Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

”Father, to relieve the camp of such a significant debt burden, I am willing!”

Zhu Baixu, despite showing some anxiety, did not tarnish the honor of a leader’s son and still stood up first.

”Father, I am willing to go to East Ridge!”

”Father, so am I!”

”Father, let me go to East Ridge!”

Young and exuberant at fifteen or sixteen, after Zhu Baixu stood up, Bai Wuji, Wan Qingyu, and Nie Shen naturally refused to lag behind and all stood up.

Although Yang Quan’s son wasn’t present, seeing the other four families agree, he too could only sigh and clasp his hands toward Lu Yang, ”Yanggu agrees as well, I will personally escort my son to East Ridge soon.”

”Good, you five leaders are indeed forthright!”

Lu Yang laughed heartily and casually exchanged a glance with Wang Tao behind him, a hint of a successful smile flickering in both their eyes.

Whoosh........

No one noticed that after the dust had settled from Lu Yang’s discussions with everyone at the Zhu Ling camp, a gust suddenly swept across the sky above the camp.

”Obtaining a thousand catties of silver is not as valuable as obtaining a promise from Yang Zhun. Interesting!”

In the high altitudes east of Zhu Ling’s camp, Xia Hong, clad in black, flew through the sky, quietly repeating a phrase Wang Tao had said, and shook his head with a light chuckle.

There must be some commonality among the calendrical systems of the various camps in the Ice Abyss.

In the past, the difference between the Longyou Calendar and the Great Xia Calendar was only ten days. Now, the Moao Calendar and the Great Xia Calendar differ by even less—only four days.

Today, according to the Great Xia Calendar, it’s the eleventh of September.

In the Moao Calendar, it’s the fifteenth of September.

The morning of the tenth of September, before dawn, he set off from Mirror Valley, flying along the Double Dragon Mountain Wall to Beining Mountain, spent a day familiarizing himself with the new environment, hunted several flying Cold Beasts in the mountains, and then headed directly to East Ridge.

After hearing about the duel from He Ning and others, he thought of witnessing it for himself and traced his way to Zhu Ling’s camp. He hid in mid-air the entire time, not only watching the entire duel but also witnessing Lu Yang’s step-by-step strategy, manipulating the five leaders.

”Lu Yang’s tactics are becoming more and more shrewd. He plans to first use hostages to control the five leaders, then use this to penetrate the five families and achieve control over them. The idea of hostages must have been suggested by Wang Tao!”

It was clear to Xia Hong from the start that Lu Yang never really intended to take those wagered goods.

After all, to Great Xia, the goods lost by the five families were indeed insignificant, like a drop in the ocean. Exchanging those goods for five hostages to control the leaders of the five families was of much greater value.

For Lu Yang, the most worrisome thing in East Ridge these three years had been getting noticed by Beishuo.

Coincidentally, Zhu Ling’s five families were always watching him. Now, with these five hostages, East Ridge could utterly eliminate this concern. Indeed, a very clever strategy.

As for saying it was a suggestion from Wang Tao, that’s simple enough.

The strategy of using hostages was previously employed by Long Mountain.

Wang Tao, having been from Long Mountain, was naturally familiar with this tactic. To suggest such a strategy to Lu Yang, it was likely Wang Tao.

”Having seen Moao Mountain, next I should visit the legendary Beishuo Town!”

Glancing eastward in the air, Xia Hong’s eyes flashed as he accelerated his flight toward Beishuo City.

”Eh, it’s him!”

But after having flown for a while, he seemed to have noticed something and looked down at the snowy ground below with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

”I had noticed before; this Zhu Yang, although possessing Peak Cold Resistance Cultivation, is clearly only in a Lower War Body, yet his Basic Strength reaches as high as twenty-seven manes. He must have some special channel for enhancement, perfect opportunity to inquire!”