this vantage point, they could see most of the western side of the secret realm.

You can see the sun, moon, and stars in the secret realm, so you can determine your direction.

Rumor has it that the Blood Moon has no effect in the secret realm, but they haven't tested it.

From the cave where the group came up, all the way to the far west, was a vast grassland with extremely lush grass and various trees growing sparsely. Almost nothing else could be seen, except for the occasional blurry figure of a source beast flashing by.

As the group climbed to the highest point, they found themselves on a huge rocky platform, which, although somewhat uneven, was at least a hundred meters long and wide.

As the group reached the edge of the platform, they were finally able to see the entirety of this enormous secret realm.

Erhu exclaimed in surprise, "My God, this secret realm is truly enormous!"

The others were clearly also somewhat shocked.

At this moment, the entire secret realm appeared to everyone as a giant circle, with faint seven-colored energy ripples in the sky. That was the edge of the barrier, like a giant bowl turned upside down on the ground.

The entire secret realm is estimated to be 30 to 40 kilometers in diameter, which is almost one-third of the area under Jiangcheng's influence.

If such a large secret realm were to be discovered by outsiders, it would be almost unimaginable whether the three city lords of Jiangcheng would immediately start fighting.

With its energy concentration and various resources, even the entire area within a hundred kilometers of Jiangcheng combined might not be able to match it.

Unless you include the distant Lianyun Mountains, most of the wasteland around Jiangcheng will hardly have many source energy products.

"This secret realm is actually near your territory. Were you a savior in your past life?" Erhu looked around on the platform, and the more he looked, the more he felt that Sui An's luck was really terrifying.

"Indeed, the existence of such a secret realm has completely refreshed my understanding of what a secret realm truly is!"

Wang Zhen nodded. He actually had a certain idea of ​​the size of the secret realm from the very beginning, but he still felt that the other side of the mountain might be the edge of the secret realm.

Who would have thought that the other side of the mountain was even larger than this side, and that it also had lakes and dense forests.

Looking eastward from the mountaintop towards the secret realm, the grasslands still stretch out, but at the eastern end, there is a huge lake that shimmers with a blue light, like a dazzling blue gemstone.

The lake is nearly circular, with a diameter of about ten kilometers, which is quite large.

To the south of the lake is a lush forest, which is larger than the lake and even the mountains below. The terrain is undulating, but it is not mountainous; it is more like a series of slopes.

The forest stretches from the center of the secret realm all the way to the westernmost edge, occupying almost half of the fourth quadrant of the secret realm.

To the north of the secret realm lies a vast desert, almost the size of the lake. From a distance, it appears as a large expanse of bare rocks, which is why the grasslands have not been able to extend there.

The western part of the secret realm, which is the direction from which Sui An and the others came up, was indeed just a grassland.

It could even be said that the main terrain of the entire secret realm is grassland, with only one mountain peak, a forest, a lake, and a rocky desert.

Fang Si, standing to the side, even shook her head; the sheer awe-inspiring view of the secret realm from this angle was overwhelming.

"How exactly did you discover this secret realm in the first place?!"