CULTIVATION: WHEN YOU TAKE THINGS TO THE EXTREME

Chapter 919: Chapter 566: Starting Out

“Territory type?”

In the personal space of the Sky-reaching Tower, Xu Yang looked intrigued.

A Lord without a territory, how can one be considered a Lord?

There are two types of territories: one in the main world and one in a personal minor world.

The so-called main world is the world where the Sky-reaching Tower is located, and the personal minor worlds are exclusive territories assigned after entering the Sky-reaching Tower.

About this, there is a hypothesis in the Heaven-Connecting Academy concerning the formation of the main world and minor worlds.

According to this hypothesis, the world was originally whole, with no distinction between primary and secondary, but following the great war between Gods and Demons, the world was shattered, with the largest fragment occupied by the Divine Artifact “Sky-reaching Tower,” which then became known as the main world.

The remaining unrepairable fragments were contained by the Sky-reaching Tower with a force incomprehensible to mortals, becoming the personal territories distributed to Lords.

Meaning, every Lord receives a “world fragment” to manage as their territory.

Lords must not only manage their minor territories but also stand to defend against attacks from the Devil Race and other dangers in the Sky-reaching Tower and the main world, an inescapable duty and responsibility.

Therefore…

“Please select the initial territory type.”

“The initial territory type determines the early resource acquisition and occurrence of special events, so please choose wisely.”

“The current selectable types are: island, mountain range, desert, plain, grassland, forest, and random!”

“…”

As previously mentioned, although referred to as a world, the territory world is really just a fragment, areas are not large, and resources are scarce, some are even just a few square kilometers.

Lords must build their territories, obtain resources, and then, through conquest, trade, or completing tasks, acquire other fragments to expand their territories, eventually forming a vast world.

Thus, for a new Lord without many resources, the choice of an initial territory is crucial as it will determine the early resources and special events; for example, mountains can yield stone materials, forests can yield timber, grasslands can yield grass, and islands can catch fish, etc.

These initial resources will serve as the startup capital for new Lords building their territories, key to early development.

New Lords should choose an initial territory that is appropriate and familiar according to their own situation to facilitate early development.

This situation includes skills, knowledge, information reserves, and various resources.

However…

Xu Yang, being reborn under the inauspicious star without parents or power, has survived to this day only on the Academy’s subsidies; no one prepared initial resources for him.

The recently activated attribute panel, too, is a blank slate, equipped with only the basic skills learned in school and those provided at the start, and nothing else.

So, the choice of type doesn’t make much difference to him, only the information reserves have some impact.

But it doesn’t matter because the reborn self is still himself. Even without regaining his memories, his personality remains cautious and far-sighted. He performed well in all kinds of subjects in the Academy, fully understanding and investigating various terrains and resource gathering, and can cope with almost anything.

Not to mention now that he has regained his memories and has the support of several lifetimes of cultivation, no matter what the type of territory, he can flourish.

Therefore…

“Random!”

Xu Yang decides to gamble.

“I’ve heard random selection has a chance of obtaining a rare initial territory with highly valuable rare resources, the greatest hope for lower-level Lords to turn their fortunes around, wonder if I have that luck…”

“Random selection of initial territory type—Island!”

Before his thoughts settled, the emotionless prompt from the Sky-reaching Tower shattered his hopeful delusion.

“Well, I don’t have that luck!”

Looking at the common type of island territory, Xu Yang shook his head, not too disappointed as it was an expected outcome. Rare territories wouldn’t be called rare if they were easy to obtain, would they?

“Initial territory selection is complete, now distributing initial resources.”

“Received items: Wheat X5!”

“Received items: Salted Fish X5!”

“Received items: Freshwater X5!”

“Received items: Longsword X1!”

“Received items: Fur Coat X1”

“Received items: Fur Pants X1”

“Received items: Fur Helmet X1”

“Received items: Fur Boots X1”

“Received Troop Card: Farmer X4!”

“Received Building Card: Town Hall X1!”

“Received initial capital: 1000 Heaven-Connecting Coins!”

“Initial resources distribution complete, proceed to enter the territory world?”

…

In addition to the initial territory, there are also initial resources, which are the newcomer benefits provided by the Sky-reaching Tower to new Lords.

Five units each of wheat, salted fish, freshwater, a set of newcomer fur armor, and the initial troop and building cards.

Don’t ask why they don’t give out an AK; the laws of this world have been completely changed. Not only can martial arts and Taoism not be cultivated in the conventional way, but even the technology tree cannot develop in the conventional manner. Firearms belong to high-order items, how could they be distributed as initial resources?

Just honestly use the sword to fight.

Xu Yang shook his head and chose to enter his territory.

With a thought, a flash of white light, and spatial dimensions changing again, after a tumbling sensation, everything changed.

“Splash!”

The salty and moist sea breeze hit him, the surging sound of waves entered his ears, and an island surrounded by the vast ocean appeared in front of Xu Yang, so real, or rather, this is reality.

“Welcome to the territory world, please construct the Town Hall promptly!”

