Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

The first year of Daxia, May 20th.

Hongmu Ridge, three kilometers deep.

Beneath a giant ice-covered tree, there lies a patch of soft, light-golden swamp.

About a hundred meters to the right of the swamp, a cluster of torches suddenly flared to life.

"Glug glug glug… … … …"

The moment the torches lit up, the swamp seemed to sense it. The surface of the originally calm mire immediately bubbled up with large mud bubbles, clearly indicating that something had awakened.

Puff… … … …

A dark, sharp horn was the first to break through the swamp, slowly rising upwards. Before the horn was fully revealed, a huge bulge rose up behind it.

Splash… … … …

Once the three-meter-long dark horn was completely exposed, the bulge behind it also burst open, revealing the true form of the creature inside.

It was a massive creature with a light-golden hide, resembling a rhinoceros, and topped with a dark, sharp horn. It was nearly ten meters long, its thick limbs had a diameter of more than one meter, and when standing completely upright, it was over three meters tall, its muscles knotted, looking like four擎天 giant pillars.

If Xia Hong were here, he would definitely recognize it at a glance as a Golden-Armored Thunder Kui, and judging by its size, it was clearly an intermediate one.

"Roar… … Roar… … … …"

After slowly emerging from the swamp, the Thunder Kui first let out two low roars. Seeing no movement around it, it then walked towards the cluster of torches that had just lit up.

Its gaze was fixed on the cluster of torches, its two lantern-like blood-red pupils filled with greed and desire.

Step… … Step… … Step… Step… Step… …

The Thunder Kui's enormous size meant that each step it took covered six or seven meters. As it got closer to the torches, sensing the tempting substance in the firelight, its pace became faster and faster, and soon it was only a dozen meters away from the torches.

Crack… … … …

However, just as it took the final step towards the torches, a crisp cracking sound suddenly came from its left foreleg.

"Roar… … … …"

The Thunder Kui roared in pain, abruptly raising its left foreleg. On it, there was a fan-shaped iron clamp with a diameter of about half a meter.

The two sides of the iron clamp were filled with sharp iron teeth, which were now firmly embedded in the flesh of the Thunder Kui's left foreleg. The end of the trap was also tied with five ropes, which were completely exposed as the Thunder Kui lifted its foot.

Whoosh… … … …

"Pull, move!"

As an iron arrow accurately shot down and extinguished the torches, Xia Chuan's explosive shout suddenly rang out above the Thunder Kui's head.

Bang… … … …

Twenty meters away, five people holding the ropes jumped down from the trees. Using the trees as a fulcrum, they gritted their teeth and pulled back frantically, and the five ropes immediately tightened.

"Roar… … … …"

The force of the ropes was transmitted to the trap. The Thunder Kui was caught off guard, and its left foreleg staggered, almost falling to the ground. However, its strength was still too terrifying. After a furious roar, it forcibly stabilized its body and dragged the five people at the end of the ropes back.

Whoosh… … Whoosh… … Whoosh… … … …

However, the real offensive was just beginning.

From all directions, countless iron arrows suddenly attacked, the targets being the Thunder Kui's eyes, ears, and other important parts, as well as its restrained left foreleg.

Bang… … Bang… … … …

Sensing the iron arrows coming, the Thunder Kui's muscles swelled, and regardless of the trap on its left foreleg, it frantically twisted and shook its head and body to dodge, focusing on avoiding being hit in the vital parts.

Squeak squeak… … … …

The five ropes were pulled and squeaked. The five people behind the ropes, despite holding on to the ropes tightly, were simply not on the same level of strength as the Thunder Kui. Even with the force of the trees, they were still dragged left and right, unable to stand firmly at all.

Bang… … Bang… … … …

The skin on the five people's hands was worn raw, and their bodies were constantly slammed into the trees, making loud bangs.

But even so, they still gritted their teeth, their legs either propped up on the ground or clamped on the trees, using force to hold on tightly, refusing to let go.

Puff… … … …

The efforts of the five people finally had an effect.

The Thunder Kui, whose movements were restricted, was finally shot.

However, it was not the eyes or ears that were shot, but its left foreleg.

To be precise, it was the flesh on the left foreleg that had been broken open by the trap.

Roar… … … …

The flesh that had already been broken open by the trap was shot again, and the Thunder Kui immediately let out a miserable roar, and its body movements slowed down by half a beat.

This was the skill of hunting!

The defensive abilities of cold beasts are extremely strong. Although humans know to find breakthroughs from its eyes, ear canals, or even its anus, they are not stupid and also know that these parts are crucial, so under normal circumstances, they will not easily allow you to injure them.

