Published: February 7, 2025
Chapter Translation:
"Chapter Two-in-One! Thanks to @Sil Brother and also to the other brothers! Thank you all!"
The posthumous children are the natives here, but to be honest, Ye Zhongming feels that these natives live quite unsuccessfully. However, this isn’t meant as a derogatory statement; it’s more about his internal musings regarding the nature of this secret realm.
Ye Zhongming doesn’t know why there are magic crystal creatures here, yet no roulette. He has several guesses in his mind, but upon closer examination, it seems none of them can withstand scrutiny.
In the era of the posthumous children, there were no decent written records. According to Afo, only a few of the largest tribes among the posthumous children have any documentation.
Then there’s the Temple of Dawn, but unfortunately, Afo doesn’t know much about the matters concerning the posthumous children, let alone the distant Temple of Dawn.
As for where he is headed, Ye Zhongming has always had a direction, even if he cannot be precise, he can at least be roughly sure.
After gaining a preliminary understanding of the Blue Secret Realm, Ye Zhongming has a rough outline in his mind, but it seems that it will take time to achieve this, and he doesn’t know how long it will take.
He hopes that the people of Cloud Summit Villa are all well.
The winged demon beasts were not discovered by the Afo Tribe, but were witnessed by another tribe of posthumous children. They relayed the message after encountering hunters from the Afo Tribe. The demon beasts are formidable, so if both sides can join forces, that would be ideal.
After agreeing on a meeting point and time, the two posthumous children returned to their tribes to inform the chieftains, and only then did Afo bring people over.
This made Ye Zhongming feel somewhat relieved. If it really was Yangos, then with the addition of the Afo Tribe’s people, they could fight back. If there were more helpers, that would be even better.
The tribe’s movement speed is very slow, simply because they never traveled in a straight line but instead navigated around many dangerous areas based on experience. Ye Zhongming had no objections to this; after all, the secret realm is still very dangerous.
However, this speed made Ye Zhongming worry that the winged demon beasts would escape, causing them to lose a great opportunity to kill Yangos.
But the more he worried, the more problems seemed to arise. After traveling for half a day of falling sand, their path was blocked by a group of over one hundred and fifty sunflower horned demon beasts.
Hidden in his spot, Ye Zhongming and Afo watched these mostly three-star, with some four-star, demon beasts and felt somewhat at a loss.
Here is a valley between two peaks, and a small stream winds its way through, making it a watering hole for many life forms.
To reach the place agreed upon with that tribe of posthumous children, this was an unavoidable route.
However, this group of demon beasts, which looked somewhat like Earth's antelopes but had ten sharp long horns spiraling from the back of their necks to protect their heads, seemed to have just settled in this area and wouldn’t likely leave anytime soon.
"What should we do, Afo?"
Kano, one of the hunting team leaders, asked his chieftain. This time, all the warriors from the tribe had come except for those left at home for necessary defense, but their number was only around a hundred. More than half of these warriors had strength between one-star and two-star, and there were about twenty who were between two-star and three-star, with only three at four-star! Including Ye Zhongming, they had merely four.
But this group of sunflowers horned demon beasts had more than twenty four-star evolved beings, while the rest were around three-star. Such a group of demon beasts was certainly not something the Afo Tribe could handle.
If they waited here or even went back, it would undoubtedly betray the trust of others. Among the posthumous children, who cared a lot about reputation, this was tantamount to betrayal, pushing other brother tribes into a disadvantageous position of facing danger alone.