Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 581 - 567 East Desolate Land, Arriving at Xuan Ling!_1

Chapter 581: Chapter 567 East Desolate Land, Arriving at Xuan Ling!_1

The following day, at high noon.

Above the sky dome a hundred miles outside the Border Wasteland City, a gold streak of light swooshed across. The golden sky horse spread its wings measuring approximately 30 feet wide, with feathers sharp as swords.

After spending several days in the Border Wasteland City, even though Xiao Chen hadn’t got any top-grade spirit stones, he had acquired far beyond his expectations. He had collected dozens of species of spirit rice and spiritual roots which were of great assistance to the future development of the Gu Yuan Clan. He also found an apprentice who was naturally inclined to the alchemy path. Xiao Chen was extremely pleased.

It’s not that the Border Wasteland City doesn’t have top-grade spirit stones, but because of the existence of spirit crystals which are also available despite their rarity. However, these items are the cherished possessions of the major powers, the existence that suppresses the very essence. Xiao Chen couldn’t easily collect them and had to retreat empty-handed.

At this moment, he intended to head towards the Xuanling Mountain Range, the place where spirit crystals were discovered a hundred thousand years ago. He wanted to see whether there were opportunities waiting for him while Zi Yuan and her father would wait for him at the Border Wasteland City before returning together to the Gu Yuan Tribe.

Before leaving, Xiao Chen spent a morning changing his identity and, in the four major city districts of the Border Wasteland City, visited some famous shops selling spirit medicines. He collected a batch of spirit medicines, mainly three-turn spirit medicines that totaled to five hundred plants, along with hundred plants of four-turn spirit medicines and ten plants of five-turn spirit medicines.

Three-turn spirit medicines were valued at a hundred top-grade spirit stones, four-turn spirit medicines at five hundred top-grade spirit stones, and five-turn spirit medicines at three thousand. All added together, Xiao Chen had obtained a total of 130,000 top-grade spirit stones, all piled up within the Mountain and River Seal world.

Besides that, Xiao Chen also obtained the three treasures originally held by Wan Tianxing used to exchange for circulating spirit medicines; the Terrestrial Array Disk, Essence Vitality Liquid, and Freezing Weight Water.

The Desolate Wilds, boundlessly vast, are crawling with fierce beasts and hidden tribes. Countless bones and fallen heroes had been buried there over endless years. To cross this vast wasteland of the Human World, particularly the entire Eastern Wasteland South Region, would be a challenge even for the most powerful beings.

As far as Xiao Chen knew, and to make distinctions easier, humans had also divided the Eastern Wilds of the Human World into north, south, east and west regions. The Border Wasteland area where Xiao Chen resided belonged to the Eastern South Region. The entire South Region consists of almost fifty territories, both large and small.

Take the Border Wasteland Region for example, its territory stretches a million miles and ranks in the middle in terms of area among the fifty regions in the south.

The vast regional divisions have led to blocking exchanges between the major regions. Beyond the adjacent regions, there are few contacts. The major human battle divisions are at odds with each other, and non-human races can easily arrive unnoticed in the ancient forests and wilds of the human world without being discovered.

This has led to the depths of the ancient desolate forests becoming increasingly dangerous. When human warriors long to explore the Desolate Wilds, it becomes more fraught with risks. Those with weak powers cannot travel far.

The Xuanling Mountain Range Xiao Chen planned to go to is located at the northeastern border of the Border Wasteland Region. The adventure to another human region, the Ten Thousand Spirits Domain, was just fifty thousand miles away from the border pass of the Wild Spirit Pass.

The Border Wasteland Region can be said to be the most marginalized region of the Eastern Wasteland. The east of the Border Wasteland Region is the Ten Thousand Mountain Region, the northeast is the Ten Thousand Spirit Region, the north is the Snow Peaks Realm, and to the west and south are the main chain of the Dragon Fall Mountain.

Ten days later.

With the sky horse by his side, Xiao Chen moved at a rapid pace. However, in order to bypass some dangerous lands and ancient forests, he still needed almost ten days to reach the outskirts of the Xuanling Mountain Range.

Xuanling City.

It is an ancient stone city that, according to legend, first appeared when spirit crystals were discovered in the Xuanling Mountain Range. It was destroyed and rebuilt several times due to war. Nestled among the mountains, the black city wall is full of mottled traces, giving off an aura of time’s passage.

The dilapidated city gate gaped open. One stone gate that weighed tens of thousands of pounds had disappeared without a trace. The remaining gate was mostly broken, dotted with several dozen feet long cracks.

From the end of the narrow passageway, came the sound of hustle and bustle. Scores of warriors entered and left the city time and again, all gambling their luck on finding treasures.

A hundred thousand years of time is enough for seas to turn into mulberry fields. The discovery of spirit crystals had driven countless warriors to madness. Through tens of thousands of years, the fervor has not ceased. The entire Xuanling Mountain Range covers a distance of tens of thousands of miles, but underneath the mountains, all has been hollowed out.

Up to this day, in the deep mountain range, sporadic elemental stones are still discovered. These discovered elemental stones range in grades from high to low.

Some fragments of top-grade spirit stones and even spirit crystals can be found. Although there are only one or two strands of spirit energy within them, they are extremely precious and comparable to top-grade spirit stones.

As Xiao Chen entered Xuanling City and his spiritual will swept over the warriors nearby, the sounds from within a hundred feet couldn’t escape his perception. After a short while, he had grasped the situation inside Xuanling City.

