Chapter 190: Descendants of Tu Shan
Tiejing City is the closest small city to the Far North within the rule of the Barbarian Emperor Wu Clan, with a scale similar to Wild Wolf Town, with a population of around one million. Due to its proximity to the far north, the city is only briefly present for a month or two each year, when the climate is slightly warmer, the snow melts, and the land is revealed. Most of the rest of the time, it was covered in snow.
The lord of Tiejing City, Wu Zhi, is a branch of the Barbarian Imperial Family, who is over two hundred years old, and his cultivation is only at the peak of the middle stage of foundation building. The Barbarian Emperor Wu clan is known as the Thirty-six Golden Pill Ancestors, and they are stationed in major cities including Cangshan County City and Linyuan City, and there are three major Yuanying guards in the imperial city. The Wu clan is the largest human force in the Savage Wasteland.
In a remote town like Tiejing City, although the Wu clan also served as the city lord, no monk master with direct relatives was willing to go to such a place of ice and snow and extremely bad weather to suffer.
Moreover, there is no other specialty near Tiejing City, except for a small mine that produces Xuanbing Stone, and demon beasts that can hunt snow wolves, extreme northern silver foxes, and wild bears. Most of the people of the Wu clan who were stationed here were distant relatives of the Wu clan who were ordinary in cultivation like Wu Zhi and had a relatively weak blood relationship.
As the lord of Tiejing City, Wu Zhi's main tasks are only two, in addition to collecting taxes on the barbarian monks who enter and leave the extreme north through this city to hunt demon beasts, and the other is to monitor the situation of the barbarian tribes in the extreme north at all times.
Due to the harsh living conditions, the barbarian tribes in the far north are far less numerous than the western wastelands or the southern jungles, and there are no super-large tribes in the south that are large enough to wrestle with the barbarian emperor Wu clan.
The main tribe of barbarians struggling to survive in the far north calls themselves the Tushan people. The Tushan barbarians claim that their bloodline has been inherited from 10,000 years ago, and it is a kind of demon Jiao that once haunted the far north, also known as the Snow Jiao.
According to legend, this kind of demon beast bloodline is strong, and it is a high-grade bloodline of the dragon system second only to the true dragon bloodline. However, judging from some of the Tushan barbarians captured by the Terran monks later, their bloodlines were not as strong as they claimed. Some human cultivators even speculated that the true bloodline inheritance of the Tushan people was not a snow jiao, but a high-level demon beast like Lin Mang.
Legend has it that the place where the Tushan people live is very deep into the extreme north, at least six or seven thousand miles away from Tiejing City, and the number of Tushan barbarians is not much, it is estimated that there are only three or five thousand, and their whereabouts are very secretive.
The chances of the Terran monks being able to encounter the Tushan people were very small, and even some of the Tushan barbarians caught before, some Terran monks questioned them, believing that those barbarians were only from some small barbarian tribes similar to the Tushan people, and they might have obtained a small part of the blood inheritance of Tushan Xuejiao because of their intermarriage with the Tushan people.
All monks who have entered the Far North know that the further north they go, the worse the climate becomes, and the Terrans are already close to their limits if they can take root and survive in Tiejing City. And the Tushan people have gone so far into the extreme north, they have almost reached the extreme of the extreme north, if their bloodline is not particularly strong, they should not be able to adapt to such a harsh living environment.
It is based on the above considerations that some Terran monks believe that those "Tushan people" who were caught by the Terrans are not the real inheritors of the bloodline.
There are many rumors about the Tushan people, and for Wu Zhi, the city lord of Tiejing City, he is one of the few people who knows the truth among the hundreds of millions of people in the Barbarian Wasteland.
First of all, the Barbarian Emperor Wu clan did not hesitate to spend manpower and financial resources to establish Tiejing City in this extreme north, not for those few poor taxes, but for the purpose of finding the Tushan people in the depths of the extreme north. And once they are found, they will be slaughtered mercilessly, regardless of age, women, and children.
Even just a few hundred years ago, the Wu clan and Yuanying Taishang came to the extreme north in person and carried out a devastating blow to the Tushan barbarians.
The Tushan people who have been hunted down for thousands of years are not in the extreme north as legend goes, on the contrary, their footprints are almost all over the far north. In the past few thousand years, the Tushan barbarian population has shrunk from the initial tens of thousands of people to the point of extinction.
The number of their clansmen was not two or three thousand as rumored, according to the situation known to the Barbarian Emperor Wu Clan, the entire tribe of the Tushan people should only add up to five hundred, which was even less than several other small tribes in the extreme north.
It is precisely because the number of surviving Tushan barbarians is too small, and their whereabouts are uncertain, in the vast and boundless extreme north, they are like a small fish in the ocean, and it is difficult to locate accurately.
Wu Zhi also knew that the bloodline of the Tushan people was indeed very strong, and perhaps Xue Jiaozhi's statement was somewhat credible. It is said that when the Wu clan's Yuanying came to the extreme north in person, the three great barbarian kings of the Tushan barbarian clan, whose bloodline was as strong as the demon king, resisted together, and even dragged the Yuanying real people for a period of time, so that a small number of clansmen escaped and ascended to heaven.
The strength of the Great Barbarian King is comparable to that of the Jindan Monk, but the Monk of the Yuanying Realm is already a demon emperor-like existence, and the gap between the two is quite huge. The three great barbarian kings of the Tushan barbarians were able to work together to resist the power of a primordial infant, and the strength of their bloodline can be seen.
As for the reason why the Wu clan wanted to exterminate the Tushan barbarians, it was not a secret that people like Wu Zhi and other people on the edge of power could understand.
Wu Zhi is also quite self-aware, thinking that even if he is lucky enough to find the traces of the Tushan barbarians, he will not personally put on the battle and go to encircle and suppress. There are superb spiritual runes in the mansion that can transmit thousands of miles, and it is completely possible to instantly transmit information to the imperial city more than 100,000 miles away from here.
With the speed of the Yuanying power, it can be arrived in three or five days, and it is a great achievement to report the whereabouts of the Tushan people at that time. As long as the Yuanying monk erases all these Tushan people, he can also go back to the imperial city to repay the decree, and then go home to retire.
Although Wu Zhi's calculations are fine, he is still helpless and people are not as good as heaven, and now he has indeed received news from Tu Shanren, but he can't use this news to summon Wu masters to help.
As early as a month ago, several wasteland sperspers who had entered the far north brought back news that a barbarian tribe of nearly 1,000 people thousands of miles away from Tiejing City had been wiped out.
Wu Zhi's heart was tight at that time, according to this, the tribe thousands of miles away was actually a chess piece deliberately put into the extreme north by Tiejing City, in order to collect and find the whereabouts of the Tushan people. Tiejing City even sent one or two experts who were very good at tracking to join them in the past, posing as barbarians.
According to the descriptions of these expedition members, the tribe of nearly 1,000 people must have been attacked by other tribes, and most of them died under the throwing of throwing spears. 10