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Chapter 354: Vivian makes her move

When the War Hounds chief attacked Miracle Commerce, Dongfang Gan couldn't sit there doing nothing. His source spirit changed into large bow marked with blood and his wild spirit energy formed three arrows. They saw him draw back the bowstring before the arrows soared into the sky.

The three arrows flew into the clouds before turning into three giant spears, falling down like meteors from outer space. They contained a powerful strength as they fell towards the three chiefs.

This power…..It was Dongfang Gan without a doubt!

Dongfang Gan was considered the oldest enemy of the War Hound Plains, so none of these War Hounds chief dared to look down on him. When forced with Dongfang Gan's sudden attack, the three of them raised their hands to form a large layer of energy. The three spears slammed against this defensive layer, giving off the sound of glass shattering.

The Fang King set his eyes on Dongfang Gan's position before giving a cold snort. Raising the golden drum and stamping his feet, he flew into the air. It was like he spread his wings as a mountain like pressure descended.

"My king, be careful!"

The two guards did not have time to release their source spirit as the lightning from the Purple Gold Thunder God Drum fell onto them. It was like two pieces of paper being torn apart as the bodies of the two guards instantly turned black. The Fang King was not blocked at all. It was like that golden drum contained a terrifying thunder energy that instantly exploded into radiant rays. When it charged at Dongfang Gan, the tens of thousands of rays of lightning went in all directions as they formed an incomparably large spider net!

Dongfang Gan had not fought with the Fang King before, but from the pressure that he felt, this person's cultivation surpassed his by quite a bit!

That long bow decomposed into a set of armour. Dongfang Gan also brandished a sword filled with a sharp aura, it was the Southern Summer country guarding King's Sword. This sword was not just the symbol of the Southern Summer King, it was a divine weapon of peerless might. Dongfang Gan's strength was enough to block the Fang King's shocking attack!

Dang!

When the golden drum met the King's Sword, the ground collapsed by half a zhang and a thirty meter wide hole formed around them. The surrounding buildings were shattered to pieces as small and large rock pieces sent people several dozen meters away.

[TL Note: 1 zhang = 3.33m]

An incredibly strong shock wave formed around the two of them!

The strength of the wave was unimaginable as large amounts of spirit energy collided. There were even flames and bolts of lightning that covered everything around them, creating a powerful spirit energy storm that shattered everything!

The attack of the Fang King was incomparably wild and Dongfang Gan's attack was weaker, but Dongfang Gan's Weapon Transformation Source Spirit had already changed into a defensive state, so it would absorb most of the damage. This attack seemed like they were even, but neither side had taken out their weapons, so this was just a test of strength!

"Ha, ha, ha! Dongfang Gan is only this strong!"

If was unknown if the Fang King used some secret technique, but his veins suddenly popped out, causing him to erupt with more and more power. Dongfang Gan's feet couldn't help sinking down as the large hole began to increase in depth.

"Thunder God! Give me strength!"

A bolt of lightning fell down from the sky and landed directly on the golden drum, increasing the power of this weapon by a bit. Dongfang Gan found it was hard to defend against this explosive power as large amounts of lightning unceasingly struck against Dongfang Gan. The armour formed from his source spirit was like it had suffered a storm of punches as it was filled with large amounts of dents.

Dongfang Gan was unwilling to be defeated, so he increased his resistance. The runes on the King's Sword was released as the power sealed within it exploded out, instantly releasing a sharp and shocking sword qi. The Fang King did not have any defenses and a large amount of blood was shed by him as a several large wounds appeared on his body.

"Is there any difference between these wounds and being scratched by a small knife?" The Fang King raised the golden drum in his right hand and his left hand condensed a violent energy that was suddenly released at Dongfang Gan's chest. Dongfang Gan raised his fist at the same time and sent it at the Fang King as well.

The instant the fists clashed.

The entire area was destroyed by their power as terrifying amounts of energy was released, flattening everything around them. Dongfang Gan's source spirit armour shattered and he flew several hundred meters like he had been hit by a bomb. He slammed down on the ground like a meteor as his internal visceras were filled with injuries.

The Fang King's strength was very deep and even Dongfang Gan was weaker by quite a bit. Faced with someone like the Fang King, it would be hard to win in a duel with the Southern Summer experts. They could only send in suicide troops to weaken his strength until they could take him out in a single blow!

"Kill the Southern Summer King!"

The War Hounds army was filled with morale when they saw how strong the Fang King was. The Southern Summer Country had great firepower, so it was very hard for them to defeat the Southern Summer Country, but if the Fang King were to kill the Southern Summer King Dongfang Gan, Central State would be thrown into chaos. There would be an opportunity at that time, so even if they failed to take the city, the defenses would be disturbed and the army could march into to easily take the city.

The Fang King naturally would not miss such a good chance!

The golden drum released dazzling lightning that was currently shooting at Dongfang Gan. However, a ripple in space suddenly appeared in front of them as a petite figure suddenly appeared.

"Who is this!"

This person had appeared too suddenly and the Fang King did not have time to react. A beautiful and jade like little hand grabbed the Fang King's golden drum blooming with thunder and she released her spirit energy, instantly forcing back the Fang King several meters. That figure appeared behind him with a slight sway before a glittering and translucent dagger cut through the air. The space seemed like it was being cut like cloth.

This is bad!

The Fang King was preparing to step off when he was instantly surrounded by spatial energy. He couldn't react in time to escape and when he came back to his senses, he had appeared over a hundred miles away, currently floating above a forest.

Damn! What was going on here?

Could there be an expert hidden in the Southern Summer Country?

Only even if the Southern Summer Country had an hidden expert, he never thought they would be this strong! The Fang King had not even seen spirit energy being released before he was forced back by this person, even the Eagle Burial Kingdom did not have many of these experts! Not to mention that this person's spirit energy attribute was very special, actually being the rare spatial attribute. The Fang King naturally did not have any defenses in this scenario, so he was directly taken away from Central State.

"Who are you!"

The Fang King saw the expert that had suddenly appeared and could not help being slightly stunned. She was a small person that was one meter and forty centimeters tall with bare feet, revealing a pair of crystal like ankles that was spotless like jade. She had a flower crown on her head and an immature face!

This was clearly a young elf!

"Why are the elves interfering?"

The Fang King could not understand this. The Southern Summer Country definitely did not have this backing, there was no doubt on that, otherwise the Eagle Burial Kingdom would surely know about this. The elves also wouldn't help a human country for no reason, this did not conform to the elves' style since ancient times!

Vivian already couldn't hold it in any longer!

Chu Tian had warned her that she couldn't reveal her ability and status in front of many people, otherwise the entire Southern Summer Country would know that there was a young elf helping them fight the spirit beasts. The Elven Forest would immediately obtain the news and this would be bad for Miracle Commerce.

The best way was to interfere when the Fang King was fighting the Southern Summer King and suddenly make a move, so that no one could react. Before they could clearly see what was happening, Vivian would forcefully take the Fang King to a far off place. This way, the War Hounds would lose their leader and Vivian could fight without worries!

"Do elves need a reason to fight spirit beasts?"

Vivian had fought quite a few spirit beast experts in the forest. This War Hounds Kingdom Fang King was a bit troublesome, but his strength was not a match for Vivian.

"Seeking death!"

The Fang King instantly stabbed out with the golden drum.

"Spatial Crack!"

VIvian used the method she had used to deal with Dongfang Gan on the Fang King. She first tore one spatial crack to block the Fang King's attack before throwing another spatial crack at the Fang King's body. As long as the Fang King's weapon touched the spatial crack, the one being pierced would be himself.

The Fang King's sharp senses felt the spatial energy fluctuations and his weapon stopped right in front of the crack. However, the lightning erupting from the golden drum went around the spatial crack, shooting at Vivian.

This spirit beast really did have skills!

Vivian had fought many powerful people in the Forest of Chaos, but there were few people that could see through Vivian's spatial powers. The Fang King being able to do this meant that he truly was not simple. Vivian's source spirit was the Spatial Dagger which had the main ability of creating spatial fissures. All her attacks and defenses were based off of this foundation.

Vivian could not only teleport using space, she could also cut off space and do things that normal people couldn't do. Because of this, any special realms and barriers were unable to stop her. Vivian also had an extraordinary attack power because she could separate space, so she could separate everything on a spatial level.

"Cut!"

Vivian's raised her right hand.

The space was ripped apart by an invisible strength and a large mouth swallowed all of the lightning.

The Fang King's face slightly fell, "Why are you saving the insect lives of the Southern Summer Country with your strength? Could it be that you also saw the knowledge Miracle Commerce and Chu Tian has? If it's like this, we can definitely share it! Well water will not interfere with river water!"

The Fang King was somewhat hesitant. This little elf's cultivation was a bit higher than his and she had the rarely seen on the continent spatial energy. Even if the Fang King was strong and rich with experience, it would be very hard for him to kill the other side.

Vivian curled her lips in disdain, "I disdain working with spirit beasts. If I don't die, you will die, so why are you talking so much?"

The Fang King was also enraged!

This elf simply did not know good from bad!

The Fang King raised the golden drum to summon several thousand bolts of thunder that were like dense raindrops, wildly falling around him without stop. This elf's spatial energy was not ordinary, but she had to cut through space to use her abilities.

The Fang King flooded the surrounding area with thunder and it was hard to lock onto the Fang King's position with the naked eye.

