Chapter 485: Chapter 485: Besieged on All Sides (Four Updates)
Yang Xiao exchanged all of his Genetic Balls for more than 23 million Crystal Coins, a number that even Monk Ben Yin found astonishing.
Yang Xiao intended to share half with Monk Ben Yin, who said seriously:
"Yang Xiao, it’s not that I’m being polite with you, I indeed wish to use these resources to enhance my Genetic Evolution Level, but if I take half, it may become even harder for your evolution to reach the Enhanced Gene Advanced level. Now that heroes are rising and wars are breaking out everywhere, we must have an extremely strong leader, and you are undoubtedly the best fit. If another powerful individual attacks us, how many will suffer as a consequence?"
Yang Xiao knew Monk Ben Yin meant well for him and felt deeply moved, replying:
"Alright, then I’ll temporarily use these resources. Once I’ve evolved to the high level, I’ll definitely help you reach the intermediate level as fast as possible."
Afterward, Yang Xiao used those 20 million Crystal Coins to increase each attribute by 2 points.
Now, Yang Xiao’s four Genetic Attributes were as follows:
Strength 58, Agility 58, Defense 58, Wisdom 58.
After enhancing his Genetic Attributes, Yang Xiao played another game of Go with Gu Bo, chatting leisurely while they played.
"Gu Lao, I’ve been feeling that my evolution speed is getting slower lately. It seems impossible to break through to King Level, and even reaching Enhanced Gene Advanced is difficult. I’ve already spent a billion Crystal Coins. To break through to King Level, wouldn’t I need even more resources?"
Gu Bo laughed and said:
"That shows you have great potential, which is a good thing."
Yang Xiao was taken aback.
Gu Bo chuckled:
"As far as I know, when Magic City’s Du Tianxing and Wentian City’s Gu Beifeng broke through to King Level, they only spent ninety million Crystal Coins, not even reaching a billion. Though they’ve entered King Level, they don’t have much potential left. You, on the other hand, have spent such vast resources just to reach high level, demonstrating that once your Beast Soul awakens, you’ll have tremendous potential."
Yang Xiao quickly said:
"Don’t say that; I even doubt whether I have a Beast Soul at all. After all this time, it hasn’t appeared, and I’m just an ordinary person."
"Heh, if you’re an ordinary person, then there probably aren’t many special talents in the entire Xuanming District."
Yang Xiao was stunned, thinking, damn, this label of a special talent is now stuck on me, and it might be difficult to shake off in the future.
After a while playing Go, Gu Bo was in an inevitable losing position and asked for another game.
Yang Xiao smiled, and they started a new game.
"Gu Lao, why is Master Long of Magic City no longer summoning us to train in the Genetic Transformation Technique? Wasn’t it said that there are stages like Body Refinement, Bone Forging, Yijin, Marrow Cleansing? We’ve only learned the stage of Body Refinement; how can we give up halfway?"
Gu Bo laughed:
"That’s not under my control, but from the looks of it, you’ve had some achievement in Body Refinement, be content. Many people practice all their lives and might not see success."
"What about you? Have you reached Great Success in Marrow Cleansing?"
"Haha, if I had reached Marrow Cleansing Great Success, I wouldn’t be here playing Go with you."
With that, Gu Bo stopped discussing cultivation and focused on playing Go with Yang Xiao, who also refrained from asking further.
Yang Xiao won the second game as well.
Gu Bo wanted to keep Yang Xiao to play more Go, but Yang Xiao said he had just returned and had many things to arrange, promising to play again when he was free.
Reluctantly, Gu Bo let it go.
Yang Xiao went to the second-floor office of a nearby building.
As requested, Long Yongjun and Gong Yu had already prepared some reporting materials in the office.
"Alright, Gong Yu, how have the cities been while I was away?"
"Boss, our cities have been quite stable without much happening, but it’s been rather turbulent outside."
"Outside? What do you mean?"
We’ve captured several reconnaissance teams from the Eastern Province coming over. These teams from East City have recently been active in the Yingzhou area where Huang Wen is, seemingly collecting information to prepare an attack on us.
Yang Xiao was shocked,
"The City King of Qingyun City is targeting us so quickly? He’s got quite the appetite."
Yang Xiao now profoundly understood that with every increase in Genetic Evolution Level, the needed Evolution resources are simply bottomless. To acquire more Evolution resources, there’s currently only one way, which is to expand territory, subjugate more subjects, and have a vast number of subordinates hunt Mutated Creatures, taking a certain ratio of Genetic Fragments from them. Little by little, these will eventually complete one’s Genetic Evolution journey.
Especially for these King Level Evolvers, the resources needed for each point increase in attributes are astronomical.
"Besides Southern Eastern Province, is there anything elsewhere?"
"Yes, the direction of Shanyun City has also been harassed by flying reconnaissance teams from North City. We’ve caught a few; they’re also collecting information. It’s said that the City King of Han Capital is also likely to break through to King Level."
Yang Xiao pondered; it seemed like a time of many troubles. If you don’t attack others, they will come to attack you.
Analyzing the current situation, Yang Xiao’s territory was already threatened from both the Eastern Province and North City. As for when the other party will launch an attack, that’s still unknown.
Taking the initiative would be essential; the first move would be capturing Shenlongjia and taking over Xiangfan City, then coordinating with Shanyun City to encircle and strike North City, seizing cities like Han Capital. After that, combining forces with Kongming City and North City to resist the attack from the Eastern Province.
In previous small city conflicts, perhaps a leader played a decisive role. But for provincial wars, not only a high Cultivation level of the leader is necessary, but also a large number of mid-level masters. Otherwise, even if you kill the opponent’s leader, you still need a great number of troops and talents to take over the enemy’s territory.
If one cannot effectively manage the enemy’s territory, they can’t gain local Evolution resources, rendering the war meaningless.
The last time Yang Xiao only attacked four cities in Kongming City, he deployed veterans like Xia Luo and Xiao Zhe, immediately feeling a shortage of talented personnel and military strength.
"How are the masters who entered Shaolin Temple and Divine Dragon School for training in Ancient Martial Cultivation from the four cities of Bamboo City, Xiangzhou, Silver City, and Yang City doing now?"
"From my observation and reports from Brother Ben Guo and Lan Xin, they are very engrossed in Cultivation and have completely submitted to us."
Yang Xiao nodded. Shaolin Temple and Divine Dragon School provided Ancient Martial Cultivation training indirectly domesticating the newly recruited talents because they must sincerely submit to have the opportunity to long-term Cultivation Ancient Martial Arts here.
Once North City is taken down, there will be even more talents under my command.
(Four updates complete; this Chapter hasn’t been edited for typos, everyone just bear with it, I’m dizzy and off to sleep!)