Chapter 2196: Movement Exposed
"In fact, the Ancient Clan is not just our five major tribes; there are many smaller tribes as well."
"However, they don’t have fixed territories and are content to go where they please."
"Moreover, the Ancient World is vast, with many areas that even we five major tribes have yet to explore."
The Witch Clan warrior cooperatively relayed all the information he knew to Xiao Zheng.
After Xiao Zheng nodded, he asked, "Since this is the territory of your Witch Clan, where’s the nearest tribe? Do you have a map on you?"
"What do you want to do?" The Witch Clan warrior asked cautiously again.
This time, Xiao Zheng didn’t hold back and directly broke half of his ribcage with a stomp: "I already told you, don’t ask questions you shouldn’t. If you’re really looking to die, I can grant your wish right now."
His tone was extremely cold, not at all like he was joking.
The Witch Clan warrior endured the severe pain and then pointed to his animal-skin pouch with his hand: "In... In my pouch there’s a map. You can see for yourself..."
After finishing this sentence, he completely passed out.
Since the Supreme Realm is different from the Transcendent Realm and other realms, its self-healing ability isn’t very strong. Being so severely injured, it’s already commendable that he managed to finish speaking.
Xiao Zheng no longer paid attention to him and directly untied his pouch.
Upon opening the pouch, he indeed found an animal-skin map inside. The map was drawn in black and red lines, depicting the entire territory of the Witch Clan. The distribution of the small tribes was also clearly visible on it.
The Witch Clan’s territory was vast, almost as large as more than half of Huaxia when combined.
However, the area inhabited by humans was no more than twice the size of Jiangnan Province. And the tribes lived exceptionally scattered, each tribe’s coordinates marked with a red dot, distributed like stars across the map.
At this moment, the nearest Witch Clan tribe to Xiao Zheng was more than a hundred kilometers away.
"I wonder how many people are in this tribe and how many powerhouses exceed the Transcendent Realm."
"It seems there are many things I still need to inquire about."
With a sigh, Xiao Zheng prepared to wake the unconscious Witch Clan warrior.
However, to his surprise, the man was already dead!
Xiao Zheng carefully checked him several times and finally confirmed he was dead, with no heartbeat and life extinguished: "What a pity, I knew I shouldn’t have used so much force earlier."
"Forget it, better hurry and set off."
"It’s just a small tribe after all; there shouldn’t be anyone too formidable there."
After saying that, he flew away following the route marked on the map.
Not long after Xiao Zheng left, the Witch Clan warrior’s corpse suddenly twitched once!
Then, from beneath his corpse, crawled out a black insect the size of a fist!
This black insect was hideous, resembling a beetle, with two long antennae on its head. It seemed intelligent, pausing where it was after crawling out from under the corpse, its antennae moving left and right as if probing for any danger around.
After finding no danger, the black beetle took to the air.
Astonishingly, it flew at an incredibly fast speed!
In the blink of an eye, it vanished into the horizon!
Elsewhere.
After a long flight, Xiao Zheng soon saw the tribe beneath the clouds. Just like the Cloud Border’s ethnic-style dwellings, they were all wooden stilt houses.
"It seems the population here is not small either."
"I reckon this tribe is probably one of the larger ones among the Witch Clan."
Xiao Zheng hid within the sea of clouds, continually peering down.
Estimating by assuming one house accommodates a family of three, the entire tribe below likely had at least five thousand people. Don’t underestimate five thousand; anyone picked randomly from here would possess immense combat ability.
"One, two, three..."
Xiao Zheng’s gaze continuously swept over the stilt houses below, muttering as he went.
After counting, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes: "I didn’t expect just this one tribe to have sixteen Supreme Realm experts, and five Transcendent Realm experts!"
"The strength of the Ancient Clan is truly formidable!"
"Thankfully, there’s a barrier preventing the Ancient Clan from invading. If all the Ancient Clan experts came to Earth, even with Hades and me joining forces, winning this war would be very difficult!"
Thinking of this, his mood grew heavy.
The Ancient Clan’s formidable strength once again astonished Xiao Zheng.
Moreover, this was just one of the many tribes of the Witch Clan. If all of the Witch Clan’s experts were added together, their number of powerhouses would only increase!
If the total number of all Ancient Clan experts was summed up, Xiao Zheng didn’t even dare to imagine the final number!
"It seems this trip to the Ancient World was truly the right decision."
"Had I not seen it with my own eyes, once the Ancient Clan breaks through the barrier, the outdated information would inevitably have a huge impact on us!"
Xiao Zheng took one last deep look at the tribe below, a flash of cold glinting in his eyes.
However, at this moment, a sudden disturbance occurred in the tribe.
More and more people rushed out from the stilt houses, all clad in armor and armed! The entire tribe was brimming with murderous intent, looking battle-ready!
"What’s happening? Why have they suddenly become vigilant? Did they detect my whereabouts?" Xiao Zheng felt a flash of surprise, then found it somewhat amusing, shaking his head, "That shouldn’t be possible. With my current realm, they shouldn’t be able to detect my presence."
In the end, he decided to hide in the sea of clouds and observe the development.
Below.
After the Witch Clan experts emerged from the stilt houses, they stood poised at the entrance of the village.
After about three or four minutes, a figure flew in from afar.
This person’s aura was strong, at the Half-step Creation realm.
What surprised Xiao Zheng even more was that in the person’s arms was the corpse of the Witch Clan warrior he had kicked to death earlier!
"Who is he?"
"How did he find that corpse?"
Xiao Zheng felt a tinge of astonishment, his mind full of questions.
He never expected his whereabouts to be exposed so quickly again. This exposure made him self-doubt for a moment, questioning his potential as a spy...
While Xiao Zheng was embroiled in self-doubt, the two sides below finally confronted each other.
Upon seeing the corpse in the person’s arms, the entire Witch Clan tribe erupted instantly!