Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 893: Chapter 339: The Changes in Li Hu and Yang Zhong, the Hou Family’s Opportunity, and Advice (Part 2)

According to the balance of their Contribution Value, it is actually not low now, but considering last October, they were rewarded 50,000 points of Contribution Value at once by the Minister, plus 30,000 points converted from 300 military merits, dropping from 80,000 to a few thousand, the consumption is indeed a bit astonishing.

The key is that these two are not the type to sit and eat away their resources; they established a Zhaoyuan Squad in Long Mountain last July, going out on hunts, gathering, and exploring regularly without missing any of it.

Under such circumstances, the speed of Contribution Value consumption is so fast.

"There’s no way around it. Buying land and building houses cost over ten thousand, High-level Beast Meat, High-level Beast Blood, Blood Spirit Pills, Hundred Forged Mo Blade, Hundred Forged Thunder Kui Golden Armor, Fine Salt Wine, Healing Pills, Strong Bow of up to thirty stones... Of course, on top of that, we spent heavily to buy special slots for Martial Arts Pavilion cultivation for two days, just this alone cost over six thousand Contribution Value points, even though Contribution Value was substantial, it couldn’t withstand us spending it like that."

Upon hearing Yang Zhong’s words, Li Hu immediately smiled and nodded.

Living in Xia City alone naturally wouldn’t consume so much Contribution Value, but both of them were not content with mediocrity. Seeing so many cultivation resources in the Camp Supply Department, how could they resist?

In the first eleven months, they went to the Camp Supply Department almost every month to buy all the cultivation resources they could at the maximum limit. For Beast Meat and Beast Blood, they used high-level ones; for Earth-digging Realm Limit Cultivation, Blood Spirit Pills have a monthly limit of 10 pills which they didn’t miss for even a month; refined salt, aged wine, Healing Pills... they bought almost everything available.

Not to mention the weapons, War Armor, Strong Bow, and those essential pills for going out that Yang Zhong just talked about, especially at the end of last year, they got their slots for the first time, entered the Martial Arts Hall for cultivation once, and upon coming out, they never forgot the feeling of rapid improvement.

The previous month, the Lord demonstrated Divine Skills, upgrading the Martial Arts Hall to the Martial Arts Pavilion, increasing the slot numbers to one thousand. To meet the demand in Xia City, the Camp Supply Department auctioned 100 slots daily, and the two couldn’t resist but bid twice, spending over 6000 points at once.

No matter how plentiful Contribution Value is, it can’t withstand such expenditure!

"Though the spending was substantial, the improvement was also significant. In just a year, my Basic Strength increased from the limit of thirty thousand pounds to nearly forty-four thousand pounds now. If we were in Long Mountain, our cultivation speed wouldn’t be this fast."

Upon hearing this, Yang Zhong’s expression brightened up, nodding vigorously, he whispered a question: "Hu Zi, what’s your Skin Remodeling Progress? Considering your high Martial Arts Talent, it should be Battle Body Talent, right?"

In the Xia Li·System Chapter, it specifies that when the Earth-digging Realm Limit breaks through to Cold Resistance Level, there is a distinction between Battle Bodies and non-Battle Bodies, specifically based on the Basic Strength limit during the Skin Remodeling stage.

In the Skin Remodeling stage, if Basic Strength can enhance to between one hundred thousand to one hundred fifty thousand pounds, it’s a Superior Battle Body; anything above eighty thousand pounds is Medium; sixty thousand pounds is Lower; non-Battle Bodies progress to the step-by-step limit of fifty thousand pounds.

Of course, there’s also the Top-grade Battle Body above one hundred fifty thousand pounds.

After breaking through the Cold Resistance Level, Basic Strength can be doubled, so by this calculation, even a Lower Battle Body would have a Basic Strength of at least 1.2 zong, two thousand pounds more than a non-Battle Body at Cold Resistance Level.

A two-thousand-pound difference in Basic Strength can essentially determine life and death, not to mention the subsequent gap between the two would continue to grow.

Currently, there are quite a few people at the Cold Resistance Level in Xia City, and it’s common to hear of someone breaking through. Different from other people who only focus on breakthroughs, the circle at the Earth-digging Realm Limit is concerned with the Battle Body Talent of the breakthrough individuals.

Both of them are part of this circle, so naturally, they care about this too.

Li Hu is naturally well aware of the content of the four Chapters of Xia Li, especially matters regarding the Battle Body. Since he is currently at this stage, he clearly has understood quite a bit, solemnly responding: "I feel like my Skin Remodeling stage is only about twenty percent complete."

Hearing Li Hu’s answer, Yang Zhong’s expression froze for a moment then turned extremely delighted, saying: "Two percent and you’ve increased by fourteen thousand, doesn’t that mean you still have a limit to increase by fifty-six thousand pounds? At one hundred thousand pounds, you’re a Superior Battle Body."

Li Hu’s expression also showed some excitement, but his personality is calm, quickly settling down, shaking his head: "The Refining Chapter states clearly, the stage sense during Skin Remodeling is not necessarily one hundred percent accurate; the remodeling becomes harder as it progresses, and some couldn’t endure the pain and directly broke through. Whether I am a Superior Battle Body will only be known upon breakthrough."

But Yang Zhong held a much more optimistic view, continuing: "If there’s a premonition, then it certainly is. That’s great, a Superior Battle Body, I’ve heard, there aren’t many Superior Battle Bodies in Great Xia right now, counting Director Yuan, Director Qiu, Vice Director Luo, Lin Kai, Lu Yang, Xu Ning, Yue Feng, Zhao Long Zhao Hu, etc., barely over fifty people altogether."

Compared to Xia City’s current population of over sixty thousand, fifty indeed counted as extremely rare. Yang Zhong, although unclear of how many Cold Resistance Level exist in Great Xia now, could be sure Superior Battle Body among them is indeed few.

His good brother Li Hu is one of them, how could he not be happy?

However, Li Hu’s vision was evidently much broader than his, shaking his head: "I’ve heard, once Director Yuan, Director Qiu, and these people you just mentioned breakthrough, their strength exceeds 2.5 zong, meaning their Basic Strength during Skin Remodeling stage already exceeds a hundred twenty-five thousand pounds, I cannot compare to them, let alone there are ones even mightier above them..."