Chapter 214: Expedition

Xu Chen being able to use the Feng clan's Divine Pattern Battle Technique naturally made the Feng clan people even more awestruck and submissive, completely regarding him as their own clansman or even the reincarnation of a true ancestor.

According to ancient legends, the Divine Pattern of each tribe is different because it comes from the blessing of different gods, and warriors between different tribes absolutely cannot learn or use each other's Divine Pattern Battle Techniques.

This is a bloodline inheritance, unrelated to aptitude; the battle technique of every tribe is unique.

However, Xu Chen knows clearly that his ability to use the Feng clan's Divine Pattern Battle Technique has nothing to do with bloodline; all the reasons are credited to the magical Blue Light Treasure Bottle.

Based on this, he feels that he should also be able to learn and use the Divine Pattern Battle Techniques of other tribes.

However, to continuously use Divine Pattern Battle Techniques, one must have a large supply of Divine Blood Paste to provide energy year-round; as the so-called Blood Poison accumulated in the body decreases, the power of the Divine Pattern Battle Technique weakens.

If one cannot obtain a supplement of Divine Blood Paste for a long time, the body will slowly degenerate, the Divine Pattern will slowly disappear, and eventually, it will hide within the flesh and blood, unable to be sensed.

Therefore, he also wants to get his hands on the technology for manufacturing the God Blood Pool before leaving Minghuang.

And the prerequisite for this is to first awaken the Old Witch Master.

Of course, other Nether Human Race tribes might also have some clues, but based on the current situation of the Feng clan and the descriptions they gave of other tribes, Xu Chen believes that it is highly probable that it will only be worse, not better.

It is better to sit in one house than to visit three.

With the relationship between the Feng clan and himself already so harmonious, he has no need to go to other tribes to start a new round of personality-charm conquest.

As long as the Old Witch Master wakes up, the Feng clan can be asked to help retrieve any resources from the remaining tribes; he does not need to risk his life running around everywhere.

For the sake of reviving the extremely dangerous Old Witch Master.

Aside from refining two more furnaces of Shenyang Huaming Pill for backup and continuing to break through Apertures to improve his cultivation, Xu Chen is also waiting for these Feng clan warriors who are waking up one after another to gradually recover their strength.

He does not dare to face the large amount of uncertain danger in the process of reviving the Old Witch Master alone, but needs these Feng clan warriors who have already birthed clan patterns and possess Divine Pattern Battle Techniques to help hold the line, doing his best to ensure complete protection so he does not lose his little life at the threshold of hope.

This day, after Xu Chen finished another round of cultivation, he heard the noise outside, so he walked out of the stone chamber and saw Feng Liu and several other warriors who had woken up early talking excitedly in the corridor.

Seeing Xu Chen come out, the group immediately swarmed up to surround him, shouting and transmitting their voices all at once.

It turned out that they were all recovering very well, and after being dormant for so long, they wanted to go out to relax.

Of course, as powerful warriors, relaxing naturally meant fighting.

They wanted to go and finish off that nest of flying lizard Nether Beasts nearby, which were the same big lizards Xu Chen encountered when he arrived.

As long as they occupied the flying lizard nest, they could completely solve the tribe's supply of Ghost Soul Water.

Although warriors who have birthed clan patterns and sensed Divine Patterns no longer need to worry about the harm of Blood Poison, for others, especially women, children, the old, and the weak, without enough Ghost Soul Water, the pressure on the survival and reproduction of the entire tribe remains huge.

Although Wangchuan Flower can temporarily solve this problem, the planting and cultivation of Wangchuan Flower is not simple, and it cannot last long.

After obtaining a strategic resource like a Ghost Soul Water spring, the Feng clan can truly be considered to have shaken off their predicament and have the foundation to grow strong again.

Additionally, the Feng clan and this group of flying lizard Nether Beasts can be said to be within arm's reach; if the Feng clan wants to expand their territory, the first priority is to resolve this threat.

Although Xu Chen is a bit worried about that Nether Beast among them that is estimated to have already reached the Fourth-Rank.

But he also wants to see exactly how strong these Feng clan people who have activated Divine Pattern Battle Techniques are.

Through recent exchanges of Divine Pattern Battle Techniques, he feels that it is completely possible to go and test them out; even if they are not a match, it definitely will not be by much.

At present, the Feng clan already has three warriors who have birthed Divine Pattern Battle Techniques; adding him, there are four.

In addition, many other warriors can also help deal with the remaining Second-Tier and Third-Tier flying lizards.

Seeing Xu Chen nod in agreement, the group of warriors cheered and crowded around Xu Chen to find the Elder and the Clan Leader.

The two old men now almost regard Xu Chen as the tribe's highest leader and backbone; seeing that Xu Chen also wants to try, they did not hesitate much and agreed.

Soon, after a round of enthusiastic sign-ups and selection, a battle team consisting of ten people was formed.

Everyone put on special tight-fitting leather clothes, looking tall and sturdy like giants.

In the team, aside from the three Divine Pattern warriors like Feng Liu, there were also three dormant ones who had birthed clan patterns but had not yet sensed the Divine Pattern; Feng Xing, Feng Zhao, Feng Yi, and Feng Feiyi were also among them.

Everyone sat on Xu Chen's Clam Shell Boat and set off; the old and young of the Feng clan stood at the cave entrance, watching the ghost-like Clam Shell Boat rise into the air and fly out of the valley, immediately erupting into a burst of enthusiastic cheers, as if seeing off warriors on an expedition, looking forward to their smooth return.

This is the first time Xu Chen has gone out since arriving at the Feng clan.

As soon as the Clam Shell Boat sailed out of the canyon, what appeared before his eyes was an icy wasteland filled with black fog.

