Global Lords: Me and My Calabash Kiddos

Chapter 77: Chapter 69: Boosting Morale, Undaunted by Heat or Cold

Three hundred million Celestial Dao Coins!

Purple Phoenix Moon Dance’s heart skipped a beat.

Even if she only got ten percent, that would still be thirty million Celestial Dao Coins.

If she could get an Elemental Warrior Design Map for eighty thousand, not only could she pay off her debts, she’d also have a huge sum to develop her territory.

Inside the Top-Level Region, it’s a world apart from the Ordinary Regions. Because of their strength, the invading Indigenous People and ferocious beasts are also much stronger.

So, Platinum Treasure Chest openers are everywhere in the entire region.

”What do you need so many Elemental Warriors for? Those things are just toys, what’s the use?” Purple Phoenix Moon Dance asked, puzzled.

To Purple Phoenix Moon Dance, Yi Tian looked extremely shrewd, never up early without profit.

How could he do something so foolish?

”Ants can bite an elephant to death! If the Celestial Dao exists, it must be meaningful. Useless for you all, but for a C-level Lord, it’s a treasure you can’t get enough of.” Yi Tian replied vaguely.

”Then why not just buy a few B-level slaves? Aren’t they more useful than Elemental Warriors?” Purple Phoenix Moon Dance asked again.

”I’ve got money, I do what I want!” Yi Tian didn’t want to answer and just brushed it off.

”Hmph! Don’t think I really don’t understand math, if you really want to collect over three thousand Elemental Warriors, you’ll need at least a billion.” Purple Phoenix Moon Dance was provoked by Yi Tian.

”I can safely say your math really needs work. Anyway, I’m going to rest.”

Yi Tian had already calculated everything. If all the Elemental Warriors were fully crafted, including design maps and Element Cores, it would cost another 7.6 billion Celestial Dao Coins.

As long as the three thousand six hundred Elemental Warriors are assembled, it’ll only take a month and a half for three thousand six hundred A-level Combat Soldiers.

For cultivators, this kind of thing is simply unthinkable.

Yi Tian has it all planned; the moment the three thousand six hundred Elements are done, the territory ascends to Level 8.

The instant the Elemental Warriors reach Platinum, the territory levels up to 9.

The road is long and arduous!

”Hold up! I heard you’re auctioning Enlightenment Tea tomorrow?” Purple Phoenix Moon Dance stopped fussing over the Elemental Warrior issue and quickly sent another message.

”Yeah! And don’t go using your money for the Elemental Warrior Design Maps at the auction.” Yi Tian remembered this and reminded Purple Phoenix Moon Dance.

”Of course not! I was thinking of buying a few pieces privately—got any left?” Purple Phoenix Moon Dance asked Yi Tian.

”Plenty left! But you should get your priorities straight. If one day you’ve got something valuable, I’ll trade with you.” Yi Tian saw Purple Phoenix Moon Dance’s fawning attitude and knew full well she wanted the Enlightenment Tea for free.

But Yi Tian wanted her to fix her mindset—he wasn’t lending her money, not for now.

Purple Phoenix Moon Dance knew she couldn’t persuade Yi Tian; she did have a few good items, but they weren’t as valuable as the SSS-level Enlightenment Tea.

She could only hope to get lucky next time and land a decent Diamond Treasure Chest for trade with Yi Tian.

Enlightenment Tea is a treasure that depends on your point of view. For those stuck on the brink of a martial skill breakthrough, and those rare living creatures you can’t find anywhere, one piece of Enlightenment Tea is priceless.

A new day begins.

Thanks to ice blocks cooling things off, the Little Kiddos slept fairly well last night.

But opening the door at five in the morning, a wave of heat hit as soon as it opened.

Damn!

It was like the lid of a steel furnace was lifted in that instant.

Yi Tian’s constitution didn’t fear ordinary heat or cold, but this temperature made him silently pity the rest of his friends in the region.

With this heat, no way can you sleep—unless you’re dead tired.

From five to eight, Yi Tian did his cultivation, boosting his strength by a bit, agility by a bit, and spiritual power by a bit.

The Celestial Ice Palm, as he’d planned, stepped into the Minor Achievement stage.

Leaving the Martial Arts Arena, the newborn crimson sun seemed extra fierce, and he felt today’s temperature was about five degrees hotter than yesterday.

If it goes from fifteen to twenty degrees, maybe you don’t notice much.

But when it’s forty up to forty-five, you don’t even have energy to work, let alone the desire.

A lot of Lords fell into an illusion, even wondering if they were about to die.

But in reality, their physical stats were just fine, it’s just that the Spring Beast Sun Fusion messed them up, so some people died.

In truth, they didn’t die from the heat, but from lack of willpower—spiritual death.

After eating, Yi Tian found the territory members looking exhausted and in a negative mood.

And this was with ice blocks around—otherwise, it’d be unbearable.

How could anyone oversee prisoners working in this state?

Yi Tian was fed up with their lack of resolve.

Since the individual auction hadn’t started yet, he gathered Gu Qianqiu, Fire Dragon and the others, getting ready for a speech.

”Back on my home planet, the average constitution didn’t even reach 10, and we still had extreme weather sometimes. Sure, some people fainted in that kind of heat, but it was always elders, the weak, women and children, and the sick.”

”I can’t understand it, all your three-dimensional stats are at least 150, so why are you dragging yourselves around like this?” At that point, Yi Tian barked sternly.

