First Lord of Earth

In the lord's mansion.

The "Battle Map of Jiangshan" is suspended in the air!

Xia Tian held two handfuls of crystal-colored spiritual stones in his hands and sat down on the exquisite jade. The surging spiritual power was like a stream of water flowing towards his body.

In the "Dan Tian" position of his abdomen, a vivid "spiritual dragon" composed entirely of spiritual power shook its head and tail.

Every time he inhales, a large amount of spiritual power is drawn from his body and penetrates into his mouth and nose.

When he exhales, the spiritual power after transformation is erupted violently like "dragon's breath", like clouds and mist quickly dispersed into Xia Tian's own limbs, bones, and flesh and blood cells.

Every inch of Xia Tian's skin becomes more crystal-clear like jade, her eyes become clearer and brighter, her face is like a jade sculpture, and even her long hair exudes a kind of radiance.

"Well, practicing the "Human Emperor's Dragon Control Sutra" actually has a 'beauty' effect? ​​No wonder all the legendary cultivators are handsome boys and beauties."

After Xia Tian stopped practicing, he opened his eyes.

The battle map of Jiangshan was put away, turned into a scroll and submerged between the eyebrows.

"Almost two-thirds of the progress of the sixth 'Body Tempering' has been completed. However, compared to the previous two or three days when we were able to break through, this progress is much slower. I want to improve my strength after transforming to the fifth level. , the difficulty is really several times higher...not only requires qualifications, but also involves personal 'perseverance', which is likely to become the watershed between ordinary people and monks..."

Today, almost seven days have passed since "the world was unlocked and the secret realm arrived."

These days, Xia Tian spends most of his time practicing in the Lord's Mansion and the "Sword Pavilion" to improve his cultivation and sword skills!

However, the development of the territory has not been affected.

In fact, because of the addition of Zhuge Liang, a prodigy of the human race who is accomplished in government affairs, military affairs, culture, etc., the development speed of these territories is even faster than in the past!

For example, when Xia Tian finished his work and walked out of the lord's mansion, he saw the entrance of the "Star Palace" surrounded by stars. People were coming and going, and the faces of the residents of the territory were either expectant or happy.

"It turned out to be the 'Heavenly Cooking Star'! Yes, although it only triggered the lowest level of brightness, it still has great potential. Report to Commander Ding and Vice Commander Wu, and practice your cooking skills in the future..."

"Earth Thief Star? Good guy, it's still a high-level brightness. What did you do before... Forget it, go to the patrol to report to Commander Wu..."

"Ji Duxing? Are you suitable to go..."

A person who is proficient in "astrology" is conducting "star divination" for these people to determine their talents, characteristics, and potential!

"The Jade White Quality Building of the Star Palace is of great help to the territory..."

Xia Tian nodded.

You must know that in the past, to determine the qualifications of the territorial residents, you had to rely on him as the lord to open the "Eye of Insight" to check.

However, the "Eye of Insight" not only consumes the power of the lord's mind, but also requires luck points to explore detailed information. It is certainly impossible for thousands of people in the territory to check and verify everything one by one.

Now that I have the "Star Palace", I can save a lot of trouble, and this is not the biggest use of this "jade white" strange building.

"I cut a total of ten pieces of wood today and accumulated ten merit points... When I collect a hundred points, I can exchange them for the blue "Thirteen Taibao Heng Lian Golden Bell" skill practice!"

"I don't like hard skills, and I want a powerful martial arts that can kill people. The silver-quality set of "Thirteen Deadly Swords" is good."

"If you ask me, the book that is most worth redeeming is the "Little Wuxiang Gong", which can imitate the opponent's spiritual power characteristics. As a golden skill, it requires a full 10,000 merit points to redeem..."

"Ten thousand merit points, does this need to be accumulated until the year of the monkey? If you ask me, it is better to spend a thousand merit points to perform the 'Baptism of the Stars', maybe you can understand a secret method!"

In the "management system" formulated by Zhuge Liang, Jia Xu and others for the territory in accordance with his requirements, the "merit point" system was expanded from the original small-scale personnel to the residents of the entire territory.

Now, in addition to receiving a certain amount of basic food for free every day, territorial personnel need to rely on "merit points" to redeem other additional training resources.

When the monetary function of gold and silver and other resources disappears, and spiritual stones are too valuable to be directly used as "currency", this system is undoubtedly a better way to stimulate the enthusiasm of territorial residents!

