When Chen Xuan told Dugu Rou that he wanted to capture these savages from the tribe, the latter looked enlightened.
"I knew you were full of bad ideas."
After all, he had followed Chen Xuan for so long, and they both knew what kind of person he was.
"This isn't called having a belly full of bad intentions; it's called eliminating a scourge for the people. After all, these savage tribes here take pleasure in capturing us and treat us, who participate in the Emperor's Road, as prey. Why can't we take them as prey?"
Chen Xuan smiled and shook his head. "Besides, the red spider lily is a good thing. The more of it the better. It won't hurt to collect more."
Next, Chen Xuan and his group swam deeper into the area while searching for members of the tribal alliance.
As Chen Xuan went deeper, the water became clearer and clearer, which made him gradually realize something.
The so-called Yellow Springs is the fluid that turns into corpse water after a person's body decomposes; this legend is probably false.
Moreover, the reason why the outer Yellow Springs have yellow water while the inner ones have clear water is probably not so simple.
On his way to the Eye of the Underworld, Chen Xuan saw several times that the spider lilies were growing on some strange rocks.
Whenever he went to pick them, someone would ambush him.
It seems that using spider lilies as bait for fishing is something that the entire tribal alliance does.
However, having learned from the first mistake, these people naturally failed to ambush Chen Xuan on subsequent occasions.
Chen Xuan turned the tables and beat up the tribal savages who were fishing and baiting the pond, and even stole the spider lilies from their bodies.
Afterwards, following the principle of learning from the barbarians' superior techniques to subdue them, Chen Xuan also learned to use the red spider lily to fish and create bait.
Within ten days, Chen Xuan caught six tribes of savages.
In the end, he collected hundreds of spider lilies.
"In our Yin-Yang realm, there are only thirteen other shore flowers in an era. Once such a treasure appears, it will be snatched away immediately."
"Unbelievable! Here in Dilu, these treasures are as worthless as cabbages. In just ten days, we've obtained so many."
Dugu Rou held three spider lilies in her left hand and three more in her right. Her hair was styled in a bun, with the roots of the spider lilies used as a hairpin. She made herself look like a flower fairy.
"The Yellow Springs flow into all the heavens and myriad realms, and each realm obtains one Red Spider Lily every hundred million years. That is to say, tens of thousands of Red Spider Lilies will flow out from the source every hundred million years, indicating that there are quite a few Red Spider Lilies here."
"We've only obtained a few hundred flowers so far, there's still a lot of room for us to get more, we can take it slow."
"Of course, the premise that we can obtain so many spider lilies is that we are strong enough. Anyway, there are still seventy-one days until the end of the third trial. We will search for the spring while robbing it."
Chen Xuan was in a great mood; he discovered that this Imperial Road was practically a treasure trove.
Aside from not getting any substantial treasures in the first level, he gained a lot in the second and third levels.
Because of his extraordinary personal strength, the treasures here were practically his backyard; he would snatch them as he walked.
Forty-one days have passed in the blink of an eye.
Fifty-one days have passed since Chen Xuan and his group entered the third level.
There are only 30 days left until the end of the 81-day period.
During this time, he used spider lilies to fish and bait the area, and he also robbed savages from the tribal alliance whenever he encountered them.
In the end, they stole nearly three hundred tribes' worth of spider lilies, totaling more than two thousand flowers.
Millions of miles away from the source of the Yellow Springs, in a vast ancient city.
In the very center of this ancient city grows a towering tree, its branches and leaves so lush that they cover the entire city.
If Chen Xuan were here, he would be able to tell at a glance that this towering tree is the World Tree!
Buzz!
A teleportation array lit up in the ancient city, and a group of people emerged from it in a disheveled state.
"Another group of people has been teleported back."
"What's going on? Including this batch, more than three hundred groups of people who went to the source of the holy spring have already returned."
"Weren't the elders of the various tribes supposed to send them out to hunt the outsiders? How come they didn't bring back a single prey?"
Outside the teleportation array, people wrapped in animal skins came and went one after another.
They watched as wave after wave of tribal hunters slunk back, each with a strange expression on their face.
"It seems you don't know the situation yet. It's said that there's a pair of ruthless bandits, a man and a woman, at the source of the Holy Spring!"
Someone began to whisper.
"A pair of notorious bandits? What the hell?"
“I’m telling you this, but you mustn’t go around telling anyone. My brother is the page of an elder in the tribal alliance. He’s always been by the elder’s side, so he’s very knowledgeable. He’s the one who told me this.”
"It is said that the hunters returned in disgrace because they all encountered two outsiders, a man and a woman, who were treacherous and cunning."
"They not only used the red spider lily as bait to lure our tribal alliance hunters, but they also searched for our tribal alliance hunters all the way, robbing each group they found."
"In just fifty days, more than three hundred teams have been robbed. Some teams were particularly badly robbed, as the first time, all the spider lilies they had were stolen. When the two ruthless bandits saw that they couldn't steal anything, they beat them up, leaving them all bruised and battered."
"Damn it, is that even true? This is utterly outrageous!"
"For a long time, it has been us, the members of the tribal alliance, who have been hunting these outsiders. This time, how dare these outsiders bully the members of our tribal alliance? This is our territory!"
"Speaking of which, shouldn't the bows and arrows made from the branches of the divine tree easily pierce through the bodies of these outsiders and prevent their wounds from healing? With bows and arrows made from the divine tree in hand, why were they still bullied by that pair of fierce bandits?"
"It seems you're unaware of the situation. Those two bandits are far too strong; arrows can't hit them at all, and they don't seem to be afraid of arrows."
"Is that so? What did the elders say?"
"I don't know about that. After all, my brother is just a page. Apart from being able to hear some news when serving tea and water, my brother is not allowed to get close at other times."
"However, it is said that the tribal alliance elders' council is in an uproar."
Beneath the World Tree, inside an ancient house built from enormous tree branches, the elders of over a thousand tribes were in complete chaos!
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