Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 331 The Nabahai Tribe (Revised)

The Jade Emperor opened his mouth, wanting to offer some words of comfort, but felt that anything he said at this moment would be powerless, so he could only remain silent.

Wu Ke, standing to the side, furrowed his brows like caterpillars and said in a muffled, gruff voice, "It's no better out there. The snow is so thick, it's freezing! There's no food or water, and there are blood-sucking monsters everywhere! It's pretty much the same as here!"

The girl sniffed and asked doubtfully, "Really? But I heard the chief say that it's so nice outside! The trees and grass are all green!"

Wu Ke snorted heavily: "That old geezer must be lying to you! We're from out of town, how could we not know!"

The girl stomped her foot heavily: "You're the old geezer! You're not allowed to talk about our clan leader like that!"

"He's not very bright! You don't need to pay him any attention!"

The Jade Emperor coughed lightly and then asked something else: "How old do you think your clan leader is? Is he also a cultivator? Did he experience the calamities of that year? If so, he must be over a thousand years old!"

After participating in this mission, the Jade Emperor inquired extensively about the situation and, combined with the information compiled by the project team, finally determined that the Sword Sect's incident occurred approximately nine hundred years ago, and the Soul-Devouring Rift also appeared around that time. Initially, the rift was very narrow, even manageable by leaping across, but according to records, all lives attempting to cross it fell into it. Later, the rift grew larger and larger until it stopped expanding and completely stabilized, more than a hundred years later. Several hundred years had passed before the name "Arctic Flowing Continent" completely separated from Flowing Continent and became synonymous with the Sword Sect and Tiangui Mountain.

Therefore, most people can only roughly say that the Sword Sect is a sect that existed hundreds of years ago, but in reality, the Sword Sect has been in trouble for nearly a thousand years!
In the team chat, players who heard the Jade Emperor's words began to discuss them in surprise.

"Huh? The Sword Sect incident happened so long ago?"

"So, that Niuhelu from the Hu Buyu clan must be over a thousand years old?! Holy crap! Can Nascent Soul cultivators really live that long?!"

"According to the game's setting, Nascent Soul cultivators can only live for seven or eight hundred years, right?"

"No wonder that old man looked like he was about to die at any moment. Is he really about to die?"

"If he can become a Nascent Soul cultivator, then there's no need for Ga!"

"No way, I remember that even a Nascent Soul cultivator only has a lifespan of a little over a thousand years!"

"That's over a thousand! They won't die anytime soon!"

……

The noise inside the microphone did not affect the conversation between the Jade Emperor and the girl.

"Next year will be his 1,120th birthday! He is the only living thousand-year-old immortal in Tiangui Mountain!"

The girl's tone carried a hint of smugness.

The Jade Emperor frowned and asked, "The only one still alive in Tiangui Mountain?! That can't be right! Isn't the Sword Sect a very large sect? Where did all their Sword Sect disciples go? Could it be... they're all dead?!"

The girl paused for a moment, then said, "This place... the environment here is special. The higher your cultivation level, the faster you die..."

"So that means we can't cultivate here?"

“No, not exactly,” the girl shook her head and explained, “No matter what, cultivators have a longer lifespan than ordinary people. It’s just that the higher their cultivation level, the more they become monsters… Their souls will also gradually become strange, eventually losing their three souls and six spirits completely. When their earth souls disappear, they will completely lose their minds…”

The Jade Emperor was even more confused: "So, none of the mortals who were trapped here back then are alright?"

The girl replied, "I don't know about that... but as you said, the disciples of the Sword Sect are all long gone!" Then, she curiously pressed on, "By the way, I still don't know which tribe you're from! You said you're from the Taiyin Sect, is the Taiyin Sect also a tribe? Oh wait, it sounds like the Sword Sect, could it be a 'sect'? I've heard there are many, many sects outside?"

The Jade Emperor nodded and said, "That's right, the Taiyin Sect is a sect! My name is the Jade Emperor, and his name is Wu Ke. We are both disciples of the Taiyin Sect!"

"Oh, my name is Qingning, and I'm from the Nabahai tribe! Aren't you going to see our chief? Come with me!"

As Qingning spoke, she waved to the two of them, then turned and skipped away.

Her jumping style was different from that of a delicate young girl; rather, it seemed to be a kind of magic. With each jump, she could cover a distance of several meters. If the Jade Emperor and Wu Ke hadn't been flying on the wind, they might not have been able to keep up!

The Jade Emperor didn't mention that he had companions, but only said in the group's microphone, "Team Leader, let's follow them and see what's going on. You guys take your time! No rush! It'll be good to have backup in case anything happens!"

Guantangbao couldn't help but say, "Damn, are you thinking that much? Yeah, this place is so far from the teleportation array, it's hard to get away!"

"Then be careful!"

Nietzsche gave a word of advice, then turned to discuss with the others whether there was a way to set up a teleportation array here, so that it would be convenient to travel back and forth to do missions, and that they wouldn't have to worry about dying and returning to the city.

On the other side, the Jade Emperor and Wu Ke soon followed Qing Ning to a village made up of red stone houses.

This is a very large village. From the sky, it seems even larger than Taiping Town in Zhongzhou. There are so many stone houses scattered around that you can't count them all.

The entire hilltop had been carved into a terraced, staggered slope. The stone houses at the bottom were somewhat messy, but most were quite spacious. The stone houses at the top were rather cramped, and there were hardly any people around. The stone houses in the middle were more beautifully decorated, some with various stone pillars and decorative birds and beasts. The whole village had a unique style, unlike any other civilization in "Ten Continents Chronicles" that players had encountered before.

"Qingning is back so soon?"

"Oh my! Qingning is back!"

"Qingning is back? Oh, which tribe are these two from?"

The people of the Nabahai tribe seemed to be quite simple and honest, and everyone knew each other. As soon as they saw Qing Ning, they all greeted her.

However, these people were all rather thin, and their complexions, like Qing Ning's, were deathly pale, as if they never saw the sun. Several figures, wrapped in robes, swayed back and forth, bearing a striking resemblance to Niu Helu, the priest whom the players had encountered in the Hu Bu Yu clan.

"You're back!" Qingning smiled and waved to the people who greeted her before saying, "They're not from any other tribe; they said they came from outside!"

"Outside? Which outside?"

For a moment, no one could react.

Qingning waved her arms exaggeratedly, excitedly exclaiming, "It's outside Tiangui Mountain! The legendary outside!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was equally shocked. One auntie, who was holding a ceramic bowl, even dropped it, speechless with astonishment.

"Outside Tiangui Mountain!?"

(End of this chapter)