Vivian wanted to open a crack in space to teleport away, but when the spatial crack formed near the Fang King, large amounts of lightning bolts entered the spatial crack, making Vivian unable to teleport away.

Using all his power to surround himself and stop Vivian from moving?

No, this was just the beginning!

"Thunder God's Body!"

The thunder around him instantly gathered together and adhered to the Fang King's Divine Sense, letting him turn into a giant that was over two zhangs tall. This giant had a beast face and human body, with a pair of giant wings on its back. It was surrounded by solidified lightning and the Fang King's aura exploded by several times.

This would be troublesome!

Everyone knew that the spatial attribute was one of the strongest attributes, but they didn't know that they stronger a power is, the more restrictions it had! Vivian was affected by two main factors when trying to manipulate space.

The first was distance, meaning the further a space was, the lower the accuracy. For example, Vivian could easily split apart a person that was ten meters away and a hundred meters would be a bit more difficult, but accurately hitting someone a kilometer away was very bad. This was because manipulating space depended on one's Divine Senses. The further the distance, the weaker her Divine Sense, so it was harder to lock onto something.

The second factor was spatial stability which could also affect accuracy. Space was stable in most situations, but when a space was filled with large amounts of powerful energy, the energy fluctuations would cause the space to become unstable. Unless Vivian's strength was enough to overcome this energy, it would be very hard for her attack to hit the enemy.

The Fang King using large amounts of energy to affect the surrounding space was to affect the stability of that space, obstructing Vivian from manipulating it. He was using energy waves to interfere with her Divine Sense, making it hard for Vivian to lock onto him.

Damn, she never thought this fellow would know this much. Could it be that he had fought against someone with a spatial source spirit before?

Vivian's contempt disappeared since she was fighting an experienced soldier this time, it would be hard for her to win if she was negligent! Although Vivian could easily escape using her spatial energy, if she was to fail the first important mission Chu Tian gave her, how would she have the face to go back!

Chapter 355: Void Escaping

Then she could only try out the cultivation Chu Tian taught her!

Vivian had innate spatial energy, but because she couldn't find a suitable cultivation technique, she could only rely on her source spirit to cut through space and fight, making her fighting style were monotone. As for teleporting and dividing space, these were all applications of cutting through space.

The Fang King used his lightning to seal off the surrounding area, so Vivian did not have a way of teleporting over. The energy waves caused the space to be filled with fierce fluctuations, so Vivian couldn't cut through space. This meant she was at her wit's end.

If the Fang King ran at this moment, Vivian would not have a way to deal with him. However, it seemed like the Fang King did not plan on running and was using a large amount of lightning to attack Vivian.

Although this elf had spatial energy, her defenses were very weak. As long as he could approach, the Fang King was confident in killing her, even if her cultivation was higher than his!

How could Vivian not know what he was thinking?

This dirty spirit beast actually wants to kill me?

Vivian had only been cultivating the «Void Escaping» cultivation technique for a few days, but she already had a few attainments in it. This was not related to Vivian's innate talent. She was after all a True Spirit Realm expert and hadn't practiced a spatial cultivation technique for many years. Now that she had suddenly found a cultivation technique suited to her source spirit, naturally it would compliment her source spirit.

When the Fang King approached Vivian, he first release lightning bolts which surrounded Vivian. The lightning erupted with fierce energy that quickly disrupted the surrounding space, limiting Vivian's ability to teleport.

"Die!"

A sharp thorn of lightning condensed as it flew at Vivian. Vivian's body trembled as the lightning pierced into Vivian's chest and the dazzling energy penetrated through her back.

Is she dead?

The Fang King revealed a look of joy!

With this strong of an attack, it would be hard for her not to be dead!

But at this time, the Fang King was shocked to find that Vivian's body was not hurt by the lightning at all. This thorn of lightning had only penetrated through thin air and did not touch Vivian at all.

Vivian was coming closer and closer to the Fang King.

This is bad!

The Fang King felt a strong sense of danger!

Vivian revealed a sly smile. This distance should be enough. She raised her white as jade palm and condensed a knife that warped space to pierce at the Fang King.

Spatial cutting!

Cutting an object on a spatial level!

It disregarded firmness of the item and even the hardest item would be cut!

Puchi!

Blood instantly bloomed!

Everything had happened in an instant!

The Fang King had been split in two from the waist. This War Hounds Kingdom Fang King did not even know what happened, but he had actually been killed without knowing how!

This really was too easy to use!

Was this the effect of «Void Escaping»?

Void Escaping, escaping into the void, it really had the same effect as its name!

When Vivian used Void Escaping, her body was covered in spatial spirit energy. The enemy could still see her at this time, but her body was already isolated by a thin layer of spatial energy, no longer being in normal space.

This condition could theoretically neutralize all damage, whether it was ice, fire, wind, or lightning, it would pass through Vivian's body. It would be stopped on a spatial level and would not be able to touch Vivian, they would not be able to harm Vivian at all. With her "Spatial Dagger's" special ability, she could cross through space to attack.

The essence of the «Void Escaping» technique was its unpredictability!

Once Vivian was more familiar with this cultivation technique, with the attack power of her "Spatial Dagger", other couldn't hurt her and she could hurt others. Her strength reached an astonishing level and geniuses of the same level could only be instantly killed!

Of course the Void Escaping was not invincible. While she couldn't be hurt in conventional methods, attacks based on mind, soul, space, and time could still have effect on her.

Other than that, when she was in the Void Escaping State, it was like she had turned into a watershed.

If the strength was not enough, even with hundred of millions of attack, Vivian would not suffer any injuries because these attacks would not cause her to consume any energy. But if a single attack was strong enough, it could shatter the spatial energy barrier which would destroy Vivian's cultivation technique.

Vivian had just cultivated Void Escaping, so her cultivation strength was not high enough yet. If she received an attack that was as strong as her cultivation, her cultivation technique would naturally be released. But it was a pity that the Fang King's cultivation was weaker than Vivian's, so he had no way of breaking this space cultivation technique.

It would increase with Vivian's strength from now on.

If her cultivation technique could reach the Large Success Realm, it would be strong enough that any conventional attacks in the same realm would be unable to threaten her. Even if their cultivation was three-five layers higher, as long as they were in the same realm, conventional attacks would be of no use.

This was the terrifying part of space cultivation techniques!

"It's done!"

Vivian sent the Fang King's corpse back to Central State.

The Fang King had suddenly disappeared from the battlefield and had appeared again in around half a minute. He had turned into a corpse that had been sliced in half which completely collapsed the morale of the War Hounds!

Only the Fang King could gather the War Hounds Kingdom together. Once the War Hounds lost the supreme leadership of the Fang King, they would instantly collapse into War Hounds tribes that were completely scattered!

Now the Fang King was dead.

Can the War Hound Plains return to the past?

"Retreat, retreat!" The War Hounds chiefs felt there was no need to keep fighting. Instead of wasting military strength in Central State City, it would be better to head back and expand their territory. With the Fang King dead, the War Hounds Kingdom had collapsed and their alliance was broken!

Would it be that easy?

"Spatial Rope!"

When the War Hounds chiefs were about to move, space distorted around them. There was an invisible rope that surrounded them which was also one of the secret techniques of the Void Escaping Cultivation Technique.

This is bad!

The War Hounds chiefs already did not have time to break free of their bindings.

Vivian appeared in the space beside one War Hounds chief and instantly cut his body that couldn't move into two pieces. She did not remain for an extra second as she disappeared again.

Too fast!

The two other War Hounds chiefs had already realized that the Southern Summer Country had an expert that could manipulate space.

How could the two of them dare be negligent?

The two of them released their spirit energy and disrupted the space around them. They used quick and random movements to dodge the spatial binding, resisting the ambush of the spatial expert.

Vivian's teeth ached from her hatred.

These fellows were truly sly!

If it wasn't inconvenient for Vivian to be seen by others, she would have chased down those two people already. She had no choice now, they were already vigilant. It was hard for Vivian to make a move, so she could only let those two fellows leave.

The battle for Central State was a large victory!

The enemy army was almost completely annihilated!

From the prestigious Fang King to the other two War Hounds chiefs, they all died here!

The Southern Summer army had defended the six southern states and had killed the Fang King. This kind of glorious victory filled the Southern Summer people with elation and pride!

An incomparably exciting news also came from the Four States Lake. The six hundred thousand main army of the War Hounds were completely wiped out!

Wiped out!

They were actually wiped out!

When the Southern Summer people learned of this news, they almost suspected if there were problems with their ears!

Chu Tian had brought two hundred thousand people with him and he had wiped out a six hundred thousand enemy army, this was simply a miracle victory. Moreover, after the Four States Lake battle, the War Hound Plains had lost half of their main power, so they could no longer invade south!

The Southern Summer Country had lost several hundred thousand elite troops!

The War Hounds had also lost several hundred thousand elites!

The War Hounds had captured one region and two states from Southern Summer, but the Southern Summer Kingdom had killed the War Hounds' king!

This seemed like a defeat for both side, but the War Hounds having no way of threatening them anymore and the Southern Summer Country could recover themselves during this time. However, there was still the terrifying Eagle Burial Warring Kingdom behind the War Hounds Kingdom, so before the time was ripe, Dongfang Gan did not dare recapture the Imperial Region. He avoided provoking the Eagle Burial Kingdom, thus avoiding the Eagle Burial Kingdom from wildly trying to take revenge while ignoring all costs.

