Xiuxian: When you do things to the extreme

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Wow, you can level up by eating salted fish?
Although Xu Yang was a little surprised by this, he was not too shocked.

Although combat and killing are the main ways to upgrade the Tower of Babel, they are only the main way, not all. Apart from combat, some buildings, items, and skills can also provide experience to the troops.

For example, the barracks has a training effect, which can consume time and resources to increase the level of certain arms.

Some powerful lords don't even need to fight, they can pull out a strong army just by relying on the numerous training buildings in their territory.

But this does not affect the excellence of the Yellow Turbans. They can level up by eating salted fish, which means that as long as there are enough food resources, they can pull out an elite force, which is of great use whether for mass military operations or emergency response.

Coupled with the Yellow Turbans' civilizational traits and skills, the combination of the three directly makes this very weak Yellow Turban army become one with huge potential.

Xu Yang didn't say much and directly chose to upgrade. With a flash of yellow light, the yellow turbans (ordinary) with pale faces, thin bodies and ragged clothes were upgraded to yellow turbans (senior). Their physical attributes were directly increased by two points, reaching a level equivalent to that of ordinary farmers.

Although it is still weak, it is enough to be a farmer.

Without thinking twice, Xu Yang directly pulled all 29 Yellow Turbans in the Yellow Turban camp into the recruitment sequence.

Pull it to the maximum, it must be pulled to the maximum!
In the early stages of development, the Yellow Turban civilization required almost no funds, and food was the most important resource.

But where does the food come from?
Live by the mountain, live by the sea!
Recruitment at the Yellow Turban Camp and the Fish Market Wharf must be maximized, and a large army of peasants must be brought out to build production. This will allow us to obtain more resources and recruit more Yellow Turban soldiers, making the area grow like a snowball.

A group of farmers, each doing their own job.

As a lord, Xu Yang was not idle either. He walked into the Yellow Turban camp, took a hoe, and prepared to cultivate the farmland.

Farmland is a basic production building. It can be built even if you have no civilization, let alone an existing civilization. Except for some grassland nomadic civilizations and special civilizations, almost all other civilizations can build farmland, but the effects are different.

The same is true for the Yellow Turban civilization. The characteristics of the civilization do not affect production buildings, so only ordinary farmland can be built.

Not only farmlands and dock farmlands, but also sawmills, mines, blacksmith shops and other basic production buildings are the same as the Tower of Babel. They have no special effects, but they still need to be built.

Now all the initial monsters in the territory have been wiped out by Xu Yang. He has no combat missions for the next 28 days and can devote himself to farming.

I forgot to mention that the lord is also a kind of "peasant" and can build all basic units, but his efficiency is so low that it is better than nothing.

Unless they have relevant talents and skills, most lords would rather waste their time in the barracks and training grounds to gain training experience than pick up a hoe and become a small farmer who is better than nothing. That is too uneconomical.

But others are others, Xu Yang is Xu Yang, and with the golden finger of skill characteristics, he is happy to be a farmer.

The Yellow Turban civilization is good in every way except that it consumes too much food resources. It is very difficult to maximize recruitment and production relying solely on the resources of the islands and the supply of the fish market.

This is when Xu Yang's skill characteristics need to come into play. As long as relevant skill characteristics are generated, such as "a bumper harvest", the food pressure can be alleviated to a great extent.

……

In this way, time flew by and twenty-eight days passed in the blink of an eye.

In the territory, in the farmland, Xu Yang is acting as a "farmer" to operate the production building.

Not only him, but also the surrounding areas of the Yellow Turban camp, except for the "residential area" in the north, the other three sides have been reclaimed into farmland, and the Yellow Turbans who were turned into farmers are working hard in them, and the work is in full swing.

Yellow Turban Peasants (Elite)

Morale: 150
Arms level: Level 1 (normal)
Soldier attributes: 6 physical strength, 1 intelligence, 1 charm.

