The vast Barren Great Marsh was home to countless barbarian tribes. Their living conditions were exceedingly harsh; not only did they have to openly and covertly struggle against other tribes for the resources of the mountains and forests, they also had to battle Fierce Beasts, doing everything possible to reduce the formation of beast tides.
Across the entire Eastern Mu Continent, the place with the greatest number of cultivation geniuses was not the Four Great Empires, but the tribes of this Barren Great Marsh. They cultivated from childhood and were already battle-hardened experts in their youth. If resources had not been so scarce, perhaps eighty percent of the disciples recruited by the Three Sects and Two Halls would have come from the Barren Great Marsh.
Azure Wolf Tribe.
They worshipped the Star-Moon Wolf God, and their tribal totem was the Golden Azure Wolf, howling at the stars and moon. Over the past few decades, the Azure Wolf Tribe had grown rapidly because an expert who had joined the Falan Sect returned and led them in swallowing up two nearby tribes. All the men were slaughtered, while all the women were taken captive, resulting in the birth of a great many tribe members.
Thus, a batch of formidable young geniuses emerged, allowing them to become the rulers of the mountains, forests, and marshes for several hundred miles around. Yet they had never dared expand farther south. Even when they wished to head south, they had to detour hundreds of miles away.
Rows upon rows of stone houses lay intertwined and crisscrossed. Towering walls enclosed every stone house. This was where the tribe members of the Azure Wolf Tribe lived.
The watchtower stood a full hundred meters high, built from massive stones into a cylindrical shape nearly ten meters in diameter. Four