Chapter 50: Sheltering Spirit Light Reappears

  "Add a bit of strength, and there are nearly thirty miles left. Let's try to arrive at Ge Shan Department before dawn. Ge Shan Department has already prepared hot meat soup for us. When the time comes, we'll have a hearty meal!"

  To speed up their journey, Huo Ri tribe leader Huo Gao let out a loud roar.

  A steaming hot meat soup is especially enticing on this cold winter night. It immediately excites the hunters whose faces and mouths have turned blue from the freezing cold.

  "Tribe leader, is there only soup and no meat? Are there any big chunks of meat? We've been hunting for almost two days, and the oil and water in our bellies have been consumed terribly." A hunter shouted excitedly.

  "This winter, you still want a big chunk of meat? You're not content with what you have, are you? I gave you a big chunk of meat, and after eating your fill, don't you also want to get a plump and beautiful woman?"

  Upon hearing this joke, everyone burst into laughter. Indeed, this winter, being able to eat one's fill is already a blessing from the ancestors. However, with these grains, as long as they are transported back and eaten to one's heart's content, even causing trouble for one's own wife at night can be invigorating.

  Jiang Cheng also burst out laughing at the words, but what he thought of was Song Yu leaning lightly in his arms a few nights ago, savoring the enticing subtle fragrance on Song Yu's body, and the sweet-tasting lips that brought up a strange heat within Jiang Cheng.

  At fifteen or sixteen years old, on that night, his body had already had the most primitive reaction.

  Jiang Cheng's gaze in the direction of the tribe was even more eager.

  Originally, it was planned to take two days and two nights to bring these grains back to the Zhuan Department, but due to the arrival of aid troops from various departments, there were suddenly several hundred more people, which greatly accelerated the progress of the grain carts, allowing them to arrive at Ge Shan Department ahead of schedule.

  "Jiang Cheng, what are you thinking about?" Yang Ze ran over and slapped Jiang Cheng's shoulder with a loud thud, asking with a happy face.

  Before Jiang Cheng could say anything, Yang Zi pointed at his eyes and burst out laughing: "No need to explain, I know. You little scoundrel must be thinking about girls, definitely thinking about women."

  Yang Ze's words suddenly hit Jiang Cheng's heart, causing his heroic face to flush slightly red.

  "Shy bird, when I was your age, I had already sown my own seeds. Men thinking of women, what's there to be shy about?"

  "That's right, this time we've captured over 800 people from the Hu Li tribe. With your great achievement for the tribe this time, you can choose two or three pretty girls to take back as female slaves, and no one will have any objections!" Yang Ze said with a big laugh.

  Suddenly, Jiang Cheng's smile vanished from his face, and his expression froze.

  Yang Ze thought Jiang Cheng was thinking of something, Nuo Yu said: "What's wrong, are you still afraid of Song Lan that little girl? As soon as this is mentioned, your face changed.

  What are you afraid of? Look at the tribal warriors, which family doesn't have ten or eight women? Look at the tribe leader, there are already more than twenty women in his house, and none of them dare to show their teeth!

  "No way, just mentioning that girl and your face changed..."

  "No, Yang Ze Shu, look ahead, quick, look ahead!" Jiang Cheng exclaimed, his eyes fixed intently on the front.

  "What's going on up ahead? It's pitch black, oh no, wait, there's a glimmer of light over there, a faint, grayish glow. We can see it from so far away, looks like that light is really strong!" Following Jiang Cheng's pointing hand, Yang Ze saw that in the distance, at the edge of the sky, there seemed to be a layer of faint, grayish light flickering unsteadily.

  Jiang Cheng's expression was tense, "Yang Ze Shu, haven't you noticed that the bright light seems a bit familiar?"

  "Familiar, isn't it? It's just a bit strange, at this late hour, who can produce such a large ball of light! Good fellow, even lighting dozens of candles may not be as bright." said Yang Ze.

  Yang Ze's words made Jiang Cheng's face even more tense: "Uncle Yang Ze, have you noticed that your team's brilliance is very similar to... very similar..."

  Jiang Cheng's chest heaved violently as he suddenly felt a little afraid to say out loud the answer he had guessed.

  "What's wrong?" Yang Ze furrowed his brow.

  "Doesn't it look like the Guardian Light, just like Grandpa's ancestral guardian light?" Jiang Cheng panted heavily and said, "There, that should be the direction of the tribe."

  After hearing Jiang Cheng's words, Yang Zi, who was still smiling just now, suddenly became extremely solemn, and the next moment, Yang Zi was like a rabbit that had its tail stepped on, shouting loudly.

  "Chieftain, chieftain, come quickly! The tribe, something may have happened to the tribe!"

  Yang Ze's loud shout immediately drew everyone's attention, and Ge Xiong, who was chatting with several clan leaders in the back, was also startled by Yang Ze's shout.

  "What's going on, Yang Ze? With Grandfather sitting in the tribe, what could possibly happen?" Ge Xiong asked as he walked over.

  "Tribe leader, look quickly! The ancestral spirits' protective light is shining, that's the ancestral spirits' protective light summoned by Grandfather!" Yang Ze said, pointing at the dazzling greyish-white glow on the horizon that Jiang Cheng had discovered.

