Chapter 462: Gold Bone Melting Furnace, Reasons for Slow Progress, Large Army Sets Out

The strength of the Zhenyuan Camp is over 200,000.

Among them, the strongest 50,000 Silver-Scale Army have strength all over 20 bristles; the 150,000 Town Guard Army have strength over 10 bristles.

With over 200,000 Cold-Resistant Realm large army, plus 148 Manifestation Realm experts, Cai Qiu's Tribulation Body Realm experts cannot ignore it, so they are also counted.

With such a powerful force, the development progress in two years is only this much?

The total area of the Blood Miasma Plain is over 7,500 square kilometers. What is the concept of over 400 square kilometers? It is just over half a percent, not even 6%.

Before the first year of Xia Hong, he had also led a team to explore strange areas, such as the development of Red Wood Ridge, which was initially responsible by him personally.

If you have to say it, the development efficiency of Does Does Da Xia on Red Wood Ridge at that time can be compared with Cai Qiu now.

But the problem is, at that time he only had Earth-Digging Realm cultivation, and Does Does Da Xia was also a small cat with three or two kittens. They had to run when they met two middle-level cold beasts. The reason why the mining efficiency was so low was no other reason, just weak.

If they had the strength of Cai Qiu at that time, it is estimated that they could directly hit the entire Red Wood Ridge.

Several Tribulation Body Realm experts, over a hundred Manifestation Realm experts, 200,000 Cold-Resistant Realm large army—this has nothing to do with weakness at all. To take a step back, if the 200,000-plus soldiers were fully deployed, even if each person only occupied five square meters, they would have 1 square kilometer just standing there.

Two years, over 400 square kilometers—describing it like this, you can roughly see how outrageous this development progress is.

It is absolutely impossible that Cai Qiu invested too little and was too weak. The only explanation is that the Blood Miasma Plain area is too dangerous, and the difficulty of human exploration and development has reached a level completely beyond the understanding of normal people.

How dangerous must it be to make Cai Qiu so difficult?

The 297th year of the Cai Qiu calendar, the second day of the eleventh month.

Xia Hong, who had rested in the military camp main building for a day, finally received Cai Yunlan's notice at night.

The large army is about to set out!

Hu-hu-hu...

Red snow fills the sky, and the cold wind howls.

In the middle of the large army team preparing to set out on the south side of the Zhenyuan Camp, there is a giant melting furnace with a diameter of ten meters and a height of about twenty meters.

The melting furnace emits brilliant golden light, and the light even covers the raging flames more than ten meters high at its bottom. Not to mention the 100,000 large army soldiers preparing to set out, even the entire Zhenyuan Camp is illuminated by the golden light emitted by the melting furnace;

Below the melting furnace is a square coal furnace with a length, width, and height of five meters. Except for the top side where the melting furnace is set up, the rest are semi-enclosed designs. Only on the four horizontal sides, a circular feeding port with a diameter of about half a meter is left. Thousands of laborers stripped to the waist are guarding the side, occasionally putting in pitch-black and shiny, clearly purified and compressed high-heat coal blocks;

Below the coal furnace, there are twenty silver giant wheels with a diameter of two meters, which are clearly the means to ensure its smooth movement; as for its power source, it is the silver chains tied on the four sides of the coal furnace;

The diameter of those four chains is over one meter, and the length is about a hundred meters. After extending outward, the two ends are associated with thousands of small silver chains. Finally, the chains fall into the hands of tens of thousands of soldiers, and these tens of thousands of soldiers are the real power source of the entire giant melting furnace.

The fire in the coal furnace below is blazing, and the ten-meter-high flames almost cover half of the melting furnace, while silver-white monstrous thick smoke is constantly floating above the melting furnace. The blood-colored miasma, which was not dense in the surroundings, is becoming lighter and lighter under the scouring of the thick smoke, proving that its concentration is also being diluted continuously.

"Set out, advance!"

"Heh... shoo... heh... shoo..."

At the head of the large army, Fan Qinghu gave an order, and 20,000 Town Guard Army soldiers pulling the iron chains roared in unison. Under the concerted efforts of everyone, the huge melting furnace slowly started to move toward the south.

The remaining 80,000 soldiers, including 50,000 Silver-Scale Army and 30,000 Town Guard Army, were evenly divided into four military formations, surrounding the four sides of the melting furnace, following the melting furnace slowly forward.

"This melting furnace is made of cold beast gold bones, right?"

Above the large army, a hundred Manifestation Realm experts stood in the air. Xia Hong stood in the area near the front of the crowd, looking down at the golden melting furnace below, suppressing the shock in his heart, and turned his head to ask Cai Yunlan beside him with a calm expression.

