Chapter 18: Yuanqi Dan Formula
Three days without going on the forum, the situation above can no longer be described as explosive.
The first is an official message, claiming that the global sales of game helmets have reached 800 million, and the number of people online has exceeded 500 million. This is a peak that the gaming industry has never reached before. Yang Tian didn't need to read the news to know that many game companies in the world are now facing bankruptcy. But Yang Tian was clear that the spring of "Tian Xia" had not yet arrived.
The second post is about player villages, a post called "Baishi Tong" by a player, calling on all village-building players to post their village's basic information online, leaving some experience for future village builders.
Yang Tian clicked in to take a look, and inside there were indeed many players posting, and basically they all already had villages. However, the purpose of their posts wasn't to share experiences with others, but rather to recruit members. Inside, there was no so-called "experience" at all, only introductions to village names, locations, affiliated guilds, followed by lengthy promotions for the guild.
After counting, there are more than 100 villages that have appeared inside. Almost all the player villages are now following the post, no wonder this post was pinned to the top. Not finding any news about Yan Huang Village on it is also within Yang Tian's expectation.
After taking a look at the locations of these villages, all 13 states of Eastern Han have village distributions, with Qingzhou and Yizhou having the most. The third Flowing Wind Village built in China is also located in Yizhou.
The third is about the news of the military symbol, a player accidentally received a task, after completing the task, got a Wu Changling, equipped with this order, can lead 5 NPC soldiers.
There are also many comments under this post, mostly praising the player's good luck, and some rich players even asked if the owner was willing to sell the soldier token.
However, Yang Tian knew that having a military order did not mean having everything. After all, in the early stages of the game, there were still very few people who had the ability to buy NPC soldiers.
This time, Yang Tian also found a post about himself, titled: A large number of weapons and equipment suddenly appeared in Kuaiji County! Suspected to be crazy hoarding raw materials. There were many follow-up posts below, and many players from other counties were very envious. The prices of raw materials in those places have not risen at all until now, and no one sells weapons either. If the teleportation fee wasn't ridiculously expensive now, I estimate that many players would start reselling raw materials.
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The next day at dawn, Yang Tian took Wu Ma and 96 soldiers across the river by boat.
It's still uncultivated here, and it's already the fifth day of building the village. Even medium-sized monster camps have accumulated over a thousand monsters.
Yang Tian now has a total of 96 soldiers under his command. The first 33 who changed their profession have already reached level 17, while those who changed professions the night before last only reached level 7 after yesterday's upgrade. This is still thanks to the joint killing of the bandits in the afternoon of the day before yesterday. After all, the larger the team, the less experience each NPC will get. I believe that by the time of the system war, many players' ordinary NPC troops will find it difficult to reach level 10, and dying on the battlefield will be their best destination.
There are so many wild monsters here now, Yang Tian doesn't want to waste them. He lets all the soldiers who have upgraded to the fourth stage stand on the periphery and attack with long spears, while those third-stage or newly-upgraded fourth-stage soldiers stand close behind and shoot arrows. As for the last twenty or so new recruits, Yang Tian directly tells them to give up attacking, they can upgrade a few levels first, wasting arrows is shameful.
Yang Tian took the lead, charging into the monster group with a fierce battle cry. These level 20 beasts were nothing but paper tigers to this group of people. If they were second-tier soldiers forming an array, they might still pose a threat. But now? A fight that could leave one or two people injured was already a good outcome. Yang Tian wasn't worried about his troops getting hurt; he had plenty of low-grade Golden Wound Medicine on him.
Another large low-level monster camp was cleared, and Yang Tian obtained a skill book "Primary Inner Strength", but it didn't have the word "true" in it. The difference in value between them couldn't be described. However, this book is still very useful to Yang Tian, because he hasn't learned inner strength yet. Ordinary NPC generals who don't know inner strength will never be able to advance to king-level warriors.
After that, Yang Tian destroyed the bison nest without hesitation. Looking at this dilapidated nest surrounded by a faint white light, Yang Tian knew that it would be reborn as a new nest tomorrow, and the monsters spawned inside would be 5 levels higher than before. If he destroyed it again, the level would increase by another 5 levels. Of course, if he continued to destroy it, the camp would upgrade, changing from a large nest to a giant nest, with a daily refresh of 10,000, and the level would also drop back to its original level. In Baiyun Village, this number would become 20,000. This setting was also designed to allow players to have more monsters to level up. Otherwise, in the mid-to-late game, each territory would have tens of thousands of soldiers, where would they find so many monsters to kill?
Slaughter all 7 large primary monster camps on this side, and all the soldiers under Yang Tian's command were upgraded by 1 to 5 levels. Now Yang Tian still dare not aim his target at medium-sized intermediate monster camps, because he does not want to see unnecessary casualties among his soldiers.
However, all the Yang Tian camps that were slaughtered were destroyed. He planned to turn the east bank of the Heavenly River into a training ground. Anyway, even if this side can't be killed for the time being, there's no need to worry about them attacking villages.
The whole time, Yang Tian didn't have the chance to collect beast hides. Looking at the corpses scattered all over the mountains and fields, Yang Tian wished he could split himself into multiple bodies. Even if he had the Butcher profession in the future, it would still be far inferior to players using Gathering skills in terms of speed. Although Gathering skills couldn't guarantee a 100% drop rate for beast hides like the Butcher profession, its speed was far beyond what any Butcher could achieve.
Fortunately, the gathering skill is only a system provided for players to obtain materials by killing beast-type monsters, and it can only be used on animal corpses, not on trees or minerals. Otherwise, people like Yang Tian would be at a disadvantage.
After taking down several other large camps, Yang Tian obtained a formula for "Primary Qi Dan Formula". The Qi Dan is something that can speed up the recovery of internal energy. Although now in the entire "Tian Xia" Chinese server, there are very few people who know how to cultivate internal energy, it's because the "Primary Internal Energy" can only be dropped by five-stage or higher humanoid NPCs, and with the current players' strength, it's hard to shake such enemies. But when the game has been going on for more than half a year, the number of players who know internal energy will increase greatly, at that time the demand for things like Qi Dan will also increase dramatically.
Don't look at Yang Tian, who now also knows primary internal skills, but he hasn't used Yuanqi Dan. That's because with his current primary internal skill second-level level, it is fundamentally impossible to use internal force for combat, and can only be used to enhance physical fitness.
Although the demand for Yuanqi Dan will increase dramatically later, the formula for Yuanqi Dan is extremely rare. The pharmaceutical skills brought by the doctors refreshed by the system are only related to blood replenishment and lifesaving, and they cannot make Yuanqi Dan. NPCs will not sell Yuanqi Dan either. Therefore, the formula for Yuanqi Dan is extremely precious. Moreover, once you learn the primary Yuanqi Dan formula, you may comprehend intermediate or even advanced Yuanqi Dan formulas, just like a doctor with primary Jinzhong Yao skill can comprehend intermediate Jinzhong Yao skills. Furthermore, this skill can also be comprehended by their apprentices. This is equivalent to having a golden egg-laying hen as soon as you have a primary Yuanqi Dan formula. Of course, there will be no economic benefits in the short term.
