Chapter 280: District 17 Dominating the Leaderboard, The Points Leaderboard Ends! (6000)

Chapter 280: District 17 Dominating the Leaderboard, The Points Leaderboard Ends! (6000)

Before this, no one in the entire District 17 had even heard of Yao Yiming.

But now, in just two short days, he had burst into everyone's sight and was forcefully seizing the second place spot.

This put immense pressure on the other team leaders in District 17.

Because this meant that as soon as someone advanced a rank, they would drop down a rank.

Especially Jiang Qingyun, who felt like the sky was falling.

At the territory headquarters of Wangjiang Pavilion, Jiang Qingyun's face was dark.

"Where did this Yao Yiming spring up from? To be able to continuously challenge the Medium Ice Dragon Horn, he's definitely no nobody!"

"According to their speculation, this guy might really have something to do with that Cao Xing."

Thinking of this, Jiang Qingyun felt even more deeply frustrated.

Because he had a premonition that this was likely arranged by Cao Xing specifically to snatch his second-place reward.

"Damnable Cao Xing!"

"No, I must get this second-place reward!"

He looked at the elderly man beside him and said coldly, "Elder Liu, gather more team members immediately. I want to activate a Medium Ice Dragon Horn challenge!"

Hearing this, the elderly man was startled.

"Young Master Jiang, don't be impulsive!"

"The difficulty of a Medium Ice Dragon Horn is several times that of a Small one. Those mysterious beings left our territory last night; only one remains now, and we can't command him at all."

"Given our strength, forcefully challenging a Medium Ice Dragon Horn will likely result in massive casualties."

Jiang Qingyun's expression darkened even further as he swore, "Damn it! Why did those guys leave at a time like this?"

The elderly man was equally helpless.

A moment later, his emotions gradually calmed down.

Though furious, his lack of strength left him with no choice.

Helpless, Jiang Qingyun could only use an [Ice Dragon Horn (Small)] again, hoping to squeeze out a few more points.

Including Qiu Yating, Yao Yiming, and others, they all used Ice Dragon Horns one after another.

The last two days—no, rather, the last day and a half.

Everyone had entered the final sprint phase.

Regional announcements echoed one after another, prompting most Survivors to pay close attention to the points leaderboard.

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…

Cao Xing stood on the city wall at this moment, watching the battlefield below.

"Boom! Rumble!"

Just as before, Ice Nests descended continuously, hatching large numbers of Ice Nest Monsters.

Although the difficulty of the Medium Ice Dragon Horn challenge was high,

compared to last night's Large challenge, it was hardly worth mentioning.

Cao Xing had no intention of stepping in at all.

The combatants below felt no pressure either.

Even the Tier 1 Centaur Legion rampaged through the Tier 2 monster hordes thanks to the three powerful area buffs active on them.

However, lacking the various single-target buffs Cao Xing provided, their health was still dropping steadily.

And whenever that happened, the commanding voices of Kantor and Kandaer would ring out.

"Neigh!!"

Kantor commanded from the rear, "Centaur Warriors, fall back! Begin breaking through using the Primary Hearts of Power!"

"Centaur Spear-Shield Cavalry, take the front line!"

Once a large number of Centaurs reached Level 10, they immediately retreated behind the line to begin their breakthrough.

A minute or two later, these Centaurs all became Tier 2 creatures, their aura surging dramatically.

Kandaer's voice immediately followed.

"All Centaur Spear-Shield Cavalry, return to the rear of the territory! You begin breaking through as well!"

"Centaur Warriors, advance and hold the front!"

"Clop… clop-clop…"

The dense sound of hooves echoed as the Centaurs alternated between defense and offense, their experience points surging rapidly.

White flashes of leveling up constantly burst from their bodies.

At this rate, it wouldn't be long before everyone reached Level 20 and broke through to Tier 3.

Seeing this, Cao Xing's lips curled into a pleased smile.

"Not bad, not bad. On a large-scale battlefield like this, leveling up really is fast."

"It just so happens that for the next day and a half, I plan to continuously use Ice Dragon Horns."

"I can take this opportunity to refresh everyone's buff statuses."

