Chapter 105: The Arrival of the Explosive Growth Period

Shi Ping being the first to break through to the Woodcutting Realm, the happiest was naturally Shi Qing.

Although a long time had passed, Shi Qing's body had recovered quite a bit, but the root of his permanent disability had been left behind. Now he could at most walk around in the valley. Let alone restoring his strength, even cultivation was impossible.

Having been a leader for so many years, once reduced to a useless person, Shi Qing was naturally not willing to be lonely, especially since the vast majority of people in the camp were cultivating crazily, while he could only wait and watch from the side.

Fortunately, his archery level was still there. Although he couldn't demonstrate it to others because he had no cultivation, he could still give some pointers. Plus, there were eleven bows and arrows in the camp now, and quite a few people needed archery guidance, so he could be considered to have found something to do.

Teaching archery, Shi Qing could be considered to have found his own value.

Besides this, the thing he cared about most was urging his son Shi Ping to cultivate.

Shi Qing, who had been a leader, knew the camp's hierarchical structure very well. Although the current Does Does Da Xia's strength had far exceeded the original Da Shi, the core wouldn't change.

Cultivation level determines value, and value determines status.

No matter which camp it was, it was the same.

This was also the reason why he kept looking for things to do even though he was disabled.

Urging his son to cultivate was on one hand for his son himself, and on the other hand, it could be said to be for the hundred-plus people from the original Da Shi camp.

The current Does Does Da Xia has over nine hundred people. Strictly speaking, it was merged from five groups of people. Under the cold beast meat system that didn't distinguish between each other, although the camp already had a fairly high cohesion, it had to be said that the differentiation of these five groups of people inside was still there.

From the wooden house, the positions where the five groups of people lived could be seen.

The closest to the furnace were the first batch of people from Does Does Da Xia; further out were the hundred-plus people from the Luo Ge camp; the people from the three camps of Da Shi, Da Chuan, and Huang Zhao were on the outermost periphery, and among the outermost periphery, the people from Da Shi were the furthest back.

Such signs didn't prove that the camp was splitting. People were emotional animals and would naturally get close to people they were familiar with. This was a natural law. No matter to what extent the camp's cohesion improved, it couldn't be changed.

Just as they would get close to people they were familiar with, Xia Hong, as the leader, would naturally get closer to the first batch of people from Does Does Da Xia. Even if he could treat everyone equally in the distribution of cold beast meat, he would inevitably show it in daily life details.

At present, among the five waves of people in the camp, the one with the highest status was the first batch of people from Does Does Da Xia, which was indisputable from the two factors of strength and Xia Hong;

Next were the hundred-plus people from the Luo Ge camp, because there were fifteen Woodcutting Realms like Luo Yuan, and among the fifteen people in the hunting team, they occupied eight; logging team captain Cheng Feng and Craftsman Workshop master Mu Dong also came from them.

Then there were the two camps of Da Chuan and Huang Zhao. They added up to ten Woodcutting Realms, and Hong Gang, Huang Yong, and Zhu Shun also entered the hunting team, while the other seven were all in the logging team.

Only among the hundred-plus people in Da Shi, there wasn't a single Woodcutting Realm, let alone the hunting team and logging team.

Shi Qing didn't distrust Xia Hong, feeling that he would wrong the people of Da Shi. The key was that this batch of people from Da Shi couldn't exert any value in the camp. If this continued for a long time, they would certainly be marginalized, lose their right to speak completely, and not get any benefits.

Does Does Da Xia's development had already visibly stepped onto the right track, and the development speed was getting faster and faster. Such marginalization might evolve into being ignored later, completely losing the right to speak.

So, Shi Qing saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

He was a useless person now and had no right to speak about the camp's development, so he could only pin his hopes on Shi Ping. Actually, it wasn't just Shi Ping; he would urge any young person from Da Shi who entered the reservists.

Fortunately, his son Shi Ping gave him a surprise, grabbing the lead ahead of the three hundred-plus reservist members and breaking through to the Woodcutting Realm first.

