Third Young Master

The Giant Beast ran very fast, Lian Clan's village soon disappeared from sight. Watching the people who had come to see them off disappear below the horizon, Yi Yun could only shake his head and sigh, "The people of the Great Wilderness are so easy to fool."

They are naive, but not kind; on the contrary, they possess all sorts of vices and ugliness. Perhaps, this is just human nature...

Yi Yun stopped thinking about it. Looking at the scenery rushing past on both sides and feeling the whooshing sound of the Giant Beast running, Yi Yun couldn't help but say in his heart, "Great Wilderness, here I come!"

This is Yi Yun's first time leaving the Lian Clan and venturing into this vast Great Wilderness. He will also learn for the first time what the real Great Wilderness is like outside the protection of the Lian Clan's Spiritual Ground!

The Giant Beast ran at an extremely fast speed, leaving a huge footprint with each stride. This Giant Beast could travel thousands of miles a day. Sitting on Giant Beast back caused intense shaking, and without considerable strength, one simply could not withstand it; sitting on it for a whole day would shatter one's bones.

Even the Warrior Reserve Camp were enduring great hardship.

At this moment, Yi Yun pulled on the reins and stood on the back of the Giant Beast, looking at the scenery of the Great Wilderness.

As the Giant Beast ran out of the Lian Clan's Spiritual Ground, Yi Yun finally saw the true Great Wilderness!

Yunhuang, sparsely populated by humans, covered in forests and with an extremely primitive landscape.

In fact, Yi Yun didn't know whether it should be called a forest or not; this kind of forest was completely different from the primeval forests on Earth.

The Earth's primeval forests are humid and sweltering. The forest floor is covered with dead branches and leaves, and the trees are extremely dense, with shrubs growing beneath the tall trees. It would be extremely difficult for even a person to walk through the forest, let alone ride a Giant Beast.

However, in the Great Wilderness, the trees are far apart, allowing Giant Beast to run at full speed. Moreover, the trees are ridiculously tall, often over a hundred meters or even several hundred meters high, with their canopies reaching straight into the clouds!

And these giant trees grow in extremely barren land, in Great Wilderness place filled with boulders, mountains, and desert!

Some trees even take root in pieces of Black Iron Rock!

A giant rock from which a divine tree hundreds of meters tall grows—what a magnificent sight!

Moreover, this scene is not accidental, but ubiquitous! Soil is scarce in the Great Wilderness, and the ground is covered with rocks, so more than 90% of the trees have to grow on the rocks.

The rocks here are rugged and imposing, with sheer cliffs rising thousands of feet everywhere, making them difficult for even monkeys to climb!

The mountains here are either solitary peaks or stretch for thousands of miles. Peaks that are several thousand meters high are considered low here, and mountains that are ten thousand meters high are not uncommon. The snow on the mountains never melts, and the ice is as hard as steel!

Between the mountains lie sheer cliffs, bottomless abysses, and canyons with seemingly endless ends...

This is the Great Wilderness. Not to mention the terrifying wild beasts lurking within that can swallow a martial artist whole, even if there were no ferocious beasts or wild beasts in the Great Wilderness, ordinary martial artists wouldn't be able to traverse Great Wilderness, because the roads here are too difficult to travel.

Climbing sheer cliffs, leaping into abysses, facing blizzards, avalanches, and unseen ice caves high in the mountains...

Even warriors at the Purple Blood Realm would have to think twice before crossing these perilous terrains.

The Giant Beast of Brocade Dragon Guard, despite its enormous size, galloped along the rugged mountain road as if it were flat ground. It raced along a canyon, which was also the passage between the Tao Clan and the Lian Clan.

Midway through, the Giant Beast crossed two mountains, and Yi Yun finally saw the legendary Tao Clan.

The buildings here stand side by side, one after another. The streets are crowded with people and the shops are thriving.

Even in the center of the Tao Clan, there are tall buildings and towers.

In the Tao Clan, those qualified to live in the high tower are all Purple Blood Warrior, who are the tribe's guardian deities.

