Chapter 1085: I Want to Crowdfund

The demon race's demon emperors were furious at the ancient tribe, gnashing their teeth, but the ancient tribe refused, and there was nothing the demon race could do.

After all, strength-wise, the present demon race is far weaker than the ancient tribe; they won't agree, so how could you force them?

His eyes brimming with killing intent, one demon emperor snarled.

"Hmph, even without an ancient tribe, we can still wipe out the human race."

"We must not miss this opportunity."

After battling the human race for so long, this is the best opportunity the demon race has ever seen.

Although developments have deviated from the plan, the human race's luck golden dragon and ancestral land have indeed been taken by them—this is the proof.

But the demon race's thinking is really just self-deception.

Having seized the human race's luck power and ancestral land, what of it? Has the human race suffered a loss?

Currently, the human race's luck power has not diminished—it has actually increased compared to before.

As for the ancestral land, have you taken it? It's just a couple of small cats—if the human race really wanted to take it back, they would have succeeded long ago.

They have no desire to fight at all; free from the ancestral land's restraints, the human race can pull off all sorts of sneaky tricks—no need to hold back.

So, what the demon emperors imagine is entirely nonexistent.

But regardless, the ancient tribe's withdrawal has also cast a shadow over the alliance of the five great hegemonic clans.

Although the other four hegemonic lords are still searching for the human race's whereabouts, it's clear everyone has become far more cautious.

At the very least, the great emperor ancestors can no longer mount a full-scale sortie; even if they locate the human race, each clan's great emperor ancestors must leave a contingent to guard home.

Nobody wants to end up like the ancient tribe.

Even the demon race is the same: despite having only five demon emperors, plus the three elders of the external Qingtian Holy Land, there are eight great emperors in total.

But they will still keep a contingent stationed at the ancestral land to guard against a human surprise attack.

As for the other four tribes, the ancient tribe neither knows nor cares; right now, the only thing the ancient tribe cares about is luck power.

We must quickly come up with a way to get some luck power.

But where to obtain it is the problem.

As for the other four hegemonic clans, leaving aside whether they are opponents, everyone is currently in an alliance, so the ancient tribe cannot readily act either.

Even some subsidiary tribes are difficult for the ancient tribe to handle.

After all, although the ancient tribe has temporarily halted the search, they know that to counter the human race now, they can only band together.

After much deliberation, the ancient tribe's great emperors finally devised a plan.

That same day, they summoned the elders of all the subsidiary tribes.

In the main hall, the elders of the various major subsidiary tribes under the ancient tribe assembled—of course, all as mere projections.

With all the elders assembled, the leading ancient tribe elders spoke with grim faces.

"The human race is despicable; they have twice sneakily attacked our ancestral land—truly deserving of death ten thousand times over, utterly hateful."

He launched straight into a furious, hate-filled tirade, but the subsidiary tribe elders gave no response.

Summoning them like this is certainly no good thing; the elders had already suspected as much.

We just don't know what the ancient tribe intends to do; surely they aren't after luck power, are they?

"You're the upper tribe, yet we follow you and haven't even tasted a drop of soup, and now you demand we contribute luck power—this is excessive."

"A subsidiary tribe exists to seek protection; I follow you, but you must also let me see some benefit."

But now we have seen no benefit whatsoever, and you ancient tribe have been reduced to this state by them; if you again eye our luck power, I expect many subsidiary tribes will refuse.

Luck power is also important to them, right?

No one answered; at this point, the subsidiary tribe elders were unwilling to be the one to speak up.

Seeing this, the ancient tribe's elders didn't mind; perhaps they had already anticipated this.

After the tirade, the leading ancient tribe elder spoke in a deep voice.

"This grudge, my ancient tribe will surely avenge; but before we take revenge, I wish to discuss a matter with you all."

Here.............

Without waiting for the subsidiary tribe elders to reply, this ancient tribe elder went on.

"You all know our situation; we cannot lack luck power, so today my ancient tribe wishes to borrow some luck power from you to deal with the present situation."

Borrow???

Hearing this, the subsidiary tribe elders were dumbfounded—what sheer cheek it takes to say such a thing!

Your loan—when will there be a chance to repay?

I never expected the ancient tribe elder could say such a thing; what's more, what followed showed the elders just how shameless the ancient tribe is.

Then this ancient tribe elder continued.

"Of course, it's not a free loan; my ancient tribe can issue an IOU, charge interest, and after we destroy the human race and retrieve the luck power, we will repay you double."

Huh???

The subsidiary tribe elders were ready to kill—do you think this is a game?

Besides, the ancient tribe has no IOU tradition; this is just what the human race does.

And you still write IOUs—how did you think of that?

The ancient tribe indeed has no IOU practice; even among humans, it's mostly a secular custom.

After all, to cultivators, so-called IOUs are just nonsense, worthless.

I've heard that in human secular society, IOUs are used to borrow money, goods, and even among cultivators a few use them to borrow spirit stones, treasures, and so on.

But using an IOU to borrow luck power—this is truly the first time I've heard of such a thing.

Moreover, as the upper tribe, you've given us subsidiary tribes no benefit at all, and now you want to oversee our borrowing of luck power—this is outrageous.

The ancient tribe also has no recourse; after all, there's nowhere left to obtain luck power—it's simply unobtainable.

After thinking it over, we could only use the Human Race's methods.

Seeing the ancestors of the various sub-tribes stay silent, the faces of the ancient tribe's ancestors also sank, and they asked in a low voice.

"How come, you're not willing?"

"You can't borrow it, so you're preparing to seize it instead?" Upon hearing this, the faces of the various sub-tribes' ancestors darkened.

To be frank, the Upper Tribe borrowing Luck Power from the Sub Tribe is outright absurd.

If that's the case, can your Upper Tribe still function? If not, who would willingly become your Sub Tribe?

So, at this moment, the ancestors of the various sub-tribes are filled with complex feelings, all doubting whether the Ancient Tribe can still function.

But for now, judging by the Ancient Tribe's attitude, if we don't shed some blood today, they'll find it hard to explain.

Immediately, one of the ancestors spoke up first.

"Since the Upper Tribe has issued an order, we naturally comply; the Charm Tribe is willing to contribute one-third of its Luck Power to help the Upper Tribe overcome this crisis."