The Era of Gods

Indeed, the blood-flesh essence that Li Xiushen prepared for the tribe was from his core races, the Emerald Serpent People. After incorporating a part of the Dragon Clan’s bloodline, they had advanced to the sub-legendary species known as Jade Dragon Snakes.

This new family member stood between three to four meters tall, possessing far greater strength and talent than the Emerald Serpent People. When transformed into a jade body, they could be immune to a large fraction of spells and had an extremely strong resistance to physical attacks.

You should know that the ‘jade’ of their transformation is not the common jade found in the mortal world. Strictly speaking, it looks like jade but is in fact a completely different kind of material, much harder.

However, they likewise inherit jade’s weaknesses. They are greatly defensive against sharp and pointed weapons but are countered by heavy weapons like sledgehammers.

Of course, this counter is relative. Even if a mortal wielded a large hammer, they would still be unable to harm them.

Two Jade Dragon Snake totems took shape; upon activating their totems, these two warriors could borrow the talents of the Jade Dragon Snakes. If the totem integration reached the advanced level, they could directly transform into Jade Dragon Snakes, possessing all the strengths and talents of the Jade Dragon Snakes, which was incredibly powerful.

Subsequently, the two warriors who had successfully activated their totems took turns demonstrating their power before their fellow tribespeople. They displayed their abilities to transform into jade and their Petrification Talent, respectively. As for transforming into Jade Dragon Snakes, they could not demonstrate that capability with just an activated totem.

There are four stages of totem development: primary, middle, advanced, and final.

The primary stage is right after the totem’s activation, when at most twenty percent of the totem’s power can be unleashed.

The middle stage usually refers to a period after the totem’s activation, when more totem power can be released, around forty percent.

The advanced stage generally indicates that a totem warrior can excavate a significant amount of the totem’s power, releasing about sixty percent. Most importantly, advanced totem warriors can fully activate the power of the totem, allowing for a short-term physical transformation into their totem.

For example, the former strongest member of the Vine Snake Tribe and the Clan Leader of the Poison Lizard Tribe were both advanced totem warriors with the ability to transform into their totems.

As for the final stage, naturally, it is the most powerful class of totem warriors, often possessing over eighty percent of the totem’s power. Under normal circumstances, it’s impossible to attain the totem’s full power.

Beyond maintaining their transformed state for an extended duration, final-stage totem warriors also have the ability to partially transform. Simply put, they can transform parts of their bodies into parts of their totems, granting them incredibly powerful martial abilities.

In the days that followed, new totem warriors were born every day within the Dragon Tribe.

The newly emerged totem warriors showcased the power of the Supreme Naga within the tribe. The terrifying strength of the Naga warriors, their cool appearance, and formidable talents attracted the tribe’s elite warriors to form hunting parties. They went out to hunt fierce beasts as offerings, praying to the leader of the tribe for totem seeds.

The totem warriors birthed by the Dragon Tribe were naturally called Dragon Warriors. Their impressive Golden Dragon Scales conveyed both dignity and strength, far surpassing the previous totems in every aspect.

In the following days, Lin Xiao amalgamated all the Power of Faith and prayer intentions obtained through the tribe’s prayers, with the blood-flesh essence and souls of fierce beasts sacrificed, into totem seeds. Then, he purified them through the Creation Rubik’s Cube.

He discovered that the totem seeds granted by the totem contained a mix of fierce beast’s blood-flesh essence and souls, as well as the Power of Faith and thoughts from countless believers. A multitude of messy elements combined to form a single totem seed. Once granted, these totemic warriors had to endure the agony of different bloodlines merging into their bloodstream and fend off various impure thoughts by themselves. Expecting the mortals to bear this with a high success rate was undoubtedly wishful thinking.

This was still using totem tattoos to suppress the pain, coupled with the selection of warriors each with a resolute will. If ordinary people were to undergo this, ten out of ten would fail.

After investigating these issues, Lin Xiao decisively used the Creation Magic Cube to purify the will remnants of the fierce beasts contained within the totem seeds, much like purifying the assorted thoughts and various notions of his followers.

Having done this, the only problem the totem warriors had to face was the rejection reaction from the fusion of different bloodlines, which was unavoidable, even the Creation Magic Cube couldn’t prevent it.

He could consume Divine Power to purify the Big Nagas Blood Essence and lower the impact to the minimum, but he couldn’t change the bloodlines of the warriors accepting the totem seeds themselves. With so many warriors accepting totem seeds, he couldn’t possibly purify each one with Divine Power, as that would clearly be unrealistic.

Solving other problems essentially resolved most of the issues; at least the original success rate of one or two out of ten had now reached seven or eight out of ten. The fact that seven or eight out of ten could succeed was a significant improvement.

In the following days, he successively condensed more totem seeds from the essence of other Big Nagas mixed with sacrifices and bestowed them.

To maximize the strength of the Dragon Tribe as much as possible, he relaxed the criteria for becoming a totem warrior, giving warriors with slightly lesser strength a chance as long as they displayed their courage.

Although their success rate was lower than that of true warriors, after purifying the totem seeds, they still had a success rate close to fifty percent, which was enough to make them willing to take the risk.