Cao Xing had now leveled up eight times in a row, reaching the cap at Level 40, which drastically boosted his base attributes.

Buff skills like [Ice Healing Art] and [Ice Armor Technique] also saw significant numerical increases.

The same applied to Liu Muxue's side.

Thus,

he summoned everyone with single-target buffs—Liu Muxue, Ilena, Tong Chuchu, Andrew, and others.

Then they began refreshing the soldiers' status buffs.

Just like that, while Cao Xing and the others cast various single-target buffs, the rest of the soldiers fought off the massive swarms of Ice Nest Monsters outside.

The workers continuously constructed various buildings.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion.

It was worth mentioning that

Sarah, Assam, and the others, after breaking through to Tier 5, were also constantly killing Ice Nest Monsters outside to gain experience.

However, at Tier 5, the number of monsters required to level up was immense.

So their leveling speed was not as terrifying as before.

Time flowed by slowly.

Soon, deep night arrived.

Many pairs of eyes were fixed on the points leaderboard.

After a day of fighting, the points of the various team leaders in District 17 had increased by one to two hundred points.

However, in terms of rate of increase, the most terrifying remained Cao Xing, followed by Yao Yiming.

Around 9:00 PM, Yao Yiming reached 1,700 points, successfully overtaking second place in a dramatic shift.

Marveling messages filled the chat channel.

Meanwhile, Jiang Qingyun was utterly depressed.

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…

In Cao Xing's territory, looking at the gasping Wild Boar Warriors, Ascalon Warriors, Centaur Legion, and Dragon Blood Warriors,

although he had these four force types fight in turns,

a full day of combat still drained a tremendous amount of their stamina.

Cao Xing smiled and asked, "How is it, can you guys still hold on?"

The warriors immediately straightened up and replied, "No problem, Lordship!"

"Wild Boar Warriors are the strongest!"

"So are Centaurs!"

Cao Xing chuckled. "Good. You are all the bravest warriors."

"Hold on for one more day. Tomorrow, battles of this scale will come to an end."

Hearing this, smiles broke out on the warriors' faces.

After dismissing them to rest,

Cao Xing also took Liu Muxue back to his Lords Manor.

Having cast spells all day, both of them were mentally exhausted.

Upon returning to the Lords Cabin, they embraced each other and fell into a deep sleep.

As night fell, cold winds howled.

Since that blizzard, it had been a rare few days without freezing rain or snow.

The Survivors also drifted into dreamland one by one.

But in the extremely distant Eternal Frozen Sea, an unusual shift was taking place.

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…

As a mysterious sea in this world, the Eternal Frozen Sea was vast and boundless.

To this day, no one had ever explored to the end of the Eternal Frozen Sea.

Here, thick layers of ice covered the surface all year round.

Legend had it that beneath these ice layers sealed countless treasures and powerhouse entities that had vanished tens of thousands of years ago.

In some unknown corner,

deep within the endless ice, an immeasurably colossal figure slept silently.

Its body seemed to be composed of clear, hard crystal, and a pair of massive dragon wings extended out for untold thousands of miles.

All over its body, every single scale gleamed with a dangerous, icy chill.

Its head was held high, its mouth half-open to reveal sharp, hard fangs, with two horns extending from behind its eyes.

It seemed to have been asleep for a long time.

And on this day, this giant dragon suddenly snapped its eyes open.

From those eyes emanated a terrifying aura of bloodlust, destruction, and death…

Across the endless ice surface of the Eternal Frozen Sea, a bottomless trench ten thousand miles long suddenly cracked open…

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The next day…

When everyone woke up,

a different system notification appeared.

[Attention all Survivors: You have passed the 16th day of the official period. Today is the final day of the points leaderboard. Leaderboard rewards will be settled at 00:00 tonight…]

[Due to an unknown occurrence in the Eternal Frozen Sea, the Dragon's Power will temporarily cease descending starting from 00:00 tonight. The following seven days will be Construction Week, during which all territory building construction speeds will increase by 20%, and basic territory resource gathering speeds will increase by 20%.]