Now the biggest hidden danger was the Eagle Burial Warring Kingdom!

The Southern Summer Country had destroyed the War Hounds' main forces in one fell swoop and had killed the vassal king the Eagle Burial Kingdom had sent, which made the large kingdom War Hounds Kingdom lose a lot of strength. This was not something the Eagle Burial Warring Kingdom would not swallow down. As a powerful warring kingdom, their military was certainly strong. If they wanted to exterminate the Southern Summer Country, the Southern Summer Country would be facing invaders ten times stronger than the War Hounds!

How would they resist them then?

The Eagle Burial Warring Kingdom was an ambitious kingdom, fighting wars in all four directions at the same time, so they wouldn't move against a small Southern Summer Country just yet. Not to mention the Southern Summer Country had beaten the War Hounds in such a decisive manner, so if Dongfang Gan spread rumours, letting them believe there was a Forest of Chaos power behind the Southern Summer Country, the Eagle Burial Warring Kingdom would be careful. Without properly investigating them, they would not dare offend an unknown enemy.

In theory, the Southern Summer Country would have time to prepare, but it was hard to estimate how long this was.

In short, the Southern Summer Country's crisis was far from being over. For this matter, Dongfang Gan quickly summoned everyone to discuss this. They were discussing how to strengthen the Southern Summer Country's defenses in a short amount of time to properly prepare to defend against the Eagle Burial Kingdom's invasion.

The great scholar Gu Qianqiu said, "With the current Southern Summer Country, we have a small territory, scarce resources, and thin spiritual energy. The only thing we can cling to is Miracle Commerce's weapons and it would still be hard to resist the Eagle Burial Kingdom! Moreover, paper cannot wrap the flames. If the Southern Summer Country uses Source Energy Weapons at such a large scale, this news will be sent to other countries in just one-two months. At that time, it won't just be the Eagle Burial Warring Kingdom, the other kingdoms will also be interested in us."

This was one of the things the Southern Summer King was worried about.

The Source Energy Weapons were the only assurance they had in resisting the Eagle Burial Warring Kingdom, but it would also draw a large disaster to the Southern Summer Country. After all, the Source Energy Weapons were too attractive. No matter what country it was, as long as they had these weapons, they could increase their national strength by ten times!

Not to mention kingdoms, even the empires would be interested in them!

At that time, the Southern Summer Country wouldn't only be facing the Eagle Burial Kingdom, but some of the most powerful nations on the continent. For a weak country like the Southern Summer Country, could they protect Miracle Commerce?

"Trees are dead and people are living. This is called poverty giving rise to desire. If we want to defend against the outside powers, we cannot be conservative." Gu Qianqiu gave his opinion, "We need to expand outwards!"

"The great scholar is reasonable!" Dongfang Gan gave a slight nod, "We can't move to the north, the east and west have nothing, so we can only try heading south. According to what this king knows, the southern forests are very rich, but there are many different hard to imagine powers present, some are existences that wouldn't even lose to warring kingdoms. The Southern Summer Country is too weak, so if we enter rashly, we'll be swallowed without leaving behind even bones. How does everyone think we should proceed?"

A single Eagle Burial Kingdom could already force the Southern Summer Country to this state.

There were many peak existences in the Forest of Chaos that would not lose to warring kingdoms and the entire Forest of Chaos itself had the resources and potential to form an empire. For such a rich region, even if the Southern Summer Country could obtain a small part of the resources, it would be enough to increase the Southern Summer Country's national strength. This was truly a great method of increasing the Southern Summer Country's strength.

Only…..Could the Southern Summer Country really establish a base in this place?

"The Southern Summer Country might not be able to, but Miracle Commerce can!" Meng Qingwu stood up and said, "It's much easier for Miracle Commerce to step into the Forest of Chaos!"

This was true!

The Southern Summer Country was a country no matter how weak it was.

If a country were to enter, they would be immediately recognized as an intruder by the locals and the suppression they would meet would be hard to resist. Miracle Commerce was not the same. The Forest of Chaos was very chaotic, but there was great business opportunity because of this chaos. There were many merchants on the continent that were willing to take risk and the locals weren't on guard towards outside merchants.

Miracle Commerce's commodities had the competitive advantage in the Forest of Chaos!

Chapter 356: Testing the Space Warehouse

Miracle Commerce had increased by leaps and bounds in just half a month. In the restricted Southern Summer Country, they could not continue growing, so they could only seek a new environment to make a breakthrough.

The current Southern Summer Country's situation was not good. They were very weak and they were surrounded by danger. They needed to find new resources and find new hope to increase their strength, but they could not use their national strength.

In this situation, the Southern Summer Country could collaborate with Miracle Commerce. As long as the Southern Summer Country secretly supported Miracle Commerce as they entered the Forest of Chaos, Miracle Commerce would be able to send large amounts of resources into the Southern Summer Country in the future. It would allow the Southern Summer Country to develop a resource field in the Forest of Chaos and even develop a base for them. Even if they failed, Miracle Commerce in the front would take most of the hit and the Southern Summer Country could leave without being involved.

What reason did they have not to give it a try?

The Southern Summer King wrote two imperial decrees.

The first one urged the Cloud Dream Marquis Meng Qingwu to rush to Southern State since Southern State's Western Marquis had died in Imperial City. After Meng Qingwu was titled the Cloud Dream Marquis, she was given charge of Southern State, so it was reasonable for Meng Qingwu to head to Southern State to manage it.

The second one stated that because of the spirit beasts occupying the north and they couldn't recover it temporarily, the southern land that the Southern Summer Country had not obtained yet and were filled with rich resources was now the most important place for the Southern Summer Country to increase their national strength. Therefore, the power of the nation would be used to increase the southern development progress. In order to be efficient, the Country Guarding Ruler would be personally leading two hundred thousand elites.

Southern State was the south most region of the Southern Summer Country and the closest place to the regions around the Forest of Chaos. Having Meng Qingwu take over Southern State was to make it more convenient for Miracle Commerce.

After a few days, Miracle Commerce's staff began to gather together because this time it was an unprecedented move for Miracle Commerce. Chu Tian was not only taking the core members from Central State, the reserve resources and money was all being moved southwards. Other than that, Miracle Commerce was also bringing the army Dongfang Gan had given Chu Tian.

Two hundred thousand soldiers.

They were all Azure Storm Cavalry!

It could be said that all of the Southern Summer's elites were given to Chu Tian to manage!

The number one Ruler in the Southern Summer Country, that famous Chu Tian who had eliminated six hundred thousand troops was now personally leading the Southern Summer elites into Southern State! Meng Qingwu was the chairman holding real power in Miracle Commerce and was the Southern State's marquis personally titled by the Southern Summer King, allowing her to lead the entire Southern State army. There was no one that could compare to the prestige of these two people in the Southern Summer Country!

Southern State was not as rich as Central State, but the citizens were more fierce as they all practiced martial arts. There were even more other race people that could be seen here. Southern State's vice mayor led the Southern State troops to personally welcome them.

"Greetings Country Guarding Ruler!"

"Greetings Dream Cloud Marquis!"

When the soldiers kneeled on the ground, they all had a strange feeling in their hearts. There were many people among them that participated in the battle of Central State.

They had just fought a few months ago, but who would have known that in this short period of time, Chu Tian would become the Country Guarding Ruler and Meng Qingwu would become Southern State's marquis. The entire Southern State now belonged to the two of them. Destiny was always changing and this truly made people break out in tears!

When the Miracle Commerce group entered Southern State, the national resources continued flowing in for Miracle Commerce to develop Southern State. Chu Tian used this chance to collect large amounts of precious materials to make pills with and wildly increased Miracle Commerce's strength.

Very quickly.

Meng Yingying, Meng Qingwu, and the other Illustrious Soul Realm cultivators took several Sacred Pills and they were all smoothly promoted to the True Soul Realm. They reached an average of the 7th Awakened Soul Layer.

Chu Tian did not neglect himself, using two grade two Sacred Pills in just a week. He easily increased his cultivation by a layer and soared into the 8th Awakened Soul Layer. Actually, with Miracle Commerce's current resources, Chu Tian had the ability to increase their strength even higher.

However, using pills to increase one's strength in the short run would only increase their dependence on pills, so it would be detrimental to their future growth. Therefore, Chu Tian decided to slow down. He used the remaining resources on Chen bingyu and Dongfang Haoran, these two peak 9th Awakened Soul Layer cultivators, providing a foundation for them to break through to the True Spirit Realm.

The previous Southern Summer King's son Dongfang Haoran had officially joined Miracle Commerce. Chu Tian had appointed him as the head of the Chu Sect, managing the Chu Sect for Chu Tian. Dongfang Haoran's innate talent did not lose to Chu Xinghe and if he trained well, he would certainly be an expert in the future.

While large amounts of resources were being used by the high level personnel.

Miracle Commerce did not forget the mid and low level personnel.

The internal consumption of resources even exceeded a billion gold coins which wasn't a small amount even to the previous Three Great Clans. There was no power of the Southern Summer Country that used that much resources in just a few days.

Miracle Commerce swallowed resources too quickly and large amounts of money flowed into the private sector. Adding in the chaotic war, the prices in the Southern Summer Country soared, so each Sacred Medicine was twice as expensive as before!

Chu Tian did not care at all.

