The Southern Barbarian Mountains, between the Netherworld Valley and Haotian Castle, are on top of a towering peak.

Zhao Hao raised his hand, blocking the dazzling sunlight, and carefully scanned the surrounding mountains and ravines, and he didn't know how long he looked at it before he sighed slightly and put his hand down.

He wanted to build a road, a path from the Netherworld Valley to Haotian Castle.

Because, if he continued to explore south, the boat would take more than half a day, and he would not be able to make a round trip in a day.

In other words, it will take at least two days to continue sailing south and hunting.

In this way, there will be a lot of trouble, and it is no joke to rest for a night in the mountains of the Nanban, if there is no protective measure, you must arrange people to keep watch all night at night, not to mention the energy, and you will have to delay a lot of time on the road, and the further south you go, the more time you will delay on the waterway.

When the time comes, if you are on the road for two days or even ten or eight days, then the efficiency of hunting will be too low.

So, he thought of building a road and continued to explore eastward.

He had already roughly learned about the situation of the Nanban Mountains on the map collected by the Great Elder of Nanhua, and the width of these Nanban Mountains was at least more than 1,000 miles wide from east to west, and he had explored about fifty miles east at most in the two locations of Haotian Fort and Netherworld Valley.

There is no way, there is no road in the mountains of the Nanban, if you trek on foot, a master like him can only travel about fifty miles in half a day, plus the time of the return trip, he will explore fifty miles to the east at most, otherwise, he will have to spend the night in the mountains of the Nanban.

And? In the past, he was worried that if he explored eastward, he would encounter the masters of the Xue Man's Division? After all, the lair of the Xue Manbu is just east of the Nanban Mountains? He didn't dare to go too deep.

But? After looking at the map, he understood? The master of Xue Man's Department can go about a hundred miles from east to west at most? Further west? It is estimated that they will not dare to go deeper, because it is too dangerous in the mountains of the Southern Barbarians. m

In other words, as long as he didn't go east and go deeper into the Nanban Mountains for more than a thousand miles, he would not encounter the masters of the Xue Barbarian Division.

That's a pretty big area? I don't know how many alien beasts and close to the existence of divine beasts are inside? Naturally, he had to find a way to get those resources into his pocket.

The way he thought of it was to build roads, or rather, to build a fortress and build a road, simply put, to explore the area to the east first? Just choose a suitable location to build a fortress and send people to garrison it? Then all the forts were connected by road.

As a result, it may take more time in the early stage? But once the fort and the road were repaired? It doesn't take much time to hunt in between.

After all? Do they have horses? Dozens of miles of road, that is a matter of hours, a few times a day is not a problem, and as long as a road is built, it can cover all areas within fifty miles of the left and right of the road, so that the hunting efficiency is much higher.

Moreover, the road in the mountains of the Southern Barbarians does not need to be garrisoned, as long as it is repaired, ordinary beasts and foreign beasts will not destroy it.

Of course, the fortress needs to be garrisoned, especially the fortress in the Nanban mountains, when the surrounding area is not explored in the early stage, each fortress must be stationed with a master with a strength of more than 10,000 catties, otherwise, there may be an accident.

If he only relied on his five hundred guards, it would be good to be able to defend the Netherworld Valley and Haotian Castle.

So, where did the people who garrisoned the fortress come from?

This, he naturally has a plan.

This time, he not only set a plan to expand his power in the next year and then take the west wing of the Xue Manbu, but also planned how the Haotian Department or the Haotian territory of Nanhua would develop after taking the west wing of the Xue Manbu.

After taking the western wing of Xue Man's department, his development focus was on the Nanban mountains.

After all, as long as the western flank of Xue Man's department is taken, the prairie will basically be safe, and when the time comes, it will be enough to send one or two battalions of men and horses to stay behind, and the rest of the men and horses can be pulled to the Nanban mountains.

In this way, they can not only hunt more alien beasts and increase their strength by approaching the existence of divine beasts, but they can even keep some alien trees or divine trees, leaving a foundation for future generations to develop.

At this time, the strength of the generals of the eighth battalion had exceeded 10,000 catties, and he didn't need to take action to subdue those stubborn tribes, so he took Ji Rushuang and Ji Wei to hunt in the Nanban mountains between Haotian Fort and Netherworld Valley, while inspecting the terrain to see how to build the road from Haotian Fort to Netherworld Valley.

This road looks like it's not easy to repair!

Because the terrain in the Nanban Mountains is so complicated, although there are many valleys and ravines that can be borrowed, many of the valleys and ravines are not connected together, and if you want to build roads in them, I am afraid that some of the mountainsides will have to be dug up.

And these mountainsides, the shortest ones are tens of meters, and the highest ones are not hundreds of meters, and I don't know how much time it will take to dig up.

While he was frowning and pondering there, Ji Wei couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter, are you in any trouble?" ”

This Ji Wei actually insisted on coming with them, because he didn't want to rely on Zhao Hao's alms, he wanted to hunt strange beasts by himself.

To be honest, with his ability, going to hunt strange beasts in the mountains of the Southern Barbarians is simply seeking death, but with the protection of Zhao Hao and Ji Rushuang, there is no problem.

It just so happened that Zhao Hao also wanted to hunt separately from Ji Rushuang in the future, and the two of them each took a few masters with a strength of more than 10,000 catties to explore in different directions, so that the hunting efficiency was doubled, and Ji Wei was the test object he brought out.

His idea was to bring Ji Wei's strength first, and when Ji Wei could easily shoot the beast with a strong bow that exceeded 10,000 catties, basically, he could follow Ji Rushuang as a helper.

Of course, Ji Wei's strength is not good at this time, and the accuracy of archery needs to be improved.

However, this kid has more words than Ji Rushuang, he can't hold back anything, and he wants to ask everything.

Zhao Hao said helplessly: "I'm thinking about how to build a road between Haotian Fort and the Netherworld Valley, alas, many of these valleys and ravines are not connected, if you want to build a road, I'm afraid you have to dig some mountainsides between the valley and the ravine, and these mountainsides are dozens of meters or even hundreds of meters high at every turn, and if you want to dig them, I don't know how much time it will take." ”

When Ji Wei heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Dig tens or even hundreds of meters of mountainside?

This kid can really think about it!

However, he quickly had an idea and suggested: "Or, please ask my grandfather to help, it is rumored that a master with a strength of more than 100,000 catties, holding a divine weapon, can flatten hundreds of high mountains with a knife!" If my grandfather is willing to come and help, it won't be a matter of a few knives to break through these mountainsides. ”

Fainting, is that exaggerated? :（/

Zhao Hao felt that this was somewhat bragging in it, just kidding, flattening the mountain hundreds of meters high with one knife, what a lot of power!

However, Ji Wei's words gave him a good hint.

Even if he pulled out the divine weapon, he used all his strength to slash down with a knife at the top of the mountain under his feet.

There was a loud bang, and the tip of the mountain was indeed split by him, and the sword qi came out from the opposite side.

He jumped to the opposite side, squatted down, and took a closer look, the top of the mountain that was broken by him was actually more than ten meters away, and there was no trace of the sword qi leaking out further down.

However, this is enough.

If he slashed at a mountainside with dozens of swords, although he couldn't break the mountainside, the dirt and stones inside would be penetrated by his sword qi and become extremely loose, and then it would be easy for the guards to dig it!