Hua Kai and Xue Chen came to the Wuzhumuqin tribe. All the members of the Wuzhumuqin tribe knew that the Great Yuezhi Kingdom had achieved an upgrade in the war. There would no longer be a distinction between the Great Yuezhi and the Small Yuezhi. Everyone was extremely happy.
Wuren Tuya called all the tribal leaders who had surrendered to her. Hua Kai showed her the loyalty and qualifications of these people. Wuren Tuya was happy to discuss with Hua Kai these days how to train those with high loyalty among these people.
Hua Kai gave her a training plan to improve the strength of each person. Now that Wuren Tuya controls half of the Yuezhi Kingdom, it is quite easy to train these people.
Knowing the loyalty of his subordinates, Hua Kai asked Wuren Tuya to organize all the warriors, herdsmen, and slaves of her [tribes] and [flags] together, and he began to select high-qualified people again.
Hua Kai planned to let Wuren Tuya train a strong cavalry for the high-qualified people selected this time, so as to ensure that the Yuezhi Kingdom would have the ability to fight against the Qin State's elite soldiers when facing the Qin State.
Hua Kai checked more than 30,000 people every day. After checking the qualifications of more than 400,000 people, he selected 60,000 people with C+ qualifications or above. He asked Wu Ren Tuya to focus on training 2,400 people with A- qualifications, and 22,000 people with B+ qualifications and more than 30,000 C+ members. He believed that with the strength of the whole country of Yuezhi, they would be able to form combat power within three years.
Hundreds of horses were selected in the Wuzhumuqin tribe. Hua Kai kept them for Erzhuang to upgrade. After these horses were successfully upgraded, the Wuzhumuqin tribe would take out half as a reward for the Hua family's upgrade. After doing this, the people who went out to fight in Yuezhi slowly came back. Hua Kai did not want to participate in the celebration of Yuezhi, so he said goodbye to Wu Ren Tuya and rode with Xue Chen to the northwest of Yuezhi.
The further north you go, the colder the weather becomes. As soon as October begins, Hua Kai feels that it is beginning to snow. He and Xue Chen walked for two days with a simple map before finding Dayuan 300 miles north of their destination.
Dayuan is more than 2,000 miles away from the Ujumchin tribe. It is actually a large Dingmu tribe. The spiritual energy is relatively thin and various rocky beaches can be seen everywhere. Many houses are built with stones.
The population of Dayuan is about 300,000. They all love to raise horses. When Hua Kai entered here, many people wearing wolfskin coats looked at him and Xue Chen's divine horses and pointed at them. Although many herdsmen here are not strong, they are good at judging horses.
After asking about their royal family, the king of Dayuan personally welcomed them with his people. Hua Kai found that the king of Dayuan only had the strength of the middle stage of the Qi training realm. There were very few people with strength above the Qi dynamic realm in Dayuan. This was because the spiritual energy here was thin and difficult to practice.
But the thin spiritual energy also has its advantages, that is, there are not many wild beasts, wild beasts are rare, and monsters are unwilling to come to such places. The only thing that Dayuan Kingdom faces here is a small number of grassland wolves.
Entering their city, it looks much more backward than Huajiabao ten years ago. Hua Kai proposed the idea of trading to the King of Dayuan. The other party agreed to the trade and said that he could provide up to 2,000 Dayuan horses.
The Dayuan horses living in the Gobi Desert are tall and have good endurance, which is very suitable for heavy cavalry riding. Hua Kai is willing to take out 1,000 stones of snowflake salt, 200 pieces of fine cloth, 500 kilograms of tea and 100 gold white sugar in exchange with the other party. The King of Dayuan readily accepted it and agreed to let Hua Kai choose 1,800 horses and 200 BMWs for the horses.
After paying part of the deposit, Hua Kai and Xue Chen rode away from Dayuan. They first explored the area north of Yuezhi State, and then notified Erzhuang to bring people to take the horses away when they returned.
After leaving Dayuan, the two headed north to Wusun. As a large country on the grassland second only to the Qiang people, Wusun was much stronger than Yuezhi. However, after leaving Yuezhi and heading west, there were rocks everywhere, making it difficult for carriages to travel. If they were going to trade, they could only rely on horses.
"Master, what's wrong?" Xue Chen asked when he saw Hua Kai stop on his horse.
"Nothing!" Hua Kai said and continued to move forward.
He just heard that the system was upgraded and the main task 8 was finally completed. This month, Hua Kai was not in Gaoliu County. The speed of the family culture value increase slowed down a little. It was not until October 5 that the culture value exceeded 5,000. Hua Kai checked the family attributes.
Hua Family: A 4th-rank family
Prosperity: 55018
Combat power: 34152
Agriculture: 24299
Animal Husbandry: 49200
Commerce: 30177
Culture: 5000
Overall strength: 197846
Allies: Ordos Tribe (4th-rank), Yao Family (6th-rank), Lu Family (2nd-rank), Sihai Chamber of Commerce (4th-rank), Ujumchin Tribe (2nd-rank)
Subordinate forces: Xue Family (6th-rank), Yu Family (7th-rank), Tang Family (7th-rank), Huang Family (7th-rank), Ren Family (7th-rank), Jia Family (8th-rank), Yi Family (8th-rank), Tai Family (8th-rank), Yue Family (9th-rank), Wang Family (9th-rank)...
