Thus, Mo Hua took charge of the Second-Grade Black Horn State Boundary. On one hand, he gathered up Barbarian Tribe children and began teaching and imparting the Dao anew;
on the other, he forged Barbarian Armor, strengthened the tribe's Barbarian Cultivators, and campaigned in all directions.
Whenever he had time, he followed the list Elder Zhamu had investigated, slipped about in secret, hunted Barbarian Gods, devoured their Thought Power, and further strengthened his Divine Consciousness.
His days were busy and fulfilling, leaving Mo Hua with no time to attend to anything else.
And the progress of their external campaigns visibly slowed.
The Black Horn Mountain Realm was twice as large as the Wutu Mountain Realm.
It contained more than twenty tribes of varying sizes, many of them far from weak.
With Mo Hua withdrawing behind the scenes and no longer taking action, Wucha and the others had to fight on their own. Naturally, things became far more arduous and slow.
But this was also a process they had no choice but to undergo.
As a "shaman," Mo Hua could not always charge into battle, nor could he keep acting personally and leave behind too many traces and flaws.
And Wucha and the others had to stand on their own, becoming sharp "blades and swords" that would conquer the lands in his stead.
That inevitably required a period of adjustment and growth.
This process would inevitably be accompanied by casualties among the tribes' Barbarian Cultivators, all kinds of setbacks and failures, and would take a relatively long time.
But all of it was indispensable.
Without passing through this stage and enduring these trials, the forces under his command could never take shape, much less possess any real combat power.
At the very least, within Second-Grade State Boundaries, they needed the ability