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

Chapter 150 The Secrets of the Origin Realm

"The question from before?" Zheng Xifeng frowned. Didn't I already tell you?

Suddenly, he remembered that this wasn't the question Sui An had asked at the beginning.

"You mean that the Origin Realm trial for advancing to level four could be held on a blood moon night?"

Sui An nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's right, I have absolutely no experience with this, so I wanted to ask you for some advice."

Wang Zhen looked at Sui An with a strange expression. "How did you come up with this? People are terrified of cracks, and you dare to do this to a major assessment like Level 4?"

Is this based on the certainty that the Blood Moon can lower the sanity of the Source Beasts, allowing for better control through illusions?

He never expected that Sui An would bypass him and ask Zheng Xifeng about such a thing. For a moment, Wang Zhen became a little nervous, wondering if he would anger Captain Zheng.

Zheng Xifeng, standing to the side, wasn't angry at all; instead, his lips twitched even more violently: "May I ask why you have this idea?"

Sui An felt that Zheng Xifeng's tone was a bit off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. He touched his chin and voiced his thoughts.

"I just think the source beasts under the Blood Moon Rift are dumber and easier to deal with."

"Even more...stupid?"

Zheng Xifeng inexplicably wanted to laugh. What kind of strange idea was this? Was he getting old and unable to keep up with the thinking of young people?

But as if recalling some of the strange practices of builders, he suddenly understood and asked with a smile.

"You're not thinking of using special potions or treasures to make the source beasts even more ferocious, like you usually do in the Blood Moon Rift, so they fight amongst themselves and you can reduce the pressure on yourself, are you?"

Sui An's eyes lit up, and he quickly replied, "Yes, that's the idea. The more mindless a source beast is, the easier it is to deal with."

"Ugh!"

Zheng Xifeng suddenly sighed. He thought these young people had a really good mentality. They really thought this was a world in a novel. They insisted on a certain setting for everything and liked to subconsciously apply the rules they had summarized to other aspects.

However, these are common problems among young people.

It seems that when I was young, I also liked to have all sorts of wild thoughts, but after suffering a few losses, I learned my lesson and started to behave properly.

"Don't even think about it. Someone thought of this a long time ago. Haven't you ever wondered why no one has publicized this method?"

"————" Sui An suddenly had a bad feeling, and he lowered his voice: "It can't be that they are all gone."

"Congratulations, you guessed right!"

Zheng Xifeng shook his head. This person wasn't too stupid; he understood after a little prompting.

"No one knows the specifics, but I can tell you that none of the territories that chose to advance on the night of the Blood Moon survived that night. As for why no one knows the specifics, I don't need to explain, do I?"

Sui An nodded subconsciously. What else could it be? Naturally, the entire army was wiped out, and no one survived.

Blood moon nights are unlike ordinary nights. Normally, some people are brave enough to walk at night, so it's not that dangerous.

Anyone who dares to wander around outside on a blood moon night is courting death.

Therefore, no one outside the Blood Moon Night territory would watch the advancement, and naturally no one would know exactly what happened.

Zheng Xifeng suddenly spoke again.

"Speaking of which, the traces at the scene can still give us some clues. I heard from some seniors that it was probably a rift that opened during the promotion assessment. Under the influence of the Blood Moon, the difficulty was forcibly increased, both in terms of quantity and quality."

"Among the architects who have these special ideas, there are some who are incredibly lucky, but none of them survived. This can only mean that this increase may not be a simple doubling or tripling, but rather some kind of exponential increase."

At this point, Zheng Xifeng lowered his tone and looked over very seriously.

"Sui An, let me give you some advice. You must have a sense of awe for the Origin Realm. The development paths that have been passed down to us now were all paved with the lives of those who came before. You should know how abundant the resources were when the Origin Realm first invaded. There were countless ruins and secret realms, and all kinds of powerful treasures and source energy techniques emerged one after another."

"But how many of those so-called prodigies have survived these days?"

