Immortal Road.

"absorb."

Lin Shan played with the totem pole in his hand and carefully checked the other pieces of junk, but he couldn't find any ancient charm.

He turned around and looked at the old woman in the Foundation Establishment Stage from the Xiyu Tribe with a friendly face.

"I don't know yet, what is your name?"

"My Lord, my name is Man Ping, and I am the priest of the Xiyu Tribe."

"Well, don't be afraid. I'll ask you questions and you'll answer them. As long as I'm satisfied, I might as well let your tribe go."

"Yes, yes, just go ahead!"

This person was extremely cooperative, and the other people in the tribe also knelt down and dared not look up, obviously they were frightened.

Lin Shan dismissed his attendants and interrogated the man alone.

"Let me ask you, where do you plan to lead the tribe to flee? Is there any gathering place?"

"No, no! Our tribe plans to cross the mountains and hide behind Diantu Town to rebuild our camp."

"Humph! That's nonsense! This place is still two thousand miles away from Diantu Town. With your speed, how long will it take to get there?"

"We have to go through it even if we can't. Otherwise, it will be chaotic here. If we run into any trouble, it will be terrible."

As she said that, she glanced at Lin Shan, meaning simply that you are the trouble.

Lin Shan obviously didn't believe it and said with a sullen look.

"The Shiwan Mountains are full of poisonous miasma and swamp gas, not to mention all kinds of poisonous insects and ferocious beasts. With your limited strength, leading a large group of tribes to migrate long distances will be troublesome everywhere!"

"If my guess is correct, there must be a tribal gathering place ahead where you can gather together for warmth and obtain information."

"I'll give you one more chance. Tell the truth, or don't blame me for being ruthless!"

The old woman was obviously frightened!
Although Lin Shan looks young, he is definitely older than her and their experiences are incomparable.

After struggling for a while, he simply told the truth:
"Three hundred miles ahead, I have agreed to meet up with Xiyun and Ximu tribes at the river bank."

"very good."

Lin Shan immediately led his troops to capture the tribe and set off for the designated location three hundred miles away, and then hid there and waited for the opportunity.

There is a small river here, flowing out of the pool under the waterfall in front.

In less than a day.

Sure enough, two barbarian tribes arrived one after another!
"Man Ping, Man Ping, where are you?"

“I’m here.”

The old woman came out with a bitter look on her face, her back stretched out in the moonlight.

The leaders of both tribes sensed something was wrong and shouted at her to stop:
"Wait! Why are you alone? Where is your Xiyu tribe?"

"it's here."

A loud voice was heard from behind, and then a huge spiritual pressure filled the sky. Under the horrified gaze of everyone, dense ambushes rushed out from all around.

Lin Shan took control of the two small tribes without any effort.

These two families hated the Xiyu tribe so much that they actually sold them out in exchange for their lives.

"Man Ping! We trusted you so much. We have been friends for hundreds of years, and we have been neighbors for generations, yet you actually did something so treacherous!"

The old woman lowered her head in shame.

The two priests had no choice but to hand over their totem poles.

Lin Shan took it and looked at it, and it was just as he expected.

【Stream Cloud Totem】

Quality: Third-level spiritual material

Introduction: The totem pole of the Barbarian Xiyun Tribe is made from the essence of the leg bones of a cloud-patterned poisonous spider in the Foundation Establishment period. The totem can be activated through a special ritual spell.

(Immunity: The tribes painted with barbarian patterns enjoy poison resistance.)
Enhancement required: 32 points

Ancient Rhyme: 2 o'clock

Is it absorbed?

[Rivermeadow Totem]

Quality: Third-level spiritual material

Introduction: The totem pole of the Barbarian Creek Nomadic Tribe is made of the essence bones of diving sheep. The totem can be activated through special rituals.

(Bonus: The tribes painted with barbarian patterns enjoy the effect of underwater invisibility.)
Enhancement required: 32 points

Ancient Rhyme: 2 o'clock

Is it absorbed?

Lin Shan sucked it up decisively and was in a good mood.

Then he interrogated the two priests in a friendly manner:

"Where are you planning to lead the tribe to flee to? Is there any gathering place ahead?"

"No no."

"We plan to go behind Diantu Town."

Boom~
Lin Shan was furious!
"What nonsense! With your limited strength, you dare to bypass the main road and migrate a long distance with your family?"

"Sir, we have to go through even if we don't want to. It's a chaotic place. If we run into any trouble, it will be..."

Lin Shan inexplicably felt that this statement was somewhat familiar, but he didn't believe it at all and started to threaten directly.

"I don't believe it. There must be a gathering place ahead of you. Multiple tribes are banding together to tide over the difficulties! If you tell the truth, I can still let you go."

Lin Shan often mentions "letting the horses go".

Under the threat of death, the two priests had no choice but to reveal a new gathering place two hundred miles ahead.

Lin Shan followed the same method and forced the three tribes to come here early and wait.

As expected, three more tribes fell into the trap!

