Gradually.
The footsteps grew ever more synchronized.
Ever heavier.
Like a legion that had slumbered for billions of years, awakening anew at this very moment.
The Immortal Blood River surged more violently, as though even this forbidden zone, where countless eras lay buried, trembled at the sight.
The wind rose.
Waves of blood formed a curtain.
And the endless ranks of the Wild Clan had all stepped into the Immortal Blood.
There were no oaths.
No commands.
Only a silent will spanning all eternity slowly reverberated between heaven and earth-
They were not following.
They were-
Returning.
Three days later.
Immortal Blood washed over a vast, decaying Wild Mine.
Chen Xun suddenly stopped. He whipped his head around and looked toward the endlessly dark Mine Abyss. Then... with a single step of Near at Hand, Far Away, he landed just outside the mine. A sharp gleam flashed in Big Black Ox's eyes as well.
There sat an undying Immortal Bone.
An unsurpassed Immortal Bone that had sat cross-legged here, weathered by the years until now. It seemed that not even heaven and earth, the Great Dao, or karma could shatter his bones, only leave him standing here in peace.
At that moment.
A surge of intense emotion appeared in Chen Xun's eyes.
He slowly raised his hand.
He seemed to want to touch this Immortal Bone, yet his movement was slow beyond description.
A wisp of dust slowly rose.
Boundlessly vast.
It was dust stirred up by the years. In that instant, Chen Xun's brow lowered almost imperceptibly.
"Who goes there?!"
"You three, eating without inviting this Dao Ancestor?!"
"Dao Ancestor, we're mining in the Void Sea?!"
"Mine!"
"Dao Ancestor, our clan has been established. We are the Wild Clan!"
"From now on, wherever you tell us to