Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1435 - 458: Blood Corridor of Nine Bends, Mysterious Ice Dao Monster, Feudal Town Military Might

Blood Miasma Plain is roughly a circular area with a radius of 50 kilometers, and a total area of about 7500 square kilometers.

If someone could look down from a high altitude through the blood-colored miasma, they would discover that it is actually composed of two parts: the northern Snow Plains area, which occupies almost four-fifths of the whole region; and a giant lake to the south.

The lake’s north-south average width is about 25 kilometers, while its length from east to west is an astonishing 60 kilometers, stretching across both sides. This lake is known to all in Chen Cang Feudal Town as Yan Ze Lake.

The adjacent area between Chen Cang and Cai Qiu is directly north of the Blood Miasma Plain, with Chen Cang’s Yanling County to the northwest and Cai Qiu’s Lin Chu County to the northeast. The boundary line of the two counties extends downward, perfectly dividing the Blood Miasma Plain in two, evidently the result of human design from years ago.

Due to the blood-colored miasma, neither Yanling County nor Lin Chu County, or to put it plainly, neither Chen Cang nor Cai Qiu, has expanded into the Blood Miasma Plain area.

However, they did not overlook the areas to the east and west of the Blood Miasma Plain.

The two places separately encircled the Blood Miasma Plain from the east and west, taking control of all surrounding areas. Heading south, the territories of both places have almost extended to the southernmost Yan Ze Lake area.

This is where things get interesting.

Yan Ze Lake is blocked on its east and west sides by Moao Mountain.

And it’s not an ordinary blockage. If someone could check both ends of Yan Ze Lake on its east and west sides, they would find sheer, polished mountain walls several thousand meters high on both sides of the lake, as if man-made. It’s not just walking that would be difficult, but even climbing would be hard.

Therefore, even if the two feudal towns reached the southernmost Yan Ze Lake area by skirting the Blood Miasma Plain, further southward expansion would be impossible without crossing Moao Mountain.

Crossing the several-thousand-meter-high Moao Mountain is more challenging than traversing the Blood Miasma Plain. Not even Tribulation Body Realm powerhouses dare to boast about achieving it, let alone expanding feudal towns; without an army, a few powerhouses crossing it would have little effect.

Heaven moves ever onward, and a gentleman strives constantly to strengthen himself.

In this regard, Chen Cang is much more proactive than Cai Qiu.

Or you could say, they’ve simply run out of options.

The Moao River’s Four Vassals area is only so big. Chen Cang, located at the far west, has Hezang to the north, Cai Qiu to the east, and virtually all the controllable territories to the west have been incorporated; beyond that lies Moao Mountain.

Thus, for Chen Cang to expand its territory, the only direction is south.

Heading south, there’s no avoiding the Blood Miasma Plain and Yan Ze Lake.

Consequently, Chen Cang has been planning on this front for a long time.

For a massive mountain like Moao Mountain, tunneling is definitely not feasible. The hundreds-of-miles-long mountain mass, unable to be fully grasped, guarantees no smooth breakthrough to the other side. The manpower and resources required are tremendous, with no assurance of success.

Moreover, the taller and older the mountains, the more secrets and dangers they hide inside. Carelessly tunneling in could provoke something terrifying, turning expansion into a death wish.

It’s rumored that the Calamity-level monsters, the Mountain Shocking Nightmare and the beekeeper, were brought out by Hezang and Wei Bo, two great feudal towns, through reckless expansion into unknown areas.

Thus, realizing there’s no skirting around Blood Miasma Plain and Yan Ze Lake, Chen Cang decided to find a solution in these two places instead.

The blood-colored miasma shrouding Yan Ze Lake is several times thicker than that of the northern Snow Plains, reflecting a blood-red hue over the entire lake. Moreover, as Ice Abyss is well known, the peril level of waterways is much higher than that of land. Crossing these two domains smoothly is no easy task.

Chen Cang spent decades, dispatching more than a hundred thousand Cold Resistance Level elite soldiers in rotating shifts for construction, accompanied throughout by Xianyang-level powerhouses, with even Tribulation Body Realm forces taking turns for on-site command, forcibly carving out a path up to 60 kilometers long within the rock wall on the lake’s west side.

Initially, Chen Cang believed that with this path, large-scale deployment of soldiers southward would be possible, facilitating territorial expansion.

But in the first year after the path opened, Chen Cang sent a test army of ten thousand south, only to encounter a tide at Yan Ze Lake midway. It wasn’t an ordinary tide but one accompanied by thousands of Water Cold Beasts surging towards the west rock wall...

None of the ten thousand soldiers survived, and even the three commanding Xianyang-level warriors couldn’t escape, with only one Tribulation Body Realm escaping back.

By then, Chen Cang had realized that without thoroughly solving the issues of Blood Miasma Plain and Yan Ze Lake, large-scale southward expansion was impossible.

Of course, while mass southward movement was impractical, small groups could still move around.

The path that took over a decade of effort and immense human and resource investment to carve finally found its use.

This path, with a total length of 60 kilometers, was carved out along the west rock wall of Yan Ze Lake, windingly twisting and turning all the way, also affected by blood-colored miasma, hence Chen Cang named it: Nine Bend Blood Corridor.

Passing through the Nine Bend Blood Corridor, one would first encounter an abruptly rising mountain, though less than two thousand meters high. Only by crossing this mountain would one truly leave the area shrouded by blood-colored miasma.

Astute individuals can certainly see that the reason the blood-colored miasma doesn’t extend further south is due to the blocking of this mountain.