The tribe's main hall.
At this moment, the atmosphere in the hall was extremely silent. Xiao Chen's voice was like a heavenly voice that resounded across the sky. Coupled with the tribe's Blessing Spirit Python's continuous roar and the chill of facing a great enemy, all the elders and venerables of the Gu Yuan Tribe hurriedly gathered together.
Xiao Chen was not in the tribe at this moment, so this hasty tribe meeting was presided over by the First Elder, Tie Shi.
"Everyone, the tribe leader's loud voice appeared in the sky just now, as well as the strange phenomenon of the tribe's Blessing Spirit Python. Now that the tribe leader is millions of miles away in the Human Race's Ancestral Court, we don't know what has happened, but everyone in the tribe is in a state of panic. Elders, do you have any good ideas?"
Tie Shi's voice soon rang out. The sudden change today had also caught them off guard. Now, the entire tribe felt a crisis pressing down on them.
"Today's sudden change is the tribe leader carrying the Blessing to fight against the foreign races. We don't know what exactly has happened. The most important thing now is to pacify the tribe. Everyone in the tribe is in a state of panic."
"That's right. If it is really as the tribe leader has said, since it is a battle of the entire tribe, we must prepare for it with all our strength from now on!"
"Also, quickly gather the rangers outside the city into the tribe. After all, once the battle starts, we will definitely be exhausted."
"I see that some of the vassal tribes of my Gu Yuan Tribe have been gathering near the tribe these days. We can take in some of the small tribes that want to join our Gu Yuan Tribe. After all, if we suffer too many losses in the upcoming battle, it will not be easy to make up for the losses in the future!"
After the First Elder spoke, many of the elders and Venerates in the hall fell silent for a while. Then, they started to voice their thoughts. Xiao Chen was not in the tribe, so they were the decision makers of the entire tribe.
"Alright, I wonder what other opinions the two madams have!"
After a series of arguments, the First Elder's voice rang out again. This time, it was directed at Mu Qing and Pinghua.
In the absence of Xiao Chen, Mu Qing and Pinghua were Xiao Chen's wives. They could also represent Xiao Chen's will. Moreover, the strength of these two women was also enough to keep watch over the tribe.
Mu Qing and Hua Pinghua looked at each other. Then, Mu Qing said softly, "I remember that my husband said before he went to the Ancestral Court that our Gu Yuan Tribe would face a calamity. Perhaps it will be like today. Elders, what we need to do now is to calm the people, prepare for war, and wait for the Chief to return!"
"Over the years, our Gu Yuan Tribe has faced many calamities when we rose to power. We braved the wind and waves to overcome the calamities. This time, it will be the same. Now, our Gu Yuan Tribe has millions of members and is countless times stronger than before. Even if there are calamities, don't tell me that you don't have the confidence to deal with them!"
"First Elder, all these years, you have been in charge of the tribe's affairs. Moreover, my husband has said many times that if he is not around, First Elder can handle the tribe's affairs on his behalf. Today's matter is sudden. The Chief will listen to First Elder's arrangements!"
"If there are any unusual movements in the tribe, although we are women, we will not be soft-hearted!"
After obtaining the approval of Mu Qing and Hua Pinghua, the First Elder nodded. Although he was indeed the First Elder and was an old man who had followed Xiao Chen all the way, the Gu Yuan Tribe was no longer the small tribe it used to be. There were several Venerables in the tribe, and this did not include the ordinary Heavenly Building Realm martial artists.
If it was the old men of the Gu Yuan Tribe like Shi Ya and Huang Liang, although they were stronger than him, they would still obey his orders. However, for some other people, especially the Venerables, there might be some restraints. But with the approval of Mu Qing and Hua Pinghua, the situation would be very different.
"Ding Shan, Huang Liang, the two of you gather the Combat Masters as soon as possible. At the same time, guard the tribe closely and speed up the gathering of Combat Masters outside the city!
"Shi Ya, lead the tribe's Void Fleet and patrol the territory within the tribe's boundaries to prevent foreign tribes from attacking!
"The Internal Affairs Hall will send elders to the vassal low-ranked combat divisions to find out how many tribes are willing to join our Gu Yuan Tribe. If they can, they will be directly accepted into the tribe!
"As for the other halls of the tribe, speed up the preparation of some strategic resources from now on.
"Finally, after the tribe's discussion, all the hall masters will go to the tribe to appease the people.
"Since the Chief is not around, anyone who causes panic in the tribe because of this crisis will be killed without mercy!"
In the end, the Great Elder's words carried a hint of murderous intent. Logically speaking, after all these years of reproduction, the warriors of the Gu Yuan Tribe had gradually integrated into one. Even if there was danger, it would not cause the higher-ups of the tribe in the hall to be so worried.
It was because this time, everyone felt different. Whether it was the Supremes or the ordinary martial artists, they all felt a chill, as if it had manifested directly in the depths of their hearts, as if a shackle had suddenly descended on their souls.
