100: Chapter 99: Settlent!
_1 100: Chapter 99: Settlent!
_1 The Barren Land had been a tale of blood and tears, ever since the dawn of mankind, a battle against foreign tribes.
This was a harsh reality – living in constant fear.
So tribes found themselves cast away in vast wilderness without even their own hunting grounds.
Their greatest wish was to join a tribe that had attained a rank.
Tribes like them, those scattered and rootless ones, with not an ounce of strength to their na, lived everyday balancing on the brink of starvation.
They spent their days and nights fleeing from vicious beasts and foreign tribes, with hardly any warriors of rit in their entirety.
Even the weakest and lowest-ranked tribes were unwilling to accept them.
So, for these scattered tribesfolk, their greatest wish was to join a ranked tribe, where tribe people have sothing to rely upon in old age, sothing to nurture life.
They would not have to aimlessly wander through the Great Wasteland, living their life in constant fear and uncertainty.
However, for those tribes that had attained a rank, accepting such scattered tribesfolk would not only bring no benefits at all, but would even consu large quantities of resources and require significant efforts to train them.
It was essentially a thankless task.
As for those fortunate enough to join the Gu Yuan Tribe, it was all thanks to Xiao Chen himself.
After defeating the Black Mountain Tribe, according to the ancient rules passed down in the Great Wasteland, the Gu Yuan Tribe successively annexed the black Mountain tribe and Withered Wood Tribe, expanding their territory by two thousand miles.
The territory that the entire tribe could govern suddenly tripled, signifying an increase in tribal strength and hunting resources.
However, it also revealed a major weakness of the Gu Yuan Tribe, their insufficient population, making it impossible for them to effectively govern such an expansive territory.
anwhile, because of Xiao Chen’s teoric rise to power, his reputation was spread among the tribesfolk of the Great Wasteland’s other tribes and nurous lower-ranked tribes, leading these scattered tribes to flock to them, wishing to join the Gu Yuan Tribe and find a safe place to settle.
This perfectly solved the urgent problem of the Gu Yuan Tribe.
Despite expanding their territory by a thousand miles, the Gu Yuan Tribe was severely short of population.
Even if they encouraged childbirth among their own people, it was not sothing that could be achieved overnight.
Therefore, Xiao Chen smoothly ordered the scattered tribesfolk to be taken in.
Of course, not all of these scattered tribesfolk were accepted into the tribe.
They had to be screened to check if anyone harbored ill intentions.
They also had to pass the Gu Yuan Tribe’s test.
Moreover, it wasn’t that these scattered tribesfolk were completely useless.
Long periods of tough survival had hardened their will, making them resilient.
Once they obtained the Techniques, there would be a short burst of progress in their cultivation.
With careful guidance, they were the ideal candidates to beco War Soldiers.
The injured soldiers before them were people from scattered tribes who ca to join the Gu Yuan.
Originally, they just wanted their wives and children to have a stable life, but they never expected that not only did they not achieve a stable life, dozens of their brothers were either dead or injured.
When they lost their strength, they lost their value – and anything without value was bound to be disregarded!
In the Great Wasteland, they were well aware of what happens to sothing of no value.
If they died, it was their own business, but they had wives, children and elders at ho.
The fate of these vulnerable widows and orphans without any support was well known.
As the tribal chief, Xiao Chen would, of course, not miss this opportunity to attract people’s hearts and unite their spirits.
These soldiers might have joined the Gu Yuan with impure intent, but they did not abandon Gu Yuan in tis of crisis, and even fought bloody battles for it.
Abandoning them would be a dishonor to Gu Yuan, and upon introspection, he found that it was a decision he could not take.
“Thank you, Chief, thank you, Chief!”
A few War Soldiers, who were already helped up by Xiao Chen, fell back onto their knees, continuously kowtowing towards him.
They were valiant n, but cruel reality had beaten them.
Being n, they did not mind hardship or fatigue, but who among them would want their wives and children to live in constant fear and dread?
“Elder Xiao, distribute twice the amount of today’s hunted goods to these Tribe People, and also arrange for a doctor to treat the injuries of these warriors imdiately.”
“Your command shall be obeyed,” Elder Xiao Tan promptly replied.
“We are already crippled, and yet the chieftain still holds us to such high regard.
How can we ever repay this great kindness?”
“All you warriors need to recover properly.
Once your injuries have healed, I, as your chieftain, will have important duties for you!
So, do not consider taking your own lives.”
“Chieftain, we are already disabled, unable to wield weapons or draw the stiff bows.
We are nothing but a burden to the tribe.
Despite that, you, the chieftain, have not forsaken us.
If there is anything we can do, even if it ans climbing a mountain of swords or descending into a sea of flas, even if it ans certain death, we will not refuse!”
Seeing this group of injured soldiers so moved, Xiao Chen did not keep them in suspense, and slowly shared an idea that had been brewing in his mind for a while, “Dear warriors, although you cannot draw a stiff bow or wield a weapon, you still have a lifeti of experience gained from countless trials of life and death.
That is indeed a precious treasure.”
Throughout his ti with the Gu Yuan, he had already identified a severe issue – complete disorder within the managent of the entire tribe.
Various roles were bumping heads with each other and the chanism of developing Martial Arts within the tribe was in a state of utter chaos, without any basic foundation.
While these soldiers were no longer capable of returning to the battlefield, their experience could still be passed onto the next generation of children.
Seeing these soldiers still looking sowhat at a loss, Xiao Chen continued, “Currently, our Gu Yuan Tribe has over a thousand children of suitable age.
They have entered the Enlightennt Stage of Martial Arts.
Previously, due to insufficient resources in our Gu Yuan Tribe, these children have been held back.
As the Tribal Chief of the Gu Yuan Tribe, it is my responsibility to create the conditions necessary for these children.”
“These children will be our tribe’s future.
Their experiences are still too innocent, so they will need you to guide them and lay a solid foundation!
Do not think less of yourselves.
Or are you planning to take all your experience to the grave?
Speak your decisions!”
“We shall obey Chief’s command and surely pass on all our life’s experience to these children.”
“Good!
You all need to recover from your injuries.
After I crush the Xuan She Kui Shui Tribe, I’ll hunt in the Wilderness, gather enough treasured blood and dicinal materials for the children of our tribe, and solidify the base of their Martial Arts.
The rest, shaping bones and training in Martial Arts, is up to you!”
As the Tribal Chief, Xiao Chen would not place the tribe’s century-long strategy onto the shoulders of a dozen or so crippled soldiers.
After enduring the cunning and deception of his past life, he would use so of these thods.
He would appoint his most trusted people to take charge of this matter.
These few people were just the beginning, the first step in Xiao Chen’s tribal reformation.
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