The Black Tower Tribe's Totem Pillar was the Heaven-Supporting Pagoda. Its origins stretched back to the Ancient Era, to the Heaven-Supporting Immortal Emperor, a Great Adept from a million years ago. He had been one of the Barbarian Tribe's four Barbarian Emperors, whose might awed the Myriad Heavens and Worlds!
After countless years of change, following the fall of the Heaven-Supporting Barbarian Emperor, the tribe had splintered into ten Heavenly Divisions, twelve Earthly Divisions, and countless branches. The Black Tower Tribe descended from the Tiangeng Tribe, one of the ten Heavenly Divisions, and had a population of roughly forty-five hundred.
At that moment, the Black Tower Tribe was preparing to celebrate the tremendous bounty of a large-scale hunt.
Who could have known that just then, Fang, the fool, would go missing, rousing the fury of Silver Wing, the gifted young woman renowned far and wide? The entire tribe was shaken, and speculation ran rampant.
Within the Black Tower Tribe stood a crude yet imposing courtyard built from black granite.
The High Priest, Soul Devourer King, Chief Cloudsplitter, and the elders Horned Dragon, Purple Crown, Tianjia, and others had gathered there, along with several outstanding members of the tribe's younger generation. All watched the unconscious youth on the bed with troubled expressions.
"High Priest?!"
After the High Priest finished his examination, he merely frowned and fell silent off to one side. Silver Wing could not help questioning him anxiously.
Everyone else present also turned toward the High Priest, Soul Devourer King. Fang's injuries were indeed severe, but not critical. They did not understand why the High Priest had fallen into such solemn silence, as though confronted with some momentous matter.
The High Priest came back to himself. The overlapping wrinkles on his bark-like old face tightened further as he replied calmly,