He sifted through them one by one and finally chose one building.
He put away the [Cinema].
The [Cinema] was now mostly for entertainment. Since he could only enter a movie world once a month, and there was still a lot of time before the next opening, he decided to put it away and build the Barracks first.
The monsters tomorrow and the day after would be even stronger. He had to summon enough soldiers to defend his territory during those days.
After putting away the [Cinema], he began to build the newly acquired C-grade barracks.
Territory prompt: "Acquired C-grade barracks [Elite Soldiers]."
Territory prompt: "Building [Elite Soldiers], [Elite Soldiers] evolves into [Charge Formation Camp]."
"What, it's the Charge Formation Camp!" Zhou Yan was very surprised.
[Charge Formation Camp] was a unique unit from the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Though not numerous, they were extremely brave in battle.
Its commander was Gao Shun, a great general under Lu Bu.
It was said that Gao Shun "led more than seven hundred soldiers, referred to as a thousand men. Their armor and equipment were all refined and uniform. Every attack they made was successful, hence the name 'Charge Formation Camp'."
The entire army consisted of only over seven hundred men, each brave and skilled in combat, with excellent equipment.
He didn't know how strong this evolved version of the [Charge Formation Camp] would be.
Regardless, the name of the [Charge Formation Camp] was legendary to him. He was very satisfied to be able to acquire such a powerful army now.
He immediately upgraded the [Charge Formation Camp] to level 20.
[Building: Charge Formation Camp]
[Level: 20]
[Upgrade Cost: 50,000 spirit coins, 100 three-star wood, 100 three-star stone]
[Quality: R (0/2)]
[Quality Upgrade Cost: 2 R-grade barracks]
[Defense: 50000/50000]
[Attributes: For every 1500 soul coins consumed, one Charge Formation Camp soldier can be summoned. Current summon limit (0/500)]
[Special Attribute 1: Increases all attributes of all Charge Formation Camp soldiers by 20%.]
[Special Attribute 2: Increases morale and combat power of all Charge Formation Camp soldiers by 20%.]
[Special Attribute 3: When surrounded, unleash the will to charge, all attributes +50%, combat power +50%, charge speed +50%, lasts for 20 minutes.]
[Description: The will to charge, facing death without fear, disciplined, and invincible. If led by Gao Shun, the Charge Formation Camp would exhibit even greater combat power.]
The quality of the [Charge Formation Camp] barracks was higher than that of the [White Robed Ghost Soldiers].
Each soldier from this barracks required 1500 soul coins, half more than the [White Robed Ghost Soldiers].
However, the number of soldiers was quite good. At level 20, there were five hundred slots. He assumed the total number of soldiers for this barracks wouldn't be limited to just seven hundred.
This put his mind at ease.
He immediately began summoning soldiers.
[Charge Formation Camp] prompt: "Consumed 1500 soul coins, summoned one soldier."
[Charge Formation Camp] prompt: "Consumed 1500 soul coins, summoned one soldier."
[Charge Formation Camp] prompt: "Consumed 1500 soul coins, summoned one soldier."
...
He summoned five hundred Charge Formation Camp soldiers at once, but unfortunately, he didn't summon Gao Shun in five hundred attempts.
However, he did summon minor generals such as corporals, sergeants, and captains.
He also summoned a colonel named Gao Meng, and he temporarily entrusted the [Charge Formation Camp] to him for command.
Among the five hundred soldiers, the lowest quality was S-grade. The corporals, sergeants, and captains were SS-grade, while the colonel was SSS-grade.
He began to upgrade the levels of these soldiers, all of them to level 25.
After the upgrades, he still had over a million soul coins left.
The five hundred soldiers would have to wait until tomorrow to be fully upgraded to level 30.
With this, excluding others, the soldiers alone reached 1200.
These soldiers would be temporarily assigned to Chen Qingzhi for management until Gao Shun was summoned, after which Gao Shun would lead the [Charge Formation Camp].
With these additional troops, he felt more confident about tomorrow's monster attack.
With the increase in personnel, the consumption of territory resources also increased significantly.
Both food and water supply would bear a heavier burden.
For this, he consulted Li Shuang, the housekeeper, as all the territory's logistics were handled by her.
Fortunately, he had summoned many women from the Bronze Sparrow Platform in the past few days to assist her. Otherwise, with just her original staff, it would have been quite exhausting.
"The food and water supply in the territory must be in place for the next two days. As long as we get through these two days, I will be able to leave the novice trial. Once we are outside, we won't have to worry about food and water at all." Zhou Yan said to Li Shuang.
"Don't worry, Lord. The spirit fields are now fully planting spirit rice. I've asked people to temporarily stop planting other fruits because we had planted a lot before and still have a good stock. I've already planned and distributed them to ensure everyone can eat two spirit fruits a day..."
Li Shuang explained the food situation, then said, "Because the daily output of the spirit spring is limited, and a lot of spirit spring water is needed to irrigate the spirit fields daily, the water supply might be a bit tight."
"However, it's absolutely no problem to sustain for two days. After the novice trial, we can solve the water issue by purchasing buildings like wells in the outside world."
Food was quite abundant, as the spirit rice produced by the [Spirit Fields] was plentiful, and the spirit fruits had been reasonably allocated. The only shortage was water.
Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Don't worry about that. After the novice trial ends, I'll need to purchase a lot of resources and materials. Our funds are still sufficient at this stage. I will resolve the water issue after the novice trial."
During his time in the novice trial, he had earned quite a bit of money.
He had five to six hundred million spirit coins, which was enough for him to purchase a lot of resources and buildings.
After all, for the older lords, the buildings in their territories were mostly complete. They were just lacking advanced and special buildings.
Special buildings would undoubtedly be very expensive, but ordinary buildings were still quite common in the Lord Continent market.
He didn't need to buy special buildings; he could evolve ordinary buildings into special ones.
He had also considered whether he could evolve ordinary buildings and then sell them if he was short of money.
However, the evolved buildings would lose their evolutionary effects if not constructed within his territory.
Therefore, this path to making money was completely out of the question for him.
He realized that he would still have quite a lot to do after the novice trial ended.
But for now, he needed to deal with the monster attacks tomorrow and the day after.
A message arrived from a friend, it was from [Overlord of the World], that joker.
The other party asked, "Boss, I've recently obtained a lot of materials. Do you want them?"
Materials were something he definitely wanted.
"Don't you need them yourself?" Zhou Yan asked.
"Only two days left, and I've upgraded everything I need to. These materials are of no use to me right now," the other party replied.
"You want to trade them for equipment, right?" Zhou Yan inquired.
"Boss is so smart. The monsters today are too fierce, and I'm afraid my equipment won't be enough. I want to trade for some good equipment, preferably silver-grade equipment," the other party said.
"That depends on the grade of your materials. Low-grade materials can't be traded for silver-grade equipment," Zhou Yan replied.