vncnus Chapter 57, Qingyuan Clan
Chapter 57, Qingyuan Clan
Upon hearing this, the other twenty-five elders naturally turned their gazes to Ye Muxuan. Ye Muxuan nodded slightly; he was aware of the matter entrusted to him by the Grand Elder, and had made some progress since joining the Virtual Universe Company.
"Our people didn't always live in this secret realm; they migrated from other cosmic kingdoms," Zhongli began slowly, recounting the secrets of his people's past. "Billions of years ago, our people lived on a blue, life-bearing planet. One day, our leader claimed to have encountered a life-or-death crisis. This crisis lasted for thousands of years before our leader perished!"
"At that time, the leader had already achieved immortality!"
"After the leader fell, many of our people left our home planet in search of a way to survive, while some insisted on staying."
"The good times didn't last long. The leader's enemies finally found their home planet and engaged in a fierce battle with the foundation he left behind. In the end, the foundation was destroyed, and the home planet was shattered along with it!"
The twenty-six elders in the main hall all wore solemn expressions, and many of them had reddened eyes. Their leader was an Immortal-level powerhouse, and anyone who could become his enemy was undoubtedly an Immortal, or even a formidable one among Immortals. For such a powerful being, a life-bearing planet was far too fragile; let alone a direct attack, even the aftershocks of a battle could shatter it.
"The mother planet shattered, and countless members of the clan died. One clansman used the World Ring to save many of the weaker members and escaped on a spaceship. With the strength of a World Lord, he fled and fought his way through the universe, leaving one cosmic nation after another. Finally, he escaped into a long-abandoned cosmic secret realm."
"He settled his people on the continent of this secret realm, and in a severely injured state, with a bloodthirsty mentality, he faced those humans and ferocious beasts who also wanted to occupy the secret realm, and forcibly carved out this relatively peaceful environment."
Even a tiny cosmic secret realm, even if it's only tens of thousands of light-years across, even if it was searched out and abandoned billions of years ago, even if it has special rules that cause life born in this secret realm to have incomplete souls and no hope of immortality, is enough to make many powerful people envious—even if it's used to train family guards? Or to raise and tame beasts?
"He was our clan's first Grand Elder. Even with the strength of a peak Realm Lord, he didn't live to the end of his lifespan, dying from severe injuries after only a few hundred thousand years. Before his death, the Grand Elder left behind a large group of ferocious beasts as a test of life and death for the clan, and he left behind two instructions: first, to find the enemy who shattered our home planet; second, if you can't establish yourself in the universe, don't leave the cosmic secret realm!"
"Billions of years have passed, and now we have three thousand tribes and hundreds of millions of people, all of which are the foundation left by the great elders of that time! If it weren't for the fact that you, Mu Xuan, have now become a core member of the Virtual Universe Company, I would not have agreed to let you lead your people out of the secret realm."
Among these elders, if we're talking about who understands the Virtual Universe Company and the Primal Universe best, besides Ye Muxuan, it would be the Grand Elder Zhong Li, after all, he has been a Realm Lord for millions of years.
"Electing you as clan leader is not an honor, but a responsibility! I myself have almost forgotten which elder I am. This responsibility, now entrusted to you, is no easy task!"
Grand Elder Zhong Li retrieved a silver-white token from his inner world and handed it to Ye Muxuan beside him with both hands. "This is the clan leader's token left by the first Grand Elder. For countless eons, successive Grand Elders have kept it safe, passing it down to me. Now I hand it over to the clan leader!"
The silver token had a single character engraved on one side: "Qing" (清). The other side had another character engraved on it: "Yuan" (源). Ye Muxuan naturally recognized it; it was the script passed down in the tribe, not the universal language.
"The first Grand Elder left behind oral instructions, which have been passed down through generations of Grand Elders. Our clan is called the Qingyuan Clan!"
"From this day forward, you are the patriarch of the Qingyuan Clan!"
Over billions of years, ordinary metal would have long since corroded, but Ye Muxuan, having spent over a hundred thousand years in the outer battlefields, immediately recognized it as an F-grade metal. More precisely, it wasn't pure F-grade metal, but rather a fragment of the body of an immortal mechanical being.
Ye Muxuan turned to look at the other twenty-five elders, only to see that they were all looking at him with expectant eyes, and his eyes inexplicably welled up with tears.
Born in hardship, die in comfort! Throughout countless ages, the senators who entered the Senate have known that the ferocious beasts must exist! Therefore, the ferocious beasts cannot, and should not, be completely eliminated, which is why many senators throughout history have died in the mouths of the ferocious beasts!
Or rather, among the elders throughout history, even the Grand Elders, few have lived to their natural lifespan limit. Born in a secret realm of the universe, due to the flaws in their souls, breaking through the shackles of the Realm Lord and achieving immortality is virtually impossible. This means that no one can live forever! Only through generations of fighting can the survival of their people be protected.
With his hands outstretched, Ye Muxuan's strength trembled slightly, but he resolutely accepted the clan leader's token!
"Greetings, Chieftain!"
Zhong Li stood up, left his seat, and bowed deeply to Ye Muxuan in respect!
"Greetings, Chieftain!"
The twenty-five elders rose and bowed to Ye Muxuan in respect!
The descendants of the Qingyuan Clan who escaped from their shattered home planet millions of years ago have finally had their first clan leader!
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The Qingyuan Clan, led by Clan Chief Ye Muxuan and Grand Elder Zhong Li, along with twenty-five other elders, spent over thirty years successfully settling their hundreds of millions of members in various star systems across the Chenyi Star Region.
Of course, it's impossible to settle all the people on every inhabited planet, given that there are hundreds of millions of such planets. Therefore, besides habitation, many inhabited planets are used for different purposes, such as developing them into tourist destinations, pastoral areas, or administrative centers. Furthermore, some nearby planets have rich mineral veins, which have been developed to create substantial wealth, enriching the people's resources.
The five major powers also set up offices on many inhabited planets in each star system, allowing every Qingyuan Clan member whose strength reaches the planetary level to register as a cosmic citizen, directly under the name of the Mingyou Cosmic Kingdom, and directly become a citizen of a high-level empire.
The cosmic energy within the primordial universe is not as strong as in the secret realm, making it more difficult and slower to reach the planetary level. However, from now on, the souls of the Qingyuan people born in the primordial universe are no longer incomplete; they possess the infinite possibility of becoming immortal.
Zilin Manor became the first stop for the Qingyuan clan after they left Chenyi Starfield. Clan members who were willing to leave Chenyi Starfield to explore the universe would depart from here and head towards the cosmos.
Oh, by the way, among the star regions registered in the Mingyou Universe Kingdom, the Chenyi Star Region has been renamed and is now called the Qingyuan Star Region.
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Hmm, their background has been revealed.