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

Chapter 440 Development

The commotion continued late into the night within the mountain's confinement formation until Yan Jiang finally emerged, leaving behind a scene of utter chaos.

After returning to his residence and practicing for a while, he went back to the side hall of the Alliance's main city as soon as it was dawn to begin handling the day's affairs.

At this moment, in the far southwest direction, far from the Juyue Mountains, there are countless mountains and valleys, and dense forests.

In a rolling hilly area, terraced fields are layered upon each other, with tender green shoots growing in them.

Between the fields, there are paths that have been carved out. In the distance, you can see elderly people and women dressed in coarse linen clothes clearing weeds from the fields.

"Awoooooo~!"

"Awoooooo!"

High in the mountains, a scarecrow swayed, accompanied by the shouts of children. A flock of sparrows flew up from the fields and fled in panic into the distant forest.

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As noon approached, Tanaka, who had been busy working, found a shady spot and began to eat the food he had brought.

After finishing their meal and resting for a while, everyone went back to the fields to get busy again.

It wasn't until sunset that everyone called to each other and headed back to the tribe together.

Following the winding path around the hills, we arrived at a village built on the shore of a lake.

The tribe was established along the lake, with a population of approximately ten thousand. There was also a city wall built around it, with watchtowers at the four corners of the wall.

More than twenty giant crossbows were lined up on the watchtowers and city walls, and people could be seen patrolling with weapons on both sides of the city walls.

Inside the tribe, large groups of children gathered together, some practicing boxing, while others followed the adults to repair weapons and farm tools.

A gentle tinkling sound echoed through the mountains and forests, initially very faint.

However, the sound soon grew louder and louder, and clearly reached the tribe.

Upon hearing the bell, many figures in the tribe immediately reacted.

"Quickly inform the clan chief and elders, the adults have arrived!"

Realizing what was happening, the figure quickly headed out of the tribe, shouting as he ran, "Quickly light the torches and follow me to light the way out of the tribe!"

From where the bell rang, amidst the rolling hills, several figures sat atop camel-drawn beasts, heading towards the tribe.

The bronze bell around the camel's neck rang out crisply with each step it took.

"The Fox Mountain Tribe must be just ahead."

Huo Ning sat on the lead camel and pointed ahead in the direction where torches were lit.

"Yes, this is the Fox Mountain tribe ahead. This tribe has more than 10,000 members. When it was first discovered, the strongest member of the tribe was only at the seventh level of the Heavenly Vein Realm."

A middle-aged martial artist dressed in hemp clothing spoke up. He was not very strong, and his face bore the marks of years of walking in the mountains and forests.

He is one of the many torchbearers in the alliance, skilled in farming, and he was the one who led the way in farming in the Fox Mountain tribe.

Although it was night, Huo Ning, a peak Divine Realm martial artist, could still clearly sense the surrounding terraced fields with his divine sense.

The fields were neatly cultivated, the soil was slightly moist without clumping, and there were no weeds, indicating that the Fox Mountain tribe had taken good care of them.

As veterans of the Blazing Flame Clan, the rise of new generations does not mean they are useless.

This time, Huo Ning and a group of old guys were ordered by the Alliance Leader to accompany the outer patrol fleet as war envoys to inspect the four territories and supervise the selection of talented young people to go to Juyue.

Of course, Huo Ning was just one of the many warriors in the outer patrol fleet. He no longer had much desire for martial arts, but he had high expectations for how far Zhi Yan could go.

He's not old at all, and he can still do things for the tribe.

After a brief period of mutual recognition, a group of people from the Fox Mountain tribe rushed out of their tribe's ancestral home.

"The chief of Fox Mountain, along with the clan elders and clan members, respectfully welcomes the arrival of the envoy."

Huo Ning dismounted from the camel and went forward to help the Fox Mountain clan chief and elders up.

He then smiled and said, "These wheat and millet fields outside are well-managed and growing very well."

"The adults taught us farming methods and gave us better seeds so that we would not suffer from hunger. If we still cannot farm properly, we will only be fooling our own tribe in the end."

