Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 488 - 473: Return to East Region, Path of the Void!_1

Chapter 488: Chapter 473: Return to East Region, Path of the Void!_1

Dragon Fall Territory, an extremity at the east.

The mountains are sprawling and the ancient forest is dense. Numerous gigantic peaks reach the cloud top where they are concealed by misty cloud that blocks the sunlight year round. From deep within the forest, the muffled roars of beasts can be heard at intervals.

Roar!

In the gloomy forest, a roar that resembled the bellow of a dragon and a tiger was heard. A golden flame swept across the earth and sky, scorching the air wherever it passed, emitting sizzles. A visible vacuum materialized midair.

From atop a celestial horse, Xiao Chen looked into the distance at the boundless desolate ancient forest. The air was suffused with a unique wild energy. This was an ancient forest that was even more fearsome than a primitive jungle.

By now, it had been two months since the conference at the Stone Garden. As the overlords of the entire Dragon Fall Territory, the Gu Yuan War Division is unchallenged by any Human Tribe.

Over five months, all the Battle Divisions within the domain, including the Human Battle Divisions from the eastern domain, not a single one refrained from pledging alliance to the Gu Yuan War Division, presenting tribute, and inscribing their tribal mark on the Hundred Clans Stele, henceforth sharing the fate of the Gu Yuan Tribe.

The Gu Yuan War Division now administers over as many as 833 Human Battle Divisions which are all obliged to give tributes to the Gu Yuan Battle Division and in times of battle, lead their War Masters into conquests in the Great Wasteland with the Gu Yuan War Division. In return, The Gu Yuan Battle Division were obliged to ensure their safety from attacks by exotic tribes within the domain.

Chirrup!

As Xiao Chen was looking out into the wilderness, a howl sounded from afar above the Sky Vault. A giant azure bird flew in but hovered without progress at about a hundred feet within Xiao Chen’s proximity. It seemed to be terrified of the celestial horse he was riding.

"Brother Xiao, you are even stronger than you were a few months ago!"

"Brother Fengyu, you’ve successfully leaped through the Dragon’s gate, breaking into the Towering Realm! You’re no longer ordinary and can stride across the Great Wasteland!"

The person who came here was indeed Fengyu, one of the descendants who once used to live in Dragon Fall Ancient City. The moment Xiao Chen saw him again, he noticed that Fengyu had journeyed through the Heavenly Tribulation of the Towering Realm. It made sense when he thought of the hidden power of the lineage.

"Brother Xiao, our master has been waiting for you for a long time!"

After exchanging pleasantries, the two of them traveled towards the deepest end of the desolate mountain forest, chitchatting about trivial matters along the way.

"Brother Xiao, I must congratulate you on Gu Yuan War Department’s unification of Dragon Fall Territory with all the divisions pledging allegiance to become a genuine mid-tier Battle Division."

Surrounded by mountains, beneath an ancient mountain that was no more than three hundred feet tall, an elderly man was sitting under an ancient tree. The tree was twisted and curled, its branches were lush, perfectly blocking the intense sun.

Before the elderly man was an arm-thick wooden stump that had been withering for who knows how many years. The stump had a set of clay teaware on top that seemed to have been just recently fired, still giving off the scent of damp soil.

A fire was burning beside him, with red flames dancing high. Above the fire, some broken stones were piled up to form a stand; on it was a stone pot. At the moment, the spring water inside the stone pot was boiling and making gurgling sounds, with waves of steam rising up.

Unhurriedly, the old man continued to add dry wood to the fire, ignoring the bubbling hot water.

In a short moment, Xiao Chen arrived at the valley. He dismounted about a hundred feet away and let his celestial horse gallop into the deep wilderness, while he and Fengyu walked to the ancient tree together.

"You’re here!"

The old man looked up at Xiao Chen; his eyes were serene as the spring water in an ancient well.

"Greetings to Elder!"

Xiao Chen bowed in respect. He did this not for anything else, but for the beast skin scroll marking the location of the Mine Vein, which the Elder gave him. It provided great convenience to Gu Yuan War Division in searching for the Mine Veins. Xiao Chen felt obliged to thank the old man.

Also, at this very moment, Xiao Chen could vaguely sense the old man’s power level. The seemingly decrepit body contained power enough to tear through the Void.

When he was here the last time, the old man only gave him the impression of an ordinary old man, and he could hardly sense his Aura.

"Good! Peak level of the second heavenly-layer of the Towering Realm. Solid foundation. The ancestor of the Turtle Mountain Village had not died in vain by your hands!"

The elderly man chuckled as he accepted Xiao Chen’s greeting, then freed up the space beside him for Xiao Chen and Fengyu to sit, while continuing to tend to his fire.

Gurgle! Gurgle!

Finally, it seemed the boiling water inside the stone pot had reached the old man’s requirement. He poured the hot water into the teaware; the container was filled with flakes of green leaves rising up, releasing a refreshing scent.

"Major chaos necessitates intensive governance! For a thousand years, the whole territory has been smokey and chaotic, with remnants of the Exotic Clan rampant. I’ve been sitting back and letting things happen, hoping someone within them would step up, expel the Exotic Clan and revive the human legacy on the verge of collapse. However, it turned out that the clans in the entire territory are either rotten to the core or have lost the bravery of a human race!"

"The remnants that have inherited the glory of the ancient city have turned out to be in such a state, lost the glory of the human race, have become captive cub, only known to fight within their own circle, the human heart has rotten, and must be cut off, otherwise, what hope is there for the entire territory!"