"According to the speculations of our predecessors, the will of the Origin Realm may not be a pre-set entity. It does not act entirely mechanically according to the set rules, so do not easily cross the boundaries of behavior, and do not engage in dangerous behavior."

Zheng Xifeng's tone was very serious, which made Sui An put away his newly risen pride. To be honest, even now, he still unconsciously thinks of these things as a game.

"Thanks for the reminder, Captain Zheng!"

"I hope you really understand. I won't say any more. Give him the Originium, we're leaving!" Zheng Xifeng waved to Wang Zhen beside him.

Sui An quickly explained, "Captain Zheng, this batch of Originium is fine with Brother Zhen. I asked him to help me purchase some materials!"

"Alright then, we should leave!"

The grand convoy drove away from the territory, with Erhu, Fang Si, and Wang Hu all following in their cars. As for Ye Tengyang's car, it was towed behind Erhu's mid-range transport vehicle and headed towards Jiangcheng.

Suddenly, the territory fell silent, leaving only Fang Nian's family and Sui An.

Fang Nian had already returned to her room and continued her work of gaining experience. The source beast meat she had accumulated in the two icy cellars had long been used up, and later, because she had to guard the Blood Crystal Bodhi, Sui An's Blood Moon Rift was delayed for more than ten days.

So during that period, she could only refine the large logs piled up in the yard. However, the level and quality of those logs were too high for her, and refining them was too much of a hassle. It wasn't cost-effective for improving her alchemy skill.

Now there's new low-level source beast meat, which is the perfect material for her to increase her experience.

Her alchemy skills are progressing very quickly. It is estimated that she may be able to break through to level 2 within one or two months. Once she succeeds, this speed will far exceed the genius speed of breaking through in seven or eight months that her brother mentioned.

Meanwhile, Wang Hu, another low-level professional in the territory, is also making rapid progress in his physical development and will likely be able to attempt to break through to level 3 this month.

Sui An had nothing else to do, so he opened the energy shield and began digging up the soil that had been soaked in the blood of the source beasts last night, transporting it to the planting base by handcart.

It's already difficult to utilize the blood of source beasts unless they are captured alive. The amount of blood from more than five thousand source beasts is terrifying. If it were collected in a pool, it would probably be dozens of cubic meters. If it were all piled up in this area, it would have soaked the soil to a depth of one or two feet.

These soils, which would otherwise have been scraped up and wasted, can now be used to cultivate Energy-Devouring Giant Trees and Source-Quenching Fruit Trees.

A day has passed.

Wang Zhen came again, this time bringing with him detailed material prices.

"The Thunderstone Core is a mid-grade blue material, crafted from Thunderstone. I checked the market price, and it's generally around 230."

"Around 220 Originium, and there's a large supply of Thunderstone on the market. I consulted several alchemy masters in the trading houses. If you order 50 or more at once, they can offer you 220 Originium, but you need to pay a 30% deposit first, and you can pick up the goods in three days."

"The Xuanyan Core is a mid-grade green material. There's a lot of it on the market now. It costs 48 Originium Stones per piece. Alchemy masters also take it. If you order more than 100 pieces at a time, they can offer 45 Originium Stones. The process is the same as above."

"The prices of intermediate-grade source materials and level 4 source stones don't fluctuate much, generally around 9 to 10 yuan. Since the quantity is relatively large, I'm confident I can get them for you at 9 yuan each."

"The recent transaction price for purple intermediate-grade materials, metallic crystal cores and wind attribute crystal cores, is still 3700 per piece. Since you are unlikely to trade in large quantities, it's all about getting what you pay for. If you have money, you can get what you need."

Wang Zhen copied all the price lists he had obtained into a notebook and handed it over.

Sui An hasn't been idle these past two days either. There's not much to research about the Azure Wind Feather Giant Crossbow. At this price, it's 7562 source stones per crossbow, fair and square, and can be made whenever you need it.

