Upon hearing the report from the Red Jade Boy, Hu Le temporarily stopped channeling the earth's spiritual energy and ordered someone to come in and meet him.
Before long, the Red Jade Boy led a burly human man into the hall, where he kowtowed to Hu Le on the cloud bed.
"Elder Su Yang of Yanhuang greets the clan leader."
Hu Le glanced at Su Yang and felt a sense of感慨 in his heart. He had never seen this elder named Su Yang before, and he was obviously a newly appointed elder in recent years.
But it makes sense, since most of the elders and priests of the Yanhuang tribe are great shamans, and those who practice shamanism rarely live past 100,000 years unless they cultivate into ancestral shamans.
It's likely that the elders and priests of the Yanhuang tribe have been replaced over the years.
As he pondered this, he silently deduced the secrets of heaven and found that, just as he had thought, the three people he knew before, such as High Priest You Fang, Bai Shan Hei Shui, and others, had died long ago.
It's unclear whether they perished because their lifespan had ended or because they failed in their attempt to become ancestral witches and suffered a backlash. In any case, their true spirits had already fallen into the Netherworld.
The man in front of them, named Su Yang, was one of the elders recently promoted by the Treasure Offering Heavenly Lord.
"Alright, get up." Hu Le said calmly.
"Yes." Su Yang bowed before standing up.
"Why are you here with me instead of assisting the deputy clan leader in handling affairs in your own clan?" Hu Le asked.
The deputy clan leader he mentioned was none other than the Treasure-Offering Heavenly Lord.
This position of deputy clan chief was personally appointed by Hu Le many years ago in front of all the elders and priests of the Yanhuang tribe.
After all, for many years, as the clan leader, he had devoted himself to cultivation and rarely cared about the affairs of the human race, so he could only entrust all matters to the Treasure Offering Heavenly Lord.
However, as the saying goes, if the name is not correct, the words will not be proper. Since the Yanhuang tribe has been handed over to the Treasure-Preserving Heavenly Lord, allowing him to exercise the rights of the tribal chief on his behalf, it is only natural that he should be given a certain title.
So he devised a new plan and established the position of deputy chief in the tribe. When he was not in the tribe, the deputy chief could handle the tribe's affairs on his behalf...
Upon hearing Hu Le's inquiry, Su Yang hurriedly bowed and said, "Reporting to the clan leader, the deputy clan leader is currently trapped in Tianwu Mountain. I had no choice but to come and ask the clan leader to come and rescue him."
"Um?"
Upon hearing this, Hu Le frowned, and after some calculations, he discovered that the fortune of the Treasure Offering Heavenly Lord was indeed at a low point. He then cast another divination, which also revealed the omen of a trapped ox.
“Tell me in detail why he was trapped there!” Hu Le asked again.
“Yes…” Su Yang naturally dared not hide anything and quickly recounted the whole story.
It turns out that things weren't actually that complicated.
For over 100,000 years, although Hu Le was not in charge of the tribe, the Yanhuang tribe continued to develop vigorously under the leadership of the Treasure-Offering Heavenly Lord.
However, as the human population continues to grow, the tribe's living space naturally needs to expand outwards.
However, things became complicated as the territory expanded.
If they encounter unclaimed land, it's fine; they can simply occupy it and expand it. But if they encounter land that is already inhabited, it will naturally lead to some conflicts.
After all, the primordial world was not entirely the domain of humans; other races also lived in various places.
During the expansion, they encountered some smaller tribes, but they were afraid of the human race's strength and mostly chose to relocate.
Anyway, there are plenty of empty and desolate places on the prehistoric continent. They can find another unclaimed place and continue to reproduce and survive.
Even if some stubborn ones wanted to stay and refuse to leave, or even try to challenge the Yanhuang tribe, the consequences were predictable: at best they would be expelled from their homeland, and at worst their entire tribe would be wiped out.
The history of the human race's development and growth has never been smooth sailing; on the contrary, it has always been accompanied by countless hardships and tears, some of which belong to the human race itself, but even more so to other races.
Since Hu Le became the clan chief and the Yanhuang tribe changed its name, over the years, the number of other races wiped out by the Yanhuang tribe has been at least eight hundred to a thousand...
Not long ago, the Yanhuang tribe expanded beyond Tianwu Mountain.
This place is a fertile land, rich in soil and abundant in water and grass, perfect for humans to live and multiply.
Unfortunately, this place, though beautiful, already has an owner.
The inhabitants of this place are called the Bear People, whose creatures all have bear heads and human bodies. They are born to hunt and are extremely fierce, regardless of age or gender.
If humans want to live here, it would be tantamount to encroaching on the territory of the bear-people, so naturally they would need to compete with the bear-people for supremacy.
Although the number of bear-men is less than one-tenth of that of the Yanhuang tribe, every member of the tribe is extremely fierce, and there are many experts among the tribe leaders, priests and elders.
The clan leader, Xiong Ba, had once studied under a demon clan member named Qin Yuan, learning the demon clan's Qi cultivation techniques and developing powerful supernatural abilities.
After the two sides clashed, the vanguard of the human race was no match for the bear-men. Under the leadership of Xiong Ba, they inflicted a crushing defeat on the human race.
Later, the human race was unwilling to accept defeat and sent many skilled sorcerers, but they were still no match for them and retreated again.
Left with no other choice, the Heavenly Lord of Treasures had to personally lead a large army to conquer the enemy.
Xiong Ba set up a Heavenly Blazing Fire Formation at the foot of Tianwu Mountain and waited for the enemy to arrive.
When the Heavenly Lord of Treasures led a group of elders to break the formation, he was unaware of the formation's intricacies and became trapped inside, unable to escape. For the time being, he could only use his protective spiritual treasures to resist the burning of the Heavenly Flames, and the situation was already extremely precarious.
Left with no other choice, Su Yang had to come to Penglai Island for help...
Since it concerned the life and death of the Treasure Offering Heavenly Lord and the others, Hu Le naturally would not sit idly by. He ordered Su Yang to wait in the hall while he went to the back hall to retrieve the spiritual treasure before leaving Penglai Immortal Island with Su Yang.
After leaving the island, Hu Le found the speed of riding the clouds too slow, so he put Su Yang into his sleeve and used a spatial teleportation technique. His figure kept flashing in the clouds, and in a few breaths he left the East Sea and arrived in the inland wilderness.
After calculating the location, he used his escape technique again and quickly headed towards Tianwu Mountain.
On this day, he finally arrived outside Tianwu Mountain. Standing in the clouds and looking down, he saw a formation standing prominently on the southern slope of Tianwu Mountain.
This formation covers an area of approximately a thousand miles in circumference, and from a distance, one can see a crimson flame rising within it.
Fiery clouds filled the sky above the formation, and malevolent energy swept across the heavens and earth, turning the surrounding mountains and rivers into scorched earth.
Hu Le landed on a hilltop, released Su Yang, and asked, "Are the deputy clan leader and the others trapped in this formation?"
Su Yang nodded in agreement.
“That’s good. You wait here, I’ll be right back.”
Hu Le, carrying a bamboo staff, rode on auspicious clouds and flew towards the Heavenly Blazing Fire Formation.
"Chieftain, please don't act rashly. It would be better to consider this carefully!"
Seeing that Hu Le was about to charge into the formation to rescue people all by himself, Su Yang felt anxious and secretly blamed Hu Le for being too reckless...
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