Global Lords: Me and My Calabash Kiddos

Chapter 45: Chapter 41: King-level Treasure Chest

After everything was cleaned up, it was already evening.

There was still a faint smell of blood outside the city, even after laying a new layer of soil, it couldn’t be covered up.

The city walls were still solid. With the blessing of the Mountain-Suppressing Stone, the whole city hadn’t suffered any damage.

Three hundred and fifty prisoners and fifty fierce beasts were not so easy to manage. Yi Tian had a headache.

But, the Slave Market and Beast Market had been hit hard by this test and were now slumping.

The price of slaves couldn’t even match a Divine Weapon of the same level.

Yi Tian’s prisoners were D-level and C-level; same for the beasts. They could be sold, but were far from what Yi Tian expected.

”What should I keep them for? Those destroyed trees were replanted in less than half a day. Are we supposed to wait until the crops mature?”

Yi Tian held his forehead.

Both the prisoners and beasts were outside the city, and Yi Tian still had to assign over ten Elemental Warriors and several subordinates to stand guard.

There were three hundred Brass Mechanized Guards left, and Yi Tian didn’t plan to make any more.

D-level power just couldn’t keep up with Yi Tian anymore. From now on, one hundred Brass Mechanized Guards would still be on standby in the east and north gate towers.

The west and south would each have fifty Brass Mechanized Guards.

As for the rewards Yi Tian promised to his subordinates, he hadn’t forgotten.

Six C-levelers, each got an A-level Spirit Fruit. The rest got a B-level Spirit Fruit each.

Yi Tian encouraged his subordinates to work more when there was work, and train harder when there wasn’t.

After tasting the Spirit Fruits, his followers were moved to tears, itching to grab their blades and do another round of killing.

”What the hell? It’s already dark and my King’s Treasure Chest hasn’t been distributed yet. Is there still some Lord and invader playing hide-and-seek? Can’t catch me?” Yi Tian was extremely frustrated.

Worried that his King’s Treasure Chest might get blacked out, Yi Tian immediately opened the district channel to check on everyone else.

The district channel was full of wailing!

Some were rejoicing!

Some were weary!

Some were in tears!

Some were lost!

”Has everyone received their Treasure Chests?” Earth Human Yi Tian.

”Thanks for the reminder Big Bro, I almost forgot mine hasn’t been sent out yet. I’m almost Level 3, so I should get at least three Bronze Treasure Chests.” Sheep-headed Yang Yangyang.

”Not bad here, Territory just hit Level 3, so I barely get a Silver Treasure Chest. But why hasn’t it arrived yet? I smashed those ugly invaders attacking me in less than ten minutes.” Pigman Race Pig Boar.

”Such a beast up there! I was lucky to use traps to get two of mine. Otherwise, I’d be dead.” Celestial Horse Star Race Ma Rulong.

”The rich-poor gap is just getting bigger. I’m opening three Bronze Treasure Chests. I heard there’s a Level 7 badass in Celestial Dao World opening King-level Treasure Chests. Wonder what’s in those?” Turtle Race’s Gui Jie.

”Yeah! I don’t believe someone like that would die in the first round.” Black Stone Star Human Race Shan Dashan.

”Yi Tian bro must be at least Level 4, maybe even Level 5. Big bro, how many Territory Points do you need to level up, please share!” Pigman Race Pig Boar.

”Level 4 needs 5000, Level 5 needs 20000, Level 6 needs 50000.” Earth Human Race Yi Tian.

”Damn! How does Big Bro know so well? Are you secretly Level 5?”

”I only have 500 Territory Points, and someone already has 50,000. That’s a massive gap!”

”Not just 50,000. Today Celestial Dao Stone said there’s already a Seventh-Level Territory. Maybe even 200,000.” Red Rock Star Qin Race Fei Yiming.

”Here’s some bad news for everyone: today our district lost over 25,000 IDs.” Forest Elf Mumu Qingqing.

”How can there be so many? At this rate, there’ll be nobody left in four months?” Sheep-headed Yang Yangyang.

”That’s scary! One month. Just one month and 30,000 IDs are gone already.”

