Chapter 76: Negotiations

What was that? The first thing that came to my mind was… that the shadow only appeared for a split second, and it was very faint. That split second left an extremely deep impression on me, like a bolt of lightning that flashed through my mind and never left.

Because at the moment the shadow appeared, the first thing I saw was a ferocious human face. It wasn’t exactly a human face, because it also had distinct animal features, but the eyes, nose, and eyebrows were distributed in the same way as a human, especially its mouth, which was ferociously open, with a mouthful of wild boar-like teeth. The whole face, when combined, looked particularly hideous and frightening…

Compared to its face, its body is not particularly special. It looks like a tiger, a pure tiger, with earth-colored fur and a mane like a lion on its chest, with two tails… It is huge and full of a strange sense of power. What is it?

According to what I have seen here, even the ghost of Qiongqi should not be so shocked by the shadow behind Qiangzi.

In fact, what I really worry about is that the shadow seems to have a ‘close’ relationship with Qiangzi, but it looks so fierce, how can I not worry?

“Hahaha…” After punching Yang Sheng, Qiangzi seemed to have completed the greatest task and immediately fell to the ground.

At this time, Yang Sheng was suddenly made angry by Qiangzi. After he reacted, his first reaction to Qiangzi, who had fallen to the ground, was to lift his foot and stomp on Qiangzi.

As soon as I lifted my foot, I felt a strange and dangerous feeling. I seemed to see another fierce and evil Yang Sheng, completely different from the one who was roaring. I knew it was my illusion, but I knew that if this foot was stepped on firmly, Qiangzi would either die or lose half of his life.

“Yang Sheng, you’d better think carefully about whether you want to completely turn your back on our ancestors and the eighteen clans!” At this moment, the great Da Xing Da Wu spoke again. His voice was not harsh, but very solemn, and every word was resounding.

With a loud ‘whoosh’, Yang Sheng’s foot stopped in mid-air. The sound was actually the sound of great power breaking the air… He looked at the Da Xing Da Wu, as if he was thinking about something. In short, he was silent, and the atmosphere was tense to the extreme at this moment.

When he was shouting, the Great Da Xing always held my arm tightly. It felt like he was afraid that I would suddenly rush out, and I really did have such a plan.

It wasn’t my impulse, but Qiangzi had fought for me with all his strength. I couldn’t express my feelings in words, but I just felt that at that moment, even if I took any harm in place of Qiangzi, I could accept it.

Yang Sheng’s leg finally kicked out, but in the other direction, as if he was moving his body around, and then he retracted his leg… Then he laughed lightly as if nothing had happened, and said to Da Xing: “I never thought I would turn against your ancestors’ village. Sun Qiang is a little younger than me, and he is impulsive. I just played with him a little. It’s okay…”

Very lightly, Yang Sheng brushed the matter aside, but the tone he used now was something I could never have imagined before. The awkward, even somewhat wooden Yang Sheng was like an illusion in my memory… But I still seem to be able to see the rice grains that spilled onto his clothes that night.

And looking at his movements, I don’t know whether I should feel sad or sad… The way he just kicked his legs, it even had the flavor of the “broadcast gymnastics” I taught him that year. The movements of fighting and other things also had that flavor… After all, after the body has a memory of movement, it will slowly form a habit.

However, looking at Qiangzi lying on the ground, my eyes became cold again. Why do I have to keep thinking about the past that I have long since severed all ties with? Moreover, I am the only one who keeps thinking about it, and my position is already clear. Being sticky and slimy only makes me feel worse.

Thinking about this, I wanted to go over and help Qiangzi up… but Da Xing pulled me back, and I ended up standing next to a few other people who might also be shamans.

I don’t know if it was exhaustion or something else, but Qiangzi remained unconscious… Da Xing Da Wu actually kept carrying him like that, and then said to Yang Sheng, “If there’s nothing else, then we’ve settled it. Yang Sheng, we’re leaving this town. I hope you won’t do anything else, or there won’t be anything to talk about, and we’ll have to completely break off relations.”

Who did the Daxing Grand Shaman represent and what did he talk about with Yang Sheng? I have no idea… However, it seems that they have reached some kind of understanding.

“Of course I won’t do anything for a few people with the bloodline of the Ancestor Wushen. And if I knew that this town was actually your clan, I wouldn’t have caused this misunderstanding, right?” Yang Sheng still stood in the same place, not wanting to leave, and didn’t know what he was going to do.

“Misunderstanding? The misunderstanding is that this town has 80 lives? Hmph… If it weren’t for the fact that my ancestors’ 18 clans don’t want to get involved in worldly matters…” Da Xing Da Wu didn’t say any more, but his tone was already very dissatisfied.

