By the time Ouyang Shuo finished, two hours had already passed. His inner strength had only recovered by less than 20%. If he wanted to fully recover, he would need at least three or four days of rest.
With this delay, the remaining six soldiers who were sealed in ice had truly died.
Ouyang Shuo sighed and remained silent.
After regaining his mobility, Ouyang Shuo came to the hill-like corpse of the Iron Armor Beast. The Iron Armor Beast was full of treasures, and Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't waste it. He activated the advanced gathering skill and began to collect.
"System notification: Congratulations to player Not Have Clothes for collecting 225 Iron Armor Beast scales, 1 Perfect Rhino Horn, 540 units of Wild Beast meat!"
[Iron Armor Beast Scales]: Quality 10, High-level scale armor, hard, comparable to fine iron, good ductility, light weight, a superior material for forging armor.
[Perfect Rhino Horn]: Quality 12, Black, conical, the surface is black, the lower part is lighter, grayish-brown. Superior medicinal material, has the effects of curing cold, clearing heat, cooling blood, detoxification and other effects.
[Pure Wild Beast Meat]: Quality 8, Medium ingredient, can enhance physique to a certain extent after eating.
They were all good stuff!
Ouyang Shuo put the scales and rhino horn into his storage bag, and the wild beast meat was rewarded to the soldiers of the Imperial Guard Brigade. For the current Ouyang Shuo, the effect of wild beast meat to enhance physique was negligible.
After packing up, the Imperial Guard Brigade hurriedly buried the dead soldiers and continued the clean-up operation.
Perhaps this area was the territory of the Iron Armor Beasts. In the following time, they didn't encounter another wild beast, and the clean-up operation went extremely smoothly. They advanced two kilometers in one day.
Just as planned, the wild boar and rhinoceros cubs were kept and brought back to the base to be raised. The wild boar and rhino were not wasted. The wild boar, rhino skin, tendon, rhino horn and other materials were all collected by the Imperial Guard Brigade.
The large amount of wild boar meat collected greatly alleviated the food crisis of the expeditionary army.
Near evening, the Imperial Guard Brigade returned with a full load.
Near the port, a temporary base had been built, and it was very lively. Ouyang Shuo, on the other hand, directly returned to the small building by the sea.
He didn't know if Song Jia's trip was smooth.
In the next few days, Ouyang Shuo didn't go out again. He stayed in the small building by the sea and adjusted his internal energy. Five days later, the aftereffects of the Demonic God's Possession completely disappeared, and his inner strength had completely recovered.
Although Ouyang Shuo stayed in Cliff State, he was not completely ignorant of the outside world through the forum.
In just half a month, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebel Army, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang Rebel Army, Yellow Turban Rebel Army, and Huang Chao Rebel Army had also appeared in the wilderness.
The Year of Chaos had officially begun!
With the four major rebel armies in place, the alliance between the Lord class players sped up and entered the practical stage. A large number of alliances sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
For example, the Brotherhood Alliance, the Chivalry Alliance, the Lily Alliance, the Ruthless Flower Destroyer Alliance, the Elementary School Alliance, the Death Squad Alliance, and so on, they all posted an alliance announcement on the forum, inviting the various lords to join the alliance and fight against the uprising army.
The slogans were getting louder and louder.
"True brothers, we vow to follow each other through life and death, to achieve great things together!"
"Righteousness as high as the clouds, treating each other with sincerity and sincerity, swearing blood as an oath to fight the rebels together!"
"True lilies, not lonely, companionship, helping each other in times of hardship!"
Uh, it looks like something weird got mixed in.
"We're the hooligans, ruthlessly destroying flowers, in terms of savagery, who else but us can do it!"
"Elementary school students are the most invincible, the gang leader, loyal!"
"We're pests, we're pests, we're the bravest death squad, lalalalala ~ ~ ~"
… …
These kinds of alliances were basically just gimmicks, pleasing to the eye but useless.
True alliances were carried out in secret, on a small scale. Only these kinds of alliances could survive, and even prosper, eventually becoming the leader of a certain region.
At this point, with the help of the various rebel armies, the local tyrants of the China region were also quietly rising, and the seeds of military rule had already begun to take root.
Although these local tyrants couldn't compare to a major power like the Yan Huang Alliance, when it came to a specific region, they had absolute authority. Even the Yan Huang Alliance couldn't do anything to them.
In the end, they would affect the map of the China region.
The road in front of Ouyang Shuo and the Mountain and Sea Alliance was a long and arduous one!
After raking in a large sum of money through the sale of authentic secret manuals, Jianxia County made a new move. The Azure Sun Sword Sect changed their usual ways and recruited disciples from the player community without charging a fee.
Apart from that, Feng Qingyang also put up a huge bounty, inviting experts from all walks of life to join the Azure Sun Sword Sect. The people they invited were not limited to the player community, but also the experts among the indigenous people.
In the area of martial arts sects, Jianxia County, represented by Feng Qingyang, had an absolute advantage. In this aspect, they were much more well-informed than the other major powers.
The expansion of the Azure Sun Sword Sect was obviously to deal with the major sects in the future.