Gold coins were only a low level currency which would be no use once they left the Southern Summer Country. Didn't Chu Tian create Miracle Commerce to collect resources for his cultivation and its growth? Spending money was just spending money. As for whether the large amount spent by Miracle Commerce would collapse the Southern Summer economy, he did not consider this at all.

The most important task was to finish the Space Warehouse right now.

Because of how rustic Southern State was, their various infrastructures were very outdated. Miracle Commerce needed to transport various resources and ships and airships were too slow. If they had the Space Warehouse now, it would be much more convenient to transport the resources.

Especially after they entered the Forest of Chaos!

Miracle Commerce's airship fleet couldn't just charge into the Forest of Chaos. If they didn't solve the problem of transportation, how could Miracle Commerce develop in the Forest of Chaos?

Chu Tian personally instructed Vivian, Meng Qingwu, and Meng Yingying. He was fully dedicated to constructing the Space Warehouse. Because the Space Warehouse was made of level three source energy materials, only True Spirit Realm experts could work on it, so only Vivian could carry out the actual building right now.

Meng Qingwu and Meng Yingying had strong academic abilities, so they were mainly studying the deep as the ocean space law knowledge. Of course, Meng Yingying's learning ability was lower than Meng Qingwu, but Meng Yingying's mirror source spirit could imitate others' source spirit, so one day Meng Yingying would be one of the key researchers in terms of spatial technology.

Today, the laboratory was filled with cheers!

"This is great, the space marking is successful!"

Vivian was dancing with joy. After using an entire ten days, Vivian finally engraved a space with her Divine Sense mark. After this mark was placed, they could choose to summon this particular space, avoiding randomly summoning a space each time.

Vivian was applauding with Meng Yingying while Meng Qingwu was filled with excitement since this finished before she had expected. Actually, as long as they could make this, the Space Warehouse could basically be used.

Now that they had successfully marked it, they just needed to transform it.

Miracle Commerce used a level three source energy array to capture spaces. Most of those spaces had around a thousand cubic meters of storage space and even the larger ones were around two-three thousand cubic meters most. Although this was considered quite big for storage items, for a warehouse, this was considered far from enough.

Not to mention.

The shape of the spaces were not set.

The space the Yun Sect laboratory had marked was the shape of an irregular flat pie. It was very long and wide, but the height was less than three feet, with the lowest place being less than ten centimeters. Could such a space be used for storage? It would be very inconvenient to transport items in!

The majority of the spaces had shapes similar to this, so it was important to be able to transform the spaces. Vivian was Miracle Commerce's spatial engineer, stabilizing and marking a space was easy for her. The work she needed to spend energy on was transforming the space.

Chu Tian told to Vivian, "The Space Warehouse must have a regular shape, your next job is to transform it. I hope to see a cube with a length, width, and height of ten meters!"

"Ah!"

Meng Yingying and Vivian had bitter expressions on their faces.

To turn a pie shaped space into a cube was definitely not an easy matter. Not only would Vivian have to shape it, Meng Yingying and Meng Qignwu would need to study spatial law and perform large amounts of calculation, this was an incredibly large task!

"Does it have to be a cube?"

"It must be a cube!"

Chu Tian was not deliberately making it harder for them. This space technology was a very complicated technology, so if they couldn't even make a level three Space Warehouse, how could they make the high class space items laters on? Cubes, rectangles, and spheres were all fine, but Chu Tian gave a strict requirement to help them temper their spatial technique!

Vivian was filled with fighting spirit, "No problem, I will definitely turn it into a cube!"

Chu Tian gave a satisfied nod, "Then let's first perform a space transportation experiment right now!"

Everyone revealed a happy expression. Whether this Space Warehouse was easy to use depended on the result of this experiment. If this Space Warehouse was very convenient and quick, it would cause a large and unimaginable change to the continent!

Chu Tian said to Meng Qingwu, "Contact Central State's Yun Sect, have them send one thousand submachine guns to me."

"Alright!" Meng Qingwu took out a portable communication device and immediately dialed the Central State Yun Sect's number, "Hello, is it old Zhang? Can you bring one thousand submachine guns into the spatial laboratory? We're about to conduct a space transportation test. That's right, that's right, don't ask too much first….."

Meng Qingwu hung up the call.

The Central State Yun Sect arrived in the Central State warehouse and took inventory of one thousand submachine guns. They placed every hundred guns in one box, finally sending ten boxes to the spatial laboratory.

"Start the source energy array!"

The Central State researchers followed the instructions to open the marked spaces. They place the boxes one after the other into the space while recording the experimental data.

"Ten boxes of firearms have been placed into the Space Warehouse!"

"The source energy array is stable, but the energy consumption doubled!"

"Record: After the items were placed in the Space Warehouse, the energy consumption visibly increased. Temporarily unable to determine if this was caused by quantity or quality….."

After the Central State Yun Sect researchers recorded the data, they turned off the source energy array and used the communication device to call Meng Qingwu at the same time.

"That side has sent the goods!" Chu Tian waved his hand, "We can receive the goods now!"

"Yes!"

Meng Yingying's heart was filled with excitement as she pressed the button to turn on the Space Warehouse.

Several energy columns bloomed with dazzling light. Meng Qingwu could clearly feel that the energy required to open the Space Warehouse this time was several times more than what was required before. The several energy columns were being drained at an astonishing speed.

After loading in the goods, did the Space Warehouse energy consumption increase?

Energy was very cheap in this era, so that didn't increase costs by too much. However, this restriction on the quantity and quality of items transported was a kind of limitation, but it was one that could be accepted.

Vivian and Meng Yingying quickly took out the ten boxes. Each box was perfectly shaped and was not damaged at all. When they opened the boxes, each of the submachine guns was neatly placed, meaning they weren't shaken in the transport space at all!

"Wa, perfect, perfect!" Meng Yingying excitedly shouted in a loud voice, "Doesn't this mean that even in Southern State, wouldn't I be able to eat roasted chicken from Central State?"

Vivian's face turned red, "Don't mention Central State's roasted chicken. When our elven race construct a Space Warehouse, I'll have our elders boil a pot of top quality elven green tea every day. Even if it is sent to your room several tens of thousands of miles away, it will be freshly brewed and steaming hot!"

Meng Qingwu couldn't help smiling.

These two girls only knew how to eat!

But the space transportation effect from the Space Warehouse indeed had great prospects and potential!

Chapter 357: Unexpected calamity of the barbarians

Miracle Commerce performed the experiment several times and obtained large amounts of data. They finally determined that the Space Warehouse was very stable and other than not being able to store life forms and pure energy items, there were no other special limitations.

The Space Warehouse would not damage items and would even prevent them from rotting.

Other than that, the cost of maintaining the Space Warehouse required a lot of energy and this cost depended on what was being stored in the warehouse itself. An empty storage meant the least energy consumed and more and more items added increased the energy consumption. It was related to the volume, quality, and energy of the item stored.

If the item was too large, too high quality, or had too much energy, the Space Warehouse consumption would be incredibly big. The four energy columns would be drained at the time, causing the opening of the Space Warehouse to fail.

Although energy was cheap, constructing the energy columns was rather tedious. Therefore when opening the Space Warehouse, one needed to understand the situation of the warehouse to ensure that there would be no losses or troubles.

Generally speaking, whether it was the Space Warehouse's structure or its security, they needed large amounts of time and effort to improve them. This was not a small task and to Miracle Commerce who only had a single spatial engineer, this was not a small challenge.

Vivian did not complain at all, rather she felt very honoured.

It was because her work was irreplaceable that made her more excited. The Space Warehouse was not just the first one seen by Vivian, it was also a perfect piece of arty she had slowly made with her own hands. She wished that she could use all her strength to make it perfect.

Vivian worked overtime each day with Meng Qingwu and Meng Yingying helping her.

The Space Warehouse progression was not fast, but it was still progressing bit by bit.

Only Chu Tian came to the spatial warehouse less and less recently, doing something unknown each day. Meng Qingwu learned what it was by asking around. Chu Tian brought Gu Qianqiu's group of old men into a laboratory and they were researching medicine.

Meng Qingwu understood Chu Tian very well.

This fellow would not do anything unnecessary. Since he would make this strange medicine , that meant he had a reason for doing so. What new place would this medicine be used?

Meng Qingwu was Miracle Commerce's general manager, so how could she not know about anything happening in Miracle Commerce. After personally examining the ingredients, Meng Qingwu was shocked to find that she had never heard of this medicine formula before. That large amount of fierce beast blood and strange materials, the final refined "Wild Blood Medicine", what use would this item have?

It was not a medicine that increased one's cultivation and it did not have the effect of curing poison.

Meng Qingwu couldn't help finding Chu Tian and slamming the list of materials on the table, "The Space Warehouse research is at a critical point, but you aren't helping us. Now you're researching this strange thing, will it be useful to Miracle Commerce?"

Chu Tian was confused with the young miss, but he calmly drank his tea, "Before we enter the Forest of Chaos, what is the issue that needs to be solved right away?"

Meng Qingwu was stunned by this question.

The company had many problems that needed to be improved on. If they wanted to pick one out, they really didn't know which one to pick.

Meng Qingwu heard that Chu Tian had some kind of plan, "You're thinking….."

Chu Tian replied, "We lack a strong army that belongs to us!"

