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

Chapter 338 Alliance Strategy, Envoy from Cloud River Valley!

Chi Huo Lu Wu lay cross-legged under the spirit fruit tree in the middle of the city, staring longingly at the dazzling fruits on it, and couldn't help but swallow.

I really want to eat it.

It is certain that after eating this fruit, the bloating will no longer occur.

Fortunately, Chi Huo Lu Wu understood that this was a test subject.

It took thousands of different kinds of spiritual plants to propagate and graft each other to produce this single seedling.

Just by looking at the knots and burls formed at the base of the tree, you can tell how difficult it was for this spiritual fruit to grow.

The entire spirit fruit tree was shriveled and with only this one fruit hanging on it. At first glance, it looked as if a gust of wind would blow the fruit down.

After glancing at the fruit again, Chi Huo Lu Wu rested his head on his two front paws, his big eyes darting around as he watched the busy human figures in the city.

These humans, each one incredibly weak, were able to cultivate and produce beings even stronger than the Beast King.

Not to mention that they also know about formations, medicine cultivation, and many other skills.

For the past ten years or so, Akahira Rikugo has felt that he has been living a very comfortable life.

Since encountering the Blazing Temple, monsters that were previously impossible to defeat can now be challenged every few days.

If you bring back a Tier 5 monster, Blazing Flame will record your merits, which can then be exchanged for corresponding Tier 5 resources.

Simply delicious.

Getting beaten up? What do you mean getting beaten up? Now Fat Tiger only beats up others.

Watching the busy figures in the city, Akahira Rikugo felt sleepy and slowly closed his eyes to fall asleep.

The Blazing Flame Clan members coming and going were already used to Crimson Flame Lu Wu, and everyone went about their own business.

The underground city began construction six years ago and is not yet officially completed. The wizards of the Blazing Flame Tribe are still working overtime to finish the project.

This city is located right next to the underground cave, so that it is convenient to obtain various cultivation resources from the underground cave.

Inside the city, wizards could be seen busy everywhere, inscribing wizarding script on various array bases to perfect the Myriad Essence Mystic Water Array.

This grand formation was established along with the city six years ago. At that time, it was only a fourth-order grand formation. Three years ago, with the addition, modification, and adjustment of the formation's base nodes, its grade was upgraded to a fifth-order low-grade formation.

Currently, with the addition of eighteen fifth-tier spirits to the core array base, the array's level has been upgraded to mid-grade fifth tier.

This formation uses the remains of spirits and monsters as its base. As the number of nodes in the base expands, the formation's rank will continue to improve.

With the clan's array masters' guidance, they dared not hope for a seventh-tier array, but by proceeding step by step, reaching the sixth tier should not be a problem.

After more than a hundred years of development, the formations of the Zhiyan tribe have taken a path that combines ancient and modern formations.

In the ancient path of formations, the level of a formation master is fixed; one can only set up formations of a certain grade based on their realm.

However, the array masters of the Blazing Flame Clan are now able to set up arrays beyond their level through concerted efforts.

Of course, ordinary array masters still need a leader to guide them.

For example, the Myriad Essence Profound Water Array in the underground city was created by Yan Chong leading six fourth-order array masters, two hundred third-order array masters, thousands of first-order and second-order array masters, and thirty thousand array craftsmen.

Yan Chong is also one of the formation examiners in the Zhiyanbo tribe, and one of the people who determine the ranks of formation masters in the tribe.

Why is it that even though they are all fourth-tier Great Wizards, Yan Chong can participate in determining the level of other array masters? This requires explaining the actual situation of the Blazing Flame Clan.

Although Yan Chong is only a fourth-tier early-stage Great Witch, he has a 'big picture' perspective, and the Myriad Essence Profound Water Array was created by him.

He created a fifth-order formation with the skill of a fourth-order cultivator. Even though this fifth-order formation required the assistance of thousands or tens of thousands of clansmen, he was the chief designer.

This ability has transcended the limitations of array level.

In other words, one can design formations based on the existing situation and lead others to set up the designed formations.

Looking across the entire Blazing Flame Clan, there are only three and a half people with Yan Chong's abilities who can independently design fifth-order formations.

As for why there's still half, it's because that half hasn't yet independently designed a fifth-order formation, but it will soon.

This person is Yan Zeng, the one who lost all his witchcraft in Dongze to save his wife, and then turned to cultivate the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Gong bestowed by Shen Can.

The remaining three, besides Yan Chong, are the ferret and Lu Zhen, one beast and one human.

Since the ferret became Shen Can's apprentice more than ten years ago, along with Shen Can's cultivation of the array formations of the Blazing Flame Clan, and after setting up several array formations with other array formation masters in the clan, the ferret's mastery of array formations has advanced by leaps and bounds.

