50: Chapter 50 Tribe Upgrade

When the system notification rang in Wang Sheng's mind, he was standing in the open space in front of the Chiefs Tent, watching Frost Mage Lin Shiyun direct a group of girls in moving Savage Beast hides.

The Frost Mage was as cold and ruthless when directing people as she was with her Frost Spell. Whenever anyone slacked off, an icicle would strike the ground right by their toes, scaring the girl into yelping and sprinting away with the Savage Beast hide.

Her silver-white hair drifted like snow in the morning breeze, and no one dared to slack off where her icy blue pupils swept.

The hem of her mage robes fluttered slightly from the breeze created by her movements, and her long, straight legs were partially visible beneath the hem.

Like white jade soaked in moonlight, every step she took carried the cold elegance unique to a Frost Mage.

Her waist was as slender as a willow, but the curve below her waistline was full and rounded, stretching the fabric of her mage robes into an elegant silhouette.

Even while doing rough work like moving Savage Beast hides, the Frost Mage's figure remained like a painting traced by moonlight, with every curve perfectly placed.

"Over there! The third pile! Move it next to the Spirit Garden!" Frost Mage Lin Shiyun's voice was as cold as ice.

But if one listened carefully—if one listened very carefully—the tail end of her voice was slightly softer than before, like the first drop of spring water seeping through the ice.

Zhao Linger was crouching by the Lingxi River washing spirit fruits, her ears pricked high and a mischievous smile hanging on the corner of her mouth.

What could a Spirit Sound Master not hear? Frost Mage Lin Shiyun's heartbeat frequency when she spoke was fifteen percent faster than usual, a value that only appeared when thinking of a certain person.

"Ding!"

The system notification interrupted Wang Sheng's observations.

[Detected that Bright Tribe meets the requirements for upgrade,]

[Population: 63 original tribe members, 7 aborigines including Shi Gen have joined, 31 refugees joined during the Myriad Races Market, total 101 people ✓]

[Core Buildings: Chiefs Tent ✓ / Ancestral Spirit Altar ✓ / Spirit Field ✓ / Spirit Garden ✓ / Alchemy Room ✓]

[Tribe Contribution Points: 2,847 points (Upgrade cost: 2,000 points) ✓]

[Confirm upgrade to Guangming Village?]

Wang Sheng looked at the data on the system panel, his heart jolting.

One hundred and one people.

He remembered that when he woke up on the morning of his transmigration, there were only sixty-three people by the Lingxi River: him and sixty-two girls. In just over twenty days, that number had quietly surpassed one hundred.

Shi Gen was the first aborigine to join.

There was also an old man they had saved from the claws of a Savage Beast, who brought his children, grandchildren, and three granddaughters, going from initial skepticism to absolute devotion today.

During the Myriad Races Market, another thirty-one refugees were attracted by the reputation of the Bright Tribe. Some were scattered hunters driven from their homes by Savage Beasts,

some were fugitives dissatisfied with the tyrannical rule of their original tribes, and others were young girls attracted by the heroic bearing of the Bright Tribe's female warriors.

They came, they saw, and they stayed.

Because here, there was an Ancestral Spirit Altar radiating silver-blue light, a verdant Spirit Field that shouldn't exist in the wilderness,

spirit medicine concocted by Hua Jieyu, spirit flowers cultivated by Su Mengyao, and wild ironware forged by Rune Forgemaster Xu Mohan,

and more importantly, here there was a chieftain who had withstood all attacks and protected everyone during the Beast Tide.

Wang Sheng took a deep breath.

"Confirm upgrade."

[Upgrading...]

[Bright Tribe → Guangming Village!]

[Upgrade complete! Congratulations, Chieftain!]

[Unlocked new building blueprints: Primary Defensive Wall / Spirit Field Expansion · Three Acres / Beast Pen]

[Tribe territory range: Ten miles in radius → One hundred miles in radius!]

