Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely-Chapter 203 - 138 Mirror Immortal Gu, Cold Resistance Level? [3 in 1]_3

Chapter 203: Chapter 138 Mirror Immortal Gu, Cold Resistance Level? [3 in 1]_3

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First Year of the Great Xia, January 27

As dawn broke, the valley’s bonfire had already died out, and everyone gradually returned to their cabins to rest. The outside of the cabin was empty.

Inside the cabin, Luo Yuan and everyone else from the Earth-digging Realm had just handed over the Iron Ore mined overnight to the Camp Supply Station.

"The leader isn’t awake yet?"

"It’s already the third day."

"Could something have happened?"

"Shall we go up and check?"

"Let’s go. Since we need to go back to our rooms anyway, let’s check on him."

...

The rooms of the fifteen people in the Hunting Team were all on the third floor.

Everyone agreed and went up together, intending to check on Xia Hong’s condition.

"Why are you all coming up?"

Xia Chuan, who had been keeping watch for three days, looked a bit wan. Seeing the worried expressions on everyone’s faces, she immediately understood and said with a smile, "Don’t worry, the leader’s breathing is getting louder. Quiet down and listen!"

Upon hearing her, everyone immediately fell silent, listening intently to the sounds inside the room.

"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."

The five senses of the Earth-digging Realm were beyond ordinary, and although they were separated by a wooden door, they could still hear Xia Hong’s long and steady breathing inside.

Moreover, this breathing was becoming longer and louder.

Upon hearing this, everyone showed a hint of excitement on their faces.

Breathing related to Qi Muscle changes and the length was inherently related to the body’s internal organ strength, which everyone in the Earth-digging Realm understood.

"Could the leader have had a breakthrough?"

"It’s possible, the breathing feels much longer than when I cultivate."

"Cold Resistance Level?"

Everyone looked at the wooden door with a glimmer of anticipation.

"Alright, everyone disperse first and go rest. Wait for the leader to come out and then..."

Bam...

Just as Xia Chuan was about to dismiss everyone, a banging sound came from behind the wooden door.

Those who were about to leave turned back immediately upon hearing it.

Even Xia Chuan turned back to look at the wooden door.

"Did the leader wake up?"

"He should be awake, the noise sounds like he jumped out of a tub."

...

Everyone waited for a moment, until

"Hahahahahahaha..."

Xia Hong’s exuberant and excited laughter came from within the wooden door. The faces of those standing outside gradually revealed excitement and anticipation.

"Come on in!"

Hearing Xia Hong’s voice, Xia Chuan was the first to push open the door. The others exchanged glances, followed behind and walked in.

"Wait, don’t come over this way, just stay at the door."

As the door opened, Xia Chuan and the others instinctively took a few steps back, their pupils constricting as they saw that most of the room was illuminated.

The light was not firelight!

The window on one side of Xia Hong’s room was wide open.

Sunlight streamed in from outside, lighting up more than half of the room.

And Xia Hong stood beneath the window, his upper body still bare, basking in the sunlight with an expression of enjoyment on his face.

"Hiss..."

Though the cabin had an Iron Refining Furnace for warmth, the sunlight streaming in through the open window brought a bone-chilling cold that had everyone involuntarily hissing.

Xia Chuan, who had stepped too far forward, had part of his arm exposed to the sunlight, where a layer of frost immediately formed, and the nearby skin turned blue and black.

The sunlight was still as piercingly cold as before, unable to be touched by them.

Yet Xia Hong could now openly expose himself under the sun.

The people in the shadows looked at Xia Hong’s back by the window, filled with envy and reverence, as desires arose in their hearts.

When would they be able to stand freely in the sunlight like Xia Hong?

"Leader, have you broken through to the Cold Resistance Level?"

Luo Yuan couldn’t help but ask. Xia Chuan and the others immediately looked at Xia Hong with anticipation.

Evidently, they were also very concerned about this matter.

"No, but soon!"

Xia Hong turned to face everyone, his face full of smiles.

Seeing Xia Hong’s front, everyone was slightly taken aback.

The Great Xia Camp was short of water.

To be precise, humans in the Ice Abyss World were short of water.

