Chapter 65

The young child looked at the youth sitting on the black sly beast with trepidation, feeling that the youth before him was a great and powerful person, someone the entire tribe feared.

"Qing Shi." The youth dismounted the black sly beast and came over to hold his hand.

"Follow me to your sister's grave, and bow to her." Ji Ning held Qing Shi's small hand, and the dazed child did not dare to resist. The others, including Hei Ya and the other tribesmen, naturally did not dare to speak up.

They passed through the tribe and arrived at the large cemetery behind it.

They then came to the grave.

"Chun Cao, I have come." Ji Ning had prepared some offerings, all of which he had gathered from a tribe they passed on the way. He carefully placed them in front of the grave and softly said, "Jiang He from the Jiang Bian tribe is dead, and the winged snake from the Winged Snake Lake is also dead. All of your enemies are dead."

Upon hearing this, Hei Ya and the others were shocked. What? The great winged snake demon is also dead?

"Qing Shi should be your only younger brother." Ji Ning reached out and pulled the dazed Qing Shi to the front. "I swear at your grave that I will teach Qing Shi well!"

Qing Shi was a bit confused, but his father Hei Ya was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, young master." He himself was just the leader of a small tribe; what kind of future could he give his son? But if this esteemed young master of the Ji family were to help, his son's future would be different.

"As long as you don't oppose it." Ji Ning glanced at Hei Ya. "I will be living at the Winged Snake Lake for a long time. If you want to see your son, come to the Winged Snake Lake to find me."

"Yes." Hei Ya respectfully replied.

"Qing Shi, bow to your sister." Ji Ning looked at Qing Shi by his side.

"Okay." The young child knelt down and bowed three times.

Ji Ning then waved his hand. "All of you, step back."

"Yes, young master." Everyone, including Qiuye, stepped back, and even Qing Shi was taken away by Hei Ya. The desolate cemetery was left with only Ji Ning.

"It's just the two of us now." Ji Ning took out a bamboo tube and drank wine. "Today, your young master will chat with you and keep you company. It might be a long time before I can come to see you again."

...

Ji Ning drank fruit wine and chatted with 'Chun Cao' at the grave. Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

"Hmm?" Ji Ning suddenly frowned. As a being akin to a god, his senses were extremely sharp, and he easily detected the subtle vibrations in the earth. "There must be several thousand warriors! They should be about twenty miles away. Several thousand warriors gathered twenty miles away? Could a tribe be attacking the Hei Ya tribe?"

Tribes attacking each other was something the Ji family generally turned a blind eye to.

"Hei Ya is a merchant by trade, adept at dealing with all kinds of people." Ji Ning was puzzled. "Since he established the Hei Ya tribe, no other tribe has attacked. Why would a tribe attack now, and with several thousand warriors?"

"I'll go take a look." Ji Ning immediately stood up.

Whether for Chun Cao or Qing Shi, he couldn't just stand by and do nothing.

The Ji family might turn a blind eye to such matters, but once they intervened, the tribes under their command would naturally not dare to disobey.

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Ji Ning walked through the tribe, heading directly for the main gate.

"Young master." Mo Wu and Qiuye followed.

"Young master." Hei Ya also brought some tribesmen and followed. Ji Ning then shouted, "Several thousand warriors are advancing from twenty miles away, probably two to three thousand. Prepare quickly, Hei Ya tribe."

Hei Ya was greatly alarmed. "Two to three thousand warriors? Impossible. A tribe that can mobilize two to three thousand warriors must be huge. Such a large tribe wouldn't bother with our Hei Ya tribe. We have only about a thousand people in total, men, women, and children. It's not worth such a large force!"

"I said it is!" Ji Ning glanced at him and said no more.

"Yes." Hei Ya naturally did not dare to argue and shouted, "Quickly, an enemy is attacking. Gather quickly."

"Buzz~~~" The low, deep sound of a beast horn quickly spread throughout the tribe. All the strong men, elderly, and women picked up their weapons, and the children hid.

...

Ji Ning stood at the main gate, looking into the distance. The tribesmen of the Hei Ya tribe also held their weapons, waiting with bated breath, all looking at the distant mountains and forests.

Gradually...

They could sense the footsteps. After all, two to three thousand warriors advancing couldn't help but make noise. This made Hei Ya and the others even more alarmed, knowing that Ji Ning had already determined the approximate distance and number of people long before.

"So many."

"So many warriors."

The tribesmen of the Hei Ya tribe were stunned. They saw dense figures emerging from the distant forest, the figures in the front all wearing armor, looking like a steel flood rapidly surging over, making the tribesmen of the Hei Ya tribe feel a chill.

