Chapter 88

Cheng Yang planned to use the statue enhancement stone to upgrade the number of priests who could be promoted, as this effect was the most significant for the current situation.

Leaving the prayer hall, Cheng Yang felt a bit unsatisfied. The benefits from clearing the Blood Church on Nightmare difficulty did not seem to be as good as expected. Of course, this was in comparison to the initial priest statue he had obtained. Compared to the skill inheritance bead, the statue enhancement stone was still much better.

After reuniting with Chen Yun and the others, Cheng Yang immediately chose to exit the instance.

There was no doubt that the Nightmare difficulty instance had a clear advantage in terms of equipment rewards, and the spirit energy points obtained were nearly 1000. Cheng Yang planned to take Chen Yun and the others to the Nightmare difficulty instance every day to increase the efficiency of obtaining spirit energy points for the territory and to upgrade their equipment as soon as possible.

Subsequently, Cheng Yang instructed Chen Yun and the others to organize the territory guards to clear all the Hard difficulty instances, which would provide nearly 5000 spirit energy points for the territory, with a total of ten opportunities.

After making these arrangements, Cheng Yang came to the priest statue and used the statue enhancement stone he had just obtained. Instantly, the number of promotion slots increased from 20 to 41. This was not only due to the effect of the statue enhancement stone but also due to the talent bonus from Li Wanshan.

With 21 additional slots, it was necessary to find new suitable candidates for promotion. However, there were not many people with the priest talent, and finding 21 suitable candidates from the over 20,000 refugees was a challenging task.

This time, Cheng Yang did not plan to do it himself but assigned the task to Li Wanshan, who also had the authority to promote people.

The Luo Feng Village combatant team was gradually getting on track, and the division of labor was becoming clearer. Each person could almost obtain 50 to 60 spirit energy points per day, which was enough to meet their double training needs and still have some left over.

The only problem was that there were now many mid-level first-stage demonized beasts and large groups of demonized beasts, which constrained the expansion of the Luo Feng Village combatant team.

To break through this obstacle, one method was for Cheng Yang to take the lead in tackling large groups of demonized beasts, which would open up the situation for the combatant team. The second method was to quickly promote more combatants to mid-level apprentice, which would significantly reduce the threat of large groups of demonized beasts.

Cheng Yang was working on both fronts. Whenever he had no urgent matters, he would sweep the demonized beasts around Luo Feng Village. After several days of training, the first batch of promoted combatants was on the verge of breaking through, especially Liu Hao and others, who were expected to reach mid-level apprentice after tonight's training. The others would also gradually advance in the coming days.

For today's plan, Cheng Yang intended to occupy the territory altar north of Xiangcheng City, which was the last territory altar around Xiangcheng City. After occupying this altar, if Cheng Yang wanted to increase the number of subordinate settlements, he would have to explore further.

This time, Cheng Yang only took Yu Kai's team, and they even postponed their training time. However, Yu Kai, who had already learned about the benefits of subordinate territories from Liu Hao, had no complaints. Since Cheng Yang only took his team, it was clear that he intended to make Yu Kai the manager of the subordinate settlement.

Before leaving, Cheng Yang replenished his storage ring with some potions, and he still had a little over 100,000 spirit energy points left. Although his spirit energy points were quite abundant yesterday, buying a storage ring had depleted his gains.

Leaving from the north gate of Luo Feng Village, they rushed towards Xiangcheng City.

On the way, Cheng Yang passed by the entrance to the Dead Spirit Canyon and led a large group of people to clear the instance again. With his current strength, clearing this instance was no longer a challenge.

Continuing north, they encountered many refugees along the way, but the number was much less than before.

The situation of these people had changed slightly.

Firstly, demonized beasts now mostly lived in groups, giving people a chance to survive in the gaps. Since the monsters in Xiangcheng City had not been killed in large numbers, the number of newly spawned monsters was small, reducing the number of unexpected events for the refugees.

Secondly, ordinary refugees could now obtain spirit energy points. Some brave people began to team up and kill demonized beasts. Although this process was arduous and dangerous, the rewards were significant. As long as they accumulated 10 spirit energy points, they could go to the main city to change their profession.

