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Chapter 603 Terrifying Quantity, Indigenous Civilization
Reflecting on the information shared after the shadow clone exploded, Lu Wenwu tapped his head with a slight sense of distress.

The inheritance of the "General's Statue" was just an unexpected bonus.

For him now, it doesn't matter whether he goes or not.

The main task during these three months was to collect information on the distribution and general strength of ferocious beasts on the ancient continent, while also exploring the locations of traces of local civilization.

The tens of thousands of shadow clones that Lu Wenwu dispatched one after another lived up to expectations and successfully explored a huge area.

But what troubled him was...
I don't know if it's because we didn't explore far enough, we were unlucky, or this world is just inherently this difficult.

In short, even with the last shadow clone, which had explored the furthest distance, exploding, he still failed to find any trace of the local indigenous civilization.

Hopefully, it's because the Qingcao tribe is too far from the borders of civilization.
It's possible that sometimes you're only one step away from the truth, but shadow clones are too fragile; they explode if touched by anything.

As expected, this thing is more suitable for those guys who look like melee fighters but are actually mages.

This is really unfriendly to someone like me who is a pure body cultivator.

It can only be used as a tool for information transmission.

If I were some kind of supreme truth, would I need to put up with this nonsense?
Before each clone is destroyed, its strength is almost the same as that of the original body!
No matter how dangerous or perilous the place, we can just push through it all.

Three months is enough time to explore at least a quarter of the continent!
Lu Wenwu reached out and pinched the bridge of his nose to relieve the distress caused by the disastrous start.

However, to say that there was no gain at all would be nonsense.

Although the shadow clones were fragile to the point of being abstract, Lu Wenwu was a monster with unlimited stamina, and could continuously create clones to continue exploring.

In the three months leading up to spring, he explored an area spanning tens of thousands of kilometers.

The results were both good and bad.

Within a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers, there are roughly a hundred tribes of varying sizes scattered around.

There are still some native humans on the ancient continent, but their density is really worrying.

Or
Such a number is truly heartbreaking and brings tears to the eyes of anyone who hears it.
This is the total number over a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers!
This is larger than the surface area of ​​Earth in Lu Wenwu's previous life!

Even including the ocean area.

On this vast land of the ancient continent, the total number of humans living there is less than that of a small town, numbering only a few thousand.

Simply.

The Qingcao tribe was one of the better-developed tribes in terms of its original strength and number of people. The other tribes that Lu Wenwu discovered generally had around thirty to forty people.

A few of the stronger ones can reach the hundred-person level, but they are struggling to make ends meet.

There are also small tribes that have been wiped out, whether by natural disasters or ferocious beasts, leaving only a dozen or even just a few people.

Almost everyone except the Blood Warriors was dead.

Whenever Lu Wenwu discovers a tribe, he leaves a shadow clone there as a lookout point and takes the initiative to make contact with the tribe.

With a few magical spells, he can teach them a cultivation method that is more powerful than that of the Beast Warriors, and without consuming any extra food.

Except for a couple of mini-tribes where only a few people remained and the death of their companions and relatives had robbed them of the will to live, almost no tribe did not welcome Lu Wenwu's arrival.

Moreover, there's something everyone knows.

Those who can traverse the wilderness in winter must be extremely powerful.

Such a strong person can bring a future to the tribe.

In this world where everyone is struggling to survive, those who offer more opportunities for survival must be seized upon.

Therefore, Lu Wenwu did more than just teach the Qingcao tribe knowledge during these three months.

He also included all the people in the tribes he explored within the scope of his teaching.

However, the teaching progress varies depending on when the discovery occurs.

Moreover, shadow clones are inherently quite limited, and many things cannot be replicated from the original body's actions.

They can't do things like taking supplies from the Dragon Mansion's small world to help tribes that are short of food and clothing. The people in the tribes can't reach the point where they can completely devote themselves to cultivation, and the supply of resources is also insufficient, so the progress is naturally slow.

From an experiential perspective, so many ancient human races have now been discovered.

The best way to preserve and grow is to bring them all together, form a huge force, and then snowball their growth.

However, this is not very feasible.

Unless Lu Wenwu is prepared to continuously extract resources from the Dragon Mansion Small World to support these thousands of ancient humans.

Otherwise, a food crisis alone would be enough to wipe out this hard-won population.

At the same time, even more serious challenges await.

That was the threat posed by ferocious beasts surrounding them.

Humanity is insignificant, divided into small tribes of dozens of people, and is inconspicuous on this ancient and desolate continent.

