Chapter 215: Heavenly Dragon Wang She and Dark Lord Mie Chen (1/2)
Chapter 215: Heavenly Dragon Wang She and Dark Lord Mie Chen
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About 40 miles south of the Whitemoon tribe, there stood Devil Valley. In the distance, a sorrowful sound could be heard from the valley. Inside a grotto in the lee of the valley, Junior Leopard cleared a plot of empty land and fried the ground around it with Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique. Then Junior Leopard sat on the ground along with a few children. Two fires were lit, one for roasting a blood wolf that he killed on the road and the other for heating water. Therefore, small though the grotto was, a thick warmth still emanated out of it.
Several kids sat on the ground without a single word. But from their expressions, they were distinctly relieved and even revealed their comfort. After stepping out of Whitemoon tribe, under the suffering of wind and snow, they walked on for 40 miles. Although Junior Leopard had the protection of his Internal Qi, for them, at the such a young age, the trip was seething with hardships and pains. If they continued to walk, there would be someone that couldn't endure it.
The blood wolf on the support had been grilled through. Drops of golden grease trickled down from the support from the blood wolf with a crackling sound. Some drops splashed against the body and face of several kids. Even if they racked with the burning tingling, they didn't care at all. After going through the disastrous severe winter, these kids that had already survived, couldn't cower just because of a little bit of scorching grease. Except for that bloke that had been punished by Junior Leopard, they rushed to the roasted wolf, staring greedily at Junior Leopard. He was fixing his malicious eyes on Junior Leopard, but his hungry belly had already exposed his real thoughts.
”Boy, don't force yourself. Though you want to take revenge on me, you need a meal first!” Junior Leopard laughed. He tore a chunk of wolf meat and threw it to that bloke. Whereafter, the wolf was divided into several parts and Junior Leopard distributed them to the kids. At last, he began to gnaw a wolf leg.
As though it was endless, the blizzard still went on. Hailstones impacted against the surrounding rocks at full tilt, leaving incessant whomps. The grotto Junior Leopard stayed in was comparatively narrow with one or two chunks of hailstones coming in from time to time.
”I say, have you ever seen such a severe blizzard before?” Junior Leopard asked inadvertently, gnawing the wolf leg.
”Never!” The speaker was that girl who held her daughter. Junior Leopard knew her name, Tana. In Great Jin's language, the name's meaning was ”pearl”.
Among these kids, only she was somewhat familiar with Junior Leopard and dare to talk a little in front of Junior Leopard. The other kids, except that Tana's fiance, were still afraid of Junior Leopard. In fact, at their age, they were confused about what happened and why their parents demanded that they follow this strange person to leave their tribe.
”It seems that it was really providence!” Junior Leopard said with a wry smile. All the way from Great Jin to Northern Yuan, they heard plenty of rumors and legends. When all kinds of rumors, legends, clues and foreshadowings were interweaved into a string, Junior Leopard awkwardly found that this war between Great Jin and Northern Yuan seemed to be premeditated by Great Jin, at least by Yunzhou's Governor, Ma Tianchang. Only by interweaving all things into a line to form a conspiracy, could you find an explanation. But he didn't know what he needed in order to interweave all the things, clues, legends and rumors into a line.
”If all of these really really lead to a conspiracy, Yunzhou's Governor, Ma Tianchang is indeed too horrible. On one hand, he cracks down on the behavior of the Northern Yuan, preventing them from pillaging folk's fortunes and grains, as well as the robbery of Nothern Yuan's rangers. While on the other hand, he opens fairs in quantity, the number of which far outnumbers what common people think, in order to make Nothern yuan gain what they want without any military force and the cost is far better than what they would have to spend if they used military force. Hence, the people of Northern Yuan can produce by themselves and depend on the imported goods from the fairs since Jin's commodities are of a better quality, priced lower and there are more varieties. That is to say, during Ma Tianchang's over ten year tenure in office, he's used his time to establish a stranglehold on Northern Yuan's lifeline via the fairs and has been waiting for an opportunity to take complete control over Northern Yuan thoroughly!”
His mouth gnawing the wolf leg and his finger slowly drawing on the ground, Junior Leopard pondered the course of event, ”This opportunity appeared very suddenly but was actually quite normal. This event was the death of Wali Khan. Over tens of thousands of years, numerous kings of the prairie had passed away. However, only this time when Wali Khan died, did Ma Tianchang begin to close fairs and restrict the import of the commodities to prairie. In the meantime, Wang She killed several princes all at once, which incurred the chaos of the whole prairie and provoked the three Grandmasters. Such a sensational event naturally conceals Ma Tianchang's insidious means. After this unprecedented tempest, Northern Yuan is set to find that they had nothing at all!”
”If it is really as I think, then this is a conspiracy, Ma Tianchang must possess two conditions. First, he foresaw this tempest a year in advance and even the death of Wali Khan is also part of his meticulous plan. Second, he can command Wang She. If he truly had the ability to reach these two demands, he is either a monster or a demon!”
A soft sound wakened Junior Leopard from his contemplation and stirred several of the kids sitting beside him. Junior Leopard was in a trance and looking outside the grotto where one would be ensanguined as if they were a bloody gourd.