"Actually, Miracle Commerce's research and technology is very advanced for the current age." Chu Tian paused after saying this, "However, Miracle Commerce lacks a synchronized military force. We didn't feel much effect from this in the Southern Summer Country, but once we enter the Forest of Chaos, this problem could be fatal."

Meng Qingwu said with a frown, "Don't we have the Source Energy Weapons?"

"The Source Energy Weapons need people to use them." Chu Tian explained his intentions, "So, I plan to build an army!"

The Underworld Mercenary Group under Miracle Commerce had already reached thirty thousand people. The Underworld Mercenaries were originally raised for protecting various industry regions for Miracle Commerce. Miracle Commerce had too many shops and each sector needed a team to protect them, so there weren't any mercenaries that were free.

The Giant Shark Gang had one hundred thousand people, but there were only ten-twenty thousand elites which weren't enough to protect Miracle Commerce.

What about the two hundred thousand Southern Summer cavalry currently under his control?

This was a good army painstakingly raised by the Southern Summer Country, but it did not belong to Miracle Commerce in the end! Not to mention that cavalry could not play a role in the Forest of Chaos' environment.

The Forest of Chaos' situation was different from the Southern Summer Country. The Forest of Chaos was a place filled with true disorder, so if they did not have strong enough forces, so what if they brought high quality goods into the Forest of Chaos? Before they could begin selling them, their items would all be stolen!

Meng Qingwu was a bit interested, "Then, how are you prepared to do this?"

At this time, Chu Tian's communication device sounded, causing Meng Qingwu to be a bit surprised. Chu Tian's communication number should only be known by the core members and if there weren't any emergencies, no one would call him. Who didn't know Chu Tian was lazy? If something happen, they should still find Meng Qingwu.

Nangong Yun's anxious voice came through, "Chu Tian, something bad has happened. We have been robbed!"

What was this?

Who had robbed Miracle Commerce? Even the Southern Summer King would not easily offend Miracle Commerce. Chu Tian had a large army in his hand and was the most influential minister in the Southern Summer Country. Even people with a bit of brain would know that offending Miracle Commerce was no different from committing suicide, right?

Chu Tian did not even have time to speak.

Meng Qingwu quickly asked, "Nangong, what are you saying? What happened!"

"I don't know either. There was a large group of barbarians that attacked our engineers in the mountains!" Nangong Yun explained quickly, "Those barbarians aren't that weak and have caught elder sister Yun Yao and elder sister Caidie. Before elder sister Caidie was captured, she called me and told me their losses were serious. Quickly save them!"

Southern State was the most primitive and barbaric of the eight states. The barbarians came from the south who were very strong and intimidating. They refused to be educated and plundered the cities' caravans every few days.

When the Western Marquis managed Southern State, he absorbed while confronting the barbarians. He was recruiting the barbarians to increase the might of his army while using the Southern State army to suppress the barbarians, creating a balance.

After Miracle Commerce came to Southern State, Meng Qingwu found out the local situation. Although the barbarians cause quite a bit of problems, she did not care about them too much.

She never would have thought that.

Those damn fellows would be so blind!

"If the malignant tumor of the barbarian tribes are not wiped, Southern State's development will be stopped." Meng Qingwu stood up and said, "We have two hundred thousand Azure Storm Cavalry, why not take this chance to wipe out the barbarians all at once!"

The two hundred thousand Azure Storm Cavalry were the strongest army that could even fight the War Hounds, the Southern Summer Country had spent countless resources and devoted a lot of energy to training them.

Chu Tian angrily slapped the table, "Immediately lead five hundred griffin knights and investigate properly even if you have to go door to door. Those barbarians have actually eaten some leopard's balls, daring to steal from my Miracle Commerce. I will organize the forces and come immediately."

"Alright!"

Nangong Yun immediately hung up the call.

"Humph!" The young miss first looked at Chu Tian with a strange gaze before saying with a snort, "I was almost tricked by you!"

Chu Tian pretended to be surprised, "What does the young miss mean?"

"Miracle Commerce was not robbed, this was all a play directed by you, right?"

"Young miss, you must have proof if you want to say this!"

Meng Qingwu looked at him, "If Miracle Commerce was robbed, its strange if you're not enraged with your temper. How could you still be calmly sitting here? Also, you had Nangong Yun search house to house, when you find the hostage, it would be strange if they weren't dead! Why don't you just use the little fox's divine eye?"

Others wouldn't know about Chu Tian, but how could Meng Qingwu not know?

Chu Tian's little fox was not just an ornament, that divine eye had magical investigation powers. As long as they knew the general area, the little fox could easily find the group of robbers. Nangong Yun was leading the griffin knights to save them, was there a need for all this trouble?

There was only one possibility.

This was definitely a play Chu Tian had set up!

Chu Tian helplessly said, "The young miss is truly a wonderful girl that combines both beauty and wisdom, I can't hide anything from you!"

It wasn't that you could trick me.

It was your play that was too lacking!

But this was good as well. They could use this chance to flex their muscles in Southern State, letting those barbarians and aristocrats see who is the real boss in this area!

Miracle Commerce intentionally sent the news everywhere, letting everyone in the city know that Miracle Commerce had been attacked. The fact that two important management members were kidnapped by the barbarians was known by the entire city.

After around three hours, the two hundred cavalry were gathered. Each platoon was made of ten thousand people, with a total of twenty platoons. Chu Tian personally led this army as the dense wave crashed into the barbarian's region.

Meng Qingwu used her Southern State marquis title to gather over a hundred thousand Southern State troops that followed closely behind the Azure Storm Cavalry. Because they had been robbed by a group of barbarians, Miracle Commerce had gathered an elite team of several hundred thousand soldiers!

This was unprecedented in the Southern Summer history!

The Southern State aristocrats wanted to see a joke, but when they saw the terrifying strength Miracle Commerce had, their faces turned white in fear. This was too terrifying. If there was anyone that dared to offend Miracle Commerce from this day forth, perhaps they'll be crushed without leaving a trace.

With the several hundred thousand army charging forth, how could the barbarians not know about this!

The entire barbarian race exploded as the various tribe leaders were filled with panic. That bastard should suffer a thousand slashes, actually offending a colossus like Miracle Commerce!

It wasn't that the barbarians didn't know anything about Miracle Commerce. After all, Miracle Commerce's influence was too big and in the barbarian tribes, using an electric light was considered an honour. Although they didn't know how strong Miracle Commerce was, they would not annoy a top power like this for no reason!

"This is bad! That is the Southern Summer Country's strongest Azure Storm Cavalry!"

"Reporting to the chief, the humans have sent a several hundred cavalry soldiers, we must quickly away!"

"Damn, which tribe did it! Do they not have fucking eyes? Quickly hand them over to the humans!"

"Too late, too late, the human army have already surrounded us. They want to use this excuse to catch all of us barbarians in one fell swoop!"

The barbarians ran around like ants in a hot pot.

This was simply an unexpected calamity for the barbarians!

Chapter 358: Subduing the barbarians

Chu Tian led the huge army to surround the area the barbarians were living in, completely scaring all of them!

They accepted the bullying of the Western Marquis, so how could they dare annoy the Country Guarding Ruler who had such a large army in his hands!

The northern War Hounds had a population of several tens of millions which could reach over a hundred million at times. The Southern Summer barbarians didn't even reach ten million and most of their populations were split into large and small tribes.

So what if the barbarian warriors had hard skin and strong muscles?

The War Hounds' six hundred thousand main army was still wiped out by Chu Tian!

The barbarians were afraid of provoking the Country Guarding Ruler and him wiping out their tribes, so after learning Chu Tian came to Southern State, they all began to act more restrained. They began to gather grain rations and were prepared to leave the Southern State area. Although the barbarians were not very smart, they were not stupid. Who wanted a power with might they couldn't fight against in their territory? The previous Western Marquis couldn't do anything, but this Country Guarding Ruler could take them out.

Perhaps Miracle Commerce could feel that the barbarians were already planning to leave, so there was peace during the past half a month. Meng Qingwu did not have any plans on moving against the barbarians. Who would have thought that this moment, some unknown idiot couldn't help opening a can of worms at this time!

It's fine if you were to attack an ordinary merchant's caravan!

The barbarian was all doing this, it was fine as long as they didn't go overboard. Who would have thought that this group of idiots would attack Miracle Commerce's engineering team while they were making communication facilities. It's fine if you were stealing from them, but you had to kill Miracle Commerce staff and even kidnap two high level members of Miracle Commerce!

Wasn't this seeking death?

It's over, it was over this time. They were dead for sure!

An old barbarian tribe chief quickly discussed countermeasures with their tribe members.

An old barbarian covered in bone ornaments stood up and said, "This is but a fuse, the Southern Summer people would not tolerate barbarians. If nothing happens today, something will happen tomorrow, the humans will exterminate us eventually. Even if they do not make a move, we won't dare go robbing. Without a source of income, we will still starve to death!"

"That's right!"

"We can't stay in the Southern Summer Country anymore!"

"We must quickly run away!"

The barbarians did not understand agriculture and were uncivilized people. Humans disdained from associating with them, so they could only rob to survive. Now that the Southern State situation was this bad, none of the barbarians dared to go raiding, so how could they live on?

The barbarians had been living in Southern State for many years, contradicting their people. From the aspect of human interests, they would not allow a foreign race remain in their nation for a long time.

Even if this matter did not happen today.

The humans would attack the barbarians eventually, so leaving was the only method they had.

