Chapter 750

Such beastfolk were nothing but meat on a chopping block before Qi Yue.

Qi Yue's blade fell in a clean stroke.

Silver moonlight flared.

Over thirty beastfolk did not survive — every one of them was reduced to spurting chunks of flesh.

The restless beastfolk instantly sobered up.

Zhao Chi asked, "Anyone else?"

None of the beastfolk dared speak.

Zhao Chi pointed at the beastfolk on the defensive tower: "Get down."

The beastfolk immediately scrambled down from the defensive tower.

Good.

Looks like they were cowed.

Zhao Chi nodded: "Anyone willing to surrender, drop your weapons and walk out slowly. Anyone who isn't willing to surrender will be dead shortly."

All the beastfolk walked out.

The beastfolk truly did not wish to be enslaved, but they were even less willing to die.

Gu Qing's silk wasn't enough to bind so many beastfolk.

Fortunately, this was a territory, and there were plenty of ropes.

Making use of local materials, a large number of beastfolk were captured.

The final step: loot and haul.

There weren't many supplies, and they were mostly basic resources.

Not much of value.

But that was fine — basic resources were useful too; take everything.

At this moment, Qi Yue approached.

"My lord, there are quite a few captives in the two storehouses over there — both humans and elves."

She pointed at a building not far away.

Having captives was perfectly normal.

They could also be considered decent spoils of war.

"Take me to have a look. The others haul the supplies; Gu Qing is in charge of managing the transport."

Qi Yue led Zhao Chi to the storehouse inside.

There were no goods inside the storehouse, but over a hundred captives — all male.

Humans and elves were roughly split half and half.

They were all bound, their gazes fixed on Zhao Chi and Tang Ruan, their eyes filled with confusion and unease.

Near the door of the storehouse lay several corpses, clearly all killed only moments ago.

It must have been to intimidate them — killing the chicken to scare the monkey.

Zhao Chi checked their identities — all captives, no issues.

From the look of it, they had probably only just been captured not long ago.

No matter where they came from, they now belonged to Zhao Chi.

As for how to deal with them, that could wait — first, haul them back to the territory.

There was another storehouse beside it.

The moment he stepped inside, a stench of urine hit him.

Along with a few terrified screams.

At the main entrance there were likewise several corpses, blood pooled across the floor.

Over a hundred captives were all crammed inside — all female, roughly half human women and half elven women.

They were all tightly bound, squatting or sitting on the ground, with quite a few wet patches on the floor.

Those women all stared at Zhao Chi in terror, among them no shortage of fair-featured faces.

Not bad.

They were worth even more.

Take them all away.

Besides these captives, a search of the lord's residence also turned up some gold coins and items, as well as several naked elven women.

Apart from that, there was nothing else of value.

Whatever it was, haul it all back.

Gu Qing already had the female villagers of Penglai Village called out to haul things; the captives, though bound, could also carry loads.

Before long, all the supplies had been hauled back into the territory range of Taoyuan Village.

Zhao Chi stood beside the Mist Wall and clicked on Wu Tianxing's territory.

【The current territory lord has already died. Please choose how to handle it.】

【1. Occupy】

【2. Vassal】

【3. Destroy】

Occupying was also an option.

This territory was different from Zhao Ji's territory — this was a lawful occupation.

But after occupying, Zhao Chi could only obtain the territory, not the racial bloodline, nor the Territory Stone.

Moreover, there were no special buildings in Wu Tianxing's territory, and no reason that it had to be occupied.

Once the population increased later on, expanding the territory could be considered.

But for now, it was still rather a tough sell.

Vassals were still acceptable.

But vassals would amount to vassalizing some ordinary-strength beastmen.

Although they could periodically provide money and resources, Zhao Chi was not short of those.

Relatively speaking, destruction was still the better option.

Although the probability was low, there was still a chance of obtaining a Territory Stone.

There was also a chance of obtaining a racial bloodline.

If the territory contained a Territory Trait, that could also be obtained.

Of course, none of the probabilities were particularly high.

Zhao Chi thought briefly and chose to destroy it.

【You have chosen to "Destroy" the current territory. All contents within the territory will be cleared. Confirm?】

Confirm!

His vision suddenly blurred.

A wall of mist was rapidly forming; Wu Tianxing's territory could no longer be seen clearly.

All that could be seen was the white wall of fog rolling in.

A system prompt arrived:

【Target territory has been destroyed】

【You have obtained】:

"Territory Configuration Points ×10"

"Race Improvement Points ×5"

"Technology Improvement Points ×2"

Not bad.

The two kinds of improvement points went without saying — both were greatly needed by Zhao Chi, the more the better.

But the 10 Territory Configuration Points were also passable.

These Configuration Points were the points used for configuration when first building the territory.

Zhao Chi clicked to activate.

In an instant, he once again entered the territory configuration interface.

He found that the options inside were still the ones whose data he had previously modified.