Specialty of Soldier Class: Yellow Turban

Introduction to the military branch: Long live the great and wise teacher!
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In one month, production was maximized, Xu Yang recruited many Yellow Turbans, and consumed a large amount of food to upgrade them to elite levels.

Compared with ordinary Yellow Turbans, the attributes of elite-level Yellow Turbans do not change much, that is, morale increases from 50 points to 150 points, and physical strength increases from 1 point to 6 points.

Although the attributes did not change much, the actual effect was vastly different. Needless to say, the difference in physical strength from one point to six points was even greater than the difference between a child and an adult. It directly turned the Yellow Turbans, who used to be pale and skinny with weak limbs, into good fighters in the fields.

This is physical strength and morale. Although the low-level soldiers are not very intelligent, they are not completely zombies or soulless puppets. They all have some self-awareness.

This is both a good and a bad thing, as it will affect the morale attribute.

The so-called morale is easy to understand. It is the mood of the soldiers. The higher the morale, the stronger the motivation. Both work efficiency and combat capability will be greatly improved. The weaker the morale, the lower the motivation. Not only will the work efficiency and combat capability decrease, but to a certain extent, chaos, rout, and rebellion will occur.

There are cases in the academy where some lords treated their soldiers harshly and did not have the equipment and skills to improve morale, which led to low morale and soldier rebellion. In the end, the territory was not conquered by the demons, but was destroyed by their own soldiers, which became a bloody case lesson.

Therefore, morale is very important. I won’t say much about production. You can easily tell which is more efficient, slacking off or pumping up energy. The focus is still on fighting. High morale equals high combat power.

Some legion skills and battle formation skills also have extremely high requirements for morale. If the morale is insufficient, it is impossible to form a battle formation.

The elite-level Yellow Turbans have a basic morale of 150 points, which is three times that of ordinary Yellow Turbans and twice that of ordinary peasants. It can be said that they are all in a "chicken blood" state, and their work enthusiasm and efficiency are too high.

In addition, the tiger skin jacket equipped by Xu Yang has the special skill of "Tiger Roar", which can temporarily increase the morale by ten points. When the cooling time is up, he can gather the farmers and roar at them. The work efficiency will increase rapidly, at least five or six times that of ordinary farmers.

In this way, after a month of hard work, the results can be imagined.

Lord: Xu Yang

Territory Civilization: Yellow Turbans

Territory buildings: Yellow Turban Camp X1, Yellow Turban Parade Ground X1, Dock X1, Fish Market X1, Lumberyard X1, Mine X1, Blacksmith Shop X3, Wells X10, Arrow Towers X20, Farmlands X25, Fish Farms X45, and Houses X60.

Territory troops: 580 Yellow Turbans (elite), 65 fishing boats.

Territory resources: 12800 food (8500 salted fish, 4300 wheat), 850 wood, 120 stone, 110 iron ingots
……

Hard work in January has yielded remarkable results.

In terms of construction, a Yellow Turban Parade Ground, a dock, a well, farmland, houses, a logging camp, a mine, and several blacksmith shops were added. Twenty defensive arrow towers were also built to protect the territory.

In terms of resources, relying on a large number of elite Yellow Turbans, Xu Yang built a large number of farmlands and fish farms as production units. He also recruited 12800 fishing boats through the docks and fish markets, and obtained a large number of fish as food by fishing near the coast, accumulating as many as units.

These 12800 units of food were important capital for him to maintain his territory and subsequently "expand his military forces".

As for why it’s not exploding now, it’s because it can’t be contained anymore.

The initial territory is limited in size. The area of ​​the entire island is only two or three square kilometers. Excluding unusable terrain such as hills and cliffs, the actual usable area is only one or two square kilometers. It also has to accommodate buildings such as camps and parade grounds. How much space can be left to build houses and assign soldiers?

