The Great Wild God - Chapter 45

Chapter 45 Bitter Winter
Zong Sang wasn’t the only one who saw Chen Xunzhai’s battle against the wall just now.

Zong Ya was undoubtedly convinced. He glanced at the cub curled up at Chen Xun’s feet, kicked it, and asked, “Where did you pick up this civet cat? How do you know how to sleep?”

Chen Xun laughed heartily. He didn’t know if he should tell everyone that this sleepy cub was a young Profound Leopard that he had brought back from the mountains of the Great Lonely Peak. However, its skin color was very different from an ordinary Profound Leopard. He didn’t know if it had mutated or if the female leopard was secretly having an affair with other desolate beasts.

Seeing that Grandpa Zongtu was still cross-legged refining the medicinal power, he thought that he would have to discuss some matters with Grandpa before making a decision. He changed the topic and said to Zong Ya,

“Did Grandpa let you practice the Great Roc Secret Palm?”

“My left hand is broken. I can’t hold the spear with both hands. I can only practice the Great Roc Secret Palm. However, no matter how powerful the fist palm is, it is still difficult to block the saber and spear …” Zong Ya was somewhat dejected when he said this.

Cultivated to the seventh level of the Barbarian Martial Transformation, focused on the Barbarian Fiend, his fist was as hard as divine iron, and he also possessed great might. However, it was still difficult to block a divine weapon against a person of the same cultivation realm.

Black Mountain and Mountain Dong didn’t dare to rashly attack the stronghold. In the end, it was Chen Xun who exchanged a batch of armor from the Su Clan in the autumn, and they were called Black Mountain and Mountain Dong Shen Youji. If the two of them worked together, even if they had the ability to exterminate the Black Python, the Barbarian Martial Race would suffer too many casualties and would only cause them to become fat meat in the eyes of other races.

“That’s good,” Chen Xun said. “I’ve been in the Wilderness for a few months, and I’ve thought of something else. Perhaps the Great Roc Fist might be able to merge with the saber power, and I can teach you …”

“Really!” Zong Ya asked happily.

“Why would I lie to you?”

The defenses on the walls of the stronghold couldn’t be relaxed. No one knew if Black Mountain Tribe and the Shandong Tribe would suddenly attack.

After a while, other than Zong Sang, Nan Liao, and Zong Ya, everyone else returned to the village wall to guard.

Nan Liao and Zong Sang guarded the Magus Sect Diagram and refined the medicinal power. Seeing that the Magus Sect Diagram was gradually emitting vigor, they thought that it had suppressed their injuries. There were even signs of a further breakthrough in their cultivation. They didn’t know what kind of lucky chance Chen Xun had encountered during his trip to the Lake Wasteland. They were both surprised and delighted.

As a peak rank nine Magus Barbarian, Wu Gong Zong Tu was an indispensable combat strength of the Black Python, and his intelligence was the key to bringing more than a thousand clansmen to take root in the northern mountain of Python Fang Ridge.

Nan Liao didn’t think that he would be able to lead his clansmen to survive in the miserable Northern Mountain after leaving the Magus Sect’s map.

Nan Liao even made up his mind that if Duke Wu Zong Tu died unfortunately, he could only hand over the giant wolf corpse and lead his clansmen to move out of Python Fang Ridge.

However, in the vast wilderness, where could the thousands of clansmen struggle to survive after leaving this stone stronghold that had taken root with great difficulty?

Chen Xun sat by the side and listened to Zong Ya’s account of how the black python had survived the bitter winter of the cold wave in the past few months.

There were more than a thousand people in the entire village, and there were nearly a hundred old men, women, and children who had frozen to death.

After winter, wild beasts frequently descended the mountain, but these ferocious beasts and raptors rarely moved in groups. Even if they were close to the stronghold, throwing three or five living beasts out to feed them would still be enough to send them away, and they did not cause any heavy casualties to the stronghold.

What was truly terrifying was the herd of beasts that came from the wasteland of the lake.

Two months ago, the black python was besieged by nearly a thousand green wolves, causing endless pain to the black python.

Five people lost their lives in the middle-tier barbarian martial arts that enlightened the barbarian soul. Forty-six people died in the first three levels of the Beginner Barbarian Martial Arts.