The old tribe chief nodded, "How are the storages?"

"We've finished preparing these past few days. As long as the chief gives orders, we can hide in the forests. Even if that Country Guarding Ruler Chu Tian is strong, he wouldn't chase after us in the forests!"

The old tribe chief nodded. They could only do this. Although the land outside Southern State were rough to survive in, it was better to live on instead of sitting in Southern State waiting for death!

"This is bad!"

"Chu Tian has led a several hundred thousand army to surround all four sides and have trapped all the tribes! Chu Tian has given the order that before the hostages are saved, any tribe that dares act rashly will be destroyed!"

The old tribe chief was shocked.

The Southern Summer Country surrounded the barbarian's region this quickly? They couldn't run even if they wanted to, what should they do now!

In the end, before a few minutes could pass.

"This is bad!"

"The humans are killing their way in!"

"Clansmen, go all out with them!"

When the old barbarians heard the shouting outside, they were all filled with fear. They quickly ran out and they saw a red hair girl riding a griffin knight leading several hundred griffin knights.

The young barbarians were holding spears as they charged at this flying unit.

"Stop!"

"Quickly stop!"

The old barbarian tribe chief's eyes almost popped out!

These reckless young people, didn't they know what army this was? This was the Southern Summer Country's ace, the "griffin knight unit"! This was an unit to protect the royal clan. Whether it was the mounts or the riders, they were all in the Awakened Soul Realm.

Don't look down on them because there weren't many of them.

These several hundred griffin knights were enough to take out a barbarian tribe with several thousand members!

Too late!

These were hot blooded barbarians, each one not knowing fear. When they saw the griffin knights approach, they immediately threw out their spears. How could attacks of this degree hurt the griffin knights? The griffin knights easily knocked them down with their spears.

"Good! You barbarians! Daring to rob my company and even daring to ambush the Southern Summer army!" Nangong Yun was filled with rage as her red hair flew into the sky. She pulled out an exaggerated Storm Rifle and shouted with a face filled with rage, "If I don't give you a taste, you won't know the power of me, Nangong Yun!"

This was…..the legendary Source Energy Weapon?

The old tribe chief had only heard of it and had never seen it before!

Nangong Yun did not give the barbarians any chance to explain as she carried the Storm Rifle, sending out angry shots. The large amounts of source energy bullets wildly landed on the barbarians. When those barbarians preparing to throw spears saw this terrifying weapon, they all began to scatter like rats.

Too terrifying!

This was simply the weapon of the devil!

In less than half a minute, Nangong Yun's Storm Rifle had released several hundred bullets. Under this storm of bullets falling down, the bravery of each barbarian was completely shattered.

Who would have known that this was only the beginning. Nangong Yun loudly shouted, "All troops fire! Let these savages have a taste of Miracle Commerce's strength!"

The several hundred griffin knights put away their spears and each one pulled out a Source Energy Submachine Gun. Several hundred guns firing at the same time, what kind of scene was that?

The barbarians had a thorough understanding of science and technology as a storm of bullets almost instantly rained down on them. The barbarians' stone buildings were destroyed and tents flew everywhere as the ground was filled with holes.

"Daring to go against Miracle Commerce!"

"Daring to kidnap our people!"

"Daring to go against the Southern Summer army!"

Nangong Yun pulled out a grenade and threw it into the barbarians' food warehouse. With a terrifying explosion, flames soared into the sky as the entire warehouse was flattened. A part of the griffin knights also began pulled out grenades as they threw them at the barbarians' buildings.

A pillar of flame soared into the sky just like a mushroom cloud.

The old tribe leader and the other old barbarians were all stunned.

Their buildings, land, and food were all gone!

Nangong Yun led the griffin army on a rampage for around five minutes. The barbarians did not try to revolt at all, as their entire tribe was wiped out. The strange thing was that while the tribe losses were serious, there weren't many barbarians who were injured!

"Spare us!" The old tribe chief was afraid and anxious as he kneeled down with all the other barbarians, "It really wasn't done by us!"

During this entire attack, the griffin knights had not displayed any martial arts and just used the Source Energy Weapons to create such a terrifying effect. Even if it was the unruly barbarians, they would be shocked by this unprecedented scene and firmly place Miracle Commerce's invincibility in their hearts!

The large barbarian men were filled with terror.

They were all kneeling down with the tribe chief begging for mercy.

Nangong Yun was carrying the smoking Storm Rifle as she walked over. Waving her left hand, she shouted, "Search for me!"

The griffin knights began searching while causing some destruction. The entire tribe's land became a mess in the end, but they could not find any people from Miracle Commerce.

Nangong Yun doubtfully asked, "It really wasn't done by you?"

The barbarians kept complaining. It really was a misunderstanding, how could they do something like that?"

"Damn, since it wasn't done by you, why would you resist!" Nangong Yun slapped the old tribe chief to the ground. Her eyes were filled with flame as she angrily roared out, "Do you know how much time you've caused us to waste? If we can't save them because of you, Miracle Commerce will bury you all with the dead! Go, we're heading to the next tribe!"

Nangong Yun led the griffin knights away.

The old tribe chief stood up to look at their smoking land as he had an absent minded look on his face

"This….Miracle Commerce's people are not human, they are simply devils!"

"That's right! Only devils would have those kinds of weapons!"

"Even if we had a hundred times more people, we still can't resist!"

"Quickly run away!"

The old tribe chief looked at them and roared, "Run? Run your ass! We have no weapons, no food, and no tribe, we have nothing at all! We are also surrounded by the Southern Summer army, how can we run!"

"What should we do? Even if we aren't killed by the devils, we'll starve to death!"

"That's right, they still haven't saved their people yet. Perhaps they have already been killed. That terrifying woman just said that if anything happens to the hostages, they would bury the barbarians with them!"

The barbarians were filled with panic.

This calamity from the heavens destroyed their land and now they had neither weapons or food. It was impossible for them to journey to the forests, but staying here was also death, so what should they do!

"How about we submit!"

"Submit?"

The old tribe chief had never thought of this idea before, but thinking about it, they had no other choices and they couldn't run, so this was the only method of keeping their lives. They could submit to Miracle Commerce and help them tear the chief culprit to pieces.

Perhaps, Chu Tian's mood will be good enough to spare them!

Although the barbarians did not have any skills, they still had brute strength. Even with three-five humans of the same level added together, they wouldn't have the same strength of a single barbarian. When performing manual labour, physical strength was the most important!

"That's right!"

"We can submit!"

"We can help Chu Tian find the true culprit!"

After seeing Miracle Commerce's strength, the old tribe chief did not have any ideas of resisting and immediately chose to submit to Miracle Commerce. No matter what the result would be, it wouldn't be as bad as now. If their luck was good, perhaps they could keep their lives. After all, this matter was not done by them and Miracle Commerce would not have any reason to destroy an army pledging themselves to them in a fit of anger!

It wasn't just a single tribe that thought like this. In just a single day, the entire barbarian region all gave up the idea of running and put down their weapons to submit to Miracle Commerce.

They didn't have any other requests, they just wished to live!

Chapter 359: Barbarians' autonomous region

The young miss had guessed the plan without a single mistake.

The unexpected calamity of the barbarians was directed by Chu Tian. Actually, since they arrived from Central State, Chu Tian had already been secretly monitoring this special power. It did not mean that Chu Tian was afraid of the barbarians, rather Chu Tian was very interested in them.

The barbarians were different from weak humans. The barbarians had natural copper skin and iron bones. Many of these barbarians did not have the custom of practicing cultivation techniques because the barbarians' physiques were incredibly strong. They were around ten times that of a normal human adult, five times that of a wolf or leopard spirit beast, and even double or three times that of a tiger or bear spirit beast.

The barbarians had terrifying brute strength and even without any cultivation, they were not inferior to elite Southern Summer soldiers. That was the reason why they could remain in Southern State for so long. The Western Marquis couldn't destroy them and suffered losses at their hand, so he had to compromise for everyone's interests.

In Chu Tian's eyes, the over a million barbarians in Southern State could be a time bomb and also a gold mine!

What did Chu Tian lack the most? Was it resources? Was it money and fame? No, it was soldiers! These barbarians were natural soldiers and they only need a bit of training before they became a powerful army!

In the beginning, Chu Tian did not plan on using too cruel of a method and wanted to slowly make them submit. Who would have thought that in the recent reports, they said that the barbarians were stockpiling food, seemingly preparing to leave Southern State.

How could that be allowed?

Once the barbarians left Southern State and entered the forests to the south, not only would they be hard to use by Chu Tian, they would certainly cause a lot of trouble for Miracle Commerce in the future.

This was a power of one million barbarians! If they were out in the open and gathered together, Chu Tian could not care about them. If they were hidden in the old forests and mountains, they would cause Chu Tian ten times more problems than open riots in Southern State. This was because Chu Tian's path was headed south and if this road was blocked by over a million hooligans, the consequences could be imagined.

This matter could not be allowed to happen!

Therefore, Chu Tian sent Nangong Yun to destroy the food the barbarians worked hard to store under the pretense of looking for hostages, making them lose the ability to run away. He also had her demonstrate the power of Miracle Commerce without killing too many barbarians, letting the barbarians have a deep fear of Chu Tian and Miracle Commerce.

Because the barbarians did not dare resist Miracle Commerce, adding in the fact their food stores had been destroyed and they were in a situation where they weren't at fault, they could only leave things to chance and surrender to Miracle Commerce, hoping that Miracle Commerce would show mercy by giving them a way out.