”No need to be so pessimistic. Survival of the fittest. Only those who survive will get stronger. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but you’ve already changed. After next month’s test, there definitely won’t be more deaths than today.” Yi Tian glanced at Qin Fanshuang’s ID, relaxed. At least his fellow townsman was still alive.

”You guys haven’t noticed that you’ve already changed. What Yi Tian said is really true!” Speak of the devil and he shall appear—Earth Human Race Qin Fanshuang suddenly popped up.

”Yeah! We’ve changed, we’ve all gotten stronger. Now, we’re basically supermen back on our home planets.” Pingyuan Star Race Che Long.

Everyone chatted one line after another, and before long, Yi Tian had used up all his chat tries.

After waiting another hour, Celestial Dao Stone finally spoke: ”Congratulations, Lord, for completing the end-of-month test. Your Territory Level is Initial Seventh Level. Reward: King-level Treasure Chest*1.”

While standing by the creek, a box engraved with beasts appeared next to Yi Tian.

The box seemed to be made of iron, but didn’t look quite like it!

”Open—King-level Treasure Chest!”

Yi Tian had waited all day and didn’t want to keep waiting. The moment the chest arrived, he used the Celestial Dao Stone to open it straight away.

”Stone of the King*5, Celestial Dao Coin*500,000. SS-level Martial Skill Celestial Ice Palm, Royal Palace Design Map*1, Top-level Soil 1 mu, SS-level Spirit Fruit Glazed Holy Fruit Tree*1, Celestial Dao Essence*1, Level 5 Skill Study Scroll*1, Dragon Bow*1.”

Once the King-level Treasure Chest opened, a whole pile of stuff appeared.

Stone of the King: a material for forging High-Level Divine Weapons.

Celestial Ice Palm is a High-level Martial Skill. You must have Water Elemental Spiritual Power to cultivate it.

After mastering it, you can strike one palm after another, endlessly. You can even kill someone from a kilometer away.

Martial Skills can’t be compared to Talents—if you’ve got a freakish Talent, you can overwhelm people several levels higher and make them question life.

Martial Skills focus on freedom and fewer limits. But not always—if you reach Grandmaster level, a Martial Skill can even outdo talents of the same rank. Grandmaster—that’s just a legend.

Celestial Ice Palm, once you’ve reached Entry Level, as long as your power isn’t depleted, you can use it dozens of times. Previously, Yi Tian’s Spiritual Power was 311. After reaching Entry Level with Celestial Ice Palm, he could maintain Combat Power above 350 at all times.

After Minor Achievement he could hold at 400, after Great Success at 450, and after Perfection at 500. Grandmaster and above—unfathomable.

But Martial Skills aren’t like Talents that come naturally—they’re really hard to train. Lots of Qi Refiners spend their whole lives on one Martial Skill but never reach Great Success, let alone Grandmaster.

Even in Celestial Dao World, Yi Tian could only pay Gold to reach Entry Level in Celestial Ice Palm. After that, he’d have to rely on his own understanding—the rules of this world couldn’t help.

Royal Palace Design Map—this thing is pretty awesome. Hundreds of rooms, several palace complexes. It would cover over half the War Manor.

Can’t afford to play with that for now.

Top-level Soil: can increase crop growth speed by tenfold.

Yi Tian figured, this mu of black earth could be used around the villa, to swap out the Spirit Fruit soil.

Yi Tian planned to harvest all the Spirit Fruits, leave only enough for Kiddo, and sell the rest. With ten times growth speed, a B-level Spirit Fruit would mature in five months.

Glazed Holy Fruit, SS-level Spirit Fruit, yields 24 fruits, and takes 1000 months for each cycle. When mature, adds 20 to all three stats, plus 30 to Spiritual Power.

No wonder it takes a hundred months longer than the Dragon Blood Holy Fruit. It’s much more powerful.

Celestial Dao Essence: can replenish lost life source and regrow severed limbs.

So awesome. For someone like ”Yang Guo,” it’s priceless. If I meet a ”Yang Guo” later, I’ll sell it. Only he’d pay top price.

Skill Study Scroll—lets you learn an LV.5 skill.

Yi Tian used it right away after opening it.

Suddenly, in his mind appeared a generation Grandmaster practicing sword—each and every sword move was etched into Yi Tian’s brain.

