After a century of worship, I became the ancestor of the tribe.

Chapter 214 Clan Power Manifestation: Long-Distance Raid to Seize Xiaoyang in the Sandy Land!

Yunling Market.

An ancient city built at the junction of Yu and Shadi, it is said to have existed long before the Yongshan Northern Expedition, with a history of over 10,000 years.

The ancient city is nestled among the mountains, and people are constantly coming and going at the slightly dilapidated city gate.

The establishment of this market city was made possible by the discovery of a large Originium vein here, which produced high-quality Originium.

Although the vein has been depleted over the years, people still occasionally find a few scattered pieces of Originium.

In addition, being located at the border of two regions, some of the witchcraft medicines in the sandy area, such as Cistanche deserticola, are full of yang energy and are highly praised by martial artists from other regions, making them extremely scarce.

Therefore, many sandy tribes bring large quantities of these witchcraft medicines to Yunling Market to sell.

People from other regions would also act as middlemen, obtaining such witchcraft medicines from here and then transporting them to more distant places.

Especially in the southern part of Yongyi, the price can be two or three times higher.

At this moment, a small auction is taking place inside the black barter hall in the market.

Auctions and barter events like these are held every now and then, but fourth-tier magical artifacts and precious medicines rarely appear.

The clone landed far outside the Cloud Spirit Market, and the Azure Phoenix shrank to the size of a fist, landing on his shoulder as it walked into the market.

This was the third market he had visited, but unfortunately, there was no news of the precious medicine he was looking for.

There are some decent quality ores available, but they cost money.

This time, I didn't pay any money.

After all, the clan doesn't have many source stones in reserve. Cultivating the Wild Beast Battle Body requires source stones, and even if all the source stones produced by the clan were provided to these clansmen, it would only be barely enough.

As for the Originium needed for the volcano's advancement, not only was it not enough, it was completely unavailable.

Of the five sacred sites, the one left by the Chi Hu counts as one, but there are still four missing.

In short, there is a severe shortage of high-end cultivation resources.

The clone still held high hopes for Yunling Market, after all, it was a place where the two realms met.

For many years, this has been a place where sandy witchcraft has been used.

It is said that some tribes in the sandy areas have long been cultivating witchcraft medicines such as Cistanche deserticola and Gaga.

It has also been planted in other parts of Yongyi, but the medicinal effects are worlds apart from those of the sandy soil.

These kinds of witchcraft potions have a very powerful effect on martial artists who practice fire magic.

As for other aspects, the martial artists of Yongyi are all genuine practitioners of martial arts, and buying medicine from the sandy land is naturally for their own cultivation.

The clone stayed in Yunling Market for three days before coming out.

Precious medicines are indeed hard to come by, and Shen Can wouldn't bother to snatch them away in ordinary trades between ordinary human tribes.

……

Two days later.

A lion-camel caravan, riding over a hundred lion-camel beasts and guarded by more than eight hundred people, headed northwest across the sandy land.

The head steward had a wrinkled face, and years of wind and sand had made him look very old.

There were over a hundred Heavenly Vein warriors in the group, and two Heavenly Vein level eight warriors rode one in front of the other on lion-camel beasts, warily watching their surroundings.

Not long after the caravan left Yunling Market, smaller camel caravans continued to join them along the way, and the caravan soon exceeded three thousand people, stretching for several miles.

Among these people were individuals and small camel caravans of several dozen people, all carrying resources such as medicinal herbs and minerals from the lush and verdant lands of eastern Yongyi.

My clone blended into the caravan, listening to the conversations of these travelers.

The caravan traveled northwest for several days, and the greenery began to fade, the sky and earth gradually turning yellow as sandstorms began to rise.

The weathered hills and yellow sand merged together, and later the hills disappeared, replaced by undulating sand dunes.

The caravan followed a specific route, crossing sand dunes to find water sources and places to camp.

"Watch out for the Golden Sun Scorpions in the sand, lest you be ambushed."

