When Hua Kai and Xue Chen arrived at the Ujimqin tribe, all the Ujimqin tribe members knew that the Great Yuezhi Kingdom had escalated the war. In the future, there would be no distinction between the Great Yuezhi and the Little Yuezhi. Everyone was very happy.
Wuren Tuya called all the chiefs of the tribes who had surrendered to her. Hua Kai showed her the loyalty and aptitude of these people. Wuren Tuya had been happily discussing with Hua Kai how to cultivate the most loyal people among these people.
Hua Kai gave her a cultivation plan to improve everyone's strength. Now that Wuren Tuya controlled half of the Yuezhi Kingdom, it was quite easy to cultivate these people.
Knowing the loyalty of his subordinates, Hua Kai asked Wuren Tuya to gather all the warriors, herders, and slaves under her tribe and banner. He began to select the people with high aptitude again.
Hua Kai planned to let Wuren Tuya train a powerful cavalry among the selected people with high aptitude this time. This way, when the Yuezhi Kingdom faced the Qin Kingdom, they would have the ability to fight against the Qin Kingdom's elite troops.
Hua Kai checked over 30,000 people every day for more than ten days. After checking over 400,000 people's aptitudes, he picked out 60,000 people with C + and above aptitudes. He gave 2,400 people with A- and above aptitudes to Wuren Tuya to focus on nurturing, 22000 people with B + and above aptitudes to nurture, and 30,000 people with C + aptitudes to nurture. He believed that with the Yuezhi Kingdom's strength, they would be able to form a fighting force within three years.
Hua Kai selected hundreds of horses from the Ujimqin tribe. He kept them for Erzhuang to upgrade. After these horses were upgraded, the Ujimqin tribe would take out half of them as the reward for the Hua family's upgrade. After doing this, the people of the Yuezhi Kingdom who went out to fight slowly returned. Hua Kai did not want to participate in the celebration of the Yuezhi Kingdom. After bidding farewell to Wuren Tuya, he rode with Xue Chen to the northwest of the Yuezhi Kingdom.
The further north they went, the colder the weather became. It was just October, and Hua Kai could already feel that it was snowing. He and Xue Chen walked for two days with a simple map before they found the Dawan Kingdom 300 li north of their destination.
The Dawan Kingdom was more than two thousand miles away from the Ujimqin Tribe. This was actually a large pastoral tribe. The spiritual energy was relatively thin, and there were all kinds of rocky beaches everywhere. Many houses were made of stone.
The Dawan Kingdom had a population of about 300,000, and they were all passionate about rearing horses. When Hua Kai entered the area, many people dressed in wolf skins were pointing at his and Xue Chen's divine chariot. Although many of the herdsmen here were not strong, they were good at identifying horses.
After asking the royal family who found them, the king of the Dawan Kingdom led his people to personally welcome them. Hua Kai discovered that the king of the Dawan Kingdom was only at the Mid Qi Refining Realm. In the Dawan Kingdom, there were very few people who were at the Qi Transforming Realm and above. This was because the spiritual energy here was thin, making cultivation difficult.
However, there were also advantages to having a thin Spiritual Qi. There were not many wild beasts and savage beasts. Furthermore, demonic beasts were not willing to come to such a place. The Dawan Kingdom only faced a small number of grassland wolves here.
After entering their city, this place looked much more backward than the Fort Wah Ka ten years ago. Hua Kai proposed a trade to the Dawan King, and the other party agreed to the trade. He said that he could provide at most 2000 Dawan horses.
The Dawan horses that lived in the Gobi Desert were tall and had good endurance. They were very suitable for heavy cavalry.
Hua Kai was willing to take out 1000 stones of snow salt, 200 rolls of fine cloth, 500 pounds of tea leaves and 100 gold sugar to exchange with the other party. The Dawan King gladly accepted and agreed to let Hua Kai choose 1800 horses and 200 BMW horses.
After paying a part of the deposit, Hua Kai and Xue Chen left the Dawan Kingdom on horseback. They were going to explore the northern area of the Yuezhi Kingdom first. When they returned, they would inform Erzhuang to bring people to take the horses away.
After leaving the Dawan Kingdom, the two headed north towards Wusun Kingdom. Wusun Kingdom was a big country in the grassland, second only to the Qiang Tribe. Its strength was much stronger than the Yuezhi Kingdom.
However, after leaving the Yuezhi Kingdom and heading west, there were rocks everywhere, making it difficult for carriages to travel. If they wanted to travel, they could only rely on horses to carry them.
"Family Head, what's wrong?" Xue Chen saw Hua Kai stop his horse and could not help but ask.
"Nothing!" Hua Kai finished speaking and continued forward.
He just heard the system update that the eighth main mission was finally completed.
During this month, Hua Kai was not in the High Willow County, so the family's cultural value increased at a slower rate. On the 5th of October, the cultural value only broke through 5000. Hua Kai checked the family's attributes.
Hua family: Fourth-rank aristocratic family
Prosperity point: 55018
Combat Power: 34152
Agriculture: 24299
Animal Husbandry: 49200
Commerce: 30177
Culture: 5000
Overall Strength: 197846
Allies: Erduosi Tribe (fourth-rank), Yao Family (sixth-rank), Lu Family (second-rank), Four Seas Merchant Association (fourth-rank), Ujimqin Tribe (second-rank)
Allies: Xue Family (sixth-rank), Yu Family (seventh-rank), Tang Family (seventh-rank), Huang Family (seventh-rank), Ren Family (seventh-rank), Jia Family (eighth-rank), Yi Family (eighth-rank), Tai Family (eighth-rank), Yue Family (ninth-rank), Wang Family (ninth-rank) … …
Enemies: Zhu Family (third-rank), Feng Family (third-rank), Gongsun Family (third-rank), Zhao Country's Tian Family (third-rank), Linzi City's Bu Family (seventh-rank)
Funds: 194 purple coins, 285317 taels of gold, 94823 taels of silver, 6411821 bone coins
Luck: 162941
Portable Storage: 6 cubic meters
After the Hua family was promoted to fourth-rank, Hua Kai saw that the number of allies suddenly increased. There were a total of over a hundred families, and the Xue Family was considered the most powerful ally of the Hua family. This meant that the Xue Family's influence in the Hua family had surpassed all the other families. Hua Kai could understand why.
