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Chapter 37: Zhang Manor Preparation

Chapter 37 – Zhang Manor Preparation.

March 15th, 181 A.D. Anping County, Zhang Manor. 7 AM.

Tong woke up by the sunlight shining through the window in his room. Tong sat up on his bed with his exhausted body. He managed to complete his 19th mission yesterday night.

His quest was a perverted one just like when he was a baby. This time the system ordered him to make Hua Shi screaming 10 times in one night, which made Tong crying like a madman in a roller-coaster when he had first seen the content of the mission.

Meanwhile, Hua Shi also received a similar mission, sleeping in the same bed with Tong for a month, which she managed to complete it earlier than Tong.

Tong had a rough time trying to complete his quest. Although Hua Shi was cooperative when Tong shared the content of his mission to her, she always counter-attacked him with her saliva vacuum tongue every time she almost reached Tong's goal.

As a result, he was tired out first before he could complete the mission every night.

Then yesterday, he found out that Hua Shi intentionally interfered and didn't want him to complete his mission too fast. She enjoyed kissing him too much!

Tong was enraged. He tied her up in his room for the entire night and used every technique he had to teach her as a lesson.

In the end, he completed the quest, with Hua Shi sleeping in exhaustion on his bed, yet still having a smiling face.

With the annoying quest out of the way, Tong checked his status.

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**Status**

Name: Zhang Tong

Age: 16

Lifespan: 41,262 Years

Shopping Pass: 3

*Active Skill List*

[Time Stop] LV.2 EXP( 55/200 )

- Stop time and space flow in your current universe for 10 seconds.

Skill Cost: 10 years of the host lifespan.

Skill Restriction: Can only be used once per day. Skill resets at midnight.

[Firearms Creation] LV.1 EXP( 213/10,000 )

- Create any firearm or bullet of your choice.

- Handguns and handgun bullets can be created

Skill Cost:

- 1 year of the host lifespan per a handgun bullet

- 50 years of the host lifespan per a new handgun of your choice

Skill Restriction: Can only create one gun a day or one bullet a day. Skill resets at midnight.

*Passive Skill List*

[Plot Armor] Cannot be leveled up

- Immune to all natural disease, poisoning, and physical attacks.

- After the host become 20 years of age. The host shall be forced summoned back the Netherworld.

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Tong kept collecting his lifespans. They were essential for Tong next phase of plans because there were many things he could buy from the shop.

He had to save up for advanced items and utility items that was too difficult to mass produce in this ancient era, such as cement and other chemical products, or the raw materials that couldn't be gathered in short span of times, such as woods, irons, coals, and stones. Even raw oil could be bought.

Tong could even buy warhorses if he wanted to. But he would waste his precious shopping passes if he chose to do so.

Tong had an ambitious goal. He no longer just wanted to live here as a commoner. He would raise his flags alongside with his father and become an overlord in this era.

Once he succeeded. The lifespans and the shopping passes he had been hoarding would come into play and would shock the world.

...

After the incident with Sima Xin that night, Tong forced his father and his uncles to relocate from Ningjin County to Anping County, claiming that Guo Dian would attack them soon and Ningjin was too close to Julu County.

Tong also abandoned the thought of hiding his soap business.

He told his father to make a trip to Nan Pi City with 2,000 bars of soap with him. Tong wanted to make a deal with the Yuan family.

Nan Pi City was located on the north-east of Julu County and Anping County. The entire Nan Pi District was dominated by one of the ancient aristocrat families, the Yuan family, which was the richest nobles in the city.

In 189 A.D., after Dong Zhuo had occupied Luo Yang and enthroned Liu Xie, Yuan Shao escaped back to this city along with his family. Then he used the Yuan family wealth and influences to build up his forces which would dominate northern China later on.

Tong wanted to absorb a portion their wealth by selling them soap. Although the nobles and the officials would notice him, the wealth he could draw from the family worth the risk.

After the trip, Zhang Jiao came back with 12,000 gold, which was higher than Tong's initial expectation.

Tong had always sold a bar of soap for one gold each to the nobles and merchants, but he would barter-trade with fellow commoners and Hua Tuo.

Yet Zhang Jiao managed to rip off the Yuan family by selling them for six gold each, which demonstrated that his father was not an ordinary old fox.

Tong thought, he had to reevaluate his father's abilities again.

But Zhang Jiao shocked Tong once more, he told Tong that he had spent 8,000 gold to bribe the officials to get the trading pass and paid for border taxes, or else they wouldn't be able to come back with this much gold.

Tong's corner of his eyes twitched. This meant that Zhang Jiao had sold one soap bar for 10 gold, not 6 gold.

His father's persuasion and politic skills were something Tong could not look down upon. No wonder he could tame over 300,000 followers and turned them into rebellions in short amount of times in the history.

