The Xiao Family group chat immediately exploded after Xiao sent out that group file.
The Blood Pool, the Myriad Soul Banner, and the White Bone Dharmakaya—these three supreme treasures of the demonic path, forged by harvesting all living beings, were all too familiar to cultivators, even if everyone usually looked down on such demonic artifacts.
However, it had to be admitted that these three demonic artifacts were incredibly tempting; they possessed an irresistible beauty called "strength."
As a result, everyone put aside their work, returned to their own small worlds, took out their prepared materials, and began refining them.
Although for this type of demonic artifact, the best approach would be for the entire family to cooperate and refine three supreme artifacts together to maximize profits,
the problem was who would control these demonic artifacts afterward. Although everyone belonged to the Xiao Clan, aside from the direct descendants of the main family, most carried the surname Xiao, and behind them stood their own relatives and families unrelated to the Xiao main branch.
Even though they also acknowledged Xiao as their ancestor, they still possessed their own forces. Why should they contribute labor to the main branch without compensation?
They could contribute to the Xiao Clan, but absolutely not for free. Whatever they contributed, they had to receive corresponding benefits in return.
What's more, every Xiao Clan member possessed their own independent small world.
These people naturally possessed the potential to become kings, and as they matured under the guidance of the inherited knowledge left behind by Xiao, they gradually developed independent values and ideologies. They would never easily submit to another person.
Not even if that person was their own father. Therefore, rather than allowing conflicts to erupt later due to uneven distribution of benefits, it was better for everyone to act independently from the very beginning and avoid interfering with one another.
Thus, Xiao Clan members would usually receive a startup fund upon reaching adulthood, and how they developed afterward depended entirely on their own abilities.
Whether they pursued greater strength to stand above the masses or chose to live leisurely as carefree young masters, everything depended on their own preferences.
After all, as innate divinities born with dimensional worlds and the bloodline power of the Xiao Clan, they never needed to worry about money.
As long as they remained members of the Xiao Clan, even casually planting crops inside their dimensions would attract countless wealthy individuals offering generous donations. Simply farming could make them the richest people in the world.
The distribution of power within the Xiao Clan was even simpler: those capable of convincing others naturally rose to leadership, while those without ability followed stronger leaders.
This was a form of natural selection and the law of survival.
In this world, only the strong could survive, and only the strong could earn respect and authority.
As for the internal resource waste and consumption within the family, Xiao himself was perfectly happy to see it happen.
After all, no matter how many demonic treasures the Xiao Family refined, their essence still originated from his Necromantic Law.
Every use of the three great demonic treasures was another application of the Necromantic Law, which in turn continuously strengthened Xiao himself.
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After refining the three great demonic treasures, the Xiao Clan members found their survival abilities greatly enhanced. They once again emerged from the Cyber Dimension and resumed their activities throughout The Lands Between, even beginning a side business as adventurers.
There was no helping it; The Lands Between was simply too fascinating. It contained transmigrators from countless worlds and innumerable hidden secrets.
Ancient underground tombs, concealed secret realms, ruined civilizations, and countless races and histories were hidden throughout The Lands Between, waiting to be uncovered.
And all of these places shared one common trait: they were filled with dangers, traps, and countless ancient treasures.
The Xiao Clan members were filled with curiosity and a desire to explore these mysterious places. They wanted to uncover the secrets hidden within them, and even more so, obtain the ancient treasures buried there.
Thus, adventure teams were formed one after another as they ventured deep into various dangerous regions to explore.
Previously, the Xiao Clan members had always been cautious toward exploring the unknown because the hidden mechanisms and traps in those places could genuinely drive people into desperate situations.
Especially after hearing that even hero-level figures could easily lose their lives inside underground tombs, no one dared to recklessly charge in.
However, with the appearance of the three great demonic treasures, the situation changed drastically. The demonic treasures granted the Xiao Clan members unprecedented confidence.
Among them, the immortal and indestructible souls inside the Myriad Soul Banner could act as fearless vanguards to scout the path ahead.
The Blood Pool continuously provided them with energy support, ensuring they could maintain peak combat strength over long periods of time.
Meanwhile, the White Bone Dharmakaya functioned like an impregnable fortress, constantly protecting them from external threats.
The traps hidden within ancient ruins and underground tombs could no longer easily stop the Xiao Clan members. Instead, those places became treasure vaults waiting to be looted.
In a very short period of time, the Xiao Clan members swept through countless hidden locations across The Lands Between and obtained a huge number of precious ancient treasures.
These included various weapons, talismans, sorceries, incantations, Spirit Ashes of Erdtree heroes, and many other valuable items.
However, even with the assistance of the three great demonic treasures, the Xiao Clan members still paid a heavy price during these explorations, and the number of injured and disabled continued to rise.
Because no one could ever predict whether they would accidentally encounter terrifying ancient existences hidden within those mysterious places.
Some especially unlucky individuals even used hidden passages to enter the underground world, only to encounter the sealed deity known as the Ancestor Spirit King—and even foolishly unsealed him.
That was an ancient Outer God bearing the title of a deity, a terrifying existence that had once fiercely competed against the Dragon God during the Age of the Crucible.
Although he was ultimately defeated and sealed underground, by relying on the faith of the Ancestral Followers and his ability to absorb souls to grow stronger, he was still not an enemy ordinary Xiao Clan members could contend with.
Faced with such a terrifying opponent, Xiao had no choice but to personally intervene and ultimately defeat the Ancestor Spirit King.
However, the Ancestor Spirit King could not truly be killed. New sprouts rapidly grew from the Ancestor Spirit Horns he shed. The Ancestor Spirit King could continuously resurrect through death itself and draw strength from it.
Ever since arriving in The Lands Between, what annoyed Xiao the most were these ancient Outer Gods. Not only were they extremely troublesome to deal with, but they were practically embodiments of rules themselves.
Every Outer God possessed corresponding laws and followers, and the existence of those laws and followers made them fundamentally impossible to eradicate completely.
Even powerful beings like the Dragon God and Marika could only seal them away, imprisoning them while attempting to erase their existence and weaken them through the erosion of time.
Therefore, after witnessing how quickly the Ancestor Spirit King regenerated, Xiao immediately realized that the Ancestor Spirit was not the weak enemy that could simply be hacked down in a few hits like in the game.
Furthermore, considering the Ancestor Spirit King's generally gentle and reclusive nature, Xiao was even less willing to become enemies with him.
After leaving behind some Runes as compensation for plundering part of the Ancestor Spirit King's law, he departed the area together with his family members.
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