An elder of the Fox Mountain clan spoke up. Seeing that Huo Ning was dressed in hemp clothing and did not have a particularly imposing presence, and seeing that the person who taught them farming was also there, he assumed that Huo Ning was also a craftsman who taught them skills.

Huo Ning didn't rush into the Fox Mountain tribe's territory. Instead, he pulled the elders of the Fox Mountain tribe aside and chatted about sowing, irrigation, weeding, and whether the farm tools were easy to use.

Over the years, after his martial arts skills stalled, Huo Ning did not remain idle. Although he did not become a master of various crafts, he did have a wide range of interests.

This wasn't just his experience; there were many old guys like him in the league who had their eyes on various crafts.

I wouldn't presume to say I'm an expert, but when it comes to the daily cultivation of food to fill our stomachs, I've long been a skilled farmer.

Unfortunately, Huo Ning never expected that his status, once a top fighter in his clan, would decline so drastically in just a century.

The young men in the tribe are growing up faster than the last, and when it comes to competing for tasks, he simply can't compete with these young people.

Now, I can only be used as an old man.

The alliance sent Huo Ning and others to various territories and to every tribe, in order to see the most authentic scene of the torchbearers spreading their teachings.

After exchanging ideas with the elders and chieftains of the Fox Mountain tribe, Huo Ning was very satisfied. The alliance was teaching various skills to help the human race become stronger, and the people of the Fox Mountain tribe were indeed learning diligently.

However, Huo Ning planned to stay in Fox Mountain for two days to get a deeper understanding of the situation there.

The group entered the Fox Mountain tribe's territory and heard the cries of beasts.

"We are now trying to tame the young animals we hunted before. Using the methods taught by our teacher, it has become much easier to tame them."

An elder of the Fox Mountain tribe spoke up, referring to those who pass on their skills as teachers.

While the clan elder was speaking with Huo Ning, the Fox Mountain clan chief had already arranged for people to clean the main hall of the clan, and earnestly invited Huo Ning into the hall, offering him meat and various fruits.

Huo Ning followed the host into the Fox Mountain Clan Hall, where the Fox Mountain Tribe Chief and elders gathered to warmly welcome the group.

During the gathering, Huo Ning and the Fox Mountain tribe became more familiar with each other, and the topics of their conversation ranged from the teaching and popularization of written language to the use of prescriptions for treating women's qi and blood deficiency and infantile night crying.

Despite the presence of a Heavenly Vein Realm martial artist in the Fox Mountain Tribe, the human heritage in this area has been severely destroyed. It is only slightly better than the Dai region under the control of the Earth Louse. There are very few remedies for treating various diseases and preventing various poisonous insects.

Before the arrival of the Alliance's Firebearers, the infant mortality rate, the proportion of tribesmen injured while hunting, and the proportion of tribesmen dying from poisoning were all high, and farming methods were also very backward.

After a few rounds of drinks, Huo Ning waved to the children who were gathered together outside the clan hall.

A dozen or so dolls rushed into the hall, their eyes filled with curiosity and excitement.

"Come, let me see the boxing techniques you've practiced."

At the elder's signal, the dozen or so children quickly lined up in several rows and began to practice their fist techniques.

The technique being used is the basic tempering chain method that Shen Can derived back then, which is suitable for most people to start practicing.

A group of dolls gave a demonstration with lots of "hehehaha" sounds, and Huo Ning clapped his hands in encouragement, giving each of them a small toy as a gift.

These children's cultivation methods are all quite standard, just like the Blazing Flame Tribe back then.

But where there are people, there is hope; this is just the beginning.

The Fox Mountain tribe naturally has more than just these dozen or so children.

Of course, besides the children who practice martial arts, there are also some who practice witchcraft.

When the Torchbearers arrived in this region, they were a large team that split into different squads to teach cultivation methods and various skills to different human tribes.

Those with talent for martial arts or witchcraft have already been identified and have embarked on the path of cultivation.

After staying in the Fox Mountain tribe for two days, Huo Ning led his people on their way again.

Human tribes are scattered among the mountains and valleys, making it impossible to visit them all. He tried his best to visit as many tribes as possible and bring back the most accurate data.

Riding on the camel, Huo Ning took out a jade slip and recorded what he had seen and heard in the Fox Mountain tribe.

