Chapter 948 – A Reason to Change (2/2)

Everything the demi-humans did was very straightforward and simple, perhaps even violent, whether it was eating or doing business, in political battles or real battles.

Just like the countless battles that took place every day on the shores of the Red River, today's battles proceeded without any originality whatsoever.

Deafening collisions, explosions of dust, the quaking of the ground, and the howling of the wind.

The result of this battle was similarly dull. Completely according to expectations, Xiaode won. Moreover, he had realized the promise he had made before the match, no strength held back in his punches and kicks. With the most violent of dispositions, he had needed only three techniques to severely wound the Meng clan expert.

The blood on the yellow sands of the fighting platform was rather hair-raising. Many of the Meng clan expert's bones had been broken and he lay on the ground, his eyes closed, his death imminent.

A physician of the Demi-human Court and several military doctors with boxes of medicines hurriedly came up to the platform, but the Meng clan expert had been too heavily injured. It even took some time before they were finally able to stop his bleeding.

In any other match or celebration, the Daoist Church of the Western Wastes would have dispatched priests. The Sacred Light technique was very effective on wounds like this and it would presumably have been possible to save the Meng clan expert's life. However, today was the Heavenly Selection ceremony, and that the Orthodoxy did not come to make trouble was already quite the consideration. It was out of the question for them to dispatch priests to assist.

Upon seeing that the Meng clan expert was beyond treatment, the crowds around the platform gradually ceased to cheer, becoming rather quiet. Demi-humans revered the strong and loved to fight, so this sort of sight was extremely common. However, when they thought about how this Meng clan expert of exceptional strength was about to die, the people couldn't help but feel a little strange.

”After you cure him, remember to tell him that he has to return the money used to pay for the medicine.”

Xiaode suddenly took a pill of yellowish brown hue and threw it into the hands of the Demi-human Court's physician. After impassively saying those words, he took his leave of the fighting platform.

The Demi-human Court physician stared blankly at the yellow pill, and then with an expression of disbelief.

The people around the platform began to whisper amongst each other and then cry out in shock.

”Could it be the Yellow Tree Thorn?”

”It couldn't be, right?”

The Yellow Tree Thorn was a pill made from the sap of a rare tree in the southern demi-human lands, possessed of the miraculous properties of staunching blood and reviving one's soul. Few were made, making them extremely precious.

Other than the small number of pills sent to the Imperial Palace and the Council of Elders each year, the vast majority of the Yellow Tree Thorns were in the hands of the Shi clan.

As the expert nurtured and supported by the entire Shi clan, Xiaode naturally carried the Yellow Tree Thorn on his person. However, no expected that after he severely wounded the Meng clan expert, he would so liberally use this precious pill to save his opponent's life.

As they watched Xiaode descend the platform, the crowd was stupefied. They felt like his figure was even taller and stronger than rumored.

No matter how ardent the gazes from his surroundings or how reverent the voices around him were, Xiaode appeared unmoved, his visage still apathetic.

The matches on the fighting platform continued and there was still some time until his next match. Walking through the crowd, he was escorted by the experts of his tribe to his carriage.

The clan elder had been sitting in the carriage this entire time.

The clan elder looked at Xiaode with a rather strange expression, tinged with relief, indifference, and confusion. ”You've changed a lot in the last few years.”

Xiaode quietly thought for a while, then said, ”Change is because there is a reason to change.”