What, no housing, sleeping on the floor?
Yes, if you can accept that morale will drop to zero within three days, and negative events such as rebellion, rout, death from illness etc. may occur, then you can just let your soldiers use the sky as their roof and the ground as their bed.

The small size of the territory and limited space restricted Xu Yang's development. He had originally planned to recruit all the members within a month, but in the end he only recruited 580 Yellow Turbans.

This problem cannot be solved within the month, so we can only wait until the safe time ends and then go on external expeditions to expand our territory.

This is food, as well as wood, stone, and iron ingots.

Needless to say, wood is needed for all kinds of buildings. Xu Yang has cut down all the trees on the island, and even the woods on the east have been converted into farmland. However, this still cannot meet the gap, so he had to buy a batch of wood from the Tower of Babel.

As for stones and iron ingots, these were the funds Xu Yang needed to buy wood. He had killed all the monsters on the island, and it was difficult to sell several top-quality equipment. He had no choice but to exchange resources for other resources.

Therefore, compared with food and wood, the number of stones and iron ingots is extremely small, only a little over a hundred.

But it doesn't matter. Xu Yang doesn't need them now. He doesn't train soldiers, build walls, or create wonders. What do he need stones and iron ingots for? He just keeps some for emergencies and sells the rest for food and wood. All of the above are the results of Xu Yang's hard work for a month. Although he didn't train a strong combat force, he maxed out resource production. When the safety time is over, he can develop troops and expand outward.

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Seeing that the time was almost up, Xu Yang put down his hoe and let a farmer take over the job. He then put on his equipment and resumed his incongruous "non-mainstream" look.

Name: Xu Yang

Race: human
Level: 10 (First-level Lord)
Physical strength: 15+13
Intelligence: 6
Charisma: 5+1
Reputation: 520
Basic skills: first-level physical fitness LV1, first-level strong attack LV5+5, first-level strong bow LV6, first-level weapon mastery LV1, first-level riding LV1, first-level logistics LV1, first-level commander LV1+1.

Weapon Skills: One-handed Weapons (Proficient), Bows (Proficient), Polearms (Proficient)
Special skills: Commoner, Yellow Turban.

Equipment: tiger skin clothes, iron bow, ancient ingot knife, reed spear, worn headscarf, worn shorts, worn gloves, worn cloth shoes.

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In terms of attributes, needless to say, there is not much change compared to a month ago, except for the weapon skills, which have been upgraded to the mastery level through training in the Yellow Turban Training Grounds, with higher damage and greater power.

As for special skills, there are only two, namely, Cloth Clothes and Yellow Turbans, and no other skills or characteristics have emerged.

This was a matter of course. Both the previous Black Water World and the current Overlord World were large worlds where gods and demons coexisted. Now there was a powerful force suspected to be that of a Golden Immortal that could seal the sky and lock the earth.

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In this case, the difficulty of generating skill characteristics can be imagined. How can it be possible to achieve anything in just one month?

The "commoner" characteristic generated before was probably the result of his reincarnation for more than ten years. After all, if a low-level lord wants to turn things around, solo is the only way. So before his memory awakened, he had been practicing martial arts hard, and it was natural for him to generate this commoner skill.

If you want other features in the future, you can only work hard and rely on time to polish them.

But that's not the point. The point is...

"Safety time is over!"

"The territory blockade has been lifted!"

"You have officially become a Babel Lord!"

"Reputation Ranking Opens!"

"Your reputation is 520 points, ranking th in the Rookie Lords' Reputation Ranking."

"Because of your ranking on the leaderboard, you will receive 20 reputation points and 2000 experience points as a reward!"

"Ranking rewards are calculated monthly. I hope you will keep up the good work and set new records!"

"..."

The cold reminder sound from the Tower of Babel not only announced the unblocking of the territory, but also opened the reputation ranking list.

Xu Yang had anticipated this!
Although the reputation attribute was not very prominent before, its importance is no less.