In extremely cold weather, encountering running water was nearly impossible. The only way to obtain water was by collecting snow on the ground, melting it at high temperatures, letting it sit for a while, and then using it after sedimentation.

Because of the water shortage, Great Xia did not habitually bathe or wash, and because of the perennial frost environment, everyone, especially those frequently outdoors, had perpetually dry, cracked, and darkened skin.

Previously, Xia Hong was about the same as them.

But now, Xia Hong’s skin was not only cleaner; it was much more supple and textured, and under the sunlight, it even had a sheen.

Though his appearance hadn’t changed in the slightest, just the change in his skin made Xia Hong seem like a different person in their eyes.

Compared to the current Xia Hong, despite being clothed, they seemed like beggars.

Xia Hong understood why everyone was so astonished. He also noticed his skin’s change upon waking up.

However, he wasn’t in the mood to explain now and quickly checked the new changes in the system:

[Camp: Great Xia (Level 0)]

[Lord: Xia Hong]

[Cultivation: Earth-digging Realm Perfect (Skin Remodeling Progress 2%)]

[Territory Population: 1096]

[Resources: Wood 21 Coal 0 Iron 0 Silver 0 Gold 0]

[Buildings Opened: 4 - Iron Refining Furnace (Level 2), wooden mannequin (Level 1), Medicine Decoction Pot (Level 1), polishing stone (Level 1)]

[Buildings Not Opened: 5 - Green Bamboo Fence, Marking Stone, Yellow Earth, small wooden table, Rough Iron Chain]

"Skin Remodeling, I’m lucky that I stumbled upon it, used over a hundred jin, and forced the system. Otherwise, by following the normal breakthrough routine, it would’ve taken years!"

Looking at the system’s resource data all cleared, with only 21 units of wood resource left, Xia Hong’s eyes showed both relief and lingering fear.

Three days ago, the moment he jumped into the Blood Basin, he realized that his actions were absurdly wrong.

The pain experienced earlier when touching Cold Beast Blood made him think that the worst of it wouldn’t be too bad, and he could endure it. After all, when he hunted that Intermediate Snow Mane, nearly his whole body was stained in blood, roughly amounting to three or four jin.

Upon entering the Blood Basin, the energy within the Cold Beast Blood invaded his body like parasites from bones.

The intense pain was a hundred-fold or even a thousand-fold more severe than touching it earlier.

Only then did he realize that the pain from Cold Beast Blood increased with the amount used.

Breaking through to Cold Resistance Level indeed required Intermediate Cold Beast Blood, but using so much at once, no ordinary person could endure that excruciating pain.

Unfortunately, by the time Xia Hong realized this, it was already too late.

He never thought he could be so close to death.

It wasn’t until he was nearly passing out that the system suddenly gave a prompt.

[Detected that host’s nerves have reached the limit, system resources can be consumed to alleviate some neural pressure]

At that moment, Xia Hong felt like he’d never heard a better sound.

The end result was that all the resources previously accumulated were nearly exhausted, with only the last 21 units of wood remaining.

Before closing off, he nearly had a hundred thousand units of wood.

During this time, he hardly used iron and coal—iron had more than five thousand, and coal over eight thousand.

In a moment, they were all gone.

He had originally planned to build the Green Bamboo Fence and Marking Stone during this time, but now he could only manage a Marking Stone, while the Green Bamboo Fence will have to wait.

Losing so many resources at once was painful, but knowing that this function could significantly shorten his breakthrough to Cold Resistance Level left Xia Hong feeling more excited.

This was a tremendous advantage for him.

As long as there were enough resources, the system could alleviate some of the pain from Beast Blood, allowing him to use Beast Blood more efficiently than others by far.

However, noticing the newly appeared cultivation item in the system, Xia Hong’s excitement disappeared immediately, leaving him dumbfounded.

"A hundred jin, and only 2% progress, which means I need over five thousand jin of Beast Blood to complete the entire Skin Remodeling process?

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Over five thousand jin of Beast Blood!

Estimating, that would require at least a hundred Intermediate Cold Beasts.

Is this a joke?

Xia Hong stood shocked, his face filled with disbelief, not even hearing Xia Chuan and the others calling him.