Global Lords: Me and My Calabash Kiddos

Chapter 131: Chapter 93: Tai Zhong, Summer Beast and Flame Beast Join the Battle, Demon Race

Plum Blossom Wine!

It’s really similar to fruit wine, but richer and more fragrant than fruit wine.

Yi Tian isn’t a fan of alcohol, but he really likes this light, elegant flavor that’s fused with nature.

Yi Tian didn’t drink much, probably just about two hundred milliliters.

Liyue mentioned before that Spiritual Power Affinity increases gradually—it’s not something that can be achieved overnight.

Drinking two hundred milliliters each day works best!

Yi Tian is enjoying himself far more than Liyue and Qixin now; when those two were escaping for their lives, they couldn’t drink much in a single day, and it was all common Hundred Flowers Spirit Wine made with ordinary spirit flowers and wildflowers, low or intermediate grade at best.

After finishing the Plum Blossom Spirit Wine, Qixin personally served Yi Tian some roasted deer meat brushed with Hundred Flowers Spiritual Honey.

Liyue and Qixin may not be good at cooking, but their grilling skills are top-notch.

With Hundred Flowers Spiritual Honey brushed on, the fresh deer meat became even more tender.

The little kiddos all ate happily!

With this meal, Yi Tian wouldn’t need to eat again for the rest of the day.

Auction House.

Yesterday’s Celestial Dao Fortune triggered a crash in grain and meat prices. Only some vegetables and fruits could fetch slightly higher prices.

Most Lords, while hunting for stone boxes outside their territories, managed to capture a few ordinary wild beasts and some low or intermediate ferocious beasts.

A huge influx of living meat supplies and beast carcasses flooded the market, forcing all food prices down.

The high-price barriers set up by merchants collapsed completely four hours after the Lords left their territories.

That barrier was always fragile to begin with.

Some merchants underestimated how soon the Lords’ next crop would mature, got greedy, and ended up losing everything.

The food crisis, starting with the fish-eating storks, was basically resolved after half a month!

Even though meat prices still hover around 20 Celestial Dao Coins, it’s clear that once the Lords’ crops mature, prices will drop again.

The days are getting hotter, and in a muddled haze, the Lords realize that nearly twenty days of summer have already passed.

The end-of-month Great Assessment is getting closer and closer.

A sense of crisis and urgency sweeps in, and Lords begin to accelerate the development of their territories.

At this point, slaves are already one of the most sought-after resources.

Lords generally divide Territory Points into three tiers.

The third tier consists of things like buildings, houses, and luxury furniture—none of which help at all in defending against enemies.

If a Lord upgrades their territory in that way, they’re jokingly called ”Plastic Territory.”

The second tier includes manufacturing plants, walls, city defenses, and traps—these at least provide some defense against enemies.

Factories can generate economic benefits for Lords, feeding back into the territory. City walls and traps help defend against enemies.

The first tier is slaves, ferocious beasts, Mechanical Guards, and Elemental Warriors, matching the Lord’s own strength.

These are the real, solid points—the backbone of a Lord’s defense against indigenous attacks.

If you just pile on those flashy things from the third tier to boost Territory Level, you’re basically signing your death warrant.

Slave prices at this time are even higher than at the end of spring—market is tight even with money in hand.

D-level slaves go for sixty thousand Celestial Dao Coins.

C-level slaves for three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand Celestial Dao Coins.

B-level slaves for two million to five million Celestial Dao Coins.

It’s basically daylight robbery.

After the Mist Scroll incident, even though Lords know slaves are hard to control, they still try to get as many slaves as possible.

If you fall behind, you get beaten. In any region, Lord strength is about the same—a single extra slave can tip the scales toward victory.

But in this round of Celestial Dao Fortune, seems like nobody pulled a Mist Scroll.

In the whole Celestial Dao World, those who still own Mist Scrolls are few and far between.

This news let many Lords relax their taut nerves for a bit.

The more slaves, the better—you never know when another Mist Scroll wave will hit.

Everyone’s Territory Levels are up now. Next time you get a Mist Scroll, it won’t be just a single scroll.

Let alone the fact that the nerve-wracking Great Assessment is approaching.

Last time, the Great Assessment had a 20% death rate—those bloody numbers are burned into everyone’s minds.

When Yi Tian opened the Auction House, he noticed gold had gone up again, rising to three hundred Celestial Dao Coins per unit.

Something’s off—he bought gold for practicing Celestial Flame Palm just last night.

Yi Tian quickly opened the regional channel, trying to find out why gold prices were spiking.

The regional channel had no information at all—the Lords would mention it in passing and envy those with gold mines, saying the price has gone up again.

No one even mentioned the cause for the gold price surge.

Yi Tian could tell—the Lords had no idea, either.

Yi Tian asked the gold mine owner, Qin Fanshuang.

Qin Fanshuang told Yi Tian she’d hoped to sell some gold today to replan her territory for end-of-month defense, but when she checked, the prices had already spiked, so naturally she followed suit.

But Qin Fanshuang guessed that the gold price jump wasn’t triggered by Ordinary Regions, but by the higher-ranked regions.

”Yi Tian, since you have Brass Mechanism Guardian Crystals, could you help me build another ten Brass Mechanized Guards? I’ll give you some gold as a manufacturing fee,” Qin Fanshuang said to Yi Tian.

”No problem—just trade me the materials. As for the fee, forget it. If you want to pay me, don’t ask me,” Yi Tian replied, very generously.

The two are friends—how could Yi Tian care about such trivial profits?

Qin Fanshuang’s strength is just right for using Brass Mechanized Guards now.

If she actually received a Silver or Golden Guard, it would only make things worse for her.

If a territory has a Silver Guard, then the indigenous people’s Silver Warriors will surely come knocking—no question about it.

Same goes for the Golden Guard.

Otherwise, those tycoons in Ordinary Regions would just spend big for an Elemental Warrior and relax for the rest of their days, wouldn’t they?

A Mechanical Guard fighting toe to toe against a same-tier living creature is just barely hanging on.

Only talent, skills, and combat power are the true magical treasures that allow Lords to keep winning.