In the end, it was not easy to lure the leading Golden Wolf into the village alone. Zong Sang, Nan Liao, Grandpa Zong Tu, and the others were surrounded and killed with difficulty before escaping the calamity of the stronghold.

However, Grandpa Sect’s plan was to kill the Golden Wolf, and he had used a spell that far surpassed his current cultivation realm, overdrawing almost all of his vitality. In the past two months, he had only been hanging on for a breath of time and hadn’t let go of his life.

Zong Ya also fought that battle, and his left arm was snapped by the golden wolf …

Nan Liao’s right leg bone was also bitten off. Although he kept his right leg, he was limping and his cultivation was greatly weakened.

Fortunately, after the giant wolf that had been lured into the village was killed, the pack of wolves retreated.

Under Grandpa Zongtu’s insistence, all the children with cultivation potential were protected, and not a single one of them died. These were the seeds of the black python’s resurgence.

However, everyone didn’t expect that after enduring the bitter winter with great difficulty, the Montenegrin Tribe and the Mountain and Dong Tribe would join forces to take advantage of the situation and ask the Black Python to hand over all the gains from that battle.

Only then did Chen Xun know that the pack of wolves that had descended south had actually split into many groups after arriving at Python Fang Ridge, attacking different tribal villages in the Northern Mountain. Otherwise, none of the tribes in Python Fang Ridge would be able to withstand the attacks of tens of thousands of green wolves at the same time, so he didn’t know if the previous tribes in Python Fang Ridge had been attacked by the pack of wolves.

During the beast attack, nearly a third of the fifty to sixty tribes in the Northern Mountain were annihilated without being able to defend it. Even if he defended, he would still be like a black python, with extremely heavy casualties.

The Montenegro Tribe was a little better, but it wasn’t much better. At this moment, they were eager to recover their Yuan Qi, so they decided to take advantage of the situation to rob them. Moreover, they had a new grudge against the black python, so they planned to work it out together.

Chen Xun estimated that there were fifty to sixty tribes in the northern mountain range of Python Fang Ridge, and there were roughly fifteen to two hundred thousand savage tribesmen living there. He never thought that nearly half of them would not be able to survive this cold winter.

This cold winter is truly bitter!

Chen Xun thought of the divine wolf he had seen in the Great Lonely Peak. If that divine wolf was a wolf king, in the midst of a pack of wolves, and had eaten the desolate ancient bloodline of an evil ape, even the legendary Heavenly Yuan Realm expert might not be able to injure it in the slightest in the future.

Will the Black Python be lucky enough to survive the next decade when a cold wave sweeps across the lake wasteland?

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It was only in the middle of the night that Wu Gong Zong Tu managed to barely refine the abundant medicinal power of the Nine Elements Orifice Refining Pill. He had been dying for many days, and his lifeless old triangular eyes revealed some vitality.

“Grandpa is awake” Chen Xun and Zong Ya moved to sit beside Grandpa Zong Tu.

Zong Tu had woken up from his daze these past few days. He was generally clear about what had happened, but he couldn’t say anything about it.

At this time, he woke up and directly picked up a pottery bowl on the stone table. He smashed it at Zong Sang’s iron head and cursed loudly,

“You bastard! Are you trying to exterminate the Black Python Clan? You bastard! Tell me, is that dead wolf important? Or is the life of more than a thousand elders of the entire clan important? You publicly promoted Nanliao as the Clan Chief. Why don’t you listen to his words at this time?”

Only then did Chen Xun know that Nan Liao advocated being aggrieved and surrendering the Golden Wolf corpse in order to protect the clansmen. Zong Sang strongly objected.

The entire village had to pay such a high price to kill the giant wolf. Montenegro and Mountain Dong had actually taken advantage of this time to rob it. Most of the furious clansmen and barbarians were on Zong Sang’s side, wanting to fight to the death with Montenegro and Mountain Dong.

After the battle between Wu Gong Zong Tu and the giant wolf, he was seriously injured and fell into a coma. He was unable to speak, nor was he able to speak.

Survival in the Wildlands was difficult. After watching too many clan extermination villages perish, Duke Wu Zongtu knew that survival was the most important thing. He bitterly said, “At dawn, I will leave the village and talk to Protector Gu. Let’s see what conditions they need before agreeing to retreat!”

