Chapter 323- Five Finger Mountain
Trantor: TeamTWO
Editor: Jun
As the 1st Sun slowly rose, the bright glow signified the start of a new day.
During the night, there were constantly sounds of deste beasts roaring in the ind, making one''s hair stand. Ouyang Shuo had barely had any rest inst night and woke up really early.
He walked out of the cabin and went up onto the 1styer of the boat, looking towards the distance.
Using the morning glow, the beauty and brilliance of Yazhou was exemplified.
The coast of Yazhou was the famous golden coast; what covered the entire beach area was a natural salt pan. Undeniably, sea salt would be the main economic avenues of Yazhou Territory in the future.
Northern Salt Fields couldn''t even bepared to the Yazhou Shore.
Across the golden coast was the endless ins, wild grass proliferated. The Ningyuan river was like a huge dragon as it swerved left and right on the ins.
The fertile soil of the Yazhou ins and the presence of saltwater made this a good ce for agriculture.
Qiongzhou Ind, which was located on the tropical region, had enough water and sunlight and was the most suitable to grow rice. Other nts like sugarcane, potatoes and corn were also very suited for this climate.
Apart from that, rubber and coconut which weremon in tropical regions also had a bright future. Especially rubber, which was a highly important aspect in Ouyang Shuo''s strategic ns.
Looking across the ins, there was the Five Finger Mountain.
The Five Finger Mountain was the tallest mountain range in Qiongzhou Ind. It was located in the middle of the ind and got its name due to there being 5 peaks which made it look like five fingers. The area was covered by tropical rainforests and there wereyers uponyers of them.
The Five Finger Mountain wasn''t the mountain range that Sun Wukong was crushed by in the Journey to the West, but there were other legends in which yers had triggered special quests in thest life.
Ouyang Shuo remembered that yer was called Wu Mingzhi whose upation was a chivalrous expert, and he was also a solo yer who liked to explore.
One time, he suddenly had an idea to rent a big boat in Quanzhou and float out in the ocean towards Qiongzhou. After thousands of near-death situations, he finally reached the Five Finger Mountain.
The tragedy was that Wu Mingzhi got lost.
Luckily for him, he probably sowed good karma. Just as he had lost his way, he had unintentionally walked into the house of one of the indigenous people.
Coincidentally at this moment, a bunch of pirates raided.
Wu Mingzhi didn''t hesitate and used his strong martial arts to chase them away. After they left, to thank Wu Mingzhi for saving their life, the family gave him a sword.
Originally, Wu Mingzhi didn''t care much about the reward. After all, they were just a normal family in the mountains, what treasure could they have? He didn''t expect for that sword to actually be a god weapon.
Wu Mingzhi then realized that he had stumbled across an adventure quest.
The adventure quests that Gaia set didn''t have any system notifications when the yer triggered it. The choice was totally up to the yer. If Wu Mingzhi had chosen to leave, he would have no affinity with the quest.
After he left, he shared his experience on the forums. However to protect that family from being hounded by other yers, he didn''t reveal their exact location.
Who knows, maybe Wu Mingzhi who was lost didn''t even know where he was at.
After leaving the Five Finger Mountain, Wu Mingzhi relied on that god weapon and became one of the experts amongst adventure gamemode yers. He made a name for himself in the underworld and was envied by many.
In this life, who knew who would be that lucky person?
As Wu Mingzhi didn''t reveal the exact mission location, for Ouyang Shuo to find that family in the vast mountains was like finding a needle in a haystack. Needless to say, he had to conveniently face a water bandit’s attack. If not, he wouldn''t be able to trigger the adventure quest.
Everythinging together was actually what the luck stat was for.
With Ouyang Shuo''s luck, he pretty much didn''t have any hope of that happening. However, Ouyang Shuo could send Song Jia in and try, although her luck wasn''t as high as Bing''er’s, she was at 18 points.
Apart from the legend, the Five Finger Mountain was a treasure vault with many natural resources.
In the Five Finger Mountain, there were 1400 nt types, 150 types of high ss wood, over 1000 medicinal herbs and 100 odd famous Five Finger Mountain flowers.
The mountains were a good ce for spirits, and they nurtured many rare spirit beasts and deste beasts. Amongst which was a spirit butterfly known as the golden spotted butterfly. It was very famous in thest life and highly adored by female yers.
The golden spotted butterfly was not only beautiful, but it was also good at medicinal arts and illusions, making it the ideal pet for adventure mode yers.
Conquering the Five Finger Mountain was one of Ouyang Shuo''s goals for this trip.
