Cultivation: When you do things to the extreme

Time flies, and it’s January in a blink of an eye.

In the restaurant, Xu Yang was concentrating on controlling the heat and steaming a basket of cakes.

This world is very special. Due to digitization, the laws of matter have been changed beyond recognition. Not only is it impossible to practice, a lot of knowledge and principles are no longer applicable.

Take Xu Yang as an example. In addition to Taoism and martial arts, he also has various skills and accumulations in all aspects.

Theoretically speaking, even if he was thrown into a prehistoric world in a civilized desert, he could create a complete technological system with his bare hands, including nuclear bombs, hydrogen bombs, and spaceships.

But it doesn't work in this world. Even if he rubs out a nuclear bomb with his bare hands, he doesn't have the corresponding skills or attributes. This "nuclear bomb" can only be used as a decoration and does not have any lethality.

But what’s interesting is that although the world has been digitized, it is not completely digitized.

Many places are close to reality. For example, the tavern cannot automatically "refresh" food, and a cook must be stationed to make it.

In addition, all kinds of knowledge have not completely lost their effectiveness. Although you cannot directly rely on your knowledge reserves to make a nuclear bomb, in the process of making a nuclear bomb, you have a certain probability of mastering skills such as "nuclear bomb manufacturing", or unlocking corresponding civilization technology. Tree.

All in all, just one word - endure!

As long as you have enough patience and perseverance and persist in doing something, you will definitely be rewarded. Even if you cannot generate special effects, you can still improve some basic skills and attribute values.

This has the same effect as Xu Yang's "plug-in", so he has an advantage in this regard.

"Production is complete!"

"You got X20 cooking cakes, X10 Wuhan University cooking cakes, and X3 secret Wuhan University cooking cakes!"

"You successfully make a special food, and you gain a special skill - a skillful cook!"

Special skills: Skillful chef (can make various special foods according to secret recipes or the teachings of famous teachers, improve the success rate of making special foods, improve the economic benefits of the tavern building and the attraction to various talents, and successfully make special foods when Gain experience)

Skill introduction: You are already a qualified chef, challenge yourself to a higher level of culinary skills!

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"My lord is truly a genius!"

Seeing the familiar fragrance coming from the steamer, Wu Zhi, who was watching from the sidelines, hurriedly stepped forward.

"Although this little man's cooking cake is a small skill, it is still very easy for anyone to master, especially this secret cooking cake. From the selection of ingredients and dough to steaming in a basket, the vision, technique, and heat are all perfect. Otherwise, all previous efforts will be wasted, so even a villain will have difficulty making this cake."

"Only a genius like my lord, who has mastered the art of cooking, can master this cooking skill in just one month. Watching from the sidelines, I feel enlightened and benefit a lot..."

Wu Zhi praised him for a while, and the Babel Tower's prompt sounded.

"Because of your teaching, Wu Zhi's cooking skills have been greatly improved!"

"Wu Zhi gained 5,000 experience points."

"Wu Zhi has been promoted to level 6."

"Wu Zhi's intelligence +5, charm +2."

"Wu Zhi gets the hero's special skill - a skillful chef!"

"Wu Zhi's favorability towards you has been increased to 100."

"You and Wu Zhi's "Skilled Cooking" skills echoed each other, forming a combined stunt - double chefs going to sea!"

Two chefs going overseas

Skill type: Combination stunt (Xu Yang + Wu Zhi)

Skill effect: Two chefs join forces to display their unique cooking skills (the success rate of making special food is greatly increased, there is a probability of improving the quality of special food, and the experience value gained after successfully making special food is doubled)

Skill introduction: Egg fried rice, the simplest and most difficult...

Because his body was too weak, Xu Yang couldn't even practice sparring this month. He could only tinker with his cooking skills in this tavern. In the end, he really made a name for himself and acquired another special skill.

Although this skill can currently only make Wuhan University cooking cakes, it is not bad. The special food that increases physical strength is an absolute best-seller in the Tower of Babel, and you can get good economic benefits by selling it.

This thing is similar to an elixir. Although there are material costs, labor costs, and the risk of production failure, the advantage is that the demand is huge, small profits but quick turnover. As long as the proficiency is improved and the success rate is improved, not to mention making a lot of money every day. You can also make a lot of money, and it’s a promising “side job!”

Finally, because of his favorability, he and Wu Zhi combined special skills to go overseas, which can greatly increase the success rate of making special food and bring economic benefits to a higher level.

Combination skills are the effect of "favorability". They can not only improve the relationship between the lord and the hero and avoid alienation, but also develop the hero's abilities and even echo each other with the lord to form special combination skills, such as this pair of chefs going to sea.

