In the darkness of the night, a row of torches appeared in the deep mountain valley. It was like a fire snake that was slowly moving forward. Using the light from the torches, Yi Yun could see that it was a team formed by behemoths. There were people sitting on the behemoths and they were holding torches as they moved forward in the mountains.
"It's the Jin Long Wei's behemoth, the Jin Long Wei's army!"
Yi Yun saw at a glance that there were at least seventy to eighty behemoths. The combat strength of such a team was imaginable!
Among them, the giant beast running at the front was particularly majestic, and there was even a flag on its back.
The flag was golden in color and embroidered with a brocade dragon.
This was the Jin Long Wei's flag!
Back when he parted with Lin Xintong and old man Su, Yi Yun had asked about the Kingdom's selection. He also knew that the Jin Long Wei had specially drawn a detailed map of the Cloud Wilderness.
Of course, old man Su did not tell Yi Yun about the two consecutive purple clouds in the Cloud Wilderness a few months ago. If not, Yi Yun would have made many connections.
"They are finally here. This team came to the Cloud Wilderness to participate in the Kingdom's selection! Looking at the time, it should be about time! "
The Cloud Wilderness was extremely vast, and there were many small tribes. The Kingdom's selection organized by the Jin Long Wei could not be assessed by each tribe. It would be gathered in a large tribe, with the same standards set for a collective assessment.
The Jin Long Wei's trip was to the Tao tribal clan to set up a test site and hold the Kingdom's selection. The Tao tribal clan was the largest tribe in a radius of thousands of miles. It had a population of more than a hundred thousand households, which was equivalent to a million people.
In the Cloud Wilderness, the population was counted by able-bodied men. This was because such a number was the most meaningful. Able-Bodied men were the main labor force, and also the main combat members. It reflected the tribe's true strength, so counting the old, weak, sick, and disabled was meaningless.
A strong man with a wife, parents, and a few children. As for families without strong men, like Yi Yun and Jiang Xiaorou, they were not considered a "household". That was to say, Jiang Xiaorou's family was not included in the population count.
The families of large tribes were relatively complete. Basically, one household was equivalent to six or seven people. Hundreds of thousands of households were equivalent to millions of people.
In the Cloud Wilderness, it was quite impressive for a tribe of a million people to appear.
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Cloud Wilderness, Tao tribal clan
The Tao tribal clan had existed in the Cloud Wilderness for more than a thousand years. The tribal clan had a long history and even had its own martial arts heritage.
For a small tribe like the Lian tribal clan, there were no surrounding walls, but around the Tao tribal clan, there were thick wooden fences.
These wooden fences were made of round logs that were as thick as a person's arms and were more than ten meters tall. These round logs were collected from the Great Wilderness. The wood itself was strong and dense. Even after hundreds of years of wind and rain, it would not rot.
For the Tao tribal clan to be able to stand for so many years, it was mainly because of the tribe's Mt. Tao. Desolate beasts did not want to approach the Mt. Tao, and would only live in the "desolate plains". With the protection of Mt. Tao, few desolate beasts would appear in the Tao tribal clan's territory.
And the Tao tribal clan did not lack Purple Blood warriors, or even peak-Purple Blood warriors. Not only that, the Tao tribal clan also had a treasured ancestral artifact. Even if a powerful desolate beast attacked, with so many Purple Blood warriors using the ancestral artifact as the core, they would be able to fight.
Because of these reasons, the Tao tribal clan had stood strong for so many years, and had grown stronger.
But no matter how strong a tribe was, compared to the behemoth of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, it was like a pebble in front of a mountain, or a speck of dust under a tree. It was insignificant.
At this time, the Tao tribal clan had already received the news that the Jin Long Wei would arrive at noon. The Tao tribal clan's Patriarch had personally come to receive them. More than half of the Patriarch's Elders had come.
At noon, the Jin Long Wei arrived as promised. They were very punctual.
The Jin Long Wei party was led by a red-armored man. He was the Jin Long Wei's Red Shirt Leader, Zhang Tan.
"Your presence brings light to the Tao tribal clan's humble dwelling, Thousand Households Zhang!"
Seeing Zhang Tan, the Tao tribal clan's Patriarch immediately came forward to receive him with an extremely respectful tone.
In the Jin Long Wei, a Red Shirt Leader could lead a thousand people, so they were used to calling them Thousand Households. The "Households" here naturally referred to strong men.
In the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom's military system, the Jin Long Wei did not have any women. They would be incorporated into another team.
A normal Thousand Households was nothing, but the Jin Long Wei's Thousand Households were different. To the Tao tribal clan, they were people they could not afford to offend.
"These are the tribe's younger generation's elites. Come, greet Thousand Households Zhang!"
The Tao tribal clan's Patriarch said as he waved his hand. Behind him, there were a hundred young warriors. Their ages ranged from thirteen to twenty. They bowed to Thousand Households Zhang.
These people were the elites of the Tao tribal clan's younger generation. They would also be participating in the Kingdom's selection.
The Tao tribal clan's Patriarch had called these young warriors to meet Zhang Tan, hoping that Zhang Tan would take a fancy to one or two good seedlings and focus on nurturing them.
Unfortunately, Zhang Tan did not seem to have any interest. In fact, the Jin Long Wei officials were arrogant. They came from the Kingdom's headquarters, so it was difficult for them to pay attention to the warriors that grew up in the Cloud Wilderness. It was not that they deliberately looked down on them, but the warriors of the Cloud Wilderness were lacking.
From Zhang Tan's point of view, the Jin Long Wei's visit to the Cloud Wilderness was mainly to find out the reason for the phenomenon. As for the Kingdom's selection, it was just incidental. How could they expect to find any geniuses in the Cloud Wilderness?
Zhang Tan lightly scanned the group of youths in front of him and said in a businesslike manner, "We are here on official business. There is no need to be extravagant! Enter the city! "
Zhang Tan waved his hand and the Jin Long Wei drove straight in.
The young warriors of the Tao tribal clan were filled with anticipation and had made meticulous preparations. They never expected that they would be ignored on the day the Jin Long Wei entered the city.
Suddenly, these young warriors were depressed.
"This Thousand Households Zhang is not even looking at us!"
"He is looking down on us. In a radius of a few thousand miles, our Tao tribal clan is the largest tribe. Although we are in the wilderness and lack resources, we grew up in the wilderness. We have experienced killing since we were young and grew up licking blood. How can our combat experience be compared to those greenhouse flowers?"
"It's almost time for the selection. We will let these Jin Long Wei officials know that they are wrong. It's fine if it's just us, but our Tao tribal clan's first young master is about to reach the Tempered Body realm, reaching the realm of 'Dragon Pulse'. He will definitely shine in this selection!"
These young warriors discussed in private, their tones filled with dissatisfaction.
The Tao tribal clan's first young master, Hu Ya, was well-known in the Tao tribal clan. This was because he was extremely close to the Tempered Body realm. In the vast wilderness, it was extremely rare to reach the Tempered Body realm.
Zhang Tan led the Jin Long Wei straight to his encampment. After a short rest, he changed into plain clothes and went out alone in the evening.
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