Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 1049: Chapter 640: Tier 3_2

With the resources produced from his domain and those obtained from the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion, combined with his own efforts and those of his heroes and the Mingxiao Taoists, Xu Yang tenaciously created several hundred thousand third-order epic equipment over the past century, which he then stockpiled in the armory, converting them into standardized armament for the Mingxiao Taoists.

Hundreds of thousands of epic-quality third-order equipment—that was feasible only for him; other third and fourth order lords, even those backed by Ninth Order forces like the Heaven-connecting Immortal Palace, would find such an endeavor extremely challenging.

After all, competition between the Sky-reaching Tower and the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss was fierce; high-level competitors had their high-level counterparts, and low-level ones faced their low-level enemies. Just like in horse racing, top-tier horses compete against other top-tier horses, lower-tier horses against other lower-tier horses. Each tier of horse needed equivalent resources to maintain its competitiveness.

If you were to take some of the feed from the top-tier horses and give it to the lower-tier horses, while the lower-tier ones might thereby manage to excel in their own tier, what about the competition among the top-tier?

How would the top-tier horses, short on feed, face their adversaries?

Thus, while great powers were formidable, they could hardly divert too many resources to nurture newcomers or dedicate hundreds of thousands of epic equipment to self-developed troops, a task so desperate that probably only Xu Yang could accomplish.

However, investment corresponded to returns; with attributes enhanced to the Breakthrough limit, epic equipment, and the careful cultivation of five major troop type skills by Xu Yang, even Mingxiao Taoists placed into the fourth order would be considered first-rate or even top-notch.

To speak of the third order was needless; although they couldn't compete with legendary heroes, they were barely inferior to epic heroes. Furthermore, after a qualitative change and increase, a third-order lord might not possess a hundred thousand epic heroes, but could command a hundred thousand self-developed troops.

Although Xu Yang's hundred thousand Mingxiao Taoists hadn't all reached the True Man Rank yet, they were close enough; deployed in battle, they still could deliver a devastating blow to their enemies.

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"Lord!"