In the cryptman tribe, several old cryptmen, wearing clothes that were worn out but still vaguely recognizable as those of drow goblins, were kneeling in front of a tall cryptman statue and praying in a low voice.
These old cavemen are the oldest in the tribe and are the first elders to have seen the Caveman God with their own eyes.
With years of protection, even if Lin Xiao did nothing, these underground people already regarded him as their protector.
In the sixth year of his protection, at the call of the elders of the tribe, the cavemen gathered the tribesmen and spent several years carving a statue for Lin Xiao that stood in the center of the tribe.
At this point, Lin Xiao's faith officially took root in this tribe and grew slowly.
At this time, the Caveman Tribe had become a large tribe with a total cave population of over 10,000, a grand occasion that the Cavemen had never imagined before.
When they were weak, it brought them hope. This belief was the most pious. Now, there are more than ten thousand cavemen in the caveman tribe, and all of them are true believers. Most of them are devout believers and fanatics. The quality of their faith is almost comparable to that of the clans in Lin Xiao's divine domain.
Unfortunately, the cavemen are too weak and provide too little power of faith. Even devout believers and fanatics cannot provide him with much power of faith. The tens of thousands of cavemen in the entire tribe can only provide him with more than 300 points of power of faith every day.
And one point of divine power requires one million points of faith to condense. The entire tribe will have to last for thousands of years to provide him with one point of divine power. At this speed,
"So it's time to expand faith!"
Lin Xiao walked out of the cave, followed closely by the minotaur Jonila, with a look of awe and a hint of fanaticism.
After a few years, the Minotaur had already known his identity. After being with the incarnation of a true god for a long time, under the influence of divine power and subtle influence, the Minotaur had become his fanatical believer.
Lin Xiao would certainly not be stingy with the most powerful force under his command. Although he did not grant him divinity for the time being, nor did he dare to grant him the bloodline of Shura Naga, he often granted him divine power. At the same time, he found the ancient red dragon Field in his true form, took a drop of ancient red dragon blood from him, and activated the ancient red dragon vein for Jonila, thus promoting him to a Tauren ancient red dragon vein warlock.
Now, Jonila's strength has entered the legendary level. He has a level 20 warrior profession level and a level 22 dragon vein warlock profession level. He is very powerful.
In fact, if he didn't need to establish prestige in the eyes of the crypt people, he could have sent the minotaurs to drive away the patrol.
The cave dwellers were protected like this year after year, and gradually the surrounding cave dweller tribes knew that this cave dweller tribe had very powerful protection from their own people, and they moved here from far away, and the tribe became larger and larger.
By the tenth year, the caveman tribe that had been protected by Lin Xiao for ten years had expanded into a large tribe with more than 200,000 cavemen. It was only at this time that Lin Xiao began to consciously spread his faith.
Although all cave dwellers believed in him before, it was a spontaneous and aimless belief. In the eyes of the cave dwellers, he was called the God of Cave Dwellers. If he was deified in the future, he could only obtain the priesthood of the cave dweller race.
Although he is a racial god, the cavemen are too weak. No matter how strong they become in the future, they will not be much stronger. Therefore, he must guide the cavemen to prepare for obtaining certain powerful priesthoods in the future.
After driving away the increasingly large drow raiding team again one year, Lin Xiao did not leave as he had done before, but stayed.
When the tall caveman covered in golden light slowly walked down from the air, all the cavemen knelt down and fanatically called out the name of the Caveman God.
Lin Xiao swept his eyes across the entire tribe, stretched out his hand and pointed, a ray of golden light flew out and landed on his statue in the center of the tribe. The statue suddenly appeared with a faint glow, and a faint divine power spread out. The mosquitoes in the entire tribe fled from the corners of the tribe as if they had encountered something terrible, forming a large swarm of insects that left the tribe.
"I am the god of cave dwellers and protection!"
At the same time, he stretched out his hand and waved, and more than a thousand golden lights flew out and penetrated into the bodies of one hundred underground people, half of whom were male and half were female.
This is the new caveman bloodline he has modulated, which can transform these cavemen and make them stronger. Previous experimental results have shown that the new cavemen are about 1.23 meters tall when they grow up. While maintaining the original reproduction rate, their physique will be stronger than before. They will be slightly weaker than ordinary humans. The hardened skin on their body surface has a high defense, and they also have stronger night vision and their lifespan is extended by about five years.
This is the first generation version that Lin Xiao is currently preparing. Next, he will slowly increase the number of new cave dwellers. When the new cave dwellers slowly multiply and reach a certain number, he will start preparing the third generation of new cave dwellers.
Food must be eaten bite by bite, and racial evolution cannot be rushed. Anyway, he has enough time to develop slowly.
Twenty years later, the one thousand new cave dwellers continued to reproduce new cave dwellers, and these new cave dwellers continued to reproduce for two or three generations, and soon these powerful new cave dwellers became the mainstream of the increasingly large tribe.