And traps happen to make up for this.

After Mu Dong's continuous improvements, the high-level traps of Daxia now generate an instantaneous explosive force of up to 50,000 catties when closed, coupled with the sharp serrations that are re-sharpened after each hunt, breaking through the skin of intermediate cold beasts is not a problem at all.

And once the skin is broken, the next thing is simple!

"Qiu Peng, go!"

Xia Chuan's voice rang out again. The iron arrow just now was shot by him. Hearing the Thunder Kui's roar, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes. While signaling Qiu Peng to hurry up, he also pulled the transparent silk thread upwards with his right hand.

Whoosh… … … …

A fierce blade suddenly fell from the tree, it was Qiu Peng who acted on command.

Qiu Peng held a large saber, his eyes fixed on the Thunder Kui's eyes. The position he jumped down to was the Thunder Kui's neck, and the position where the saber was chopped down was precisely the Thunder Kui's eyes.

The Thunder Kui's light-golden outer skin has a very strong defensive ability. With his base strength of just over 20,000 catties, it is impossible to break through it.

Qiu Peng was well aware of this, so the target of his saber could only be the Thunder Kui's eyes.

The saber in his hand was more than one meter long. For normal creatures, using a knife to chop the eyes is obviously nonsense, but the intermediate Thunder Kui in front of him, or rather all cold beasts, are clearly not normal creatures.

This Thunder Kui is ten meters long, saying that its eyes are like lanterns is not an exaggeration, but a true description.

Puff… … …

Qiu Peng's saber fell in response, and the transverse spherical surface of the Thunder Kui's left eye was directly split open by the saber, and blood and mucus burst out instantly.

"Roar… … … …"

The intense pain instantly aroused the Thunder Kui's ferocity, which could be heard from this furious roar.

After the roar, the Thunder Kui's enormous body only stiffened for two breaths, followed by an even more frantic twisting and trampling.

Snap… … Crack… … …

"The rope is broken, be careful, sir."

The five ropes specially made of bamboo silk and Teng Jiao tendons were actually broken by the Thunder Kui.

The texture of this rope is certainly not as tough as the bowstring made for Xia Hong earlier, but it can withstand at least 50,000 to 60,000 catties of pulling force.

The key is that it is tied to a trap, and after the trap, it is only the Thunder Kui's injured leg.

The injured leg can burst out with such terrifying power, which can only indicate one thing:

"This Thunder Kui is starting to fight desperately!"

Xia Chuan's heart tightened, and the action of pulling the silk thread in his hand became a little faster.

Buzz buzz buzz… … … …

The dark horn on the Thunder Kui's forehead suddenly emitted lightning. The Thunder Kui, whose speed had not increased originally, suddenly became extremely swift and fast.

The Thunder Kui's struggle can break the ropes, can make the surrounding ground tremble non-stop, can avoid all the iron arrows shot at it, but it has not been able to shake off Qiu Peng.

Qiu Peng has been holding the large saber tightly with both hands, and the large saber has been embedded in the Thunder Kui's left eyeball, and as the Thunder Kui's movements become more violent, the wound caused by the large saber becomes larger.

He was actually using the force generated by the Thunder Kui's struggle to change his grip on the saber, so as to cause it greater damage.

"Roar… … …"

Pa la… … …

The Thunder Kui roared again, a bloody light flashed through its pupils, and a wisp of electric arc suddenly appeared on the dark horn on its forehead.

The next moment, the Thunder Kui's head seemed to flicker suddenly.

The inertia generated at the moment of flickering actually threw Qiu Peng's body directly into the air.

Qiu Peng let go of the saber with both hands, and a look of panic flashed on his face.

Swish… … …

The Thunder Kui's head flickered again, and the three-meter-long dark horn, like a black lightning bolt, accompanied by the forward thrust of its head, suddenly pierced towards Qiu Peng's body in mid-air.

Boom… … …

At the critical moment, the snow below the Thunder Kui's body suddenly exploded.

From the snow, a vermilion giant lying flat suddenly sat up and slashed at the Thunder Kui's abdomen with a saber.

"Retreat and shoot arrows from a distance!"

Xia Chuan shouted violently, pulling the silk thread back with his right hand, signaling Qiu Peng to retreat, while he himself was also retreating frantically.

And as he pulled the silk thread back, the vermilion giant's sitting body quickly stood up, and its true face also completely appeared in front of everyone.

