Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 608 - 594: Shortage of Casting Material, Cultivating Spirit Rice!_1

Chapter 608: Chapter 594: Shortage of Casting Material, Cultivating Spirit Rice!_1

The Dragon Fall Territory is surrounded by the Dragon Fall Mountain Range and is habitually frequented by powerful beasts. As such, Xiao Chen wasn’t surprised to learn that a three-star beast had been spotted in the southern part of his territory. After dispatching Shi Ya and Xue Li, two Zhong Lou Realm Martial Artists, to investigate, he shifted his focus to other tribal matters.

"Reporting to the Clan Chief,"

Xiao Lin, the Master of the Divine Weapon Hall, got up from his seat, walked up to Xiao Chen, bowed and announced.

"What’s the matter with the Divine Weapon Hall?"

"During these days, our tribe has been heavily involved in earthworks and casting city fortresses and weapons. There has always been a large gap in our reserves of casting materials and spirit materials. In fact, ever since our Gu Yuan Tribe was established, the tribe has developed rapidly. Our tribe has emphasized the cultivation of its people, and a large number of warriors enter the Desolate Mountain Forest to hunt beasts and hone their battle methods. The amount of weapons and armor damaged every month is immense, and there is a constant shortage of various casting materials."

A tribe of one million people, along with the construction of defense works in void road and the ancient city, required astronomical amounts of various casting materials. Although in recent years, members of the Gu Yuan Tribe were constantly sent to search for mines in the vast territory, there was never a surplus. Xiao Chen was aware of this.

"Shortage of casting materials in the Divine Weapon Hall, what kind of strategies do the elders have?"

"Chief," the Third Elder stood up and said, "Now all the casting material mines in the tribe have been mined to their limits. The Gu Yuan Tribe, being a newly established tribe, needs a large amount of casting materials in many aspects. For the moment, it is hard to satisfy the consumption of the tribe."

"The tribe’s Treasure Gathering Pavilion in Giant Stone Valley, under the control of Elder Hua, has already received an imperial command to massively purchase high-quality casting materials, even spirit materials. We have also commanded all large vassal tribes to tribute large amounts of casting materials. However, most of the casting materials tributed by the vassal tribes are of middle and lower quality, which are not very useful to the tribe."

"Each of the tribe’s five Ten Thousand War Masters enter Deep Desolate Ancient Forest for training and hunting at least three times a month. The consumption of the weapons and armor of these thirty thousand war soldiers, along with the loss of the tribe’s numerous warriors, is an astronomical figure."

After a moment of contemplation, Xiao Chen made a decision. "The weapons and armor of the tribe’s five Ten Thousand War Masters must not be in short supply. They rotate into the Desolate Ancient Forest for training, providing the tribe with Blood Food. For a war soldier, a good battle armor and weapon could save his life, and we can’t skimp on this."

"In this case, pause the construction of the defense works of the ancient city in the Void Path and the several defense cities. Also, the War Masters who enter the Desolate Ancient Forest to hunt for Blood Food pay attention to whether there are mine veins in the depths of the Mountain Range."

Plans fall behind changes. The Gu Yuan Tribe has only been established for a few years and there still are some differences in comparison with those old tribes who have existed for thousands of years. All kinds of tribal affairs have formed a pattern, and the resources and labor needed to set up a tribe from nothing are absolutely astronomical.

There is no tribe that can succeed in one step. Even though it only took the Gu Yuan Tribe several years to go through hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation by other tribes, there are still hidden worries that are inevitable.

"Third Elder, Commander Ding Shan, you two, one is in charge of tribal internal affairs, and the other is in charge of the tribal War Masters. Pay attention to let the common warriors and war soldiers in the tribe excavate new mining veins more."

" Yes!"

"What else needs to be discussed?"

"Chief," Ding Shan did not return to his seat, but spoke again.

"The tribal War Masters rotate to hunt for Blood Food in the deep part of the Dragon Fall Mountain Range to the west of the tribe. After these several years of conquest, the territory of the Dragon Fall Mountain Range to the west that extends deep into 50,000 li has been thoroughly explored by the tribal War Masters. Several dangerous areas have also been found, but the War Masters did not risk entering them."

In the equivalent of 50,000 li, which is the outer part of the Dragon Fall Mountain Range, the beasts encountered were enough to annihilate all the tribal War Masters. Therefore, over the past few years, Xiao Chen has strictly ordered the War Masters not to enter the Desolate Ancient Forest beyond 50,000 li.

"The Desolate Ancient Forest is rich in resources and contains numerous spirit medicines and spirit fruits. Therefore, I ask the Chief to let the War Masters build some defense works in the depths of the Ancient Forest. This will make it easier for the tribe to gather resources."

"Also, in the Desolate Mountain Forest within 50,000 li, there are many three-star beasts. I ask the Chief to send the elders above the Zhong Lou Realm in the tribe to sit in the War Masters and resist the three-star beasts in the Desolate Mountain Forest."

Hearing this, Xiao Chen looked around. In the Great Hall, except for three Great Elders who were still in Blood Refining Realm Perfection, the rest had all been promoted to Towering Realm Martial Experts.

There were nearly twenty in total, enough to compare with any traditional War Division. Among them, Mu Qing, Shi Ya, and Xue Sha had the highest realm, reaching the realm of the Fourth Heaven in Zhong Lou Realm. Just after them were Ding Shan and Qiu Hu, the eldest of the five Qiu brothers, both with the cultivation of the early stage of the Third Heaven in the Zhong Lou Realm.

The remaining four brothers of the Qiu family, along with Xiao Bangtu, Mu Wu Ya, Nianhua, and others, are at the second-stage of the Towering Realm. As for the likes such as Xue Li, Xiao Lin and others, they have only recently ascended to the Towering Realm and are at the early stage of it, even working on solidifying their realms.

