Chapter 839: It’s You! (1/2)

Past the bamboo forest at the foot of Mount Buzhou lay the human sacred land. Its overall arrangement was similar to that of the tribes outside, but the humans here were much more powerful.

Initiates in the great connate dao and golden core cultivators were plentiful. There were even some who’d exceeded golden core and reached true divinity like Shennong. However, all of them looked at the two newcomers with burning hostility, which confused Shennong.

Yawning, Ah Zhi waved Shennong and Lu Yun away and started vanishing as she walked off. “I’m going back to sleep. Fuxi will see you once he’s free.”

The moment she disappeared, a good number of humans swarmed Shennong and Lu Yun.

“Explain yourself, Shennong!” A tall, strongly-built old man grabbed Shennong by the collar and lifted him up with a shriek. “There is no bad blood between the Yu and Yan Tribes. Why did you destroy my people?!”

His cultivation was no less stronger than Shennong’s, but Shennong was now a qi refiner. Shennong could easily defeat him.

“Heavens pity my tribe, gone are our bloodlines!” He threw Shennong to the ground and stomped on the latter’s chest.

Shennong’s eyes were wide with shock. “What? The Yu Tribe has been destroyed?!”

The Yu Tribe was a major tribe by the banks of the Yellow River, weaker than the Yan Tribe by only a small margin.

Shennong knew what the old man meant. In a conflict between two human tribes, the winner usually destroyed the totem and tribute spirit of the loser, but spared the tribesmen for slavery. If the loser surrendered and agreed to worship the winner’s totem and tribute spirit, the two tribes could gradually come together as one.

The main surname in the Yan Tribe was Jiang, but there were other families in the tribe who’d been brought in after past battles. That was what Lu Yun meant when he suggested Shennong start a war to unite the human race. Those who surrendered would become their kin, while those who refused would become their slaves.

Destroying and slaughtering another tribe down to the last… that was something very rarely done.

“Stop playing dumb, Shennong!” The Yu elder glared so hard that the corners of his eyes cracked and bled. Although there were still many members of the Yu Tribe in the human sacred land, they were no longer tribesmen after joining the faction.

Hum.

Shennong’s presence surged, knocking the old man off his feet.

“What nonsense are you spouting, Di?!” Shennong matched the old man’s volume. “My son married the daughter of Dafeng, chief of the Yu Tribe! Why would I destroy my in-laws?! Speak! What’s going on here? Who told you the Yans destroyed the Yus? When did all this happen?!”

His gaze was as vicious as that of a fierce tiger found in the deepest parts of a jungle.

Elder Di couldn’t help but shudder and take a few involuntary steps back. The other humans nearby paled in response as well.

Shennong’s strength was too great, greater than all of the other true divines present. His was a strength that belonged to a completely different system.