[Unlocked new features: Village Bulletin Board / Diplomatic Envoy / Contribution Point Task System]

[Chiefs Tent upgraded: Chiefs Tent · Tier 2 (New features: Tribe Warehouse, Council Hall, Chieftain's Bedchamber)]

Golden light burst from beneath Wang Sheng's feet, like the golden color when a Holy Light Warrior awakens,

but grander and more magnificent, like the sun rising from the horizon.

The light spread outward with him as the center, sweeping across every tent, every Spirit Field, and every inch of land they had watered with their sweat and spirit power,

and then, the entire camp began to change.

The change started with the Chiefs Tent.

The original Chiefs Tent was just a large tent sewn from Savage Beast hides; although spacious enough, it was ultimately just a tent.

But at this moment, golden holy light poured onto the tent like a waterfall, and the Savage Beast hide tent walls seemed to be burned by golden flames in the holy light—not for destruction, but for rebirth.

The material of the tent walls transformed in the holy light; the Savage Beast hides turned into hard wild timber, the tent's frame transformed into thick wooden pillars, and the tent roof turned into a sloped roof covered with Spirit Rune stone tiles.

A real building was born from the original tent.

Chiefs Tent · Tier 2, a two-story building constructed of wild timber, with the bottom floor being the Council Hall and Tribe Warehouse, and the top floor being the Chieftain's Bedchamber.

The outer walls of the building were carved with Holy Light Spirit Runes, shimmering with a faint golden glow in the sunlight, resembling a wild castle blessed by the power of light.

Then came the defensive wall.

The Primary Defensive Wall blueprint unlocked by the system did not need to be built from scratch; the holy light spread from beneath Wang Sheng's feet, drawing a circle of golden light bands along the boundaries of the camp.

Where the light bands passed, the earth rose, and soil and gravel automatically condensed, stacked, and compacted under the drive of spirit power, as if an invisible giant hand were molding clay.

A three-meter-high, half-meter-thick earth and stone wall rose from the ground along the light bands, with Savage Beast bones and Spirit Rune stones embedded in the wall surface, resembling a stone dragon coiled by the Lingxi River.

No, not one.

It was a circle.

The Primary Defensive Wall enclosed the entire Guangming Village, from the north bank of the Lingxi River to the edge of the Savage Beast Forest.

From the east side of the Ancestral Spirit Altar to the west side of the Spirit Garden, nearly two miles of land in radius were completely surrounded by a circle of three-meter-high earth and stone walls.

Every fifty steps along the top of the wall, there was an arrow embrasure, and embedded in the embrasures were Spirit Rune sights designed by Xiao Yuqing and He Lanyue.

These were simplified versions forged by Rune Forgemaster Xu Mohan using Savage Beast bones, but they were already advanced enough in the wilderness world.

The Spirit Field was also expanding.

Su Mengyao's Spirit Field was originally only one acre, but now, under the blessing of the holy light, it had expanded by one acre in each of three directions—three acres of Spirit Field!

The concentration of spirit energy in the Spirit Field had visibly increased, and emerald-green spirit power mist rose from the fields, shrouding the entire plot like the morning mist.

Spirit wheat and spirit vegetables grew crazily in the spirit energy, as if someone had pressed the fast-forward button.

Finally, there was the Beast Pen.

The Beast Pen was built on the south bank of the Lingxi River, with a half-acre space enclosed by Savage Beast wooden fences reinforced by spirit power.

Carved on the wooden fences were Spirit Sound soothing runes designed by Zhao Linger, which could calm the irritable emotions of Savage Beasts within a certain range.

Inside the Beast Pen were water troughs, feed troughs, and a resting area. Although it was currently empty, Wang Sheng could already imagine the scene of it being filled with tamed Savage Beasts.

When the golden holy light dissipated, the entire camp had completely changed.

No, it was no longer a camp.

It was a village.

Guangming Village.