It is an alternative resource. When your reputation reaches a certain level, you can obtain various privileges in the Tower of Babel, including purchase discounts, trading benefits, item exchanges, command issuance, etc.

In addition, reputation is also a must for training "special arms". Some powerful arms not only require a civilization system, but also consume the lord's reputation before they can be trained and recruited.

Reputation is so important, how do you get it?
The easiest way is to fight, and you can gain reputation by defeating your opponents.

In addition, the lord's level, the buildings in the territory, the weapons and equipment he owns, and the heroes of his subordinate arms can all provide a certain amount of reputation.

"Isn't this... luck?"

"Everyone's expectation, good fortune will come to you!"

"When luck is added to one's body, it becomes destiny, and therefore one has authority in the Tower of Babel."

"There is also special military training, which is also a way to use the power of luck?"

Looking at his own reputation value and thinking about the role of reputation, Xu Yang felt more suspicious.

But as I said, if you don’t have the ability, don’t think too much, it’s meaningless.

So Xu Yang quickly turned his gaze back and focused on the opened "Reputation Ranking".

Leaderboard!
He was very familiar with this method because he had done this before, such as the Shenwu List in the Shenwu World and the Qingyun List in the real world.

There is only one purpose for creating a ranking list, which is to stimulate competition. After all, there is progress only when there is competition.

The same is true for the Tower of Babel. Because of the special nature of reputation, the so-called reputation list is a combination of the Divine Weapon List, the Hero List, and the Arms List. The higher the reputation and the higher the ranking, the more powerful the weapons and equipment, heroes and arms you possess.

In addition, those who are on the list can also receive rewards from the Tower of Babel. Once a month, the worst performers will gain experience and reputation, while the best performers can also receive attribute points and skill points as rewards. The top 100 performers can get rare weapons and equipment, military heroes, and even civilized items.

Therefore, all the lords are very keen on "ranking". In order to compete for rankings, they constantly launch wars, weaken their opponents, strengthen themselves, in order to be on the list and obtain great rewards.

Each rank has its own reputation list, and Xu Yang, as a new lord, is included in the rookie list which lasts for one year.

After all, the Tower of Babel is a place where gods and demons fight for supremacy, and where thousands of races exist side by side. The population is more than hundreds of millions, and even the number of first-level lords is an astronomical number.

Although Xu Yang has gained a lot of reputation by solo playing, you must understand one thing: sometimes the end of your struggle is just the starting point for others.

Compared with those "second-generation leaders" who have large families, strong abilities and deep backgrounds, it is already very good that he can rank 9,527th on the rookie list on his own.

Among the 10,000 rookies on the list, 99% are second-generation leaders, and only 1% are solitary individuals who have made a comeback by relying on talent and opportunity.

But no matter what, this list must be fought for. If you can get to the top of the list within a year and become the "Rookie King" of this session, you will receive a huge reward from the Tower of Babel. It is said that even high-level lords will be jealous.

and so……

"Warning warning!"

"The Demon Lord Jin Luo has launched an attack on your territory!"

"Enemy attack forces will arrive in thirty minutes, please prepare for battle!"

"what!"

Hearing the reminder from the Tower of Babel, Xu Yang was not surprised but smiled happily.

It's numerous fun to fight the destiny!

Fighting with the earth is endless fun!

Fighting with others is even more fun!

Those soulless, zombie-like initial monsters are just appetizers. If you want to truly experience the splendor of this world, the powerful armies, the legendary heroes, and the flourishing civilization, you have to fight with the lords.

Xu Yang has been looking forward to this for a long time!

PS: This world has received mixed reviews. Some book friends feel that the jumps are too big and the game feel is too strong, deviating from the essence of Xianxia. I admit this, but the beginning is like this, just like the live broadcast of the Blue Star world. In the later period, it will gradually return to the essence of Xianxia. It is not really a game. I personally like this world very much and don’t want it to end in a hurry, so I hope that friends who like it will support it.

(End of this chapter)