Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 988 - 608: Harvest (Equipment Data, Not for Everyone)

The battle had subsided, and Hua Mulan, with an severely injured Lv Lingqi, returned to the city to recuperate, leaving Xu Yang, Zhang Yan, and others to tally the losses and gains from this battle.

Although this battle was not as brutal as the previous siege, the losses were substantial. Sixty thousand troops had sharply decreased by nearly twenty thousand, seventy percent of whom were his Yellow Turban troops, and the rest were the Civilization Units of Zhang Yan and Feng Cheng.

It was an unavoidable situation. Apart from the Yellow Turban Warriors and the Yellow Turban Mages, the attributes, skills, and equipment of other Yellow Turban troops were very weak, suitable only as cannon fodder. In such a large-scale battle, casualties were inevitable, and only after being promoted to the Fifth Rank of "Strongman" could there be some improvement.

Yet Xu Yang’s newly trained Yellow Turban troops, the majority of whom were only of the Elite Order, with a few Strongmen remaining from the last siege, resulted in considerable losses with nearly fifteen thousand killed or wounded in this battle.

Fortunately, if the Yellow Turbans lacked anything, it wasn’t numbers. Given the current scale of his territory, these fifteen thousand could be quickly replenished, and even bursting out more troops to form a hundred thousand-strong army was not a problem.

After tallying the losses, the next phase was the much-anticipated distribution of spoils.

The greater the risk, the higher the rewards; such was the basic rule of the Sky-reaching Tower, and this battle was no exception.

This time, the enemy came storming fiercely, not just with an Alliance Army of two hundred thousand formed by ten lords, but also with legendary heroes like Gongsun Yang, many epic heroes, as well as special troops like Golden Hammer Armor Soldiers, Feather Forest Army, Hu Ben Army, and Iron Rod Army; the difficulty of the battle could not be overstated.

Only someone like Xu Yang, who "cheated," could handle such an onslaught. Had it been any other lord facing this attack, ninety-nine percent would end up defeated and dead, losing everything.

Thus, the gains from this battle were tremendous, even though many enemy troops escaped—the quality of the spoils was astonishingly high.

As usual, the spoils were divided into three categories: captured heroes and troops, heroes and troops looted, and special rewards after the battle.

The quality of the captives was average, because the enemy lords had preemptively used the Contemplating Defeat Order. Most of the enemy heroes had escaped cleanly, and special troops, especially the cavalry, managed to mostly slip away, leaving only the slower-moving infantry and archers behind.

Even including the Feather Forest Army and Hu Ben Army, which he had subdued with the King’s Way at the end, the number of captured special troops totaled less than five thousand. Ordinary Civilization Units, on the other hand, were quite numerous at thirty to forty thousand, but their value was not as great as those five thousand specials.

As for these captives, Xu Yang was decisive. He handed them all over to Zhang Yan and Feng Cheng, to use or sell as they saw fit, keeping none for himself.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to keep them, but that he couldn’t, because he adopted the Yellow Turban Civilization, whereas these captives were all Han Dynasty troops. Putting the two together was like Wu Dalang and Ximen Qing sharing a room. Even if they didn’t turn on each other, it would severely affect morale and was simply not worth the trouble.

Thus, they could only be given to Zhang Yan and Feng Cheng, or thrown into the Sky-reaching Tower in exchange for resources.

That was regarding the captives. Now, looking at the loot.

In this battle, the enemy had lost four generals—Ma Wu, Gongsun Yang, and Yan Liang and Wen Chou. The high-quality spoils routinely looted also came from these four, combined with the Gongsun Golden Hammer Armor, which included four pieces of Legendary Equipment and three Epic Items.

Starting with Gongsun Yang’s signature weapon.

Drum Beating Golden Hammer (Gongsun Yang)

Equipment Order: Second Order (Legend)

Equipment Attributes: 80 blunt, Physical Strength +20, Charm +5, Strong Body +10, Strong Strike +10, Commander +5, Physical Strength requirement: 80.

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Equipment Effect: Shattering (deals additional damage to armored targets and significantly increases the chances of piercing armor, breaking shields, moves, and blocks; attack carriesa severe shaking effect).

Equipment Special Skill: Tidal Wave Mountain Shattering (consume ten stacks of Mad Dominance Power; unleash three rounds of hammer strikes like raging waves, causing 150%, 300%, and 600% significant damage).

Equipment Introduction: Golden Hammer General Gongsun Yang uses double hammers forged from the essence of five mountains combined with Outer Heaven Meteorite Iron, refined over forty-nine days, each weighing one and a half thousand, totaling three thousand. Only those with divine strength can wield them.

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Looking at the attributes of Drum Beating Golden Hammer, Xu Yang said nothing, merely casting his gaze towards Zhang Yan and Feng Cheng.

Seeing this, Feng Cheng immediately stated, "I have no use for it. I don’t need it!"

Only Zhang Yan hesitated, her gaze turning to Yue Yun beside her, clearly tempted but finding it difficult to speak.

She really wanted this weapon because her top general, Yue Yun, needed such a piece of equipment to elevate his strength to the level of a first-class general.

First-class Martial Arts, a concept, refers to the generals of peak level within a rank, whose primary attributes reach the upper limit of that rank.

For legendary heroes like Gongsun Yang, this was not difficult, as their attributes grew extremely high. By just leveling up and adding a few pieces of equipment, they could push their main attributes to their limits.

However, for an epic hero like Yue Yun, relying solely on level-ups and attribute growth could at best accumulate to seventy or eighty, with the remaining twenty to thirty needing equipment boosts and skill compensations, finally reaching the level of a first-class general.

Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and the Five Generals were examples of maturely trained epic heroes, each with a Physical Attribute between eighty to ninety, barely reaching a hundred after skill enhancements.

For Yue Yun to reach their level, he must be willing to invest and cultivate, learning to arm himself and acquire skills.