In thest life, Ouyang Shuo remembered that Feng Qiuhuang had spent 100 thousand gold to buy one golden spotted butterfly, which became one of her representative icons, leading the craze for female yers and pets.
Because of the presence of the golden spotted butterfly, the Five Finger Mountain became one of the training hot spots for adventure gamemode yers in thest life. Large numbers of adventure gamemode yers teleported to Qiongzhou Ind and ventured deep into the mountains.
They hoped to be able to catch on golden spotted butterfly and be rich overnight.
Even if they didn''t manage to, the Five Finger Mountain was also an ideal leveling spot. There were many high level deste beasts, even some bosses which made it suitable for leveling up.
Of course, those weak yers wouldn''t think about it as they were too noob to gain anything.
Ouyang Shuo remembered that in thest life there was a yer territory near to the Five Finger Mountain which earned tens of thousands of gold solely on teleportation costs.
Needless to say, the huge numbers of adventure gamemode yers spending in the territory also helped its economy to develop.
Such a huge treasure trove, Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn''t give it up. At most he could build a subsidiary territory at the outskirts of the mountain to be used to wee the adventure gamemode yers.
As for how to promote it, Ouyang Shuo already had an idea.
The northern and eastern sides of the Yazhou ins were basically circled by the Five Finger Mountain range. To the west was a vast grasnd which one couldn''t see the end of, so it would also be the main development direction of the territory.
Such a vast and fertile soil, wasn''t it the best ce to develop agriculture?
The south of the ins was the end of the Five Finger Mountain range and was another famous mountain on the ind, the South Mountain.
It was the mountain located in the southmost portion of the China region, and was termed as thend of prosperity. There was a phrase in China: prosperity like the East Sea and longevity like the South Mountain. The mountain referred to this mountain.
The South Mountain was also the ce where Buddhist Dharma was spread out from. Legends had it that Guanyin Pusa and Tang Sen had all stepped foot on the South Mountain and spread around Buddhism.
In thest life, as the Tang Dynasty joined into the game progression, the South Mountain temple appeared on the mountain. The god that the temple worshipped was Guanyin Pusa,
Ouyang Shuo couldn''t predict how the future South Mountain Temple would affect the Mazu Temple as after all based on legends, Mazu was inspired by Guanyin Pusa.
Apart from that, South Mountain also had a small paradise. It was one of the few in the China region which was one of the mysterious regions that yers could repeatedly explore.
In thest life, the South Mountain paradise was unintentionally found by an adventure gamemode yer in the 4th year of gaia. Now that Ouyang Shuo had arrived on Yazhou, naturally he wouldn''t miss out the chance to explore it.
The future South Mountain Paradise, apart from the Five Finger Mountain, would be another hotspot for adventure gamemode yers.
All in all, Yazhou was a treasure ind.
The prerequisite would be that Ouyang Shuo needed to have a firm footing on the ind.
The engagementst night had disyed the dangers and cruelty of Yazhou. To be able to be stable in Yazhou, even though Ouyang Shuo had made a lot of preparations, it still wasn''t easy.
What was in front of him were two choices. One was to enter the ins to find a suitable vige building spot. The other was to temporarily stay by the ocean and build a port.
Both had its pros and cons.
If it was to build the vige, they could immediately set up the teleportation formation to obtain reinforcements; there would also be new refugees, which meant their army would only get stronger.
The weakness would be that they currently had nothing. If they went too deep, they might be attacked by beasts and indigenous people.
With the strength of the Guards regiment and the Beihai Naval fleet, if there were too many enemies, not only would there be heavy casualties, they might even be overwhelmed.
The current situation in the Lianzhou Basin didn''t allow Ouyang Shuo to moverge amounts of troops. After all, Lianzhou Prefecture was the root of the territory, and they couldn''t lose it.
As for building the port, the strengths and weaknesses were very apparent.
The strength would be that they would be safe. From the observation yesterday, Ouyang Shuo found that be it deste beasts or indigenous people, they basically wouldn''te out from the bushes. So the chances of them being attacked would be very small.
The weakness would be the low efficiency. Building a port wasn''t done in a day. Before it was finished, arge portion of the people would be useless and have nothing to do.
Apart from that, grain was a huge problem. They only brought limited grain, and without using the super trading tform or getting any supplies from Shanhai City, they could onlyst for half a month.
Half a month wasn''t enough toplete arge port.
Firstly, they had limited workers, and secondly, the wood and stone resources were limited. Ouyang Shuo predicted that with their current circumstances, they needed at least 2 months before barelypleting it.
Ouyang Shuo was in a terrible situation.