From the moment he left the military camp main building, Cai Yunlan had been paying attention to the expression on Xia Hong's face. Seeing that he didn't show any surprise from beginning to end, he shook his head inwardly, blaming Fan Qinghu's test yesterday for being a bit superfluous.

Hearing Xia Hong's inquiry, he nodded and said: "Brother Hong has good eyes. Silver is not an ordinary fuel. It is impossible for ordinary materials to melt it to the point of vaporization. This giant gold bone melting furnace, except for the twenty giant wheels at the bottom and the four-sided chains of the coal furnace, are all made of ten-thousand-forged silver. All other parts are made of Beast King-level gold bones."

"Let alone silver, Brother Hong should be clear that gold bones are the main materials for refining Bone-Transforming Pills and many important pills. They are extremely precious. In order to make this gold bone melting furnace, Cai Qiu spent nine years before and after, and the manpower and material resources invested are countless..."

Countless indeed!

Xia Hong looked at the gold bone melting furnace on the ground at this moment, seemingly calm on the surface, but inwardly he had already set off a monstrous wave.

Even without touching it, just based on the speed of the 20,000 Town Guard Army soldiers below, he could roughly infer that the amount of silver consumed was at least over 10 billion jin;

As for the Beast King-level gold bones, which are even more precious than silver, the quantity is even more astonishing. He couldn't see how much was used because he hadn't seen so many gold bones until now.

As everyone knows, the stronger the cold beast, the smaller the body size. The bones of a normal Beast King are at most one meter long, or even less.

And this melting furnace, the overall height is over twenty meters, and if you count the volume, it is even more incredible.

The key is that such a large melting furnace is used to burn silver...

This is the true foundation of the feudal town!

Not to mention Does Does Da Xia, even if the treasury of the Nine Towns in the southern foothills is emptied, I am afraid that one base of this melting furnace cannot be gathered.

Xia Hong suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to ask: "Although this gold bone melting furnace dispels miasma and resists strange monsters, such a huge amount of silver, plus this massive amount of Beast King-level gold bones, as long as it moves, it will immediately attract cold beasts from all directions. Commander Fan should not drag it directly into the depths of the miasma area, right?"

Silver is not only wanted by humans, but also by cold beasts. In the Ice Abyss, wherever there is a silver mine, there must be a cold beast group, and the larger the scale of the silver mine, the larger the cold beast group attracted.

With so much silver, plus such a massive amount of Beast King-level gold bones, not to mention pulling it into such a dangerous Blood Miasma area, even if it is just looking for a wilderness area, it is estimated that it will attract a large number of cold beasts. Cai Qiu cannot be unaware.

"Of course!"

Cai Yunlan nodded immediately, pointing to the distance in the south and continuing: "Brother Hong don't look at the sparse blood-colored miasma here and think it has no influence on us. That's because we have Manifestation Realm cultivation and are in the silver fog area, so we don't need pills and can resist it with our own strength!"

"But the soldiers of the large army below are different. They only have Cold-Resistant Realm cultivation. Even if they are in the silver fog area, it is not enough to resist the invasion of miasma. They must take a Clear Heart Pill every five days."

"The real Blood Miasma area, they can't enter at all. We have already had experience. Cold-Resistant Realm experts with over 60 bristles of strength can resist for about half an hour. After this time limit, they will immediately lose their sanity, then fall into crazy slaughter, and finally die of blood explosion; those with over 30 bristles and under 60 bristles can resist for between 300 and 600 breaths at most. After the time limit, it is the same end; as for those under 30 bristles, if they take a breath of that miasma, they will go crazy immediately, and some will even die suddenly..."

Speaking of this, Cai Yunlan paused slightly and added: "And what I said is the situation after they take the Clear Heart Pill."

Xia Hong felt shocked inwardly, but it was not too unexpected.

Just because when he flew from the County Mansion yesterday, as soon as he entered the miasma area, he quietly applied some Condensing Fire Oil on his hands. The result was that the miasma did not react at all when it touched the Condensing Fire Oil.

Condensing Fire Oil is not omnipotent, Xia Hong had long known this.

Even the main building of the system, the 5th-level Yangxu Tripod, can only play a role in suppressing high-level strange monsters. For disaster-level strange monsters, it cannot exert much effect.

Even Condensing Fire Oil has no effect. This blood-colored miasma is clearly not ordinary strange object energy. Sparse areas can be resisted by pills, but once it reaches the dense area, it is indeed unlikely that Cold-Resistant Realm experts can resist it. ===== CHAPTER 463 =====