The vermilion giant was five meters tall, with a head, torso, and limbs, but strangely, its head had no details, only an open mouth, and it was more appropriate to call it a large hole than a mouth.

Its torso accounted for very little of the body's proportion, but its limbs were abnormally thick.

Not only were they thick, but countless sharp thorns were attached to the giant's limbs.

Looking closely, it was found that they were not thorns, but sharp knives that shone with a cold light and stood upright.

Although those sharp knives were more than one meter long, they were so dense that they looked like a sharp thorn bush, making people shudder.

And what was most shocking was that the ends of the giant's limbs were not palms and soles, but four giant sabers.

The blades of those four sabers were thirty or forty centimeters wide, the bodies of the sabers were more than two meters long, and the side edges were polished to a bright shine, exuding a chilling aura.

"Let's see if your skin can withstand my saber puppet!"

Xia Chuan shouted sharply, pulling his fingertip back violently.

Five colorless, transparent silk threads were connected to the head and limbs of the blade puppet. As Xia Chuan pulled, the blade puppet moved.

Because its hands and feet were all large blades, the blade puppet stood by balancing on the blades that formed its legs. With Xia Chuan's pull, its right leg immediately lifted sharply, slashing fiercely at the lower part of Lei Kui's neck.

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The sudden appearance of the blade puppet in the snow had already caught Lei Kui off guard, and it hadn't even recovered from the previous slash.

How could it react to this slash!

Whoosh…

The wide blade brought a flash of cold light in the snowy night, cutting fiercely across Lei Kui's neck, leaving a bloodstain more than a meter long.

Puchi…

"Keep firing arrows, aim for the wound!"

Seeing the blade puppet succeed in one strike, Xia Chuan didn't relax. Instead, he continued to control it, directly lunging forward, using its limbs to attack Lei Kui wildly.

Lei Kui, of course, wouldn't sit still and wait for death. It swayed its body, using its thick hide to block the blade, while its head's sharp horn constantly sought opportunities to pierce the blade puppet.

Puchi…

Being an intermediate-level cold beast, Lei Kui quickly found an excellent opportunity. Using the impact force of its head's instantaneous flash, it accurately pierced the blade puppet's abdomen.

With one successful strike, a trace of violent pleasure immediately surged in Lei Kui's ferocious pupils.

But this pleasure didn't even last a breath before it froze, gradually turning into deep panic and fear.

Because the blade puppet's abdomen, which it had just felt was soft, quickly became hard after being pierced, and was also contracting inward.

Its sharp horn was stuck.

Ka… Ka…

Lei Kui's limbs thrashed on the ground, its body frantically retreating, trying to pull its sharp horn out of the blade puppet's abdomen, but no matter how much power it unleashed, no matter how it thrashed, the sharp horn was firmly embedded in the blade puppet's abdomen, without moving an inch.

Its head was already restrained by the blade puppet's leg blades, and with its sharp horn stuck and unable to move, its body directly became a lamb to the slaughter.

Puchi…

Xia Chuan naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

He frantically pulled the silk threads with his right hand, and the blade puppet used both hands and feet, plus the blades on the rest of its body, to begin a round of frantic cutting on Lei Kui's body.

Swish… Swish… Swish…

The others around had already started frantically shooting arrows at the bloodstain on Lei Kui's neck as soon as the first slash succeeded.

While shooting arrows, everyone watched the blade puppet controlled by Xia Chuan, their eyes filled with brilliance and their faces full of astonishment.

"This is only the third time using it, right? The way Master controls the blade puppet is becoming more and more skilled. I feel like the power unleashed by this blade puppet is even stronger than Master's own power!"

"Because of the weight. The four large blades that form the blade puppet's hands and feet are all made of hundred-refined iron. A single blade is estimated to weigh twenty or thirty thousand catties. When wielding such a heavy weapon, you don't even need to cut, just smashing it would kill someone."

"Hiss… Just the four blades weigh more than ten thousand catties. I remember Master's basic strength is only forty thousand catties now. How is he controlling this blade puppet?"

"Look closely. The blade puppet only uses the power of two limbs at most for each attack, which is just Master's limit."

"So that's how it is. Those white silk threads are truly magical. It would be great if we could use them. Controlling such a big thing, what cold beast couldn't we kill!"

"You're thinking too beautifully. Those white silk threads came from the Wood Puppet Wraith. Go kill a Wraith, and you might also get some treasures."

"This… Forget it then. I don't have that kind of luck."

…

Puchi!

While they were discussing, the others didn't stop shooting arrows.

