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Reality proved that Yang Rui's title as West Park's Left Commandant was not resounding enough. At this time, the news of the new army in West Park should have already reached Linzi City. However, after Yang Rui teleported to Linzi City, the courtyard of the Qingzhou Provincial Governor's Office in Qi King's Mansion was still very deserted. Only the few civil officials that Yang Rui had visited before were there.
However, this time, Yang Rui didn't have the civil officials from the Provincial Governor's Office spread the news. Even though he had made up his mind to reorganize and control the affairs of Qing Province, he still had to wait until the troops he led had risen in rank. Right now, Yang Rui had only come to the Provincial Governor's Office to settle down, and at the same time take a look at the influence of the West Park Left Commandant.
If the title of West Park's Left Commandant could allow Yang Rui to smoothly control the Qingzhou Provincial Governor's Office, it would not matter if they did not fight. However, Yang Rui was destined to be disappointed …
The reason why Yang Rui had immediately confirmed the plan to train in Qingzhou three days ago and informed Gao Shun, Zhang Ning, and Cheng Yu of the plan was mainly because Yang Rui knew of a very suitable leveling map in Qingzhou — the Penglai Region. Meanwhile, reorganizing Qingzhou was only a matter of convenience.
The Penglai Region map was an extremely famous novice leveling spot and starting place in the game in the previous life. It was very rich in monster resources. There were countless active small animals in the wilderness outside the map. They were all passive attacking monsters. Moreover, every one of them gave twice the experience under normal circumstances.
Meanwhile, the closer one was to the central mountain range, the higher the level of the monsters, and the higher the experience they gave. Although active attacking monsters would gradually appear, the monsters' level distribution was very hierarchical. As long as one did not go too deep and formed a party, it was generally relatively safe.
There was also an abandoned town within the map. Although players couldn't claim ownership of the town, nor could they trade or resupply in the town, they could rest and recover their stamina in the town for free. At the same time, they could also provide barracks for leveling up. This created the conditions for players to stay in the town for a long time.
It was worth mentioning that there were many places in Penglai where precious herbs grew. While killing monsters, he harvested some. Many players in Shi Feng's previous life had benefited greatly from this experience.
However, the Penglai Territory was also a very unique map. Every player was limited to entering the map once, regardless of how much they obtained. No matter what, he couldn't enter the map a second time. Unless he deleted his account and restarted! This was also the reason why Yang Rui had yet to set foot on this map. Originally, he wanted to wait for his strength to increase before entering the center of the map to investigate in detail.
Moreover, although the monsters in the Penglai map gave a lot of experience, they would not drop anything. At most, he could collect some animal hides, meat, and other raw materials. However, these items were not very valuable and had little to no appeal to players.
Therefore, many new players in Shi Feng's previous life would purchase Promotion Skill Books and various supplies in advance. After entering the Penglai Territory, they would focus on killing monsters and leveling up until they ran out of supplies. Often, when they entered, they would be Level 10 newbies who had just left the Novice Village. By the time they came out, they would already be Tier 2 or Tier 3. At the same time, they could also find a lot of herbs, which they could sell for money once they left the map.
Therefore, the map of Penglai was very popular among new players. Every time, they would fight, fight, and squeeze their way in! However, for high-level players, although the Penglai Territory Map could still provide a lot of experience, they could not obtain any Skill Books, equipment, or other items. This created a contradiction.
What high-level players lacked was not experience, but Skill Books, equipment, and the like. Sometimes, they had already reached the level but could not find a suitable Promotion Skill Book. These things could not be satisfied in the Penglai Territory Map. Therefore, there were fewer high-level players who came here.
The biggest flaw of the Penglai Territory Map was that this map was only opened once every season. The time that the map's entrance was open was also very short. Naturally, the number of players who could enter was very limited!
Fortunately, the Penglai Territory Map had not yet been discovered by other players. There were no other players competing with Yang Rui. Moreover, Yang Rui had the space in his storage ring and could bring many people in at once. This restriction did not affect Yang Rui.
Therefore, the Penglai Territory Map, or Penglai Territory Dungeon, was very suitable for Yang Rui to bring his troops to level up. From the beginning, it had become Yang Rui's first choice for training his troops. Most importantly, the Penglai Territory Map was about to open. Yang Rui only needed to wait for a few more days before he could send all 60,000 troops in!
Before this, Yang Rui had settled down in the Qingzhou Provincial Governor's Headquarters and placed all 60,000 troops outside of his storage ring. During the day, he would find some low-level monsters nearby to farm. Since he had nothing to do anyway, he would return to the Provincial Governor's Headquarters at night to replenish his supplies and rest in Yang Rui's storage ring.
Among these A-Grade able-bodied men, many of them had the Beginner Commander Talent. They could be split into groups and bring all the able-bodied men. It seemed that when West Park recruited able-bodied men, they had also considered the problem of future commanding troops. This saved Yang Rui the trouble of going out personally. In any case, efficiency was not important at this time.
