Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1443 - 460: Golden Bone Melting Furnace, Reasons for Slow Progress, Army Mobilization and Arrival

The troop strength of Zhenyuan Camp is over two hundred thousand.

Among them, the strongest fifty thousand Silver Scale Army all have strength above 20 Zong; the one hundred fifty thousand Town Guard Army all have strength above 10 Zong.

A Cold Resistance Level army of over two hundred thousand, plus 148 Xianyang Level, and Cai Qiu’s Tribulation Body Realm—there is no way he would ignore this place, so he should be counted in as well.

With such a powerful force, this is all the progress they’ve made in two years of opening up the land?

The total area of the Blood Miasma Plain is over 7,500 square kilometers; what does the concept of a little over 400 square kilometers mean? It’s barely more than half a tenth, not even six percent.

Before the first year of Xia Hong, he had also led teams to survey unfamiliar regions. For example, the early development of Redwood Ridge was personally overseen by him.

If one insists on comparing, the efficiency with which Great Xia opened up Redwood Ridge back then is roughly comparable to what Cai Qiu is doing now.

But the problem is, at that time he only had Earth-digging Realm Cultivation, and Great Xia as a whole was in a ”few scrawny cats” state. If two Intermediate Cold Beasts showed up they’d have to run, and the reason mining efficiency was so low had nothing else behind it—just weakness.

If someone with Cai Qiu’s kind of strength had been there back then, he’d probably have just bulldozed straight through the entire Redwood Ridge.

Several Tribulation Body Realm experts, over a hundred Xianyang Level, a Cold Resistance Level army of two hundred thousand—this has absolutely nothing to do with weakness. To step back ten thousand steps, if more than two hundred thousand Soldiers deployed in full formation, even at one square meter per person, that adds up to 200 square kilometers.

Two years, a little over 400 square kilometers. Described like this, it’s easy to see just how outrageous this pace of development is.

It is absolutely impossible that Cai Qiu invested too little, or was too weak. The only explanation is that this stretch of the Blood Miasma Plain is too perilous, and the difficulty for humans to survey and open it up has risen to a level completely beyond normal understanding.

Just how dangerous does it have to be to make Cai Qiu advance with such difficulty?

Caiqiu Calendar, year 297, eleventh month, second day.

After resting for a day in the main building of the camp, Xia Hong finally received word from Cai Yunlan at nightfall.

The army is about to move out!

Whooo, whooo, whooo......

Red snow filled the sky, and the cold wind howled.

On the south side of Zhenyuan Camp, at the very center of the army formation preparing to march, stood a gigantic Melting Furnace with a diameter of ten meters and a height of about twenty meters.

The Melting Furnace radiated dazzling golden light; that radiance even outshone the raging flames more than ten meters high at its base. Not to mention the hundred thousand Soldiers poised to set out—even the entire Zhenyuan Camp was lit bright as day by the golden light spilling from the Melting Furnace.

Beneath the Melting Furnace was a cubic coal furnace five meters in length, width, and height. Aside from the top side, which supported the Melting Furnace, the other sides were all semi-enclosed, with a circular feed port about half a meter in diameter left on each of the four lateral faces. Over a thousand bare-chested porters stood by, periodically tossing in pitch-black, glossy coal blocks, clearly high-calorie coal that had been purified and compressed.

Under the coal furnace there were a total of twenty silver-colored giant wheels, each two meters in diameter, clearly the means of ensuring it could move smoothly. As for its source of power, that lay in the silver chains bound to all four sides of the coal furnace.

Each of those four chains was over one meter in diameter and roughly a hundred meters in length. Extending outward, each end branched into tens of thousands of smaller silver chains, which ultimately fell into the hands of tens of thousands of Soldiers—and these tens of thousands of Soldiers were the true source of power for the entire giant Melting Furnace.