Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1444 - 460: Golden Bone Melting Furnace, the Reason for Slow Progress, Army Marches Out and Arrives_2

As for the Beast King Level golden bones, even more precious than silver, their quantity was astonishing to the extent that Xia Hong couldn’t tell how much had been used, because he had never seen so many golden bones before.

It is well known that the stronger the Cold Beast, the smaller its size. The bones of a normal Beast King are at most one meter long, sometimes even less.

But this melting furnace before him is over 20 meters in height, not to mention its volume, which is truly incredible.

The key is that such a large furnace is used to burn silver...

This is the true foundation of the Feudal Towns!

Even if all the treasury of the Nine Towns of the Southern Slope were emptied, they would barely be able to form the base of this furnace.

Xia Hong suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to inquire: "This Golden Bone Melting Furnace can disperse miasma and resist deceitful monsters, but given such a massive amount of silver and this vast quantity of Beast King Level golden bones, moving it would immediately draw Cold Beasts from all directions. Admiral Fan surely wouldn’t drag it directly into the depths of the Miasma Area, would he?"

Silver is not only desired by humans; Cold Beasts want it too. Wherever there is a silver mine in the Ice Abyss, there is sure to be a Cold Beast clan occupying it, and the larger the silver mine, the larger the attracted Cold Beast clan.

This much silver, coupled with the vast quantity of Beast King Level golden bones, even moving it to a dangerous Blood Miasma Zone or any random wild area would draw a large number of Cold Beasts; Cai Qiu surely understands this.

"Of course!"

Cai Yunlan nodded quickly, pointing to the distant south and continued: "Brother Hong, don’t be fooled by the thin blood-colored miasma here; it doesn’t affect us because we have Xianyang Level cultivation and are within the silver mist area, so we don’t need Dan Medicine. Our own strength is enough to resist!

But the soldiers below are different; they only have Cold Resistance Level cultivation, and even in the silver mist area, they cannot withstand the invasion of the miasma and must take a Heart Cleansing Pill every five days.

The real Blood Miasma Zone is completely off limits to them. Our previous experience showed that those with 60 mane strength at Cold Resistance Level could withstand it for about half an hour, but after this limit, they immediately lose sanity, go into a killing frenzy, and ultimately die violently; those with 30 to 60 mane strength could sustain between 300 to 600 breaths at most, ending the same way after the limit; and those with less than 30 mane strength would go mad with just one breath of the miasma, some dying instantly..."

At this point, Cai Yunlan paused slightly, then continued: "And all this happens despite them taking the Heart Cleansing Pill."

Xia Hong was startled, but not entirely surprised.

Just yesterday when flying from the county mansion, he discreetly applied some Solidified Fire Oil on his hand upon entering the miasma area, and the miasma did not react at all upon contact.

Xia Hong had long known that Solidified Fire Oil was not a cure-all.

Even the main building of the system, now at Level 5, the Yangxu Tripod, can only suppress Advanced Deceitful Monsters and is ineffective against Calamity Level deceitful monsters.

If not even Solidified Fire Oil works, this blood-colored miasma is clearly beyond ordinary deceitful object energy; while Dan Medicine can counteract it in thin areas, resisting it in dense zones with Cold Resistance Level might indeed be unlikely.

"So the army moved the melting furnace here primarily for two reasons: first, to use the silver smoke to slowly dilute the peripheral blood-colored miasma; second, to prevent Cold Beast clans from attacking the furnace within the miasma area or surrounding it. They are not tasked with the exploration itself."

Which means the real explorers are indeed those with Xianyang Level.

After listening to Cai Yunlan, Xia Hong roughly understood.

"Halt the army!"

At this very moment, the army formation was halted by Fan Qinghu at the forefront.

The army came to a stop, and Xia Hong looked south, suddenly freezing.

The reason wasn’t complex; since leaving Zhenyuan Camp, the army had only traveled five or six miles south.

By Xia Hong’s southern estimate, they were still about five kilometers from the real Blood Miasma Zone.

Four kilometers away, whether or not the silver smoke would reach there was unknown; stopping here seemed excessively cautious, even for danger.

Xia Hong frowned, noticing that none of the other Xianyang Level individuals in front and Cai Yunlan beside him showed any unusual expressions. His gaze altered slightly, and his left eye emitted a faint glow.

Looking further south, his expression instantly froze.

The reason was simple; just now, to his eyes, the Blood Miasma Zone was still five kilometers away, but under the gaze of the Eye of Truth, it astonishingly appeared less than 500 meters, only a mile away from him.

"Indeed deserving of the Great Feudal Towns lineage, truly possessing some methods!"

Constantly observing Xia Hong, Cai Yunlan saw his expression change and couldn’t help but sigh inwardly before softly speaking: "Looks like Brother Hong has already noticed that this Blood Miasma Zone is deceitful..."

Nightmare Monster!

Xia Hong nodded, not responding to Cai Yunlan’s words, but in his mind, the term Nightmare Monster immediately appeared. He had encountered such deceitful means twice before—once at the Twin Dragon Mountain’s Sumeru Nightmare Monster, and another time at the Beishuo Town city walls.

"So behind this Blood Miasma Zone, is there a Nightmare Monster with formidable power?"

Xia Hong speculated slightly and quickly shook his head; he had too little information now to make assumptions, which would be too rash.