“Don’t want to get involved? Haha, that’s it… My men have also died, more than 40 of them. These men were trained with great effort. No matter what you think, I think this is basically equal to the lives of your tribe members. After all, the dead are basically ordinary people, right? Yang Sheng was smiling, but there was a feeling that he was smiling but not laughing.

“Ridiculous!” The Great Shaman of Daxing seemed very angry. Like me and my master, he didn’t agree with Yang Sheng’s point of view at all. I could feel his anger when he said the word “ridiculous,” but for some reason he had been suppressing it.

Moreover, when Yang Sheng mentioned his name, Daxing Da Wu, he turned his head and glared at Ah Maodou fiercely. Ah Maodou shrunk his neck, stepped back into the crowd and said nothing.

Yang Sheng didn’t seem to want to argue with the Great Da Xing, but instead changed the subject, saying, “Great Da Xing, we don’t need to get angry over these different opinions… Anyway, we have reached an agreement. I won’t disturb your village or any of your people, and in the future, if there is any trouble, the eighteen clans of your ancestors will not interfere. This town has already become a mess, and it has disturbed people we didn’t want to disturb. Isn’t that more troublesome? Let’s follow the agreement and collect the bodies ourselves, as if nothing had happened. I’ve already caught an old man who was a witness, so I’ll generously give him to you to deal with… so that you won’t say that I’m careless with human lives. It’s just that… those two people aren’t from your tribe, and they have a deep grudge against my forces.

Sure enough, Yang Sheng would not let go of me and Master… In his heart, the “importance” of me and Master even surpasses the so-called bloodline of the Ancestor Wushen. I don’t think that the bloodline of the Ancestor Wushen is unimportant in Yang Sheng’s heart, otherwise he wouldn’t have mobilized so many people, and even used such a conspiracy, just to take away a group of people with the bloodline of the Ancestor Wushen.

From this, it seems that my master and I are even more important, but where exactly is the importance? Is it just because of our past grievances? Or, will we eventually become a stumbling block for him? We are now weak and powerless, so what are our qualifications?

Unfortunately, Yang Sheng would not tell us the answer to these questions. As for the matter of him taking us away, I was not worried. I felt that the people of this village would not hand us over. There was no reason for this, just a hunch.

“Right, although these two people are not from our village, they are our honored guests… You can’t just take them away with my face. The people of the 18 villages of the Ancestor Gods can’t lose face like this, and they can’t even protect their honored guests.” Just as I expected, the Great Shaman of Daxing did indeed refuse Yang Sheng’s request.

Yang Sheng looked a little angry, and his voice suddenly turned cold. He said, “Honored guests? Does this status depend entirely on the word of the Great Shaman of Daxing? Or are you going to sacrifice the Eighteen Ancestral Villages because of your personal feelings?”

This is a serious accusation, and it even puts a very serious label on the Great Da Xing Shaman… all of a sudden, he has turned the Great Da Xing Shaman into the opposite side of the village.

I could feel that the other shamans standing next to me were dissatisfied, and they looked at me and my master with less friendly eyes. After all, in the entire village, we only had a friendship with Daxing and Qiangzi, but Qiangzi was now unconscious, and Daxing alone seemed so “weak,” and these Shengmiao villages were not willing to get involved with secular forces too deeply. This was probably not good.

But Da Xing Da Wu was not worried at all. He suddenly raised his hand, looked at Yang Sheng, and then turned to everyone in the town and the people who had come down from the village and said, “They climbed the Broken Soul Ladder. Who dares to say that they are not our honored guests? Who dares?”

This sentence was so powerful that it really only took such a simple sentence to calm everyone’s emotions… Even the people who were slightly unfriendly to me and my master suddenly softened their gaze at us, and some even had a hint of friendliness in their indifferent gaze because of the reason of climbing the Broken Soul Ladder.

Now I was completely relieved. If Yang Sheng was willing to hand the old man over to the village, then the old man’s life would be spared. I believe the village has a way to make the old man keep secrets. If the old man is not stupid, he should also know that he cannot talk about certain things.

However, at this point, Yang Sheng was not willing to give up. He did not step back, but even took a step forward and said to the Da Xing Grand Shaman, “Da Xing Grand Shaman, I’m afraid this is not good. I said that these two people are mortal enemies. Are you going to let me off like this, without giving me any explanation?”

Oh, this Yang Sheng! Because of his words, the atmosphere, which had been eased, suddenly became tense again.