”If you can’t feel your constitution, can’t you at least feel your strength?”

”Let me make one thing clear: This heat can’t kill you—even if it doubled, still wouldn’t do it.”

”If it gets hotter, you’ll just sweat a little more.”

”As long as you’ve got fighting spirit, heat or cold means nothing. Look at me—standing under the sun, not a drop of sweat!”

With those words, only then did Gu Qianqiu and the others notice: their Lord stood tall and proud without a bead of sweat.

He stood in the sun, speaking with vigor and full of spirit.

By contrast, they were all drenched with sweat and couldn’t stand still.

Admiring the Lord’s high realm, Gu Qianqiu and the rest reflected—maybe they were just afraid of the unknown?

Yeah!

Other than feeling hot, their bodies were perfectly fine.

It’s just that since birth, they’d never felt anything like this, so it was hard to adapt.

”Before long, I’ll open a shop inside the War Manor. This shop is called the Points Store, and it’s just for all of you.”

”Starting tomorrow, we’ll be using the points system. For every day worked, you’ll earn points. Points per person are set by strength. The weakest among you is Mid-level D, one point per day; Late-stage D, two points per day; Early-stage C, three points per day; Mid-level C, four points per day; Late-stage C, five points per day; Early-stage B, eight points per day; Mid-level B, ten points per day.”

”If enemies invade and you gain merit by killing, then: D-level gets ten points, Early-stage C gets fifty points, Mid-level C gets seventy, Late-stage C gets a hundred. Early-stage B is three hundred, Mid-level B is five hundred, Late-stage B eight hundred points.”

”Catch a special prisoner, or make other contributions, and you’ll get bonus points too.”

”With enough points, you can redeem B-level Spirit Fruits, A-level Spirit Fruits—get more, and you can exchange for S-level Spirit Fruits, and even higher grade fruits. You can swap for Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, Spirit Wine, Spiritual Honey, Spirit Tea, Divine Weapons. When the outer city is built, you’ll even be able to trade points for villas and all kinds of high-end stuff. As long as you have the points!”

”In my territory, you don’t have to see yourselves as slaves. I respect you all, and hope you’ll return it.”

”We’re trapped in the Mist, sometimes all we see is the sun and a different moon. But one day we’ll break through the Mist and stand proud in the Celestial Dao World as the strong.”

”Together we’ll build immortality, starting from this tiny territory. We’ll gain even greater power and longer lives.”

”We’ll make the Celestial Dao World shrink under our feet; we’ll explore the relics of the gods and all kinds of hidden legends.”

”We’ll fill in every abyss, topple every mountain that blocks our way.”

”Survival of the fittest. Facing the sun, we will not back down. If we retreat, we have no future!”

”So lift your chests and face the unknown! I’ll be right there with you!”

Yi Tian, impassioned, painted a magnificent future for Gu Qianqiu, Fire Dragon, Yun Long and the rest.

Yi Tian even felt fired up himself, his blood boiling all over.

What he said wasn’t just to get the territory members motivated and working.

It also gave them hope for the future—a reason to work harder.

Yi Tian had planned the Points Store long ago.

Spirit Fruits are limited—not everyone can have them.

With the points system, Yi Tian could motivate the territory members, so they weren’t just goal-less machines that only fought and worked all day.

”We’re willing to die for the Lord!”

The territory members knelt on one knee and shouted in unison.

It was hot—damn hot—and now it felt even hotter.

But that’s all it was!

In this moment, they revered Yi Tian—not just feared those five tigers anymore.

”Qianqiu, when work starts, make sure the ice-cold watermelon, ice blocks, and ice water are stocked in the Ice Storage. Also, give the Indigenous People some ice blocks too, get them working properly.” Yi Tian saw the morale was usable, secretly nodded, and instructed Qianqiu.

”Oh, and give the Three-Eyed One-Horned High Priest some perks too. That guy’s a gem!” Yi Tian reminded before leaving.

The auction starts at nine, so it’s almost time.

Even if the weather’s stifling, the pre-auction atmosphere was blazing hot.

This time, more Lords were watching the Wealth Tower auction than last time.

Because everyone was steaming like in a sauna and not working, so being able to watch the Wealthiest in the World personal auction—even if you don’t buy anything—is at least a good way to kill time.

Half an hour before the auction, the Lords entered Wealth Tower through the Celestial Dao Stone.

On the auction stage, there are even more S-level Four Symbols Pinecones and three pieces of SSS-level Enlightenment Tea.

The villa design map had become the prized goal for the leading Lords of the Middle-Level Region.

In the High-Level Region, quite a few had won small villa design maps from Platinum Treasure Chests; if they were lucky, they could even get medium-sized villa design maps.

But the Middle-Level Region never had that kind of luck.

Spirit Wine had all the alcoholics in the cosmos drooling over it.

The B-level Bow had a lot of Lords with strength between three hundred and four hundred itching to bid.

Automatic Beast-Catching Celestial Net—what a rare thing!

Horn Bow, all sorts of swords, sabers, spears, halberds, Divine Weapons—the Lords were all interested.

As for those S-level or higher Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, most Lords couldn’t even consider spending on them.

Before the second Wealth Tower personal auction began, in every region, eight out of ten conversations were about it.

Truth is, there were auctions happening at every moment, but compared to the Wealthiest in the World’s auction, they all paled in comparison.