Chu Tian said to Dongfang Haoran, "Bring all the barbarians that have surrendered into the valley. Have a hundred thousand soldiers surround them and don't let them escape."

"Yes!"

Dongfang Haoran immediately rode off.

An entire two hundred thousand young barbarians were brought into the valley. One hundred thousand Southern Summer cavalry were stationed on the high ground making the barbarians very afraid. These Southern Summer elite cavalry were very strong and if the barbarians dared to riot, the cavalry would charge down and all the barbarians would be finished!

If these barbarians were afraid, the ones left in the tribe were even more afraid.

Because the young had all been taken away, leaving the weak old and very young who couldn't resist at all. Not to mention the fact that their land had been destroyed, so them defending this ruined land was currently sitting filled with uneasiness.

The hot tempered barbarians shouted, "We want to see the Country Guarding Ruler!"

Hong dong!

A Source Energy Cannon was fired!

The violent energy flattened a mountain in front of the barbarians!

The barbarians were stunned seeing this. Miracle Commerce had an even more powerful weapon! If this weapon was fired into the crowd, the casualties couldn't be counted in just hundreds!

"All of you shut up for me!" Dongfang Haoran was covered in bright armour as he rode on a Divine Blue Foal, running around the edge of the valley. He looked very much like a general as he shouted with a serious face with no expressions at all, "The Country Guarding Ruler is currently investigating the barbarians attacking the merchant caravan which you are all suspected of. Honestly stay here and when this matter is over, the Country Guarding Ruler will deal with you all!"

"This is injustice! Injustice!"

"It must have been done by the Black Rhino Tribe!"

"Bullshit! Our Black Rhino Tribe hasn't done anything in half a month. It must have been done by the Iron Bull Tribe, I saw them lead a team out just a few days ago!"

"Fuck! Don't make false accusations, we were just going out hunting!"

"..."

The barbarians were all blaming each other. Their simple brains could never think that this matter was directed by Chu Tian and they were all just victims. The barbarians did not think Miracle Commerce would do such a boring matter. With Miracle Commerce's strength, it wouldn't be hard to wipe out the barbarians, so why make the extra move?

The barbarians became even more rowdy before finally making their move. The entire valley became a large fight as the wave of people surged and people's heads were covered in blood, looking very intense.

Hong, hong, hong!

Several mountains were flattened!

Dongfang Haoran raised his speaker to say, "Whoever dares cause trouble will cause their tribe to be killed!"

The barbarians immediately quieted down.

"We all submit!"

"We ask the Country Guarding Ruler for mercy!"

"….."

Chu Tian sat on the high ground drinking tea. He looked over these barbarians with strong body and nodded with satisfaction. As long as they were trained, they could immediately become great soldiers. The heavens are truly helping me!

"These big fools are truly pitiful." Meng Yingying looked at the frightened and hungry barbarians shouting in the valley and her heart couldn't help being moved, "Our goals have been accomplished and they have already surrendered, how about we let them go!"

Chu Tian shook his head, "The barbarians are an unreasonable and violent race, if we need to deal with these fellows, we need to teach them a profound lesson. The critical moment isn't here yet, look at how fierce they are. Although they are saying they have surrendered, if we let them go, I can guarantee at least half of them will escape in a single night."

"What should we do?"

"Let them dry out in the sun for a week, until they're too hungry to move!"

Meng Yingying felt that this was a bit too cruel, "What if they riot from their hunger?"

Chu Tian gave a laugh and said, "The barbarians are afraid of hardships. They will display their strength, but they won't rashly make a move. Not to mention that I've never said I would kill them. As long as they don't have any hope, they will keep waiting."

Meng Yingying sighed. Silly barbarians, it wasn't that I didn't try helping you, but who told you to catch Chu Tian's eyes? It would be strange if you didn't encounter bad luck!

He did what he said.

Chu Tian locked up the barbarians for seven days and nights, not giving them food or water, allowing them to survive on grass and rain. After seven days, the barbarians were flat from hunger and were all weakly lying on the ground, making them look like refugees.

When the barbarians' body and mind were about to collapse.

Suddenly.

The cavalry began to retreat.

Dongfang Haoran rode a tall horse to announce, "I want to announce good news t everyone. The robbers that attacked Miracle Commerce had been caught!"

The barbarians were shocked.

They had finally been caught?

"These robbers came from the southern forest and weren't from Southern State. The hostages had been saved and this matter is not related to you all. The Country Guarding Ruler has given the orders to let you all leave!"

Everyone was filled with happiness.

Everything had finally come to an end.

The cavalry on the four sides began to withdraw. It seemed like the Southern Summer army were about to leave, leaving behind a group of stunned barbarians.

"Wait a minute!" The several old tribe chiefs quickly chased after them.

"What is it?"

"General, our tribe's land was destroyed and we have no food." The several old tribe chiefs said with faces of sorrow, "The clansmen all have no energy and we can't even walk."

Dongfang Haoran's brows knit, "How does the lives of you barbarians matter to the Southern Summer Country? It has to be known, you have committed many evil deeds on the daily basis. The Country Guarding Ruler not killing you all is already the greatest mercy!"

The barbarians instantly began to plead, "We have already submitted to the Country Guarding Ruler, we ask the Country Guarding Ruler for a way out!"

"I can't make the decision on that!" Dongfang Hao Ran said, "I'll go back and ask the Country Guarding Ruler!"

"Thank you general, thank you general!"

Dongfang Haoran had not left long before immediately coming back. The barbarians had not left, most likely because they didn't have the strength.

"The ruler's orders are here!"

Dongfang Haoran raised a scroll high up.

The barbarians all kneeled down to welcome the Country Guarding Ruler's orders.

Dongfang Haoran spoke in a loud voice and read the ruler's orders which simply read: This matter has caused heavy disturbances with the barbarians, but it is not worth sympathizing with you all. Who asked you barbarians to be normally raiding and doing all kinds of evil things? However, every being in this world deserves to live, so this gracious ruler will give you a way out.

For the Southern State's long term peace and the Southern Summer Country's prosperity, Miracle Commerce has decided to invest in restoring a city abandoned by humans fifty years ago. With that city as a center, the three hundred mile region around it will become known as the barbarian autonomous region, a place for the barbarians to live in.

In order to guarantee the barbarians will not go back to their old work, Miracle Commerce will make a large investment. Other than providing relief food the ensure the barbarians do not starve, we will also open up resources in this autonomous region while making large amounts of factories, giving the barbarians work to provide for their family.

Once the ruler's orders were read.

The barbarians were seething with excitement.

The Country Guarding Ruler was specially restoring a city for the barbarians!

What courage, what tolerance. The barbarians have been clashing with the humans and it was impossible for them to live together, so the Country Guarding Ruler specially created a region for the barbarians! At first he would be providing relief food and would be providing work later on, making sure they no longer needed to work as robbers.

The barbarians were all feeling confused. They didn't know if they could adapt to this lifestyle, but what choice did they have? They no longer had their land and they couldn't escape, so they could only give this method a try.

The tribe chiefs came together and immediately decided to lead their tribes to see this new region.

When they arrived in the barbarian autonomous region set aside by Chu Tian, each barbarian was shocked by what they saw. The city was very worn out, but it looked very big. Not only were the walls perfect, the buildings had been repaired and there were even tents set up.

A line of beast carriages entered the city.

Each beast carriage was filled with food and wine!

When these starved barbarians smelled the scent of the meat and wine, the final worries they had all collapsed. They immediately accepted the Country Guarding Ruler's proposition and swore loyalty to the Country Guarding Ruler as they roared while charging into their new home.

Chu Tian was very generous.

Miracle Commerce had already shipped a large amount of food here, enough that these barbarians would not starve for a while.

The other barbarians who were still uncertain and worried saw that those barbarians who had gone first were already feasting, so how could they still keep sitting there? The barbarian region was managed by the barbarians. Since they wouldn't be restricted by humans, could eat until their bellies were full, and live a good live, who wasn't willing to go? In just a few days and nights, this ruined city became lively. The barbarian region continued to grow as all the barbarians migrated over.

This time, unlike the previous forced surrender before, the barbarians were willingly submitting.

When Chu Tian saw the situation was slowly stabilizing, he passed a few simple laws in the barbarian region and sent the cavalry to maintain military order, thus completely controlling them.

Chapter 360: Berserker

The barbarians were not smart, so they did not understand what was happening and just felt gratitude towards Chu Tian. After all, Chu Tian did not kill them all and instead gave them good food.

With several hundred thousand barbarians, each one with a shocking appetite, they consumed an astonishing amount of food each day. Miracle Commerce had no choice but to import food from the other states.

The city the barbarians were living in was one that was destroyed by a beast disaster. Miracle Commerce had installed street lights and fixed the houses, as well as setting laws and order for the barbarians. Chu Tian promised that humans would not mettle with the barbarian region, so the management team was comprised of several barbarian tribe chiefs.

The barbarians had been living a primitive life, but now they were living a modern life.

Because the factory and mines had not been open yet, the barbarians ate all day without needing to work, so their lives were very soft. Chu Tian ordered people to bring a set of «Berserk Art» cultivation technique to the barbarian city. In a ruler's orders read to the public, it said they would give large rewards to barbarians who cultivated.

Father's Miracle Commerce was rich!

