The Glory of the Tribe

One day later, more than three hundred miles southwest of the Jiang Clan's Earth City, in a hidden valley near Old Ox Head Ridge, Shentu Yu pointed out the position of the hidden sentry to Shen Taiping. Afterward, Shen Taiping led her into the valley and into a cave. Deep within the cave, Shen Taiping saw the sealed melting crystal mine.

That afternoon, Shentu Yu took Shen Taiping to a place called "Golden Rooster Ridge," more than ten miles away.

The other end of the mine was located in a cold pool in a mountain stream at Golden Rooster Ridge.

No one had ever verified whether the surface sources of these two melting crystal mines were connected underground, but it didn't need to be verified. It was impossible for two separate melting crystal mines to appear just tens of miles apart! It didn't fit the logic of how melting crystals were formed, and there was no historical precedent.

Instead, the records mentioned that the two ends were exposed on the surface, while the majority of the mine extended deep underground. This was the record of a massive melting crystal mine that stretched over ten miles underground!

After fully confirming this, Shen Taiping was overwhelmed with excitement!

The value of this mine was even greater than the combined assets of the Shen family by many times! It was more than enough to build a noble city! Anyone who cooperated with the tribe that owned this mine, even if only benefiting indirectly, would make a fortune and gain a powerful and fast-developing ally!

The imperial law’s strict protection of clan territories ensured that any tribe that discovered a mine of this value in their territory would almost certainly ascend to noble status!

Outsiders could not seize such a mine, no matter how envious they were.

As for inter-tribal conflicts, each death battle could only result in a maximum of thirty deaths per month, three hundred sixty per year—hardly significant casualties! After all, they were just people. With enough money, it wasn't impossible to bring in cultivators from the Tribulation Realm to join the tribe, let alone "buy" a few Acquired Realm cultivators to join the tribe for a quick death!

Jiang Xuan could never know about this mine in their territory!

"Half a month! At most half a month! I will help you become the leader of the Shentu Clan!" Shen Taiping made an incredibly firm promise to Shentu Yu.@@novelbin@@

Five days later...

A woman named "Shentu Yinghong" returned to the Shentu Clan's Earth City. She was fifty years old, at the early Innate Realm, and both her son and husband had died in battle. She had escaped from the Shentu Clan two months earlier, but this time, she returned because, as an Innate cultivator, she still had value beyond the death battle, so she didn't face punishment.

Another three days later...

An elderly man named "Zhao Futou," in his eighties, arrived at the Shentu Clan's Earth City.