"Of course, if I have the ability to catch a Golden Sun Scorpion, I will take one on the spot. It is the favorite of nobles from various tribes outside the Sandy Land."

As night fell, the lion-camel beasts formed a camp, and clusters of campfires flickered.

The clone mingled in the crowd, quietly eating the barbecue.

The sandy lands were completely different from other parts of Yongyi, where human tribes lived within the oasis.

Large oases had tribes that ruled over 10,000 li (approximately 6,000 kilometers) of territory, while smaller ones were only a thousand li (approximately 6,000 kilometers) in circumference.

Similarly, the owl-like creatures in the sandy land also live in oases.

In this situation, both the human race and the Owls are actually quite isolated.

After Yunling learned of this news, the clone immediately decided to come to the sandy land.

Amidst endless yellow sand, oases provide a place for survival; it's practically a natural place where killing is tolerated but burial is left unattended.

Unfortunately, while it was indeed sealed off, it also naturally became a protective barrier for all departments, including Xiaoyang.

Moreover, with the yellow sand filling the sky, even a Heavenly Vein Warrior could easily lose their way, which is not something that a map can easily solve.

Long before the clone left Yunling Market and the caravan, one hundred members of the Blazing Flame Clan had already quietly traveled southwest from their territory.

The tribesmen traveled in the bodies of wild beasts, traversing mountains and lush vegetation, until they arrived in the forests northwest of Yunling.

Of these one hundred clansmen, twenty were warriors whose combat strength reached the ninth level of the Heavenly Vein Realm, while the rest were at the seventh or eighth level of the Heavenly Vein Realm.

The goal is to turn the power of the Xiaoyang clan into cash within the desert oasis.

After all, having combat power but no source stones or precious medicines would be a waste of time and effort.

The sandy area is a good place. Once we have someone else figure out the situation in the oasis, we can make our move.

……

Green oasis.

Yellow sand swirled in the sky above the green and yellow land. The further into the oasis you went, the shorter, wilder grasses gradually grew stronger, and gnarled old trees began to appear.

In the middle of the oasis, there is a shimmering body of water, with more than a dozen tributaries branching off from it, each leading to one of the oasis's surroundings.

Along the banks of the marshland, watchtowers stand, guarded by soldiers of the Xiaoyang tribe with their yellowish-brown bodies.

However, the owls of Ji are different; the owls here have sparse body hair, and their color is almost never dark and shiny.

Only after leaving the water can you see some scattered houses, and more often, weathered hills with holes eroded by the wind, which can be used as dwellings.

Beside the mountain huts eroded by wind and sand, there are piles of bones, some of them animal bones, and a few human bones can also be seen here and there.

This is a branch tribe under the Fuya lineage of the Xiaoyang clan. Its overall strength is similar to that of Yanran at present, and it has already established itself as a major tribe.

This is all because the Xiaoyang tribe gave birth to a fourth-tier Xiaoyang several decades ago.

If it were in Jidi, the Fuya branch, as the main lineage of their branch, would either have its branch tribes reach the fourth rank, be promoted to elders, or be directly rejoined by the main lineage.

If they don't listen, then hit them.

But this won't work in sandy areas, because the environment there isn't enough space for oases to produce enough.

The main branch wanted to bring back the branch branches they had separated, but there was nowhere to put them.

In addition, the yellow sand blocked their way, so the main branch of Fuya and the branch of Bize had little contact, and it was inconvenient to mobilize troops.

Now that the Bize branch sect has its own fourth-tier divine treasure, its relationship with the Fuya main sect has long been superficial and strained.

The tribute that was customarily given to the chief of the Fuya clan has not been given for many years.

Internally, he directly calls himself the master of the lineage, which means he is preparing to establish his own lineage.

Outside the yellow sand.

The clone emerged from the sand, gazing at the oasis from afar.

Behind him, in the yellow sand, hundreds of figures were dispersing, splitting into several groups, and circling around to various parts of the oasis.

Beneath the yellow sand, a rustling sound could be heard, from sandworms and scorpions of all sizes.