As a result, the courtyard of the Qingzhou Provincial Governor's Headquarters, and even the entire Qi King's Residence and Linzi City became lively. Five hundred West Park New Army soldiers, wearing the same uniform equipment, entered and exited Linzi City in batches. From time to time, one could even see the West Park New Army's banner appear in one of the batches. This momentum immediately rose!
The actions of Yang Rui's troops quickly attracted the attention of NPCs and players. Qi King's Residence, Prime Minister's Residence, and Linzi County's Residence, who were previously unwilling to show their faces, all sent people to the Provincial Governor's Headquarters to check on the situation. Afterwards, various managers came to visit Yang Rui. However, they were all rejected by Yang Rui with the excuse that he was busy with work. Didn't he not want to see them before? Then let's not see them.
On the other hand, the reactions of the players were very different. Because they did not know the inside story, many players thought that some kind of regional storyline or regional quest had appeared in Linzi City. There were many players who wanted to strike up a conversation with Yang Rui's troops in order to obtain some sort of quest. However, none of the players received a reply.
There were also players who were hostile towards the new army because they had been robbed of their leveling resources. Some players even directly tried to attack the new army. However, the system prompt that followed made them feel very helpless. Players of the same faction and below Level 5 were not allowed to PK! Almost no players could have imagined that these fully equipped soldiers were actually so low-leveled!
However, Yang Rui gathered his troops and left Linzi City on the same day. On one hand, there were too many NPCs who came to seek an audience with Yang Rui. On the other hand, the players had already guessed that the West Garden Soldiers that appeared in Linzi City were related to Yang Rui. The direction of public opinion on the forums was already pointing towards Yang Rui.
Originally, Yang Rui only needed to wait for the opening of the Peng Lai Region. He could only temporarily stay in the Qingzhou Provincial Governor's Headquarters. Therefore, Yang Rui directly teleported to the administrative area of Donglai County — Huang County. Coincidentally, the Peng Lai Region was also within Huang County.
This time, after arriving at Huang County, Yang Rui did not make any noise. Instead, he quietly arrived near the Peng Lai Region Instance Dungeon. He set up a talisman tent and waited on the spot. The entrance to the Peng Lai Region Instance Dungeon was located on a slope by the seaside of Huang County. Some short trees were sparsely scattered on the slope. Among them, there was an inconspicuous stone pavilion. This was the entrance to the Peng Lai Region.
Relying on the memories of his previous life, Yang Rui easily found the stone pavilion and set up the talisman tent nearby. The entrance to the stone pavilion would only open once in the middle of every quarter. The opening time was on the same day as the month. The morning sun shone into the stone pavilion at a specific time, which was only about 15 minutes to an hour.
For example, one of the entrances would open on the 8th of August. At this time, there were only a few days left before the entrance opened. It was precisely because of this coincidence that Yang Rui had the opportunity to choose to enter the Peng Lai Region to train!
After Yang Rui arrived and investigated the area, he discovered that there were no villages within a radius of tens to hundreds of miles. It was very different from the situation of territories in his previous life. In fact, there were only stretches of coast and rolling hills near the entrance to the Peng Lai Region. It was indeed not very suitable for establishing a territory. In his previous life, it was only after the entrance to the Peng Lai Region was discovered that players began to establish territories nearby. Moreover, due to the restrictions of the terrain, the size of the territory's development was also very limited.
Now, there were not many traces of players here. Yang Rui once again released all of his subordinates from the storage ring. Once again, they split up into small groups and scattered near the coast to grind some low-level sea monsters. The coast here was mostly filled with cliffs. There were very few beaches. The monsters that spawned here were mostly turtles and crabs. Their defense was very high, but their experience points were average. There were also almost no drops. Therefore, very few players were willing to grind by the beach.
However, in his previous life, there were also players who liked to grind by the beach. Later on, they even came up with a set of experience for grinding monsters. Yang Rui had also read it once. The most important points included using the tide to kill monsters, using blunt weapons to break the defense of shell-type monsters, and so on. Yang Rui could still remember some of them.
Among them, the one that left a deep impression was that this player had actually used the ebb of the tide to kill a large sea monster that was stranded in the Shallow Water Bay. He had also uploaded the relevant game screenshots to the forums. For a time, it had attracted the attention of many players.
Now was the time for Yang Rui to put these experiences into practice. After three to four days, the results were indeed not bad. Although Yang Rui had a lot of subordinates, all of them had reached level fourteen or fifteen. Once they entered the Penglai Territory, he would be able to convert all of his subordinates into Tier-1 militia. It was estimated that in the remaining two to three days, his subordinates would be able to level up by one or two levels.
During this time, Gao Shun, Zhang Ning, and Cheng Yu had nothing to do. They also followed Yang Rui to patrol a large area of the coastline. Unfortunately, they did not find any large sea monsters that were stranded in the shallow water. They only found a giant clam in a narrow rock after the tide had receded. After some effort, they killed it and obtained two baby fist-sized Grade 6 pearls and two large clam shells. After that, they obtained nothing else.
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