Chapter 340: Changes in Li Hu and Yang Zhong, the opportunity for the Hou clan, giving advice

Third year of Great Xia, the ninth day of the ninth month.

Original Outer City South District, which is now the East Second District, Residence No. 188.

*Hu... Keng... *

In the martial arts arena on the first floor of the residence, Li Hu and Yang Zhong were each holding a *mo* saber about a *zhang* long, feeding moves to each other and practicing martial arts. The cultivation of the two was clearly evenly matched. The reactions after the collision of saber blades, fists, feet, and bodies were almost the same.

However, if you observe carefully, you can find that as the fighting time gets longer and longer, Yang Zhong's breathing rhythm is clearly accelerating.

*Qiang... *

Finally, Yang Zhong was just a moment slow in lifting his saber, and was caught by Li Hu. Li Hu slashed horizontally with his *mo* saber, and the big saber was immediately knocked out of his hand, and his body flew backward for three or four meters.

"That's not right, Tiger, why do we feel that our base strength is not just 1,200 *jin* apart? Did your cultivation improve again?"

Yang Zhong stood up from the ground, picked up his *mo* saber, turned to look at Li Hu, his face full of shock.

Three days ago, the two had tested together. Li Hu's base strength was 43,900 *jin*, and his own was 42,700 *jin*. During the battle just now, he clearly felt that the strength Li Hu exerted was more than 1,200 *jin* higher than his own. The only explanation was that in the three days before, Li Hu's base strength had improved again.

It was just that his guess was clearly wrong.

Li Hu put the *mo* saber on the weapon rack, turned and smiled: "What can cultivation improve in three days? It's martial arts. My Long Fist Taizhan style has broken through to the small success realm."

Yang Zhong then reacted, but his face still showed envy.

Long Fist Four Styles is a martial art that everyone in Great Xia practices. The two came to Xia City in October last year and came into contact with it for the first time.

Long Fist is subdivided into Xiaozhan, Taizhan, San-shou, and Hezhan styles. The final Hezhan style is suitable for multi-person siege. Currently, only Great Xia soldiers have the qualifications to practice it, and others can only choose the first three to practice.

Like most people in the camp, Li Hu and himself practiced the Taizhan style used for main attacks. In the same amount of time, he only practiced to the entry realm two months ago, while Li Hu was already in the small success realm. It clearly proved that the other party's martial arts talent was much higher than his own.

"Qingyuan Strength can only make explosive power gain a one-tenth boost at most, while Long Fist Taizhan style practiced to the pinnacle realm has a three-tenths boost. Not to mention combat talent, just the gap of these two-tenths of explosive power is enough to let us crush other people of the same level. Such a precious technique, Great Xia is actually willing to take it out for everyone to popularize. With such courage, no wonder it was finally able to unify Longyou!"

The base strength of the flesh is not equal to explosive power. Power generation has techniques and requires continuous cultivation. People without technique inheritance, after long-term exploration, can increase explosive power to one hundred percent of base strength, which is already considered very strong.

Qingyuan Strength was created by Li Tianhua, the former leader of Longshan, and is considered the only martial arts technique of Longshan. Previously, Longshan stipulated that only those at the Earth-Digging Realm limit were qualified to practice it. Although Li Hu and Yang Zhong grew up in Longshan since childhood, they only came into contact with it after breaking through to the Earth-Digging Realm limit last year.

Qingyuan Strength with only one-tenth explosive power boost, the threshold set by Longshan was so high, while Long Fist Four Styles with three-tenths explosive power boost, Great Xia did not set any restrictions at all. It only needs 10 contribution points in the Camp Needs Department to exchange, and almost everyone in the camp can practice it.

Looking back now, when the Longshan outpost was broken last year, so many people had no resistance in the face of the Cloud Flood Army, even those at the Earth-Digging Realm limit with the same cultivation were no exception. This can be explained at once.

"That group of Li people thought Qingyuan Strength was a treasure and set the cultivation threshold so high, but in the end, they still harmed themselves. It shows that closing the door to build a car is actually self-castration. Only by opening the heart like Great Xia, relaxing restrictions, and improving everyone's strength can we continuously enhance the foundation and improve the overall strength of the camp. Only in this way can we grow and strengthen faster!"