However, he did study the Thunder Seal Barrier quite thoroughly.

He looked at the adaptive template of this thing, and it was very similar in size to the city walls of those ancient cities in his previous life, but there were some differences in appearance. In fact, the Thunder Seal Barrier was simpler.

The overall design is simply a tall city wall, nothing special, and it doesn't have the complex designs like the ancient barbicans.

The height of the wall from top to bottom is 10 meters. The watchtowers and battlements are slightly taller and are additional components.

The city wall is 10 meters wide at the base and 8 meters wide at the top. The actual usable passage space at the top is about 6.5 meters, which is enough to lift a transport vehicle up and drive around.

This wall is twice as tall and thick as the low-grade blue city wall that Sui An saw in He Chong's territory!

Each section of the basic city wall component is about ten meters long. Even without any special effects, the sturdiness of this type of wall structure is evident.

Let alone a city wall, even if it were made of loess, it would take a level four or five combat professional to break through it.

This means that even if the source beasts destroy or damage it on a large scale, it would be difficult to completely obliterate this section of the city wall. After all, with a thickness of nearly ten meters, most of the damage would be minor.

Moreover, a height of ten meters is itself a powerful defensive attribute.

Sui An's magical abilities are powerful, allowing her to leap onto He Chong's five-meter-high city wall using a special method of flight, but she cannot fly ten meters high without any leverage.

Even if there is such a thing, it would probably require borrowing help once, or even twice.

The level 6 ice demon that Sui An encountered was 6 meters tall. Ice demons are naturally strong, and that night it leaped up, which was about its own height off the ground.

It was placed in front of this city wall, just as I had grasped the top of the wall with my hands.

The larger the source beast, the greater its density and the greater its weight. It is still very difficult to achieve the agility of those source beasts with relatively well-proportioned bodies.

Only superhumans, who rely more on source energy, can gain greater agility because their physical size generally does not increase with advancement.

There are similar situations among the source beasts, such as the Thunder Pattern Leopard from the previous night. Even a level four Thunder Pattern Leopard is not very large, and it is much smaller than a level three mutated Shadow Lizard.

However, its agility is enough to easily outrun the mutated shadow lizard, allowing it to easily leap over three or four times its own height.

It is precisely for these reasons that, even though the overall cost of city wall-type buildings is so high, they are still one of the most essential blueprints for architects.

Even in the extraordinary era of Source Energy Professionals, this thing is still a core survival tool for powerful territories.

However, the main purpose of city walls is to target source beasts. In human civil wars, they can never be used to their fullest potential, since humans are too good at utilizing the environment and are too agile.

As a city wall, this thing, like the previous walls of Sui'an, still doesn't have any foundation.

However, this thing is quite different from a wall. Its volume and weight have completely changed. In fact, when this kind of whole city wall is smashed on the ground, the loose soil will be compacted. The main function of the foundation is to prevent irregular settlement and expand the stress surface.

When a massive, imposing building presses down directly on you, those other things become less important, although a certain degree of flatness is still necessary.

Even if a single section of the city wall were placed on the ground, the possibility of an intermediate level overthrowing it would be virtually nonexistent.

Or rather, if it could overthrow its existence, it would already be able to smash the city wall with a single punch, so overthrowing it would be meaningless.

Because of its excessive height, and in accordance with the principle that territorial buildings cannot be built outside the control range of the territory's core, this thing cannot be built close to the edge of the territory, and its actual outer diameter does not reach 200 meters.

One of the template sets from the adaptive drawings was selected. There are four watchtowers in four directions, two city wall passage gates in the north and south, and inner steps leading up to the city wall in all four directions.

Sui An got the number he wanted, approximately 62 sets of materials.

According to Wang Zhen's lowest price, each portion requires 886 Originium Stones, for a total of 54932 Originium Stones.

This could practically drain his current cash flow.

Sui An currently has 76 intermediate-grade source stones, which can be used as materials. The remaining low-grade source stones total 33558.

