Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 932 - 575: Unrivaled

Prisoner Card!

The Sky-reaching Tower and the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss, although opposed, share several common features, such as reputation rankings and the "prisoner" mechanism.

The Sky-reaching Tower can view the reputation rankings of the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss, and vice versa.

Similarly, troops and even heroes captured during war can be converted through purification and demonization processes, making prisoners extremely valuable for Lords looking to enhance their power.

However...

"Given your charm attribute, oratory, commander, and captives management skills, you cannot persuade this troop type to defect."

Listened to the prompt from the Sky-reaching Tower, Xu Yang shook his head and didn't take it to heart, proceeding to clean up the battlefield directly.

This time, the opposing Lord did not lead the charge personally; instead, a hero led six Jurchen cavalry archers, fourteen Jurchen archers, and twenty-five Jurchen infantrymen.

The forty-six-person force was all elite, including a general-type hero, who would be considered powerful among First-Order Lords. Even if they couldn't breach the enemy territory, they could retreat comfortably.

Unfortunately, they encountered Xu Yang, whose martial power was extreme. Armed with an ancient ingot knife and a reed leaf spear, the forty-six elites couldn't hold on for more than half a moment before being completely annihilated, becoming his experience and spoils of war.

First came the special spoils of war.

Sweat Blood Armored Horse (Mount)

Troop Order: First Order (Epic)

Troop Attributes: 30 Physical Strength, 5 Intelligence, 10 Charm, 50 Protection (Armor)

Mount Attribute: Physical Strength +3, Charm +3, Riding Skill +1, 5 points of Riding Skill required (effective below Second Order)

Mount Special Skill: Sweat Blooded Treasure Horse (Running Speed +50%, Impact Force +30%, Physical Strength Consumption -20%)

Overall Introduction: Great Wan's Treasure Horse, its entire body red as coal without a single stray hair, when running, its sweat trickles down like blood, hence named the Sweat Blooded Treasure Horse, suitable only for heroes!

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Seeing the attributes of the Sweat Blood Armored Horse, Xu Yang was somewhat impressed.

With a high thirty points of physical strength, two points higher than his "Human Gundam," and the 50-point protection armor along with the "Sweat Blood Treasure Horse" special skill, improving running speed, enhancing impact force, and reducing stamina consumption, added to the attributes and skills, the word Epic is well deserved.

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Furthermore, as a mount, although belonging to a certain troop type, it cannot be leveled up by conventional means and also does not share "experience," affecting solo Lord rewards. Therefore, solo Lords tend to favor cavalry combat with a band of good mounts, enhancing both efficiency and safety.

Xu Yang, while exceptional, was not averse to changing from infantry to cavalry general. After all, the addition of three points to physical strength and charm was too tempting, not to mention that the mount also increased movement speed and charging capability, greatly aiding him when activating "Unrivaled."

Unfortunately, given the five-point Riding Skill requirement, Xu Yang's current riding skill level was only First Order Level 1, making it impossible for him to use it. He was forced to painfully store it in his spatial bag (apart from heroes, all troop types including mounts can be stored as cards).

After examining the Sweat Blood Treasure Horse, Xu Yang turned his attention to the several Conquest Orders he had obtained.

Conquest Order

Item Order: First Order (Common)

Item Skill: Attack & Defense (Randomly launches an attack or defends against an attack, can only be used on territories of the same rank)

Item Introduction: Attack or defend, victory or defeat!

Conquest Order (Designated)

Item Order: First Order (Rare)

Item Skill: Counterattack (Launches a counterattack, designating the target as the Demon Abyss Lord—Jin Luo!)

Item Introduction: Victory has its rewards, and defeat its consequences!

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Conquest Orders, the effects need little explanation, are essential items for Lords to initiate war. They can be purchased from the Sky-reaching Tower or looted as battle spoils.

This time, although the Demon Abyss Lord did not lead the charge, the cost of the failed attack still allowed Xu Yang, his opponent, to obtain a designated Conquest Order, ready to launch a counterattack on his territory at any time.

However, Xu Yang currently had no plans for this. The opponent was a veteran Lord with a civilization. Although he was routed this time, it was due to fighting away from home with only one hero and a few dozen soldiers.

Seeing a part reveals the whole; the territory of such a veteran Lord would at least consist of hundreds of elite troops, various defensive buildings, and possibly several heroes. Xu Yang, though formidable, facing several hundred alone is not quite secure.

Therefore, he planned to wait and see if any easier targets presented themselves.

In addition to that, there were spoils of war to deal with.

Forty-five First Order elites plus one First Order hero yielded a large number of spoils of war.

Among them, two items were noteworthy.

Perforated Black Scale Iron Armor

Item Order: First Order (Rare)

Item Attributes: 25 Protection, Physical Strength +2, Strong Body +1

Item Introduction: Scale armor forged from refined iron, sadly severely damaged.

Six-Tael Arrows (Bag)

Item Order: First Order (Rare)

Item Attributes: 6 Piercing (20/20)

Item Skill: Arrow Bag (Automatically generates one arrow every ten minutes, can hold up to twenty arrows at a time; arrows lose effect and automatically dissipate ten minutes after leaving the bag)

Equipment Introduction: An arrow bag blessed with Shaman Magic, only distributed to Jurchen commanders.

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Though it was a great victory, the quality of the spoils wasn't impressive. The two rare items were both dropped by the black armored general, with the rest being some broken shields, worn armors, and standard equipment like bows and horses—useful yet not so useful, with the Trading House being their only destination.