Yang Zhong clearly didn't consider as far as Li Hu. After listening, he just nodded and smiled: "It's not just Qingyuan Strength. Great Xia's cultivation resources are much richer than Longshan. Beast Origin Pills, Beast Spirit Pills, Blood Spirit Pills, and Yang Origin Pills that we haven't seen yet, Blood Explosion Pills to improve strength, Blood Sore Pills for healing, Green Saliva Pills for detoxification, Hot Wind Pills for dispelling cold... just pills alone are at least dozens of types;

There are also divine objects like refined salt and fine wine that can improve cultivation speed and satisfy people's appetites. Coupled with beast meat and beast blood at such low prices, cultivating in Xia City is completely two concepts from cultivating in Longshan. The two have no comparability at all."

"And that magical Martial Arts Pavilion, not only cultivation, but the quality of life is even more heaven and earth. Compared with Great Xia, Longshan and the other eleven giant camps in Longyou are simply like uncivilized."

Hearing this, Yang Zhong scanned the furnishings in the room, his face full of agreement.

Coming to Xia City for almost a year, the two were already extremely familiar with everything in the city. Thanks to the great contributions made last year, they were rewarded with a large number of contribution points. They not only used the cultivation resources of the Camp Needs Department to make rapid progress in cultivation, but also purchased a piece of land in the East Second District and built their own independent residences.

No. 188 is Li Hu's home, and his home is No. 194, not far away.

"By the way, how many contribution points do you have left?"

Asked about contribution points, Yang Zhong shook his head and sighed: "Only more than 3,800 left, what about you?"

"More than 5,200, not much more than you."

The two looked at each other, and a look of helplessness appeared on their faces.

It is said that the balance of the two's contribution points is actually not low now, but considering that in October last year, they were rewarded with 50,000 contribution points by the Chief Administrator at once, plus 30,000 points converted from 300 military contributions, from 80,000 down to a few thousand, looking at it this way, the consumption is really a bit shocking.

The key is that the two are not the kind of people who sit and eat the mountain. In July last year, they established the Zhaoyuan team in Longshan. On weekdays, they went out hunting, collecting, and exploring, and they didn't miss a single item.

Under such circumstances, the consumption speed of contribution points could be so fast.

"No way, buying land and building a house cost more than 10,000. High-grade beast meat, high-grade beast blood, Blood Spirit Pills, Hundred-Forged *Mo* Saber, Hundred-Forged Lei Kui Golden Armor, refined salt and fine wine, thirty-stone strong bow... of course, there are also the two days we spent a lot of money to bid for the quota to enter the Martial Arts Pavilion for cultivation. This item alone cost more than 6,000 contribution points. Although there are many contribution points, they can't stand us spending them like this."

Hearing Yang Zhong's words, Li Hu nodded with a smile.

Just living in Xia City naturally wouldn't cost so many contribution points, but both of them were unwilling to be ordinary. Seeing so many cultivation resources in the Camp Needs Department, how could they bear it?

In the first eleven months, they almost went to the Camp Needs Department every month and bought all the cultivation resources they could buy to the upper limit. Beast meat and beast blood were all high-grade; Earth-Digging Realm limit cultivation, Blood Spirit Pills had an upper limit of 10 per month, and they didn't miss a month; refined salt, fine wine, healing pills... almost everything they could buy was bought.

Not to mention the weapons, armor, and strong bows Yang Zhong just mentioned, as well as the pills essential for going out. Especially at the end of last year, the two were assigned a quota for the first time and entered the Martial Arts Pavilion to cultivate once. After coming out, they could never forget the feeling of rapid improvement.

Last month, the Lord displayed his magical powers, and the Martial Arts Pavilion was upgraded to the Martial Arts Pavilion. The accommodation quota increased to 1,000. To meet the needs of the people in Xia City, the Camp Needs Department took out 100 quotas for auction every day. The two couldn't bear it and went to bid twice, spending more than 6,000 points at once.

No matter how many contribution points, they couldn't stand the two spending them like this!