Tong wanted to share his gold with his father, but Zhang Jiao only took a thousand gold to pay for his workers and household maintenance. The rest was for Tong to keep.

Tong was touched by his father's love. He swore that Zhang Jiao's ideal would be realized by his hands.

With 11,000 gold and 1,000 gold that Tong stored in his warehouse, he had more than enough to hire the blacksmiths to produce weapons and armors for his troops.

Today, Tong made an announcement to the villagers and the neighbor villages, an imperial army from Julu County would raid this village in October or November.

The cause of the invasion was that the governor of Julu County was jealous of Tong's soap business and wanted to make it theirs. Therefore, he sent his men to threaten his family before, but ultimately got chased back.

However, they would come again with a large army, so Zhang family wanted to stand ground and fight the imperial troops.

Tong warned the villagers that they had to either cooperate with the Zhang family or escape to other provinces. If they chose to stand with Zhang family, Tong would reward them handsomely.

This caused an uproar in the villages. The villagers believed in it without realizing that Tong had thrown dirt on Guo Dian and framed him.

Information manipulation was easy in this era. As long as the speaker had an acceptable status, the commoners would believe in it.

The villagers also were not happy about this announcement. They had just planted the crops but they had to evict from their home? This was unacceptable.

Most villagers main occupation were farmers, only a handful of them were either carpenters or blacksmiths. They didn't like the idea of abandoning their hard work because one of the lords would march the troops here.

Without an option, most of the villagers chose to stay and help the Zhang family fight against the army. They wanted to protect their houses and their wealth from the looters.

Seeing the positive feedback, Tong made another announcement. For those that helped him this time would receive one gold per one family. Blacksmiths and carpenters would receive two gold per person.

This caused another uproar. The blacksmiths and carpenters who were about to leave changed their minds. One gold coin could buy at least one ton of grain, which could support the entire family for a long time. This offer didn't come often.

They wholeheartedly accepted the offer!

Seeing the overwhelming reaction from the crowd, Tong felt relief. He assigned blacksmiths to forge armors and weapons such as long spear and pikes, while carpenters would craft the repeated crossbows that Tong had designed beforehand.

The crossbow design was the standard Ming Dynasty repeated crossbow. The repeated crossbow first appeared in China on 400 B.C. during the warring state period but was redesigned by Zhuge Liang later in the Three Kingdoms era. And Ming Dynasty improved it further for ordinary commoners to use.

Tong's crossbow was easy to use even for a person who had never used a bow before. It was designed to be a household protection weapon against bandits.

However, the design for every kind of repeating crossbows was only spread among the minority of nobles and could not be found among commoners in this Han period.

Tong wanted to revive it and used it before Zhuge Liang could even learn to talk.

As for the rest of the farmers and commoners without special skills, Tong ordered them to craft arrows for the repeated crossbows if they were free from their farming jobs.

Counting the number of families and households, Tong had to pay a total of 3,000 gold for all villagers, blacksmiths, and carpenters.

The iron ores and lumbers would take him another 2,000 gold to equip all 2,000 soldiers of Zhang family.

Tong still had 7,000 gold to spare. But he saved it for this harvest season. He would stock as many grains as possible this year because he was unsure if this year would be the last good harvest season.

Tong also didn't stop his soap business. Another batch of 10,000 bars of soap would be finished by the end of this month. Tong spent all the ingredients he had had in stock to make this batch.

Tong determined to steal more wealth from the Yuan family one more time before the war with Julu forces broke out.


Chapter 38: WTF Was Wrong With Those Skill Creators!

Chapter 38 – WTF Was Wrong With Those Skill Creators!

March 31st.

A merchant who traveled from Julu County arrived with terrible news. The Julu Governor Guo Dian was preparing 5,000 troops to attack Zhang family as Tong predicted.

This cause panic and uproar among the villagers. The Zhang family only had 2,000 troops, how could they fight against 5,000 men army.

The mayor of Anping County also heard the news. He fled along with his family the first day the news arrived, leaving his followers and servants behind.

Zhang Liang also heard of this news. He couldn't help but get irritated and nervous. He didn't have any confidence for leading his 1,000 troops against this many men.

He was stressed out and canceled the plan for having a war sparring with Tong.

In contrast to Zhang Liang, Tong still relaxed and smiled. He simply asked Zhang Liang to borrow his troops to dig up some traps and build a wooden fortress.

Zhang Liang didn't know what his nephew was thinking, he agreed. Zhang Liang thought that at least they would have a couple trap holes to reduce the number of the imperial troops.

Today, Tong went out with Zhang Jiao to calm the villagers. Tong also had a few villagers tested out the repeating crossbow, which astonished them. They could fire many arrows in a minute without using much strength.

