Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Around thirty to forty corpses were lying around the Moon Prayer Hall, overflowing with blood. The Great Moon Tribe’s most sacred place had become a battlefield. When Yan Liqiang and Selena reached the scene, the battle was still ongoing down there.
It was obvious that there were two parties involved in the battle. One was attacking while the other was defending. There were more people defending than attacking, but there was a large disparity between the strengths of both parties. The offensive party with fewer people was pushing the defensive party with more people back toward the high platform in the Moon Prayer Hall. The steps that led up to the platform were covered by corpses that were still bleeding…
Without Selena’s explanation, Yan Liqiang already could tell who were the foes and allies with just a glance.
The Great Moon Tribe had the most people and they were being beaten to retreat in defeat, while the Shatu people had fewer people. Among the Shatu people in the hall, one of them particularly stood out. He was a bald, burly man with a wolf’s head tattoo on his face. He moved swiftly with a pair of strange-looking scimitars in his hands and possessed tyrannical strength. The scimitars moved like a violent sandstorm and the five experts from the Great Moon Tribe who surrounded him were enveloped in his blade glows.
Despite being surrounded by five experts from the Great Moon Tribe, that powerful Shatu man was still winning the fight. Every attack he launched left the five experts from Great Moon Tribe gasping for breath, and the Shatu man was mostly on the offensive.
On the other side, a man in ash white-colored Great Moon Tribe attire was leading dozens of Shatu people and battling against the forty other Great Moon Tribe warriors inside the hall. Although there were not that many Shatu people, it was obvious that each and every one of them was an elite warrior and most of the Great Moon Tribe’s warriors couldn’t even stand a chance against them.
The main entrance of the Moon Prayer Hall had been locked from the inside, and Yan Liqiang could hear people shouting and banging on the door from the outside. Even so, none of them were able to get the door open.
A woman in the purple robes stood on the stage, holding a long staff with an intersecting golden full moon and a crescent. Her unwavering gaze was on the Shatu people that were inching towards her, but she was guarded by a few Great Moon Tribe warriors. With just a quick glance, Yan Liqiang was able to tell that the woman was Selena’s mother, the Great Moon Tribe’s chief, because she looked just like Selena. She was very young, and her appearance suggested that she was only in her thirties. If she stood beside Selena, she would look more like her sister instead.
As for the others, Yan Liqiang was able to instantly find out their identities through Selena’s thoughts by using his Psychic Serpent without even asking.
The man who was leading a group of Shatu warriors against the Great Moon Tribe warriors was indeed Elder Gezong whom Yan Liqiang had doubted yesterday. From the looks of it, Elder Gezong was indeed a traitor.
Selena had never seen the valiant, bald, and powerful Shatu man with the wolf head tattoo on his face. She did not know him either. The people who surrounded the powerful Shatu man were the other five elders from the Great Moon Tribe.
Another one of the elders from the Great Moon Tribe was long gone. He was lying lifelessly on the ground in a pool of blood with his head separated from his body.
The Great Moon Tribe was undoubtedly facing their greatest crisis right now…
“Brother Long…” Selena clearly saw what was happening in the hall. Her hands were icy and she was holding onto Yan Liqiang’s hands tightly. Her entire body and voice were trembling. She was in fear and she felt hopeless, “Elder Gezong led the Shatu people here…”
Yan Liqiang narrowed his eyes at the powerful Shatu man with a pair of scimitars. He gently tapped on Selena’s hands to reassure her. “I can clearly see who is a friend and who is the enemy. Stay here and don’t move. Leave the rest to me. By the way, tell me where the exit is…”
“Go down from here and turn left in the passageway. Open the door below and you will enter the prayer room. There is a door in the prayer room that leads to the hall…”
“Alright, remember my words — wait until it is safe down there before you come out!”
“Alright Brother Long, I will listen to you…”
Seeing that Selena would follow his words, Yan Liqiang took the fine steel spear and went down the staircase…
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As soon as Yan Liqiang left Selena, the tide of the battle instantly turned in the hall. The five elders of the Great Moon Tribe who surrounded the man were suddenly drawn in by the glow of his scimitar. They all had a bad feeling about how the blade glint changed, one glowed and the other dimmed which resembled yin and yang…
“Be careful…” one of the elders from the Great Moon Tribe shouted, but it was too late…
Through the whistling and exploding sounds, the five elders who were enveloped by the blade glint coughed up blood and were sent flying backward. Knife cuts instantly appeared on their bodies and blood spilled wildly. One of the elders even had one of his arms cut off…
The powerful Shatu man followed up with a lunge at an elder closest to him…
“STOP…!” Selena’s mother shouted from the stage but unfortunately, the blade had already sunk into the elder’s body as soon as her voice trailed off. The elder was instantly split into two and his body fell to the ground.
In just the blink of an eye, only four elders remained. They were all injured and one of them had lost an arm, thus losing more than half of his combat power. At this point, the battle that was happening in the Moon Prayer Hall seemed to have reached a predictable outcome…
Selena’s mother lowered her gaze to look at the Moon Goddess Staff which represented the Great Moon Tribe’s authority in her hands with great sorrow. Was this the fate of the Great Moon Tribe?
Elder Gezong impaled his longsword into the heart of one of the Great Moon Tribe’s warriors. That warrior glared at him with bloodshot eyes. He tried to swing the blade in his hand at Elder Gezong, but he was sent flying backward by the elder’s kick. The sword left the warrior’s body and blood came gushing out of the wound in his chest, splattering Elder Gezong on the face and dyeing his ash white robes red…
At this moment, the few injured elders and the remaining Great Moon Tribe warriors had all retreated onto the stage. They formed a protective ring around Selena’s mother, and their faces were full of anger and despair…
Elder Gezong exchanged glances with the powerful Shatu man. Then he led those Shatu warriors with bloodstained weapons to the center of the stage.
“Hahaha…” Elder Gezong laughed hysterically while looking at the group of people protecting Selena’s mother. “Chief Seranchi, if you had listened to me earlier, you could have avoided this outcome and there wouldn’t be so many deaths…”
“Gezong! You traitor! You are a disgrace to the Great Moon Tribe. Even as a ghost I shall come back to haunt you…” The elder who had lost his arm shouted at him.
“Bayinda, there is no need for you to shout here. Rest assured that when you are dead, I shall help you take good care of your wife and daughters.” Gezong smiled coldly at the one-armed elder with an ominous glint in his eyes.
“Gezong, you have not won yet!” Selena’s mother said coldly. “I admit that what you plotted today was beyond our expectations. You are very clever indeed for none of us would have guessed that such a highly respected elder of the Great Moon Tribe would give up on his dignity as an elder and chose to degrade into a lowly dog who is despised and disdained by others. You turned to the enemy and betrayed your own tribe by pointing your sword at your own brethren. You have indeed succeeded in breaking the records of disgrace by doing what everyone couldn’t bring themselves to do. However, do not forget that there are five thousand warriors from the Great Moon Tribe outside this hall at this very moment. Although our Great Moon Tribe is small and weak, we never lack the courage to take our enemies down with us. If the Moon Goddess wills for the end of our tribe today, then that is the will of Heaven. The reason why I stopped you was not because I wanted to surrender, but it was to hear your terms…”