In the Cloud Cauldron Land, the superior Fox Mountain Clan, the Firebearers' teachings of cultivation and skills are rated as superior, and the Fox Mountain Clan's development potential is also superior. No children with outstanding talent have been found yet, so it is recommended that the Firebearers Lu Mu and Wen Zhong take charge of the future.

Also attached are various data on the Fox Mountain tribe after they accepted the torch relay.

Meanwhile, in the northwest of the Giant Mountain Range, in the northwest corner of the Silver Wolf Wasteland.

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The wasteland is flat, crisscrossed by paths, and the fields stretch for tens of thousands of acres at a glance.

The vast fields had already turned golden, and many people were harvesting.

In the distance beyond the fields, a city sits on the wasteland, its walls extending in all directions. At regular intervals, one can see a tall beacon tower.

At that moment, three plumes of thick smoke rose from the east and spread rapidly along the beacon towers.

"Waaaaah!"

The humans in the city quickly became alert, and a squad of human soldiers rushed out of the city and headed east.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Those damn black wolves are here again. This time, we're going to beat those beasts to a pulp."

"We must not let the black wolves rush into the fields. Our people must harvest the wheat and millet quickly."

The varying fertility of the land in the Great Wilderness has led to different growth rates of crops even within the same area, a phenomenon also observed here.

However, after years of careful management and adjustment, most of the reclaimed land has a similar grain ripening time, allowing for unified harvesting.

More than ten miles to the east of the tribe, a large, dark pack of wolves appeared.

These wolves are different from the wild beast wolves. Although their eyes gleam with bloodlust, they possess a different kind of intelligence than the wild beast wolves.

Furthermore, they possess greater organizational skills than the wild wolf clan, and their abilities in cultivation, hunting, and other areas are also stronger.

The lead black wolf walked upright, with a pair of small, undeveloped golden wings on its back.

The wolf pack consisted of more than three thousand black wolves, all clad in black armor. The breath they exhaled from their nostrils coalesced into a cloud of hot air.

This is a remote area in the northwest of the Silver Wolf Wasteland, but there are still many wolf descendants here.

"Aww!"

The wolf pack leader roared, and the pack quickly bypassed the beacon tower, rushing towards the human fields.

The goal was simple: to destroy the human race's fields.

These human tribes had farmed before, but none of them had achieved significant success.

But in the past decade, the fields have yielded bumper harvests time and again, and the same land produces more than twice the amount of grain as before.

In a short time, the human race no longer worried about having enough to eat, and devoted more time to cultivation, and also learned better forging methods.

As neighboring states, the Black Annihilation Wolf Clan has already felt threatened.

The strength of the Jinshi tribe of the human race is rapidly increasing, which is very disadvantageous for them if this continues.

Soon, a small-scale battle broke out on the wasteland.

The humans of the Jinshi tribe arrived carrying dozens of giant crossbows, and first unleashed a volley of giant arrows at the charging wolf pack.

The Black Annihilation Wolf Clan was already familiar with this tactic. They quickly dispersed. This time, they weren't there to kill people; their target was the human race's fields, and their goal was to destroy the human race's harvest this season.

This tactic had worked once before, burning large tracts of unharvested grain.

But this time it didn't work. When the Black Annihilation Wolf Clan dispersed, the warriors of the Golden Stone Tribe, led by the Grand Elder—

They headed eastward, heading straight for the Black Annihilation Wolf Clan's lair.

If you burn my grain, I'll burn your stronghold.

The human soldiers strode forward, charging towards the Black Annihilation Wolf tribe. This caused the wolves, who had been raiding the human fields, to have something to worry about, and they all retreated to try and stop the humans.

The two sides tugged at each other across the wasteland, sometimes gathering together and sometimes dispersing.

The battle lasted a full day, until sunset, when the wolf pack began to retreat, leaving behind three or four hundred corpses.

The Jinshi tribe also gathered the hundreds of fallen tribesmen and began arranging to send their bodies back to the tribe, while the remaining people guarded against a sneak attack by the wolf tribe.

At the same time, they dispatched humans to harass the Black Wolf tribe's territory.