"Stop!" At the command, the three thousand warriors gathered half a mile in front of the main gate of the Hei Ya tribe.

"Listen, Hei Ya tribe." A burly, bald man at the front of the dark mass roared, "We are from the Fire Wing tribe. Open the gate and surrender quickly, and you will have a chance to live. If you resist, the resisters will be killed, and the rest will be sold into slavery."

The voice echoed in the air.

The Hei Ya tribe was in a panic.

"What should we do?"

"So many warriors, there must be several thousand."

"It's over."

"Isn't Young Master Ji here?" The Hei Ya tribe had no morale. First, the tribe was newly established, and the tribesmen were refugees from other places, lacking a sense of belonging. Second, the Hei Ya tribe had fewer than five hundred strong warriors, while the other side had three thousand!

Once the battle started, they would be quickly overwhelmed!

"Fire Wing tribe, listen." Hei Ya stepped forward and shouted, "I don't know why you are here at the Hei Ya tribe. What do you want? The Hei Ya tribe will do its best to meet your demands."

"Stop talking nonsense!" The burly, bald man at the front roared, "Surrender, or fight!"

Ji Ning frowned and glanced at Mo Wu, who nodded and stepped forward, shouting, "Young Master Ji Ning is here. The leader of the Fire Wing tribe, come and pay your respects!"

...

"Come and pay your respects!" "Come and pay your respects!" "Come and pay your respects!" The voices echoed in the forest, causing a commotion in the Fire Wing tribe.

In the center of the formation, a group of people on mounts.

"Young Master Ji Ning?"

"Is it the Ji Ning from the Jiang Bian tribe?"

"Who else but Ji Ning would dare to make the leader pay respects?" The high-ranking officials of the Fire Wing tribe were immediately shocked. The Fire Wing tribe was a large tribe with over twenty thousand people, but because it had no innate spirits, it had reached its limit and dared not expand further. Compared to the Jiang Bian tribe, the Fire Wing tribe was clearly inferior.

The Jiang Bian tribe was not too far away, and over a month had passed since the incident. The high-ranking officials of the Fire Wing tribe naturally knew about it and the name Ji Ning.

"Chief."

"Chief." They all looked at the bearded man in the center.

Beside the bearded man, a long-haired young man said in a low voice, "He's just a Ji family descendant. Tribes attacking each other don't need to heed a Ji family descendant. Attack."

"Attack!" The bearded man immediately roared.

"What?"

"What, attack?"

"Chief!"

The high-ranking officials around the bearded man were stunned. They didn't expect their brave and strategic chief to be so foolish. The chief should have known the significance of the name 'Ji Ning.' If it were a regular Ji family descendant, it would be one thing, but this was Ji Ning, who even the Jiang Bian tribe had to bow to!

"Attack!" The three thousand warriors, ordinary tribesmen, didn't know the significance of the name 'Ji Ning.' Hearing the chief's order, they all roared and charged forward.

"Attack!"

"Charge."

Like a steel flood, those in the front were all armored, while those in the back wore animal skins. The earth trembled, and the sky seemed to darken. The tribesmen of the Hei Ya tribe were stunned, and some even shouted, "Surrender, we surrender." "It's over." "Run for your lives."

...

At the main gate, Ji Ning saw the dark mass charging from a distance and was puzzled. "My name should be known by larger tribes. Especially after I acted in the Jiang Bian tribe, it should have spread throughout the Ji family's territory. Why did the chief, the bearded man, order the attack?"

Ji Ning was puzzled.

The Hei Ya tribe was a small tribe with little to gain. Mobilizing three thousand warriors to attack was already strange. Knowing his name and still attacking was even stranger.

However, just this Fire Wing tribe ignoring his name, for the sake of the Ji family's prestige, he had to act.

"Hmph."

At the main gate of the Hei Ya tribe, Ji Ning leaped like a large bird, instantly crossing the sky. As he leaped, a torrent of waves suddenly formed around him, surging like a flood breaking through a dam, rushing toward the three thousand tribal warriors.

"Waves."

"How did water suddenly appear?"

"It's an innate spirit, an innate spirit." The three thousand warriors were immediately in chaos. Originally, they were full of morale, but the surging waves knocked them down, causing complete disorder. These warriors knew that controlling water, fire, and toxins was something only innate spirits and great demons could do. An innate spirit could easily slaughter three thousand people if it wished.

Indeed, Ji Ning didn't want to slaughter, so he only controlled the water waves to冲击. If he had frozen them or burned them with fire, it would have been a different story.

"Whoosh." Ji Ning leaped a mile away, landing beside the bearded man and grabbing his neck.