Chapter Fifty-Three: Unsealing

  Tang Tian arrived outside the house and found that the villagers were still obediently staying there, with all the grain moved out from the basement piled up on one side, waiting for Tang Tian to deal with them.

  Of course, according to Tang Tian's observation, the reason why they were so obedient there was completely related to Zhao Daniu, who was staring at them with a fierce gaze on one side, especially since his black iron club still had bloodstains on it, and outside there were several mutilated corpses.

  Tang Tian understood at a glance, it must be that someone refused to listen and was beaten to death by Zhao Daniu according to his own words.

  The villagers' faces were filled with fear, and when they saw Tang Tian appear on the second floor, they all cast their eyes towards him.

  Looking at these people, Tang Tian said coldly: "Since you have committed betrayal, you should be able to bear the consequences of being betrayed. Especially in this world that has lost its laws and order, I am the greatest here, your life and death are all controlled by me."

  Tang Tian's words made these people's faces suddenly turn pale, thinking that Tang Tian was going to kill them all.

  "Tang... Tang Lao Da, you can't possibly kill all of us, right? You also know that we were just deceived by Zhang Kun, and besides, we're thinking about our own lives too. And these grains originally belonged to us, so it shouldn't be wrong for us to take them back?" Someone spoke up at the critical moment when life and death hung in the balance.

  He didn't know what to call Tang Tian at first, so he simply called him Old Tang. However, he didn't dare speak too loudly and looked at Tang Tian with caution after finishing speaking.

  Looking at this person, Tang Tian coldly said: "Do you think that by saying this I won't kill you? Are you all thinking in your hearts that if I kill all of you, I'll have nothing left, becoming a lone commander without anyone to charge into battle for me? Food, I rescued you from the zombie hordes, and this is the reward I get? You steal my things, and in this world without law and order, what do you think I will do to you? Hmph..."

  Tang Tian's words left these people speechless. If it weren't for Tang Tian, they would have been killed by the zombies sooner or later. Using food to exchange for their own lives was also acceptable.

  Looking at these people who didn't say a word, Tang Tian said: "You can go upstairs and take a look, those who took the lead are what kind of ending, but I won't kill all of you, you still have use for me, however, if there is next time, you'd better touch your own neck to see if it's hard enough".

  Tang Tian couldn't possibly kill all of them, but in order to make these people behave from now on, some necessary intimidation was still needed.

  As expected, these people heard Tang Tian's words and let out a sigh of relief while also being nervous in their hearts, secretly warning themselves that they couldn't be so reckless again. The miserable cries from upstairs were something they had clearly heard.

  Looking at these people who have all become completely obedient, at least on the surface, Tang Tian is no longer afraid of them being treacherous. Once his own military camp is established and he has recruited an army, he won't be afraid of them turning against him.

  "Now, Tang Tian ordered: 'Alright, as long as you all follow the arrangement from now on, I won't be too excessive. Now, let me arrange it...'"

  Tang Tian pointed at five middle-aged women and said, "You all clean up the surroundings for me, and also tidy up the house. Get all those corpses together and burn them. If I see even a hint of blood in the house, you won't be eating dinner tonight."

  When those women who were called out went to clean up, Tang Tian looked at the people below again and said: "You used to be stonemasons, right? Good, I now order you to demolish all the houses that are not inhabited, clear a spacious ground for me, and pile up those stones on one side, I have other plans, did you all hear?"

  At this time, Tang Tian's order was that these people didn't dare to have half a word of complaint, and they all went home to fetch their tools and get to work. These people were all stonemasons, and every household had a set of tools.

  Before long, dozens of people with tools started working with a clang.

  After those people went to do things, Tang Tian came to Zhao Daniu's side and said, "You go and take care of them for me. Make sure to demolish all the empty houses and clear out a large enough space. I have a big use for it later."

  Although puzzled why Tang Tian wanted these people to just do it, Zhao Daniu didn't ask anything and would naturally find out later, so he turned around to go supervise those people.

  However, when turning around, Zhao Daniu asked Tang Tian: "By the way, how is my sister?" He was still concerned about his sister's comfort.

  "Don't worry, nothing will happen, don't you trust me?"