This breakthrough not only saved him some face.

According to the standard Xia Hong set earlier, among the reservists, the first five to break through to the Woodcutting Realm could also get a set of clothes.

This could be considered both fame and fortune.

Watching Shi Ping receive that set of clothes from Xia Hong and put it on.

Although this set of clothes wasn't as exquisite as the one on Xia Hong, the five-piece set of inner lining, fur hat, overcoat, long pants, and leather boots was all complete. Wearing it on his body, it was also exceptionally eye-catching.

The onlookers in the wooden house all cast envious gazes at Shi Ping. Let alone those reservists, even the people of the hunting team and logging team were no exception.

The son, who was only sixteen or seventeen, could already vaguely see some adult posture.

Shi Qing's heart was agitated, and thinking of his wife who died tragically, as well as his two brothers, he couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.

"Uncle Shi, there is a successor, congratulations!"

Awakened by Xia Hong's congratulations, Shi Qing came back to his senses, hurriedly bowed and saluted, his face showing respect: "What successor, if the Leader hadn't led people out to risk their lives hunting, where would Ping'er have this blessing."

Xia Hong smiled slightly and said slowly: "Uncle Shi, don't worry. Now that nine hundred-plus people are squeezed together, the wooden house space is small, and it's inevitable that some are inside and some are outside. In a few months, when the new residence is built, the living arrangements will be unified. I said earlier that I would treat you all equally. Could it be that you still don't trust me?"

Hearing these words, Shi Qing's face was startled.

Shi Qing subconsciously wanted to explain.

But Xia Hong shook his head, signaling Shi Qing not to explain.

Xia Hong naturally understood Shi Qing's worries.

To be precise, the camp was only that big, and people basically stayed in the wooden house. As long as one paid attention to anything happening in the camp on weekdays, one could discover it.

Regarding the fact that the camp currently had faction divisions, Xia Hong subconsciously thought of the five words "shallow pond with many turtles, small temple with many monster winds." At first, he thought it was a bit ridiculous and didn't think it was a good thing, worrying that it would affect the camp's unity.

But after thinking about it carefully later, he found that it wasn't so.

Any organization or collective, once it reached a certain scale, would give birth to factions. This was unavoidable. After all, as long as it was a group composed of people, differences would appear according to the closeness of relationships, or different concepts, or related interests, followed by the birth of different factions.

Factions meant competition. Malicious competition would affect the camp's unity, and even seriously lead to division; but benign competition was absolutely indispensable for a world like the Frozen Abyss that valued martial power extremely and respected the strong.

And the key to the problem lay in whether these differences were constantly expanded or handled in time. As long as he, the core, could handle these differences well in time, the competition between these different factions would be benign.

This benign competition would not only not affect the camp's unity but instead urge people in the camp to cultivate, thereby improving the camp's development speed.

He only pointed out Shi Qing's worries and didn't give him a chance to explain, which was the reason. Xia Hong could accept faction competition within a controllable range.

Shi Ping being the first to break through to the Woodcutting Realm clearly stimulated everyone. After everyone finished congratulating Shi Ping, they all threw themselves into crazy cultivation again, clearly thirsty for the remaining fourteen sets of clothes.

Xia Hong sat on his exclusive seat, looked around the wooden house, observed the changes in the breathing muscles of the crowd, and showed a smile on his face.

What others saw might just be Shi Ping's breakthrough.

But what Xia Hong saw was more than that.

Reservists basically started distributing cold beast meat at the same time. Even if there was a gap in age and talent, the gap wouldn't be too big. If one started to break through, it proved that others were also fast.

The explosive growth period was almost here!

The facts were just as Xia Hong expected.

The next day, two more people broke through to the Woodcutting Realm;

The third day, one more, the fourth day, the fifth day...

Within a month after this, the Woodcutting Realms of Does Does Da Xia kept emerging like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and even the hunting team began to have people break through.

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