Folklore: Pre-emptive shelter begins with the stomach.

This fist technique only has the upper half, and can only be mastered to a minor degree, achieving the power to shatter the air with explosive force.

Seeing this, Feng Mo wanted to use his advance payment to complete the second half.

However, just like the inheritance of the Five Internal Organs, advance payment has no effect.

"Looks like I'll have to get the second half from the tavern again?"

Feng Mo was filled with doubt.

After all, with the first half, the second half should have been a single unit.

Feng Mo raised an eyebrow. No wonder this boxing manual only costs twenty disaster stones.

Subsequently,

He gathered his thoughts.

Instead, he pulled out the half of a piece of parchment that he had prepared beforehand, stained with blood and grease. Judging from the faint hair and eye outlines on the parchment, it was clearly a piece of human scalp.

This is the fragment of the treasure map that fell when we killed the second-tier monster.

"Hidden Treasure*Fragment: Contains the coordinates of a family lost in the ancient martial arts world of history, and contains the family's heritage, including disaster stones, strange objects, and various rare and precious materials."

"A lost family, perhaps?" Feng Mo murmured to himself.

This treasure map has a strange archaeological feel to it.

He immediately opted for an advance payment, wanting to see the complete treasure map information.

"True Lord's Secret Treasure: Contains lost lineages and common species, as well as rare and precious materials."

"Repayment conditions: Obtain a secret treasure within 24 hours of the advance payment."

"Item Attribute" Insight: Within a range of 100 meters, the specific location of precious treasures can be sensed.

After receiving the advance information, he was able to see more information about the treasure map.

It turns out to be the lineage of one of the Twelve True Lords?

I just don't know which family it's from.

He could understand the lost heritage, but what was this common kind?

This reminded him of the deceased earthly ruler.

It also contains vulgar characters.

Is there any connection between the two?

Having no clue what to do, Feng Mo simply took out the last rare item.

It was a bronze treasure chest.

"Bronze Treasure Chest: Contains valuable items, but requires a mysteriously dropped bronze key to open; forcibly opening it will trigger a curse that destroys all the valuable items inside."

Upon seeing the words "good stuff," Feng Mo frowned slightly.

He decided to take the advance first to see how things went.

He set his sights on increasing the shipment rate and enabling opening without a key.

"Dark Gold Bronze Treasure Chest with Damaged Curse Seal: Due to the damaged curse seal, it can be opened without any prior knowledge, but opening it will cause half of the items inside the chest to disappear."

Items that disappear by half?

This was clearly not the outcome he wanted.

He continued to try to get advance payments, but each time he ended up losing some of his possessions.

Otherwise, you'll have to use a key to open it.

He decided to give up and put the treasure chest away first.

What if killing the monster later actually drops a bronze key?

After finishing the trivial matters at hand, Feng Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

He was very satisfied with this harvest.

The stomach has undergone a major upgrade.

Then, he looked at the storage ring in his hand.

After so many days, he only has about twenty corrupted artifacts in his possession.

Even if the strange items given to Huang Lao Er and the others are taken back, it will not be enough to meet the repayment condition of thirty items.

However, this was no challenge for Feng Mo.

Tier 1 materials can be upgraded to Tier 1 monsters in advance.

He immediately advanced a batch of strange items with very simple repayment conditions.

For example, a hoe that can be pre-made with just a few digs of the ground, a piece of human skin paper that can be pre-made with just a couple of strokes of the pen, and a lantern on the top of the head that can provide long-lasting, never-ending light, etc...

He also discovered the pattern.

The more ordinary the item being borrowed, the simpler the repayment conditions will be.

In no time, he had gathered thirty corrupted artifacts.

After reclaiming the storage space, the advance payment can be considered successfully completed.

At this point, he had finished most of his tasks.

He then focused his attention on upgrading and expanding the building.

First, try the enchantment effect of the arrow tower openings, and second, increase the total number of buildings to one hundred.

Feng Mo then thought, why not do both things at the same time?

He calculated that the buildings under the name of the Five Internal Organs Temple, from city walls and arrow towers to the black soil reclaimed on the outskirts, all added up, were still twelve short of the goal of one hundred.

This was incredibly simple for Feng Mo.

There was still some money left in the advance payment for the city wall, so he planned to use the advance payment to expand the city wall and strengthen the outer defense of the city.

If we cultivate two more plots of black soil, we should be able to achieve our goal.

……

Inside the outer city wall of the Five Internal Organs Temple, Feng Mo was busy for half a day.

He advanced funds to cultivate new black soil and had Feng Nuonian plant crop seeds.

But when you do the math, you're still missing one building.