This kind of crisis was indiscriminate, and the higher one's cultivation was, the clearer this sense of crisis would be. Otherwise, why would they not wait for Xiao Chen's return and gather in one place to discuss how to deal with it?
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Ten days later, in the desolate border city.
Xiao Chen did not expect that his closed-door cultivation would take so much time to heal his injuries. Originally, he had only wanted to treat some of his injuries before coming out. After all, the battle agreement he had with the Blood Tribe concerned the entire desolate border.
It seemed like he was leading the Gu Yuan Tribe to participate in the battle, but this was not just a matter for the Gu Yuan Tribe. The Ancestral Court was the current guardian of the desolate border region, and there were other combat divisions. In the face of such a matter of life and death, they also needed Xiao Chen to come forward and negotiate.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At this moment, Xiao Chen was like a ferocious beast. Every time he inhaled and exhaled, the air in the entire palace would fall into a turbulent state. But even if there was a Spirit Gathering Formation in the palace, it was still far from enough for him. At this moment, he was refining Yuan Stones and Spiritual Medicines.
As early as five days ago, he had used up all the elixirs he had refined in the past, as well as the elixirs brought by Elder Shi. At this moment, he did not have time to refine anymore, so he could only directly refine the Spiritual Medicines and Yuan Stones. Although it was a lot, this was the only thing he could do.
In the Zhou Tian's aura sea.
His Battle Qi was like a green cloud, surging and surging. In the center of the vast aura sea, there was a nine-storey tower. The lower seven floors of the tower were engraved with endless mysterious patterns, while the upper two floors were dark.
Xiao Chen constantly moved his vital energy and adjusted his state. This time, he could be said to have gained a lot from this closed-door cultivation.
With the help of this closed-door cultivation, he once again sorted out the previous realms of the Purple-Gold Battle Physique. Some of the flaws in the past were completely eliminated this time, and he further tempered his Battle Physique.
And this time, the resources that Xiao Chen used to temper his Battle Physique were qualitatively different from before. The Spiritual Medicines and Elixirs that he refined before were all used to repair his injuries, and he did not use them to re-cultivate his Battle Physique.
At this moment, the resources that he used to re-cultivate his Battle Physique were all the chaotic airflow that descended from the Seal of Mountains and Rivers. Starting from the first volume of the Purple-Gold Battle Physique, the Black Iron Battle Physique, when he first obtained the Battle Physique, he did not seriously cultivate it. It could be said that he directly entered the second volume of the Bronze Battle Physique.
But this time, he used the chaotic currents as a foundation to cultivate the first volume of the Black Iron Combat Division. He used it to build his foundation, and this time, he used the chaotic currents to refine the 365 battle bones in his body, tempering them to the extreme.
With such a Martial Physique foundation, Xiao Chen even guessed that the Purple-Gold King's Division back then might not be able to take out so many chaotic airflows as resources to refine his Battle Physique.
Currently, there were very few chaotic airflows that had yet to be separated into various energies of the world in the Desolate Border, unless one went to the depths of the Hollowed Void to search for them. But to Venerables, it was an extravagant hope to enter the Hollowed Void to search for the Primal Origin Qi.
However, Xiao Chen had the Seal of Mountains and Rivers. Of course, the exhaustion caused him to feel heartache. For the sake of forging the perfect foundation of a physical body, Colored Glass had destroyed a space within the Seal of Mountains and Rivers, turning it into primal chaos once more. She extracted the primal chaos energy from within for Xiao Chen's cultivation. Tens of thousands of kilometers of land turned into nothing again.
At this moment, Xiao Chen's Battle Physique still had not recovered to its peak state. At this moment, it had only recovered to the fifth layer of the Golden Battle Physique, and the Blood Yuan Diamond in his body had only condensed less than 30%.
Liu Li wanted to destroy another space to extract a strand of chaotic airflow, but she was stopped by Xiao Chen. This was because the Ferocious Beast Secret Realm, which was originally a hundred thousand miles wide, was now less than thirty thousand miles wide.
After all, when the Seal of Mountains and Rivers reopened, the chaotic airflow had already formed once. Destroying the space again was only extracting the remnant chaotic airflow. He did not have the ability to revert to his ancestral roots. He could not make the Yuan Qi that had already been split into return to its origin and form the Primal Chaos Origin Qi again.
Moreover, the Primal Chaos Qi that was extracted was not extremely pure. Hence, he needed to absorb the Primal Chaos Qi that was drifting within it. Hence, this greatly delayed his recovery time.
After sorting it out, Xiao Chen estimated that his foundation was more than twice as powerful as before. It shouldn't be underestimated, but it was equivalent to doubling Xiao Chen's battle strength. At his cultivation, it was extremely difficult to double one's battle strength.
At this moment, Xiao Chen's entire body was emitting a supreme Yang aura. Although he had only recovered to the fifth layer of the Golden Battle Physique, and the Blood Yuan Diamond was less than 30%, the Yang aura that he was emitting was like the sun. If there were any remnants of the Ghost Clan before him, they would definitely be melted by the Yang aura that he was emitting.