Chapter 8

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What… What’s going on?

She turned her head and suddenly opened her mouth: in the dim light of the early dawn, an army appeared in the wilderness! The warriors of the entire Huotu Clan were quickly summoned here, although she didn’t know when they received the order. The heavily armed soldiers surrounded the clearing like an iron bucket, the sword unsheathed, the bow strung, and murderous aura displayed on their faces. Their leader was her mother-in-law, Princess Suda, pale and agitated, riding her horse while holding a bow and arrow in her hand.

“Really?” Zhu Yan looked at the heavily armed battalion and murmured, “Oh, my God, I just wanted to escape marriage today…” How did the situation turn into a war in a blinking of an eye? The situation is changing too fast, isn’t it?

“Consort Suda, what else do you have to say now?” Shi Ying held the jade slip in his hand and watched coldly at the army troop in front of him without flinching. He pointed to the dying “Zhu Yan” on the ground, then towards the flames extinguished in the snow and finally to the Great Wizard who died split in half, and said faintly: “You colluded with the Great Wizard and secretly practiced the forbidden dark magic, you even plotted to harm the Princess Zhu Yan! Do you think you can control the Western Wilderness in this way?”

“What?” Zhu Yan was dumbfounded.

What do you mean by “plotting to murder the Princess Zhu Yan”? It was obvious that she faked her own murder and tried to escape, but how did it become a conspiracy of the concubine in Master’s mouth? Or, did she miss something? Was she somehow involved in something else and didn’t know? She took a few steps forward subconsciously, wanting to run over to ask for clarity. However, when the concubine saw her coming out of the heavy snow, she was so shocked that almost fell off her horse.

“Princess Zhu Yan is still alive?” She murmured, looking astonished at the unharmed girl first, then at the twisted and struggling human face on the ground, speechless for a moment.

“This is your plot, isn’t it? You arranged all of this?!” Finally, the concubine figured out the connection between the before and after, and came back to her senses, pointing at Shi Ying and shouting furiously: “Unexpectedly people from Jiuyi Mountain joined hands with the Red Clan to reach here! You planned to use this wedding to deal with us, right? Damn you!”

Hey! What do you mean? He and I are obviously not in the same group!

However, without waiting for Zhu Yan to explain, the Master sneered: “Don’t be self-righteous. Even if there is no such thing, your plot of secretly raising blood food and offering sacrifices to worship the evil gods in the Western Wilderness would have been exposed sooner or later.”

What? How did the Master know the secret of the human urns under the ground of the woodshed?

“Someone! Men!” The concubine’s eyes were as cold as frost, and a layer of murderous aura was surrounding her as she raised her hand to give the order: “Kill all the people here! No one is allowed to leave Susa Haru!”

With a clanging sound, the iron armored troop spread out and surrounded the people on the spot.

“Mother?” Prince Ke Erke looked at all this and remained speechless for a moment; he knew that his mother and the wizard had been very close all these years. But he thought his mother was just trying to win over the wizard and use his strength to consolidate his position in the tribe. He didn’t know that such a strange thing was going on between them.

Wouldn’t be a great crime of rebellion to kill the Great Priest of Jiuyi and the Princess of the Red Clan here together?

“Ke Erke, I never wanted to involve you in this, so I didn’t tell you anything.” The concubine turned to look at her son with solemn eyes. “But now we are at this point, and we can’t let them go; if we let any of them go away today, our Huotu Clan will be in great trouble!”

The concubine snapped and ordered: “All of you, draw your bow! Shoot them both for me!”

The sound of the bowstrings stretching was as dense as the rain; it made Zhu Yan’s hair to stand up. Fearing that she would be shot into a hedgehog by thousand arrows in the next moment, she subconsciously took a step forward and grabbed the Master by the corner of his robe.

“It’s okay. Don’t be scared.” Shi Ying didn’t moved, he just handed her the umbrella in his hand and said: “You take this, retreat next to Chongming and wait.”