"Although the spending is a lot, the improvement is also great. In just one year, my base strength has risen from the limit of 30,000 *jin* to nearly 44,000 *jin* now. If it were in Longshan, our cultivation speed couldn't have been so fast."

Hearing this, Yang Zhong's expression lifted, he nodded heavily, then thought of something, and asked in a low voice: "Tiger, how much is your skin-membrane remodeling progress? Your martial arts talent is so high, it should also be combat body quality, right?"

"Xia Ritual · Cultivation System Chapter" noted that when breaking through from the Earth-Digging Realm limit to the Cold-Resisting Realm, there is a distinction between combat body and non-combat body. The specific thing is to look at the base strength upper limit in the skin-membrane remodeling stage.

In the skin-membrane remodeling stage, those whose base strength can be increased to between 100,000 and 150,000 *jin* are upper-class combat bodies; those above 80,000 *jin* are middle-class; 60,000 *jin* is lower-class; non-combat body is the step-by-step 50,000 *jin* limit.

Of course, there are also supreme combat bodies above 150,000 *jin*.

After breaking through to the Cold-Resisting Realm, the base strength can get a one-fold boost, so according to this calculation, even if it is a lower-class combat body, the base strength at the time of breakthrough is at least 1.2 *zong*, which is 20,000 *jin* higher than the Cold-Resisting Realm of non-combat bodies.

The gap of 20,000 *jin* of base strength can basically determine life and death, not to mention the gap between the two will continue to widen later.

Nowadays, there are quite a few Cold-Resisting Realm experts in Xia City, and you can even hear who has broken through from time to time. Unlike others who only focus on breakthrough, the circle of Earth-Digging Realm limits focuses on the combat body quality of the breakthrough person.

Both of them are in this circle, so naturally they also care about this.

Li Hu naturally knows the content of the four chapters of Xia Ritual clearly, especially the matter of combat body. He has been in this stage recently and clearly knows a lot about it. He replied in a low voice: "I feel that my skin-membrane remodeling stage is only about twenty percent."

Hearing Li Hu's answer, Yang Zhong's expression froze, and then his expression was incomparably surprised: "Twenty percent increased by 14,000, then don't you still have an upper limit of 56,000 *jin* growth? 100,000 *jin*, you are an upper-class combat body."

Li Hu's expression was clearly a bit excited, but his character was calm, and he soon calmed down, shaking his head: "The Cultivation System Chapter is very clear. The perception in the skin-membrane remodeling stage is not one hundred percent accurate. The later the remodeling, the more difficult it is. Some people can't bear the pain and break through directly. Whether it is an upper-class combat body, we have to wait until the breakthrough to know."

Yang Zhong was much more optimistic than him, and continued: "Since there is a premonition, it must be. That's great, upper-class combat body, I heard that our Great Xia doesn't have many upper-class combat bodies now. Yuan Sizheng, Qiu Sizheng, Luo Deputy Sizheng, Lin Kai, Lu Yang, Xu Ning, Yue Feng, Zhao Long, Zhao Hu, etc., add up to only fifty or so people."

Compared to Xia City with more than 600,000 people today, fifty or so is indeed extremely rare. Although Yang Zhong doesn't know exactly how many Cold-Resisting Realm experts Great Xia has now, he can be sure that upper-class combat bodies are definitely very few among them.

Good brother Li Hu is also one of them, he is naturally incomparably happy.

However, Li Hu's vision was clearly much higher than his, shaking his head: "I heard that Yuan Sizheng, Qiu Sizheng, and these people you just mentioned, as soon as they break through, their strength is 2.5 *zong* or more, which means that in their skin-membrane remodeling stage, their base strength was more than 125,000 *jin*. I can't compare with them at all, not to mention, there are more powerful ones above..."

Speaking of this, Li Hu paused slightly, his pupils showing horror: "I heard when I handed over prey at the Camp Needs Department last time that when Yu Wen Sizheng broke through, his base strength was more than five *zong* and close to six *zong*, which could crush ordinary late Cold-Resisting Realm experts; and the Chief Administrator is even more terrifying. When he broke through, his base strength was more than six *zong*. Even if we practice to death, I'm afraid we can't compare."