Wang Zhen still has 26000 source stones from Sui An.

There are also 9400 sets of accumulated primary source materials. The usefulness of these materials is gradually decreasing, but they can be sold for money when necessary.

Fang Nian still has materials worth more than three thousand source stones that haven't been refined yet.

The messy low-level materials in the warehouse are probably worth around ten thousand Originium, and can be cleared out if necessary.

Based on this calculation, he actually has about 80,000 Originium Stones in his possession.

According to Zheng Xifeng's answer, Sui An estimated that he would need to go through four to six more regular Blood Moon Rifts to meet the promotion requirements.

On average, after deducting its own consumption, each time it can generate about five to six thousand Originium.

It seems that I have enough assets to build this city wall, and I can also build four more Azure Wind Feather Giant Crossbows.

There's also my own expeditionary fortress, which needs wall maintenance. I've already studied the blueprints, but they don't meet the construction requirements at all. Even the blueprint preview only shows the core structure; we'll only know how much space it actually has once it's built.

However, even if the fortress could be expanded to the size of a level four territory, he didn't intend to build it to that size; it would be too wasteful. A level three territory should be sufficient.

"This Thunderstone core is way too cheap!"

Sui An looked at the list in his hand and did a quick calculation: "It seems that the three core materials for the city wall combined are not even as expensive as the auxiliary materials."

Wang Zhen laughed and said, "That's because Thunderstone is produced in large quantities and consumed in relatively small quantities, so the Thunderstone cores refined by alchemists are cheap. Didn't you see that attribute crystals, which are also blue materials, are already 800 pieces?"

This is a well-known fact: grade does not necessarily mean that a material is expensive. The main factor in whether the price of these materials is high or low is whether supply and demand are balanced.

The fact that these materials can still be sold at this price shows that there is still a market for them, but the demand is unstable and depends entirely on whether the builders have the need for them.

It was for this reason that the alchemist said a deposit was required for custom-made items, and that it would take another three days.

When there is no demand from customers, they are too lazy to spend their precious energy on materials with uncertain demand.

Sui An nodded. He understood the reasoning and quickly made his decision.

"Okay then, 100 portions of Thunderstone Core and 200 portions of Dark Rock Core. You can place the order for me first and see if the price can be reduced a bit. This will cost 31000 Origin Stones. I'll give you another 5000 later."

"As for the intermediate metallic crystal cores and wind attribute crystal cores, as well as other materials, there's no rush. I can get them when I'm closer to my advancement."

Sui An reported his needs, but Wang Zhen was somewhat puzzled.

"Does your territory require 100 sets of wall materials? How long is a section of a mid-level wall?"

Wang Zhen had no experience as a construction engineer, but he instinctively felt that the material requirements seemed too high. The previous green-quality wall was indeed 3 meters per section.

However, each section of this large city wall requires a lot of materials. One section alone requires 40 portions of intermediate-grade source material, which is four times the amount of that purple giant crossbow.

Although quantity does not fully represent volume, and higher-quality buildings consume more auxiliary materials for the same volume, a simple comparison can still be made in most cases.

There's no way this number could still be 3 meters per section. If that were the case, the maximum perimeter of a level 4 territory would be 628 meters. You couldn't possibly afford to build a blue wall even if you sold everything you owned.

Sui An replied with a smile, "The largest section of the intermediate city wall is 10 meters. I just have other uses for it, and I was thinking of rounding it up to see if I could get a discount."

Wang Zhen didn't think much of it: "That's fine too. Anyway, you'll still need it for your future expansion, so it won't really be a waste."

The diameter of a level 6 territory is 800 meters, and Wang Zhen wouldn't believe that Sui An would only use the area of ​​a level 4 territory all the way up to level 6.

The difference in area is quite significant, amounting to a full sixteen times.

But for those who want to develop their territory, they will never complain about the size of the area; they will only feel that it is far from enough.