Currently, Xuanling City is occupied by freelance warriors. These freelance warriors have organized themselves into six major forces according to their strength. Based on the information he gotten, Xiao Chen estimated that the strength of these six freelancers, solely in terms of the number of strongest individuals, was enough to match a mid-level Battle Division in the Border Wasteland Region.

The entire Xuanling Mountain Range, which spans tens of thousands of miles, is filled with large and small elemental stone mines. These mines have been divided up by these six freelance organizations according to their respective strengths.

For instance, the strongest freelance organization, Yuanling Temple, occupied more than three thousand elemental stone mines. The weakest clan, the Pan Shi Gang, occupied only eight hundred mines.

Of course, there are more than just these mines in the radius of a ten thousand mile of Xuanling Mountain Range, but these mines occupied by the rangers are the ones that still have sporadic outputs of elemental stones. Those abandoned mines that he gave up on are almost all genuinely worthless.

The six major ranger forces occupy so many Elemental Stone mines. If one wishes to enter the mine to seek their fate, not only do they have to first pay a hundred lower-grade elemental stones as an entrance fee, but half of the fortunes they obtained have to be given to these ranger organizations. If they are unlucky and end up empty-handed, they can only blame their bad luck for the loss of the hundred lower-grade elemental stones paid.

"Interesting!"

At this moment, Xiao Chen is sitting inside a food pavilion, listening to the warriors around him drinking and conversing.

He discovered an interesting situation, that is, there really are aliens lurking deep in the Xuanling Mountain Range, who often have conflicts with the ranger organizations of Xuanling City.

"The Yuanling Temple relies on its strong power to act wantonly and domineering. If there is any resistance, the transgressor’s cultivation will be abolished and they will be thrown into the bottomless mine to fend for themselves."

"Yuanling Temple’s power is strong. A few days ago, the Yuanling Temple master passed the Thunderfire Tribulation and became a major warrior of the Towering Realm with the Four Heavens. With such a major warrior of the Towering Realm with the Four Heavens stationed in Yuanling Temple, who dares to provoke them in this Xuanling City."

"Brothers, silence!"

"Let’s only talk about luck today and not other things. Last month, I heard that a warrior discovered a piece of Spirit Crystal Fragment in the abandoned mine at the edge of the mountain range. Although it is only the size of a thumb, it contains three strands of spiritual energy, which is equivalent to three top-grade elemental stones."

"That’s really good luck. Pieces of Spirit Crystal have become increasingly rare over the years. I have worked in the mine for a year. Apart from paying the entrance fee and giving half of it to these ranger organizations, the elemental stones I get are barely enough for me to cultivate."

In the food pavilion, there are warriors from the Blood Refining Realm and even the Bone-Tempering Realm. There are no warriors from the Towering Realm. Xiao Chen’s spiritual sense covers the whole city, but only detected several breaths of warriors from the Towering Realm.

One of the breaths was unstable and fluctuated from high to low. It seems to come from the master of the Yuanling Temple, who had just passed the Thunderfire Tribulation according to the conversations around.

Xiao Chen slowly enjoyed the meat in the food pavilion. It must be said that the medical meals in Xuanling City are much worse than in the Border Wasteland City, and the price is even higher. Xiao Chen stayed in the food pavilion for a long time, during which he caught many pieces of news.

The meat in front of him made Xiao Chen feel tasteless. When he got the information he wanted to know, Xiao Chen stood up and left several mid-grade Elemental Stones on the stone table.

A strong sense of oppression filled the entire Xuanling City, giving people a depressing feeling, much like this ancient city that is worn down by the years.

Most of the warriors in this ancient city can be referred to as miners, although they are relatively free individuals. However, there are people who are referred to as mining slaves, they undergo daily torture in the mines without seeing daylight until their death.

Soon, Xiao Chen walked into a secluded Qing Stone alley with dilapidated houses on both sides, apparently not damage caused naturally. However, none of this mattered.

"All of you, what do you want?"

Looking at the warriors who were blatantly following him, Xiao Chen stopped, turned around, and said indifferently.

"Yo, this little brother is a stranger. My brothers and I have been in Xuanling City for several years, and we’ve never seen you."

"Brother, why waste your words with him? How high can a young man’s cultivation be? I think he is nothing but the direct descendant of a tribe around here, who came to Xuanling City for training. He is not restrained in his spending, ordering the most expensive medical meals in the food pavilion, and only ate a few bites before leaving it untouched."

"Let’s stick to the rules. Rob all his elemental stones and sell him to the Yuanling Temple as a mining slave. Once you enter the mine, you will never get out for the rest of your life. Even if his tribespeople come to find him, it will do no good."

It turns out they were engaging in the act of killing for loot. As early as in the food pavilion, Xiao Chen had noticed that several men were sitting next to him. They appeared here clearly because they were tempted by wealth and had bad intentions when they saw Xiao Chen paying several mid-grade elemental stones.

However, these few men were only warriors of the Blood Refining Realm. They could not sense Xiao Chen’s strength at all. Therefore, they had the idea of killing him for his loot. However, Xiao Chen did not expect that they were also involved in the slave trade.

"Tell me, how long have you been doing this?"

Xiao Chen’s expression was calm, an invisible fluctuation spread at his brow, his majestic spirit immediately rushed into the depths of their spirits, scattering their wills. His voice thundered like a big bell, striking their hearts.

"Five years, capturing some new warriors who come to Xuanling City and selling them as mining slaves to Yuanling Temple. For each slave, we can get a hundred lower-grade elemental stones."

When Xiao Chen reappeared on the Qing Stone street corner, no one behind him was left. The only thing left was several pile of black ashes.