“How about you, what are you going to do?” She took his umbrella and knew it was her Master’s special weapon. She watched him stand in the snow with his bare hands, facing thousands of Western warriors. She couldn’t help being afraid and blurted out, “I … We’d better run away!”

“Run?” He sneered. “In my whole life, I would rather die than getting cold feet!”

“Shoot!” the concubine snorted, and in the next moment all the warriors released their strings. The roaring rain of arrows swept across the wilderness in an instant.

Zhu Yan let out a cry of surprise and unconsciously opened the umbrella fast, trying to jump in front to help her Master to block them. However, Shi Ying moved his body in an instant and rushed up against the rain of arrows!

“Master!” she cried loudly.

In the dim light of the morning, only snowflakes could be seen falling all over the sky, while his white robe danced in the wind and waved like a flag; Countless sharp bolts came face-to-face, intertwined into an astonishing array of arrows in the air, roaring like a storm. Shi Ying dressed in his simple white coat without any armor, faced the tens of thousand darts, concentrated his anger, stretched out his hand suddenly, and “swiped” the first arrow to reach him! In that moment, all the other arrows in the air stopped moving. With a lift of his fingertips, he snapped the arrow in his hand into two pieces. Following his movement, in the next second all the other arrows broke in two. He released his fingers and threw the arrow on the snow. The array of arrows followed, falling to the ground like a soft rain.

On the silent battlefield, thousands of warriors were at war, but everyone was stunned in an instant. This… What kind of magic is this? This white-clothed Priest can control tens of thousands of arrows by controlling only one of them in an instant! Then, wouldn’t he be able to defeat tens of thousands of people relying only by himself?

This… What kind of terrible sorcery is this?

In just an instant, Shi Ying appeared in front of the concubine, looking at the woman with her useless large army behind her back, and coldly said, “Princess Suda, can you plead guilty and confess your sins now?”

“No! Never!” the woman, however, was brave and recovered from the shock fast. With a stern shout, she unsheathed the long knife from the saddle, and slashed it towards Shi Ying aiming at his head!

Although she is just a woman, she is a famous warrior in the Western Wilderness, and this long knife is fast enough to break the wind. The speed of drawing the knife was so fast that took Shi Ying by surprise and cut into his throat in an instant.

“Master!” At that moment, Zhu Yan was so scared, she rushed forward desperately, regardless of everything. I don’t know where the strength came from, but in that moment, she ran so fast that the distance of dozens of feet seemed to be shrunk to just a step away. At the moment of the exclamation, she had already rushed in front of the horse.

At such a ghostly speed, the concubine on the horse could hardly believe her eyes: The Princess of the Red Clan, her pampered new daughter-in-law, rushed at an incredible speed, clutching the knife with her bare hands! Those soft and petite hands firmly held the blade, and blood flowed down along the steel.

“You…” The concubine took a breath of cold air, and immediately gritted her teeth, but continued to pierce the long knife forward, wanting to cut the palm of her hand and pierce the girl’s heart. However, as soon as her arm moved, her whole body twitched suddenly, and couldn’t gasp any other word; because at this time a hand came over from behind and clasped her throat!

“Ma…Master?!” Zhu Yan was stunned, looking at Shi Ying who suddenly appeared behind the concubine. Subconsciously, she looked down at the man behind her, then up again. However, Shi Ying at the back of the concubine stood still, motionless. Although the concubine’s blade has cut the skin on his throat, strangely, no drop of blood came out.

“…” Zhu Yan was stunned. After a while, she gently touched the man behind her with her bleeding fingertips – her fingers passed through his body without any obstruction, like a layer of hollow mist.

At that moment, she understood. That’s a phantom avatar! At that moment, Master had already changed shape and position!