The advancement of so many warriors to the Towering Realm was thanks to Xiao Chen’s inexhaustible resources consumption. After all, cultivating spirit medicinal plants in the Mountain and River Seal World is like having a production base, continuously developing high-level spirit medicine, benefitting the warriors of the tribe.

"Alright, the deeper areas of Desolate Ancient Forest are full of evil beasts. It is not excessive for the tribe to send out Tower Realm warriors to preside over the war masters," Xiao Chen nodded and said in agreement to Ding Shan’s words.

"Qiu Hu, you and your four brothers preside over the tribal war masters, resisting the beasts from the deep parts of the Desolate Ancient Forest." Xiao Chen paused briefly then changed his tone, continuing, "The five supreme elders are only responsible for cooperating with the Five War Masters and a ten-thousand men leader in resisting the beasts, not getting involved in the conquest of the war master."

"Yes!"

Qiu family’s five brothers, Ding Shan, Xiao Bangtu, Mu Wu Ya, Meng Yue, and several other Ten-Thousand Men Leaders immediately stood up in agreement.

"Everyone, although our Gu Yuan Tribe has millions of tribespeople, our tribal mountain city occupies a hundred miles. Large amounts of the city’s territory remain vacant. Elder San has ordered the tribespeople to cultivate some gentle, power-rich lands to serve as a Spiritual Farm," Xiao Chen continued, staring at the confused expressions of those in the hall.

"The development of a tribe requires not just peak experts, but also blood food supply, war masters, craftsmen, alchemists, spirit plant masters, formation masters, mining masters, spiritual vein masters, and so on. Our Gu Yuan Tribe elevated from a low-ranking war division to a top-tier war division, comparable to hastily forcing a shoot to grow. This is due to the support from the elite among the tribe, lacking too much accumulation,"

"All of these need our Gu Yuan Tribe to develop from nothing, to slowly improve and accumulate. Currently, our Gu Yuan Tribe has fifty thousand war masters, almost every day they fight in the depths of the Desolate Mountain Forest, honing their battle methods. Craftsmen have established the Divine Weapon Hall to forge weapons for the tribal warriors. The Alchemists have the Hundred Herbs Hall, have trained several alchemists, supplying the elixir needed by the clan’s warriors for cultivation."

"However, these are still far from enough. Formation Method is very illusory and rare in the entire Border Wilderness Domain. Not to mention Spiritual Vein Masters and Mining Masters. These are hard to find. If our tribe had experts in such fields, we wouldn’t have a shortage of casting material veins. These areas all need our clan to gradually improve."

"Formation Teachers and Spiritual Vein Masters are too illusory for our Gu Yuan Tribe at present. We can only start from some aspects we can touch. This time, the Clan Leader went to the Border Wasteland Region and bought dozens of types of Spirit Rice, from ordinary to Heaven and Earth three-tier levels. There are also some Spiritual Roots and Spirit Fruits, ready to be cultivated in the tribe."

Spirit Rice! Spiritual Root!

Truth be told, Spirit Rice and Spiritual Roots are not strange to the people of Gu Yuan Tribe. However, high-level Spirit Rice is only heard of in rumors.

Never mind the effects of high-level Spirit Rice, the growth environment alone is extremely demanding. But now, Gu Yuan Tribe already qualifies to cultivate Spirit Rice.

"Elder Mu, Spirit Rice and Spiritual Roots can be regarded as no different from Spirit Medicine. The newly opened Spirit Rice fields in the tribe will be in charge of the Hundred Herbs Hall. Some tribe members will be selected to take care of it. If possible, they will be trained to be Spirit Plant Masters. In the future, they will specialize in cultivating Spirit Rice for the tribe."

"In this way, the Hundred Herbs Hall will contain both alchemists and spirit plant masters. As of today, it will be divided into two halls, responsible for alchemy and cultivation of Spirit Rice and Spirit Fruits respectively. Qing Er will be responsible for alchemy and the cultivation of Spirit Medicine, and Nianhua will be in charge of the cultivation of Spirit Rice and Spiritual Roots."

"Yes." Even though they were already married, in formal tribe events, Mu Qing and Nianhua still rightly follow the rules.

Both women were originally the chief and deputy hall masters of Hundred Herbs Hall, so this division did not cause any disagreement. As for the rest of the hall, no one dared to interrupt.

The Spirit Rice that Xiao Chen had bought on the Border Wasteland City was planted in the Mountain and River Seal World. But the absorption of the Origin of Secret Realms, advancing into the Mountain River Medicine Garden Cave Sky, brought another surprise to Xiao Chen.

With the increasing rank of Spirit Rice, the growth environment and growth cycle will gradually lengthen. However, the Mountain River Herb Garden will automatically generate the needed growth environment according to the growth requirements of each spirit plant, and also possesses the ability to accelerate growth.

In the past while, the Spirit Rice planted in the Cave Heaven Medicine Garden by Xiao Chen has matured three times as much as those of the terrestrial tier, except for the heavenly tier’s Green Jade Bodhi Rice, which has only matured once. Those normal spirit rice and those of the human tier, under the most suitable growth environment, have accelerated growth, having matured twenty to thirty times as much.

The mature Spirit Rice will naturally fall off and automatically grow again once they are buried in the Cave Heaven Medicine Garden. After twenty to thirty times of growth, these normal and human-tier Spirit Rice have sufficient quantity to serve as seeds.

PS: Opening my computer this morning, a pop-up asked whether to update the Windows 10 system. I unintentionally clicked on it and it updated the whole morning. I have just finished coding a Chapter.