[Please make reasonable use of the development time during Construction Week to enhance your territory's strength as much as possible. Seven days later, the Dragon's Power will descend in a brand-new form, presenting you with even higher-difficulty challenges, and the system will undergo its third version update…]

[Weather Forecast: Light breeze today, temperature between -58°C and -69°C…]

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After a series of system prompts, the Survivors were dazed for a moment before bursting into collective celebration!

The World Channel was also filled with cheers.

Deng Liu: "Awesome! The Dragon's Power has finally stopped! We have a whole week of development time. I must build up my city walls!"

Yasui Meiko: "Oh god… we finally survived it. I can live for a few more days! I've decided to abandon my territory during this time and integrate into the lives of the natives…"

Bear Grylls: "God bless, I've been hiding in a small village these past few days to escape the threat of the Ice Nests. Now, I can restart my journey of exploration. Friends, I will post a thread on the forum next to regularly upload my survival live updates. I hope everyone enjoys watching."

Smirnov: "A few days ago, I found a brown bear den in a forest, but I never had time to investigate. Now I finally have the chance."

…

Facing Construction Week, everyone made different choices: some chose to rush development of their territories, while others chose to give up their territories altogether.

Still others chose to join the legions of other Survivors.

It was a kaleidoscope of human reactions.

Even Cao Xing and Liu Muxue fell into thought while looking at the system prompts in front of them.

"It's actually Construction Week?"

"This is pretty good for us. Our territory's population has just breached six hundred, so we need to expand.

"After all, having so many people living in a space one kilometer in diameter is getting a bit cramped."

However, before that, Cao Xing needed to wait for that [Strange Red Magic Bean] to grow out.

With the help of this magic bean, his territory could easily alter its layout.

Thinking of this, Cao Xing felt a hint of anticipation.

"Let's go, Muxue. It's the last day. Let's farm a bit more Ice Dragon Marks, and while we're at it, refresh the soldiers' buffs again."

"Mhm!"

The two quickly washed up and stepped out of the Lords Cabin.

"Whoosh—"

The moment they stepped out, the chilly air surged toward them again.

Without needing Cao Xing's orders, the territory residents were carrying out their routine work as usual.

Arctic People and workers were building more residential houses.

Da Zhuang had taken the group of Goblin Laborers early in the morning to mine in the cave three or four kilometers away from the territory.

Meanwhile, the combat personnel were waiting outside the territory.

Because Cao Xing had said they would continue fighting large numbers of Ice Nest Monsters today,

they were all fully prepared.

Seeing Cao Xing approach, everyone offered greetings one after another.

"Good morning, Lordship!"

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"My Lord, continue summoning those Ice Nest Monsters over, the Wild Boar Warriors are already impatient and ready for battle!"

"The Centaurs as well!"

After yesterday's battle, this group of Centaurs had also tasted the joy of their levels soaring like a rocket, and each and every one of them was extremely excited, looking forward to today's battle.

Seeing their excited expressions, Great Lord Cao Xing smiled and said, "Don't rush just yet, wait a few minutes before starting."

Upon hearing this, everyone also quietly waited on the spot.

A moment later, a message came over from Yao Yiming's side.

"Great Lord Cao Xing, I've already secured second place and am ready at any time for the second Ice Dragon Horn challenge."

"However, that Jiang Qingyun isn't far behind me in points, will I be overtaken by him?"

Great Lord Cao Xing glanced at the rankings.

He found that one had 1745 points and the other 1687 points, meaning the gap was indeed small.

Great Lord Cao Xing replied, "It's fine. If you continue using two Ice Dragon Horns today, you'll be able to widen the gap."

"Alright, Great Lord Cao Xing."

With that, the two ended their call, and Yao Yiming began preparing to continue facing the challenges.

Meanwhile, inside the legion camp of Wangjiang Pavilion.

Jiang Qingyun looked at his group members and continued to encourage them.

"Everyone, today is the final sprint stage. Although we've been squeezed into third place, do not lose heart."

"As long as we carry out another wave of small Ice Dragon Horn challenges, we can surpass them again and reclaim the second position."

Below, however, Wangjiang Pavilion's members were somewhat low in morale.

