After returning to Qin City, the first thing Zhao Fu did was to plant a large amount of Hidden Evil Grass and take out a portion of it to refine Hidden Evil. As for its use, of course, it was to add it to medicinal pills.
In actuality, Zhao Fu's soldiers could use these medicinal pills because Hidden Evil could increase the medicinal pills' effects. The key was whether or not there was an antidote. If there was an antidote, Hidden Evil would be beneficial to him.
The antidote for Hidden Evil was described in the recipe, which was to use the root of Hidden Evil Grass.
Now that Zhao Fu had Hidden Evil, he could use it as a bargaining chip. Following this, Zhao Fu went to 25 kilometers south of Qin City and rebuilt Highstone Town. He took more than half of the residents and added them to Qin City.
By now, Zhao Fu already had two Towns, and he only needed one more Town to satisfy the requirements for leveling up to a Basic City. All that was left was EXP.
"I forgot!"
He still needed three people who were Third-Ranked Barons to become Mayors. Zhao Fu had long since given Bai Qi 500 Achievement Points for conquering Highstone Town. Adding on the King's Ring's bonus stats and the Achievement Points from before, Bai Qi's status was instantly raised to Second-Ranked Baron.
Even though leveling up to a Basic City required one to be a Third-Ranked Baron, leveling up to Second-Ranked Baron was not a waste. After all, Zhao Fu believed that leveling up to a Basic City would also require a status.
Now, Zhao Fu gave the Achievement Points to Liu Su-bai and planned to raise her to Third-Ranked Baron. At the same time, he made Bai Qi the Mayor of Highstone Town. Because of the King's Ring, obtaining Achievement Points was incredibly easy for Zhao Fu.
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Following this, Zhao Fu went to the various regions to collect people, but the results were quite poor. A region with a few system main cities only received 200 or so people per day.
Zhao Fu had expected this – people were treasures to everyone, and they couldn't be easily sold. As such, he had to find a way to make it so that they had no choice but to sell people.
Now, he could add in medicinal pills and use them to exchange for manpower. Hopefully, this business would be better.
However, it was already quite good for each region to have 200 people per day. Currently, Zhao Fu had opened up 22 regions. Excluding Green Apricot, which he had just opened up, there were 21 regions left. Each of these 21 regions had 200 people, so in total, there were 4,200 people.
4,200 people a day, which was dozens of times faster than Zhao Fu's soldiers. This made Zhao Fu want to shift the focus of his conquest to this side, because this side had more people.
Of course, conquering the outside world was a must. Not only could they obtain population, but they could also obtain City Creation Stones and Achievement Points. Most importantly, they could increase the soldiers' battle prowess.
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Following this, the first batch of Hidden Evil was refined and added to the Hundred Origin Pills. Zhao Fu took these Hundred Origin Pills and some equipment to the Orc City.
This was because when the Ghost Festival ended, Zhao Fu made a deal with the Orcs, exchanging equipment for people.
Zhao Fu used a teleportation channel to go to the Orc City to meet with Gunador. This time, Gunador brought Zhao Fu to a public square.
The public square was quite big and rough. On one side, there were Orc soldiers training, and the sounds they made were incredibly loud and ferocious. On the other side, there were people locked in wooden cages that looked like livestock.
These people's clothes were in tatters, and their faces were covered in dirt. They crouched within the cages in terror, and their bodies trembled, not knowing what would happen to them. There were Humans, Elves, and Kobolds.
There were roughly 1,200 people, and many of the women seemed to have been raped. Their gazes were dull, and most of their skin was exposed.
Zhao Fu's expression did not change, nor did he feel any fluctuations in his heart. After all, he had long since expected such a thing to happen. Don't dream about how merciful your enemies will be, because they'll treat you with unimaginable cruelty!
Living in the Heaven Awaken World, Zhao Fu had long since understood that as long as one's heart was immersed in darkness, one would not be affected by evil. As such, Zhao Fu would not be affected at all.
Moreover, these people's grades weren't very high, and one could tell at a glance that they didn't have much potential. People with low grades wouldn't be of much use to large factions because they had low growth potential. They could only be used as laborers, and it would be impossible to nurture them into soldiers.
After all, it would take far more resources to nurture people with low grades than people with high grades. They were most likely given to people with low grades because they were afraid of revenge in the future. If they gave their high grades to Zhao Fu, they would become stronger, which would be detrimental to the Orc City.
Because Zhao Fu had the Heaven and Earth Refining Formation, he didn't care too much about grades. However, he was quite unwilling to give people with low grades to him. After all, in front of a large faction, these people would just be cannon fodder.
"Esteemed guest! Are you satisfied? "
Gunador wasn't very confident either. He knew that selling people would have many hidden dangers, as it would be akin to raising a tiger. Ordinary Orcs didn't like to keep people alive, but he wanted to obtain a large amount of good equipment from Zhao Fu, so he could only do this.
Hearing this, even though Zhao Fu was quite unwilling, he still lightly laughed and politely replied with a hint of delight, "Sir Vice-Lord, I never thought that there would be so many people. I'm very satisfied. Apart from the equipment, I'll also give you 300 bottles of medicinal pills. "
As Zhao Fu spoke, he took out a bottle of Hundred Origin Pills. After all, the Orc City was a Basic City, and they most likely had Stage 1 medicinal pills like Little Spirit Pills. If Zhao Fu took out Little Spirit Pills, the Orcs wouldn't be very interested, so Zhao Fu took out Hundred Origin Pills.
Gunador took the bottle of medicinal pills and looked inside, and a look of delight appeared on his face.
The medicinal pills' stats were quite good, and now that Zhao Fu was giving out equipment and medicinal pills, Gunador felt quite bad. He said, "How can I accept this? Esteemed guest, how about I give you 50 Giant Wolves?"
The Giant Wolves that the Orcs had were Aberrations. They were massive, ferocious, and incredibly agile. They were many times faster than normal warhorses.
Zhao Fu's Black Forest Horses could compare to these Giant Wolves, but they each had their own strengths and weaknesses. However, these Giant Wolves were rarely seen in the wilderness because only Orcs could nurture them. Zhao Fu didn't know how, but the Orcs' Wolf Cavalry was incredibly famous.
Since Gunador was giving them to him for free, Zhao Fu accepted them because he was quite interested in these Giant Wolves. After completing the transaction, Zhao Fu brought some people with him to bring the captives back to Qin Qin City.
After being brought to Qin Qin City, these captives were incredibly terrified, and Zhao Fu ordered them to be released from their cages to show that they were safe and that he wouldn't harm them. Moreover, he would give them a stable life.
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