After cashing in these spoils, Xu Yang would have the funds to purchase resources, and then, even without any softer targets coming his way, he could train Yellow Turban troops and even attempt a counterattack on Jin Luo's Demon Abyss territory.

However, this would have to wait for a day. As the victorious warlord, he had a day's immunity from attacks; moreover, with the three Expedition Orders in hand, he could fend off three attacks, totaling four days of safety.

Thus, he dismissed the farmers and continued production, then through the Yellow Turban Camp, he returned to the Sky-reaching Tower.

...

"Hello, guest, what can I get for you?"

"Do you take prisoners?"

"Of course!"

"..."

After an inconsequential conversation, the Trading House bought a bunch of junk war spoils along with nine Jurchen captives; Xu Yang then used his funds to buy urgently needed wood materials and swapped out a few pieces of equipment for himself.

A headscarf, a foreign style long pants, and leg-binding cloth shoes—all were basic civilian clothing, bestowing no attributes with virtually no defense, meant primarily to assemble a set of clothes and to change his look.

Otherwise, with his existing outfits, which included a thick tiger skin coat on the upper body, fishermen's shorts that reached just above the knees, paired with torn cloth shoes and a ragged headscarf, anyone could tell he was one of those folks without much to their name but somehow lucky enough to come across top quality equipment.

Xu Yang did not care about the worldly views, but he had his own aesthetic standards; this bizarre dress-up made even him somewhat uncomfortable.

After changing into the headscarf and long pants, along with the leg-binding shoes, he finally got rid of the odd look of wearing a coat and shorts combo, now resembling a mountain hunter with his tiger skin coat looking more imposing.

Once the goods were sold and the equipment purchased, Xu Yang didn't waste time, ready to head back to the Territory World to continue his farming venture.

But there's a saying that if nothing is supposed to go wrong, then something definitely will.

"You have new messages, please check them!"

"You have new messages, please check them!"

Two messages arrived one after the other.

Xu Yang glanced at them, one from Zhang Yan, one from Feng Cheng.

Although the former arrived before the latter, Xu Yang opened the latter's message first.

After all, sending messages at this critical time is likely a call for help, and Zhang Yan's ability is clearly stronger than Feng Cheng, this unlucky young man; therefore, it was natural he checked his message first…

"Yang, are you free? The class leader's territory has been attacked, and now they are urgently seeking help. If you're free, come over to help us, please, we're at the Wolf Tooth Tavern in the Ninth Campus!"

"..."

As he looked at the message, Xu Yang fell silent, then promptly opened the letter from Zhang Yan.

"Are you there, can you help?"

One line, very brief, but it came with an item attribute.

Unrivaled Token (Martial)

Item Order: First Order (Epic)

Usage Requirements: Character Level reaches level 10, Physical Attributes reach 25 points.

Item Skill: Unrivaled (After use, gains a special attribute—Unrivaled Value, and based on one's own condition, acquires an Ultimate Skill, which consumes Unrivaled Value to use)

Item Introduction: Heroes of the Three Kingdoms, Unrivaled Brave General!

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Seeing the introduction of the Unrivaled Token, Xu Yang decisively replied, "Where?"

"Wolf Tooth Tavern!"

"..."

Taverns are common constructions in the territory, which after being built, have a chance to discover heroes, and can also trigger mercenaries and certain special events; basically, every territory builds one.

Although those are the effects of taverns in the Territory World, taverns in various areas inside the Sky-reaching Tower are almost the same, where one can also recruit heroes and mercenaries, although these heroes and mercenaries are all subordinates of other lords.

Can't help it, life isn't easy, and lords also need to work for others, especially those who have little to their name yet need to maintain the expenses of the territory—it's hard to survive without earning some extra money on the side.

Xu Yang arrived at the Wolf Tooth Bar and saw that the place was bustling, filled with all sorts of bizarre creatures.

This isn't a derogatory term; it really was a chaotic dance of various "creatures."

"Mercenaries, who needs mercenaries!"

"Prisoner Card big sale, only three hundred bucks for elites!"

"Looking for people, the Gale Alliance is seeking members, talented lords given priority!"

"Fox Clan beauties, young and beautiful; handsome guy, want to learn about female mercenaries?"

Looking at the bustling market, Xu Yang kept silent and directly went to a private room.

Upon entering the room, he became the center of attention, as over ten pairs of eyes fixed on him.

"This…"

"Isn't that Xu Yang?"

"Waited half a day, and it's him?"

"I thought it would be some major expert!"

"He seems to not even have any Talents, what's the class leader doing asking him for help?"

"Desperate times call for desperate measures!"

Most of those present were companions, who now exchanged glances, all with a hint of weirdness, some even unabashedly gossiping right in front of Xu Yang.

Xu Yang didn't pay them any mind, his gaze shifted as he saw two people approaching him, none other than their goddess and class leader along with a certain hormone-overloaded sycophantic young man.

"Xu Yang, you're here!"

"Yang, my good brother, I knew you would come!"

Zhang Yan and Feng Cheng came forward, looking very excited.

Xu Yang, without much ado, looked directly at Zhang Yan, "What's the matter?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yan also went straight to the point: "My territory got attacked, the attacker is a Demon Abyss Lord who ranks 9156th in the First Order Reputation Ranking, so I wanted to ask for your help in defense!"