Everywhere was pitch black; the sky, the ground, the mountain ridges, and the canyons were all deathly still, and not a trace of life could be felt.

This was completely a land of deathly silence.

But the Feng clan and the Nether Human Race are able to survive with difficulty in such a place; it must be said that it is a miracle.

And for Xu Chen to be able to encounter the Feng clan so quickly after falling into Minghuang is definitely a miracle for him as well.

Because according to the Feng clan people, Minghuang can be said to be vast and boundless; ever since it was polluted by Underworld Qi in the ancient times and then occupied by Nether Beasts, no one has known how big Minghuang actually is.

The territories of the various human tribes are also being compressed smaller and smaller, resources are becoming fewer and fewer, and the state of survival is continuously deteriorating.

However, fortunately, after a long period of survival and development, the human race has also begun to slowly get used to this harsh environment; even if the clan patterns disappear and the Divine Pattern Battle Techniques can no longer be used, they still survive by relying on their tenacious will.

No one knows how many human tribes are still underground in Minghuang.

But based on the situation of these tribes nearby, it definitely will not be very good.

There are many powerful Nether Beasts near the Feng clan, most of which, like the Demon Beasts of the mortal world, have their own territories.

The most terrifying thing is that Nether Beasts are mostly gregarious, and they seem to be able to multiply and grow through some method; as one grows and the other wanes, the survival territory of the human race is compressed smaller and smaller.

The nest of giant lizards they are going to deal with today is not particularly strong in the vicinity.

A generation ago, the Feng clan could still fight back and forth with these flying lizards, and snatching Ghost Soul Water was not a particularly difficult matter.

But until Feng Yi went dormant, there was almost no one in the Feng clan who could deal with this nest of Nether Beasts.

Coupled with the fact that one of the Nether Beasts in this nest recently advanced, it caused Feng Feiyi and the others to encounter a major setback when snatching Ghost Soul Water last time; although they successfully took some, they also lost two warriors, which was adding frost to snow for a tribe that was already in a precarious situation.

If it weren't for Xu Chen's sudden appearance last time, Feng Feiyi would likely not have been able to escape back.

A Nether Beast equivalent to the Danyuan Realm is almost invincible in the mortal world; it is estimated that only five True Monarchs acting together could kill it.

And the strength of this Nether Beast that has now advanced to the Fourth-Rank is something Xu Chen had already roughly tasted before; it is completely impossible to contend with.

However, the three Divine Pattern warriors, including Feng Liu, are full of confidence.

Before they went dormant, they could contend with Third-Tier Nether Beasts.

Now that they have birthed clan patterns and activated Divine Pattern Battle Techniques, in their view, a Fourth-Rank Nether Beast is not terrifying.

They were eager to slay a powerful Nether Beast to prove their own strength and the power of their divine patterns, thereby re-establishing their respective prestige within the tribe; furthermore, for the sake of the tribe's development, they also had to shoulder this arduous responsibility.

A warrior's mission is to fight.

A warrior without courage and confidence is absolutely unworthy of the status of a Feng Clan warrior, and even more so, unworthy of the clan pattern on their forehead that had not appeared for countless generations.

Xu Chen sat at the stern of the Clam Shell Boat, releasing his Yuan Qi to drive the Clam Shell Boat at full speed through the sky-filling Black Mist; along the way, one could almost only see a streak of black light skimming over the pitch-black mountain ridges and canyons.

About an hour later, prompted by several Feng Clan members, Xu Chen slowed down.

"Once we pass that large mountain ahead, we will enter the territory of the flying lizards," Feng Feiyi said via sound transmission while sitting beside Xu Chen.

Xu Chen's current Divine Sense range was approaching twenty li, but compared to Nether Human Race warriors like Feng Liu and others who had awakened their clan patterns, his search range was much smaller.

These people had incomparably powerful Souls and could almost see the situation over a hundred li away.

Ahead was a towering, pitch-black mountain; the naked eye could not distinguish anything at all, and one could only see a portion of it roughly through Divine Sense.

The Clam Shell Boat flew slowly toward the mountain, and under Feng Feiyi's guidance, Xu Chen found a canyon and plunged straight into it.

After flying along the winding and uneven canyon for nearly another two quarters of an hour, the area ahead suddenly opened up significantly, revealing a huge trumpet-shaped valley.

"Inside the valley is the flying lizard nest!" Feng Feiyi reminded him again.

Xu Chen withdrew his Yuan Qi, and the pitch-black Clam Shell Boat quickly came to a stop.

Feng Liu stood up, his face filled with excitement as he transmitted his voice: "The three of us will enter the nest to lure the strongest Nether Beast far away and kill it; you all are responsible for clearing out the other Nether Beasts, and Feng Feiyi is responsible for protecting our benefactor—there must not be any accidents."

The group nodded in unison and each took out their weapons from their blue Space Stones.

Most were Giant Fork-type Magic Treasures, and there were also weapons resembling Bone Clubs, while Feng Yi had a Giant Bow.

Legend has it that in the primordial era, there appeared a powerful human named Yi who could use a bow and arrow to shoot down the scorching sun in the sky.

Although the Nether Human Race had never seen the sun, moon, or stars, legends about ancient times still circulated.

Weapons like bows and arrows were rare in Minghuang, mainly because the materials for making them were very hard to find.

This Giant Bow of Feng Yi's was crafted from the tendons and bones he obtained after hunting a powerful Nether Beast himself; it was immensely powerful, and before the dormant period, he had used this Giant Bow to hunt countless Nether Beasts, and thus he was honored by the tribe as Yi to manifest his martial prowess and strength.

However, ever since seniors with greater strength like Feng Liu were awakened by Xu Chen using miraculous pills and had their clan patterns restored, his current strength was no longer considered significant in the tribe.

(End of this chapter)