Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 668: Chapter 279: Refocusing, Expanding Territory, and the Disappearing Army

Xia Hong originally thought that the greatest significance of annexing the three camps in Longyou was acquiring a large population.

But after this hunt, he realized it was far more than that.

It wasn’t just about population, the hunting, gathering, alchemy, food, and production… The survival experience accumulated by the three families over decades was equally precious wealth.

From a camp development perspective, these experiences are even more important than the population.

Danger often stems from the unknown, and absorbing the accumulated experiences of predecessors is the lowest-cost and fastest way for successors to familiarize themselves with unfamiliar things.

Especially after Chen Yingyuan and Peng Bo each spoke of two or three ways to find and gather valuable spiritual medicines, he was even more convinced of his idea.

“The Red Sun Fruit Trees are very small, yet prefer cold light, so they generally grow at high altitudes, blooming at night and bearing fruit during the day. The ripening time is very short, lasting only two hours, so you need to pick them at noon during the day;

The Cold Beard Grass and Linglong Fruit are the Advanced Blue Moon Elf’s favorite foods. To find these two spiritual medicines, you must first find the Advanced Blue Moon Elf.”

“Ice Soul Liquid is the cream that forms when the Ice Soul Stone absorbs cold air. The Ice Soul Stone is an oval, smooth natural stone exposed without being covered by snow. Such stones are rare, generally found on mountaintops, or in the nests of some advanced flying beasts or Cold Beasts;

The Yin Yang Flower is considered a specialty of Long Mountain, found in some caves that never see sunlight, or in deep ravines and crevices.”

Red Sun Fruit, Cold Beard Grass, Linglong Fruit, Ice Soul Liquid, Yin Yang Flower…

If this relied on oneself or the camp’s hunting teams to explore, it would not only take a lot of time but would probably also cost many lives.

But now, it was known directly from the mouths of Chen Yingyuan and Peng Bo.

Not only these, but Chen Peng was a leader in his respective camp, and the survival experiences they controlled were undoubtedly more than these points.

“This is no small matter. Go back and notify Xia Chuan to bring together the Six Ministries to compile all the survival experiences of the three families, and it would be best to compile them into a book…”

After calculating in his heart, Xia Hong saw that Yuwen Dao and Chen Yingyuan had already gathered all the wounded together.

Chen Yingba and Wu Tianxing were the most seriously injured, already unconscious; Luo Yuan and Yuan Cheng, among others, were in slightly better condition, recovering part of their mobility after taking Blood Sore Pills.

“Prepare to send everyone back to Xia City. Peng Bo, I left a prey on that big tree, go retrieve it.”

Another prey?

Peng Bo was stunned for a moment, but quickly ran in the direction Xia Hong pointed.

Chen Yingyuan and the others were also somewhat puzzled, but soon, when they saw the prey Peng Bo brought back from that big tree, their expressions all froze.

What Peng Bo brought back was a blue Frost Wolf over a meter in length.

The whole pelt of the Frost Wolf was as blue as if washed, except for the eye on the left side of its face that had been pierced, no other obvious wounds could be found, and the not yet entirely stiff body indicated that it had been dead for no more than ten minutes at most.

That is to say, this Frost Wolf was directly killed by having its eye pierced!

No, Yuwen Dao and the others even suspected that this Frost Wolf didn’t even have time to enter combat mode before being killed in one strike by Xia Hong.

The leader just killed an Advanced Frost Wolf?

The scene where Xia Hong had simply and neatly killed the Demon Sheep was still fresh in their minds, and the seven people had not yet recovered from the shock. To learn that before saving them, Xia Hong had also killed an Advanced Frost Wolf, the shock in their hearts was imaginable.

“How much mane does the leader’s Basic Strength have now?”

“Is it ten times mine? Could it still be more?”

………

The thoughts in the hearts of the seven people were unknown to Xia Hong. He picked up the Demon Sheep’s body, weighed it a few times, and immediately had a sense of it in his mind.

“The bone yield of the Frost Wolf should only be over three jin; the Demon Sheep should be more, over five jin.”

Normally, the stronger the Cold Beast, the greater the production of Jade Bone.

“Leader, not only Jade Bone, the flesh of the Advanced Cold Beast is also precious!”

Peng Bo had already taken out a leather bag to collect the blood of the Frost Wolf and, seeing that Xia Hong only mentioned the Jade Bone yield, immediately reminded him.

“The blood volume of an Advanced Cold Beast is about ten to fifteen jin. Although it seems to be only a quarter of an Intermediate Cold Beast’s, its effect is more than ten times that of the latter;

The meat is not simple either. High-level Beast Meat not only contains enormous energy, but the key is that this energy can also be stored in the human body and released automatically according to consumption!”

After Peng Bo finished speaking, Chen Yingyuan nodded and continued: “Moreover, the blood and flesh of an Advanced Cold Beast itself count as two types of spiritual medicine, which can be used in alchemy. Our beehive had a pharmacist with several pill recipes applicable.”

Upon hearing the two’s reminders, a smile appeared on Xia Hong’s face.

Previously, in the Mirror Valley, he had already cut off an arm of an Advanced Snow Mane, and he was well aware of the special nature of Advanced Cold Beast Flesh and Blood.

The reason for the smile was the initiative of Chen Peng and the two.

After all, being leaders of giant camps, plus the means by which Great Xia advanced into Longyou and subdued the two families, were not particularly honorable, so Chen Peng and the two, including Wu Tianxing and Chen Yingba, had no real sense of belonging to the camp, and Xia Hong was well aware of this.

Obviously, the partial strength he had just displayed caused some subtle changes in these two people’s mentalities.

It’s not that the four would henceforth become steadfastly loyal to Great Xia.

The shift in mentality will not happen overnight; there must be a gradual process.

As long as there is a good start, there will always be a day of fruition.