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Chapter 541: Snail's Return, Compensation from the Royal Court

After the problem of the black and white disaster was solved, Lu Xingshi stayed at the original site of the Tongshu tribe and waited for Wo to come back.

It was also in the original plan, but not at the original location, but halfway.

Otherwise, without cell phones or telephones, or even information transmission, how could we notify the snails who were returning with all kinds of things? We could either wait or walk.

Of course, the latter is a case of being unable to wait.

If nothing unexpected happens, Wo's return will be around the same time as Hui and his group migrate to the new tribe.

It will take about two to three months. The reason for the uncertainty is that it is affected by the weather. Large-scale migration is definitely not as fast as one person traveling light. It is not easy at all to carry a lot of large and small bags.

And the real beginning is after arrival. Building settlements, cultivating farmland, and other matters will definitely take some time.

The migration just means the end of migration, it doesn't mean that there is nothing to do.

Lu Xingshi didn't have much objection to staying alone, but if Hui left first, he would definitely be busy all the time.

In fact, Hui and Lu Xingshi had discussed at the beginning that it was not him who stayed behind, but another person. It was just because the totem warriors in the tribe who were strong enough had basically died in the front line. The remaining people were good at hunting, but there was still a big gap when facing real danger.

Therefore, Lu Xingshi volunteered to stay, in order to avoid trivial matters and have a quiet experimental environment.

During the time he spent at the original site, Lu Xingshi had been studying flower-shaped red copper, and he had not fallen behind in becoming stronger.

The second thing was to study his bronze body and his unfinished second bloodline ability. His previous idea was indeed feasible.

With the bronze body as a foundation, the unfinished second bloodline is introduced, and combined with the red copper body, the bronze body will evolve. It is not the kind of strengthening that comes from eating blood copper, but evolution.

And they may possess the bloodline abilities that are unique to the Tongshu and Huatong tribes.

However, he terminated the experiment at the last step. The red copper body is as valuable to Lu Xingshi as the bronze body. It is the key to his spellcasting, unless he can determine that this bloodline ability can guarantee that he still has the ability to cast spells independently, or more simply, this ability is independent spellcasting.

Only then will Lu Xingshi choose to proceed, otherwise his current bronze body is more than enough for him.

Of course, there is another option, which is to find another totem with similar characteristics to the Copper Tree Tribe and obtain the other party's totem fruit, so there is no need to sacrifice the flower-shaped red copper.

However, this is simply impossible. Either Lu Xingshi destroys the other party's tribe, or forces the other party to make the totem bear fruit.

The former may not be available, and who knows how the flower-shaped red copper is formed.

The latter is even more difficult. People would rather die with you than give it to you. Moreover, tribes of this type are extremely rare. It is difficult for Lu Xingshi to find one even if he wants to, and it is limited to those with bronze bloodline.

Although Lu Xingshi stopped the last step, he started another experimental project.

That's right, it is the new ability of fixed-position independent casting obtained after researching the evolution of the bronze body. The current progress is quite general, mainly because there is only one red copper flower body. Lu Xingshi was cautious when conducting the experiment. If this thing is gone, it is really gone.

"Huh? Snail is back?" Lu Xingshi noticed the movement coming from afar, and immediately swept away all the things and packed them up.

It certainly took more than one day for him to complete the experimental research. Instead, time just kept passing. He had actually estimated that if there were no accidents along the way, it should be over in a few days.

It will be postponed for ten days at most.

Fortunately, it was not delayed that long, but was even advanced.

Lu Xingshi hurried over and saw Snail walking in front, followed by various goods, all of which were blood copper, meat copper, bone copper, and some unclear things.

"Lu, I'm back." When Snail saw Lu Xingshi, he waved and called out excitedly.

"How was it? Did you have a smooth journey?" After Lu Xingshi approached, he ignored everyone else and asked directly.

"It went smoothly. Have we found a new place for our tribe to live?" Wo looked at the empty original place of residence and naturally understood that the tribe had moved away, while Lu Xingshi stayed and waited for him.

"Found it. Hui and the others should have settled down here now." Lu Xingshi replied.

"That's great." Snail was relieved. He was actually worried about the tribe on the way. Then he asked, "Who found it? It's so amazing."

"What I found is not amazing, I just got lucky." Lu Xingshi said modestly: "Then let's set off. It will probably take quite some time to get to the new tribe."

Wo naturally had no objection. This time it was Lu Xingshi's turn to lead the way, otherwise they would not know the way.

Snail soon discovered something: "Where is the Black and White Disaster? Why is he gone?"

"It's a long story. A while ago, a group of royal envoys went north and happened to encounter the Black and White Disaster riot."

"Those were twelve totem warriors who had condensed nine blood patterns. Fortunately, the Black and White Disaster had not yet engaged in parasitic symbiosis, so we were able to easily kill them all." Lu Xingshi said with a smile.

