Two days later, the sparse Spiritual Power within a hundred miles of Chen Village began to recover.
Everyone understood that the mysterious cultivator in Chen Village had broken through to a higher level, and Chen Village had gained another incredibly terrifying expert.
Deep in the Wilderness jungle, inside Temple palace.
Xing Le walked in from outside in a hurry, looking somewhat tired.
"Fellow Xing Le, your trip to the West Ge Continent seems to have been quite effective; the Otherworldly Demon have become much more subdued."
Su Wanyi sat gracefully beside the Suspended Light Realm and said with a smile.
The two of them took turns guarding the Temple. If Su Wanyi went out, Xing Le would stay here, and if Xing Le stayed here, Su Wanyi would go out.
Generally speaking, they do not leave the Temple unattended for long periods of time.
"Yes! On my trip to the West Ge Continent, I killed several of their Otherworldly Demon King. They witnessed the power of the Temple, and I estimate they won't dare to harass us again for a while."
Xing Le found a futon near the Suspended Light Realm and sat down cross-legged.
Originally, divine messengers were not allowed to leave the Wilderness without permission, but now a divine general has awakened on the second level.
Since the gods had the right to wage war against foreign powers, they sent Xing Le to the West Ge Continent to deter the Otherworldly Demon that were always invading the border.
"How's the situation in Chen Village lately? Are they willing to hand over the group that disrupted the order of the Wilderness?"
After Xing Le sat down, he inquired about the current situation in Chen Village.
"Hmph! They keep insisting that they didn't do the Green Plains Mountain Range incident, and keep making excuses to delay, showing no intention of admitting their mistake."
The deadline for our warning is fast approaching. I've already made my stance clear: if they don't hand over the person by then, we'll punish them. Handing over more people then won't make a difference!
Su Wanyi's expression showed great dissatisfaction.
In her eyes, the Temple was only asking them to hand over the people, but it hadn't said they were to be executed.
However, Chen Village refused to hand over even the people, which was already a challenge to the Temple's authority and represented their distrust of the Temple's fairness and justice.
Previously, the Temple had never tried to get a tribe to hand over people and they refused, which is enough to prove Chen Village's pride.
Chen Village's attitude undoubtedly confirmed Xing Le's guess. They had placed themselves on the same level as the Temple in the conversation, rather than as Temple Temple's subjects or believers. They had abandoned their worship of the gods.
"Heh... Just as I thought!"
Xing Le had anticipated Chen Village's attitude, so he had long ago used the Heavenly God Beast-Taming Token mobilize the monster horde to gather near Chen Village.
He knew that ordinary groups of demonic beasts could not destroy Chen Village, so he mobilized a large number of demonic beasts this time, so many that they could not be gathered in just a few days. That is why he gave Chen Village a month to hand over the people.
While making preparations in Chen Village, he was also making preparations, because the Temple either doesn't punish, or once it does punish, it absolutely cannot fail, otherwise the gods will think they have done a poor job.
"I didn't originally intend to cause a major conflict and widespread death, but if they remain obstinate, they can't blame me."
Xing Le appeared kind and helpless in front of Su Wanyi.
In the days that followed, everyone in the Wilderness talked about the Temple's plan to bring divine punishment upon Chen Village.
The vassal tribes and cooperative forces of Chen Village originally thought that Chen Village and the Temple were just minor issues. However, more and more monsters were gathering near Chen Village's tribal territory, and among those monsters were many Demon King.
This caused many vassal tribes to back down, and many people who had settled in Chen Village Chen Village. Some cooperating forces even severed ties with Chen Village, fearing that they would be implicated by Chen Village.
The Temple ' rule over the Wilderness was deeply entrenched; everyone knew that the Temple were the true masters of the Wilderness, and their influence was immense.
Inside the clan association hall in Chen Village inner city.
"My lords, if you really want to leave Chen Village, I will absolutely not stop you."
However, you should think carefully: once you leave Chen Village today, you will lose all the fiefdoms and official positions you currently hold in Chen Village.
Even if he rejoins Chen Village in the future, he will have to start from scratch and will never have the same status he has now.
Once you've thought it through, you can leave through this door.
Chen Hongjie sat at the head of the ancestral hall and spoke loudly.
"Lord Hongjie is very magnanimous. Our Handan Tribe is actually very willing to serve Chen Village, but going against the gods is unwise. We can only take our leave now!"
A tribal chief gave Chen Hongjie a solemn salute, then strode away from the hall without looking back.
Following that, one after another, tribal chiefs bowed to Chen Hongjie and left the tribal hall.
Soon, a third of the leaders in the clan hall had left, and many of the remaining people looked hesitant, but in the end, none of them dared to take that final step.
Chen Hongjie watched the tribal leaders leave with a smile, feeling not sad at all, but rather overjoyed.
Chen Village developed too quickly in the past few years, and the shortage of manpower among the Chen Clan became a major problem.
Therefore, at that time, as long as a tribe was willing to surrender to Chen Village, Chen Village would give them a lot of power and resources to manage the territories that Chen Village had conquered.
The tribes that Chen Village absorbed in the early stages were of varying quality. They gained a lot of resources from Chen Village Chen Village joining early, but they did not have much loyalty to Chen Village.
This has always been a major problem for Chen Hongjie's management, but unexpectedly, this conflict with the Temple has completely exposed these people.
These tribes, disloyal to Chen Village, thought themselves clever, taking their profits and then running away.
But for Chen Hongjie, he was willing to leave even if he were offered more money.
After a long while, no one left the hall.
"Alright! Does anyone else want to leave Chen Village?"
The Temple's punishment could fall at any moment; this is your last chance.
Tomorrow we will enter a state of combat readiness. If you still want to leave then, it will be considered betrayal.
The consequences of betraying Chen Village are something you cannot afford, so you should make a decision quickly!
Chen Hongjie was somewhat surprised that only one-third of the vassal tribes left, given the Temple's extremely high status in the Wilderness; he had originally estimated that two-thirds would leave.
It seems that these vassal tribes have grown considerably under Chen Village's influence, and their courage is greater than I imagined.
For other advanced tribes in the Wilderness, the loss of even one-third of their vassal tribes would be a huge blow.
However, for Chen Village, even if all the vassal tribes broke away, the impact on Chen Village's fighting strength would not exceed 20%.
The core power of Chen Village has always been in the hands of the Chen Clan. In fact, it can be said that the vast majority of the power is in the hands of Chen Mu. Therefore, Chen Hongjie has never worried about these vassal tribes betraying him.
Even if they were to betray us, the damage they could cause would be very limited. At most, it would throw Chen Village's operations into chaos, but it would have almost no impact on our combat strength.