"Boss, do we really have hope of rushing to second place?!"

"Yeah, what if that guy uses a medium Ice Dragon Horn again? Then there'll be no hope at all!"

Jiang Qingyun's expression stiffened, as he knew this possibility was very high.

However, he still comforted them, saying, "Everyone doesn't need to worry. We all know that even the difficulty of a small Ice Dragon Horn is extremely high. To cope with the challenges, we've sacrificed quite a few brothers over the past two days."

"Although this Yao Yiming's momentum is quite fierce, it's impossible for him to continuously open medium Ice Dragon Horn challenges. No matter how strong his territory is, there will still be quite a few casualties from these two times."

Upon hearing this, the Survivors below also felt that what Jiang Qingyun said made sense.

No matter how strong a territory was, challenging such Ice Dragon Horns would inevitably result in casualties.

However, what they didn't know was that Yao Yiming didn't rely on his territory residents to deal with the Ice Dragon Horn challenges at all, but rather relied on those large ballistas!

At this moment, a notification prompt appeared.

Regional Announcement: "Attention Survivors, Survivor territory 'Yao Yiming' has used [Ice Dragon Horn (Medium)]…"

At this moment, all the Survivors of Wangjiang Pavilion froze in place.

This regional announcement could be said to have shattered the final illusion in their hearts.

After seeing the announcement, Great Lord Cao Xing immediately used a [Ice Dragon Horn (Medium)] as well.

Then he continued with yesterday's rhythm.

While leading Liu Muxue and the others to refresh the statuses of those soldiers and warriors, he dispatched legions to deal with the Ice Nest Monsters outside.

Time slowly passed.

Starting the challenge at seven in the morning until around ten-plus in the evening.

Both Great Lord Cao Xing and Yao Yiming used the medium Ice Dragon Horn twice.

At 10:54 PM, they officially concluded today's challenges.

Meanwhile, the commanders of the major legions were seizing the opportunity of the last hour to make a crazy sprint.

There were also quite a few Survivors ranked within the top ten thousand working hard to grind monsters.

After all, for them, if they could increase their score by another dozen or tens of points, it was possible to rush to a higher ranking and obtain better rewards.

By around 11:30 PM, nearly eighty percent or more of the Survivors had ended their battles with the Ice Nests.

Then, they tacitly opened the chat channel, paying attention to the changes in the point rankings.

Bai Gongwei: "Brothers, the points ranking leaderboard is about to end. The top three this time are basically locked in, right?"

Xiong Yan: "Yeah, the gap is too huge, especially the first and second positions, no one can shake them at all."

Just as they said, there was no longer any suspense about this ranking.

This could be seen from the current rankings.

[District 17 Points Ranking Leaderboard]

[First Place: Great Lord Cao Xing 18231 points]

[Second Place: Yao Yiming 3453 points]

[Third Place: Jiang Qingyun 1873 points]

[Fourth Place: Qiu Yating 1842 points]

[Fifth Place: Wu Xinghu 1636 points]

Great Lord Cao Xing's score of a full eighteen thousand firmly occupied first place.

This also filled the Survivors with endless emotion and sighs.

"It's truly ridiculous, Great Lord Cao Xing has eighteen thousand points, which is almost ten times that of Jiang Qingyun."

"Yeah, this Yao Yiming is also quite perverted; in two or three days, he actually went from dozens of points to over thirty-four hundred points!"

"Aside from Great Lord Cao Xing, this should be the biggest dark horse of this points leaderboard."

Yao Yiming's sudden rise attracted the attention of a large number of Survivors.

"He's indeed a dark horse, but have you guys heard that this Yao Yiming seems to be with Great Lord Cao Xing."

"Oh? Is there such a saying?"

"That's right, brothers from the area near Great Lord Cao Xing said so. No matter which of the two used the Ice Dragon Horn, no Ice Nests would descend near the other's territory. Therefore, it's guessed that the territories of these two should not be far apart."

"And this Yao Yiming must have received help from Great Lord Cao Xing to suddenly become so powerful and see his points skyrocket."

Hearing this, a look of sudden realization appeared in everyone's eyes.

