Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1712: Chapter 542: No More Discussion, Shut the Door and Beat the Dog

Five years ago, during the upheaval at Dajue Temple, each of the Five Great Masters used deceit techniques with five elements spiritual objects paired with magic spells. These five spiritual objects include Zen Gold Powder, Primordial Soul Pill, Cold Clearing Bead, Molten Fire Pill, and Shock Sky Pill.

Of these, the former four were used by Dajue Temple on the battlefield.

Zen Gold Powder enhances the skin membrane defense of soldiers; Cold Clearing Bead allows soldiers to ignore physical pain; Molten Fire Pill grants Earth-digging Realm the ability to operate during the day; the most bizarre is the Primordial Soul Pill, which causes the soul body to be extracted and results in instant death upon reciting a magic spell after consumption.

The only one not used by Dajue Temple, besides these four, is the Shock Sky Pill corresponding to Master Ju Yuan.

Ordinary deceit techniques wouldn’t concern Xia Hong, but the five techniques from Dajue Temple could affect large groups, with armies numbering in the tens of thousands, making the power terrifying.

Therefore, after the Dajue Temple’s chaos ended, and he personally slew Wu Sheng, Yan Long, and Vajra, not only did he distribute the organs of the three masters to Xu Ning, Lu Yang, and Yuan Cheng, he also had Cheng Feng lead a large group of pharmacists to research those five spiritual objects day and night and replicate them.

Cheng Feng’s research required the cooperation of a master’s organs, and since Great Xia only had the organs of three masters, only three were successfully replicated: Soul Separation Pill, Sunlight Pill, and Golden Body Pill.

The Cold Clearing Bead corresponded to Hei Ming Master, who was slain by Yang Jian, so Beishuo successfully replicated the Cold Clearing Pill, which Beishuo Army already used in the previous battle against Beishuo City;

Master Ju Yuan was killed by Wuchuan Lord Qin Feng, and his organs naturally went to Qin Feng. Supposedly, Wuchuan should have successfully replicated the Shock Sky Pill, but Wuchuan’s legacy wasn’t as longstanding as Jin Mountain’s, and its pharmacists lacked depth and skill, so they had to turn to Jin Mountain.

It is obvious that after Jin Mountain successfully replicated the Shock Sky Pill, holding such a powerful weapon, they wouldn’t reveal the truth to Wuchuan.

In this way, Jin Mountain got a huge advantage for nothing.

During the prior battle at Aikou, surprisingly, Jinshan Town refrained from using this powerful weapon the whole time?

On the way to Jinyang, Xia Hong had been puzzled by this, but seeing Cai Qiu’s group of Xianyang Level storming the city, he immediately understood.

At that time, Shangguan Yang didn’t use the Sky-Banning Pill for two likely reasons:

First, the battle at Aikou was not reliant on the Xianyang Level. At that time, not only Great Xia, even if two sides combined, there were just over twenty at the Xianyang Level. The real forces were the Xia Army, and Xia Hong brought out fourteen Beast Emperor-level Puppets. The Sky-Banning Pill affects humans, not Cold Beasts, and has no effect on the Beast Emperor-level Puppets he used;

Second, Shangguan Yang had his considerations. Likely, when Xia Army was at Aikou City’s gates, he wasn’t optimistic about Cai Qiu and had planned to hedge. Rather than using the Sky-Banning Pill with limited influence against Xia Army, he opted to give it to his son Shangguan Yan as a resource to join Great Xia.

This aspect alone made Xia Hong regard Shangguan Yang differently.

Of course, Qin Feng was the same.

He was able to make tough decisions, sending his sons with forces to explode the camp under Cai Qianshan’s nose, leading half the soldiers to join Great Xia—his boldness is comparable to Shangguan Yang, the old fox.

Looking back now, among the Northern Three Towns, the most aggressive Beishuo died fastest, while Jin Mountain and Wuchuan, always quiet, not only relied on Cai Qiu’s support to persist till now but also plotted ways to secure their unstoppable positions.

Qin He, Qin Shan, and Shangguan Long led fifty thousand allied forces to defect to Great Xia; Qin Feng and Shangguan Yang led another forty thousand troops, continuing alongside Cai Qiu. By the end of this battle, regardless of whether Great Xia or Cai Qiu wins, the Qin Family and Shangguan Family would continue.

“These two old foxes have calculated well, hmm!”

Such calculations may only make Xia Hong slightly uncomfortable, not particularly annoying. Qin Feng and Shangguan Yang’s calculations are ultimately helpless moves in an unclear situation. Had they known who between Great Xia and Cai Qiu would certainly win, they wouldn’t act this way.

Also, their fence-sitting behavior indicates their inner admission of Great Xia’s power, equating it with Cai Qiu.

Given this, why would Xia Hong be discontented?

Buzz………

As Xia Army soldiers surrounding Jinyang City continuously exuded heavy breaths, the air around the city was instantly dispelled, as if heaven and earth stagnated for a moment.

A distant yet nearby muffled boom sounded like it was in the ear but also from the towering sky, changing everyone’s expressions.

“Landgrave Cai, your Cai Qiu isn’t invincible. I killed Yang Zhun’s three brothers, annihilated Beishuo Town, and Chen Cang still doesn’t dare march south. Bringing these over a hundred Xianyang Level, eight Tribulation Bodies, do you think relying on Jin Mountain and Wuchuan’s remnant forces you can snatch victory from the jaws?”

As the air around Jinyang suddenly stagnated, Cai Qianshan and the six Tribulation Body realms like Cai Qiuhu felt their bodies quickly becoming heavy. Though they could still maintain airborne status, it was clearly less relaxed than before.