"Xiyun, Ximu, we trusted you so much, but you betrayed us."

The two priests lowered their heads, their faces filled with shame and they remained silent.

This time, he once again harvested three totem pillars and earned six points of ancient charm.

Having tasted the sweetness, Lin Shan continued to interrogate the new tribe and obtained information about other tribes.
The two thousand independent cultivators under his command looked at their new superior's outrageous actions in a daze. He started to trap one tribe after another, and in a short time, more and more tribes were captured!

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Can you do this?

Later, there were too many captured barbarians, so Lin Shan simply released some of them.

Anyway, they were all small tribes, extremely poor, and there was nothing worth caring about except the totem pole. His subordinates were a little reluctant to part with it, because it was also a military achievement!

If it can be pulled to the front line, perhaps it can be included in my account.

But Lin Shan didn't need to pay attention to their thoughts at all. How high and mighty were the Yuanying stage cultivators? To put it bluntly, the people below were cannon fodder. It was good enough that they were not sent to die!

When he interrogated the priests of these tribes about their knowledge of the Gu Witch Village and the rumors about the substitute Gu, these people looked at each other in confusion.

Because they are a barbarian tribe and have a sworn enemy relationship with the witch tribe. They have no contact with each other on a daily basis, so it is considered good if they don't fight!

Zhongli is under the jurisdiction of the barbarian royal court. Since the witch clan's holy land was replaced, the witch clan basically fled Zhongli and survived in other places.

There are quite a few Wu tribe villages left in Zhongli, but they are all empty shells. Many ruins have even been weathered over the long years, and no traces can be found.

Lin Shan sighed inwardly, no wonder there were fewer clues in Zhongli than in the northwest, it turned out that it was a vacuum period for the witch clan. Fortunately, he could harvest the ancient charm of the barbarians here, so it was not a wasted trip.

As for the Substitute Gu, they had all heard of this thing. It was indeed the Wu Clan's treasure and was widely circulated, but their small tribe could not know its whereabouts.

After delaying for half a month, they arrived at Diantu Town and found that the second pass had been captured and destroyed by the coalition forces, leaving only broken walls and ruins.

But he only recruited small tribes, and earned 46 points of ancient rhyme in total!
According to the monks who stayed behind, the three coalition forces had already pursued Chen Sheng, and once again divided their forces deep into the enemy's territory, chasing and killing them one after another, and finally converged at the third important town, Donghuang Town!

Beyond Donghuang Town, there is a flat land, and the Cangluan Royal Court will be defenseless in front of you!

"So fast???"

Lin Shan was a little surprised. It seemed that the time had come this time. The human race had once again invaded the hinterland. Was it going to make history?
He heard the remaining monks talking among themselves, and much of what they said was similar to what they said last time.

It was nothing more than why the defenders of the barbarian town of Dian Tu did not use totems. They were obviously one of the nine barbarian towns, but they were defeated so easily, which gave people a very strange feeling.

"No totem?"

Ever since he tasted the sweetness of success in the small tribe and discovered that their totem poles were similar to those in the fragments of the Xiaoyizhou world and both had ancient charm, Lin Shan suddenly realized that this was a treasure land!
If small tribes are like this, what about the big tribes?

The Black Lotus Cult has infiltrated this place, how could they not discover the secrets here?
His thoughts diverged in an instant, and he figured out the strange thing.

"Forget it. The Black Lotus Cult has been operating here for a while. I might as well gather the scattered small tribes first. After all, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. If gathered together, it will be quite considerable."

He adhered to the principle of seizing the present first, so as not to end up with nothing. Anyway, the three major alliances of the human race were advancing on the front line, and he could just lead his men to pick up the leaks from the back comfortably.

So, we crossed the Diantu Town.

Lin Shan searched for solitary tribes along the way and continued his nesting doll journey.

The battle was extremely brutal, with all kinds of ambushes and counter-ambushes taking place along the long front line, intrigues, feints to the east and attacks in the west, backstabbings of allies, and desperate counterattacks!

The danger of the jungle warfare, and the weakness of the three major human coalition forces that came with it, were finally stopped in Donghuang Town.

At the border, the three major tribes joined forces, and the marshals of the three towns worked together and finally resisted the attack!

"Brother Wu, I heard about your story. Those beasts of the Black Lotus Sect are nothing. Not only did they embezzle the totems of my tribes, but they also fled from the battlefield. I really don't know what the Chieftain was thinking."

"Alas, it's not just Brother Wu. My Diantu Town is the same. The Black Lotus Cult's children are vicious and cruel. I have seen through them. They are just a bunch of liars! They deceived the Chieftain and then deceived us. They might even be spies of the human race, causing the tribes to lose totems and greatly reduce their combat power, making it easier for them to attack Zhongli~"

"Hiss~ If you look at it this way, it makes sense, then the national teacher Youmeiji."

The three people who spoke were Wuguling from Qibei Town, Aguda from Diantu Town, and Shi Tieguman from Donghuang Town. After joining forces, their strength increased greatly and they finally consolidated the last line of defense.