“The speed of picking up the knife was very fast.” Shi Ying smiled at the dazed disciple, his smile was unexpectedly rare and soft. He buckled the princess, dragged her off her horse, turned to the armored warriors and shouted: “The concubine colluded with the demon to murder the old King, and the crime is beyond reproach! You are all warriors of Huotu Clan, do you really want to follow this vicious woman to rebel?”

“What?” Everyone was shocked instantly, even Ke Erke strangled his horse. Murdering the old prince? The news was so shocking that it almost shook the army in waves.

“The old prince was a great martial artist throughout his life. When he was fifty years old, he could still eat a whole sheep and drink ten urns. How could he die because of a mere cold illness?” Shi Ying spurred the horse, lifted the subdued concubine in his arms and fastened her throat. “It’s this woman! Because she fell out of favor and held a grudge, she colluded with the wizard and put a curse on the old King’s body! If you don’t believe me, you can take a look at this…”

He pointed his finger a little farther away; the heavy snow was rising, and the ceiling of the cellar was suddenly lifted.

“Oh my God…” At that moment, everyone cried out in exclamation, and the hands holding the bow and arrows almost released. After the plank was removed, rows of urns were exposed in the ground, full of shark men with no limbs and bleeding faces. The terrible sight shocked the soldiers in the desert.

“Mother!” Ke Erke’s eyes jumped, his canthus about to crack, and turned to the old concubine trembling: “This … Did you and the wizard really do this? Why?”

The concubine was held by her throat and could not say a word, but her eyes were cold with a clear gaze of supplication. Ke Erke was well aware of his mother’s temperament, as soon as he looked into her eyes, he already knew the answer. He only felt cold all over, and the adrenaline accumulated before the battle was immediately drained away.

“This wicked woman trapped Huotu Clan in such a situation.” Shi Ying was cold, the voice was not high, but every word he pronounced was clear and spread to every soldier’s ear: “I have come here at the behest of the Emperor, to punish the evil leader, who dare to threaten and rule recklessly! The Red King has come with his troops, and the valiant cavalry of the Imperial Capital is about to arrive. Do you people still want to help do evil and fight against the Heavenly Army?”

“…” On the Wasteland, three thousand iron armored soldiers were silent for a while.

Zhu Yan’s heart was tense; she slowly picked up the umbrella from the ground with a bloody hand, and moved it in the direction of her Master silently, for fear that the ferocious cavalry would suddenly hear the command to attack and pounced together. However, in the silence, suddenly could be heard a “clanking” sound. A bow and arrow were thrown off the horse and landed on the snow.

“That’s the end of the matter, there is nothing else to say.”

Ke Erke unexpectedly untied the bow and arrow and threw it on the ground, jumped off the horse, then turned to the soldiers behind him, saying: “Everything is my mother’s fault. Huotu can’t fight against the Heavenly Army of the Imperial Capital, otherwise the catastrophe will only bring us on the brink of death. Everyone, get rid of the swords and arrows!”

“…” The soldiers hesitated when seeing the new king doing this.

“Are you really going to force Huotu to rebel? Release your weapons and surrender!” Ke Erke was in a hurry. He was afraid that the situation would suddenly get out of control and shouted: “This is a crime committed by my family. We can’t bring your parents, wives and children into trouble, let alone the destruction of the nine tribes of Huotu! Please do it!”

The soldiers hesitated for a moment, and finally took off their weapons one by one, throwing them into the snow. Soon there were mountains of bows, arrows, knives and guns on the ground.

“Chieftains, split up and take everyone back to the barracks!” Ke Erke ordered, in a stern voice, without anger or arrogance: “Return to your places! Don’t come out without my order!”

Personal Note: I must confess, I had a hard time translating this chapter. The wording was very confusing, and some terminology used was a bit strange. I struggled with certain phrases which didn’t made sense until I finally got their meaning. I’m glad is finished. I really hope next chapters to not be so hard to translate or else you might have to wait longer in between chapters. 🤧🤦‍♀️

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