Another morning came.
A rare clear day.
The heavy snow had stopped quite some time ago, and temperatures were gradually rising, suggesting that this long winter seemed to be slowly retreating.
This let many of the lowest-ranking yao people breathe a little easier. If this ordeal continued, they really would not be able to survive much longer.
The second reclamation exploration was also proceeding like a raging fire, with considerable progress made. The shallow snow at the foot of the Northern Mountains behind the stronghold had basically been cleared away.
The Frontier Exploration Team was now advancing toward the mountainside and deeper mountain regions. The higher and farther in they went, the greater the danger became.
Reportedly, exploration deaths had recently begun surging again. Fortunately, a large influx of outside yao people replenished their numbers, or the outer layer of the stronghold might well have seen nine homes out of ten stand empty again.
As the outsiders gradually integrated into the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, many customs, information, cultures, and even administrative systems from other strongholds began colliding fiercely with everything already established there.
One example was the Tu Mountain Yao Stronghold's pills for the lower ranks.
Their appearance directly ignited emotions throughout the Black Mountain Demon Stockade's outer layer. Countless native yao people eagerly followed suit, their spirits soaring.
Buying pill formulas, buying preparation methods, scrambling for materials, and so on... Talent materials in particular were controlled by the stronghold's upper ranks and prohibited from private trade, which drove even an ordinary talent material to astronomical prices at the Frontier Reclamation Yao Market.
Even so, many yao still scrambled to buy them. Pills were simply too precious. For the ordinary yao people of the Black Mountain Demon Stockade, who had never seen such a thing before, once they had