Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1177: Chapter 400: Building Upgrades, Preparations and Plans, Husband and Wife’s Tacit Understanding (Part 3)

[Special Function 1: Can automatically generate a recipe based on records. Once materials are placed into the Main Cauldron according to the recipe, add water and heat, and pills will be automatically produced.]

[Special Function 2: The Main Cauldron can be used for injury diagnosis and healing. Any injury of a cultivator below the Venerable Level can be treated after diagnosis by the Main Cauldron, leading to recovery.]

[Special Function 3: Equipped with 100 Sub-drug Furnaces inside, the furnaces can improve the pill completion rate of Pharmacists by 30%.]

[Special Function 4: Includes a thousand-meter-wide spiritual medicine field, which can consume coal stone to cultivate spiritual medicine.]

After reading the entire description, Xia Hong’s expression immediately became excited.

The Main Cauldron’s functions remained unchanged, while the Sub-drug Furnaces increased from 50 to 100, and the medicine field expanded fourfold, just solving Cheng Feng’s issue.

The key is Special Function 2.

"I never thought I would learn about the cultivation realm beyond the Xianyang Level through the Alchemy Pavilion. Venerable Level... Venerable Level..."

Xia Hong couldn’t help but mutter a few times to himself, eyes full of curiosity and longing.

"That Landgrave of Cai Qiu Feudal Town is probably at this cultivation level. Judging from the power gap of various cultivation realms before, a strong individual at this level should be able to easily crush someone at the Xianyang Level!"

Thinking of this, Xia Hong couldn’t help but feel a bit more urgency.

The Main Cauldron can be used to diagnose and heal individuals below the Venerable Level, so even if the Holy Vein Pill can’t heal Xiang Fuhai’s injuries, it won’t matter.

Of course, there’s also the important consumption and subsequent upgrade conditions:

[Consumption: 30000 coal/hour for pill production; the diagnostic function will consume varying amounts of coal stone and silver depending on the rarity of the item; the medicine field consumes 2000 silver/day; the Main Cauldron’s healing function consumes 1 million silver per use.]

[Upgrade Conditions: 5 billion Mu, 5 billion coal, 9 billion iron, 500 million silver, 20000 gold, 1000 combined elixir recipes.]

Tsk tsk tsk...

After reading the last two descriptions, Xia Hong couldn’t help but shake his head repeatedly.

The function has become powerful, but the consumption has become extremely astonishing.

Coal stone doesn’t matter; Great Xia is currently overflowing with it.

silver per day for the medicine field means it surely needs to be used daily, which would amount to over 700,000 silver a year or 3.5 million taels of silver.

The key is the consumption for healing, requiring 1 million silver resources per session, which amounts to 50 million taels of silver in actual silver. Great Xia’s yearly silver earnings from the Seven Towns just about suffices to treat illnesses eight times.

That’s right, just for treating illnesses.

The system description is very clear; after diagnosis by the Main Cauldron, further symptomatic treatment is needed, meaning the Main Cauldron is responsible for diagnosis, and the specific treatment methods have to be figured out subsequently.

As for the requirements for subsequent upgrades, they didn’t come as a surprise to him. Resource consumption doubled, and gold was added, which means that upgrading the Alchemy Pavilion isn’t something to consider in the short term.

"The medicine field can be expanded; go inform Mu Dong to send craftsmen to continue reclaiming new land on the inner side of the valley."

"I obey!"

Cheng Feng was immediately excited upon hearing this and hurriedly bowed in agreement.

The last time the Three Pavilions were upgraded, the land in Great Xia Inner City wasn’t enough. Now, with the inner city’s growing population, the Eight Departments have also built their respective halls. Xia Chuan had long arranged for the Craftsmen Department to continuously expand the inner city into the valley.

"Alright, continue with your work! I still need to visit the other two pavilions."

"Subordinate respectfully sees off the Lord!"

Cheng Feng’s face showed a startle upon hearing this, realizing that it wasn’t just the Alchemy Pavilion undergoing significant changes this time, but also the Artifact Refining Pavilion and Martial Arts Pavilion. He couldn’t help but become excited.

The Martial Arts Pavilion enhances cultivation efficiency; the Artifact Refining Pavilion enriches the armory, not to mention the pills in the Alchemy Pavilion. These three buildings are closely tied to everyone in Great Xia, and their every change generally heralds significant camp development. Being the Director of the Harvesting Department, Cheng Feng is well aware of this, which is why he is so excited.

And just as he was growing excited, Xia Hong quietly arrived at the Artifact Refining Pavilion.

"18 Zong, your cultivation is indeed slightly inferior to Cheng Feng’s. You barely leave Xia City, do you?"

Mu Dong wasn’t crafting today but teaching his apprentices. The recent changes in the Artifact Refining Pavilion must have alerted him, so seeing Xia Hong come over, he wasn’t quite surprised.

Mu Dong, having just sent off his apprentices, stiffened at Xia Hong’s mention of his cultivation, nodded, and replied with a bitter smile, "I am indeed engrossed in artifact refining, having not left Xia City for several consecutive years. Forgive me, Lord."

Xia Hong waved his hand, saying, "Cheng Feng, like you, has an Intermediate Battle Body, but his strength has reached 23 Zong, demonstrating he has put considerable effort into cultivation. Both of you shouldn’t lack Contribution Value. I recall the exchange limit for Dragon Carp Pill and Green Cod Pill for the Eight Departments Directors is 10 each per month. Your strength shouldn’t lag behind his by such a margin, right?"

When an Intermediate Battle Body breaks through, its basic strength should not exceed 16 Zong. Both Mu Dong and Cheng Feng have reached Peak Cold Resistance Cultivation. To improve, they would need Dan Medicine; thus, given equal resource supply, a 5 Zong difference in strength clearly signifies an issue.

Either Mu Dong doesn’t invest time in cultivation, or he hasn’t exchanged for that many Dan Medicines.

"Your insight is sharp, Lord. I am not willing to invest much time in cultivation, so I’ve handed over the Dragon Carp Pills and Green Cod Pills I acquired to my son."

Mu Dong has two sons named Mu Yan and Mu Feng, whom Xia Hong faintly remembers. When he heard that Mu Dong gave his cultivation resources to his sons, he shook his head and said, "This is your family matter, and I shouldn’t interfere much. However, I must remind you that your forging ability is closely related to your strength. Currently, Ten Thousand Forging Level weapons require over a hundred Cold Resistance Level craftsmen working day and night for half a year. For higher level weapons, I estimate that without a Xianyang Level cultivation, it’s not worth thinking about. By then, you surely can’t expect me, the Lord, to stay in the Artifact Refining Pavilion forging weapons as in the past, right?"