"This is why I have been waiting for an opportunity and thankfully I didn’t have to wait long. Your Gu Yuan Battle Division appeared. What I didn’t expect was that in just a few months, you led the entire Battle Division to sweep the desolate wilds, driving out the decay!"

"What I didn’t expect even more, was that your tribe could actually attract the arrival of the top-rated human luck. But this sweep through the Great Wastelands cost hundreds of thousands of lives, tribe members slaughtering each other. Even if those people are unforgivable, there were still ordinary tribesmen who lost their lives, which would have some impact on the human luck, I suppose!"

What the old man said was true. Xiao Chen, as the head of a tribe and even more so having blood-sacrificed the Kettle of King Sacrifice, corresponded to the spirit snake of luck looming above the whole tribe. From the time Xiao Chen conquered the Turtle Mountain War Division, causing hundreds of thousands of people to lose their lives, he already felt a sense of unfamiliarity when he tried to connect to the luck of his tribe.

Even after several months of nourishment, there was still a slight hindrance. This served as a punishment by the tribal luck to the Gu Yuan Battle Division for the internal killing of the human race.

However, despite this, compared to the actual interests the Gu Yuan Battle Division currently reaps, this backlash of luck is hardly worth mentioning. Furthermore, it won’t take long before this punishment from the human luck will completely vanish.

At this moment, Xiao Chen noticed a beast skin scroll on top of the rotted wooden stake. Under the indication of the old man, Xiao Chen started to flip through it. When he saw the record about the Kettle of King Sacrifice, he couldn’t help but be surprised. What he thought was a secret, turned out to be clearly visible in the eyes of the old man.

Suppressing the surprise in his heart, Xiao Chen couldn’t help but sigh. The old man’s lineage, which was a remainder vein of the ancient city tens of thousands of years ago, had such profound foundations. The records in this beast skin scroll could even serve as the foundation of a human Battle Division, something that could only be compiled after years of accumulation.

"The Kettle of King Sacrifice, the Purple Snake Battle Division, once the guardian division of this land, the defenders of the Exotic Void Path - I didn’t think the Gu Yuan Tribe would have this opportunity!"

Since the old man already knew everything, Xiao Chen no longer hid anything. He saw Xiao Chen’s right hand reaching out into empty space.

Humm!

The space trembled, and a palm-sized token with purple patterns appeared in Xiao Chen’s hand.

Emblazoned with mysterious patterns, this token had an ancient ’Zhen’ character in the middle, emanating an invisible energy.

"What is this?"

"It’s the Void Path Guardian Order of the Exotic Clan!"

What!

"If this is the Void Path Guardian Order, then you...!"

The elder’s voice shook a bit. As a remainder vein of the ancient human city, how could he not know what this palm-sized token signified.

"Yes, Xiao Chen is indeed the keeper of this generation’s Beast-controlling Tribe Void Path!"

"How could that be possible!"

Fengyu, who was at their side, couldn’t help exclaiming. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Beast-controlling Tribe opened a Void Path, connecting to the Great Wastelands, something his master provided a detailed record of.

However, ten thousand years ago, the once mighty Beast-controlling Tribe disappeared from the surface of this land, leaving only a few scattered survivors of the Beast-controlling Tribe in the Desolate Land. The records from his master’s lineage about the Beast-controlling Tribe abruptly stopped.

They even believed that the once-powerful Beast-controlling Tribe had been totally slaughtered by the forefathers of the human race, wholly sealing the Void Path. They didn’t expect it to appear in Xiao Chen’s hands today.

Since the Guardian Order of the Beast-controlling Tribe’s Void Path was in Xiao Chen’s hands, the only explanation was that the Void Path of the Beast-controlling Tribe was never utterly sealed. This was still a passage that could connect to the Beast-controlling Tribe!

How could this news not shock both, thus breaking the old man’s original calm mood completely, not even caring about the medicinal tea he had brewed.

Exotic Clan Void Paths exist in the land of the Human Realm in many places. Over countless years, people from various tribes have wanted to turn these Void Paths into eternal passages. In the Great Wastelands, some powerful tribes hold down Exotic Clan’s Void Paths.

Take, for example, the Iron Hoof Battle Division, a medium-ranked group that suppresses a Blood Clan’s Void Path. This Void Path has just formed a few thousand years ago, and on the other end is a medium-ranked family of the Blood Clan. This level of Void Path is nothing to fear for the human race.

However, the Void Path of the Beast-controlling Tribe is different. It is like a nightmare in the eyes of the master and disciple. The Beast-controlling Tribe that opened this Void Path back then was a force comparable to the high-ranking human clan, even having near Monarch Experts.

What is a near Monarch Expert? The last lord of their Dragon Fall Ancient City was such a powerful warrior - a peerless warrior in the Martial Arts Heavy Floor Realm Ninth Heaven Complete stage, able to break the limit of life and death.

If the Void Path of the Beast-controlling Tribe was not completely sealed, with the current strength of the entire Dragon Fall Territory.

No! Even if the strength of the entire Border Wilderness Domain of the human race was added, it would be hard to resist the Beast-controlling Tribe’s advance. Considering this, the master and disciple felt a chill down their spine.

With such power, if the Void Path were to break open, and the Beast-controlling Tribe warriors descended, the billions of humans in the entire Border Wilderness Domain would completely fall under the iron hoofs of the Beast-controlling Tribe, becoming slaves and doomed to a lifetime of darkness!