[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades":3,"chapter-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-459":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Endless Winter: My Camp Infinitely Upgrades",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2266885,4425,"Chapter 459","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-459",459,"\u003Cp>The garrison at Zhenyuan Camp had over 200,000 troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the elite 50,000 Silver-Scale Army all had strength above 20 Mane; the 150,000 Garrison Army all had strength above 10 Mane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over two hundred thousand Yuhan-level troops, plus 148 Xianyang-level cultivators, including Cai Qiu’s Jieshen-level power—Cai Qiu could not possibly ignore this force, so they were included in the count.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such overwhelming strength, why had the expansion progress over two years been so minimal?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The total area of the Blood Miasma Plain was over 7,500 square kilometers; 400 square kilometers was what kind of scale? Barely over half a percent, less than six percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Xia Hong Year One, he had personally led expeditions into uncharted regions—for example, the initial exploration of Redwood Ridge was under his direct command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one had to compare, the expansion efficiency of Great Xia back then toward Redwood Ridge was roughly comparable to Cai Qiu’s current pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But back then, he was only a Juedi-level cultivator, and the entire Great Xia had barely a handful of such people—just two or three mid-tier cold beasts would force them to flee. The reason their extraction efficiency was so low was simple: they were weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had possessed Cai Qiu’s strength back then, he could have simply smashed straight through the entire Redwood Ridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of Jieshen-level cultivators, hundreds of Xianyang-level ones, two hundred thousand Yuhan-level troops—this had nothing to do with weakness. Even if you took a step back, if two hundred thousand soldiers deployed fully in formation, each occupying just five square meters, standing still they would cover one square kilometer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two years, four hundred square kilometers—this description alone reveals how absurd the expansion progress was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossible that Cai Qiu had invested too little or was too weak; the only explanation was that the Blood Miasma Plain was extraordinarily perilous—the difficulty of human exploration and expansion there had surpassed normal comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How perilous must it be, to make Cai Qiu struggle so desperately?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Qiu Year 297, the second day of the eleventh month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After resting for a day in the main barracks building, Xia Hong finally received notification from Cai Yunlan at nightfall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The army was about to march!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh… whoosh… whoosh…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson snow filled the sky, the cold wind howled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the army preparing to march on the southern side of Zhenyuan Camp stood a colossal furnace, ten meters in diameter and about twenty meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The furnace emitted brilliant golden light, so intense it outshone the roaring flames over ten meters high at its base; not only did the ten thousand troops preparing to depart glow under its radiance, but the entire Zhenyuan Camp was bathed in golden illumination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the furnace was a cube-shaped coal furnace, five meters on each side. Except for the top surface where the furnace rested, the rest was semi-enclosed, with four circular charging ports—each about half a meter in diameter—on the four horizontal sides. Over a thousand bare-chested laborers stood guard, periodically tossing in dark, glossy lumps of purified, compressed high-heat coal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below the coal furnace were twenty silver wheels, each two meters in diameter, clearly designed to ensure smooth movement; their power source was four silver chains bound to the furnace’s four sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of these four chains was over one meter in diameter and about a hundred meters long; extending outward, their ends connected to thousands of smaller silver chains, which ultimately ended in the hands of tens of thousands of soldiers—the true power source of the colossal furnace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below, the coal furnace blazed fiercely, flames over ten meters high nearly reaching halfway up the furnace; above it, torrents of silver-white smoke continuously rose, and the already sparse crimson miasma around it visibly thinned, proving its concentration was being steadily diluted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“March forward!