Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 947 - 585 Expedition

Chapter 947: Chapter 585: Expedition Chapter 947 -585: Expedition Training all day and only going up one level, the efficiency is indeed not high.

This is still under the premise of having “past life experience”; otherwise, the effect might even be discounted.

But no matter what, having something is better than nothing.

Apart from the level increase, skills have also improved a lot, especially weapon skills, with both one-handed and long pole categories advancing directly to master level.

Weapon skills not only enhance the damage dealt with weapons but are also prerequisites for learning certain special skills.

They are always better the higher they are.

It’s worth mentioning that through this sparring, Xu Yang’s weapon skills also reached the master level.

There’s not much to say about the skill upgrade, Xu Yang cares more about what it signifies.

If it’s just about technique alone, his swordsmanship and spear skill are definitely at an immortal or divine level, but previously, the attribute panel did not reflect this level, and it was only through sparring that he reached the master level.

What does this indicate?

It means the Sky-reaching Tower cannot “scan” his soul and memory, it can only scan his body and form data.

Therefore, although he possesses skills at the immortal and divine levels, the weapon skills displayed in the attribute panel are not high.

This is actually a good thing.

Xu Yang would rather not have his memories scanned constantly—what’s the difference between that and a soul search?

Level, skills, these are more or less the gains from this sparring session.

As for the last aspect, affinity…

It can be understood as the hero’s morale, except it has more functions and effects.

A troop’s morale attribute directly affects the efficiency of the troop’s work and combat—the higher the morale, the better the efficiency, and conversely, the lower the morale, the worse the efficiency.

If morale drops too low, it can even lead to extreme cases of defection and desertion.

If even troops have the “right to desert,” as higher beings, heroes naturally also have the right to choose.

If the lord’s affinity with a hero is too low, the hero might, at the lightest, resign and leave, or at worst, turn against the lord, defect, and even lead troops in rebellion, destroying the territory.

There have been plenty of painful examples in the Sky-reaching Tower’s history, where due to poor “workplace relations” with core heroes, conflicts escalated into enmity, eventually leading to the downfall of territories.

However, everything has two sides.

While affinity has its drawbacks, it also has its advantages.

The higher the affinity, the higher the working efficiency of the hero, and beyond that, it can “unlock” the hero’s abilities, and even create very powerful combined skills with the lord, leading to a magnificent turnaround that can change the fate of a territory.

So, how to get along with heroes under one’s command has always been a core lesson for lords of the Sky-reaching Tower.

Some follow the way of the king, some the way of domination, and others the way of “apple-polishing!”

Xu Yang is different though, he plans to follow the way of teaching, the dao of education!

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can one learn without books.

…

Just like that, after one month.

In the training ground, under everyone’s watchful eyes, men and women sit separately around the arena, watching the two compete.

“Snap!”

Xu Yang’s spear thrusts straight forward, fending off the opposition, and lands on the opponent’s chest.

Hua Mulan steps back half a step, steadies herself, looks at the long spear pointed at her chest, slightly dazed and smiling wryly, she gives Xu Yang a fist salute and says, “My lord’s skill is divine, Mulan is dull-witted and cannot match up!”

“Ha!”

Xu Yang smiles without much commentary, withdrawing his long spear before checking the attribute panel again.

“You have completed a sparring session!”

“Hua Mulan gains 5000 experience points.”

“Hua Mulan advances to Level 6!”

“Hua Mulan’s weapon mastery skill increases to First Order LV9.”

“Hua Mulan’s affinity towards you increases to 80 points.”

“×&%ï¿¥#@§№☆…”

As soon as the panel opens, a virtual light screen flickers, dimming and brightening as if some force is fiercely conflicting within it.

After a brief entanglement, a row of small text slowly emerges in the special skills section.

Special Skill: Teacher

Skill Introduction: A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can one learn without books (capable of training heroes and soldiers to gain more experience, with a certain probability of entering states like Enlightenment, Epiphany, Awakening, and earning a large amount of experience, improving various skills, and awakening hero talents).

