Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 929 - 573: Commencement_2

Therefore, morale is very important. I won't talk much about production. It's obvious that the efficiency of cows and horses idling compared to those invigorated is higher. The main focus, however, is on combat. High morale equals strong combat power.

Some Legion Skills and Battle Formation Skills also have extremely high requirements for morale. Without sufficient morale, it's impossible to form a battle formation.

The Yellow Turban elites, possessing a basic morale of 150, three times that of ordinary Yellow Turbans and twice that of ordinary farmers, can be said to be in a constant "frenzied" state. Their enthusiasm and efficiency at work are exceedingly high.

Furthermore, with Xu Yang's equipped Tiger Skin Coat, which has the "Whistling" Special Skill, he can temporarily boost morale by ten points. Once the cooldown is up, simply gathering the farmers to shout boosts their work efficiency significantly, at least five to six times that of ordinary farmers.

With all these efforts, the results achieved after a month of hard work are easily imaginable.

Lord: Xu Yang

Territory Civilization: Yellow Turban

Territory Architecture: 1 Yellow Turban Camp, 1 Yellow Turban Training Ground, 1 Dock, 1 Fish Market, 1 Logging Yard, 1 Mining Field, 3 Blacksmith Shops, 10 Water Wells, 20 Arrow Towers, 25 Farmlands, 45 Fish Farms, 60 Houses.

Territory Troops: 580 Elite Yellow Turbans, 65 Fishing Boats.

Territory Resources: 12,800 Food (8,500 Salted Fish, 4,300 Wheat), 850 Wood, 120 Stone, 110 Iron Ingots

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After a month's hard work, the achievements are impressive.

In terms of construction, a Yellow Turban Training Ground (Barracks) was added, along with docks, water wells, farmlands, houses, a logging yard, a mining field, several blacksmith shops, and twenty defensive buildings – arrow towers to guard the territory.

In terms of resources, thanks to a large number of elite Yellow Turbans, Xu Yang constructed numerous farmlands and fish farms as production units. He also recruited sixty-five fishing boats through the dock and fish market, catching a large amount of fish near the shore to serve as food and accumulating as many as 12,800 units.

These 12,800 units of food are his important capital for maintaining the territory and for the forthcoming "troop surge."

As for why he isn't surging troops now, it's because he's already made preparations.

The initial territory is limited in size, only about two to three square kilometers including the whole island. Excluding hills and cliffs that can't be used, the actual usable area is only about one to two square kilometers, which must also accommodate camps, training grounds, blacksmith shops, and other buildings. There's hardly any room left to build houses to accommodate the soldiers.

What, not living in houses, sleeping on the ground?

Sure, if you can accept morale dropping to zero in three days, rebellions, routs, and deaths from illness and other negative events happening, then you can certainly have your soldiers sleep on the ground.

The territory is too small, space is limited, and this restricts Xu Yang's development. He had planned to maximize recruitment in one month, but in the end, he only recruited 580 Yellow Turbans.

This problem can't be resolved within the month; it can only be handled after the safe period ends by waging wars to expand the territory.

This includes food, as well as wood, stone, and iron ingots.

Not much needs to be said about wood; it's needed for various buildings. Xu Yang has deforested the trees on the island completely, even turning the forest in the east into farmland, and still the deficit could not be satisfied, forcing him to buy a batch of wood from inside the Sky-reaching Tower.

As for stone and iron ingots, that's the money Xu Yang used to buy wood. He has wiped out all the demons on the island, and since it's difficult to sell a few top-quality equipment, he had no choice but to trade resources for resources.

So compared to food and wood, the quantities of stone and iron ingots are extremely small, barely over a hundred each.

But no matter, Xu Yang doesn't need them currently. He neither trains troops, builds walls, nor builds wonders. What would he need stone and iron for? He just keeps a little for emergencies and sells everything else for food and wood.

All these are the results of Xu Yang's hard work over the month. Although he didn't train a strong combat troop, his resource production was maxed out. He is waiting for the safe period to end to surge troops and expand outward.

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Seeing that the time was about right, Xu Yang put down his hoe and let a farmer take over his work while he donned his equipment, reverting to that not quite mainstream appearance.

Name: Xu Yang

Race: Human

Level: 10 (First-Order Lord)

Physical Strength: 15+13

Intelligence: 6

Charm: 5+1

Reputation: 520

Basic Skills: First-Order Strong Body LV1, First-Order Strong Strike LV5+5, First-Order Strong Bow LV6, First-Order Weapon Mastery LV1, First-Order Riding Skill LV1, First-Order Logistics LV1, First-Order Commander LV1+1.

Weapon Skills: One-handed Weapon (Master), Bow and Arrow Weapon (Master), Long Pole Weapon (Master)

Special Skills: Commoner, Yellow Turban.

Equipment: Tiger Skin Coat, Iron Embryo Bow, Ancient Ingot Knife, Reed Leaf Spear, Worn Turban, Worn Shorts, Worn Gloves, Worn Shoes.

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In terms of attributes, no need to talk much, little has changed from a month ago, except for weapon skills, which have been enhanced to master level through training at the Yellow Turban Training Ground, improving damage and increasing power.

As for Special Skills, it's still only Commoner and Yellow Turban, with no other Skill Characteristics emerging.

This is to be expected. Whether it was in Black Water World before or now in Lord World, both are vast worlds where Gods and Demons coexist. Now, there even might be a Golden Immortal with mighty power that could seal the heavens and lock the earth.

Given this, it's easy to imagine the difficulty of generating Skill Characteristics. How could it be possible to gain any in just one month?

The previously generated "Commoner" characteristic was probably the result of him reincarnating over a span of a dozen years. After all, a low-level lord wanting to turn the tables had only solo grinding as an option, so before his memories awakened, his constant practice of martial arts naturally led to the creation of this Commoner skill.

To gain other characteristics would now require nothing less than diligent hard work and time.

But that's not the point, the point is...

"The safe period is over!"

"Territory lockdown lifted!"