However, if the "merit point" system is fully launched, there will undoubtedly be various problems.

For example, if you work together to kill a powerful enemy on a chaotic battlefield, the participants will inevitably compete for credit and try to gain more merit.

At this time, how to determine the size of each person's merit and determine the distribution of merit points?

When going to collect resources outside the territory, some people steal other people's resources and then falsely declare them as their own merit points.

How should we guard against and identify this kind of thing?

It would obviously be a waste of manpower and unrealistic to send Wu Song and Zhan Zhao patrol guards to record and monitor issues like this.

But relying on the "order-taking" function of the "Star Palace" and presenting the experiences of the residents of the territory in the form of pictures, these problems will naturally be solved!

The "Tiger Prison" space in the territory of the erring person is very wide!

The changes Zhuge Liang brought to the territory were far more than that.

"Make way for those in front, don't block the city gate..."

For example, at the entrance of the bluestone city wall, there are several cows and horses lining up to pull tens of thousands of kilograms of wood, stone, as well as refined minerals, metals and other resources into the territory.

These cows and horses look similar to real cows and horses in appearance, but are much larger in size. If you look closely, you can find that their heads, legs, eyes and other movable parts are covered with exquisite spiritual patterns. It emits a kind of spiritual energy fluctuation when moving.

It was the third of the three spiritual weapon drawings that Zhuge Liang took out, "Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse (Blue)", which could lift tens of thousands of kilograms of items, climb mountains and ridges, and even cross rivers as if walking on flat ground!

Relying on these "wooden cows and stray horses", the territory can finally carry out resource extraction and transportation at a farther range.

Even if the working population has declined these days due to the recruitment of a thousand soldiers, it can still maintain the various resources needed for large-scale construction in the development of the territory.

Speaking of the army, in addition to increasing the number of one thousand people, the number of Yunjiao Guards, trapped camps, and patrol teams has also been greatly increased.

The most noteworthy thing is that the night before yesterday, more than a hundred eggs laid by the black and white pheasants finally hatched. Relying on the "blood stones" condensed from the flesh and blood of the kobolds and dark elves they killed, each one has now been Grow to the fifth level of mortal level or above.

The number of black and white pheasants in the territory has also officially reached 150.

In a sense, the reproductive ability of this kind of alien species bred by heaven and earth is simply astonishing. In just one month, the number has increased tenfold!

If it weren't for the resources required to feed this creature, especially if it only eats meat, it would even consider breeding in large numbers in summer to form a simple "Pheasant Army".

In addition, Xia Tian also specially selected a hundred people with archery talent and potential, and gave them to Hua Rong for training to prepare for the formation of a team of archers and "light cavalry" in the future.

"Pearl rice is ripe!"

And after walking out of the bluestone city wall of the territory.

Xia Tian saw a group of residents harvesting pearl rice under the scorching sun, sweating profusely but looking happy.

Food is the most important thing for the people!

It has to be said that the farming skills of the Chinese family are also passed down from ancestors.

In terms of the number of skills mastered in the territory, there is no doubt that "farming" belongs to it.

Because there was no stable environment before, many people were forced to do some auxiliary work.

Now, after cutting down the surrounding trees, a large number of bone fields have been reclaimed around the "Yin Gathering Place", and people have arranged to plant pearl rice.

These grains of rice are as big as pearls. After being steamed and cooked, they expand like jujubes. Only about a hundred pearls of rice are enough for an ordinary person to eat!

Through "Rijin Ping" breeding, a large number of seeds were cultivated and planted in the summer. Now, about 50,000 kilograms of pearl rice have almost matured.

"The previous fifty thousand kilograms of green-scaled dragon meat, now this fifty thousand kilograms of pearl rice... Now, we can finally initially solve the problem of food and clothing for the people in the territory."

Even more than just providing food and clothing for one’s own territory.

Because the yield of pearl rice is high enough, and like the black and white pheasant, it is a "different species" with a very short growth cycle, Xia Tian feels that if he can't eat it all, he can consider selling it to the surrounding territories.

Yes, the surrounding territory.

As expected in the summer, in the past few days, humans have appeared in the territory one after another and been discovered by the "Jade-clawed Eagle".

These human beings are almost all from the human territorial sect within a certain range around them. The teams that come to explore the "vision" are almost all at the transformation level, and there are even people who have undergone three or four transformations to lead the team. .

However, because it is just an exploration team.