"You can stay here."

The Tao Clan has prepared special accommodations for the election representatives from each of the smaller tribes.

There are dozens of smaller tribes surrounding the Tao Clan. If each tribe sends ten people, the total number would be several hundred. However, the Tao Clan has more young talents than all the smaller tribes combined. It seems that over a thousand people participated in this election.

The accommodations prepared for the candidates were divided into three large areas.

The three areas clearly show a significant difference in building quality. The first area consists entirely of detached small buildings, which are very exquisitely built, somewhat resembling the villas Yi Yun had seen in his previous life.

The second area consists of neat, large houses. Although not as luxurious as the smaller buildings, they are still made of blue bricks and shiny tiles, and look very comfortable.

Then came the third area, a makeshift wooden cabin. The cabin was a bit shaky, and the furnishings inside were extremely simple, with only a table and four beds. Four people shared a room, somewhat like Yi Yun's university dormitory in his previous life.

This first area was prepared for the direct descendants of the Tao Clan. Each direct descendant of the Tao Clan had their own small building.

The second area was prepared for tribal leaders like Lian Chengyu; each of them lived in a spacious tile-roofed house.

The third and final area is where the most people live, namely Yi Yun and the members of the Warrior Reserve Camp, who are considered "attendants." Leaders of small tribes who come to participate in the Divine Kingdom Grand Selection will bring some attendants with them; there are ten slots in total.

To others, these followers were essentially slaves. Although they all participated in the Divine Kingdom Grand Selection, the difference in status between slaves and masters was vast, so how could they possibly live in the same place?

In this alien world, there is an extremely strict concept of hierarchy, just like in ancient China.

When Yi Yun arrived at his residence, he saw his three roommates, who were all around fourteen or fifteen years old, not much older than him.

Judging from their clothes, they were all made of coarse linen, but they looked quite new; they must have been specially prepared for this Divine Kingdom Grand Selection.

In the Great Wilderness, many people still suffer!

"Let's go out and see what these tribal geniuses in the Great Wilderness are really like."

With that thought in mind, Yi Yun walked out of the wooden house.

The Tao Clan is very large, and this area was originally the site of the Tao Clan's grand competition. However, the grand selection organized by the Tai'a Divine Kingdom is not a simple arena competition. The examiners will set up various checkpoints to assess the candidates in various aspects. The specific test questions are still unknown.

In the square in front of the residential area, Yi Yun saw a familiar face— Lian Chengyu.

However, at this moment, Lian Chengyu was with several young talents, surrounding a white-clad boy with red lips and white teeth. This boy looked to be no more than fourteen or fifteen years old. He had fair skin and looked like a girl, truly exceptionally handsome.

The usually arrogant Lian Chengyu now wore a perfectly measured expression of humility as he discussed the outstanding talents of Yunhuang in the upcoming Divine Kingdom Grand Selection with the young masters of other tribes.

"Lian Chengyu, those people you just told me about are utterly insignificant." This fourteen-year-old boy spoke with considerable arrogance. "This Divine Kingdom Grand Selection claims to have over a thousand participants, but in reality, more than 90% are just lackeys and servants brought in to make up the numbers. Subtract these lackeys, how many are left? There are only about a hundred truly deserving individuals!"

"These hundred people are only powerful in the eyes of ordinary people. In my opinion, even the carefully cultivated heirs of some small tribes are just chickens and dogs! You're barely passable. This election is actually meaningless!"

That kid is incredibly arrogant.

Yi Yun was stunned for a moment. Who exactly was this guy?

He said such arrogant things so loudly that many people around could hear him!

The vast majority of them were insulted; in the child's description, these people were either lackeys or worthless scoundrels.

"Damn it, who does this kid think he is?"

A burly man, enraged, was about to rush forward and beat the white-clad youth, but was stopped by the people around him.

"Are you out of your mind?! He's Tao Yunxiao, the Third Young Master of the Tao Clan!"