Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

The Grand Ancestor Long Fist consists of four routines:

Small Battle, Great Battle, Freehand, and Combined Battle.

Xia Hong's specialty in his previous life was this set of boxing techniques.

Small Battle focuses on short strikes and is primarily defensive.

Great Battle combines fist, foot, and waist strength, concentrating power to break through a single point, mainly for offense.

Freehand is not limited by boxing routines, seeking only to severely injure the enemy. Head, fingers, palms, fists, elbows, shoulders, knees, legs, hips, and arms can all be used as weapons, emphasizing timing and focusing on killing.

Combined Battle, on the other hand, is a combined battle boxing technique suitable for multiple attackers.

Long Fist was hailed as the most practical boxing routine in his previous life, and for good reason.

It not only combines offense, defense, and killing techniques, but all four combat methods can also be applied to weaponry.

Xia Hong had already mastered the four routines in his previous life, so teaching Yuan Cheng and the other six was easy.

After teaching for a while and observing, Xia Hong had a general understanding of the six individuals' situations.

Yuan Cheng and Yue Feng were the most physically imposing, both exceeding two meters in height. Although they appeared less robust due to prolonged hunger, they would quickly recover once provided with sufficient meat and blood.

The Small Battle routine's movements were small and had lower requirements for posture, making it more suitable for the two of them.

Lin Kai, Qiu Peng, and Xu Ning had more balanced physiques, with longer limbs and more agile movements than the previous two, making them suitable for the Great Battle, which combines fist, foot, and waist strength.

Lu Yang, being the smallest, was nimble and quick-witted, with an extremely sensitive grasp of timing, making him inclined towards Freehand.

The six men who had learned the boxing techniques were naturally excited, seizing the time and using the energy from the Cold Beast's flesh and blood in their bellies to begin practicing.

After teaching the six, Xia Hong, after nightfall, took his stone axe and walked out of the cave again.

He had originally intended to go out and find crystal fruit last night, but he unexpectedly stumbled upon the Great Stone Camp's hunting party. Although he safely brought back that Snow Mane, he didn't pick a single crystal fruit.

Before having hunting capabilities, Cold Beast flesh and blood were accidental gains, while crystal fruit was the staple food, so Xia Hong still had to go to the Ice Shuo Tree to pick crystal fruit.

Secondly, the camp's wood was running out.

When moving from the original cave, there were only 15 units of wood left.

It was already rare to last more than ten days.

A small fire consumes two units each day, and if the camp hadn't been saving by not lighting a fire at night, that little wood probably wouldn't have lasted until now.

Compared to the first time, Xia Hong was much more familiar with entering Crimsonwood Ridge this time.

Relying on his memory from last time, he quickly found the location of the Ice Shuo Tree.

Xia Hong approached, surveyed the surroundings, and after confirming it was safe, immediately climbed the tree and took out the leather bag to start picking fruit.

The tree was full of ripe crystal fruit, each the size of a fist, weighing about half a kilogram. Xia Hong quickly filled over a thousand kilograms, and the leather bag in his hand became heavier and heavier.

Only when the bag could no longer hold anything else did Xia Hong stop.

With the crystal fruit picked, the next step was to cut wood.

Xia Hong carried the crystal fruit back first, and when he was almost out of Crimsonwood Ridge, he began searching for suitable trees around.

It sounds like just cutting down trees, but it's actually not that simple.

Ice Shuo Trees definitely couldn't be cut down, firstly because there might be Cold Beasts on them; secondly, they were the camp's food source, and their numbers were already small. Cutting them down would be tantamount to cutting off their own lifeline.

Golden Frost Trees were also out of the question. Firstly, they were too sturdy, and he definitely couldn't cut them with the stone axe in his hand; secondly, Cold Beasts liked to sleep on Golden Frost Trees at night, and disturbing them would be a disaster.

That left only Crimson Frost Trees as the target.

The outer area of Crimsonwood Ridge was indeed mostly Crimson Frost Trees, probably accounting for ninety percent.

But the problem was that these Crimson Frost Trees were too big.