While the tribal warriors were excited about the prospect of becoming totem warriors, the first batch of weapons was finally forged to completion by the Crimson Furnace at the base.

They smelted a large amount of iron ore into steel blooms and fashioned a batch of standard-issue jungle warfare equipment for the tribe’s warriors.

The equipment included a set of light armor that did not hinder agility, a Round Shield, a one-handed Longsword, a pair of gauntlets with hooks, and a batch of wooden javelins with steel tips.

Then they integrated a valuable collection of materials previously gathered from Piecemeal Planes on the road, forging an alloy even stronger and more ductile than steel, from which they crafted a batch of standardised equipment exclusively for the totem warriors.

The style was similar to that of the ordinary warrior’s suit, but the material was better, offering stronger defense.

Especially since the Star Spirits had enchanted the set with a plethora of BUFFs and practical Spells that could be activated with just a thought, such as enhanced defense resistance, sharpened weapons, Speed Up, blink, flight, and so on.

The tribe developed rapidly, its strength growing almost daily, and the morale of the entire tribe seemed to be different every day, with their powerful strength giving them even more confidence.

The current Clan Leader and Wizard Leader of the tribe summoned many warrior leaders to discuss how to Conquer more tribes proactively.

Lin Xiao watched all this with interest, not intervening. He wasn’t a babysitter, only responsible for making the tribe stronger, leaving its development entirely up to them.

Besides, he was busy anyway, with a lot of things to do.

For example…

Within the Void Battleship Flying Snake No., Lin Xiao slowly opened his eyes, as did his girlfriend sitting across from him. She asked,

“How is it? Did you sense anything?”

He nodded and replied,

“I did sense them. There are two on the western side of the Mainland and one to the south of the Gemini Continent. There are three more over the seas beyond the Mainland, likely newcomers to this plane, like us.”

“That’s quite a few people.”

Shen Yuexin furrowed her brows slightly and said,

“If I’m not mistaken, this plane must be the main plane of this part of the Void. There are over two thousand students dispatched to this Void, so a few entering this plane is normal. There may still be a group of students who will discover this plane later on, plus the seniors from the second and third years. The competition is going to be fierce.”

Lin Xiao laughed upon hearing this and said,

“Don’t worry; they are not our competitors, nor do they pose a threat to us. Our competitors are the seniors from the second and third years. A year has passed already, right?”

“Yes, it’s been a year.”

“Are there Totem Warriors in the tribe?”

“Seven hundred and eighty-five.”

“That’s a lot!”

Lin Xiao thought for a moment and said,

“It’s time to expand. Have the marines we’ve infiltrated into the tribe call for a tribal council and prepare for territorial expansion. Eradicate the two nearest Lizard Tribes around our own. It’s also time for you to become a Totem.”

“Wait a second.”

His girlfriend suddenly grasped his hand, shook her head, and said,

“I don’t need to become a Totem.”

“???”

He looked at his girlfriend’s beautiful face with confusion as she said,

“We don’t both need to become Totems. Don’t you think it will be more advantageous if one of us remains a Totem hidden from view, while the other is not, appearing before others?”

After pondering for a moment, Lin Xiao nodded and said,

“You mean to use yourself as bait?”

“Right. In this plane, Totems can hide themselves and sense all the outsiders who are not Totems. With one of us in the light and the other in the shadows, when the time comes, we might be able to eliminate some of our competitors through ambush.”

Lin Xiao had nothing to say; her idea was indeed excellent.

He gently squeezed her delicate and boneless hand, lifting it to his lips and kissing it lightly.

“Then you mustn’t stray too far from me, lest you get attacked, and I fail to arrive in time.”

“Mhm!”

Two months later, the tribe officially set out to attack the River Lizard Tribe, but Lin Xiao and his girlfriend did not accompany the troops.

With several hundred Supreme Naga Totem Warriors and twenty Rank 8 Legendary Supreme Nagas, as well as the soul beast of the Poisonous Lizard King, exterminating the River Lizard Tribes would suffice.

After the troops departed, he did not pay much attention, only asking his girlfriend to keep an eye on things. His main focus was on the matter at hand; he was currently researching the Totem Seeds of the Totem Warriors.

This material was the most direct way to improve the tribe’s strength. However, elite warriors were rare, so he needed to find a way to lower the conditions for using these Totem Seeds so that ordinary warriors could also use them without too high a risk of failure. A fifty percent death rate among the tribe’s ordinary warriors was still too high.

These warriors were in their prime; it would be too wasteful for them to die like that.

This time, he did not conduct the research on his own, but used the Creation Rubik’s Cube directly, even willing to spend Creation Energy for analysis.

If he aimed to covet this plane’s potential Supreme Divine Position and even dared to dream of plundering the power system of this plane, then he must be willing to invest.

To gain, one must be willing to give; expecting a harvest without investment is just a dream.

His will immersed in the Creation Rubik’s Cube, within the vast space, a golden blood orb revolved idly. This was a complete Big Nagas Totem Seed. Anyone who passed the test could assimilate it into their body to become a Supreme Naga Totem Warrior.

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