  "It's also you, after all, you're going to be my sister's husband, if she has something on her mind, you'll definitely be the first one to disagree", Zhao Daniu nodded in understanding and muttered to himself as he turned around and left.

  Tang Tian was suddenly struck dumb by his words, unsure of what to say.

  After dealing with all these things, Tang Tian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

  "Damn it, being a leader is really not easy on others. I don't know why so many people wanted to be officials in the past." After muttering to himself, Tang Tian found a quiet place to sit and started working on other things.

  "Seven skill enhancement points, which skills should I enhance?" Tang Tian thought in his mind.

  When I upgraded to level 10, I was rewarded with two skill enhancement points, and then another five points were awarded, for a total of seven skill enhancement points. But he didn't use any of them at all.

  Before the job change, he didn't dare to use it. After the job change, due to having less money and being depressed, he forgot to use it. When he came back, he encountered a big mess of things, and after busy dealing with them, he finally had time to think about strengthening his skills.

  "I currently have two active skills, Summoning Ghost Assassin and Taming. The summoning skill is level 5, but I won't rush to upgrade it for now. As for the taming skill, I haven't even tamed a pet yet, so no need to upgrade that either. For now, I'll just focus on upgrading my passive skill Basic Swordsmanship to level 5 and see what effects it has." After some thought, Tang Tian felt that only upgrading his basic swordsmanship was the way to go, after all, he was a swordsman.

  "Strengthening the second-level foundation knife technique", Tang Tian muttered to himself in his heart.

  "Enhancement successful, current Basic Swordsmanship is at level 3. Six skill enhancement points remaining, continue enhancing?"

  Tang Tian's mind received a prompt.

  "Continue to strengthen", Tang Tian repeated in his heart once again.

  Until the basic knife technique was strengthened to level 5, Tang Tian stopped strengthening it, and there were only four skill strengthening points left. He didn't plan to use them now, but instead saved them for future emergencies.

  After stopping the strengthening, Tang Tian finally took a look at the properties of the fifth-level basic knife technique.

  "Five-level basic knife technique. Active skill, your understanding of the knife has reached the pinnacle, allowing you to exert extremely strong combat survival ability in battle. Initial ability, can infuse internal energy into a 10cm long knife-shaped aura around the knife body, the aura cannot leave the knife body, and consumes one point of internal energy per second."

  This is the attribute after the five-level basic knife method, and Tang Tian was overjoyed as soon as he saw it. He didn't expect such an effect, but Tang Tian's excitement wasn't over yet. Later, his mind received another prompt.

  "Basic skills reached level 5, comprehension of knife aura, Xueyin Kuangdao's knife aura unsealed first layer, effect: under the same consumption of internal force, the effect of knife aura is doubled."

  At the same time as getting the hint, a dazzling white light flashed across the Snow Drinking Crazy Knife in Tang Tian's hand, and then returned to calmness.

  "What's going on? What kind of thing is this? And, Snow Drunken Sword has broken through one layer of seal just like that? Try it out and you'll know." Tang Tian said to himself with an extremely joyful heart.

  He raised the Snow Drinking Crazy Knife in his hand, silently thinking of infusing internal energy into the knife. Suddenly, a 20 cm long snow-bright glow appeared on the knife's body, wrapping around it like an enlarged virtual shadow.

  Whoa!!!

  With a wave of his hand, Tang Tian swung the Snow Drinking Crazy Knife and a stone table next to him was split in two like tofu, its cut surface gleaming with an unparalleled light.

  "Haha, it's too good, too powerful! If I encounter zombies again, it'll be like chopping vegetables!" Tang Tian almost burst out laughing at the scene before him.

  In his heart, he silently recited the incantation to stop infusing knife energy. Xueyin Kuangdao returned to its original state once again. After checking the attribute panel, his originally 500 inner power had changed to 493/500.

  "This is my trump card, try not to use it when there's no danger, heaven knows how this internal skill recovers", Tang Tian thought with a mix of excitement and concern.

  That's inner power, well, let's just call it inner power for now. There are only 500 points in total, but I don't know how to recover after consuming them.

  With a good mood, Tang Tian went to see how those people were doing with a pleasant heart.