Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 886: Chapter 338: Rapid Progress, Martial Arts Skills, Dual-Faceted Eastern Expansion, Dormancy Period

“Fifty-four鬃, not even a month, twenty-three days, and I even spent three days deducing cultivation techniques and martial arts in between. The actual time spent cultivating should only be twenty days, and in twenty days, I’ve improved by nearly two鬃. This cultivation speed…”

Sitting cross-legged on the twelve-petal silver Enlightenment Lotus Platform, Xia Hong suddenly opened his eyes, his face full of joy and amazement.

He naturally had a threefold cultivation increase from the Martial Arts Pavilion, and adding five times more on top, making it eight times in total.

The key augmentation effect of the Enlightenment Lotus Platform is truly too powerful.

The cultivation at the Cold Resistance level is centered around the body’s flesh and blood, specifically using external forces to stimulate and destroy the original flesh and blood tissues, forcing their continuous reorganization and growth.

Currently, there are only two known external forces, one is the cold light during the day; the other is medicine, such as Jade Bone Medicine and Yangyuan Pill.

Of course, the former’s efficiency is astonishingly slow. Although Xia Hong had this Star-picking Platform built without a roof, he mainly relied on the Yangyuan Pill.

“The Enlightenment Lotus Platform not only enhances my absorption of the Yangyuan Pill, but it also helps find and fill in the missing parts of my flesh and blood, assisting me in optimizing the current cultivation method, even deducing the future cultivation path, effectively resolving all my worries. Of course, there’s also…”

Xia Hong looked down at the ground in front of the platform, the joy on his face growing stronger.

There are a total of forty-five bound volumes of martial arts classics on the ground, all decorated with advanced beast skin, even the characters on the covers are written in Golden Frost Ink.

“Forty-five cultivation techniques, covering twelve kinds of weapons: blade, spear, sword, halberd, axe, lance, whip, cudgel, hammer, staff, spear, and fan. I have also integrated the four Long Fist Forms into them. Each one practiced to the deepest level can burst out with up to a fifty percent increase in power and, combined with weapon techniques, the destructive power can be even stronger. The combat power of Great Xia people will increase significantly in the future!”

This is the power of the Enlightenment Divine Lotus.

In his previous life, coming from a martial arts family, Xia Hong was almost proficient in all types of weapons. The reason he chose to major in Grand Ancestor Long Fist, while also popularizing it throughout Great Xia, is because the Long Fist Forms are the most practical, with the greatest power-generating effect, reaching up to thirty percent.

But using the Enlightenment Divine Lotus to deduce martial arts for three days, he realized that thirty percent is not the limit.

The Long Fist Form at the Transformation Realm level, combined with these martial arts techniques, practiced to the highest level, can achieve up to a fifty percent increase in explosive power, and this might not even be the limit. With the Enlightenment Divine Lotus, further improvement is possible.

Of course, there are two difficulties.

One is the Transformation Realm level Long Fist Form, which only Xia Hong has experience with from his previous life. Currently, in Great Xia, only ten people have cultivated Long Fist to the Transformation Realm. Regardless of their cultivation, they are definitely prodigies in martial arts.

The second is martial arts techniques, weapons cannot be mastered simply by holding them; they naturally require years of accumulated practice.

“Xia Chuan’s talent in weapons seems average, his specialty lies in puppet manipulation. Currently, those with high talent in weapons in Great Xia include Xuanling with his sword, Yuwen Dao with his broadsword, Yuan Cheng with his double-bladed axe, Hou Jing with his staff, Lu Yang with his sword… Oh, and Luo Cheng with his long spear from last year too!”

The Enlightenment Divine Lotus consumes 5,000 points of silver resources per martial arts deduction, converted to 25,000 jin of silver. Naturally, Xia Hong does not act recklessly; the twelve weapon martial arts pre-deduced are all used by someone in Great Xia at this stage.

The population of Xia City has now exceeded six hundred thousand. Of course, Xia Hong doesn’t have time to examine everyone’s talents, he can only start with those he knows.

For now, these forty-five cultivation techniques are certainly enough!

“Not only has the individual cultivation issue been solved, but almost all the buildings have been upgraded by one level. The growth brought by the upgraded Martial Arts Pavilion, Artifact Refining Pavilion, and Alchemy Workshop is already beginning to take effect. Next, it just needs time to ferment, and the strength of Xia City is bound to see a rapid increase. The only downside is the exaggerated consumption speed of this Silver Mine!”

Xia Hong pondered for a moment, checking the camp system panel:

[Camp: Great Xia (Level 0)]

[Lord: Xia Hong]

[Cultivation: Late-stage Cold Resistance (Fifty-four鬃)]

[Territory Population: 627,642]

[Resources: Wood 5.21 million, Coal 2.82 million, Iron 1.04 million, Silver 280,000, Gold 0]

[Buildings Activated 8: Yangxu Tripod (Level 5), Martial Arts Pavilion (Level 4), Alchemy Pavilion (Level 4), Artifact Refining Pavilion (Level 4), Iron Wall (Level 3), Spirit God Stele (Level 4), Black Land (Level 3), Enlightenment Divine Lotus (Level 4)]

[Buildings Not Activated 1: Rough Iron Chain]

Seeing the population of Great Xia approaching 630,000, Xia Hong showed a slight look of excitement.

The population of 110,000 from Songyang Ridge has fully migrated into Xia City. Xu Ning, credited for bringing in this batch of population, successfully promoted to Great Xia’s third eighth-rank Chixiao Marquis early this month.

However, the excitement quickly faded due to the lack of system resources, especially seeing the remaining 150,000 points of silver, making Xia Hong shake his head repeatedly.

In the past twenty-three days, the three thousand soldiers in total mined over 6.5 million jin of silver, amounting to 1.3 million system resource points, plus the first batch of 240,000 points brought back, making a total of 1,540,000 points. Most buildings, except the Enlightenment Divine Lotus, required little silver to upgrade from Level 3 to Level 4, generally between 3,000 points and 20,000 points. It should not have been consumed so quickly.