Of course, there is a probability and it may not be generated. The specifics depend on the skills of the lord and the hero. For example, if these two chefs go to sea, it will be the result of both Xu Yang and Wu Zhi being "skilled cooks".

On the other hand, Hua Mulan, although her friendship with Xu Yang is much higher than that of Wu Zhi, they have not developed any combination of special skills because they do not have compatible skills.

But it doesn't matter, time is the most magical magician. As long as he perseveres, Xu Yang believes that there will always be a stunt suitable for the two of them.

…

Although he had just acquired the combined skills, Xu Yang did not stay in the tavern to continue making cakes with Wu Zhi, but returned to the Yellow Turban camp to prepare for war.

The one-month safe time has ended, and his injuries have not yet recovered. The territory will face the most severe challenges in the next period of time.

Lord: Xu Yang

Territory civilization: Yellow Turban

Territory buildings: Yellow Turban camp x1, Yellow Turban training ground x5, fish market pier x10, Wuda restaurant x1, lumberyard x1, mining field x1, blacksmith shop x10, Jin Guo blacksmith shop x1, Jurchen horse ranch x3, well x40, tower x200, city wall x3200, city gate x4, farmland x300, fish farm x200, residential houses x1000

Territory troops: 7965 (2235 elite Yellow Turbans, 100 Yellow Turban infantrymen, 100 Yellow Turban spearmen, 3000 elite Yellow Turban infantrymen, 2000 elite Yellow Turban spearmen, 90 battle-hardened Mulan female archers, 210 elite Mulan female archers, 200 elite Mulan female archers, 30 elite Wuda cooks)

Territory resources: 285,000 food (115,000 salted fish, 135,000 wheat, 3000 pancakes, 4800 Wuda pancakes, 200 secret Wuda pancakes), 2500 wood, 1200 stone, 1100 iron ingots, 7850 fodder, 1000 spirit stones.

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In one month, the territory has developed rapidly, if not completely.

First of all, in terms of architecture, five military buildings of the barracks type have been added. The Yellow Turban School Field, the fish market wharf, farmland houses, blacksmith shops and horse ranches have also been greatly improved.

Nowadays, not only the core "Inner Island Base" is full of buildings, but even the "Grassland Outer City" outside the water is very prosperous. A large number of houses, wells, and blacksmith shops form a community, and there are four 800-meter-wide walls on all sides to form a city siege. There are also towers with two hundred crossbows on the walls.

Whether it is people's livelihood facilities, military buildings, or city defense, they have reached a considerable level.

This is the architectural aspect, let's look at the territory troops.

Because of the effect of Hua Mulan's "joining the army on behalf of her father", the number of recruits for all basic buildings in the territory has doubled, so in the past month, Xu Yang has directly pulled the recruitment and training sequence to the maximum, and started the vigorous "big explosion" plan.

The final result is a territory force of nearly 8,000 people, including 3,000 Yellow Turban infantry and 2,000 Yellow Turban spearmen. Although their combat power is weak, they can be used after being promoted to the elite level through food rewards. In addition, there are 200 "brave" Yellow Turban soldiers and more than 2,000 Yellow Turban people as reserves, which can be put into the battlefield at a critical moment.

In addition to the Yellow Turban Army, Hua Mulan's female guards are also well trained. The 90 battle-hardened Mulan archers are the result of the last capture of the territory. The remaining 210 Mulan archers and the newly trained Mulan archers have also reached the elite level under her training.

There is no doubt that Hua Mulan and her female guards will become the main force to guard the territory.

Unfortunately, the guards are affected by the number of troops commanded by the hero and cannot be trained indefinitely. Otherwise, if he trains several thousand female guards, his territory will be infallible.

This is Hua Mulan's female guards. As for Wu Da's cooks, due to his touching charm, there are only 30 people at present, and the first-level territory can only build one tavern building, so they can't expand and there is no need to go to the battlefield.

The Yellow Turban Army and the Mulan Army are the only two troops that Xu Yang can rely on.

Finally, let's look at the resource reserves. Because a large number of fish farms and farmlands have been built, and the water and grasslands of more than 100 miles have been fully utilized, Xu Yang's food resources are very sufficient.

On the contrary, there is a lack of wood, stone, and iron ingots. Because he has to build city defense, he has to take out the gains from the last territory battle, and even use the resources for the construction of civilization wonders.

There is no way. The next three months will be the most difficult time for his territory. Without the present, there will be no future, so Xu Yang decisively invested.