In the latter half of the night, bonfires were lit in the north of the tribe, and the wolf pack attacked again.

The Jinshi tribe was well-prepared and once again repelled the attackers.

The battle between the two sides lasted for several days, until the Jinshi tribe finished harvesting the grain outside the city.

This scene is just a microcosm of the vast wilderness.

In this region, humans and other races live together, intertwined and inseparable, and have long been enemies.

Therefore, such chaotic battles are quite common.

Almost every few days, it would erupt in the wasteland.

On the wasteland, a strong stench of blood wafted through the air with the wind.

Behind Zao Shan was a boy of about twelve or thirteen years old. The two walked one after the other across the wasteland and soon saw the source of the bloody smell.

On the ground, which was not yet completely dry, one could clearly discern the remains of human bones and flesh.

"teacher."

The boy shouted.

Zaoshan turned around and patted the boy's head.

"Ah Hui, don't be afraid."

"Once you go to the Alliance, enter the academy for training, and return, you will be able to wipe out these alien races and create a new home for our human race."

After finishing his sentence, Zaoshan led the boy across the battlefield and disappeared into the distance.

The destination of this trip is Lionbone City in the wasteland.

That was the Alliance's outpost for spreading their teachings in this area. During his trip to the various tribes of the wasteland, he discovered this boy named Zhong Hui.

The reason we are not using the flying boat now is because it is intentional.

He was born in Daidi, ran away from the settlement, secretly entered Xingchen Mountain, and was then taken in by the Holy Ape Valley for training, where he was taught how to teach more people to cultivate.

Today, as the torchbearer of the alliance, he continues to follow the same path he took over the past century.

But every time he walked this mountain road, it felt new. Each time, he either discovered a new human tribe or a child with cultivation talent, which made him feel very satisfied.

Inside Lionbone City, Huo Zhan, as the Alliance Inspector, had been there for more than half a year and had gained a detailed understanding of the situation in the surrounding areas.

"Arrange for Tier 5 warships to escort the youths from each division to the Alliance."

Half a month later, a warship took off from Lionbone City, carrying hundreds of teenagers, and headed towards the Giant Mountain Range.

In the time that followed, warships took off one after another from the Juyue Mountains, heading towards the Juyue Mountains, in hundreds of human settlements in all directions, whether they were in the wilderness, living among other races, or in places of frequent warfare.

On each warship were a number of young people, filled with excitement and hope, gazing in astonishment at the vast wilderness as they sailed into the enormous mountain range.

Within the Kyotake mountain range.

Stone chambers and caves have been carved out of the massive mountains.

Looking around, there are tens of thousands of these stone chambers.

Inside one of the caves, Zhong nimbly got up from the stone bed. The cave was very simple, with only a stone bed and a stone chair.

Having been here for over ten years, he is no longer a boy, but a young man who looks somewhat frail.

After putting on the linen clothes, hang your identity tag on your waist.

Years of handling have made this wooden plaque smooth and shiny, but the inscriptions on it are still clearly visible, and there is a line of text on the back: Gold Shop No. 2617367.

This is his identity here.

All those who come here to cultivate themselves are given a number, regardless of their origin or whether they are sons of noble families or wild men from the mountains.

This place only focuses on cultivation. There are assessments every certain period of time, and those who fail three assessments will leave.

As Zhong Hui walked out of the cave, countless figures emerged from the stone chambers and caverns on both sides of the mountain.

You can tell what element a sign belongs to by looking at its color. If it belongs to the metal element, the sign will be white with black patterns.

Every year, new people arrive here, and every year, old people leave, either because they fail the assessment or enter a higher academy for further training.

"Hurry up, hurry up, the new issue of Shan Hai Wan Shi Lu is about to be released."

"I'll save you a spot. I wonder what new things will happen this time. Is there any follow-up to what happened with the Negative Fish Clan last time?"

Deep within the majestic mountain range, on an enormous cliff face, a vast, smooth stone wall has been carved out, upon which are inscribed with shamanic and spiritual symbols that can manifest as text and images.

Every month, this will display many events that have happened in the Great Wilderness, or an introduction to a certain race.

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