Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 879: Chapter 336: Cultivation, Enlightenment Lotus Platform, Major Building Upgrades

The third year of the Great Xia, August 12th.

Deep within the Inner City, behind the main building lies the Star-picking Hall.

The Star-picking Hall stretches only thirty meters long, at most a third of the front main building, but as its height matches that of the main building and is constructed thirty meters above it, coupled with its small area and densely arranged coal furnaces, providing more light sources, it ends up looking even more imposing and luxurious than the main building.

Especially since seven days ago, after Li Xuanling successfully gave birth, Xia Hong took the Holy Tripod from her room and placed it at the top of the open platform in the center, undoubtedly adding a divine aura to the entire Star-picking Hall.

Atop the Star-picking Platform, Xia Hong sat cross-legged in front of the Cold Ruins Tripod, staring at the Yang Yuan Elixir in his hand, furrowing his brows.

“Fifty-two鬃, only gained four鬃 in eight months, indeed the further I go, the slower the cultivation speed. Previous breakthroughs over three years were overly optimistic. At this rate, it might take four or five years!”

Having spent less than five years in this world, thinking that it’d take this long to break through to the Peak of Cold Resistance, Xia Hong’s face was immediately filled with worry.

Cold Resistance Level, power measured by鬃, sounds strong, but ultimately, it’s just the initial qualification to glimpse the daylight of the Ice Abyss World. It might be decent on the Pingxi Plain, but in a larger region, it surely isn’t significant, and in the whole Ice Abyss World, it’s even smaller.

Not to mention the so-called Nine Towns of Moao Mountain, surely there are many at the Cold Resistance Level, perhaps even stronger ones.

“Breaking through the Peak of Cold Resistance takes four to five years, and after that, completing the third round of Blood and Flesh Reorganization, is when we begin striving for the Xianyang Level. According to Li Tiancheng and Hou Jing, it’s about inducing medicinal power for Bone Tempering and Marrow Nourishing, a process even slower by hundreds of times than the previous one. I certainly can’t wait until I’m fifty or sixty to break through!”

With Hou Jing and Li Tiancheng at the Peak of Cold Resistance, Xia Hong had the fortune to learn some about the Xianyang Level, mainly from Li Tiancheng’s brother, Li Tianhua, who spoke of inducing medicinal power for Bone Tempering and Marrow Nourishing.

Li Tiancheng’s description seemed somewhat ambiguous.

Which makes sense, as Li Tianhua left Long Mountain four years ago without breaking through to the Xianyang Level, so how much could Li Tiancheng know from him?

“No wonder Li Tianhua hasn’t broken through to the Xianyang Level at over ninety years old, my talent surpasses his, and it still takes so long to reach the Peak of Cold Resistance. If I don’t think of a solution, it might take me until fifty or sixty as well, tsk tsk…”

Xia Hong glanced at the Cold Ruins Tripod behind him, sighing slightly.

It’s worth noting he cultivated within the radiation range of the Cold Ruins Tripod, which provides a triple cultivation boost akin to having a Martial Arts Hall, coupled with an unlimited supply of Yang Yuan Elixir, and yet the cultivation progress is this slow. One can only imagine how it is for others.

His so-called solution, naturally refers to the camp system.

“The seventh day, the first batch of silver mine should be returned soon. The Earth-digging Realm Limit’s daily mining capacity is only about 100 jin, summing up to roughly 1.2 million jin over four days. Converted into the system, it’s precisely 240,000 silver resource points, enough to upgrade all seven buildings, with the little wooden table finally ready for activation, hastening the cultivation speed a bit more.”

Despite having assigned the silver mine entirely to Xia Chuan, Yuwen Dao, and Yuan Cheng, Xia Hong couldn’t help but worry, personally overseeing the operation the next day, gaining considerable knowledge about the silver mine’s situation.

Silver mine exploitation is much harder than iron mine, starting with tools requiring intermediate Chewing Teeth Chisels. Additionally, miners need a basic strength of over 20,000 jin just to qualify for preliminary excavation due to silver’s higher toughness and strength compared to iron.

Xia Chuan has tried, and with a basic strength of 20,000 jin can only extract one piece a day, weighing around thirty jin, while the Earth-digging Realm Limit barely mines 100 jin.

Meanwhile, silver mines strongly attract Cold Beasts, which frequently come to invade. These Cold Beasts don’t act individually, necessitating constant vigilance against sudden attacks from Cold Beast groups during mining.

“The Cold Ruins Tripod can be used to deter and eliminate Deceitful Monsters, silver can too, both strongly attracting Cold Beasts—there must be some connection!”

Xia Hong pondered, walked to the storage compartment behind the Star-picking Platform, and retrieved a special Frost Wolf’s corpse.

This Frost Wolf, over a meter long, had a coat with a moonlit silver-white glow in the night, complemented by a gleaming circle of spikes on its neck, and though its eyes were void of luster, the black pupils could faintly be discerned inside.

“This Frost Wolf’s Beast King Level cultivation likely was artificially enhanced by the White Dew Gu, aside from the abnormal protrusion on its brow, the silver crystal layer on its bone’s exterior, most other parts aren’t much different from an Advanced Frost Wolf. Such a pity, had it been a genuine Beast King Level Frost Wolf, it might have revealed more!”

Xia Hong shook his head slightly, realizing his thoughts were somewhat unrealistic.

If this Frost Wolf King had been genuinely of Beast King Level cultivation, the outcome of that night at Yanglu Realm might have been dire.

Over the past eight months since the end of last year, Xia Hong has roughly explored this quasi-Beast King Level Frost Wolf.

“The prominence on the brow is clearly an unformed round Bone Pill, coupled with the silver crystal encapsulating the bone’s exterior. Hence, for Advanced Cold Beasts to achieve Beast King, it likely involves bone refinement, unlike humans. Their method is consuming silver, which is why Cold Beast clans tend to dwell on silver mines!”