Chapter 213: Mysterious Turtle Sage, Whitemoon Tribe (2/2)
”You are going to make a move?!”
”I'll take action tonight!” Ma Tianchang rose up, his eyes having an intense hot glare. ”Northern Yuan is finished!”
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Northern Yuan was already on the rocks!
Junior Leopard sighed. He was carrying a human head and left the tribe in the everlasting snowstorm. In his surroundings were a tribe of old people with hateful and fearful gazes. Junior Leopard did not like such gazes. However, he would not kill them just because of those hateful gazes.
These Northern Yuan people did not have the strength nor the courage to make a move against him. All of their energy was spent on dealing with this snowstorm.
This was the ninth Northern Yuan expert that he had killed. He entered Northern Yuan straight from Yunzhou. Along the north way, he met a few scattered tribes and went to challenge them. Within a short two months, he challenged 23 small tribes and killed nearly a hundred warriors that stayed behind to protect the tribes. There were nine of them whose cultivation had exceeded Level Three and already reached the Bone-Forging Realm. All these people were the leaders of the warriors in the tribes. Junior Leopard naturally would not show any mercy toward them.
However, after killing these people, Junior Leopard no longer had the interest to enter deep into the prairies. That was because he realized that, right now, experts that were below Level Seven could no longer pose any threat to him.
Even if he did not use the Demon Devil Needles, nor the black hammer, nor the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword, he could easily kill a Level Six opponent using his fists.
He came to the prairie to hone his martial arts, not to start a massacre.
He wanted to polish his martial arts under steel and blood. He then helplessly discovered that the Northern Yuan experts had no longer brought him too much stress. Killing experts was like butchering dogs!
There was not a trace of joy nor was there any meaning to it!
”Wait a while!”
Just when Junior Leopard was leaving carrying their leader's head, there was a shout from behind. The voice was very old. Junior Leopard's eyebrows lifted up. That was because he saw that behind him there was an extremely old man kneeling in the snow.
”What's up?!”
Junior Leopard turned around and asked. He was behind enemy lines, and he did not have any good inclinations toward the Northern Yuan people—actually, he hated the Northern Yuan. Hence, he approved the Jin's extermination campaign. He even delved right into it to come to Northern Yuan to kill off experts.
However, killing was killing. He was uninterested in these normal people that did not know martial arts. Now he even felt meaningless about killing the experts, let alone killing normal people.
”I'm Wuli Ji, I plead with Your Excellency to save our tribe!” After speaking, he buried his head deep within the snow, his body repeatedly trembling.
”I didn't hear wrongly, did I? I just killed one of your warriors and now you want me to save your tribe?!” Junior Leopard said somewhat unexpectedly. He already felt that this old fellow must have had his brain frozen by the snowstorm.
”Yes, Buhe is our tribe's number one warrior. However, he has fallen in battle and died. It's natural for him to die at the hands of a warrior. That's also the fate of our tribe. We can't blame anyone!”
”Even if you all don't hate me, I've no reason to save you all!”
”I don't seek for Your Excellency to save our whole tribe. I only wish that you bring away the minors. They're the last hope of our tribe!” The old man raised his head from the snow. The snow was all over his beard. There was an unspeakable grief. ”They are the last seeds of our tribe, I don't wish for them to die here!”
”Minors?!” Junior Leopard said, smiling coldly. ”The snowstorm is intense. Do you think that I can bring these kids out of the prairie?!”
The old man did not speak. He only stood up trembling. ”There are not many children in our tribe. Including the newborns and the boys and girls, there are only seven of them. Your Excellency need not take care of them. As long as they could be brought out of the prairie and allowed to live!”
”Seven?!” Junior Leopard's gaze condensed. Although this tribe was not big, it had several thousands of people. How come there were only seven kids?!
Raising his eyes to look, half of the tents within the tribe had already been collapsed by the snowstorm. Cows and lambs were frozen to death. Those luckily living people were also fighting with hunger and the cold. The entire tribe was enshrouded in despair. This was a tribe facing extinction. Even if he had not killed their warrior, they would not be able to survive the winter, much less the Jin army that would head north.
Maybe because of this, the old man would make such an action?!
When there was an illness, one hurried to find any doctor he could. Maybe that was the rationale behind this.
”Our Whitemoon tribe was the ruler of the prairies 10,000 years ago. We faced immense pressure then because we were against the establishment of the prairie alliance. Consequently, we are reduced to such a state. Our Whitemoon tribe has suffered countless pillages over the years. The number one tribe no longer exists. However—!”
When saying ”however”, the old man's eyes flashed a colorful light. ”My Whitemoon tribe still kept two copies of martial arts manuals that we obtained from the Central Plains. If Your Excellency agrees to save these pitiful kids, I'm willing to give you those manuals!”
”Martial arts manuals?!” Junior Leopard said with a laugh. ”This is rare. If those manuals are really that powerful, then how did your number one warrior die so easily?!”
”Buhe was not suited to practice those martial arts!” Wuli Ji said, smiling bitterly. ”Your Excellency is a martial arts expert, hence you should understand naturally that to cultivate martial arts, one can't be an expert just based on one martial arts manual. Buhe was our Whitemoon tribe's number one warrior. It's a pity that he didn't have a teacher, hence he couldn't cultivate the martial arts within. He could only pick those superficial skills to learn!”
”Oh—!” Junior Leopard's heart slightly moved. When he exchanged blows with Buhe, he already felt that the martial arts that Buhe used were different from the other prairie warriors. It was just that he had not honed them to perfection. Junior Leopard did not bother about it either. Now that Wuli Ji had mentioned it, Junior Leopard felt somewhat interested.
”You are saying that the weird martial arts he used were snatched from the Central Plains?!”
”Yes. The two martial arts manuals preserved by our Whitemoon tribe were stolen from the imperial palace!” Speaking of which, the old man's face revealed a prideful look. ”Back then, our Whitemoon tribe ruled the Central Plains. We even attacked the Royal Capital!”
”Yes, you even attacked the Royal Capital, but now there are only seven kids left!” Junior Leopard laughed coldly and interrupted the old man's beautiful memories.
The old man's expression stiffened. He sighed and dared not speak another sentence.
”Aren't you scared that I'll steal them after you've told me these things?!”
”Yes, of course I'm scared. However, it is what it is now. There's no solution, even if I'm scared!” Wuli Ji said with a bitter smile. ”If Your Excellency doesn't agree to bring these kids away, then our Whitemoon tribe can only last for 10 more days before we are exterminated. Even though those two martial arts manuals might be powerful, they won't have any meaning!”
”Hence you are trying to make a bet on me!”
”You only killed Buhe and a few warriors and didn't harm the others,” Wuli Ji said. ”Hence, I made this bet. As for whether I can win, it only depends on Heaven's will!”
”Alright, now you've won half. Bring me the things and let me have a look. If they're useful for me, I'll take them away!” Junior Leopard said, ”I won't agree to any other conditions, so...!”
”I'll also not put forth any more requests,” said the old man. He shook his head to a middle-aged lady by his side. That woman turned her body and entered a tent. After a while, she came out with two wooden boxes and respectfully passed them to the old man. The old man received them and passed them to Junior Leopard.
Junior Leopard received the wooden box with no expression. He opened it up and his eyes shot out two bright lights!
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