Currently, as long as they were careful, even in areas far from the main city, they could find a way to enter the main city. Moreover, Yuan Jianze, the controller of Xiangcheng City, did not restrict this process. Anyone who could accumulate 10 spirit energy points could smoothly change their profession to a combatant. Such people were also targets for recruitment by various civilian groups and even the military.

Most combatants could not refuse the olive branches extended by the military or civilian groups, but a small number of ambitious people did not want to be subordinates. They formed small teams and were active in the areas around the main city, killing demonized beasts.

These small teams also had their own methods of expansion. After accumulating a certain amount of spirit energy points, they would select suitable candidates from their relatives or friends and promote them.

Therefore, it could be imagined that the number of combatants in Xiangcheng City would soon experience explosive growth.

As before, Cheng Yang did not take the rescued refugees with him but left them to wait. After he occupied the territory altar north of Xiangcheng City, he would return this way and take them back.

Upon reaching the northern passage of Xiangcheng City, as expected, a large group of demonized beasts blocked the way. However, this time, the demonized beasts were not the annoying spotted fur spiders but the familiar lesser demons.

Cheng Yang was quite pleased with this situation. Without any hesitation, he charged forward alone, withstanding the attacks of the lesser demons and using ice spikes to clear them.

After more than ten minutes, the battle ended, leaving only a pile of corpses and a scroll-like item on the ground.

Cheng Yang opened the scroll and found that it was a potion recipe.

True Demon Potion Recipe: A recipe that records the method of making True Demon Potion. Learning condition: Alchemy skill level 3. (True Demon Potion (Small): Black Iron level potion, temporarily increases magic attack by 2 points, effective for 5 minutes.)

This was a good recipe. In the previous life, someone had obtained this recipe, and the True Demon Potion they made became a hot commodity in Xiangcheng City and the surrounding areas.

Now that this recipe was in Cheng Yang's hands, it would undoubtedly be even more effective, thanks to his Divine Effect talent. With his innate potion body, taking a bottle of True Demon Potion would increase his magic attack by 8 points, which was better than equipping a silver-level weapon.

Cheng Yang was excited. With the True Demon Potion he could make, he would be able to handle even more powerful demonized beasts in the future.

He immediately tried to learn the recipe but failed. Upon closer inspection, he found that it required level 3 alchemy skill.

This discovery made Cheng Yang quite frustrated. His current alchemy skill was only level 2, and he had only reached level 2 a few days ago. It would take at least another ten days to reach level 3. It seemed he would have to wait to enjoy the True Demon Potion.

Putting the potion recipe in his storage ring, Cheng Yang and Yu Kai's team continued their journey. The situation in this area was similar to yesterday's. They encountered small groups of demonized beasts, but large groups appeared frequently. They would encounter a group of 700 to 800 demonized beasts every 700 to 800 meters.

In most cases, Cheng Yang would use the Skill Transfer skill, and the six of them would attack the demonized beasts together. If the others could not withstand the attacks, Cheng Yang would take on the entire group alone. Although this reduced efficiency, it was safer.

After two hours, based on the descriptions from some people in the forum from the previous life, Cheng Yang found the approximate location of the territory altar. He left Yu Kai and the others at the spot and entered the dense forest alone.

Today, Cheng Yang was undoubtedly very lucky. Not only was the potion recipe he obtained better than the Spirit Gathering Pill Furnace from yesterday, but finding the territory altar was also much easier. It took him less than half an hour to find the territory altar surrounded by countless demonized beasts.

The group of demonized beasts in front of him was not stronger than the one from yesterday, so Cheng Yang did not hesitate to start. Although the mid-level first-stage demonized beast leader was not at the territory altar today, it did not affect his decision.

Following the same strategy as yesterday, Cheng Yang easily climbed the territory altar. He had plenty of mana potions and life potions, so he could fight without worrying about the cost.

After an hour, the battle ended, and Cheng Yang successfully occupied the settlement named Dongshan Village.

Looking at the four profession statues rising around him, a sense of pride welled up. In this vast world, who else could occupy three territory altars in just over ten days after the apocalypse?

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