Wang Zhen suddenly thought of something and said something else.

"By the way, after Aunt Zhao went back yesterday, she asked to leave the Gale Hunting Group. Their leader has agreed, so Aunt Zhao is now a free agent. This morning I saw her helping to sell steamed buns at the steamed bun shop."

, 7

"Wow, that was fast!"

Sui An was a little surprised. Although Aunt Zhao had already told him, her decisive withdrawal still surprised him.

"It will take some time for my territory to reach level four. She withdrew too quickly. But if she really comes here, what will happen to Uncle Wang's steamed bun shop? She wouldn't really let Uncle Wang stay in the city alone, would she?"

"My mom has convinced my dad, and they're saying they'll come together."

Wang Hu's voice came from the stage next to him. He had just finished training and was using the stage to recover his condition.

"Hey, this territory will be lively from now on. I feel like all of our families will move here." Erhu, who was sitting to the side, also opened his eyes. When there was nothing going on in the territory, he would use the stage to restore his energy for training.

Fang Si was with him, and Sui An would give the three of them one free recovery opportunity every day.

Fang Si and Erhu can only use the stage twice a day at most under normal circumstances, because it is relatively slow for them to replenish their energy source using the stage.

舞台升到三级后，1级的鍊金师方念恢复耗空源能后需要恢复的时间是20分钟，但2级的王虎从原来的50分钟变成了30分钟。

It's likely because alchemists have more source energy than combat professionals; otherwise, Fang Nian's recovery time should only have been 15 minutes.

After testing by Erhu Fangsi, the recovery time required for Level 4 professionals has been reduced from 4 hours to 2.5 hours.

If they want to use it, they can simply replenish the Originium they've consumed.

As for the consumption of Originium, Sui An actually discovered that if one person stands on the stage at a time, it will consume about five Originium per hour, regardless of the level of these people, only the number of people.

I had always thought that one Originium was enough for Wang Hu at level one to replenish his resources, but in reality it should be around 1.2 Originiums. As for Fang Nian, it was about 1.6 Originiums. Even at level three, the ratio was roughly the same.

Wang Zhen looked at the erhu thoughtfully: "Erhu, are you planning to bring your brother, sister-in-law, and father over?"

"Yeah, I already told Sui An before that he should reserve a place for me when he passes the CET-4 exam, so that my brother and sister-in-law can work here. Wouldn't that be easier than them carrying things in that shady factory in Jiangcheng?"

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As Erhu spoke, his gaze unconsciously shifted downwards, lingering on the pink stage, and his voice carried a hint of regret.

"It's a pity that this stage probably won't be able to restore my dad's leg, otherwise it would be even better."

Hearing the slightly somber sound of the erhu, Wang Zhen also sighed.

Erhu's mother was just an ordinary person who died of illness, and his father was a combat professional but became disabled a long time ago and is now only a level 2 combat professional.

Although his father was a level 3 combat professional, he had been missing in the wild for many years and there was basically no hope of finding him. As for his mother, she was just an ordinary person.

He thought for a moment and then shared the information he had heard.

"If your father's leg is to grow back, the only option is to try a limb healing potion, but that's a high-grade potion, too expensive, and in short supply."

"However, since Uncle Hu lost his leg so many years ago, the effects of the limb healing medicine may not be ideal."

"I know, I'll try it when I have the chance." Erhu grinned. His father's leg had been injured for so many years, and everyone had come to terms with it and didn't feel too burdened.

"By the way, hasn't Wang Ling awakened yet? I remember her birthday is in May, right?"

"Yes, May 2nd, there are still 4 months left, I don't know if I can awaken."

Wang Zhen frowned slightly. Although many people awakened around their 18th birthday, everyone was still very nervous as the time approached.

"Hey, relax about this kind of thing, don't get anxious or upset. You just have to keep an eye on Wang Ling."

"I know, Sui An. Give me your source stones, I need to prepare to leave."

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