With the Furnace Spirit's help, the difficulty of Nie Qing taking over the Heavenly Craftsmen Tribe had decreased significantly.
Originally, he would have had to face the division of power among the many elders, yet every last one of those elders had dirt on them.
The particularly excessive ones were naturally purged. After a portion of the extra benefits was distributed to those elders who had transferred family assets out in advance, they obediently accepted the outcome.
Yet the crisis of trust among the upper ranks was merely the smallest of the Heavenly Craftsmen Tribe's current problems.
The harm caused by rapidly summoning large numbers of tribesmen in a short time, harvesting resources, and sealing off contact with the outside world—those were the troubles that would truly sweep through the entire tribe.
Situated in this land of chaos, the Heavenly Craftsmen Tribe's greatest reliance had always been the protection of the divine artifact, the Heaven-Earth Furnace.
The birth of the Furnace Spirit had consumed an ocean of resources, but bringing it into existence did not mean everything would be fine afterward.
To maintain the continuous burning of the origin spirit flame, spiritual materials still had to be transported in.
Where would such vast quantities of different spiritual materials come from?
Relying solely on the Heavenly Craftsmen tribesmen to gather them in this land of chaos would never be enough.
After all, the Heavenly Craftsmen Tribe had never been known for martial strength or numbers.
Before this, the Heavenly Craftsmen Tribe had obtained most of its resources through forging spiritual artifacts and trading with the various races.
Over generations, the Heavenly Craftsmen Tribe had gradually established trade with the countless races across the land of chaos.
If trade had merely been cut off for a short time, that would actually have