Gu Yuan Tribe.
At the moment, many elders were present in the main hall. Even the five Qiu brothers who had joined the Ancestral Court's Heavenly Soldiers had returned to the tribe more than a month ago and received a lot of rewards from the Ancestral Court. Naturally, these were what the five Qiu brothers deserved, and the tribe would not covet their rewards.
At this moment, all the martial artists in the main hall, except for the three elders, were all below the Third Heavenly Layer of the Sky Building Realm. There were more than 20 of them. In addition, there were dozens of martial artists below the Third Heavenly Layer of the Sky Building Realm in the Gu Yuan Tribe. They were all older martial artists who had been promoted over the years.
Now, in addition to the original seven great halls, the Combat Master Hall had been added to the Gu Yuan Tribe. The Guardian Warriors had formed a Combat Formation Master Hall and finally formed its own hall to compete with the other halls.
There was also the Full Moon Hall where the Guardian Battle Beasts resided, where the Dragon-Blooded Full Moon Rhinoceros Clan resided. Over the past few months, many martial artists of the Gu Yuan Tribe had entered the Full Moon Hall to subdue a Full Moon Rhinoceros as a battle beast. As for how to obtain the recognition of the Dragon-Blooded Full Moon Rhinoceros, it would depend on one's own strength.
There was also the Elders Hall, which was the cultivation place of the Sky Building Realm martial artists. It could be said that the true combat power of the Gu Yuan Tribe was here.
A moment later, the sound of footsteps came from outside the main hall. Many elders got up from their stone chairs and looked out of the main hall. After seeing the green figure, they bowed in unison.
"Greetings, Patriarch!"
Suddenly, loud shouts resounded throughout the main hall. Xiao Chen walked straight to the main seat in the center of the main hall before turning around and shouting in unison, "All elders, rise!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Chen sat on the white jade stone seat and swept his gaze across the many elders in the main hall. When he saw that all the elders were in high spirits, he said, "Elders, you are in good spirits. It seems that the tribe has developed very well these days."
Upon hearing this, many of the elders chuckled. Not only had the tribe been developing well, but the strength of the Gu Yuan Tribe had also been improving rapidly over the past few months. The strength of the warriors had been boosted by a large amount of resources, and almost the entire tribe had fallen into a cultivation frenzy.
As for the food needed to sustain the daily lives of the tribe, the Gu Yuan Tribe no longer needed to hunt for it in the Desolate Mountain Forests. Even the number of beasts in the tribe's Vicious Beast Secret Realm was very low, and their numbers were still increasing.
This was all thanks to the Martial Dao Stele Forest outside the tribe's God of War Palace, as well as the Ancient Gravity Mountain used for training. In the past few months, hundreds of thousands of cultivators had come to the Gu Yuan Tribe. There were even more cultivators coming to the Gu Yuan Tribe from all over the desolate border.
Now, outside the tribal mountain city, the houses that were originally built for the young warriors to participate in the assessment had truly become a gathering point within a radius of several miles.
Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered here. Some of them were here to participate in the assessment of the God of War Palace, some older warriors were here to hone their Battle Qi bodies with the help of the Gravity Mountain, and some were here to comprehend the ancient books of the Martial Path Forest. In short, all of this was a great attraction to the many rogue cultivators and wanderers in the barren land.
With so many warriors gathered here, the Martial Path Forest and the Gravity Mountain were almost overcrowded. For this reason, Xiao Chen had ordered that those who wanted to enter the Martial Path Forest to comprehend the ancient books of cultivation methods and climb the Gravity Mountain to temper their bodies had to go deep into the barren land to hunt for food and gather resources in exchange for the right to enter.
Even so, this did not stop the enthusiasm of the crowd. Now, the people of the Gu Yuan Tribe did not need to go out to hunt for food at all. Just the many warriors outside the city were enough to satisfy the daily consumption of the tribe.
As a result, the idle Gu Yuan Tribe entered a state of cultivation under Xiao Chen's order. The tribe provided sufficient resources to improve their own strength as much as possible.
"Elders, has anything happened in the halls of the various divisions?"
Xiao Chen immediately asked. After the assessment of the God of War Palace, Xiao Chen was also idle. Other than cultivating and comprehending the mysteries, he was also studying the ancient books about the Ancient Fallen Dragon Ancient City left behind by Elder Shi in an attempt to find out the secrets of the Ancient Fallen Dragon Ancient City.
"Reporting to Clan Leader, there are hundreds of thousands of rogue cultivators and a large number of low-ranked combat divisions gathered outside the city, causing fights to occur frequently. In the past two months, several corpses of warriors have been found outside the mountain city," the Great Elder stood up and said in a deep voice.
He was in charge of the Law Enforcement Hall and supervised the entire combat division. Currently, the area outside the mountain city was also under the supervision of the Law Enforcement Hall. However, rogue cultivators and rogue cultivators fought fiercely in the barren land, and they were all arrogant and unruly. Even in the depths of the barren land, there were still fights happening. Now that they were gathered together, there were many people who would fight over a disagreement.
"Clan Leader, with so many warriors gathered here, disputes are inevitable. However, they are looking down on our Gu Yuan Tribe. We must punish them severely."
"That's right. These cultivators are simply too lawless. They are openly fighting in front of our Gu Yuan tribe's mountain city and even taking the lives of others!"
"We must punish them severely!"
As soon as the Great Elder's words fell, before Xiao Chen could speak, the other elders spoke up one after another, wanting to punish these arrogant warriors.