Hostile forces: Zhu Family (3rd-rank), Feng Family (3rd-rank), Gongsun Family (3rd-rank), Tian Family of Zhao (3rd-rank), Bu Family of Linzi City (7th-rank)
Funds: 194 purple gold coins, 285317 taels of gold, 94823 taels of silver, 6411821 bone coins
Luck value: 162941
Portable space: 6 cubic meters
The Hua family was promoted to the fourth rank. Hua Kai saw that the family's affiliated forces suddenly increased, with a total of hundreds of family forces. Among them, the Xue family was considered to be the most powerful family affiliated with the Hua family. This shows that the Xue family's influence in the Hua family has surpassed all families. Hua Kai can also understand it.
Hua Kai is reading the system prompt content.
"System prompt: Congratulations to the host for completing the main task eight, and the reward is [Changyou Shen Monkey], [Crossbow Cart] diagram, and [Top Qualification Pill]."
Hua Kai did not rush to extract the main task reward. He first checked the new main task.
"Main Mission 9: Promoted to a Third-Rank Family
Mission Requirements:
1. The family's comprehensive strength reaches 100,000 points. (Completed)
2. One of the family's attributes reaches 50,000 points (Completed)
3. The host's strength reaches the foundation-building stage. (Not completed)
4. The loyalty of family members is 100 points and the number of members exceeds 100. (Completed)
5. The population of the territory exceeds 100,000. (Completed)
6. The family has ten S-level or higher qualifications and one SS-level or higher qualifications. (Completed)
7. The average qualification of the family list members exceeds C+ level. (Completed)
7. The comprehensive strength of allies exceeds 500,000, and the comprehensive strength of affiliated forces exceeds 200,000. (Not completed)
Rewards for Main Mission 9:
[Undead Legion] A set of barracks diagrams (top-grade spiritual arrays), [Mountain and River Maps] A set (high-level spiritual treasure), [Imprisonment Talisman] Three pieces (one-time immortal talismans), 10 bottles of random level [Qualification Pills]
[Undead Legion] Barracks: Special soldiers [Undead Soldiers] can be trained, with a maximum number of soldiers of 500.
[Mountain and River Map]: Includes mountain and river landforms, consuming mental power can change the weather of mountains and rivers.
[Imprisonment Talisman]: Imprison the target's willpower for 10 minutes, a one-time consumable.
Every three levels of the family's main task is a big improvement. Seeing that the family is about to be promoted to the third grade, he is also very happy.
The main task nine requires him to complete only two things now, one is to build his own foundation, and the other is that the comprehensive strength of the family's affiliated forces is not enough.
Hua Kai checked the comprehensive strength of the Hua family's affiliated forces and it is now 130,000, not far from the 200,000 mark. As long as he is willing, he can improve the strength of the affiliated tribes at any time.
Thinking of this, Hua Kai was extremely anxious and wanted to complete this goal as soon as possible and then go home. As long as the Hua family can be promoted to a third-grade family and complete the main task nine, then the strength of the Hua family will definitely increase a lot.
It was easy to find Wusun, because the entire northern part of Dayuan belonged to Wusun. In October, Wusun had already been covered with heavy snow. The population here was sparse. Hua Kai walked for a long time before he saw the Wusun herdsmen. When they saw Hua Kai and Xue Chen, they showed hostility as soon as they saw Hua Kai and Xue Chen.
The Wusun herdsmen were tall and had white skin, which might be the reason why they were in severe cold all year round.
Seeing the horses of Wusun, Hua Kai didn't want to go to Wusun again. These horses were bigger than Dayuan horses. In the snow, they could also use their hooves to dig the snow and eat the hay below. However, these horses were big and had short legs, and their hooves were very wide, which was suitable for walking on snow and ice.
The horses of Wusun were not suitable for riding on the grassland. Seeing that this place was more resistant to outsiders, Hua Kai gave up the idea of looking for the royal family of Wusun and continued to ride west on horseback.
Going west, the grassland gradually became sparse, and there were rocks on the ground. It would be difficult for ordinary horses to walk here.
Hua Kai and Xue Chen rode their horses westward for two days, covering more than 2,000 miles, and found that this was a barren land. There was no grass, and many rocks began to appear in front of them. Some poisonous insects and small rodents walked among the rocks.
After walking more than 1,000 miles, the front became an endless desert. The spiritual energy here was very sparse. With the qualifications and mental level of Hua Kai and Xue Chen, they did not dare to use their true energy easily.
"This is the Death Desert, a place of death that is said to be inaccessible even in the Foundation Establishment Realm. There are books that record the appearance of great monsters here, but how could a great monster appear in such a place without spiritual energy." Xue Chen looked at Hua Kai and said.
"The great monster may not be real, but there may be real monsters here. Let's be careful later. If we encounter danger, we should go to [Family Space] to hide first, and you should protect yourself." Hua Kai said.
According to the information about the resting place that Hua Kai could find, they need to walk 16,000 miles to cross this desert. The other side of the desert will be the cursed resting place in the legend.
The two rode the divine horses and did not encounter any danger. The divine horses galloped in the desert. Hua Kai put his mental power as far as possible. As a master of yin and yang, he could foresee some upcoming dangers.
When the divine horses were tired, Hua Kai fed them green fodder to replenish their physical strength and [spiritual fluid] to replenish their body's spiritual energy. They stopped to rest for more than ten minutes every hour, and walked more than 2,000 miles a day.
At night, because of the horses, the two took out the tent and found a place with less wind to rest. They did not encounter any accidents for three consecutive days.
At noon three days later, Hua Kai suddenly felt a faint sense of crisis in the distance. He saw that there seemed to be an oasis there. He and Xue Chen approached and found that the oasis was not small. As they approached here, a strong spiritual energy continued to spread.