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This bald giant is of course Gerrard.

He led the team out this time for military training.

Any territory needs a decent army. Although the pace of territory construction has been slowed down due to various accidents that have occurred before, the army construction work cannot be delayed. So under Sui Xiong's arrangement, Gerrard brought a group of young people who had performed well in previous trainings to the Gold Coin Federation for actual combat training.

The targets of their training are naturally the bandits.

The Gold Coin Federation is a good place with hordes of bandits. As long as you leave the city gate and wander around, you can encounter bandits. If you follow the caravan, small or large groups of bandits will come to visit basically every night.

Under this circumstance, young people accumulate practical experience quickly and their strength is constantly improving.

Of course, if Gerrard hadn't led the team, perhaps they would have suffered heavy losses, but with Gerrard, a legendary strongman, leading the team, the risks of the battle were well controlled. After one winter, although Many people have large and small scars on their bodies, but the number of injuries or even deaths is still zero.

For example, in this battle, the man nicknamed "Iron Claw" was so powerful that even experienced adventurers could fall into his hands if they were not careful. But his final result was just to seriously injure a soldier, who was then turned into a pile of suspicious mosaics by the giant ax smashed from his head. The seriously injured soldier has mostly recovered after receiving timely treatment, but he will leave a rather terrifying scar on his body.

These scars were left by Gerald deliberately so that young people could always be alert. They couldn't always live under his protection. Sooner or later, they would have to stand alone. He only hoped that through this method, these young people could get practical and reliable lessons and avoid unnecessary dangers in the future.

Seeing that the business was gone, the adventurers who came from afar were a little frustrated. After they greeted Gerald, they all left, only Qiao Xiu stayed.

"Big man, what you told me last time was not a joke, was it?" He sat down next to Gerald very familiarly and asked.

Gerald was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he had mentioned "territory construction" to him before, and nodded: "Of course not, can you joke about this kind of thing?"

Qiao Xiu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked in a low voice: "Is there really a true god in your territory?"

"Can this kind of thing still be a joke?"

Qiao Xiu nodded slightly. Indeed, in this world, making fun of gods is really no joke. Maybe that god will remember you because of this and cause you a little trouble or something...

"Then when you told me last time that I was welcome to join, were you serious?"

"Of course!" Gerald said without hesitation.

Qiao Xiu obviously thought about it carefully, nodded again, and said seriously: "Then let's make an agreement. When do you really start to take action, call me. I will definitely go over to help!"

Gerald laughed, patted him on the back, and handed over his wine bottle.

"Well done! You won't regret it! Come on, drink!"

Qiao Xiu held the giant wine bottle that was almost bigger than his head with both hands and took a deep sip, his eyes getting brighter.

Sui Xiong, who saw this scene with the help of his soul link, couldn't help but smile.

Ever since he discovered this Qiao Xiu, he had been curious and quite interested in this handsome barbarian guy.

Qiao Xiu's strength is extraordinary, and his way of dealing with others is quite tactful. But that's just it, that's not surprising. What Sui Xiong really finds strange is the thread of faith in him.

Anyone with a clear faith in this world can see the thread of faith on their body. Both gods and high-level priests can see the thread of faith, so there is no way to fake faith. Those who pretend to have faith to deceive people will, at best, deceive middle- and low-level people. In front of the target, it simply doesn’t work.

The thread of faith on Qiao Xiu's body points to the goddess of snowfields and blizzards in the North, who is also known as the "Queen of the North." He is the God-King of the "Arctic Alliance" pantheon. He is slightly stronger than the Ocean Goddess and on par with the Storm God. Under his command are the god of snow mountains, avalanches and snow monsters, also known as the "Snow Mountain Master", and the god of glaciers and ice giants, also known as the "Ice Lord". In addition, he also has two allies who, although not directly affiliated with him, respect him as their leader. They are the goddess of winter and the north wind, "Frigid Girl", and the god of ferocious beasts in the snow, "Ice and Snow Overlord".

The system of five gods is not large in terms of number, but the power of these gods is concentrated in the north, and their influence is much greater. Therefore, even if the barbarians have their own patron saint, the influence of the god known as the "Elder Bear Shepherd" is far from comparable to that of the gods of the Extreme Cold Alliance.

For example, Qiao Xiu, as a barbarian, does not believe in his own patron saint, but in the Blizzard Goddess.

