Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 928 - 573: Start

Wow, eating salted fish allows you to level up?

Xu Yang found this unexpected, but not surprising.

Combat and killing, although the main way to level up in the Sky-reaching Tower, was not the only way. Apart from battles, certain buildings, items, and skills could also provide troops with experience.

For example, barracks have training effects that can use time and resources to enhance the level of certain troops.

Some powerful lords don't even need to wage war; they could simply rely on the training facilities within their territories to muster a strong army.

However, this did not affect the superiority of the "Yellow Turban Army"; being able to level up by eating salted fish meant that as long as there was sufficient food resource, an elite army could be mustered, which was extremely useful whether for sudden conscription or emergencies.

In addition to the Yellow Turban's civilization trait and civilization skill, the combination of the three made this otherwise weak Yellow Turban troop type immensely potent.

Xu Yang didn't say much and directly chose to upgrade, a yellow light flashed, and the thin, ragged Yellow Turban Soldier (Common) was upgraded to Yellow Turban Soldier (Senior), directly increasing the Physical Attribute by two points to par with an ordinary Farmer.

Although still weak, it was now enough to suffice as a Farmer.

Xu Yang didn't think twice and directly added all twenty-nine Yellow Turban Soldiers from the Yellow Turban Camp into the recruitment list.

Max it out! It must be maxed!

For the early development of the Yellow Turban Civilization, almost no capital is needed; food is the most crucial resource.

But where does the food come from?

Live off the mountains if there are mountains, live off the sea if there's the sea!

Recruitment from the Yellow Turban Camp and the Fish Market Pier must be maxed out, pulling together an army of Farmers to handle construction and production, thereby acquiring more resources and recruiting more soldiers, creating a virtuous cycle like a snowball growing larger and larger.

An assembly of Farmers, each to their respective duties.

As a Lord, Xu Yang was not idle either; he entered the Yellow Turban Camp, picked up a hoe, and prepared to cultivate the farmland.

Farmland is a basic production architecture, which can be constructed by any civilization, not to mention those that have it; apart from some steppe nomadic civilizations and some special civilizations, almost all civilizations can build farmlands, although the effects may vary.

It was the same for the Yellow Turban Civilization; its civilization trait did not affect production buildings, so they could only construct ordinary farmlands.

Not just farmlands, but also pier farmlands, logging yards, mining fields, and blacksmith shops; these basic production architectures were no different from those in the Sky-reaching Tower, having no special effects, but still needed to be constructed.

Now that the initial creatures in the territory had been cleared out by Xu Yang, he had no combat tasks for the next twenty-eight days and could devote himself entirely to the business of farming.

I forgot to mention, Lords are also a type of "Farmer" and can build all basic architectural units, although with such low efficiency it's barely better than nothing.

Unless they possess relevant Talent Skills, most lords would rather waste time in barracks drill grounds and gain training experience than pick up a hoe and be a marginally better Farmer, as that would be too cost-ineffective.

But others are others, Xu Yang is Xu Yang, with the Skill Characteristics as his golden finger, he was very willing to be a Farmer.

Everything about the Yellow Turban Civilization was good, except that it consumed a lot of food resources; relying only on the island's resources and the Fish Market supply, it was challenging to maximize recruitment and production.

That's when Xu Yang's Skill Characteristics needed to come into play; just generating a relevant Skill Characteristic, like "Five Grains Harvest" or something, would greatly relieve the pressure of food shortage.

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So it went, time flew by, and the twenty-eight days passed in a blink.

In the territory, in the farmlands, Xu Yang was acting as a "Farmer" operating this production building.

Not just him, around the Yellow Turban Camp, except for the northern "Residential Area", the other three sides had been cultivated into farmlands, where the converted Yellow Turban Farmer (Elite) was working hard and enthusiastically.

Yellow Turban Farmer (Elite)

Morale: 150

Troop Order: First-Order (Common)

Troop Attributes: 6 Physical Strength, 1 Intelligence, 1 Charm.

Troop type skills: Yellow Turban

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Troop introduction: Long live the Great Virtuous Master!

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Within a month's time and production maximized, Xu Yang had recruited many Yellow Turban Soldiers, and with a massive consumption of food, elevated them to the Elite Order.

Compared to the ordinary Yellow Turban Soldiers, the attributes of the Elite Order Yellow Turban Soldiers didn't change much, only that the Morale increased from 50 points to 150 points, and Physical Strength from 1 point to 6 points.

Although it seemed like a minor change in attributes, the actual effect was vastly different; not to mention Physical Strength, which went from one point to six points, a gap bigger even than between a child and an adult, directly making the feeble Yellow Turban Soldiers into excellent field hands.

That was Physical Strength, and then there's Morale; although low-order troops have low Intelligence, they are not entirely lifeless puppets and possess some self-awareness.

This is both good and bad because it affects the "Morale" attribute.

To put it simply, Morale is the emotion of the troops; high Morale means strong motivation, enhancing both work efficiency and combat capabilities, while low Morale means weak motivation, not only reducing work and combat capabilities but also leading to potential disorder, retreat, or desertion.

The academy has cases where some lords, due to their mistreatment of soldiers and lack of items or skills to enhance Morale, suffered from extremely low Morale leading to a mutiny among troops, eventually causing their territory to fall not to the Devil Race but to their own soldiers, becoming a bloody lesson.