After a long time, Xiao Chen said, "First Elder, no matter who it is, anyone who comes to the Gu Yuan Tribe has to follow the rules of the Gu Yuan Tribe. If they don't follow the rules of the Gu Yuan Tribe, I'll teach them how to follow the rules!"
"Huang Liang, mobilize the soldiers of the Guard Hall to assist the Law Enforcement Hall. Arrest and expel all warriors who don't abide by the rules. They are not allowed to enter the Martial Path Monument Forest or the Gravity Ancient Mountain. If anyone resists, kill them on the spot!"
"Yes!" The Great Elder and Huang Liang bowed in response.
Although Xiao Chen had been immersed in comprehending the mysteries and investigating the secrets of the Fallen Dragon for the past few months, he had not paid much attention to the outside world. However, he had heard about the chaos at the gathering place of the Wanderers outside the mountain city. Even the warriors of the Gu Yuan Tribe had been attacked by those Wanderers, so he had to intimidate them!
The Guard Hall's duty was to protect the safety of the tribe. Moreover, the 10,000 Dragon-Blooded Full-Moon Rhinoceros Combat Masters of the Guard Hall had not been disbanded yet. Each team was led by a Heavenly Building Realm warrior, which was enough to intimidate these rogue cultivators.
"Also, the Guard Hall will send a team of Combat Masters to guard the gathering place outside the city. At the same time, they will build the Life and Death Platform. Any conflicts between warriors will be resolved in the Life and Death Platform. Private fights are not allowed!"
Xiao Chen said slowly. With so many warriors gathering near the mountain city of the Gu Yuan Tribe, chaos was inevitable. However, Xiao Chen believed that as long as the Gu Yuan Tribe showed a strong pressure, these warriors would naturally become obedient.
"Third Elder, how is the matter of gathering the Wanderers into the tribe?" Then, Xiao Chen's voice turned to the Third Elder, Xiao Qin.
"Reporting to Patriarch, in accordance with your orders, we have recruited the martial artists among the Wanderers for the tribe's use. In the past two months, we have recruited more than two thousand martial artists among the Wanderers, all of whom are above the Blood Refining Realm. Among them, seventy percent are young martial artists, and the remaining thirty percent are some with a skeletal age of around fifty and a cultivation base of the Blood Refining Realm. Among them, there are also three martial artists of the Heavy Building Realm, but they are all at the first layer of the Heavy Building Realm."
At this point, the Third Elder, Xiao Qin, paused for a moment before continuing, "If the Patriarch's conditions for recruiting Wanderers are lowered, the number of warriors we can recruit will increase by several times."
The conditions that Xiao Chen gave the Third Elder were that the young warriors must be talented, and the rest of the warriors with the same bone age must be at the Blood Refining Realm or at the Half-step Heavenly Building Realm. There were many warriors who wanted to join the Gu Yuan Tribe, but after a strict selection process, only this number of warriors joined the Gu Yuan Tribe.
"Third Elder, don't stop recruiting the talented warriors among the Wanderers into our Gu Yuan Tribe. Ding Shan, these new young warriors will be under the jurisdiction of the Combat Master Hall and be incorporated into the ordinary soldiers."
After pausing for a moment, Xiao Chen continued, "As for the Heavenly Building Realm warriors, temporarily appoint them as external elders to help manage the gathering place of the Wanderers outside the city."
"Yes!"
Then, the few elders bowed and answered.
"In another month, it will be the day of the elixir transaction between our Gu Yuan Tribe and the other combat divisions at the desolate border. How are the preparations of the Hundred Herb Hall?"
Many of the elders present were also aware of the elixir transaction that Xiao Chen had reached with the various middle-grade combat divisions. It was a total of 10,000 upper-grade Primordial Stones. For the current Gu Yuan Tribe, this was also a considerable amount of resources. Moreover, this was definitely not the first time that this had happened. With the elixir, the tribe would be able to obtain more resources continuously.
Similarly, Xiao Chen was also very interested in this elixir transaction.
"Most of the elixir can already be refined. It won't delay the elixir transaction in a month's time!"
Mu Qing stood up and said softly. For the elixir transaction in a month's time, even she, the Hall Master of the Hundred Herb Hall, had to personally refine the elixir. However, after a month of overtime refining, she had finally completed more than half of it.
Finally, after less than half a day, Xiao Chen had finally sorted out the tribe affairs that had accumulated over the past two months. After making a decision, the rest of the tribe's elders would deal with it.
Two days later, Xiao Chen's figure appeared at the top of the tribe's Bronze Tower. In the space where the Artifact Soul was located, he overlooked the entire tribe. At the top of the Bronze Tower, the place where the Wanderers gathered outside the eastern city wall of the mountain city was clearly visible. Countless warriors had gathered in one place. It was a very prosperous place.
"Green Spirit, what did you find?"
"Master, Green Spirit is trying to integrate with the earth veins of this land. However, I found that there is a trace of hidden obstruction in the depths of this land. It seems to be something like a boundary."
"A boundary?"
In an instant, Xiao Chen's eyes shone brightly. At this moment, he suddenly remembered what Elder Shi had said. The Secret of the Fallen Dragon. These days, he had memorized all the relevant records several times. However, he still hadn't found anything.
"Yes, master. However, this barrier seems to have its own spirit. Furthermore, it's located a hundred thousand feet below the ground. Qing Ling only vaguely sensed a sliver of its aura when it was fusing with the Earth Vein. However, when it tried to capture it, it disappeared without a trace," said Qing Ling.
"Is the Secret of the Fallen Dragon finally going to appear?" The light in Xiao Chen's eyes was hidden as he muttered to himself.