‘”Ah Xun has been cultivating outside for several months. His combat strength isn’t lower than that of a high-grade brute force. He shot an arrow and killed Shi Chuan of the Mountain and Dong Tribe under the village wall. We’ve finally managed to survive until now. Why don’t you kill those birds of Gu Hu and kneel down to them? I don’t understand!”

Zong Sang’s head was very hard. A pottery bowl smashed into his head, but it didn’t hurt at all. He sat there sullenly and didn’t listen to his father’s orders.

“Ah Xun, what do you think?” Wu Gong Zong Tu looked at A Xun and saw that his face was still young, but he knew that the mature wisdom hidden in this youth’s eyes was truly beyond the reach of a hot-blooded Zong Sang.

Chen Xun thought to himself that Grandpa Zongtu would wake up and consume another Nine Yuan Orifice Nourishing Pill. With him, Zong Sang, and Nan Liao, he would indeed be able to catch off guard the barbarian martial artists of the Montenegro and Mountain Dong Tribes that surrounded the stronghold. However, after destroying these two tribes, how would they deal with the aftermath?

The Black Python did not have the strength to suppress the tribes of the northern mountain of the Python Fang Ridge, nor did it have the strength to completely merge the Black Mountain and Mountain Dong Tribes. All of its formerly great enemies were wary of the Black Python.

Not to mention the Azure Water Su, even the Ghost Faction of Python Fang Lingnan Mountain was not something that the Black Python could contend against at this moment.

It wasn’t easy for Grandpa Zongtu to lead his clansmen and move into the northern mountain of Python Fang Ridge to endure the humiliation.

“When I returned to the black python, Gu Jianfeng, the son of the Ancient Protector, led his clansmen to dig ice on the Wild Horse Stream to catch fish. Unexpectedly, there were exotic beasts underwater that ate people. I helped them drive the exotic beasts away and gave them some medicinal pills to treat their injuries.” Chen Xun only told Gu Jianfeng about his encounter with Gu Hu’s son.

“That son of a bitch from Gu Jianfeng, how are you going to save that son of a bitch?” Zong Sang was so anxious that his veins were exposed.

“Well saved,” Wu Gong Zong Tu patted his thigh and said to Nan Liao, “In that case, there’s no need for us to personally go out and talk to them. Have someone send the giant wolf out of the village and ask Gu Hu. With this giant wolf, will the Montenegro Tribe be be able to avoid being attacked by the cold wave beasts in ten years? Will they be able to dominate the northern mountain of the Pyonya Ridge?”

Chen Xun thought for a moment and said to Grandpa Zongtu, “The Golden Wolf is going to be sent out, but we can’t let them get it so easily. Otherwise, if they ask the Black Python for too much in the future, it will also be harmful to them.” He said to Grandpa Zongtu, “No matter what, we have to make them pay a price …”

“Yes, tell them to pay some price!” Zong Sang patted his thigh and said. Now that they were clearly strong, they still had to endure. It was not his character.

Hearing Chen Xun’s words, Nan Liao nodded and said, “Ah Xun’s words are reasonable. Mountain Dong and Montenegro suffered heavy casualties this time, so they did not dare to attack the Stone Stronghold. They did not have the face to refuse our offer of peace.”

Chen Xun followed Grandpa Zongtu, Nan Liao, and the others to the palace hall.

The golden wolf’s corpse was sealed in a huge piece of river ice. Apart from half its head being shattered and its flesh blurred, the rest of the corpse was also lifelike. The light golden color actually retained some of the ferocious aura of its past life, causing people to feel terrified.

Chen Xun and Su Tang had seen two gigantic wolves that were about the same size lying on the corpse stream in the valley of the Great Lonely Peak. Their fur was also light gold, but compared to the small divine wolf, they were actually a lot weaker.

But even so, this giant golden wolf sealed in river ice was definitely a ferocious beast comparable to a Reincarnation Realm Heavenly Barbarian.

It was really hard to imagine how tragic and difficult it was for Grandpa, Zong Sang, and Nan Liao to work together to kill this giant golden wolf whose back was only two meters tall!