Holding the space chat group, the cannon fodder female supporting role ascended

Chapter 274 Let’s get straight to the point

"Azu, what are you doing standing here?"

The man with the stone hammer approached the old woman and asked her with concern.

The old woman waved her withered, twig-like hand and said:

"I'm waiting for him."

"Ah Zu, what if he doesn't come?"

“He will come. He will definitely come after last night. He has many questions, and only I can answer them.”

The man with the stone hammer frowned and said:

“Azu, we can still hold on, we don’t need to ask outsiders for help.”

“He is not an outsider; he is also a descendant of the Wu clan. Only he can help us.”

The old woman spoke with great certainty.

"But."

"No buts, go check on Sen first."

The old woman dismissed the man with a word.

She knew that Shi didn't want to ask outsiders for help because he was still unaware of his people's situation, and she didn't have much time left. Before she died, she had to find a way out for her people.

Just as the old woman was in a daze, Yunxi appeared in front of her.

A smile finally appeared on the old woman's face, and she politely said:

"You came."

Yunxi nodded, and then silently followed the old woman back into the stone house.

Inside the stone house were two other people, Stone Hammer Man and Qin. The two carefully helped the seriously injured Sen up and were feeding him water.

After entering the room, Yunxi scanned Sen on the stone bed with her divine sense and knew that his wounds had already healed and it was only a matter of time before he recovered. It was clear that his self-healing ability was very strong. Nevertheless, she still raised her hand and cast a healing spell to repair the man's injured internal abdomen with her spiritual power.

Sen paused in his drinking, then his expression changed. He touched the burlap covering his wound, and after a moment, he excitedly said something to Qin and Shi beside him before finally jumping off the stone bed.

Shi and Qin were first surprised and then delighted. Looking at Sen, who was standing steadily on the ground, they turned their gaze to Azu and Yunxi.

The old woman saw Yunxi's actions, spoke a few words to the three of them, and the three bowed to Yunxi to thank her before leaving the stone house.

Now only the two of them remained in the stone house. Yunxi sat down on the stone bench again and got straight to the point:

"I can lead the descendants of the Witch Clan out of the secret realm, teach them cultivation techniques, and enable them to survive in the cultivation world. But how they choose to go after leaving the secret realm is up to them."

Yunxi spoke very frankly: she could only help the descendants of the Wu clan to the best of her ability, but she would not promise anything she could not do.

The old woman breathed a sigh of relief. As long as her people could survive, everything she had done was worthwhile. She immediately spoke:

"Thank you! This is enough."

Seeing that the other party's attitude was even better than yesterday, Yunxi continued, "I have some questions about this secret realm, and I need you to answer a few questions for me."

"Sure, ask."

"Besides the issue of reproduction, is the decline in the number of descendants of the Witch Clan also due to attacks from those giant beasts?"

"Yes, as far as I know, when the Witch Clan first arrived at this secret realm, they were not attacked by the beasts in the realm because of the things left behind by the High Priest."

However, after the Wu tribe had multiplied here for several generations, those beasts began to attack us. At first, the tribesmen could still cope, but as the beasts grew larger, the casualties among the tribesmen also increased.

Subsequently, every so often, a group of outsiders like you would enter the secret realm. They would seek out the rare treasures within, and even kill and threaten our people.

After several such encounters, the previous generation of Azu forbade the clansmen from contacting outsiders and deliberately avoided them, only seeking out cultivators of comparable strength to trade with, exchanging items from the secret realm for resources that would allow the Wu clan to survive.

Although the high priest had made preparations in advance, the number of clansmen continued to decrease as time went on, and the area of ​​the secret realms they could access was also shrinking. If any clansman crossed that invisible boundary, they would disappear completely.

As Yunxi listened, her gaze grew increasingly deep. The Immortal Spirit Grass transmitted its voice:
"Master, their activity area is restricted because the spirit of the realm has developed consciousness and discovered that these people are consuming the resources of the secret realm and cannot promote the evolution of the secret realm. Therefore, it has begun to slowly eliminate this hidden danger step by step."

"I understand, it's like boiling a frog in lukewarm water!"

"Yes."

"In fact, the Spirit Realm does not want the Witch Clan to become the rulers of the Secret Realm."

"Of course, I wouldn't want to either. Why should others be in charge of our own territory?"

Yunxi could understand the spirit's little scheme. Besides, in the secret realm, the spirit was practically the Heavenly Dao, so it was perfectly reasonable for the spirit to want to eliminate the descendants of the witch clan who had consumed it.

"After the same thing happened several times, the previous generation of Azu redefined the areas that the tribesmen could go to. However, every once in a while, the area would shrink. Until I became the new generation of Azu, the tribesmen could only move around in this forest. We could not go anywhere else."

Soon after, no outsiders came here again. We were like people living on a deserted island. I could only watch helplessly as our people dwindled and no newborns were born. If it weren't for the prophecy left by our ancestors, I don't know if I would have survived until now.

Yunxi was also helpless. As soon as she was teleported here, she encountered the Wu Clan. She didn't know if the other cultivators were like her. In the past two days, apart from that red fox, she hadn't seen a single cultivator. She felt like she had been dumped here specifically to clean up the mess.

Yunxi inwardly complained, but her expression remained unchanged as she continued to ask:

"I discovered that the reason why the giant beasts here are so powerful is because there is a mysterious inscription on their bones. I have seen something similar on the witch people. What kind of power is this?"

The old woman shook her head and said:
“I don’t know. I found the inscriptions you mentioned on the giant beasts that my people hunted back. After observing them for a long time, I found that these mysterious characters gave the giant beasts extraordinary power, such as petrifying their bodies, running faster, or jumping farther.”

After discovering this, I ordered my people to return the giant beasts they had just hunted to the tribe and give me the bones they had removed. After studying them for a while, I grasped some of the meaning of these inscriptions and tried to carve them on stones and animal bones, hoping to make them into weapons.

Unfortunately, stones and ordinary animal bones could not withstand the power of these characters; they either crumbled or were damaged. In the end, I tried it on myself.”

The old woman paused here, while Yunxi's eyes widened. She hadn't expected the leader of the witch clan to be so bold as to use her as an experiment. However, seeing that the other party was alive and well, it at least proved that the experiment was successful.

Sure enough, the old woman continued:

“I used my magical powers to inscribe the characters from a giant gray elephant bone on my body, and that’s how I’ve lived until now. These inscriptions have increased my lifespan. Although it’s difficult for me to open my eyes every day, I’m still alive and have persevered until now, waiting for you.”

Yunxi smoothed her sleeves and said:

"So you mean this kind of inscription only works when it's carved on a living creature?"

"Yes, and not all members of the tribe can withstand the power of the inscriptions."