Just as Feng Mo was thinking of casually requesting advance payment for another building, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't used the blueprints for the Vision Tower that the research center had unlocked.

He immediately selected an open space and began construction, laying out the blueprints.

The entire Vision Tower is blue.

But this wasn't a color tone; it was covered with blue rune markings.

Is this a blue rune? It's the same color as one of the runes inside the armor.

Feng Mo didn't think much of it.

The tower in front of us is shaped like a towering totem.

It was covered with densely packed, interwoven runes.

Most of them use the shape of an eye as a symbol.

The craftsmanship is as exquisite as that of other buildings.

Feng Mo stood near the observation tower.

Immediately, a miraculous scene appeared before his eyes.

When you open your eyes, you see a flat view of the area around your internal organs.

Close your eyes and you can let your consciousness wander above the horizon!

The perspective is like that of a real-time strategy game.

It can even provide real-time views of a small part of Jiangbai Village.

He saw that the Feng family was still distributing relief grain to the refugees;

I also saw the villagers diligently irrigating the fields.

Tang Ren was observing the celestial phenomena.

Huang Lao Er, carrying his son Huang Shang on his back, was directing the warriors to collect black ash and handling matters related to the gray fish's habitat.

Unfortunately, the field of vision is only one kilometer wide.

We can't look any further ahead.

Just then, a cloud of dust suddenly rose in the distance.

Feng Mo discovered that

It seems that a large group of people is rushing towards Jiangbai Village.

Wait until the team comes into view.

He then realized that it was an army of about several hundred men.

They were heading straight for Jiangbai Village.

Feng Mo raised an eyebrow, instantly recalling what Ta Xue Yun Shu had said yesterday.

The reinforcements from the imperial court, which had been delayed, actually arrived at Jiangbai Village!

The banners of the Shang Dynasty were flying at the front of the procession.

It is edged with gold thread and embroidered with patterns of dragons, phoenixes, tigers, and leopards!

Moreover, behind the procession were banners from various prominent families.

Clearly, this is a joint force composed of government officials and scions of prominent families.

One kilometer is not a long distance.

Upon receiving the news, Huang Lao Er hurriedly contacted Feng Mo using a communication talisman.

"Temple Master..."

"I know what happened." Before Huang Lao Er could finish speaking, Feng Mo interrupted him, "Where's Sergeant Si Bing?"

"She left early this morning, in a very hurry."

Feng Mo raised an eyebrow.

The other party just left.

This group of people arrived at such an inopportune time.

However, Huang Lao Er added, "When she left, she left behind a jade pendant."

It's said to be a military token; if the army attacks, you can just show it to them.

Feng Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

The other party still cared and did not abandon him because of yesterday's misunderstanding.

Tell Tang Ren to meet him at the city gate.

"Yes, Master!"

"Bring enough people with you, and don't let your guard down when the time comes."

"I understand, Temple Master!"

The communication talisman was then disconnected.

Feng Mo also turned and walked towards the city gate.

……

On the city wall.

The wind howled fiercely, its sound seemingly trembling from the distant clatter of horses' hooves.

Feng Mo stood on the city wall, with Huang Lao Er and Tang Ren on his left and right sides, respectively.

"Let me do a divination," Feng Mo said to Tang Ren.

"Good, little good," Tang Ren said slowly.

Even though the divination indicated a minor auspiciousness, Tang Ren was still covered in cold sweat upon seeing so many troops at the city gates.

As for Feng Mo, he was much calmer.

He could see clearly from the observation tower that the team had surrounded the entire Jiangbai Village the moment they arrived.

Their behavior is nothing like that of a regular army.

They were more like bandits who robbed and plundered in the mountains.

quickly,

A burly man, his body covered in thick muscle, his armor stretched into a tight-fitting suit, spurred his horse to the city gate.

"Open the door!"

"You dare to make me, a dignified commander, knock on your door without even seeing the army of our Great Shang Dynasty entering the country!"

As soon as Han Zhongyi opened his mouth, his tone was full of dissatisfaction with Jiangbai Village.

Feng Mo stood on the observation platform and bowed to those below.

"Greetings, I am Feng Mo, the head of the Five Internal Organs Temple in Shiping Feng Family."

"I don't care who you are... wait..."

Han Zhongyi stopped himself from saying what he had only halfway through.

"You're Feng Mo? The third young master of the Feng family of Shiping?!"

Upon hearing the name Feng Mo, Han Zhongyi was slightly taken aback, clearly having heard of Feng Mo's reputation.

Seeing his reaction, Feng Mo's lips twitched.

So the other person actually knew me?

It seems that his reputation is indeed quite significant in the government.

Then Han Zhongyi added, "That good-for-nothing genius who's always bragging about everything?"