Evidently, that person also looked at Junior Leopard and then changed his expression. He didn't expect that he would encounter Junior Leopard here. They looked at each other in consternation.
”Wang... Chief Wang, why are you here?”
This person was really unable to bear his nag, especially like Wang She. After his nag, Wang She abruptly appeared in front of him, which was unduly weird. And he felt it was not true.
”Zhou Bao? Why are you here?”
Chief Wang, apparently, found it to very strange to come across Zhou Bao here. Moreover, there were seven or eight kids, sitting beside Zhou Bao. Seeing their attire, Wang She could deduce that these kids came from the tribes of the prairie. But it seemed that they had no relations with Junior Leopard.
However, before he could voice his confusion, he voilently fell to the ground. With one hand used to support his body, his facial muscles began twitching and mouthfuls of blood began squirting out from his mouth. The sight of which made Junior Leopard's heart palpitate.
”Chief Wang, are you OK?”
Junior Leopard didn't dare to think a lot. He hastily helped Wang She into the grotto and checked on his injuries.
”It's unnecessary! I have suffered from that old devil's Star-shattering Hand. It will take me three years to recover!” Waving his hand arduously, Wang She pushed Junior Leopard away and sat with his legs crossed on the ground, ”Put the fire out! That old devil is chasing me. If he sees the flame, something bad will happen!”
As soon as Junior Leopard heard those words, he flicked his sleeve to put the piles of fire out without any delay. The small grotto descended into darkness at once.
”I heard that Kunlun Master has left and only Dark Lord Mie Chen and Living Buddha with Golden Body are chasing you?”
”Ba Siba has left, too. But I was wounded by Kunlun Master and Ba Siba before. Furthermore, the cultivation of Mie Chen is higher than mine by a lot, so I have suffered such a big loss!” Wang She said quietly, ”What did you come to Northern Yuan for?”
”Chief Wang, you are in Northern Yuan all the time, I'm afraid that you don't see the current situation. Now the whole world is turbulent and Northern Yuan will come to its end soon. I believe that, very soon, the whole prairie will belong to Great Jin, so many people are vying to pick bargains in the prairie!”
”That is to say, that guy's plot has been achieved?” Although the fire has been put out, Junior Leopard still clearly saw a cold smile flashing through Wang She's face. ”So you have also come here to pick bargains, boy. But why did you just pick these kids?”
”I picked bargains indeed, unluckily!” Junior Leopard said, wearing a bitter smile. Junior Leopard, honestly told him the event from beginning to end.
”Did that really happen? It is so interesting that the Whitemoon tribe should collect something valuable. I wonder what profits you received, that you would actually assent to their condition?”
Keeping silent, Junior Leopard pulled out that box and delivered it to Wang She. Like Junior Leopard, even though Wang She was amid the darkness, his vision remained normal as before.
”Eh, how interesting! It would be worthy to care for 70 or 700 kids for these two valuables, let alone only seven kids!”
”It's not worth shit!” Junior Leopard secretly scolded in his heart. Junior Leopard said in his heart that if Wang She took secrets, he was bound to kill these kids the moment they left the tribe.
”But you really are an idiot. For such a thing, you can rob them directly, there's no need to care for so many redundant kids! You just seek trouble for yourself!”
As expected, Wang She's next sentence began to deride him, ”You, such a boy, have a high cultivation and many grotesques, but you don't understand the perils of Jianghu, and you have a tender heart. They may look pathetic now, but they will likely kill you in the future. You'd better end their lives!”
The grotto was so dark that these kids were unable to see their expressions, but darkness couldn't prevent sound from flowing into the kids' ears. So they heard Wang She's words clearly. The kids were so innocent that they lacked a sense of crisis. Though the words frightened them, only Tana and that eldest boy, were shocked with fear, a burst of chill suddenly spread out from his head to his caudal vertebra.
”I am an angel, so I can't do such a wicked thing!” Junior Leopard replied, ”They've been entrusted to me by the people, so I have to be faithful to the people. It is my business, you needn't worry about it!” Junior Leopard said with discontent. When Junior Leopard spoke the words ”I'm an angel”, Wang She was astounded.
Nonetheless, Wang She realized Junior Leopard's meaning from his words, so he didn't linger on this matter. Wang She closed the wooden box and returned it to Junior Leopard, ”You're calm and your breathing is peaceful, so I guess your cultivation has reached Level Five?”
”I ascended to Level Five some time ago!” Junior Leopard said, ”I wonder what advice you will give me?”
”No advice for you, I only want to warn you that Dark Lord Mie Chen had remained nearby. If only we two are here, we won't need to worry that he'll find us, but with the addition of these kids, it is difficult to hide the trace of us!”
Junior Leopard understood what Wang She meant. Both of them mastered the Snake-like Breath Holding Skill. On such a stormy night beset with hailstones, if they hid here, even if Dark Lord Mie Chen really stepped into the Mysterious Realm, he would find it hard to find their trace, let alone an expert of the peak of Level Nine. But these several kids here were ordinary people, if they were staying with them, it would be too easy to find their trace.
”There's no way. I have an idea. This grotto is so huge that I can help you seek a safer shelter!” Junior Leopard said.