One month of arduous training, and the cheat-like effect kicks in again, yielding a second skill characteristic—Teacher!

The effect of the characteristic is self-explanatory, playing a tremendous role in cultivating heroes and developing territories.

Especially effects like Enlightenment, Epiphany, Awakening, which can raise an ordinary hero to a rare or even to an epic hero status.

Of course, Xu Yang knows that the probability of triggering this is bound to be quite touching, not much less than laying hands on an epic hero directly, but anyway, having it is better than not.

After all, this is a skill characteristic, one that can be upgraded.

If the probability is touching now, it does not mean it will remain touching forever.

Time is the most magical magician; one day, the small grass will grow into a towering tree.

What he needs to do is to accumulate, develop, and wait!

…

Name: Xu Yang

Race: Human

Level: 10 (First-Order Lord)

Physical Strength: 18+13

Intelligence: 6

Charm: 5+1

Unrivaled: 130/130

Reputation: 1860

Basic Skills: First Order Strong Body LV6, First Order Strong Strike LV10+9, Second Order Strong Bow LV1, First Order Martial Arts LV10, First Order Riding Skill LV6, First Order Logistics LV1+3, First Order Commander LV1+1, First Order Coach LV5

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

Special Skills: Clothing (Talent), Teacher (Talent), Yellow Turban (Civilization)

Equipment: Turban, Long Pants, Tiger Skin Coat, Ancient Ingot Knife, Reed Leaf Spear, Worn Gloves, Leg-Tie Shoes, Refined Iron Back Bow, General’s Quiver.

…

The attribute panel hasn’t changed much, the focus is still the territory.

Although limited by the size of the island, there was notable development over the course of a month.

Lord: Xu Yang

Territory Civilization: Yellow Turban

Territory Architecture: Yellow Turban Camp X1, Yellow Turban Training Ground X1, Dock X1, Fish Market X1, Logging Yard X1, Mining Field X1, Blacksmith Shop X3, Jin Country’s Blacksmith Shop X1, Water Well X10, Arrow Tower X20, Farmland X10, Fish Farm X60, Residential Buildings X120.

Territory Troops: 800 Yellow Turban Army, 100 Yellow Turban Foot Soldiers, 100 Yellow Turban Gunners, 200 Mulan Archers.

Territory Resources: 32,500 Food (29,500 Salted Fish, 3,000 Wheat), 2,850 Wood, 1,200 Stone, 1,100 Iron Ingots, 300 Spirit Stones.

…

There hasn’t been much change in the buildings, except for the addition of a Jin Country Blacksmith Shop and the removal of fifteen acres of Farmland to make room for Residential Buildings to accommodate soldiers.

There’s no helping it, this is the drawback of an island territory, the initial land is too little.

If you want to rapidly increase troops, you have to remove production buildings.

And the results of this rapid troop increase…

Xu Yang’s gaze diverted, looking around, he saw within the Yellow Turban Training Ground, apart from the Yellow Turban Troops clad in earthen yellow, there was also a striking view of beauty, each with bright lips and white teeth, valiant and vigorous, though women, they were not outdone by the men.

They were the Personal Guard Species trained by Hua Mulan—the Mulan Archers!

Mulan Archers

Troop Order: First Order (Elite)

Troop Attributes: 20 Physical Strength, 10 Intelligence, 10 Charm

Troop Equipment: Iron Battle Bow, Conical Head Arrow, Red Tassel Spear, Emerald Kite Iron Helmet, Emerald Fish Scale Armor, Emerald Iron Shin Guards, Plate Gloves.

Troop Skills: First Order Strong Body LV6, First Order Strong Strike LV6, First Order Strong Bow LV10, First Order Foot Combat LV10, Bow and Arrow Weapons Mastery, Long Pole Weapons Proficiency.

Troop Type Skills: Jingguo Archers (Mulan Substitute for Father, Jingguo Not Outdone by Men, these extraordinary women who followed in Hua Mulan’s steps to join the army, combining the valor of men with the nimbleness of women, as archers, they are extremely capable, with Range, Precision, Speed increased by 50%)

Troop Introduction: The Personal Guard Archers of the Heroic Woman General, Hua Mulan, consisting of valiant women who disguised themselves as men to join the war in place of their fathers.

