61 Fan Long. (2/2)
He stretched out his other hand, waiting for the others to throw their interspatial rings to him. They wanted to say something, to keep their rings, but facing Li Yang, there was nothing they could do. They quickly took off their rings and threw them to Li Yang, who quickly caught them, sifting through them. He also took off Xun Qiu's interspatial ring, sifting through it as he had with the others. Seeing the expressions that they were wearing, he let out a slight chuckle.
”Don't look so worried, I can't be bothered to rob the lot of you.”
Li Yang was not above robbing others, but he did not rob just anyone. These people had done nothing to him or those he cared about, and they had also complied with his orders, so he would not bother robbing them. He quickly found what he was looking for, taking out a white jade talisman from each of the interspatial rings, quickly shattering them. The expressions of the Heaven's Gate people sunk a little when they saw his actions, so Li Yang let out a light chuckle.
”What, did you think I would let you report to your superiors? Fuck off, I don't want to see you in my Cloud Wilderness again.”
The talismans he had broken were used to communicate with other people. without these talismans, it would be impossible for this group to report what had happened here to the other groups, giving Li Yang the element of surprise.
He let go of Xun Qiu's throat, removing the electricity he had inserted into her body. He handed her the interspatial rings he had taken, ignoring her aggrieved expression. But as she was weaker than Li Yang, there was nothing she could do about having her interspatial ring, something many cultivators considered their second most private thing, stolen and searched through. She quickly brought the four other members of Heaven's Gate and left, rapidly moving away, fleeing, from Li Yang. Once he was certain that they were gone, Li Yang turned towards Liang Chun, beckoning her over.
”Liang Chun, follow me back to the tribe. The two of you, return to wherever you came from.”
Liang Chun was still shocked at the sudden appearance, and the great strength, of Li Yang, but she quickly stood up and walked over to him. The two other guides could only put on bitter smiles. They wanted to tag along with Li Yang, but it was clear that he did not care about them.
Returning to the tribe was much faster than leaving it had been, as Li Yang was not stalking around for other groups. He simply lifted Liang Chun up, carrying her under his arm as he dashed through the wilderness at full speed. She was unsatisfied with being carried like that, but she knew when it was best to not say anything. Once they reached the outskirts of the village, Li Yang stopped running and let go of Liang Chun, handing her an interspatial ring.
”Hand this to Liang Zhou, he'll know what to do with it.”
The interspatial ring was filled with the Demonic beast corpses that Li Yang had picked up while searching for other groups. After handing her the ring, Li Yang did not bother to stay around any longer, dashing into the wilderness again, leaving behind a slightly confused Liang Chun.
After leaving Liang Chun at the edge of Wildbourne, the village of the Liang tribe, Li Yang quickly started making his way towards the village of the Shentu tribe. Since the Liang tribe had to pay some taxes to the Shentu tribe, Li Yang knew where the Shentu tribe was located, he had simply never been there before.
Li Yang still moved through the trees, but with a target in mind, he moved much faster than when he was just following Jinwu's directions. Thanks to that, it only took him a few minutes to reach the outskirts of the Shentu tribe village, Cloudsink.
The entire tribe was surrounded by a tall wooden wall made out of logs, the top of the logs sharpened into thick spikes. The buildings in the village were all made out of white stones and were rather curvy in shape, as if they were trying to imitate clouds. The buildings were much larger than the ones in the Liang tribe, the building at the center of the village five floors tall. The ground in the village was also paved, covered with flat grey bricks.
The area around the village was completely devoid of trees, so Li Yang could only enter the village from the front entrance, a tall gate made out of metal bars, something that was very rare here in the outskirts of the wilderness. Before Li Yang approached the village, he activated the fusion with Jinwu and Shenlong, reaching his strongest state. He was only going to ask about the sect leader of Heaven's Gate, but there was no telling what the Fan Long might choose to do.
There was a tense silence hanging over the entire village when Li Yang entered it, with almost no one walking out and about. There were some traces that showed that there had been some fighting in the village, so Li Yang guessed that some of the warriors of the tribe had put up a futile resistance when the sects and clans arrived.
Li Yang quickly made his way through the empty streets, heading towards the center of the village, to the place where Fan Long was most likely to be. Besides the five-floored building shaped like a pagoda, there was a large plaza at the center of the village. Placed in the plaza was a wooden scaffolding, two clear crystals placed on top of the scaffolding, most likely where they performed their affinity ceremony.
There were also 7 people sitting at the top of the scaffolding, quietly cultivating. The person sitting at the center of the 7 was a tall and rather muscular man, his head clean shaven and polished, with six brown dots lined up in two orderly rows going along the top of his head. With Li Yang approaching, the tall man opened his eyes, his black eyes calmly gazing at Li Yang as he spoke up.
”Golden Dragon Prince, I was wondering if you would show up here.”