Tong assured them that if they continued to craft more arrows and these crossbows, they wouldn't lose against this size of an army. There were 2,000 soldiers and 1,500 strong men in this village. If they all had these crossbows and fired repeatedly, what would happen to the invader?

The crowd's eyes lit up as they saw hope.

The carpenters and the villagers became more enthusiastic about their works. The panic was subsided and tranquility returned to the village.

Tong sighed in relief. He went back home to prepare his soap for the trip to Nan Pi again.

After coming home, Hua Shi came to see him and consulted him about the incoming war. And she also wanted to try the Soulmate Quest.

Tong was surprised. He thought that she would definitely sit out of this war. Tong wondered what changed her mind.

But after seeing her drools on the corner of her mouth, Tong figured that she either wanted his blood or his saliva again, but she was using the Soulmate Quest as an excuse to approach him.

She seemed to have a withdrawal symptom. After finished the 14th mission, Tong hadn't allowed her to enter his room ever since.

Then Tong was reminded that they had never tried the Soulmate Quest yet. It was a good time for them to try it. Thus Tong opened the menu and accepted a mission.

[Ho! Ho! Ho! Welcome! Welcome! It's been a while.]

"Yeah, you pervert system. Give us a mission."

[I cannot give you the 20th mission at the moment. There is a straggler who hasn't completed his mission yet. So you will have to wait until that person is killed or he finishes his mission.]

"We're not taking the main quest. We're trying the Soulmate Mission."

[Alright. But be warned. Soulmate missions are not part of the main missions but voluntary missions. Do you still want to try it?]

Tong paused to think. But Hua Shi spoke out.

"Give us the mission please."

[HAHAHA, there you go. Since you are going to war soon, I might as well help you out.]

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**Soulmate Mission No.1**

Guo Dian is preparing to dispatch an army to deal with your family in Anping County. Defend it!

Be warned, there is a chance that Julu Army is not the only invader.

Clear Condition:

- All invaders withdrew or annihilated.

- Both Zhang Tong and Hua Shi must participate in this battle.

Failure Condition:

- Anping County is taken by any invader.

- Zhang Tong or Hua Shi didn't participate in this battle.

Clearing Reward:

- 20,000 Lifespans and two shopping pass for completing the main objective.

- 20,000 Lifespans for killing an enemy general.

- 200,000 Lifespan for killing Sima Xin.

- 20 Lifespan for killing each enemy soldier.

- 10,000 Lifespans if Zhang Liang survives.

- 10,000 Lifespans if Zhang Bao survives.

- Extra EXP to one of your active skills if you complete the mission by November 31st.

Mission Failure: Both of you will die.

System Note: Aside from the main objective, you have to kill the enemy yourself to gain the rewards.

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Tong and Hua Shi were astonished. The quest was unusually generous. There were so many rewards!

However, Tong felt his heart almost stopped beating when he saw several conditions.

He had to defeat the Julu Army! It was not a simple do this or kill that mission, it was a war quest!

Both he and Hua Shi had to participate in this battle, and they could only earn the rewards by killing the soldiers or the generals themselves. They had to risk their life for the rewards again.

Then there was this Sima Xin. It seemed that the next battle would involve an otherworlder, which complicated things further.

Not counting that they had to deal with at least 5,000 Julu men with 2,000 soldiers. This mission was as difficult as the reward offered.

High risk, high return.

Tong knitted his eyebrows, feeling concerned. However, Hua Shi seemed to notice Tong worried. She closed her menu and hugged him from the front.

"Oi …" Tong was surprised.

"Don't be afraid. You have me."

Tong frowned. He didn't know how to deal with this zombie girl. Sometimes she was sweet like an adolescent girl, sometimes she was like a perverted old man, sometimes she turned into a psychopath zombie, and sometimes she transformed into a dignified nurse.

He didn't know which face was the true her. Were all of them hers?

"If you are trouble, you can talk to me, you know? Aren't I your wife?"

"In name."

"Tch. You thick head. Now, look at my face."

"Huh?"

Tong was annoyed by her. But after he stared into her eyes, they were as clear as the sky. Those were the eyes without deception.

"Listen. I understand that you are faithful to your girl. But! I'm not fooling around. I'm worried about you. In a troubled time, you need to put your faith and trust in your friends and your family."

"..."

"Human cannot survive alone."

Tong was silent, thinking after what Hua Shi said.

"I'm also a part of your family. So you can talk to me."

"I know there are things you want to talk to your dad and uncles but you couldn't."

"So I'm here for you."

"We're both from the 21st century. I can understand you."

"So talk to me. Put your faith in me."

"Trust me."

Tong reflected upon himself. A bitter smile showed on his face. For all this time, all he thought about Hua Shi was that he tried to use her for her skills and experience. He never trusted her.

He felt guilty.

