After viewing the first Mysterious Shop, Zhou Yan continued to the second. However, the quality of this second shop was lower than the first, with fewer high-quality items appearing.
This time, only two golden equipment pieces, one skill book, and two items appeared. Nothing of great value was present.
Zhou Yan refreshed the Mysterious Shop again and saw that five buildings appeared, all of them the lowest-level barracks.
After purchasing them, Zhou Yan immediately began construction. However, the barracks that were built were all ones he disdained. He combined the quality of these barracks and took out the previously synthesized barracks.
He managed to synthesize a barracks of R quality, and then used this synthesized barracks to upgrade the quality of the White Robe Ghost Soldier barracks, turning it into an RR quality barracks.
After this, Xuan Ning returned to the Hall of Heroes and began to summon a seamstress.
The Hall of Heroes prompted: "Soul Coins - One Million, summoned the talented seamstress, Xue Lingyun!"
With a flash of light, a peerlessly beautiful woman appeared before Zhou Yan.
Upon hearing the name, Zhou Yan felt a slight impression but couldn't recall who she was. He quickly looked at the woman's information.
"Xue Lingyun greets the Lord," Xue Lingyun said with a slight bow upon seeing Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan was greatly shocked to see that Xue Lingyun had the title "Needle God"!
She was the third person in the territory to possess a title, and also a woman.
Furthermore, Xue Lingyun was a figure from the Three Kingdoms period, born in Changshan Commandery, and a concubine of Emperor Wen of Wei, Cao Pi. She was the protagonist of the "Red Tear" anecdote and was also rumored to be the founder of the slanted red makeup. Revered as the Needle God for her skill in needlework.
Xue Lingyun also had a very famous name, Xue Yulai. The flower "Tuberose" (Yèláixiāng) in later generations was named after Xue Lingyun.
Zhou Yan looked at the woman, truly surprised. He never expected to summon such a person.
He quickly said to Xue Lingyun, "Excellent. From now on, all tailoring in the territory will be managed by you."
"Thank you, Lord," Xue Lingyun bowed to Zhou Yan.
Xue Lingyun's skills were incredibly powerful. Any equipment she sewed could increase luck!
In addition to luck, there were other additional attribute bonuses.
This was the power of the Needle God title. Zhou Yan had truly found a treasure. Having such a seamstress was simply a blessing for the territory.
Zhou Yan immediately leveled up Xue Lingyun to the maximum and then summoned two top-tier seamstresses. Unfortunately, he was unsure of their origins. Their appearances were significantly less striking compared to Xue Lingyun.
The main difference was in their temperament. Zhou Yan brought them to the territory's Super Tailor Shop and announced that Xue Lingyun would be in charge of the tailor shop from now on.
Next, they only needed to wait for Xue Lingyun and the others to level up their tailoring skills.
This would take at least several months; they wouldn't reach master level that quickly.
After all this was done, Zhou Yan went to the Scripture Pavilion to draw skills. He learned all these skills and then chose to enter the Retreat Room.
He had never cultivated here himself and wanted to see how effective the cultivation was.
Currently, the Retreat Room had countless soldiers coming to cultivate every day, and they entered in batches.
The main reason was that the territory had too many people, and one Retreat Room could not satisfy the needs of so many people. Zhou Yan was also working hard to purchase more similar buildings to meet the territory's needs.
The current Retreat Room was level 60, with sixty floors. Only Zhou Yan met the requirements; everyone else's realm was too low.
This was precisely why Zhou Yan urgently wanted to acquire more buildings similar to the Retreat Room.
If there were more Retreat Rooms, the strength of the territory's soldiers could be improved even faster, which would greatly benefit the territory.
The territory was indeed doing very well now, with many soldiers, generals, and various talents. However, the strength of top-tier generals was severely lacking, putting them at a significant disadvantage against old-established lords.
Regarding realms, Zhou Yan truly had no great solution. This could only be improved through time, resources, and various auxiliary items.
The territory lacked nothing in terms of resources and auxiliary items. The only thing missing was time, which there was no easy solution for, and could only be accumulated.
Zhou Yan, with his current strength, could cultivate on the 60th floor. He spread his Yin-Yang wings and soared directly to the sixtieth floor.
The higher the floor, the greater the cultivation bonus.
Zhou Yan casually entered a cultivation room, sat down, and found that he easily entered a state of meditation. This Retreat Room was excellent, quickly making him clear-headed and deepening his understanding of various martial arts.
After entering the cultivation state, Zhou Yan delved back into the ancient scroll in his mind and fused all these skills at ten times the speed.
"This speed far exceeded my expectations!" Zhou Yan was very surprised. He hadn't expected the Retreat Room to have such a powerful effect, and he was very happy.
Zhou Yan found that cultivating here was much faster than cultivating elsewhere. He decided to spend six hours here every day to cultivate and not waste this opportunity.
Six hours passed in the blink of an eye. After finishing his cultivation, Zhou Yan discovered that cultivating here was about ten times faster than elsewhere.
The Retreat Room was indeed a very good place.
However, buildings like the Training Room were not easy to acquire. He could only ask everyone to pay more attention and purchase them at all costs if they encountered them.
After finishing his cultivation, Zhou Yan summoned Xiao He, Fang Xuanling, Zhang Liang, Xun Yu, Zhang Zhao, as well as Bai Qi, Chen Qingzhi, Xie Xuan, and dozens of others. He then discussed with them the territory's upcoming teleportation to the Lord's Continent and asked them to discuss and prepare the personnel for the journey.
The affairs of the territory would naturally be handed over to the five of them, and this was not subject to change. They could handle it well. It was just that with the increase in the territory's population, the matters to be handled also increased, and they would ask Zhou Yan for more people to share the workload.
Zhou Yan understood and agreed to increase their manpower.
As the entire territory grew larger and larger, Zhou Yan indeed needed to increase his personnel.