…

Hua Mulan’s Heroic Female Guards have four development paths: Personal Guard Foot Soldiers, Personal Guard Archers, Personal Guard Cavalry, and Personal Guard Bow Riders.

Among them, the Foot Soldiers and Cavalry are of average level, slightly stronger than ordinary troops, but not by much.

Archery is where the Heroic Female Guards truly excel, especially the Personal Guard Bow Riders, whose mobility is extremely terrifying and considered Hua Mulan’s strongest personal guards.

Unfortunately, the Yellow Turbans have no horses.

The horse ranch obtained from Jin Country had been sold by him to Zhang Yan in exchange for Spirit Stones.

Without a horse ranch, training cavalry would require extra money, the amount is so immense that even someone as rich in Spirit Stones as Zhang Yan was unwilling to bear the cost, not to mention Xu Yang.

Therefore, he had to settle for training archers.

As the second-best Heroic Personal Guard, the attributes of the Mulan Archers are excellent.

They may not compare to the Escort Army of the same tier, but the Escort Army is a Civilization Unit that requires civilization for training.

In contrast, Mulan Archers are Personal Guard Species that can be trained with a Hero, so they cannot be directly compared.

Beyond this, a troop’s combat prowess isn’t just about attributes; it’s also about armaments and skills.

The Mulan Archers’ equipment is average, not on par with the heavily armored, strong bow, and heavy arrow-equipped Escort Army, but it isn’t too far off and is suitable for use.

The crux is the Troop type skills, a 50% increase in Range, Precision, and Speed, which is a qualitative change for archers.

Bows and arrows are ranged weapons where power is important, but range and speed are even more crucial.

As long as you can shoot farther and faster, you can create a suppression of firepower that prevents the enemy from functioning effectively.

Additionally, as a Hero Commander, Hua Mulan’s Special Skill, ‘Heroic Woman Not Outdone by Men,’ can boost the Morale and Combat Capability of Heroic Personal Guard Species by 50%.

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Combined with the double enhancement, the combat strength of the Mulan Archers has completely surpassed that of Civilization Units like the Escort Army.

From this, one can see the value of an Epic Hero.

Perhaps it doesn’t quite match up to a Civilization Core, but it’s not far behind either.

Unfortunately, Personal Guard Species are limited in number by the Commanding Soldiers capacity of the Hero.

With Hua Mulan’s current Charm Attribute and Commander Skill, plus the Tiger Talisman Xu Yang handed over to her, she could only train two hundred Heroic Female Guards.

But that was enough!

The development of the territory had reached a bottleneck, and expansion required war.

Xu Yang’s purpose in “rapidly increasing troops” over the past month was to wage war.

Disregarding the eight hundred Yellow Turban Army with the nature of Farmers, the territory now had a four-hundred-person combat force.

Xu Yang took fifteen Yellow Turban Foot Soldiers and Yellow Turban Gunners, while Hua Mulan took fifty Yellow Turban Foot Soldiers and one hundred and fifty Mulan Archers.

After a month of training together, her Character Level had risen from one to five.

Under the effect of “Heroic Woman General”, she gained an additional eight Intelligence and twelve Charm points.

Plus the attribute points and Skill Points from leveling up, she directly improved her Commander Skill to First Order Level 10.

With such attributes and skills, along with the Tiger Talisman and Supply Car handed over by Xu Yang, she was now capable of leading two hundred soldiers into battle all at once.

Xu Yang ordered her to fill the ranks to capacity, then…

“You have used a Conquest Order (Targeted)”

“You have launched a Territory War against the Demon Abyss Lord ‘Jin Luo’!”

“The opponent is unable to resist your Conquest Order; teleportation will begin in thirty minutes.”

“Given your Charm Attribute and Commander Skill, this time you can lead/appoint up to one Hero to wage war.”