Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely Chapter 1660 - 524: Fu Tiandu of the Xia People, Gathering Soldiers Drum (2)

Of course, the consequence was that he was tortured by the Cat Demon again.

After encountering danger in Hongmen City, the Cat Demon was not afraid but instead developed a strong interest in Great Xia, even making him participate in the martial arts competition of that year, planning to secretly infiltrate Xia City.

Fu Tiandu knew he could not rid himself of the Cat Demon. In his heart, he was already desperate, and he could only act like a puppet according to the Cat Demon’s orders.

But who would have thought, things took an unexpected turn!

After all, Fu Tiandu was born of a feudal town noble family, with strong talent, directly breaking into the top ten of the youth group in the martial arts competition of the ninth year of Great Xia, unexpectedly gaining an opportunity to meet Lord Xia Hong.

Meeting Lord Xia Hong was the start of the turnaround.

The Cat Demon’s sophisticated hiding methods were utterly defenseless before Xia Hong.

Fu Tiandu remembers very clearly, when he entered the grand hall, Xia Hong immediately noticed the abnormality on him, even directly pointed out the Cat Demon was on him, which scared him greatly at the time.

To know, among those who hunted him were strong Tribulation Body Realm experts, yet they were all deceived by the Cat Demon, showing how skillful its hiding methods were. The Cat Demon must have had extreme confidence in its own methods, so it dared to let him infiltrate within Xia City under the guise of participating in the martial arts competition.

But who could have imagined, Xia Hong saw through it with a single glance, and effortlessly dealt with the Cat Demon.

Fu Tiandu originally thought Xia Hong would kill him. He knew clearly that to people of such high status, someone like him at the Cold Resistance Level was insignificant.

He even thought at the time, if Xia Hong insisted on killing him, he could only explode his identity, even reveal some secrets of Hezang to try and exchange for a life.

Unexpectedly, Xia Hong not only did not kill him, but also let him directly join Great Xia, even granting the rewards for the martial arts ranking as usual.

"No need, his talent and strength are indeed good. The ninth place was earned by his own ability, there is no reason to nullify it. Isn’t he owing 1 million taels of silver? Just convert the reward accordingly, let him pay part of the debt first, and slowly repay the rest later."

Even though three years have passed, Fu Tiandu still remembers clearly what Xia Hong said at that time. Although his family had long since fallen, he had to admit, there was always a sense of pride of the feudal town scion in his heart.

But at that moment, he was genuinely shaken!

Everything in Hongmen City had already somewhat moved him, then upon reaching Xia City he became even clearer in the realization that Great Xia was by no means like those ordinary town-level camps he had previously known.

Dispatching to deal with the Cat Demon might have been a trivial matter for Xia Hong, but for Fu Tiandu, it was a lifesaving grace.

Furthermore, Xia Hong’s complete disregard for the stolen six million taels of silver thread, and only requiring him to repay the used one million taels, such magnanimity indeed shook Fu Tiandu.

From that moment, Fu Tiandu decided to treat Great Xia as his second home. Hezang he could not return to, so more accurately, it would be his only home from now on.

Unconsciously, he has already been in Great Xia for three years, looking back, Fu Tiandu only felt fortunate about his decision at that time.

In the past three years, he saw clearly that the development speed of Great Xia had become indescribably rapid, it was terrifying.

Leaving aside the explosive growth of Cold Resistance Level numbers, the key was in recent two years, the Xianyang Level also started to grow explosively, this was truly terrifying.

Certainly, Fu Tiandu, having been in Great Xia for three years, understood what fueled such astonishing development speed.

The Holy Tripod, Ancestral Spirit Stele, Martial Arts, Artifact Refining, Alchemy, the Three Pavilions... Upon first witnessing those wondrous and mysterious buildings in Great Xia, Fu Tiandu was deeply astonished, especially after personally cultivating several times in the Martial Arts Pavilion, and subsequently growing the Great Xia Sacred Pattern in the center of his brow, he almost confidently asserted that Great Xia catching up or even surpassing Hezang was only a matter of time.

He could even predict that such time would not be long.

Being especially pardoned by Lord Xia Hong, the Camp Supply Department did not set overly harsh demands on his debt repayment progress, only requiring him to use half of his monthly income for repaying debts, leaving the other half for normal purchasing of cultivation resources.

The reward for ninth place in the martial competition had already offset part of the debt, as someone from a feudal town, he naturally had keener insights than the average person, leveraging such insights coupled with sufficient diligence, he only took two years to clear his debt.

Of course, due to half of the income being used for debt repayment, his cultivation progress was indeed somewhat slowed, but considering the one million taels of silver were initially used by him for purchasing cultivation resources to enhance strength, the two effectively neutralized, the progress just returned to normal, and indeed was not slowed.

Two years repaying debt, one year cultivating, Fu Tiandu basically considered himself a true Xia individual. His sole goal now was to enrich his strength and return to Hezang for revenge.

In Great Xia, the fastest way to acquire cultivation resources is through military enlistment, so Fu Tiandu, without second thoughts, joined the army assessment immediately after clearing his debt and regaining freedom two years ago, becoming a true Xia individual.

He was inherently strong, otherwise would not have entered the youth group’s top ten. Military assessment was a breeze for him. Originally aiming for the strongest Cloud Jiao and Dragon Martial Army, yet to his dismay those two armies were popular choices, already filled, he could only opt for the reserves, waiting for vacancies to supplement in.