There was a conflict in his mind. He had prejudiced her because of her past sins and her disgusting hobbies. But if he took off her sins and hobbies, how had he seen her as a person until now?

A person was like a coin with two sides. There was a face side and the back side, and Tong had seen Hua Shi's both sides. If he could only see her one side, would he have treated her differently?

Didn't everyone have a dark side that others might find it disgusting?

He bit his lower lips and slightly nodded, acknowledging Hua Shi.

Hua Shi patted Tong's head like a mother patted her son.

"I know it's my fault for having this hobby and you hate me for it. But do you know that I haven't eaten any human for three months after I've become your fiance?"

Both of them chuckled, thinking back to the first time they had met.

"How about I quit eating humans for you? Will you trust me?"

Tong stared into Hua Shi's meaningful eyes. Was she serious?

"I'll trust you if you can do it as you said."

Tong replied which made Hua Shi smiled.

"But you will have to stop stealing kisses from me. My mouth and my tongue were always sore every time you did that."

Hua Shi snapped her fingers and clicked her tongue. Tong didn't fall for her trap.

Seeing Hua Shi's reaction, Tong laughed in his heart. She was easy to read sometimes.

'Well, she's right about one thing. Since we are in this together, I should trust her a bit more.'

Tong made a mental note in his heart. Then he asked Hua Shi to show her status to him.

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**Status**

Name: Hua Shi

Age: 16

Lifespan: 48,739 Years

Shopping Pass: 2

*Active Skill List*

[Medical Gift] LV.4 EXP( 706/800 )

- Diagnosis a patient and automatically find a solution for the treatment, or create medicine for the sickness found.

- Can create eight medicine tablets or 80 milligrams of liquid medicine per one use.

Skill Consumption: 10 years of the host lifespan.

Skill Usage Restriction: Can only be used when treating a patient.

*Passive Skill List*

[Sword Master] Cannot be leveled up

- Master all kinds of swords. Increase all attributes by 10 times if the host is using a sword.

- If the host kills an enemy, increase the host lifespan by the remaining lifespan of the dead enemy.

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Tong gulped. He was astonished by her status. Why was this world so unfair!?

Her lifespans had surpassed him and even her skill was already at level 4. This was clearly favoritism treatment from the system!

Tong sulked in a corner. A big water drop appeared on Hua Shi's head.

"There, there. Don't cry. How about I help you look for something good from the shop for you. Look! Look!"

Hua Shi opened the shop menu and tab the limited skill of fallen otherworlders.

There were highlighted number "35" appeared in the top right corner of the shop. It seemed to indicate the number of surviving otherworlders in this world.

Hua Shi scrolled down to look for an interesting skill to help Tong in this situation. Then she indeed found a good skill.

"Tong, Tong. Look at this skill."

Tong glanced at Hua Shi and the system menu. Then he saw the skill details.

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[Inventory] – Cannot be leveled up.

- Host can store items in a private space.

- Host cannot store any living person or any creature.

- Storage limit: 10 Slots. Each slot can only contain same items. Stackable.

- Unlimited Volume.

- Time will be frozen in the inventory.

- Host can adjust the temperature of the Inventory.

- Upkeep lifespans required: 100 per year.

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** Price 10,000 Lifespans **

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Tong's eyes opened wide as if they wanted to escape from his eye sockets. Which isekai maniac created this godly skill? And why didn't other reincarnator take it?

Then Tong's eyes stopped at the upkeep. One hundred years of lifespan for using the inventory for a year was a steep price to pay at this early stage of this world. No wonder no one had taken it yet.

At this stage, all of them probably concerned about their priority surviving skills or weapons for self-defense.

If he had this skill, then he could use it for the army logistic and provision storage. Then the grain would not be attacked by any raider in the future.

Tong bought the skill immediately. His lifespan hoarding plan would have to wait. This skill was more valuable.

Then Hua Shi nudged him again and pointed at her screen.

"Look! Look! There's one more skill that suits you. This one you should buy it!"

Tong's eyes lit up. He checked Hua Shi status menu again. Then she pointed at one skill.

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[Immortal Yang Vein] – Cannot be leveled up.

- Host has infinite yang seeds.

- Host can dual-cultivate with female partners to increase active skill EXP in random.

- Host's stamina multiplies by 20.

- Host can regenerate wounds and lost body parts instantly.

- Regeneration costs lifespans depending on the degrees of the injury.

- This skill can only be used by male otherworlders.

- Upkeep lifespans required: 1,000 per year.

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** Price 10,000 Lifespans **

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Tong choked and blood seeped out of the corner of his mouth. Which perverted wuxia maniac created this skill? And what in the blue world was that upkeep? Was the person insane? That guy deserved to die!

But he was already dead.

Well, he deserved to be revived and died again!


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Sneaky release because people hate Hua Shi.

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