For a moment, it was as if he’d practiced swords for ten years.

”Congratulations, Lord, you have learned Swordsmanship Mastery LV.5.”

”Sword Skill power increased to 50%.”

”I can use all kinds: swords, knives, spears, halberds—I’ve got a C-level Divine Weapon for any of them. Today, I even got a B-level Copper Ring Broadsword. But since I’ve learned Swordsmanship Mastery, a sword is definitely the best choice.”

Yi Tian was very satisfied with this skill draw.

Dragon Bow—red bow body, dragon patterns carved on it. The bowstring is made from Flood Dragon Sinew, and the body from Flood Dragon Bone. Can injure or even kill someone with a constitution of 1000.

Yi Tian tried pulling it, and couldn’t draw it fully.

Mountain Lifting and Cauldron Carrying!

After activating Mountain Lifting and Cauldron Carrying, Yi Tian could barely draw it to the full.

”Not bad! The Horn Bow just isn’t suitable anymore. This Dragon Bow should last a good long while.” Yi Tian weighed the bow again in his hand.

The Dragon Bow was probably the worst prize this draw, but for Yi Tian it was actually pretty practical.

King’s Treasure Chest is really a King’s Treasure Chest.

”Set a small goal first—strive to open two King’s Treasure Chests next month.”

Yi Tian looked at the Celestial Ice Palm manual in his hand and spent 20,000 Gold to learn it up to Entry Level.

So expensive! Fifty grand gone in a flash.

Ice Palm—Entry Level unlocked!

Now it’s up to Yi Tian to practice slowly.

Since it was only nine o’clock, Yi Tian cut up the black earth, planning to use the light of the Nightlight Tree to replace the soil for the Spirit Fruit Trees.

With Kiddo’s help, he worked until midnight before all the soil was replaced.

He planted the Glazed Holy Fruit Tree in the backyard and instantly matured it with 1,000 drops of Water of Life.

There were only 10,500 drops of Water of Life left. Better ration it from now on.

Yi Tian picked all the Spirit Fruits from the front and back yards and stored them in the villa storehouse.

All the Spirit Fruit Trees began a new round of reincarnation.

Spirit Fruits don’t rot easily. Even if it’s hot, they can keep for over three months.

And for three months, it’s guaranteed that the Spiritual Power won’t drain away.

After three months, Spiritual Power would start to leak, and the medicinal effect would be greatly reduced.

After consuming the Glazed Holy Fruit, Yi Tian’s Strength was 334, Agility 349, Constitution 325, Spiritual Power 341.

The four Kiddos, Little White, Little Blue, and Little Black all saw remarkable improvement.

Especially Little Blue and Little Black, who officially became B-level Raptors.

Whether it was Strength or Agility, both were around 505, Constitution about 515.

Yi Tian was considering when Little Moon should eat a Spirit Fruit; after Howling Moon Silver Wolf ate one, all its stats broke 700—especially Constitution at 800—crazy strong.

Currently, Yi Tian had over four hundred Spirit Fruits of all kinds left.

”Howling Moon Silver Wolf just entered the Growth Stage, growing fast. I’ll wait until it slows down a bit before feeding it another Spirit Fruit. Might as well let it hone its edge.”

Yi Tian decided to save Howling Moon Silver Wolf’s share for later.

Gu Qianqiu’s Strength: 680, Constitution: 685, Agility: 630.

Definitely worth training up!

”A new season begins—first day of summer.”

”Mercenary function unlocked. Purchase a Teleportation Talisman and activate the Celestial Dao Stone teleport function to become a mercenary. Teleportation Talisman: 1 million Celestial Dao Coins.”

”Personal Auction House function activated. Top monthly traders in the Auction House can earn the right to host their own auctions, buy blueprints, and open private auctions.”

Just past midnight, Celestial Dao Stone reminded Yi Tian in his mind.

”This mercenary gig is a scam! Normally you make money as a mercenary, but here you have to pay up first. One million Celestial Dao Coins—that’s blocking a lot of people at the door!”

”And the private auction too. You have to pay to buy the blueprints and build an auction building. Only then can you register a private auction with the Auction House.”

These two features are obviously just games for the rich.