Apart from these three and a half array masters, the other array masters in the clan, although they participated in the construction of various arrays, could only set up arrays corresponding to their own realm.

The Myriad Essence Mystic Water Array of the Underground City blends into the surrounding environment, merging itself into this cold and gloomy atmosphere.

This not only prevented the spirits from spying on it, but also prevented other martial artists from prying into the cave.

At this moment, busy figures can be seen everywhere in the underground city, some tending to medicinal herbs, and others moving back and forth carrying the remains of spirits and monsters.

The use of spirit corpses is generally divided into two categories: one is to use the cultivation of spiritual plants to transform the cold and yin energy in the spirit's body.

Another type involves adding other witchcraft ingredients, or using methods such as drying or roasting to neutralize, dilute, or dissolve the cold and yin energy.

Currently, the conversion and utilization rate of third-tier spirits has reached 50%, while that of fourth-tier spirits is around 20%.

The lower the rank of a spirit, the easier it is to convert and utilize it. For example, the conversion and utilization rate of first and second rank spirits has reached 80%.

The main difficulty lies in neutralizing the cold and dampness within it. If the cold and dampness is not removed, it cannot be used as medicine at all.

If used for cultivation, it will have the opposite effect.

As for the pills made from the precious medicines found in the cave, they were specially made by the Medicine-Pounding Rabbit and the Little Spirit Clan. The production was small and they were only supplied to fifth-level cultivators like Shen Can and Lu Wu.

Inside the main hall in the northeast corner of the underground city, a chilling aura emanated as jade boxes crafted from third-grade warm jade were brought out.

Inside the jade boxes were grinding powder from second-tier spirits, each box weighing ten jin (approximately 5 kilograms).

Soon, hundreds of jade boxes were put into a witch's bag and swallowed by a peak fourth-tier Kui Niu.

Kui Niu then left the underground city under the cover of night, heading towards the direction of the Blazing Flame Tribe.

These spirit powders still possess a considerable amount of cold and damp energy, requiring a place to be dried in the shade before they can become one of the ingredients for medicinal use.

In this way, by combining spirit powder with wild beast powder and adding some witch medicine, a second-tier universal cultivation treasure pill can be made.

Zhiyan currently has two large workshops: one is the Monster Workshop, and the other is the Earthworm Workshop.

However, with the extinction of the Tulou tribe, they will not be found in the Juyue Mountains for a short time, and the spoils obtained in Daidi will only become less and less.

Now, the Earthworm Workshop has been transferred to the Human Alliance, which has used it to establish three institutions: the Weapon Hall, the Elixir Hall, and the Agriculture Hall.

The Weapon Hall is responsible for refining weapons, the Pill Hall for making medicine, and the Agriculture Hall for cultivating grains.

Every part of the earthworm is a treasure; the scraps left over from refining weapons and pills, and even the earthworm's excrement, are all given to the Agricultural Palace.

Although the alliance has established the Weapon Hall and the Pill Hall, it is still not enough to keep up with the consumption of the alliance's large number of martial artists. In many cases, the alliance still needs to purchase the required pills and magical artifacts from the Blazing Flame Tribe.

This is a business-to-business transaction; the alliance spends money, and Zhiyan delivers goods, resulting in a settlement.

The hundred boxes of spirit powder that Kui Niu brought were ingredients for the second-tier treasure pills prepared for the alliance.

Over the past decade, the alliance has finally gotten on the right track, forming a structure of one temple, nine halls, two offices, and two academies.

One of the temples is the Temple of Heroes.

The nine halls are the Hall of Merit, the Hall of Punishments, the Hall of General Affairs, the Hall of the People, the Hall of Agriculture, the Hall of Military Affairs, the Hall of Weapons, the Hall of Medicine, and the Hall of Beasts.

The two offices are the Office for Searching for Wasteland and the Office for Reclaiming Wasteland.

The two academies are the Clan Protection Martial Academy and the Torch Relay Witch Academy.

As for the original thirteen executive elders, they were all appointed as the heads or deputy heads of the Nine Palaces, Two Departments, and Two Courts.

For example, the Dean of the Martial Arts Academy is concurrently held by Huoshan, while the Vice Dean is given to Elder Changhuan.

For example, the Palace Master of the Agricultural Palace was given to the Lord of the Wilderness, but this old man knew nothing about farming.

Therefore, his position as temple master was merely a nominal one. The real work was done by the deputy temple master, whose primary role was that of executive elder, responsible for serving as an advisor to the alliance leader.

These are all transitional in nature. After all, they were all executive elders selected in the early days of the alliance. As time goes on, some young people in each department will grow up, and some of the older guys can step down and give way to more capable people.

With these temple officials in charge, the affairs of the alliance gradually became clear.

In addition to the changes in the alliance's central command, the various camps in Yongyi and Dai were also readjusted.