Before becoming immortals, the Dragon-Swallowing Ant and Phoenix-Eating Centipede had average overall strength, and this pair of black and white disasters were actually in their infancy, the black disaster insects had not yet fully grown, and the number of white disaster insects was not large enough. "To the north... I remember it was the Snake Spirit King's Court, weren't they far away from us?" Wo naturally had some understanding of this, after all, Hui had told them before that Lu Xingshi had escaped from the hands of a spy from the Snake Spirit King's Court, but failed to save Ke.

Hui Zai Ke's affairs were concealed from the outside world.

Although Lu Xingshi escaped in a miserable manner in the description of the painting, this is the normal logic.

At that time, Lu Xingshi was only a level two talent. Facing the spies from the Snake Spirit King's Court, how could he possibly win? He could only flee in panic, as this was in line with his status.

If the truth is told out, it will attract unnecessary prying eyes.

Therefore, the only person in the entire tribe who knew how powerful Lu Xingshi was was Hui.

"Who knows? People in the tribe don't have enough to eat, so they don't have the time to care about these things. At worst, we can just wait for the royal court to summon us." Lu Xingshi said perfunctorily.

There are outsiders here, so we naturally cannot speak as we please, especially since they are from the royal court. However, they are not necessarily members of the royal court.

There were quite a few silver slaves inside, in addition there were five royal envoys, four with seven patterns and one with six patterns, who enslaved the silver slaves to transport the goods.

Thanks to the destruction of the Silver Royal Court, otherwise the Bronze Royal Court would not have so many people.

"Oh, that's true." Snail didn't understand the inner meaning of Lu Xingshi's words and just took it as the truth.

"By the way, the Witch King gave you a large sum of compensation, and I exchanged it for Demon Shadow Copper, Spirit Mysterious Copper and...all of them are of top quality." Snail listed a lot of names of rare treasures, all of which were copper mines.

After swallowing these natural treasures, various upgrades can be obtained. For example, Demon Shadow Copper can allow one to form a secondary attack accompanied by a pitch-black demon shadow when attacking, while Spirit Mysterious Copper can allow one's will to form a unique spiritual mysterious light to protect one's own will.

He did not exchange for things like elemental copper. Before he left, Hui had repeatedly told him that if Lu Xingshi had any compensation, he should not exchange for these things, but should exchange for things that were not on the lost list.

Because Hui had no idea what kind of copper mines there were in the royal court, he could only let Wo choose. As long as he didn't choose the elemental copper that Lu Xingshi had swallowed, it would be fine.

"Really? You did a good job." When Lu Xingshi heard this, his expression was filled with surprise and joy. These were all good things.

"Of course, I'm not as good as you, Lu, but how could I mess up such a thing?" Snail said with his chest puffed out.

This time when he went to the royal court, Hui gave very detailed instructions, and he basically followed them, and there were no accidents.

Unless the Bronze Wizard King didn't want to settle the matter, the whole process went smoothly.

"By the way, did you exchange some silver slaves?" Lu Xingshi asked.

The Copper Tree Tribe has insufficient population, so that can be compensated by using silver slaves.

"No, Hui said they didn't need it, so I exchanged it all for blood, flesh, and bone copper." Snail said, "Besides, we can't afford to keep slaves, so bringing them back is useless."

Most of the Silver Bloodlines who were able to be taken as slaves by the Bronze Royal Court were actually weak and had been artificially disabled to prevent these slaves from rebelling.

Therefore, it is impossible to bring the silver slaves back to hunt. Farming and mining are okay, but this will reduce the share of resources for Lu Xingshi. The claim that he cannot afford to support them must be false. Hui is simply trying to fool other members.

It is originally a business with no losses but profits. You eat less and work more, and it doesn't matter if you die from work.

The Tongshu tribe was struggling to make ends meet, but they had enough food for their slaves, so they did not doubt Hui's statement.

"Okay, that's true." Lu Xingshi did not expose the lie, as he also had his own selfish motives.

He was not in a hurry to take out the Demon Shadow Copper and the Spirit Mysterious Copper to swallow.

With his current strength, he would not be full after eating for three to five minutes, which would take others three to five days. If he really started eating, he would easily reveal his flaws.

Previously, their Copper Tree Tribe claimed that the batch of elemental copper was also lost and not all eaten by Lu Xingshi. In order to make up this lie, Lu Xingshi had to be patient.

Otherwise, if the royal envoy saw that Lu Xingshi had eaten everything in less than half an hour, and told the story when he returned, even if no one believed it, it would inevitably fall into the ears of someone with ulterior motives.

As for eating it piece by piece, that won't work either. He digests and absorbs it too quickly, which is totally against common sense.

In order to ensure the safety of himself and the tribe, Lu Xingshi is not in a hurry. He doesn't mind the time anyway.

Now that I'm not in the royal court, the surrounding area can be said to be my own territory, so there's no need to be too afraid.

Besides, if it really gets intercepted on the way, he will have to ask the royal court for another copy. After all, it was their fault for not delivering it properly, and the Bronze Wizard King would just make up for it if he doesn't want to cause any more trouble.

Lu Xingshi's morality is not so low as to deliberately send people to intercept in order to get an extra copy.

Even the Copper Tree Tribe does not have such strength.

(End of this chapter)