Feng Qingyang was determined to compete with the future Wudang, Huashan, and the other sects.
For the ancient martial arts aristocratic families, territorial hegemony wasn't their real goal. Compared to war, they were more interested in unifying the Pugilistic World, becoming the overlord of the Pugilistic World, and the emperor of the Pugilistic World.
Even in Hope Planet, a powerful martial arts sect's influence wouldn't be any weaker than a certain territory or any other power.
Especially in the context of martial arts, managing a martial arts sect would be very promising.
It was hard to say that Feng Qingyue wasn't behind all of this.
The members of the Mountain and Sea Alliance also received good news.
After a period of intensive suppression of bandits, Baihua and Feng Qiuhuang finally reached the required amount of contribution points and were promoted to third-rank Marquises. Baihua was conferred the title of Marquis Lingxi, and Feng Qiuhuang was conferred the title of Marquis Scarlet Phoenix.
At this point, the world's top ten Marquises were officially in place.
Among the ten, three of them were from the China region, which was very eye-catching.
After being promoted to Marquis, Lingxi County and Luofeng County had already applied for territorial advancement missions. If everything went smoothly, they would both be promoted to county cities before the new year.
The Mountain and Sea Alliance's influence in China had reached its peak.
Gaia Year 2, 3rd February.
In a quiet room, Ouyang Shuo took out the wooden box containing the inner core.
After adjusting his body to its peak state, Ouyang Shuo prepared to consume the inner core. The best time to consume the inner core was within half a month of obtaining it. As time passed, the effect would be reduced. Ouyang Shuo couldn't find a Daoist priest to refine the inner core for him in a short period of time, so he could only consume it directly.
The inner core was still shimmering with blue light, quietly lying in the wooden box, looking very mysterious.
In his previous life, Ouyang Shuo might not have consumed the inner core, but he knew a thing or two about how to consume it. It was actually very simple, just swallow it directly.
Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate and directly placed the inner core into his mouth.
The miraculous thing was that when the inner core entered Ouyang Shuo's mouth, it automatically turned into a cooling liquid and flowed down his throat, into his abdomen, and then into his dantian.
After five days of recovery, Ouyang Shuo's dantian had already returned to normal. Tens of thousands of strands of inner energy condensed into a golden mist. It was extremely dense, and it looked like a golden cloud.
The golden cloud occupied the center of the dantian, almost filling up the entire dantian. The cloud was slowly revolving in a mysterious trajectory, mysterious, noble, and gorgeous. After having his inner energy drained, the newly formed inner energy was even purer and more tenacious. The golden cloud was also much denser than before.
The moment the liquid entered the dantian, Ouyang Shuo felt a chill starting from his abdomen and spreading throughout his body.
Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to be negligent and focused his mind to observe the situation of the dantian.
Once the blue liquid entered the dantian, it was like ice being thrown into a pot of boiling oil, causing a chain reaction.
Strands of golden inner energy swarmed over like they were crazy, wanting to completely devour the blue liquid, as if the blue liquid was some amazing tonic. Very soon, the blue liquid was completely enveloped by the golden inner energy.
A miraculous scene appeared!
After the golden inner energy finished devouring the blue liquid, it actually carried a trace of blue, cold light.
Suddenly, when the blue liquid was completely consumed, the golden inner energy actually started to devour each other. The strands of inner energy intertwined with each other, devouring each other, forming small balls. Under the effect of a mysterious force, the golden balls started to collapse inwards, continuously compressing and compressing.
Finally, hundreds and thousands of strands of golden inner energy transformed into a rice grain-sized drop of true essence.
In less than ten minutes, Ouyang Shuo's dantian no longer had a trace of inner energy, it was all drops of true essence.
This wasn't the end, the true essence started to devour each other again, forming even larger drops of true essence. Finally, all the true essence gathered into a ball of liquid true essence the size of a pigeon egg.
This liquid ball started to collapse inwards again, continuously compressing and compressing.
As the small ball continued to compress, the golden color became more and more dazzling, pure, brilliant and vast, suppressing all directions. The blue color from before had completely disappeared, being melted by the golden true essence.
Finally, the liquid ball transformed into the purest true essence the size of a rice grain-sized drop.
Ouyang Shuo's inner energy finally underwent a qualitative change, officially transforming from a gaseous state to a liquid state. The nature of the inner energy also underwent a qualitative change, transforming into true essence.
At the same time, this also meant that the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor that Ouyang Shuo practiced had officially broken through to the sixth level.
At this moment, the sound of a system notification sounded in Ouyang Shuo's ears.
"System notification: Congratulations to player Not Naked for using the inner core of the Iron Armor Beast, successfully unlocking the second talent — [Frost], for the specific situation, please find out yourself!"
"System notification: Congratulations to player Not Naked for successfully practicing the Yellow Emperor's Canon of the Yellow Emperor to the sixth level, derived a cultivation technique characteristic — [Emperor's Path], for the specific situation, please find out yourself!"
The continuous surprises made Ouyang Shuo exclaim in satisfaction. (To be continued.)
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