Chapter 42

Yi Tian had not traveled far from the Fulong Mountain Range when he saw Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and others waiting anxiously for him.

When they saw Yi Tian return safely, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

After the Reincarnation Team gathered, the group quickly returned to the tribe.

At this moment, the entire tribe was filled with a tense and busy atmosphere. All the warriors no longer went out, and at the same time, a large amount of supplies were taken out from the tribe.

Fine steel arrows were piled up like mountains, covering the entire square of the ancestral temple, numbering at least tens of millions.

These tens of millions of fine steel arrows were so prominent that they resembled a mountain of iron, with the cold gleam of metal shining in all directions, captivating and shocking everyone in the tribe.

When Yi Tian and the others returned and saw this mountain of arrows, they were also somewhat stunned.

Tens of millions of arrows were a huge number, enough to sustain the tribe for decades.

Yi Shan, Yi Feng, and the others were already stunned.

At one time, their entire fortune could only buy dozens of fine steel arrows, and each arrow was considered a treasure, not to be used casually. But before their eyes, the mountain of fine steel arrows left them momentarily dazed, unable to recover for a short time.

Even Yi Kuang and Yi Hong, the two tribal leaders or the descendants of the great leaders, were also startled by the tens of millions of arrows.

Wasn't it just to deal with the impending beast tide? This was too exaggerated. Tens of millions of arrows were probably enough to empty the entire Black Dragon City's stock of fine steel arrows.

Even the taciturn Yi Li couldn't help but exclaim, "This is too grand."

Despite the great surprise of the tribe, the tribal leaders did not take it lightly.

They were well aware of the terror of the beast tide. Some of the tribe's ancestors had recorded their fear of the beast tide. The Yi clan had once been glorious, but over the long years, they had nearly been destroyed by the beast tide several times.

The strong of the Yi clan had fallen in the beast tide, and the lineage had been lost. The current Yi clan was merely the descendants of those who survived, gradually becoming weak and declining.

Of course, a regular beast tide would not lead to the decline of the Yi clan.

It should be known that every few thousand to ten thousand years, the Fulong Mountain Range, which stretches for millions of miles, would erupt with an endless beast tide. Countless ferocious beasts would surge from the depths of the Fulong Mountain Range, covering the earth in blood and corpses.

Whenever the beast tide erupted, many sects would be destroyed.

This time, the beast tide was happening again.

Even if it was a small beast tide, it was still a major crisis for the Yi clan tribe.

At the same time, the tribal leader and several elders discussed that if it came to a matter of life and death, they would move the entire tribe into the underground space of the tribe, which was their last refuge.

This underground space was created by the ancestors of the Yi clan thousands of years ago. At that time, the Yi clan even had a ground-level expert who had created an underground space over a hundred meters below the ground, capable of accommodating tens of thousands of people.

This underground space was the biggest secret of the Yi clan tribe, known only to the elders.

The return of the Reincarnation Team made the tribal leader and the elders feel relieved.

They were the last of the teams to return.

After returning to the tribe, Yi Tian disbanded the Reincarnation Team and let them return to their respective training.

When Yi Tian returned home, his mother Su Yue'e, Yi Xiaolong, and Yi Xiaoting were all very happy to see him. His mother even went into the kitchen to start cooking.

Yi Tian took out pieces of ferocious beast meat from his storage bag and handed them to his mother to prepare.

Then, he started to play and laugh with Xiaolong and Xiaoting.

Xiaohei had been eagerly waiting. For a whole month, it had not absorbed a single essence stone, which was a great torment for it. Seeing Yi Tian return, it immediately rushed over.

There were only a few days left until the next collection of essence stones from the tribe, so Yi Tian generously gave the remaining three hundred plus essence stones to Xiaohei.

He knew that Xiaohei had an extraordinary origin and would achieve great things in the future.

Yi Tian was very willing to cultivate Xiaohei into a true three-headed demon dog. This way, with Xiaohei guarding the home, his family would be the safest.

In the following days, Yi Tian gave the remaining essence stones and the hundreds of refined essence pills he had obtained over the past month to the Star Mud clone to absorb. However, this massive amount of energy did not cause the Star Mud clone to evolve into a red state.

The Star Mud clone, which had been reduced to its original form, found it very difficult to deduce the subsequent cultivation path of the Pure Yang Technique.

In the past, the red Star Mud clone would open a new meridian path every few days when deducing the meridian paths of the Pure Yang Technique. However, in recent days, the deduction effect was very poor, with repeated errors and mistakes, causing the clone to suffer from a mental breakdown, making almost no progress, and the efficiency was greatly reduced.

The Pure Yang Technique, which had been improved and deduced by Yi Tian, was already a mid-grade ground-level technique, containing many profound mysteries. To continue deducing it, the current white starlight state of the Star Mud was simply unable to bear it.

On the fifth day after the Reincarnation Team returned, Yi Tian went to the ancestral temple and received one thousand mid-grade essence stones and 280,000 low-grade essence stones from the tribal leader.

The one thousand mid-grade essence stones were a pleasant surprise.

From the conversation with the tribal leader, Yi Tian learned that the essence vein mine the tribe had been mining had already reached over a hundred miles deep, reaching the area where mid-grade essence stones were found.

One mid-grade essence stone was worth one hundred low-grade essence stones, so the one thousand mid-grade essence stones were equivalent to 100,000 low-grade essence stones.

These hundreds of thousands of low-grade essence stones were equivalent to 20% of the tribe's monthly mining output. Yi Tian could receive more than half of it, which was enough to advance the Star Mud to the red state and provide food for Xiaohei.

Of course, compared to the large essence vein mine, these essence stones were just a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, the tribal leader and the elders had no objections to allocating 20% of the essence stones to Yi Tian and the others.

Especially the members of the Reincarnation Team, Yi Tian had great potential and was worth the tribe's full cultivation. Yi Kuang and Yi Hong were also high-ranking descendants of the tribe, and Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and Yi Li also had great potential and would grow to become the pillars of the tribe in the future.

Moreover, the tribe had mined a large number of essence stones in recent days, at least several million, all stored in the underground space. Even if they gradually increased the supply of essence stones to the tribal warriors, they still couldn't spend much, which was a happy problem.

While the Yi clan tribe was preparing for the beast tide, the ferocious beasts that frequently appeared on the outskirts of the Fulong Mountain Range caused heavy losses to the hunting and adventuring teams entering the mountains. This abnormality also caused tension among the nearby tribes.

The news of the impending beast tide also spread back to Black Dragon City.

All the major and minor forces sent people to investigate the situation while preparing, buying large amounts of supplies, and increasing the vigilance of their guards and warriors.

The news of the beast tide swept across the land.

As a result, many people from villages and estates flooded into Black Dragon City.

Only the towering city walls and the hundreds of thousands of warriors in Black Dragon City could withstand the impact of the beast tide.

At the city gates of Black Dragon City, long lines of people waited to enter the city, many of them bringing their families, and many holding weapons, clearly accomplished warriors.

However, although Black Dragon City was large, it could not accommodate too many people. Black Dragon City began to restrict the entry of people, allowing only warriors or those with substantial wealth to enter.

Of course, many people did not flood into Black Dragon City. They fortified their castles, estates, and villages, digging various trenches, traps, and setting up numerous defenses, turning their places into impregnable fortresses.

Some even hid in underground tunnels and caves.

The entire area around Black Dragon City was filled with tension and fear.

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