"So that's how it is. I was wondering where this dark horse Yao Yiming popped out from, actually challenging a medium Ice Dragon Horn right off the bat. Turns out he's with Great Lord Cao Xing, so that's not surprising!"

"Yeah, I'm so envious. If only I could also get help from Great Lord Cao Xing."

"Brothers, there's an even more outrageous thing. Haven't you noticed? Among the top five, there are actually 4 people from District 174."

As soon as these words were spoken,

they also successively realized this point.

Exclamations suddenly rang out in the chat channel.

"Holy crap! It seems to be true!"

"Not only that, there are 5 people from District 174 in the top ten."

"This district is just too outrageous!"

After all, a single Great Lord Cao Xing was already perverted enough.

As a result, District 174 still had four other powerful presences.

If it weren't for a Jiang Qingyun, the entire top four of the leaderboard would have been monopolized by people from District 174!

More and more people joined the discussion.

Time slowly passed.

In the blink of an eye, it was 23:55 at night…

There were only 5 minutes left until the end of the leaderboard.

The Survivors all stopped what they were doing and nervously stared at the leaderboard.

23:57…

58…

59…

At 00:00, a system prompt appeared.

[All Survivors please note, this points leaderboard has ended, and the Dragon's Power has officially stopped…]

[Congratulations to the Survivors who entered the leaderboard, generous rewards will be obtained according to the rankings!]

The Survivors cheered uniformly.

Xiao Zhi: "Haha! I entered the top five thousand, 10 Imperial Soldier recruitment scrolls, and a purple weapon. This wave makes me invincible!"

Qin Jingwen: "What kind of invincibility is that? I am in the top one thousand, I have 10 Tier 2 Imperial Soldier scrolls. Summoning them all out will cause my territory's strength to surge by a large chunk!"

Zha Kuan: "Where are the big shots in the top hundred of the leaderboard! Let me catch a glimpse of your figures!"

Just as mentioned before, the rewards for this points leaderboard were extremely generous.

Even within just ten thousand places, one could still obtain quite a lot of resources.

These resources were enough to greatly increase the strength of the Survivors at the current stage.

Everyone was extremely excited, sharing their rewards in the chat channel.

Because this wasn't just resources, it was also a symbol of strength.

And the Survivors of District 174 were practically acting like it was Chinese New Year!

"Haha! Great Lord Cao Xing is indeed number one!"

"District 174 is truly fierce, this time in the top ten, we occupy 5 spots!"

"That's right, I see that not only the top ten, but even the top one thousand has quite a few people from our District 174."

"Brothers are too awesome!"

Cheers filled the chat channel.

At this moment, Great Lord Cao Xing stood in the territory.

A system prompt rang in his ears.

[Congratulations! In this points leaderboard challenge, you achieved the outstanding result of first place!]

[Obtained leaderboard rewards: Primary + Intermediate Frost City Wall Construction Blueprint * 1, Primary + Intermediate Frost Arrow Tower Construction Blueprint * 1, Cold Light Gleaming Golden Treasure Chest * 1, Optional Ice Dragon Armor Set Part * 1, Tier 2 Commander-grade Dragon Blood Warrior Recruitment Scroll * 1, Ice Dragon Mark * 100000]

Seeing this huge pile of rewards, an excited expression gradually emerged on Great Lord Cao Xing's face!

"Very good, I've finally secured the reward for first place!"

The other rewards didn't make Great Lord Cao Xing look forward to them all that much.

The most crucial one was that Commander-grade Dragon Blood Warrior scroll!

Great Lord Cao Xing said happily, "According to Jonard and Josent and their accounts, Dragon Blood Warriors possessing powerful bloodline power can fuse with more bloodlines."

"This drop of demon blood in my backpack can finally come in handy!"

He couldn't wait to use that scroll on the spot.

However, before that, Great Lord Cao Xing still needed to wait for news from Yao Yiming's side.

A moment later, the call indeed came through.

"Great Lord Cao Xing, I've successfully obtained the second-place reward!"

"I'll have people bring the things over to you right away, and those ballistas of yours, I've also had them put away for you!"

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