758 Return (1/2)

The entire army camp was surrounded by the Court Attendants Army. Shulitu and his 3,000 men had retreated to the main tent at the center of the camp and were huddled together, horrified by the prospect of confronting enemies that outnumbered them by several times.

Riding on their horses with their bows drawn halfway, multiple groups of heavily armed Court Attendants soldiers welcomed the Dragon King with silence and suspicion.

Gu Shenwei stopped at the outer gate with his right hand holding onto the reins. His left hand was shaking gently behind his back. Han Wuxian and the others knew what the Dragon King was signaling, and they started backing away slowly. Yet Han Fen suddenly rushed forward without hesitation, and nobody was quick enough to stop her.

Han Fen always tried to stay as far away from Hall Leader as possible.

”Who's your leader?” Gu Shenwei asked in a loud voice. He didn't try to stop Han Fen.

He could hear distant sounds, yet no one stepped forward.

”Who's your leader?” Han Fen repeated. ”You're all men, so stop being shy.”

”You tricked us with a fake head,” someone in the crowd said in a cold voice. ”The Court Attendants Army fought for you, and yet you rewarded us by desecrating the Khan's holy name with an ordinary man's body.”

The remains and head which had been brought back under Mo Lin's guidance had been identified as counterfeit. Gu Shenwei knew that he had come back too late, so he could do nothing but venture into accepting the challenge. ”I've never shown the body to anyone. Neither did I ever claim that the body was the Khan's.”

”We all heard that you planned to trick us into believing that the Khan's a mortal with the fake body. You just haven't carried out your plan yet,” a man yelled in grief and indignation.

Gu Shenwei opened his arms and declared, ”Then let God be the judge.” He then spurred the horse on with his legs and proceeded forward slowly.

The crowd slowly moved aside. The Court Attendants Army were still in awe of the Dragon King, and many of them looked into the dark sky in panic, unaware that the giant roc had already flown far away.

An arrow was shot at him from far away, yet Gu Shenwei merely grabbed it with his hand and continued forward. This was a crucial moment, and he couldn't afford to show any sign of panic or hesitation.

”Fire,” Gu Shenwei said in an extremely low voice, barely moving his lips.

Han Fen craned her neck to look at the Dragon King, her eyeballs rolling around. Finally she understood the meaning of the word, and then she straightened herself and quivered once as if there were bugs crawling on her.

Hundreds of thousands of Court Attendants troops drew their bows; the tension between them and the Dragon King was very thin. If two or three of them took the lead, it would shatter into pieces.

Right at this moment, the arrow in the Dragon King's hand started burning. The flame was red, and yet the smoke it gave off was tinged slightly blue.

It was an eerie scene. Several thousands of pairs of eyes were staring at the Dragon King, and yet no one knew how he had done it.

Gu Shenwei raised the arrow high, like he was holding a small torch. The flame started moving downwards and in the end it looked like the flame was coming out of his palm. Yet the arrow shaft remained intact as if the fire was just a passerby in the a wind. And yet the Dragon King remained as cold as he always was, his palm unharmed.

”The Khan has given a decree…” someone whispered in fear and excitement.

”The Fire God forbids us from shooting at the Dragon King.” Finally someone drew the conclusion Gu Shenwei had been waiting for.

A soldier jumped off of his horse and knelt down – it was the soldier who had shot the first arrow.

Gu Shenwei walked before him, loosened his hand and the arrow dropped to the ground, ”The Khan believes that I'm innocent, but what you did was done so out of loyalty. I absolve you of your sin.”

Patches of arrow heads drooped down along with their owner's heads and the narrow passage widened considerably. Taking Han Fen along with him, Gu Shenwei proceeded to the main tent at a steady speed.

The common soldiers had heard what happened at the front gate. In awe, they stepped out of the Dragon King's way, their confidence boosted.

Fang Wenshi was sweating buckets in anxiety. He was not good at dealing with this kind of urgent crisis. If the Dragon King had taken his advice, the Court Attendants Army would have suffered great losses along with King Shengri's army, and they wouldn't have had enough strength to surround them at this point.

Yet when he saw the Dragon King, he still rejoiced. He pushed all the others aside with an unstoppable courage and brought the Dragon King into the main tent – he wanted to be the first to fill the Dragon King in.

”I heard that, Dragon King, you waved your hand and the arrows in thousands of Court Attendants troops' hands just turned into ashes. Was that true?”

It was only a half mile's distance, and yet the truth had already been distorted to countless times its original grandness.

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”Not only is the Dragon King good at kung fu, but he is also skilled at conjuring… No, this is divine power. You don't have to talk about it, and don't tell me how you did it either. It's all about the mystery.”

Han Fen had been by the Dragon King's side the whole time, and she giggled. ”It was me…”

”You have to keep that a secret,” Gu Shenwei said.

Han Fen put away her smile. ”It was me who saw it all.” Then believing that she had reacted really quickly, she started laughing even more happily.

Fang Wenshi took a deep breath and gave a brief report on what had happened these past two days.

The kung fu competition between Chu Nanping and Liu Qingpu had been called off.

Gu Shenwei had sent the Court Attendants Armies' contingents in several directions. Yesterday, a corps of 10,000 men came back. Their opinions were more radical, and they wanted to execute Azheba along with all the ex-officers of the Court Attendants Army in the camp.

Shulitu tried hard to reason with them, and during the debate he had mentioned the coffin that the Dragon King and Mo Lin had brought back. There had been widespread rumors that the Khan's remains were in the coffin, but the Court Attendants troops refused to believe it and insisted on an identification of the corpse.

And it had turned out that both the remains and the head were counterfeit copies.