As Xia Chuan controlled the blade puppet to create countless cuts on Lei Kui's body, the others shooting arrows also finally gained something.

Qiu Peng was the first to shoot an arrow into the wound on Lei Kui's neck. The intense pain made Lei Kui's movements even more distorted, but at this moment, not only could its body not move, but even its greatest reliance, that sharp horn, was stuck in the blade puppet's abdomen, unable to move.

"Roar…"

As more and more iron arrows hit the wounds in other parts of its body, the wounded beast couldn't resist at all, and could only let out unwilling roars.

And in the gap between Lei Kui lowering its head and roaring, Xia Chuan's pupils suddenly contracted, and his fingers sharply lifted upwards.

The blade puppet's left leg suddenly hooked upwards.

Pu…

Lei Kui's mouth, which it didn't have time to close, was directly stabbed into by the blade puppet's left leg blade. The entire two-meter-long blade was submerged, and the tip of the blade emerged from the back of its head.

With its head pierced, Lei Kui's struggling and thrashing body suddenly stiffened. After more than ten breaths of silence, finally…

Bang!

"Hahahaha, it's dead, finally dead!"

"The fifth type of intermediate-level cold beast, hahaha, we did it."

"We succeeded, we succeeded, hahahaha!"

…

The dozen or so people in the surrounding trees immediately burst into excited cheers. They jumped down from the trees and walked to Lei Kui's corpse, their eyes full of unstoppable excitement.

Qiu Peng was no exception. He rubbed his sore arms and looked at the already chipped blade, his expression a little fearful, but more excited.

The others were like this, and so was Xia Chuan.

But he didn't look at Lei Kui on the ground. Instead, he looked at the blade puppet, which was still standing, his face excited and his pupils full of brilliance.

"I wasn't sure about the two cold beasts hunted before, but this Lei Kui can finally confirm it for me. This silk thread can not only allow my power to be smoothly transmitted to other things through the vermilion wood, but also use the weight of the object to unleash destructive power that is several times greater than my basic strength!"

Xia Chuan looked down at the wounds on Lei Kui's body, his expression becoming more and more excited.

Among the known intermediate-level cold beasts, Lei Kui is definitely one of the most difficult to hunt, and the reason lies in its thick hide.

Xia Hong had done tests before. Lei Kui's hide, even in the weakest parts, can withstand an impact force of more than 30,000 catties, and slightly stronger parts even require a single wisp of power to break open.

The dense wounds on Lei Kui's body at this moment already explain everything!

"Master, starting today, our Cloud Flood Dragon Squad will be the first intermediate-level hunting squad in the entire camp, right!"

Xia Chuan raised his head, looked at the excited expressions of the others, and nodded lightly.

He knew very well why everyone was so excited.

They had previously hunted Snow鬃, Frost Wolves, Blue Moon Spirits, and Teng蛟, so this Lei Kui was the fifth type of intermediate-level cold beast hunted by the Cloud Flood Dragon Squad.

The promotion rules designed by Yu Wentaot require two conditions to be met to advance from low-level to intermediate-level: first, the total contribution value must be over 50,000; second, five different types of intermediate-level cold beasts must be hunted.

The first condition had already been met due to their frantic hunting during this period; the second condition was waiting for them to submit this intermediate-level Lei Kui.

The first intermediate-level hunting squad of Da Xia!

The value is beyond doubt.

No wonder everyone was so excited.

Xia Chuan took a deep breath, a touch of pride on his face.

Others may not understand how significant this intermediate-level hunting squad is to him.

In the past two months, Da Xia's population has expanded greatly, and the voices questioning him, the Division Administrator, have begun to increase.

"The Division Administrator's strength is inferior to Division Director Yuwen."

"The five adults, Hong Guang, Hong Tian, and Meng Yi, are also stronger than him."

"He only became this Division Administrator because the leader is his own brother."

"The leader isn't as fair as he says either, he still favors people."

…

Although there weren't many voices like this, Xia Chuan still found them jarring.

Especially when he noticed that some people were targeting his older brother Xia Hong, he felt even more uncomfortable.

Therefore, he urgently needed an opportunity to prove himself.

"The first intermediate-level hunting squad, at the very least, can shut some people up first!"

Xia Chuan's eyes narrowed slightly as he looked back at the blade puppet, his expression proud.

"With this blade puppet, everyone in the camp except Big Brother…"

Shutting those people up was only secondary. Surpassing Yu Wentaot in strength was Xia Chuan's true pursuit.

Besides his older brother Xia Hong, he, Xia Chuan, believed that he wouldn't lose to anyone.