Even after transforming into beasts, the Blazing Flame Clan members could not suppress the powerful wild beasts with high bloodlines, but dealing with ordinary wild beasts in the sand was still quite simple for them.

Swarms of sand insects and ants were stirred up, waiting for nightfall.

Under the yellow sand at night, some places shimmered with a golden glow.

The Azure Phoenix flew over from afar, overlooking the entire land of the Bize tribe.

Swarms of sandworms were driven into the oasis, and the green grass was covered with dark swarms of insects, making a crackling sound.

"Tide of Beasts!"

"It's a beast tide!" Owl Sun Clan soldiers are stationed all over the oasis, and in some places, a large number of traps have been set up.

Seeing the dense swarm of insects, Xiao Yang, who was stationed there, quickly lit a torch and began to send a message into the oasis.

But these insects are very fast and there are so many of them that it's impossible to stop them.

The commotion, which spanned only a little over a hundred miles, quickly reached the deepest part of the oasis.

One by one, the owls awoke. Despite the frequent appearances of beast tides in the sand, they were not alarmed and lit clusters of bonfires.

The rocket roared through the air, and the dry firewood crackled and popped as it ignited.

Tweet!
A high-pitched cry rang out over the oasis, followed by a streak of blue light that swept across it.

A four-zhang-tall owl-like creature leaped out of a cave in a large hill and looked up at the sky.

Upon seeing its target appear, the azure phoenix hovering in the sky suddenly spread its wings and swooped down.

A series of gusts of wind whistled through the twin-winged arrows, forming a dazzling blue energy that plummeted down, creating an astonishing wave.

Faced with this scene, the Bize lineage master roared and summoned a thick rod from his body, smashing it down into the falling gust of wind.

Explosions rang out as large swathes of wind blades were shattered.

The Azure Phoenix did not change direction because of the staff wielded by the Bize lineage master. It still swooped down from the sky, and the two could clearly see each other.

The cyan-gold feathers released streaks of sword light.

The Bize Clan Master roared, and the staff in his hand emitted streaks of earthy yellow light. Just as he was about to raise his hand to swing it,

Suddenly, a frail human boy jumped down from the attacking phoenix.

But the boy appeared only briefly before vanishing from its sight, replaced by an enormous black mountain.

The mountain crashed to the ground, radiating an immense and boundless aura. Violent energy struck it, sending sparks flying.

Boom!

The master of the Bi Ze lineage was terrified and immediately tried to run away.

But when the giant mountain crashed to the ground, the earth roared, and the shockwaves it generated swept in all directions.

Click!

Faintly, the sound of bones breaking could be heard.

……

The giant mountain was suspended in mid-air, with a blurry bloodstain dripping from its belly. The bloodstain was the mark of a huge beast.

Within the mark, a stick and a lump of blood cake shaped like an ape were embedded in the ground.

The next moment, the clone's enormous body crashed in all directions, causing houses and hills to collapse wherever it passed, and Xiao Yang, who couldn't escape, was buried underneath.

Choo Choo Choo!
The Azure Phoenix took flight again, and countless wind blades rained down from the sky, each one pinning a hawk-like creature to the ground.

From all directions of the oasis, one after another, 'wild beasts' several meters in size roared and charged into the Owl Sun.

"A beast tide? How could there be such a powerful beast tide!"

The Xiaoyang Clan inside the Bize were completely dumbfounded as they watched the rampaging wild beasts.

Above, the Azure Phoenix and its descendants who had evolved into Azure Phoenix battle forms were watching them; below, there were insects and ants being driven away and clansmen who had transformed into 'wild beasts'. Xiao Yang within the oasis could not even resist.

The giant beast formed from the clones repeatedly traversed the oasis, hovering a foot off the ground. Soon, the hills, the largest settlement of the Bizhe tribe, were completely reduced to ruins.

The weathered stone hissed as it rapidly absorbed the blood.