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh… shiiii… heh… shiiii…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the front of the army, Fan Qinghu gave the order, and twenty thousand Garrison Army soldiers hauling iron chains roared in unison; the massive furnace slowly began moving southward under their collective effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining eighty thousand soldiers—fifty thousand Silver-Scale Army and thirty thousand Garrison Army—were evenly divided into four battle formations, surrounding the furnace on all four sides, two ten-thousand-man units per direction, marching step by step alongside the furnace as it advanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This furnace is made entirely of cold beast golden bones, isn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the army, a hundred Xianyang-level cultivators hovered in midair. Xia Hong stood near the front of the group, looking down at the golden furnace, suppressing his inner shock, and asked Cai Yunlan beside him in a calm tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since leaving the main barracks building, Cai Yunlan had been watching Xia Hong’s expression; seeing he showed no trace of surprise from start to finish, he silently shook his head, thinking Fan Qinghu’s test yesterday had been unnecessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Xia Hong’s question, he nodded: “Brother Hong has sharp eyes. Silver isn’t ordinary fuel; to melt it into vapor, ordinary materials simply cannot suffice. This colossal furnace—except for the twenty giant wheels beneath and the four silver chains binding the coal furnace—all other parts are forged from king-level golden bones.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for silver, let’s set that aside—Brother Hong knows golden bones are the primary ingredient for refining Tui Gu Dan and many other vital pills, extremely precious. To forge this golden bone furnace, Cai Qiu spent nine years total, pouring in countless manpower and resources…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless? More than that!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xia Hong looked down at the golden bone furnace, his face remained calm, but inside his heart surged like a storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even without touching it, based solely on the marching speed of the twenty thousand Garrison Army soldiers below, he could roughly estimate the silver consumed must exceed ten billion jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for king-level golden bones—far more precious than silver—the quantity was staggering. He couldn’t tell exactly how much was used, because he had never seen so many golden bones in his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone knew: the stronger the cold beast, the smaller its body. A normal king-level beast’s bones were at most one meter long, sometimes even shorter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this furnace stood over twenty meters tall; when accounting for volume, the scale was unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key point was: this colossal furnace was meant to burn silver…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the true depth of a Fanzhen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just Great Xia—even if you emptied the treasuries of all nine Fanzhen in the Southern Slope, you still couldn’t afford even the base of this furnace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong suppressed his shock and asked further: “This golden bone furnace disperses miasma and repels Guigai, but with such vast quantities of silver and king-level golden bones, any movement will instantly attract cold beasts from all directions. Shouldn’t Commander Fan avoid dragging it deep into the miasma zone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silver isn’t just desired by humans—cold beasts crave it too. Any silver mine in the Ice Abyss is inevitably occupied by cold beast clans, and the larger the silver deposit, the larger the clan it attracts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this much silver and such a vast quantity of king-level golden bones, even dragging it into a remote wilderness would draw massive cold beast hordes—Cai Qiu couldn’t possibly be unaware.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Yunlan immediately nodded, pointing toward the distant south: “Brother Hong, don’t mistake the thin crimson miasma here for harmless—it’s only because we’re all Xianyang-level cultivators, and we’re within the silver mist zone, so we can resist without pills, relying solely on our own strength.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the soldiers below are different—they’re only Yuhan-level. Even within the silver mist zone, it’s still insufficient to resist the miasma; they must take a Qingxin Pill every five days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They absolutely cannot enter the true Blood Miasma Zone. We’ve had experience: Yuhan-level cultivators above 60 Mane can endure for about half an hour; beyond that, they lose their sanity, descend into murderous frenzy, and eventually burst into blood and die. Those between 30 and 60 Mane can last only three to six hundred breaths before meeting the same fate. Those below 30 Mane—just one breath of that miasma sends them mad; some die instantly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Yunlan paused slightly, then added: “And these figures assume they’ve taken Qingxin Pills.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Hong felt surprise at this, but not much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because when he flew in from the county seat yesterday, he had secretly smeared a bit of Ninghuo Oil on his hand the moment he entered the miasma zone—and the miasma showed no reaction upon contact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninghuo Oil isn’t all-powerful; Xia Hong knew that well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the system’s main structure, the current Level 5 Yang Xu Ding, could only suppress and kill high-level Guigai; against calamity-level Guigai, it was nearly useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Ninghuo Oil had no effect, this crimson miasma clearly wasn’t ordinary Guiwu energy. In thin zones, pills might help—but in thick zones, it was nearly impossible for Yuhan-level cultivators to resist.\u003C\u002Fp>",1471,"2026-06-19T20:30:17.581Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","40565868ec7243acfa0e635ea25b1a4cf1178afd1e984c15033c5b15440b8d23","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-460","endless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-chapter-458",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fendless-winter-my-camp-infinitely-upgrades-cover.jpg"]