Lin Xiao made no secret of the fact that the birth of the new caveman was due to himself, thus confirming that the divine power was more stable.
After ten years of reproduction and several generations, Lin Xiao was sure that the genes of the new cavemen were stable and there were no other problems. He began to modulate the genes of the third generation of cavemen based on the existing new cavemen.
This time he will add more genes from more powerful species, trying to make them stronger and live longer while ensuring strong reproductive capabilities.
However, before the modulation results came out, a crisis began to approach the powerful caveman tribe.
With his blessing for more than twenty years, the caveman tribe has now become a super-large caveman tribe with a total population of more than 400,000. The hardworking cavemen have opened up more farms near the tribe to grow various crops, which deeply attracted the drow elves in the third layer of the Underdark.
It's just that the drow elves were afraid of Lin Xiao's powerful strength, and one or two raiding teams were not strong enough, so they didn't dare to take the risk.
But unfortunately this time, a large-scale beast tide occurred in the Underdark, affecting several drow cities, resulting in a serious food shortage. So several drow cities united and prepared to attack this huge caveman tribe to steal food.
A total of four drow cities united together to gather an army of more than 6,000 drow elves and more than 15,000 servant races, gathering somewhere in an underground passage leading to the third layer of the Underdark, which quickly attracted Lin Xiao's attention.
After all, it was a coalition of four drow cities, and there were several high-level priests of the Lord of Darkness among them. It was hard for Lin Xiao not to pay attention.
But Lin Xiao was at a loss as to how to deal with this coalition force next.
Of course, he has the power to destroy this coalition army directly. After all, he is already a true god, and no matter how many mortals there are, they are no match for him. But he cannot kill all of these drow elves, otherwise he will attract the Lord of Darkness like last time.
In the past, he could just do a job and leave, and the Lord of Darkness could not do anything to him. But now, the tribe of cavemen has developed well, and giving up would be a waste of twenty years.
Of course, he could afford to waste twenty years, and at worst he could start over, but if he ran away this time, what would he do next time?
As long as the Cryptids wanted to rise, they had to face the threat of the drow, which was unavoidable.
"It really makes God sad!"
God's thinking made him think of all the possibilities in an instant, and finally he came to the conclusion that he had only two choices. One was to stand by and let the cavemen face it all by themselves. They had to defeat the invading drow joint raiding team with their own strength.
Yes, only this method can avoid the interference of the Lord of Darkness.
Gods belong to gods, and mortals belong to mortals.
If he wants to take action, the Lord of Darkness has reason to do so. If he does not take action, if the cavemen can stop the drow coalition, even if the drow coalition is completely wiped out, the Lord of Darkness will only scold his believers as trash, but will not take action against the cavemen himself.
But compare the current strength of the cave dwellers with the strength of the drow coalition.
Although there are more than 400,000 cave dwellers, and nearly half of them are second-generation cave dwellers, they are far behind the drow elves who have experienced years of fighting and possess various professions and extraordinary powers.
Lin Xiao regretted not preparing earlier, but it was too late to regret now. He could only implement the second option, which was to run away.
The only reliable way is to leave some old, weak, sick and disabled cave dwellers as the rear guard, and evacuate the adults and children of the cave dwellers to start over somewhere else.
Lin Xiao did it as soon as he thought of it. He immediately issued a divine revelation, ordering the believers to prepare for relocation.
In order to ensure that his threat and the faith of his believers would not decrease, he panicked and claimed that the growing strength of the cave dwellers posed a threat to the drow, and now hundreds of thousands of drow were coming to kill them under the leadership of the evil Lord of Darkness.
The ignorant cave dwellers had no idea of the wickedness of human hearts, and since the second generation of cave dwellers were indeed much stronger than the first generation, they believed it without hesitation and quickly mobilized to start relocating.
The entire tribe was abandoned. More than 100,000 adult and young cave dwellers left the tribe and marched in the direction indicated by Lin Xiao, carrying only enough dry food for ten days.
After the main force left, Lin Xiao wiped out the traces they left behind.
Five days later, Lin Xiao, who had been escorting the cave dwellers, suddenly stopped and turned around. The long team in front also stopped. At this moment, all the cave dwellers felt something.
One by one, the threads of faith broke, and each broken thread of faith represented the death of a caveman.
In just one day, the entire tribe was massacred. More than 240,000 remaining cave dwellers were all killed by the drow coalition. The entire tribe was burned down and all the stored food was looted.
The drow had no idea how to fish in a confined pond, and they simply massacred the entire tribe in one go. Even the cave dwellers hiding underground were forced out or suffocated to death in their caves. The cruelty was so brutal that even Lin Xiao, who was used to seeing blood, felt a little uncomfortable.
The team continued to move forward in the darkness. All the cavemen seemed to know something, and the team was eerily silent.
The cave dwellers, who were not very intelligent, seemed to gain some wisdom at this moment.
(End of this chapter)