Everywhere he looked, there were trees with diameters of four to five meters, or even six to seven meters, and heights of fifty to sixty meters were common. Even further in, Xia Hong saw trees with diameters exceeding ten meters, and even more exaggerated sizes.

Looking at these towering trees, Xia Hong didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

It was foreseeable that the more the camp system leveled up, the more resources would be required, so these inexhaustible trees should be a great thing.

But the problem was that he couldn't take any of these trees away now.

He did want to pick a thick one to cut down, but not to mention whether he could cut it down, even if he did, he wouldn't have the strength to carry it back.

After searching for more than an hour, just as Xia Hong's fear of giant objects was about to erupt, he finally found a suitable Crimson Frost Tree.

"More than three meters thick, more than twenty meters long, about the same as the ones burned in the cave before, carrying it back shouldn't be a problem."

Xia Hong put down the leather bag full of crystal fruit, took out the stone axe from his waist, first scraped off all the ice crystals on the outermost layer of the bark, and then spat twice on his hands and began the diligent task of cutting down the tree.

Chop… Chop… Chop… Chop…

Three hours later

Bang…

The giant tree fell, scattering countless snowflakes on the ground.

Already soaked in sweat, with a sore back and weak arms, Xia Hong walked forward, looking at the fallen Crimson Frost Tree, his face full of disbelief as he gasped for breath.

Only now did he realize why Xia Ding and his thirteen-man logging team could only bring back five or six trees at most each night.

He had just broken through the Logging Realm, and in three hours, he could only cut down one tree.

He was almost exhausted.

Moreover, he could clearly sense that his body could not handle such strenuous exercise again in a short period of time.

This also meant that a single Logging Realm individual could only cut down one tree at most in one night.

And that was under the premise of ensuring safety.

Moreover, Crimson Frost was already the easiest tree to cut down in this outer area.

Before coming out at night, Xia Hong had considered gathering the 200 units of wood needed to upgrade the small fire pit in one go, as for the other 50 units of iron, he would deal with them later.

But only after actually cutting down the tree did he realize how difficult that 200 wood was.

The moment the big tree was cut down, the resource bar of the camp system changed.

【Resources: Wood 5 Coal 0 Iron 0 Silver 0 Gold 0】

After spending an entire night's effort, almost to the point of exhaustion, he only managed to get five units of wood.

"We can only increase efficiency by increasing the number of people. Once Xia Chuan and Yuan Cheng break through, the speed should be faster. Slowly, slowly, no rush."

Xia Hong comforted himself a few times, rested for a while before getting up, tied the bag of crystal fruit to the tree, and then carried the tree back to the camp.

Having seen that Snow Mane, and now seeing Xia Hong bring back a tree, as well as those thousands of kilograms of crystal fruit, the people in the camp didn't even have much of a reaction.

Of course, the empty wood and food supplies were replenished again, and everyone's hearts were much more at ease.

Xia Hong knew that without improving his strength, the camp would not change much.

So in the following days, in addition to using the remaining Cold Beast flesh and blood to cultivate, he would go out every night.

Of course, not every time would be rewarding.

The Ice Shuo Tree whose location he knew was empty after being picked three times.

The next time it matured, he didn't know when it would be, so Xia Hong began to expand his search range.

Fortunately, in the following period of time, he successively discovered two more trees, and they were both full of crystal fruit.

He brought back the crystal fruit from those two trees in a total of six trips, and the number of crystal fruit in the camp suddenly reached more than seven thousand kilograms.

With more food, the people in the camp not only had full stomachs, but the smiles on their faces gradually increased, unlike before when they were so lifeless.

In addition to crystal fruit, Xia Hong would bring back a tree every night.

Twenty days later, wood resources also soared from 5 all the way to 87.

Although the later gold, silver, coal, and iron were still zero, at least obtaining wood was no longer difficult, and Xia Hong was still very happy.

Things continued in this step-by-step manner until the twenty-fourth day, when Xia Hong, dragging a tree back to the camp, heard good news as soon as he entered the cave.