In the evening, smoke curled up from the chimneys of the tribe. Not long after, a woman walked out of her house and called for the clay children to return home. Immediately, there was a chaotic scene. Children's cries constantly rang out on the spacious stone path. The street, which was big enough for 10 warhorses to walk side by side, allowed them to display their naughtiness. All of them made a fuss, and the women behind them shouted in exasperation.
This scene melted the originally serious atmosphere of the people at the top of the stone tower. Unknowingly, they cracked open their mouths and chuckled. Their blood had been drained, and their lives were with them. Wasn't this all for this scene?
In the vast wilderness, danger lurked everywhere. They could not retreat. Behind them were their wives and children, and they were the hope of the entire tribe. More than 10 years ago, they had taken over the burden of the tribe's inheritance from their fathers. Generation after generation of tribesmen had fought fiercely in the wilderness. Even if there were mountains of corpses and seas of blood, they would still advance wave after wave. In the future, their hope would be like them. They would take over this flag from their hands and walk on forever.
"Look at the top of the tower!
Look at the top of the tower!
It's the chief, it's the chief! "
"Lord Patriarch is really powerful. Today, those bad guys who provoked our clan were killed by Lord Patriarch."
"That's Chief Xiao Chen?
The chief is so young. Back then, our Dijiao Tribe joined the Gu Yuan Tribe because of the chief's reputation. Today, the chief displayed his might in front of the city gate. It's a pity that I, Shi Qian, was guarding the other side of the city wall and missed the wonderful scene of the chief killing those foreigners. "
Not long after, Xiao Chen and the others were discovered by the tribesmen below. They all stood still and looked at Xiao Chen. They could not help but talk incessantly. Some of the more eccentric people even stretched out their arms and waved them around.
Thousands of kilometers away from the Gu Yuan Tribe, a large tent with a diameter of 300 meters sat in the center of a flat wasteland. It was surrounded by dozens of small tents of various sizes. The outside was surrounded by a fence, and there was a towering watchtower at each of the four corners. There was also a giant crossbow on top of each watchtower. Not only that, but there was also a guard every three steps and a guard every five steps inside the stronghold. The security was tight.
Xiu!
Suddenly, a fierce bloody wind whistled past. In front of the stronghold, several guards were almost swept to the ground by the sound. Everyone was stunned and wanted to go forward to stop it, but when a few of them saw who it was, they immediately stopped. A violent aura whistled past and instantly rushed into the stronghold.
"That was Centurion Kuijiu of the Kui Shui Tribe!"
"I heard that Centurion Kuijiu has already stepped into the Blood Refinement Realm and is a strong contender for the next chief of the Kuishui Tribe. Even in the Black Snake Tribe, only the young chief, Xuan Xue, can surpass him."
"I heard that Kuijiu and Centurion Xuancheng, together with two Blood Refinement Realm elders, went to the Gu Yuan Tribe that has recently become famous. It seems that they are here for the middle-grade Yuan Stone Vein. But why did he come back alone? Even his mount is gone. That's a Superior Grade One-star fierce beast. Our two tribes don't have many of them."
In front of the stronghold, because it was built by the two tribes, the two tribes jointly sent warriors to patrol and guard it. When they saw Kuijiu, several warriors looked at each other and kept guessing in their hearts. They found that Centurion Kuijiu's expression was very ugly. Could it be that there was an unforeseen accident during the mission?
But then the warriors laughed at each other. They didn't believe that the lowly Gu Yuan Tribe, which was at the bottom of the low-grade tribes, could defeat their two tribes. After all, the Gu Yuan Tribe had long been beaten to the point that they didn't dare to move. Countless of their clansmen had been captured, but they didn't dare to retaliate.
In the center of the stronghold, there was a huge tent with a diameter of a thousand feet. There were two chairs on each side of the tent, and several figures were sitting on each side.
The chief of the Black Snake Tribe, Xuan Kui, was sitting on the seat of honor on the east side. He was wearing a colorful battle suit made from the skin of a fierce beast, the Scarlet Black Snake. The Scarlet Black Snake was a Two-star fierce beast, so its skin was tough and soft. Low-grade Combat Weapons couldn't even leave a mark on it.
Beside him, there was an old man with hair as white as snow and two young men.
On the seat of honor on the west side, the chief of the Kui Shui Tribe, Kui Rong, was sitting on a stone chair. He was holding the weapon in his hand tightly. His weapon was quite rare, a harpoon. Since the Kui Shui Tribe lived by the Kui Shui Lake, almost all of the tribe's resources came from the lake. Beside Kui Rong, there was also an old man sitting with his legs crossed. His eyes were closed, as if the matters in the tent couldn't attract his attention. Below the old man was a young man. He was the young chief of the Kui Shui Tribe, Kui Xue.
Originally, these two tribes were located to the east and west of the Gu Yuan Tribe. They were thousands of miles away from each other and had nothing to do with each other. However, the sudden rise of the Gu Yuan Tribe had allowed the two tribes to cross paths. Not long ago, when the Yuan Stone Vein was discovered, the two tribes tore off their cloak of concealment and joined forces to bare their fangs against the Gu Yuan Tribe.
The temptation of the Yuan Stone Vein had finally made the two tribes break through their bottom line. The high-level combat forces had come to this wasteland to supervise each other and jointly develop this mid-grade Yuan Stone Vein. At the same time, they wanted to completely eliminate the Gu Yuan Tribe once and for all.
"Currently, the people of the scattered tribes within a radius of 3,000 miles have been captured by our two tribes. We've only captured less than 2,000 people. The number of slave miners in the Yuan Stone Vein is severely reduced. It's said that the mine is filled with poisonous gas. Ordinary people can't survive for too long. Commander Xia has been sending people to urge the tribe to capture slave miners as soon as possible to make up for the loss of slave miners."
"I heard that the vein's passageway has been excavated and can produce some substandard Yuan Stones sporadically."
The white-haired old man from the Black Snake Tribe said, "If that's the case, let's go to a farther place to capture them. At worst, I'll personally take action and annihilate some low-grade tribes in remote areas. The excavation of the Yuan Stone Vein can't stop!"
"I think the slave miners are far away but close at hand. There's no need for Elder Black Crane to take action. In my opinion, we should directly annihilate the Gu Yuan Tribe and turn all the old and young in the tribe into slave miners."
Upon hearing that the vein had already been excavated, the old man from the Kui Shui Tribe, who was originally in a daze, suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes were burning with madness and his mouth was filled with endless killing intent.
"That's right. Since we've already fallen out with the Gu Yuan Tribe, why don't we set off immediately and meet up with the two elders to annihilate the Gu Yuan Tribe in one fell swoop?"
In the face of the temptation of the Yuan Stone Vein, these people were only left with naked desire. They had long lost their humanity.