So insignificant that even the most powerful and ferocious beasts wouldn't bother making a special trip to eat them.

Even if you eat it all, it won't make up for the energy you expend.

In most cases, when tribes are attacked, the attackers are either groups of ferocious beasts of similar strength or creatures like Nightmare Beasts that happen to be passing by and kill them all.

But if all the humans gathered together, they would form a massive force.

This will definitely attract the attention of the Beast King.

If you're too lazy to pick up a few scraps of meat that fall on the table, would you be too lazy to eat a whole bunch of minced meat and just throw it away?

impossible.

If this were to be done, before the ancient human race possessed the ability to resist, Lu Wenwu would have to personally deal with all the invading enemies, which would be equivalent to him being directly tied down.

They tied their own hands and feet.

After a moment's thought, Lu Wenwu decided to postpone the decision to gather these several thousand people together.

If we can find an area controlled by a native human civilization, even if it's just a small part the size of a town, it's worth a try.

Given the current situation, it's best to leave it at that; hastily forming an alliance is not a good thing.

If we manage to gather tens of thousands of people and still can't find any trace of the native civilization, then we can at least manage to create our own small territory.

So what needs to be done now is... it seems there's nothing left to include in the scope of action; our initiative has been pushed to its limit.

Some of the development plans I had previously decided on have stalled.

Aside from waiting time, it's difficult to do anything to improve the current situation.

There was no trace of native civilization within a range of tens of thousands of kilometers!
Surely there can't really be none, right?
Lu Wenwu didn't believe in superstition.

To date, the area he has explored has not yet included any terrain outside the forest.

The ancient continent is visibly enormous and could not possibly have only one type of terrain.

It must be something that hasn't been explored yet.

While using shadow clones for exploration is both convenient and effortless.

But it's too slow.

It also has many limitations.

Some things you still need to experience for yourself. For example, exploring the heritage of the "General's Statue".

This inheritance is no longer an aid to him now, but it may contain information that can help him complete the mission.

For example, it can preserve the owner's life story, the places he lived, and so on.

It's worth making the trip yourself.

Just do it!

After making up his mind, Lu Wenwu did not act immediately.

Instead, she waited quietly for another two months and served as a literacy teacher for two months.

He passed on most of the useful knowledge, and after seeing the Green Grass Tribe's strength more than double compared to before, and gradually getting on the right track, he finally left after leaving a shadow clone.

This time, he plans to explore the location where the previously discovered suspected "general statue" was inherited.

If my previous judgment was correct, then there must be traces of native human civilization not far from the general's statue.

This distance must be achievable with a certain probability at the B-rank level; otherwise, it wouldn't be a test of inheritance for me at that time, but rather suicide.

Shadow clones are useless; they have no fighting power against even slightly powerful ferocious beasts.

You still need to do these things yourself.

Lu Wenwu did not use a long-distance spatial portal to teleport on the desolate ancient continent, but instead chose the more primitive method of low-altitude flight.

On this continent where pseudo-immortals may exist, lowering one's physical strength to a low level would be quite dangerous.

It's true that Lu Wenwu enjoys challenging strong enemies and acting like a reckless fool, but that doesn't mean he's a suicidal idiot.

He believed that he was not much inferior to the Pseudo-Immortal Beast King in terms of pure combat.

However, if one is in a low period of health and then faces an attack, then everything is a different story.

It took Lu Wenwu about two days to revisit the path explored by his shadow clone.

The scan, powered by a vast divine sense, yielded far more detailed information than that obtained through a shadow clone.

The results were almost shocking.

On average, there is at least one beast king-level ferocious beast equivalent to the first level of godhood within every 100 kilometers.

In some special areas, such as locations directly above spiritual veins, the density of Beast King zones will be higher within the same area.

Some beast kings that grew up together from the same mother will even share the same vast territory, forming a family-like existence, ruling the entire area with their own clan and using it as a hunting ground.

In this environment, Lu Wenwu felt his scalp tingle and his desire to immediately gather all the humans together was completely extinguished.

100 kilometers sounds like a lot, but it's actually far too small for a god-level expert.

No need to go all out.

A single, even slightly serious, attack would be enough to destroy everything within a radius of 100 kilometers.

Back then, Lu Wenwu possessed earth-level strength when he ascended to godhood in the mortal realm.

In the previous dungeon, he was able to easily unleash his full potential.

How many beast kings dwell within these tens of thousands of square kilometers of land?

