Published: February 7, 2025
"Thank you, Brother Leng Qiu, for the 10,000 starting coins. The title of this chapter is quite fitting, haha. Also, thanks to Qianmu for the 1,888, and to the other brothers who contributed to the roulette. Old Phantom thanks everyone!"
Ye Zhongming and Miya spent a whole day of falling sand organizing the needle bird demon monsters. This was based on their evolved levels; if ordinary people were to do this, it would probably take three or four days to complete.
Although they were exhausted, Ye Zhongming felt a sense of fulfillment. Let's not even mention the wealth of 20,000 magic crystals. Just talking about the Demon Feeding Beehive, after putting many live needle birds inside, the assimilation time had been reduced to over twenty hours, halving the previous time.
Looking at the sleeping needle birds within the Demon Feeding Beehive, Ye Zhongming felt a bit excited.
He had known about the reputation of beast pool-type equipment for a long time, but this was the first time he had truly obtained one. Remembering the various legends about this type of equipment from his past life, Ye Zhongming vaguely sensed that this item might become one of the most helpful pieces of equipment for him in the future.
After putting away the Demon Feeding Beehive, he and Miya left to hurry towards the gathering place of the copper savage demon monsters.
Actually, the hard beaks of these needle birds were excellent materials. Each of them could enchant equipment to the gray level. However, since there were too many needle bird corpses, aside from collecting a few at the beginning, they had no energy to deal with the rest. In the end, they could only take the high-level needle bird beaks and discard the others.
Avoiding a few demon monster groups drawn by the massive death aura of the needle birds, they arrived at the agreed location half a day before the deadline. However, once they arrived, Ye Zhongming noticed that the atmosphere here was not good.
After asking the couple Han Yihao and his wife who welcomed him, Ye Zhongming learned what had happened.
This time, the two tribes they were trying to negotiate with were called the Mountain Cliff Tribe and the Spirit Flash Tribe. The latter was the stronger one, and just one step forward would allow them to join the ranks of medium-sized tribes.
After Afo and Gray Mountain notified the two tribes as planned, the Mountain Cliff Tribe remained indifferent, likely due to their weak position, showing neither direct refusal nor agreement to the merger proposal. They only agreed to come and observe the hunt.
However, the Spirit Flash Tribe was different. Relying on their strength, they scoffed at the merger suggestion with the new Cloud Summit Tribe and directly proposed conditions: they wanted to participate in the hunt and demanded 80% of the spoils!
To participate meant they would stand by and let Afo and Gray Mountain's tribe members fight for their lives while they picked up the spoils.
Upon arriving at the agreed location, the Spirit Flash Tribe demanded that the two tribes provide them with the food they needed. Afo and Gray Mountain reluctantly agreed, as they were the ones who sought out the Spirit Flash Tribe. Providing some food could barely be justified, and Afo even sent some food to the Mountain Cliff Tribe.
Who could have imagined that the Spirit Flash Tribe would become increasingly demanding, not only rejecting the suggestion for the four tribes to sit down and discuss but also insisting on occupying the camp that Afo and Gray Mountain had established, claiming that they had come a long way and didn’t want to set up their camp themselves.
Such behavior caused dissatisfaction among the warriors of Afo and Gray Mountain, leading to a standoff between the two sides. However, under Afo and Gray Mountain's intervention, no conflict occurred, but the atmosphere in the entire camp naturally soured.
Ye Zhongming was aware of all this; he simply smiled, showing no signs of abnormality.
Afo and Gray Mountain sighed in relief at Ye Zhongming's return. Although they knew this young man was powerful, the wilderness was dangerous. With so many demon monsters around, it was uncertain when a high-level one might appear. The chances of an accident were high; if anything happened to Ye Zhongming, their huge gamble with the two tribes would completely fail, and they would be reduced to ashes by the king zuns of the Royal City.