There is a large black hole in the bottom cliff wall at the mouth of the Jieshan Gorge, and in the middle of the hole is a dark river channel, and at the other end is connected to a quiet lake.

The lake is located in an enclosed valley surrounded by towering snow-capped peaks. There are several hot springs at the bottom of the lake, so even in the cold of winter, there is no sign of freezing on the lake.

The surface of the lake is smooth and blue, and a thin layer of mist wafts above the lake, and from a distance, the whole lake looks like a sapphire carefully wrapped in light yarn, and the scenery is like a fairyland.

But beneath the fairyland-like surface, there is a different look.

At the bottom of the lake are a number of 'human' buildings, which are shaped like half-sheets of river mussels, separated from the inside and outside by aquatic plants, and have several drainage holes at the back.

Since there is no need for streets underwater, the mussel-shaped buildings are densely built, and in order to make better use of the heat of the hot springs, most of the 'river mussels' are surrounded by the springs, stacked in an orderly manner, and eventually form a village like a volcanic crater.

What is terrifying is that the material that supports and fills between these buildings is actually the bones of various animals, including many bones. The bones are bonded together by an unknown substance, which is strong and allows the water to flow freely in the spaces between the bones, thus ensuring the oxygen content of the lake in the village.

There are six or seven such villages at the bottom of the lake, most of which have only three or four layers of mussels, but next to the largest spring, there is a huge 'crater' of eight or nine layers of mussels towering at the bottom of the lake.

Four fish-men who escaped from the camp at the mouth of the valley were swimming in from the crater to a huge river mussel located in the middle of the level, and from time to time there were fish-men around who poked their heads out from behind the curtain of aquatic plants at the mouth of the river mussel because they 'smelled' the blood in the water, and watched curiously as the four scarred companions got into the leader's mussel house.

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Pan Xiaogu didn't know that the boat he was on before was not attacked, because the other party went home to report the news, and he was now thinking about how to lay out the new territory.

In order to facilitate management, Pan Xiaogu decided to establish a territory on the nodes around Xianyue Township, so that except for the initial territory isolated to the east, the other territories converged into two relatively concentrated territory groups, and the separation between the two territory groups was not far away.

One of the nodes was on the road to the String Moon Territory, where Pan Xiaogu and the others happened to stop and established their ninth territory here, named Guiyi Township, and the village they established was called Guiyi Village.

The next day, Pan Xiaogu deliberately made a detour to the north, and came to the edge of the big lake where Xianyue Island was located, the lake surface had been completely frozen, Pan Xiaogu crossed the ice, and came to a place more than a mile away from the shore to establish the tenth territory.

Because the territory was established on a frozen lake, it was named Binghu Township, which is another territory with half of the area of a water body, but unlike Qiandao Township, the Glacier Lake Territory is an oval peninsula surrounded by lakes, and in the middle of the peninsula is a huge dormant volcano, and there are a large number of hot springs distributed throughout the territory, and the surrounding lakes show no signs of freezing, making this territory seriously unworthy of its name.

After the establishment of the Ice Lake Territory, Pan Xiaogu suddenly received a system message.

"Congratulations, with your own efforts, you have successfully established ten township-level territories, which means that you are already a qualified planet lord, the lord template is now open, and one skill point will be rewarded."

The system prompt appeared very suddenly, which startled Pan Xiaogu, but he quickly came back to his senses, and he didn't care about establishing a new village in Binghu Township, and couldn't wait to open the new lord template to check it out - the MMP lord template was not opened earlier, and it was actually delayed until today!

The lord template is bare, with only three skill icons on it, which represent combat, domination and internal affairs, followed by the level of three skills, at this time the three skills are displayed at level zero, and nothing else.

The level of the three skills can be increased by using skill points, one skill point is required to increase the skill from level zero to level 1, two skills are required to upgrade from level 1 to level 2, four points are required from level 2 to level 3, and so on.

The lord template also comes with an achievement system, for each achievement achieved, you will get 1~3 skill points, of which you have completed the achievement of 'establishing 10 township-level territories', get a skill point, plus the one rewarded when the template is opened, Pan Xiaogu now has a total of 2 skill points to use, you can upgrade two skills to level 1, or make up enough three skill points to upgrade a skill to level 2.

Pan Xiaogu checked the progress in the achievement list, and decisively chose to prioritize upgrading two skills - his fastest progress was actually the 'Battle-Hardened' achievement.

Battle-hardened, fight and survive a hundred battles, current progress 23/100.

Ma De is mentally retarded, Pan Xiaogu remembered the achievement systems that forced the obsessive-compulsive disorder in various online games in his previous life, and gently greeted those system designers with strange brains.

Since it is difficult to obtain new skill points in a short period of time, Pan Xiaogu naturally chooses to spend all the skill points to enhance his strength as much as possible.

Each of the three skills has its own special passive effects, which are fixed and increase with the skill level, and each level also receives a random passive effect or active special effect.

The passive of combat skills is called the body of heroes, and the effect is to greatly improve the physical fitness of the lord, and the physical fitness of the lord can be improved to the limit of the normal human body at the first level;

The passive elite unit of the Domination skill can provide an elite troop formation, and the soldier can improve its combat effectiveness by adding it, and at the first level, the Domination skill provides six infantry units and four mounted units, yes, this skill can also improve the ability of the mount.

Regardless of infantry units or cavalry units, the proportion of inheritors is not less than 5%, and the proportion reaches 10 will get special attribute bonuses, the number of infantry units is within two hundred, the number of cavalry is within one hundred, and the passive development of the ****** political skills of the mount is two hundred, and the effect is very rebellious, and each month can obtain a certain number of development points according to the number of territories, and each territory can provide ten development points per round when it is a level, and ten territories can provide one hundred points per month, As long as he has this skill, Pan Xiaogu will no longer have to worry about running out of development points.

"Housekeeping skills are a must!" As soon as Pan Xiaogu saw the passivity of his internal affairs skills, he knew that this must be pointed.

The remaining two skills made Pan Xiaogu hesitate for a while, and finally considering that his self-protection ability was limited, in order to better save his life, he gave priority to upgrading his combat skills!