That would be fine if it was just like this, but the luster of Qiao Xiu's thread of faith was also weird. It exudes the radiance of a devotee and is filled with bright red anger. The two mix into a heavy curse.

To put it in a simpler and more straightforward way, he was once a devout believer of the Blizzard Goddess, and he still believes in this goddess - but he is full of resentment and anger towards the goddess, and this resentment is integrated with his devout belief. Transformed into a curse on the goddess.

A mortal who resents and curses the gods he believes in?

Sui Xiong felt that there must be a very heavy story behind this.

He was very curious about this, so he instructed Gerard to try to absorb Qiao Xiu to his side.

Of course, if Qiao Xiu's experience was indeed worthy of sympathy, he would not mind helping out.

...Anyway, according to Xuehua's estimation, when he was officially deified, the blizzard goddess would most likely come to make trouble. Rather than waiting for her to come with a group of equally evil gods to make trouble, it would be better to try to weaken her power first. It would be best to create some chaos for her so that she would be too busy to take care of herself and avoid trouble at that time.

Seeing that Gerard and Qiao Xiu's negotiations had been successful, Sui Xiong smiled slightly and turned his attention to the other side.

That was in a natural cave in the deep and dark underground world.

This world does not have the huge and complex underground world in some fantasy works before Sui Xiong crossed over, but some large-scale caves can also be found. Most of them are located on the edge of some mountains and go deep into the earth. There is naturally a unique biological system in it, which is wonderful.

Palin was carefully exploring the underground cave with a few adventurers.

His mission was to investigate the ecological environment here, collect specimens of plants and animals, especially mushrooms, to provide reference for Akain's research.

It is not easy to cultivate mushrooms that can grow normally in a negative energy environment and are not toxic and can be eaten. Akain spent almost a winter and only cultivated two kinds of mushrooms that barely met the requirements.

The first kind of mushroom can resist negative energy. Not only can it be eaten, but it can also provide negative energy resistance for a period of time if used as food. But its yield is really problematic. Even in Akain's cultivation room, which provides a better growth environment, its yield is far from enough to reach the level of "food".

After all... it originally exists as a medicinal material.

The second kind of mushroom can hit the negative energy to the top of the umbrella tip. As long as the umbrella tip is cut off, the rest can be eaten. However, it is impossible to completely eliminate all the negative energy to the umbrella tip, and there is still a small amount of negative energy residue in other parts. According to the results of animal experiments, at least ordinary wild animals cannot completely dissolve this residue, and will lose vitality and become listless after eating it.

Akan didn't want to do human experiments, and neither did Sui Xiong. They could fully imagine what would happen if humans ate this kind of mushroom. Obviously, at least ordinary pioneers could not use it as food.

The experiment did not go well, and Akan felt sorry. But he also emphasized that research is a matter of time and luck, and it is not easy to achieve satisfactory success in a short period of time.

"Then what should we do?" Sui Xiong asked, "Is there any way to make your research faster?"

After pondering, Akan said that if he could go to those underground caves and get more mushrooms growing in the underground environment as reference and research materials, it might be helpful.

Mushrooms are a huge biological system. Even if the Pasteur family has been studying mushrooms for many years, it is impossible to collect all the mushroom species in the world. They collected those representative varieties because this was enough for their past research.

But if the research topic is to be set in the remote direction required by Sui Xiong, the Pasteur family's reserves will not be enough, and more materials need to be found.

Sui Xiong accepted Akan's suggestion and sent people to the nearby caves to collect underground mushrooms.

He sent out two teams in total. The first team was Shuang and Hail. This pair of giant dragon siblings were responsible for going to a relatively far cave. It was said that there were some dangerous monsters there, and it might be risky for mortals to go there.

The second team was Palin. The cave he went to was a well-known scenic spot, and travelers often came to explore. For a complete team consisting of magicians, warriors, priests, archers and thieves, such a place should be safe.

The development of the matter was similar to Sui Xiong's expectations. Palin and his team had been exploring underground for two days and had not encountered too much danger.

This was certainly due to their slow journey for safety, but the safety of this cave itself was indeed quite guaranteed.

It's just... it's safe, but the work efficiency has also been reduced. They did find a few kinds of mushrooms in the past two days, but judging from the images sent back, they were all types that were not worth paying attention to. Akain rejected their value at a glance.

To find the mushrooms he needs, he has to go deeper underground...

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