Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely Chapter 1222 - 409: Two Towns in Crisis, the Longyou Model, Golden Order Prison Warden, Lin Kai’s Reminder

The populace forms the bedrock and base for every camp's existence.

Counts of Logging Realm, Earth-digging Realm, Cold Resistance Level, and Xianyang Level experts serve as the vital backbone driving a camp's steady progress and expansion.

Regardless of a camp's evolution, this principle holds true without fail.

Tasks like pursuing hunts to secure resources for living and cultivation, safeguarding personal safety and advancement, rivaling rival camps, and fending off assaults from Cold Beasts and Deceitful Monsters—all rely fundamentally on human effort to execute.

Individuals in these groups fulfill varied functions: Logging Realm folks collect materials; Earth-digging Realm members excavate and track prey; Cold Resistance Level warriors tackle mid-tier and high-tier Cold Beasts; while the elite Xianyang Level among the Nine Towns pursue superior or Beast King-grade Cold Beasts, delving into riskier zones for superior resources. Even the apparently insignificant common folk act as the nurturing ground for these other four categories.

Should even a single element among these five crumble, the camp plunges into a peril of stagnation or outright extinction.

Regrettably, Jiangxia and Muyin alike grapple with dilemmas across every layer right now.

Naturally, the two towns' basic survival woes have been settled thanks to the Great Xia.

Given the Great Xia's commanding presence on the Moao South Slope, coupled with the two towns' eager support for Hongmen, it's improbable that the Six Towns would dare strike unless the pair sabotages itself.

While survival stands secure, the threat to growth persists unabated.

For Jiangxia, following six months of fierce conflict against Dajue Temple—where Lord Jiang Yinglong perished in combat—it's clear that warriors at Cold Resistance Level and Earth-digging Realm suffered devastating hits, with total casualties surpassing sixty percent in these realms.

Great Xia's approximations put Jiangxia's current Cold Resistance Level numbers under two thousand, while Earth-digging Realm fares marginally superior at around seventy thousand;

Muyin's growth troubles likely originated four years back, post the demise of prior Lord Murong Ding, amid assaults and pressures from the Northern Three Towns externally, plus clashes between the first and second branches internally. The settlement drowned in turmoil from within and without, and without Great Xia's timely action by late April, Muyin would have vanished from the Moao South Slope long ago.

Though Muyin Town endures today, the internal conflicts have aggravated the ruinous state built up across those four straight years.

Concerning Xianyang Level experts, for the last four years, they've hinged entirely on Murong Chui's backing. The Northern Three Towns scarcely view Muyin as an equal settlement;

With Murong Yan's death, Murong Chui assumed control, and the Murong Family's first branch—together with its devoted followers—either perished or escaped. The town's full Cold Resistance Level dwindled to a mere fifteen hundred, while Earth-digging Realm lingers at just above fifty thousand, lagging behind Jiangxia.

It makes sense upon reflection: Muyin has squandered its assets inwardly for four years, deepening an already desperate plight. Moreover, the Northern Three Towns border closely, so even without action, droves from Muyin would defect there.

To sum up, under the two towns' present conditions, upholding the settlement's honor seems impossible, let alone securing steady cultivation resource flows.

The clash erupting in He Yin Village back in July—pitting Jiangxia's hunters against Great Xia's—highlighted this starkly.

At the Hongmen Banquet's close in April, Xia Hong acted boldly, shifting Baisong and Zouyang—which Chui Mountain and Dragon Valley had split—from them to Jiangxia, and in exchange, instructed Jiangxia to hand over Peak Mountain and Longzhou to Dragon Valley.

Xia Hong's territorial reassignment scheme from the Hongmen Banquet worked out, owing in part to raw might, yet a profounder rationale underpinned it.

First off, Chui Mountain Town bore the heaviest blow, forfeiting both Bashang and Baisong; next, Beishuo snagged Jiuqu initially, only for Great Xia to claim it; Yangqu held onto Qing Valley, dodging any real setback; Dragon Valley swapped Zouyang for Peak Mountain and Longzhou, coming out ahead; Jiangxia's gains require no elaboration.

Jin Mountain and Wuchuan Towns, distant from Bashang, showed little desire for its lands, and crucially, they relished watching Beishuo take a hit from the Great Xia.

At its core, five of the Eight Towns profited from this reshuffle, Yangqu broke even, with merely Beishuo and Chui Mountain on the losing end; such dynamics fueled Xia Hong's boldness in redividing Bashang's domains.

Sadly, scant few grasp this perspective; the majority on Moao South Slope think the Eight Towns yielded under duress from Great Xia's dominance and accepted grudgingly.

This widespread view aligns ideally with Xia Hong's aims, as he sought methods to elevate Great Xia's renown and cow the Eight Towns.

Rewinding, Xia Hong's core motive for granting Baisong to Jiangxia at the start stemmed from its proximity to Moao Mountain, boasting over sixty kilometers of access points on northern and southern flanks. From that point, he aimed to secure Moao Mountain Range entry via Jiangxia, paving the way for seizing He Yin Village come July.

Jiangxia originally controlled more than seventy kilometers beside Moao Mountain. Absorbing Baisong Camp added over sixty kilometers to that stretch, and despite yielding twenty kilometers near He Yin Village to Great Xia, they retained one hundred ten kilometers, topping the Nine Towns for Moao Mountain adjacency.

With over two thousand Cold Resistance Level cultivators, more than seventy thousand in Earth-digging Realm, and a laughably sparse count of hunting squads relative to Great Xia, Jiangxia logically has no cause to foray into southern zones by He Yin Village—their vast hundred-ten-kilometer domain brims with ample hunting grounds—much less provoke skirmishes with Great Xia's squads.