Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1171: Chapter 398: Commendations and Generosity, Three Towns Join Forces to Apply Pressure

“It’s that Advanced Golden Spot Tiger!”

“Twenty breaths, and that’s without considering the time it takes to go back and forth. Did the lord use time to kill this Advanced Golden Spot Tiger?”

“It pretty much died instantly, didn’t it? The lord’s power is just too strong!”

“This is an Advanced Golden Spot Tiger!”

“Couldn’t even withstand a single attack?”

“Just how powerful is the lord’s strength?”

……

“Alright, what’s all the fuss about just one Advanced Cold Beast? The lord doesn’t take much time to deal with a Beast King either.”

Xiao Kangcheng couldn’t help but reprimand as he saw everyone making a commotion.

Xu Ning constantly kept his head up, seeing Xia Hong had already transformed into a stream of light heading towards Hongmen direction, he immediately turned and said to everyone: “Let’s depart, don’t waste time here. Go to White Tiger Pond and bring the stuff back safely!”

The batch of items from White Tiger Pond has been deemed as treasures by the lord, they must be significant. His most important task tonight is to ensure that batch of items is safely delivered to Bashang City.

Everyone nodded, quickly following Xu Ning towards the depths of Moao Mountain, heading to the region of White Tiger Pond.

……

[Resources: Wood 8,726,100,000 Coal 9,087,200,000 Iron 9,862,500,000 Silver 21,820,000]

“September 10, according to Eight Towns…no, it’s Seven Towns, the first round of trade should be completed. According to what Qiu Peng said the day before yesterday, the first batch of trade profits totaled 420 million taels of silver, which converts into 8.4 million system resource points. Coupled with what has been self-mined over the past year, silver is definitely not lacking now!”

Xia Hong, flying towards Hongmen City over the outskirts of Moao Mountain, started calculating the total account of the system’s silver resources.

The turmoil caused by Yang Ning and Li Hu in Hongmen City on September 1 was known to him before he headed to White Tiger Pond, and he was also aware of Qiu Peng’s refusal to trade with Beishuo Town.

Truth be told, Xia Hong was most wary of Beishuo among the Northern Three Towns, so he rather supported Qiu Peng’s decision.

Great Xia’s core objectives in foreign trade are twofold:

One is to change the lifestyle habits of the Eight Towns’ people with Great Xia’s goods, whether it’s called wooing or transforming, the essence being infiltration under the guise of trade;

The other is to earn silver from the Eight Towns.

Regardless of Great Xia’s intentions, selling cultivation resources to the Eight Towns will inevitably provide some support to enemies, and Xia Hong is most wary of Beishuo Town, thus avoiding trade with them is indeed a good thing.

The items Qiu Peng sells externally are meticulously planned, treating all Seven Towns Chamber of Commerce the same, with a fixed number of precious cultivation resources paired with ample everyday materials. If they want to buy, they must buy them all in bundled packages, and the Seven Towns could only agree for those cultivation resources.

The trade volume of Seven Towns is uniformly 60 million taels of silver, hence Xia Hong could immediately come up with the figure of 420 million taels.

Things that Great Xia buys from Seven Towns are generally negligible, given Lu Yang has thoroughly explored the produce of the Nine Towns over the past four years, excluding very few special resources like Blood Ginseng Pill from Muyin Town, Great Xia basically has no need to buy anything from Seven Towns.

“The trade volume from the Seven Towns Chamber of Commerce is definitely substantial, while the amount of silver brought forth by those village-level camps in the Eight Towns should be quite limited. Still, even the smallest mosquito has meat, earning a bit is still something, and the core purpose is to cultivate dependency on Great Xia’s goods among these village-level camp dwellers within the Eight Towns, so it must continue!”

Looking at the 21,820,000 silver resource points on him, Xia Hong finally felt much more at ease. From when he first came into contact with silver until now, not having to worry about silver resources essentially took him about seven years, it truly wasn’t easy.

These over 2,000,000 silver resource points are what he mined himself last year after exiting seclusion from those silver mines opened in Long Mountain, not including the silver yet earned from the Seven Towns.

“After the Seven Towns tasted the sweetness, unless something unexpected happens, the trade shouldn’t be interrupted. Going forward, annually we should earn nearly a billion taels of silver from the Seven Towns Chamber of Commerce, which converts into approximately 20,000,000 silver resource points. It’s truly sufficient, the Martial Arts Pavilion, Artifact Refining Pavilion, and Alchemy Pavilion can continue planning upgrades, while Iron Wall and Black Land can accumulate a few years without much issue.”

[Buildings Enabled: Yangxu Tripod (Level 5), Martial Arts Pavilion (Level 4), Alchemy Pavilion (Level 4), Artifact Refining Pavilion (Level 4), Iron Wall (Level 3), Ancestral Spirit Stele (Level 5), Black Land (Level 3), Enlightenment Lotus Platform (Level 4)]

[Buildings Not Enabled: Rough Iron Chain]

For upgrading the Level 5 Yangxu Tripod, Level 4 Enlightenment Lotus Platform, and Level 5 Ancestral Spirit Stele, gold is required.

Of course, there’s also the Rough Iron Chain.

[Rough Iron Chain: Silver 1000, Gold 5000]

Seeing the amount of resources needed to enable the Rough Iron Chain, Xia Hong frowned deeply.

He hasn’t seen what gold actually looks like, and 5000 points are an astronomical figure for him, not even worthy of contemplation.

“Once back, the Three Pavilions will be upgraded once, thoroughly digesting this round’s massive influx of new species, with Martial Arts Pavilion’s capacity drastically expanding, and Great Xia’s Cold Resistance Level population will grow increasingly fast. Just awaiting the next eruption, when Xuanling breaks through to Xianyang Level, the Eight Towns will practically have no resistance against Great Xia, and I’ll be able to leave the camp, to find out what exactly the legendary Cai Qiu Feudal Town’s strength really is!”

Remembering Qiu Peng’s report on the situation with Outer Realm forces five days ago, Xia Hong’s gaze was filled with curiosity.

“Landgrave-led feudal towns, Forbidden Grounds of Deceitful Objects, the meaning of these eight words likely points to camps of feudal town level where deceitful monsters dare not invade. Landgrave should be a title even higher than a leader or lord, suggesting most likely a formidable presence above Xianyang Level!”