There aren't many commanders or leaders at the Heavenly Vein Realm. After these powerful Xiaoyang were eliminated, the remaining ordinary Xiaoyang were directly restrained by the insect and beast horde.

One by one, they were covered in poisonous scorpions and sandworms, rolling on the ground and screaming in agony.

Then they were repeatedly trampled and killed by the 'wild beasts' of the tribe.

……

After dawn.

Within the oasis, the corpses of Xiao Yang lay strewn across the land, roughly estimated to number no less than five or six hundred thousand, scattered over a radius of a hundred miles.

Those few who managed to escape are also being hunted down by the Azure Phoenix.

Some of the piled-up remains of Xiaoyang were devoured by the horde of insects and beasts last night.

The rest were piled up into a small mountain and quickly thrown into the witch formation to be refined into blood pills.

More than a dozen witch formations were operating rapidly, forming more than a dozen plumes of bloody smoke rising within the oasis.

The clone arrived at the secret place beneath the oasis's waters.

As expected, it really takes a bit of luck to stand out from the crowd, advance to the fourth-tier divine treasure, and stand on equal footing with the main sect.

Below the water is a cave about a hundred feet in size.

The thick moisture seemed out of place against the backdrop of yellow sand.

"what……"

A humanoid scream rang out. Inside the cave, on a pillar, a creature resembling a tree root, bound hand and foot, twisted and contorted.

The entire tree should have been covered with tendrils, but all of them had been cut off, and the new tendrils were still very immature.

It occasionally makes sounds similar to a baby crying.

About seven inches above the tree root, there is a copper ring that fits perfectly around it.

……

After the clone collected the bound treasure medicine and came out of the cave, the ground was already piled with food, ore, source stone, witch medicine, and armor.

"27,800 Originium."

"The sandy land has four hundred stones of unique witchcraft medicines, with medicinal plants ranging in age from several years to a hundred years. There are more than three hundred plants that are over a hundred years old, and a large part of them bear the mark of the sandy land medicine tribes."

"More than 300,000 jin of various types of good quality ores, and more than 2 million jin of poor quality ores."

"There are more than three thousand jin of third-grade raw ore."

"There are about 100 jin of fourth-grade raw ore."

"The grain wasn't counted, but the dried meat included both human and wild beast meat, all mixed together and burned cleanly."

"Armor..."

"Among countless ancient books, we found several mineral vein maps."

Before long, the Azure Phoenix headed southwest with several witch pouches.

It needs to first head southwest to reach Yu, and then head north to Ji.

Although this route is longer, it avoids some of the harsh weather conditions in the sandy area.

The clone also led its people out of the oasis, heading directly to the mineral vein map, where they quickly and violently mined the minerals before leaving.

This time, their target wasn't the Xiaoyang tribe, but rather a group of sand bandits entrenched in Luodi.

After the battle of Bize, the Zhiyan tribe was strong enough, but their numbers were a problem.

Shen Can then arranged for two hundred more people from his clan to rejoin his clone in the sand.

However, even with more than 300 men, they were still unable to surround a large oasis, so they turned their attention to the sand bandits.

There are many bandits in the sand, and they are good at robbing and looting. You can use their men, and when you're done, just bury them in the yellow sand.

……

The scorching valley.

More than a dozen flying boats came from the Yongshan Ruins. After landing, the apes that were still in a deep sleep were captured and quickly taken to the Martial Department.

The mountain range where the military headquarters is located has palace complexes on top and caves below.

"Hey, go ahead and kill me if you dare!"

A figure covered in blood, with a large hole in its abdomen, screamed in agony.

"Insects, I am the treasure of the gods, I am the treasure of the gods, open yourself!"

Everyone was already used to Xiong Wanchuan's loud shouts.

He saw fourth-tier divine treasures every day and was used to it. He skillfully took a piece of flesh from the cracked divine treasure of Xiong Wanchuan and took it away.

"I want to see your temple! I want to see your temple! You can't treat me like this! I don't want to become a beast!"

(End of this chapter)