Therefore, these people will not carry much resources and materials with them.

If you want to truly achieve cooperation between human territories, you need to wait until these people return to their territories and then send large troops with various resources.

"Come to think of it, it's already been four or five days... After those white-pole soldiers returned, the entire territory was discussing and raising resources. Even if it's delayed for a few days, the time should be almost there, right?"

Xia Tian is still looking forward to establishing trading channels with Qin Liangyu's territory.

After all, the resources in the opponent's territory are very high-quality, especially to build the spiritual weapon "Kongming Lantern", which requires suitable spiritual bamboo materials.

"唳...唳..."

Suddenly, the jade-clawed eagle in the sky let out an eagle cry.

The cry was a little urgent.

Moreover, two different styles of screams were made!

"Well, what's going on?"

Xia Tian raised his head and shuddered.

Just because these two different calls represent two pieces of information.

First, humans appeared near the territory, and second, mountain ghosts also appeared near the territory!

"It's the direction Wang Wu and the others came from before..."

Xia Tian suddenly raised his head, with "golden red flames" surging in his eyes, and looked in the direction indicated by the Jade-clawed Eagle.

…

"Bah chi, bah chi..."

In the jungle, a huge and honest colorful panda walked slowly, chewing a green bamboo shoot in its mouth!

"Miss Bao, we can complete the transaction ourselves. There is really no need for you to come in person. There are too many dangers and uncertainties when leaving the territory..."

Wang Wu held the green bamboo hook sickle in his hand and scanned the surroundings with vigilant eyes.

A team of fifty soldiers, each one equipped with extraordinary-level green bamboo spears and rattan armor, coupled with the "military formation" of white-armed soldiers, is enough to defeat even fifth-level mortal creatures. war!

And the reason for such a big battle.

It was also because the team heading to Xia Tian's territory this time, except for the soldiers who sent resources for trading.

There is also a girl who is riding on the back of a colorful panda, wearing a light yellow robe, with a phoenix-shaped golden hairpin in her bun. She looks only sixteen or seventeen years old, but has a very calm temperament!

In the girl's hand is a modern earth-style "book" that was opened from a treasure chest. On the bridge of her nose, which is like a mutton-fat white jade carving, there is actually a pair of crystal glasses...

There is a unique feeling of the combination of classic and modern, intertwined and harmonious.

"Captain Wang, with your protection, I believe there will be no problem..."

There was a slight smile on the girl's round oval face. Her face was pretty, without any pink and white, but her eyebrows were like apricots.

The lips are not pointed but contain elixir; the eyebrows are not painted but are green!

"Besides, I have to come to this human territory to take a look. If it is really what you said, the development strategy of our territory will have to be adjusted..."

The girl put down the modern-style book in her hand, stretched out her right hand, which was wearing a gold bracelet and was as white as frost, and lightly rubbed her temple.

"Our territory is only more than a hundred miles away from the 'Secret Realm of the Human Race'. Originally, I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity and use the 'Fang Market' to build a trading place for the many coming territories... But I didn't expect that there is another The territory is closer to the 'Secret Realm' than us. Moreover, it is the territory with golden honey..."

The girl spoke softly.

"Ouch..."

Hearing "Golden Bee", the colorful giant panda with a silver name let out a roar, and its eyes shrouded in dark circles were full of anticipation.

"Hua Xiong, have you really been bribed by someone else's 'sugar-coated bullets'?"

"Wang Wu said that when you left last time, you grabbed the leg of the girl named 'A'Zhu' and almost settled in their territory..."

On the back of the colorful panda, a beautiful girl with snow-white skin joked.

"Woo...roar!"

The colorful panda made a silly sound.

However, suddenly its innocent expression suddenly changed, the hair all over its body stood up, its breath suddenly became fierce, and it grinned and looked in a certain direction!

"The leader's judgment is indeed correct. He knows that humans will transport supplies to reinforce that human territory... Let the two of us wait here..."

From the shadows in the jungle, a cold and bloodthirsty voice sounded.

Immediately, two creatures with a height of two meters tall, slender arms with extremely strong claws, and ugly ghost-like faces walked out.

Shockingly, there are two mountain ghosts who have transformed into the fifth level of mortal life!

"No, it's a high-level alien race... protect Miss Bao quickly!"

The faces of Wang Wu and others suddenly changed, and they all hurriedly held their guns and formed a military formation with the colorful panda as the center.