  Kong Yiji was shocked, carefully examined it again, and immediately took a cold breath: "How could this be? What exactly happened?"

  "Would Grandfather really not easily summon the ancestral spirits' protection?" Amidst his surprise, Ge Xiong shifted his gaze towards Jiang Cheng.

  Jiang Cheng's previous behavior had already made Ge Xiong subconsciously regard him as an existence like a strategist.

  Jiang Cheng's expression was unprecedentedly solemn: "Enemy raid, apart from the enemy launching a surprise attack in the middle of the night, I really can't think of anything else that would trigger such a strong ancestral spirit and guardian light at this late hour."

  "What's wrong?" Ge Xiong's face suddenly changed color.

  Jiang Cheng nodded and replied, "Tribe leader, do you still remember the abnormalities of the Bai Hun department that I mentioned to you before? Perhaps this is the true intention of the Bai Hun department."

  Until this moment, Jiang Cheng finally knew why that unease had been lingering in his mind all day. At this moment, the unease grew even stronger!

  "Are the White Wolf Tribe planning to launch a surprise attack on the Ge Shan Tribe? I don't think they'll succeed, do you? They've tried this sort of thing twice before, but with the protection of your family's Ling Gong and that ancestral spirit banner, they were defeated both times." Huo Gao said with a frown.

  The clan leader, Ge Xiong, frowned at the same time, and Jiang Cheng's eyebrows suddenly rose: "I know why the Bai Hun department suddenly changed the reward to food, and also deliberately provoked the hatred between the Hu Li tribe and our Ge Shan department!"

  "Why?" asked Shui An, the chief of the Chixi tribe.

  "In order to draw my Ge Shan department, as well as the main forces of the tribes that can rush to support me on this snowy plain, they will go and launch a surprise attack on my Ge Shan department, and win in one battle!" Jiang Cheng said.

  As soon as Jiang Cheng spoke, the faces of several tribal leaders suddenly became very unsightly: "If this is true, then the Bai Hun tribe's attack on the Ge Shan tribe this time must have been a complete mobilization!"

  "What are we waiting for? Let's gather our men and rescue the tribe!" Yang Ze shouted urgently.

  "Three tribes, let's gather the soul warriors here and the most elite hunters to rescue our tribe?" Ge Xiong looked at the tribal leaders of Huo Ri, Chi Xi, and Fei Yu tribes and proposed.

  Faced with Ge Xiong's proposal, the three tribal leaders of Huo Ri, Chi Xi and Fei Yu suddenly looked hesitant.

  "Brother Ge, the White Wolf tribe has been plotting for a long time. This time they've come with great ferocity! I'm afraid that by the time we arrive, the Ge Mountain tribe will have already fallen!"

  "Impossible!" Ge Xiong's eyebrows shot up: "You're not unaware of the spiritual power of our clan's ancestral totem pole, are you? With Grandfather around, it's impossible for us to be breached in a short period of time!"

  Jiang Cheng's eyebrows furrowed, he had already figured out that the words of these clan leaders were just excuses. His heart skipped a beat as he immediately stepped forward and opened his mouth to speak.

  "Don't some of the clan leaders want to stay out of this? The White Swirl Tribe has been planning to establish a country for a long time. If they can get this pillar of establishing a country from my Ge Shan Tribe, then the White Swirl Tribe's great cause of establishing a country will unfold in an overwhelming manner."

  Will the White Bone clan still tolerate a few tribes being independent of their existence at that time?

  When the time comes and the spearhead of the White Army is directed at you, will you still have the strength to resist the White Army?

  "A few clan leaders, when the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold!"

  Jiang Cheng's words immediately made the three clan elders' faces flush with anger, "But we have too few people, all together there are only fifteen soul warriors, going would be of little use!"

  "No, just charge into the tribe, with Grandpa's ancestral spirit and spiritual power, your combat strength will be doubled or even more!" Ge Xiong added.

  But what ultimately made these clan leaders make a decision was Jiang Cheng's one sentence.

  "Several clan leaders, today for the Keshan Department is your tomorrow!"

  The next moment, the chaotic shouts of drinking suddenly resounded throughout the entire fleet. The most elite hunters from each tribe and powerful soul warriors were gathering rapidly.

  In a short while, 300 elite hunters and 15 soul warriors gathered together under the leadership of the tribal leaders, advancing at full speed towards the direction of Ge Shan Department, leaving behind more than 100 hunters to escort grain carts and take care of the wounded.

  Ditching the grain carts, these hunters who were used to speeding through the mountains and forests suddenly increased their speed by nearly tenfold compared to when they were carrying the grain carts. As for the Soul Warriors of each tribe, there was no need to say more.

  Thirty miles away, pushing a grain cart forward, originally needed three or four hours, but now lightly and quickly, half an hour can catch up.

  The snow on both sides flew underfoot, and the faint sound of killing had already entered Jiang Cheng's ears, making his heart burn.

  "Kill! Kill!"

  "Advance into the Ge Shan department, all women will be your slaves!"

  "Kill!"

  Flames filled the sky, the sound of slaughter shook the heavens, and Jiang Cheng's eyes turned red in an instant.

  Went on a trip to the top, came back a bit late, this is the first update, the second update will be around 12:30! Brothers who need to go to work should rest early!