Mo Hua continued his "annexations" in the time that followed. Through military force, martial might, his personal authority as a Shaman, and even all manner of threats to "wipe out their tribes," he absorbed every Minor Tribe along the way.
Thanks to the Hua Family Ancestor's deductions, Mo Hua now possessed a topographical map of the Endgame Land in the Great Wilderness.
But a map was ultimately only a map.
With the tribes in turmoil and the situation so perilous, no one knew what was happening in every corner of the Great Wilderness at this very moment.
This map was therefore no different from one shrouded in fog.
What Mo Hua had to do was explore the map bit by bit, dispel the fog, then annex the tribes he discovered along the way and steadily expand his own power. The forces he currently commanded were not weak.
But Mo Hua knew full well that before the formidable enemies and great calamities he would face in the future, these forces were still far from enough.
Before the true enemies and true disasters arrived, he had to seize as many "chess pieces" as possible and make himself stronger.
After another month or so of "annexation," Mo Hua's power grew further. He had already "eaten" nearly all the small forces in the surrounding area. The troops under his command had reached eleven thousand.
Yet the entire group numbered twenty-five thousand people.
That was because a tribe consisted not only of soldiers, but also ordinary Barbarian Cultivators.
Mo Hua could not simply conscript the troops and ignore whether the ordinary Barbarian Cultivators lived or died. Thus, he had absorbed the elderly, the young, the weak, and the disabled as well. The whole group had become rather bloated.
Mo Hua planned to find a territory