“The Town Hall is the core of your territory. If the Town Hall is destroyed, you will lose all ownership and control over this piece of territory.”

“A lord who has lost his territory must acquire new land within thirty days, or else be stripped of his lordship and never enter the Sky-reaching Tower again.”

“…”

The cold prompt sounded, and Xu Yang did not say much, directly opening his own space bag.

As a newcomer’s benefit, he received a basic skill, First-tier Logistics LV1, which gave him a thirty-slot bag space capable of storing various items and cards.

Upon opening the bag space, a novice’s set of five items, fifteen units of food and freshwater, and five quietly lying cards occupied twenty-five slots.

“Cards?”

Looking at the five cards, Xu Yang appeared intrigued and chose to use them directly.

Cards are a special product of the Sky-reaching Tower that can store and release troops and buildings in card form, eliminating the time needed for training and construction, and are a crucial resource for starting a territory.

Those powerful lord families typically prepare a massive number of troop cards and building cards as initial resources for their children, and some extravagantly obtain rare items like Hero Contracts, completely relieving their children of early territorial development and crisis concerns.

But as the saying goes, Xu Yang is marked by a star of calamity and doesn’t have such privileges, so these five cards given by the Sky-reaching Tower are all he has.

“Whoosh!”

A flash of white light, the cards disappeared, and in their place stood four sturdy men dressed in hemp clothes.

Looking at the four simple-faced, somewhat goofy farmers, Xu Yang appeared thoughtful but did not say much, directly opening their attribute panel.

Farmers

Morale: 80

Troop Order: First-Order (Ordinary)

Troop Attributes: 3 Physical strength, 2 Intelligence, 1 Charm

Troop type skills: Farmer (can be converted into First-Order Workers in the town hall and receive the corresponding tools for free, tools must be returned before changing worker types, otherwise, the lord’s funds will be deducted)

Troop equipment: Hempen clothes, hempen trousers, straw shoes

Troop introduction: Ordinary farmers, capable of handling ordinary tasks.

These were the four farmers gifted by the Sky-reaching Tower, utterly ordinary, with no distinctive features.

“Card-generated, low intelligence, rigid actions, perhaps… Taoist Soldiers?”

Looking at the few farmers, Xu Yang furrowed his brows, recalling the crucial methods of the Earth Deity Cultivation Method.

Taoist Soldiers!

According to the information in the “Blackwater Divine Seal,” Earth Deities could use divine power incense to cultivate Taoist Soldiers for battle, a vital means of protection for them, just as the Black Water River God could cultivate “Black Water Taoist Soldiers!”

Though he hadn’t obtained this skill due to the damaged divine seal initially, the sight of these card-generated farmers still led Xu Yang to consider the connection.

Territory = Spirit Land!

Troop = Taoist Soldier!

That hero…

Xu Yang shook his head and stopped thinking further, taking out the last and only building card.

Town Hall, the initial and core building, on which all development of the territory depends.

As for the location of the construction, there was no need to be picky, whether it was the teachings of the academy or Xu Yang’s observations, the spawn point was always the best choice for constructing a Town Hall.

Of course, you can also go unconventional and build elsewhere, but the outcome would be uncertain.

“Boom!”

Suddenly, a simple wooden house appeared in front of Xu Yang with a flash of white light.

Town Hall

Building Order: First-Order (Ordinary)

Building Civilization: None

Owned Resources: 0

Building Skills: Defense (when attacked by external enemies, farmers can enter the town hall and automatically receive defensive weapons)

Building introduction: An ordinary town hall that provides basic resource storage and building construction functions.

…

Newbie resources, plain building, not much to say, Xu Yang simply looked at the four dazed farmers, “Surround the Town Hall and fell the nearby trees.”

“Yes, Master!”

The four farmers didn’t waste words, entered the hall to get their tools, and directly transformed from farmers to lumber workers, obeying his command to cut down the nearby trees.

Xu Yang then looked back at his bag, retrieving the only weapon.

Longsword

Equipment Order: First-Order (Ordinary)

Equipment Attributes: 5 slash damage, 5 piercing damage.

Equipment Introduction: A standard issue weapon.

…

Carrying the longsword, Xu Yang said nothing more and walked around the vicinity, preparing to explore the terrain.

With an initial territory comes initial resources, and naturally, initial enemies, such as various monsters guarding resource points.

Generally, a new lord at the start will gather unguarded safe resources, then build barracks, train soldiers, and later attack the monsters at resource points to obtain experience and resources, elevate their level and soldiers, forming a positive cycle.

This is the safest and most reliable initial strategy, slow but secure.

But some lords, with high skill and courage, start without training soldiers, opting for a development path that is extremely fast but equally prone to disaster, known as “soloing!”

Clearly, Xu Yang belongs to this category, after all, he truly possesses high skill and courage.

Though the laws had changed and made cultivation difficult, skills like swordsmanship and movement techniques were unaffected. Considering he was a man with titles such as Honored Wandao, Martial God, Sword Immortal, and Heavenly Master all rolled into one, clearing a few brainless monsters was effortlessly simple for him.

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