Chapter 873 (1/2)

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at 10th of April 2019 09:50:08 AM

Chapter 873

All those who were listening found the exchange simple, yet confusing . Tang Xiaotang said that if General Lebu wanted a fight then he had one, but when had he incited a fight?

Their confusion stemmed from the fact that they had never lived in the Wilderness, and so they had no understanding of its history or of the culture of its people .

The vast gra.s.slands of the North were called the Wilderness because they had once belonged to the Wild People . One thousand years ago, the Wild Kingdom was the strongest force on earth . Now all who lived in the Wilderness were outcasts; remnants of the wild people who live out their days in suffering .

Once the Wild Kingdom was defeated by the Great Tang, the Wild People were exiled even further north . Their former slaves from the Tribe of Savages joined forces with their nomad tribesmen in the west to rebuild the Three Great Halls of Kings, finally regaining their freedom .

Those tumultuous times had left a cruel scar in the memory of both sides . The Tribe of Savages' att.i.tude towards the Wild People was exactly as hateful as one might expect, while the Wild People thought of the Tribe as traitorous slaves . The conflict was a blood feud, but after the Wild People were exiled to the cold north, the two sides hardly encountered each other, and their hatred dulled with time .

As the Ever Night fell, the Wild People forged a b.l.o.o.d.y warpath southward to reclaim their ancestral homelands, spilling blood in the Left Royal Court in the East . The blood feud between the two peoples was once again awakened . In view of this history, General Lebu and Tang Xiaotang's discussion about the appropriate name for those plains was laden with significance and established the position of each party .

Since you are of the Wild People and I am of the Tribe of Savages, this fight is inevitable .

”There are many people here, but none will fight you . This is not because their strength surpa.s.ses you so much that it would be an unfair fight: after all, everyone knows the standard of the Academy, and even if you are a second-generation student, you cannot be considered their junior . They only do not dare to fight you because of your ident.i.ty as the Academy's student . ”

General Lebu said to Tang Xiaotang, ”The conflict between the royals of my Golden Tribe, the Tang Kingdom and the Academy runs just as deep as the feud between you Wild People . I do not care about your status in the Academy . I admire your song and your fighting from before, so I will kill you . ”

Only then did Tang Xiaotang hear from Chen Pipi about the General's ident.i.ty as the Golden Tribe Royal Hall's top martial artist . Still, her face showed no trace of worry .

Unlike the General, she was not in the habit of delivering a long monologue before a fight . She immediately charged at her opponent, her metal rod in hand . Her leather boots left a trail of trampled flowers in their wake .

The rod whistled through the air, delivering a clean, direct blow .

With a clang, Lebu deflected the blow with the scythe from his waist, blocking it just as cleanly .

Both had lived in the Wilderness . Their fighting styles were similarly direct and free of any sneaky tricks . The win depended on two things alone: strength and cultivation level .

The sound of the two weapons colliding was like an earth-shattering thunderclap .

Amongst the audience, the Divine Priests at lower levels of cultivation paled when they heard this noise . The junior students on the dais found the noise unbearable, covering their ears .

Suddenly, Lebu's eyes widened . He thought that the collision would have broken Tang Xiaotang's weapon, but in fact, it had snapped his tempered scimitar into pieces .

What kind of weapon was that ugly rod? How could it render the Blow of Light useless, then shatter his own formidable blade?

All those watching now looked at the rod with fear in their eyes . Little did they know that this ugly rod was a Devil's Doctrine artifact . It had originally been a gigantic, blood-red scimitar . In the Battle of Chang'an, the Abbey Dean created seven rainbows linking the sky and the earth, intending to use them as escape routes . Yu Lian had used this huge crimson blade to break them .

While the scimitar successfully broke the rainbows, it was also melted into this ugly rod by the sheer force of the Haotian energy woven into the rainbows as fortifications . Although its appearance was much uglier and Tang Xiaotang now used it as a rod, it was still the same rainbow-breaking material . Nothing on earth could match up to it .

Although the rod had emerged victorious over the scythe, the weapons' owners had not yet finished their battle . With a mighty cry, General Lebu harnessed the energy of the gra.s.s plains, making it course through his body . His curled-up right fist seemed as solid as a mountain . With a glint in his eye, he advanced menacingly towards the rod .

The meeting of the rod and the fist was once again accompanied by a deafening noise .

The noise was so loud that the Divine Priests at lower levels of cultivation were now cupping their ears in pain . It was so powerful that it even made some onlookers sustain internal injuries, causing them to cough up blood .

Lebu was the strongest warrior in the Golden Tribe . Based on strength alone, it would be hard to find an opponent who could match him . He had recently gone to war with the Great Tang's great general Xu Chi in northern Xinjiang and shone just as brightly as Xu Chi on the battlefield . Unless Xia Hou resurrected, n.o.body would be able to defeat him, Tang Xiaotang included .

His iron fist landed on the rod . Although the weapon did not bend or break, the gargantuan impact traveled through the rod and hit Tang Xiaotang's body in full force .

The recoil shocked her body . Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth . Still, she held the rod staunchly, not saying a word .

Lebu had been thrown into a rage by the destruction of his treasured blade . After that earth-shattering blow, he charged again with a roar .

He was stopped in his tracks after only two steps .

Without missing a beat or even rubbing the blood off her lip, Tang Xiaotang charged right back at the general .

By this time, the peach flowers on the ground before the altar had been ground into dust by her boots .

Tang Xiaotang and General Lebu met at blows again . They were both using short-range weapons: the rod and the fist .

It was as if two mountains had collided head-on . The clash created a thunderous noise which once again shook Peach Mountain, along with a shrill sound of the piercing wind .