Even if the ancient continent is "solid" compared to a world of martial arts competition, how solid can it really be?

This terrifying density of beast kings makes it impossible for the human race, who previously struggled to even produce a single triple-rank A beast, to grow so powerful.
The closer Lu Wenwu got to the area where the inheritance was located, the heavier the burden on his shoulders became.

The area where the Green Grass Tribe is located can be considered a remote and desolate region, where the quality of ferocious beasts is generally not very high. A beast king who has ascended to the first level of godhood is already a local overlord.

The further one goes "inside," the higher the concentration of spiritual energy becomes, and the number and quality of ferocious beasts also increase accordingly.

Within a ten-thousand-mile radius of the memory's inheritance, top-tier beast kings comparable to the third level of godhood are very common, and every now and then one can sense a powerful presence.

What made things even more difficult for Lu Wenwu was that the ferocious beasts here had clearly begun to conceive of class rule.

Under the command of a top-tier beast king who has reached the third level of godhood, there will be several beast kings of slightly lower strength, as well as their respective large clans.

These ferocious beasts gathered together and formed one massive beast tribe after another.

Like demonic beasts in the cultivation world, they gather together, constantly fighting each other for territory dominance, better mates, and better spiritual veins.

Lu Wenwu now understands very well why the instance system did not have a strong requirement for him to support humanity to become the dominant power.

This is indeed extremely difficult.

How is this any different from creating a cultivation world from scratch?
Unless humanity has developed a mature cultivation system like that in the world of cultivation and has developed it for thousands or tens of thousands of years, nurturing many top-level powerhouses who can fight against all beast kings with the power of a single race, and establishing a vast territory and an empire with human civilization as its core, it would be impossible.

At least for now, Lu Wenwu believes that it is unlikely that native humans could develop a civilization of this level.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have made the dungeon system so straightforward.

With a somewhat heavy heart, Lu Wenwu approached the area where the inheritance was located.

After being obtained, the "General's Statue," which had been dormant for many years, began to heat up slightly, and two axe shadows composed entirely of crimson light gradually appeared on its hands, which were missing their weapons.

Through this little gadget, Lu Wenwu could clearly sense the location of the inheritance.

It's obvious that this deceased powerhouse, born into such an environment, had no ulterior motives; he simply wanted people to obtain their inheritance as quickly as possible and enhance their strength.

This is quite in line with the current situation.

But when Lu Wenwu found the place following the directions, his face immediately darkened.

The direction given by this inheritance points to an area ruled by a top-tier beast king, and it is also the location of the opponent's lair!
This has to be serious!

In a place like this, what kind of godlike B-rank weapon could possibly get its hands on it?
Never mind, let's scan inside for anything unusual, then just charge in and be done with it.

In an instant, a vast and boundless divine sense swept out, its powerful spiritual force reflecting every detail of the place, ensuring that nothing could escape Lu Wenwu's perception.

"This is the same ferocious beast from last time. There are also a few second-stage and first-stage Divine Ascension beasts. It seems we can have a good fight this time."

In his divine sense, Lu Wenwu saw what the nest looked like.

Several beast kings lay fast asleep on the spiritual vein, their breaths releasing large amounts of spiritual energy that transformed into pure power and merged into their very essence.

"Hmm? What is this beast king, who has reached the second level of godhood, going to do with so many minions? And why does it have such a strange expression?"

Expanding his divine sense, Lu Wenwu discovered that the Beast King was mobilizing its troops, which immediately aroused his curiosity. He followed the direction in which the beast king was running and enveloped it, instantly spreading out for hundreds of kilometers.

Through his spiritual perception, he "saw" the human-like disdain on the Beast King's face, and also saw a small group of humans ahead, their faces filled with terror, being chased and fleeing for their lives.

Continuing forward, a structure made of stone and wood, resembling a city wall, came into view.

Countless powerful figures stood above, ready for battle.

"Holy crap! I finally found you guys!"

Lu Wenwu was initially overjoyed, but his expression changed drastically, turning from excitement to anxiety.

The next moment, the imposing figure distorted space and vanished from the spot.

"BYD, a mere beginner at the first level of the Godhood realm dares to send someone to lure a second-level Godhood beast king in an attempt to hunt him down?! What the hell do you take the realm barrier for?"

"You can't fight someone of a higher level like this! If I hadn't come today, you would have killed yourself, you bastard!"

"You better have something to say, or you'll be in big trouble after I save people!"

(End of this chapter)