Hua Kai looked at the system notification.
"System Notification: Congratulations to the host for completing the eighth main mission. The reward is one [Chang Right Divine Monkey], one [Ballista] array, and one bottle of [Supreme Grade Potential Pills]."
Hua Kai was not in a hurry to retrieve the main mission reward. He first looked at the new main mission.
"Main Mission 9: Promote to a third-rank aristocratic family
Mission Requirements:
1. The family's overall strength must reach 100,000 points.
(Completed)
2. One of the family's attributes must reach 50,000 points. (Completed)
3. The host's strength must reach the Foundation Building realm.
(Incomplete)
4. The loyalty of the family members must reach 100 points. The number of family members must exceed 100.
(Completed)
5. The territory's population must exceed 100,000.
(Completed)
6. The family must have ten people with S- and one with SS- and above aptitude.
(Completed)
7. The average aptitude of the family members must exceed C +.
(Completed)
7. The allies' combined strength must exceed 500,000 points. The allies' combined strength must exceed 200,000 points.
(Incomplete)
Main Mission 9 Rewards:
One [Undead Army] array (Supreme Grade Spiritual Array), one [Mountain River Diagram] (High-grade Spiritual Treasure), three [Confinement Talismans] (One-time use Immortal Talismans), and ten bottles of [Potential Pills] of random levels.
[Undead Army] array: Can train special [Undead Soldiers]. The maximum number of soldiers for this type of soldier is 500.
[Mountain River Diagram]: Records the landscape of the mountains and rivers. Consumes mental strength to change the weather of the mountains and rivers.
[Confinement Talisman]: Imprisons the target's willpower for 10 minutes. One-time use item.
The family's main mission was a huge upgrade every three levels. Seeing that the family was about to be promoted to a third-rank aristocratic family, he was very happy.
There were only two requirements for the ninth main mission that he had not completed. One was to build his own foundation. The other was that the family's affiliated forces were not strong enough.
Hua Kai looked at the Hua family's affiliated forces. The combined strength was now 130,000 points. It was not far from 200,000 points. As long as he wanted to, he could increase the strength of the affiliated forces at any time.
Thinking of this, Hua Kai was very anxious. He wanted to complete this mission as soon as possible and go home. As long as the Hua family could be promoted to a third-rank aristocratic family and complete the ninth main mission, then the Hua family's strength would definitely increase greatly.
It was easy to find Wusun because the entire northern part of Dawan Country belonged to Wusun Country.
In October, it was completely snowing in Wusun Country. The population here was sparse. Hua Kai walked for a long time before he saw the herdsmen of Wusun Country. When they saw Hua Kai and Xue Chen, they immediately showed a hostile attitude.
The herdsmen of Wusun Country were tall and had pale skin. This might be because they were in the cold all year round.
Seeing the horses of Wusun Country, Hua Kai did not want to go to Wusun Country anymore. These horses were bigger than Dawan horses. In the snow, they could use their hooves to dig through the snow and eat the dry grass below. However, these horses were bigger and had short legs. Their hooves were very wide and were suitable for walking on snow and ice.
The horses of Wusun Country 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 Country and continued riding west.
As they went west, the grassland slowly became sparse. The ground was filled with rocks. It would be difficult for ordinary horses to travel here.
Hua Kai and Xue Chen rode west on their divine chariots for two days. After traveling more than two thousand kilometers, they realized that this was a barren land. There was no grass. Many groups of rocks began to appear in front of them. Some poisonous insects and small rodents walked through the rocks.
After traveling for another thousand kilometers, it became an endless desert. The spirit energy here was very sparse. With Hua Kai and Xue Chen's aptitude and mental cultivation technique level, they did not dare to use their vital energy easily.
"This is the Desert of Death. Legend has it that even Foundation Establishment cultivators cannot pass through this land of death.
There are records of great demons appearing here. However, why would a great demon appear in a place without spirit energy like this? "Xue Chen looked at Hua Kai and said.
"The great demon might not be real, but there might really be demon beasts here. Let's be careful later. If we encounter any danger, enter the family storage space to hide. Protect yourself well," Hua Kai said.
According to the information that Hua Kai could find about the resting place, they had to travel 16000 kilometers to cross this desert. The other side of the desert was the cursed resting place of legend.
The two of them rode on their divine chariots and did not encounter any danger. The divine chariots galloped in the desert as if they were flying. Hua Kai extended his mental strength to the furthest. As a master of Yin and Yang, he could foresee some impending danger.
When the divine chariots were tired, Hua Kai fed them green fodder to replenish their strength and Spirit Liquid to replenish their spirit energy. They stopped to rest for more than ten minutes every hour. In one day, they traveled more than two thousand kilometers.
At night, because they had horses, the two of them took out their tents and found a place with little 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 danger in the distance. He saw that it seemed to be an oasis. As he approached Xue Chen, he realized that the oasis was not small. As they approached, a thick wave of spirit energy constantly spread over.