The result of the investment is a city wall that is 800 meters wide and more than ten meters high on all sides, and 200 towers on the city wall.

Such a city defense and such a force, at the first level, let alone three months, it is not difficult to defend for three years.

But there is a saying that goes, people are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being fat.

A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind!

Reputation list, rookie list!

So...

"The Lord of the Demon Abyss "Augustus" used the war order (designated) to attack your territory!"

"The Lord of the Demon Abyss "Augustus" used the war order (legion) to launch a joint attack on your territory!"

"The Lord of the Demon Abyss "Zhao Wuji" used the war order (coalition) to join this war!"

"The Lord of the Demon Abyss "Adams" used the war order (coalition) to join this war!"

"The war order (legion) used by the enemy is a first-class top-grade one. You must use two hundred ordinary war orders or fifty rare war orders to resist this attack."

"The number of war orders is insufficient, and the war defense fails. The enemy legion will descend on your territory in three hours. Please prepare for defense."

"..."

The cold reminder sound of the Tower of Babel came, and Xu Yang frowned and walked towards the Yellow Turban camp without saying a word.

As mentioned before, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being fat!

The Rookie List and the Reputation List are public lists that are watched by countless people. All the major forces and many lords are studying them painstakingly.

What are they studying?

They are studying which persimmon is soft and which lord can be manipulated.

Now, Xu Yang has become a soft persimmon that can be manipulated in the eyes of others.

Because he was so fast at "ranking and upgrading", he ranked more than 9,000 on the rookie list just after the safety period, and then he helped Zhang Yan defend the city and won a lot of rewards, including weapons, equipment, and heroes, and jumped directly to more than 8,000 on the rookie list.

That was fine, but in the end he also captured a territory, killed two lords, and exploded two second-level legendary equipment and a lot of loot. He completed the territory expansion while other rookie lords were still resisting the attacks of old lords, which made him jump to more than 3,000 on the rookie list.

Although the lords who can make the list are the result of "one in a billion", and the gap between them is not very large, it is too exaggerated to jump from 8,000 to 3,000. Such a ranking jump is generally only possible if you get a major opportunity or capture a powerful territory.

Whether it is to obtain a major opportunity or capture a powerful territory, you have to pay a huge price, otherwise the Tower of Babel will not give you a month of safe time to recuperate.

Therefore, Xu Yang, whose ranking jumped rapidly, became a fat sheep in the eyes of all parties. Just after the safety time ended, a powerful lord used the precious designated expedition order and legion expedition order to launch a legion war against his territory.

Xu Yang looked at the reputation list of the Demon Abyss and found that these three people were on the list, among which "Augustus" ranked more than 6,000, and the remaining "Zhao Wuji" and "Adams" were also more than 7,000.

This is treating him as a piece of fat meat, and they will not stop until they swallow it.

Although they were prepared, Xu Yang still decisively looked for reinforcements for such a formation.

However...

After a moment, a white light flashed, and four people appeared in the Yellow Turban camp with Xu Yang.

Zhang Yan Feng Cheng!

He only found two reinforcements.

There was no way. Before his memory was restored, his popularity was average. This time he faced a joint attack by more than 6,000 and more than 7,000 people on the reputation list. How could ordinary people have the courage to lend him a hand?

As for the major forces, although they have some ideas, they all want to take advantage of the situation, and even have bad intentions. Xu Yang is too lazy to waste time with them.

So in the end, there are only Zhang Yan and Feng Cheng's friendly assistance.

But it doesn't matter. Xu Yang didn't expect to get many reinforcements. He just did his best.

Looking at the territory built by Xu Yang, Feng Cheng was shocked as always. Only Zhang Yan remained calm and released the soldiers she brought with her. They were all heavy infantry and crossbow archers of the Song Dynasty civilization, and a Beiwei army of 50 people.

In addition to the soldiers, there was a young general with silver robes and silver armor and holding two hammers beside her. He was actually an epic hero-Yue Yun!

Even Feng Cheng brought a rare hero and a civilized army. Although there were no special soldiers, he was also outstanding among ordinary lords.

Obviously, he was not the only one who made progress during this period of time.

Looking at the heroes and soldiers of the two, Xu Yang didn't say much, and directly assigned tasks and placed them on the east wall.

So it goes...

"The preparation time is over, the enemy troops are coming!"

"The enemy lord "Augustus" has activated a special skill - the enemy is at the gate!"

"Your territory is in a "siege" state, you cannot enter or exit the Tower of Babel, all first-level production buildings lose their effects, and the morale of all troops is reduced by 1 to 5 points per day."