There was nothing but plains behind him, with no strategic locations to defend, so there was no way to retreat.

"I did some research on Youmei Ji a while ago and found a clue in the Viruo Desert in the northwest of the continent. This woman was originally a witch of the Joy Cult. It is said that she is the daughter of the Joy God. Later, she joined the Black Lotus Cult for some reason. Her origins are strange and mysterious."

"Joy Cult? Witch?"

"That's right! In the outside world of Jiuli, among the evil cults of the human race on the continent, the Joy Cult and the Black Lotus Cult seem to be the largest, but they have both been destroyed and are now barely surviving! Are these stray dogs qualified to point fingers at my Cangluan Royal Court?"

"Alas, the chieftain has really been bewitched by that woman. According to rumors in the palace, lust has blinded his mind and he even wants to take her as his queen. This is simply tarnishing the bloodline of our clan!"

"Absurd, so ridiculous!"

The three men cursed the tyrant emperor, wondering what kind of beauty could make the chieftain, who had seen countless women, fall in love with her.

He not only agreed to the position of national teacher, but also ordered all the major tribes to hand over their totems!

Loving beauty instead of power actually happened in reality, which made them all angry.

Tuk~tuk~tuk~
A melodious horn sounded from under the city.

"The human race has begun to attack the city again."

"Humph, in the past we were separated and were bullied by them. Now that we have united our forces, are we still afraid of them?"

Tieguman immediately walked down the city wall and re-inspected the defending troops and equipment. Wuguling and Aguda looked at each other and followed him down.

The battle lasted from noon to dusk. The human race left behind countless cannon fodder, but failed to break through the city defense formation and had to call off the battle.

In the three camps, the top leaders gathered together to discuss.

They had been blocked for several days, and their original momentum had gradually declined in the past two days. The army no longer had the indomitable spirit to charge forward, vividly demonstrating what it means to make a strong effort at the beginning, then decline, and finally be exhausted.

Seeing that the morale in the camp was gradually declining and the soldiers were hesitant during the siege, they were all trying to think of ways to break the impasse.

"Donghuang Town is the last barrier standing in our way! If we cross this barrier, we can reach the royal court directly. We should do this as soon as possible. Do you have any good ideas?"

"In my opinion, it is better to bypass Tiandang Mountain and stab them in the back! What's the point of wasting time here with them?"

"No! The defense of the royal court is also extraordinary. If we come from afar to launch a surprise attack, wouldn't that be equivalent to cutting off our own retreat? If the enemy attacks us from both sides and causes a great defeat, I'm afraid that none of their troops will be able to escape. Our three families will not be able to recover for nearly sixty years!"

"But you have also seen that the troops of the three towns have been combined into one place. Their numbers and combat power are not inferior to ours at all. In addition, they have the advantage of defending the city. How can we defeat them?"

"This"

It was difficult to satisfy everyone on the field because of the heated arguments over tactics.

After all their talk, it was nothing more than that they did not have overwhelming hard power, and each side did not want to suffer too many casualties, so they wanted to preserve their strength while letting others go first. It was naturally difficult to coordinate with such ulterior motives.

The final result of the discussion was to send more troops to the rear, and the three families gritted their teeth and spent more money to recruit more experts and cannon fodder to serve on the front line.

"Brother Yin, I remember you just recruited a late Nascent Soul master not long ago, how come you haven't seen him for more than half a month?"

Someone was bringing up things that were not relevant to the topic, which made Yin Jiuchen, the patriarch of the Wushan Yin family, look unhappy.

After receiving the message from the Great Elder, he was in a good mood, thinking that with more strong reinforcements on his side, he would be able to have more say in the three major alliances. However, the other party was slow to show up and was just hanging around behind him picking up some scraps, causing him to be teased by his allies time and time again. Who wouldn't be annoyed?

The leader of the Wudao Sect chuckled and started a duet with the leader of the Mingzhu Sect.

"Hey~ How can you say that, Brother Shen? They are cleaning up the battlefield for us and taking care of the fish that slipped through the net. Isn't this kind of work of checking for leaks and filling gaps exactly what our alliance needs?"

"Ah? Ahhahahahaha, right! That's right! But to catch the fish that slipped through the net, it requires a cultivator at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Isn't that a bit of a waste of talent?"

"I don't know. I heard that they are all small barbarian tribes without any people in the Jindan stage. Hi."

Yin Jiuchen felt blocked in the heart, as if there was a fly following him. He felt an inexplicable disgust towards Lin Shan, a person he had never met before.

Why did the Great Elder find such a scheming and opportunistic person?
The leader of the Wudao Sect had nothing to do and became somewhat interested in Lin Shan.

"When this fellow Taoist arrives at the front line, I will take a good look at what kind of person is he who likes to bully the weak."

Before he could finish his words, another strange voice suddenly sounded outside the tent.

"Which fellow Taoist is talking about me behind my back? If you have the guts, tell me in person! Let's have a fight and see who is the weaker one?" (End of this chapter)