Your group of barbarians just need to obediently cultivate in the city, don't look for more trouble. Not only do you get a free cultivation technique, if you have success, you will even receive rewards!

The barbarians did not dare believe Miracle Commerce was just taking care of them. Giving them a better living condition and even given the barbarians a cultivation technique to practice, this was simply too crazy!

Only was the cultivation technique truly suited for the barbarians?

The barbarian civilization did not have any passed down cultivation technique, but this was not just because the barbarians had a low degree of civilization.

The main reason was that barbarians did not have innate source spirits. The human cultivation techniques and the cultivation techniques of the continent were not suited to the barbarians, therefore most barbarians did not cultivate spirit energy and instead walked on the path of purely refining their bodies.

The barbarians all had muscles, not losing to a Body Refinement Cultivator, but it was hard to create a true expert!

Therefore, the barbarians could only turn to being bandits since ancient times, robbing others as an occupation. They had never formed a kingdom or a civilization, so the barbarians had a low status on the continent.

Several dozen barbarian chiefs studied the cultivation technique sent to them.

The old barbarians were shocked to find that this «Berserk Art» was tailored perfectly for the barbarians!

This was fundamentally different from the other cultivation techniques on the continent. The mainstream cultivation techniques cultivated one's source spirit to increase one's spirit energy, but this «Berserk Art» was a new innovation. This cultivation technique's fundamentals focused on refining the body, cultivating one's life force, so the demand for spirit energy was not strong!

It was not exaggerated to say.

This set of cultivation technique could change the barbarian race's destiny!

The entire barbarian race was stirred, having a firm belief in the Country Protecting Ruler. The various tribe chiefs organized the barbarians to cultivate every day. Although they didn't know why the Country Protecting Ruler was doing this, but there was no reason to reject this meat pie that fell from the sky!

The facts proved it.

There was no true fool in this world. As long as there was proper development and guidance, even a low ranking race like the stupid barbarians could easy achieve success if they found a path suited to them.

In just a few days time.

There were some barbarians that had success with the «Berserk Art»!

When Chu Tian learned of this matter, he immediately headed to the barbarian city.

"The Country Guarding Ruler is here!"

"Quickly come out to greet him!"

The barbarians never thought that Chu Tian would try anything. Chu Tian had enough strength that eliminating the barbarians was not a hard matter, so why would he do something troublesome like going around in circles? Not to mention restoring a city for the barbarians and giving them food. The amount of money spent was not a small figure.

He even gave the barbarians a cultivation technique that gave them a chance to change their destiny!

Chu Tian brought Chen Bingyu and Dongfang Haoran as bodyguards, plus some normal people that came to look at the barbarian city. The barbarian city was not very lively, being filled with barbarians. They were all around two meters tall with colours painted all over their bodies. They had bird feathers and strange bone ornaments covering them. The scene looked very incredible.

"Country Guarding Ruler!"

The barbarians loudly shouted with a voice that roared like thunder.

Chu Tian was simply as great as an angel in the eyes of the barbarians. Several barbarian tribe chiefs quickly came out to greet him. In the hearts of every barbarian, they were clear that this ordinary looking human man had enough power to easily destroy their barbarian race.

A single word was enough to make all the Southern State barbarians disappear!

Even the most civilized race on the continent would respect experts, not to mention a primitive and crude race like the barbarians. Therefore, when they were facing Chu Tian, every single person's heart was filled with gratitude.

Chu Tian immediately asked, "Who has grasped the «Berserk Art»?!"

The old barbarian chiefs brought out over a hundred young barbarians. These were the barbarians with the most potential in all the tribes, that was why they were able to grasp the «Berserk Art» so quickly!

"This ruler wants to construct a personal barbarian guard." Chu Tian directly said, "You are all the most outstanding barbarian warriors, so you will come work for me. Miracle Commerce will attach great importance in training you. As long as you devote yourselves to me, you will never suffer a loss!"

What reasons did the barbarian chiefs have to reject him?

This was the respected Country Guarding Ruler. If the barbarians could become the Country Guarding Ruler's personal guard, the status of the barbarian race would not be the same. Not to mention that the Country Guarding Ruler promised to train them. This ruler was not only the person with the highest status in the Southern Summer Country, he also held the helm of Miracle Commerce, famous for their wealth. If they could be cultivated by him, they would ascend like phoenixes!

Chu Tian did not remain in the barbarian city. He immediately led these over a hundred barbarians away and brought them all to Southern State's laboratory.

Gu Qianqiu was leading a group of white haired researchers while busying themselves in the laboratory. They were currently fiddling with a strange sealed chamber that was made purely of metal and had a door made of firm diamond. It was around ten feet tall and could easily hold a barbarian soldier.

The barbarians were all nervous.

They didn't know what Chu Tian was planning to do.

Chu Tian explained to them, "Don't be nervous, this isn't anything bad for you. Rather, this is a good chance to be reborn."

Gu Qianqiu took out a small box that was filled with several hundred portions of red medicine. He casually took one out, "Can we begin now?"

These were the Wild Blood Medicine recently developed in the laboratory.

The materials used for the Wild Blood Medicine was very rare. Various kinds of wild beast blood, evil spirits, and etc. Although they were very rare, they didn't have many uses, so they were very expensive. Of course, that was still relative. For this little box of medicine, it was still worth several hundred million gold coins.

"Let's first test the barbarians' strength!"

The researchers led the barbarians to a side room and used instruments to undertake many physical tests. They tested fist strength, arm strength, explosive force, and etc.

The barbarians slammed their fists into iron plates.

Peng!

The entire iron plate caved in and the researchers recorded this down on the side.

"Fist strength of eleven!"

This was an astonishing figure. This meant that in the same cultivation level, this barbarian's strength was thirteen times that of a human! This barbarian was only in the 5th Body Refinement Layer, but even a 9th Body Refinement Layer human could not block one of his punches!

Gu Qianqiu couldn't help feeling shocked, "That really is an incredible muscle strength!"

Fist strength, arm strength, wrist strength, leg strength…..all kinds of data was collected.

The barbarians' physique and strength were all around ten times that of humans!

The barbarians did not have any cultivation techniques, depending purely on their brute strength to get by. This was the root of a barbarian's life!

"Begin the wild transformation experiment!"

A barbarian was sent into the sealed chamber.

The researchers placed the medicine in an injection port and the red liquid was pumped in using vacuum pressure. Soon, a red mist began to fill the sealed chamber.

The barbarian did not know what was happening, looking at this scene with bewildered expressions.

Following this, a stimulating aura instantly surrounded his body, making his skin incomparably hot. It was like power was being released from every cell in his body as his mind turned blank. Intense pain, rage, and wildness quickly took over his consciousness.

"Ah, ah!"

The barbarian in the sealed chamber called out in pain!

When the large amount of red mist was absorbed by his skin, his eyes were quickly filled with red veins and his black skin slowly turned slightly red. Blue veins like centipedes stuck out in his muscles, constantly pulsating. This scene was incredibly terrifying.

Dong, dong, dong!

The barbarian released a terrifying killing intent, hitting the sealed chamber like an angry rhino. The entire laboratory shook, but the sealed chamber was made of diamond, so even if an elephant was sealed inside, it should give up trying to break free.

After a few seconds, that dark skin turned dark red and the barbarian's muscle swelled into circles.

Dong!

When the punch hit the diamond door this time, it actually caused slight fractures to appear.

This barbarian had already lost consciousness, turning into an angry killing machine. His body was releasing a red glow as he angrily roared out and attacked the chamber door, attempting to rip everything it saw into pieces!

The barbarian warriors revealed looks of terror.

What were the Miracle Commerce people doing?

This wild condition did not last long and the barbarian gradually calmed down. This was the effect of the «Berserk Art», it was suppressing that wild rage and killing intent. The barbarian calmed his breathing and heartbeat, but his body was still releasing a dangerous aura like a terrifying wild beast.

The red fog slowly disappeared as it was all absorbed.

Chu Tian waved his hand to Gu Qianqiu, "Open it!"

"Nothing will happen, right!"

"Relax, everything is under control!"

Gu Gianqiu was not actually afraid of him. Although this being had been turned berserk and his strength had increased by over ten times, to threaten a peak 9th Awakened Soul Layer Cultivator, that was not very likely.

The barbarian warrior walked out of the sealed chamber.

Chu Tian asked, "Do you feel anything?"

"I don't know….." This barbarian man revealed a bewildered expression, "I think my strength has increased by quite a bit!"

Chu Tian gave a signal with his hand, "Fist strength measurement!"

The researchers produced a punch target to let the barbarian test his strength.

Hong!

The barbarian sent a heavy punch onto the metal target and created a large explosion sound. The metal target was instantly shattered to pieces.

"Fist strength has surpassed one hundred!"

Everyone couldn't help giving a gasp.

If this fist were to hit a 1st Awakened Soul Layer Cultivator, it would be enough to directly cripple them!

Chu Tian also conducted other tests on this barbarian warrior. Whether it was muscle strength, physical toughness, endurance, or explosive force, they all increased by a terrifying amount. The barbarian's sensitivity to pain decreased by a large amount, his willpower had increased by a large amount, and his body resilience increased by several folds!

This was the effect of the wild transformation?

The Miracle Commerce researchers had shocked expressions!

Chu Tian gave a very satisfied nod, "Not bad, this is the berserker I wanted!"

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