Hearing this, Yang Zhong's expression froze, and then he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

If you say so, Li Hu's aptitude in Xia City really doesn't count for anything.

He suddenly thought of something and said to Li Hu in a low voice: "Tiger, what do you think the base strength of our Lord was when he broke through to the Cold-Resisting Realm?"

Hearing this question, Li Hu's brows frowned, and then he recalled the night when Longshan was broken, Xia Hong's god-like posture of kicking the iron stake wall with one leg, his eyes were still full of irrepressible horror.

"I don't know, but it's definitely something we can't imagine!"

The two were silent for a while, and finally skipped this topic tacitly.

Li Hu thought of something and suddenly asked: "By the way, we are going to set off for Dongling tomorrow night. Have you notified all the team members?"

"Eighteen team members, all have been notified."

After Yang Zhong finished answering, a hint of curiosity rose on his face: "Hanqiong was suddenly downgraded to an ordinary outpost, and all seven departments had to move to Dongling. Why didn't Lord Lu bring people directly from Hanqiong, but specially returned to Xia City to draw 500 people? Tiger, did you find out the reason?"

Hearing this, Li Hu's brows frowned slightly, and his face was full of confusion, but he soon shook his head and smiled: "No matter the reason, our Zhaoyuan team can follow Lord Lu to the new outpost, which is definitely a good thing. Three days ago, when I went to the Camp Needs Department to receive the notice, I saw the list. Among the 500 people going together, there was only our Zhaoyuan low-level team. The remaining 480 people included 80 members of the Dongyang and Steel Mane high-level teams, and the remaining 400 were eight full-staffed medium-level hunting teams.

And, I heard Hong, this opportunity to go to Dongling is extremely rare, and there is a high probability of obtaining military contributions. In the East Second District, many medium-level teams broke their heads to go, and in the end, they were all brushed off by Lord Lu, but instead, our Zhaoyuan team was named."

Hong Tian is the Garrison Commander of the East Second District, and he is responsible for the conscription this time.

Hearing this, Yang Zhong was stunned, and a look of shock appeared on his face.

The opportunity to obtain military contributions would indeed make many people break their heads to go.

After all, that is the only way to be enfeoffed with a title.

Being enfeoffed with a title gives you the qualification to go to the hall to see the Lord, and at the same time, there are various treatments matching the title. Not to mention the transcendent status after being enfeoffed, the annual title salary alone is enough to make everyone in Xia City crazy.

The two of them are naturally no exception!

However, 500 people, only their low-level team.

And many medium-level teams were brushed off, and the Zhaoyuan team was named.

Why is this?

Yang Zhong lowered his head and thought for a long time without thinking of the reason, and could only continue:

"I haven't heard of the place name Dongling, and it is not marked on the Great Xia territory map hanging in the Camp Needs Department. It should be a newly discovered new territory. Being able to contact other camps, so there is an opportunity to obtain military contributions!"

Li Hu nodded heavily, his expression excited: "The two of us have currently accumulated 300 military contributions. This time we are transferred to Dongling. If we can obtain another 200 military contributions, we can be enfeoffed and go to the hall!"

Enfeoffed and go to the hall!

Hearing these four words, Yang Zhong's face was full of shock.

However, this time, he was rarely more sober than Li Hu.

"Such a precious opportunity, how could it be our turn? Even if Lord Lu really needs a low-level hunting team, in the East Second District, there are at least a dozen low-level teams stronger than us!"

Hearing this, Li Hu's eyes clearly flashed with some guesses, but he didn't say it.

"Could it be..."

Yang Zhong reacted at this time, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by an old voice.

"What else could it be?

The newly discovered Dongling outpost this time has great strategic value. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that there are military contributions to be made there. It's not just your East Second District people breaking their heads to go. Even in the inner city, many people looked for Lu Yang. If Lu Yang hadn't explained in advance that he wouldn't bring any other high-level teams except himself and Zhao Hu, I'm afraid his threshold would have been stepped on.

My wife explained in advance, plus I shamelessly asked him for help, so I begged for this opportunity for your Zhaoyuan team!" ===== CHAPTER 341 =====