The land was divided into four major camps: east, west, south, and north. The western camp was located in the central part of the territory of the various tribes that had reclaimed the wasteland, while the northern camp was located in the ancestral land of the Tulou tribe, which is now Beicheng.

The main camp in Yongyi was abolished and merged into the main camp in Tianmu Mountain in the southern border region.

They retained the two main camps, Dongze and Xichui, to continue small-scale expansion.

Yan Wanyun entered the alliance's central hub from the Yongyi Dongze camp and became the head of the Military Hall, responsible for coordinating the military forces of the Yong and Dai camps.

All those who work in various departments within the alliance receive a uniform salary based on their cultivation level, which is distributed in the form of cultivation pills.

Of course, these are just basic cultivation resources. If you want better cultivation resources and magical artifacts, you can exchange them with merit points.

The Alliance Treasury contains fifth-tier magical artifacts, fourth-tier earthworm and wild beast corpses, martial arts techniques, supernatural powers and secret arts, and magical supernatural powers and secret arts.

Those who are capable can exchange it all without any problem.

Nowadays, everyone in Yong and Dai has heard that if you want good cultivation techniques and resources, go work for the Alliance.

A tribe has at least a million people, and it is impossible to take care of everyone.

Previously, there was no opportunity; even if one wanted to venture out, one could only be a wandering knight, relying on luck.

You can now join an alliance and compete for cultivation resources on the battlefield.

Join the Alliance, die and be enshrined in the Temple of Heroes, and the Alliance will provide compensation to your family.

This is much more secure than being a wandering knight-errant.

Even the most powerful clansmen could not stop their desire to improve themselves.

No way to get into the league?
That was in the past. Now, the communication magical artifacts produced by the Alliance's Artifact Hall have long been deployed in Yong and Dai.

Each city has announcements and registration locations for recruiting soldiers from various military camps.

As long as you pass the assessment, you can be assigned to different camps.

For the past ten years, although there have been no major battles, small-scale skirmishes between Dai and Yongyi have never ceased.

The larger battles involved the southern border of Yongyi and the Huan Tou tribe, while the smaller ones included clearing out the Tu Lou and spirits within the Dai region, as well as the small-scale expansion of the border camps.

The battle has never stopped.

If you have the ability, you will also be eligible to be selected to join the three elite armies of the alliance: Tiger Warrior, Backbone, and Flying Sky.

……

The morning sun rises.

Sunlight streamed down upon the majestic Valhalla, bathing the building in golden light.

Below the Temple of Heroes, a vast complex of buildings stands, some built against the mountain, others carved into the mountainside, protecting the Alliance Hall and standing guard in front of the Temple of Heroes.

The sound of drums rang out, spreading in all directions.

The junior priests lined up outside Valhalla had already swept and cleaned the temple long before the drums sounded.

Breakfast has been finished, and the morning meditation session has begun.

Today is Yanwu's turn to be on duty. He is the priest of Valhalla and is also responsible for teaching shamans from various tribes.

Of the young men sent by various tribes back then, after ten years of training, some from small tribes have returned to their respective tribes to inherit the positions of temple guardians.

Those with more talent entered the Firewood Academy for training, which was a 'special training class'. These people mainly focused on temple worship and witchcraft.

As the drums sounded, commotion arose within the giant city below. Figures darted through the air, moving in and out, and the towering teleportation tower lit up with light.

……

A warship swept in from the northeast, its battle flags fluttering, attracting many people in the city to look up.

On the warship, there was a one-armed figure wearing a tattered animal skin vest, his face weathered by the elements.

Behind him followed a dozen or so figures, staring blankly at the giant city below.

The warship landed in the plaza outside the Alliance Hall.

At this moment, the steps leading from the main hall to the square were already lined with warriors dressed in red robes, holding long spears, standing solemnly.

"The human warriors from Cloud River Valley have arrived!"

As the one-armed figure led more than a dozen other figures off the warship, the standing warriors shouted.

Then, the sounds began to ring out one after another, accompanied by horns, and carried all the way to the Alliance Hall.

Yao Chong glanced up at the majestic hall high above and began to climb the steps.

The dozen or so figures behind him all instinctively straightened their backs.

At this moment, the volcano also emerged from the main hall and descended the steps to greet them.

Having held the position of league leader for many years, his demeanor has changed dramatically, now exuding an aura of authority without needing to be angry.

When Yao Chong saw the volcano emerge to greet him, he quickened his pace to meet it and bowed deeply.

"Yao, the human envoy from Yunhe Valley, pays his respects to the Alliance Leader."

The dozen or so figures that followed also bowed down.

"Without the alliance to survive, we would likely perish in the wilderness."

Looking at the dozen or so people in front of him, each one bearing the marks of time, Volcano took Yao Chong's hand and gently patted his arm.

"Our human race should naturally join hands and move forward together."

(End of this chapter)