Chapter 317: A Surging Undercurrent

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Tugra’s unclear and confusing descriptions of the various ally and enemy tribes would indeed make people feel confused after listening to them. Zhang Lisheng frowned and pondered for a while but he still could not get any answer in his heart. Silently, he walked up to a dead Tudenan warrior and personally wiped off the trace of blood on the fatal wound on his nose that had left his nose bone exposed.

After that, he looked at the blood on the palm of his hand, before standing up and ordering with a blank expression, “Tugra, it is not the time to hold these cumbersome ceremonies. Immediately burn all the sacrificed warriors into ashes! From this moment on, increase the warriors’ by threefold, no…fivefold, to stay vigilant around the tribe’s surroundings. Everyone else, go back to rest and replenish your spirit. After arranging everything, come to the tree house to see me!” After that, he strode into the bark house dedicated to the Tudenan’s tribal book of history.

The moment the Raider gave his order, Tugra respectfully responded with a “Yes!” and stood up from the mud. Pointing to more than a thousand dead warriors on the ground, he shouted, “The people of Tudenan, have you heard the Raider’s orders? Relatives, immediately wash the bodies of these warriors with water and offer them to the Fire God. Lukuqi, bring five times the number of warriors to stay vigilant. Everyone else, go rest and replenish your spirit!”

After the headman gave his order, hundreds of thousands of Tudenan people quickly disappeared into the numerous bark houses of the tribe. Only about 2000 warriors summoned velvet spiders of different shades of purple in the midst of their chanting sound of ‘ooh oooh…” and rode them to stay hidden in the dark jungle rapidly.

The mournful indigenous women in the open space, on the other hand, had no choice but to stop their sad and tactful mourning songs. After washing the bodies of their dead family members with water, they threw the bodies into the raging fire.

After watching the piles of bonfires darken before lighting up again, with a scorched burning smell filling the air, Tugra, who felt that he had completed all of Zhang Lisheng’s instructions, ordered loudly, “Carefully collect the ashes of the dead warriors.”

Then, he also walked into the nearest bark house to the totem pole.

The house was empty and cold. It was apparent that the small bonfire burning in front of the altar did not bring much of a temperature rise to the house. However, it did indeed illuminated the figure of the Tudenan Raider who was sitting on the animal leather chair, holding and staring at a map simply drawn with the various tribes on the island till his body flickered.

When Tugra saw the Raider look at the map that had just been depicted for a few days with an obvious contemplating gaze while muttering ‘pst shh…’ horrifyingly under his breath, he walked lightly up to the animal leather chair and kneeled silently on the ground.

Time passed slowly in silence. After not knowing for how long, when Tugra felt that his legs had started to become numb slowly, the young man suddenly stopped chanting his spell and said in a low voice, “Tugra, did you order this map to be drawn by the scout?”

“Yes, Great Raider! After the tribe has been expanded to 300,000 people, the scouting forces can already explore the entire island, albeit with great difficulty. Because of this, I ordered this map to be drawn so that it can be presented to you.”

“Then, are you certain that it was the three tribes Samru, Pelungia and Eruya who attacked Tudenan?”

“I’m certain, Raider!” Tugra replied without wavering. “The attackers have a force equal to that of us. The feathers on the heads of the chief warriors are from Mola Kingfisher, Big-tailed Sparrow and Lake Heron. Most importantly, when they retreated, our scouts followed them all the way back in secret and it’s found that they have indeed returned to the three tribes of Samru, Pelungia and Eruya!”

Upon hearing Tugra’s answer, Zhang Lisheng became silent for a while. Sighing, he murmured, “Looks like I’ve looked down on the wisdom of Kamando! If I didn’t guess wrongly,our situation is very dangerous now, Tugra.”

“You said that you’ve looked down on the wisdom of Kamando? Don’t tell me that the attack from Samru, Pelungia and Eruya is actually…”

“Let’s not ponder on this any further, Tugra!” In the dark, the young man’s eyes gradually became bright and fierce. He clenched his fists fiercely and leaped from the animal leather chair. “Go! Summon all the warriors in the tribe and tell them that the survival of Tudenan is tonight! Tell them to get ready for a life-and-death battle!”

“Y-Yes, Great Raider!” Tugra replied even though he did not know why the Raider would suddenly order all of the tribal warriors to stand by after dispersing all of the tribesmen away and even given out such a serious warning. However, when he raised his head and saw the cold gleam flash in Zhang Lisheng’s eyes, he did not dare to ask anything else. He only managed to answer with a stutter and hastily ran out of the tree house.

After a while, the warring horn resonated in the tribe. One by one, the Tudenan warriors who had just taken off their leather armor woke up from their wooden bed. They put on their armor again, picked up the weapons, and ran to the totem poles in front of the open space.

Not only that, except for the two thousand warriors who were on standby mode, the remaining 36,000 elite warriors were evenly arranged into forty battle formations in within 15 minutes.

Standing on the high platform looking at the stern and murderous tribal warriors that stretched out as far as the eyes could see, Tugra only felt that his anxiety and worries were gradually replaced by overwhelming passion. He took a deep breath and shouted at the top of his lungs, “The warriors of Tudenan! The warring horns have resonated under the Raider’s order! Not long before, the living belief of the tribe has told me that the life and death of Tudenan will be decided today. If all of you have the heart to fight to the death, the tribe may be able to overcome the danger and come out safe and unscathed… However…”

“If you have any fear of going into battle, the name ‘Tudenan’ will then become the dust of history,”Zhang Lisheng walked out of the bark house with courageous and resolute steps, his voice was low but sonorous as he interrupted Tugra’s words. “For this reason, I need all of you to turn into my guns and spears, to conquer the most powerful enemies for me, and to sing the most sincere songs for me!”

“Great Raider! I’ll always be the gun, spear, and horn in your hands! I’ll conquer the most powerful enemies for you, and sing the most sincere songs for you! Tonight, please let me offer a lot of my blood and bravery for you!” The instant Zhang Lisheng’s voice left his mouth, in a battle formation not far from him, a chief warrior wearing two feathers on his head suddenly shouted and pulled out his iron knife from his waist. After cutting a deep gash of wound on his forehead and allowed the fresh blood to trickle down from his brows, he shouted at the top of his lungs, “Life-and-death battle! Life-and-death battle! Life-and-death battle…”

When Zhang Lisheng recognized that the face belonged to Turaru, who was the first person to have successfully received the Gold Core fragment transplantation, a faint smile appeared on his face. He thought that the reason the warrior turned frantic with his overwhelming excitement was because Zhang Lisheng had quoted Turaru’s former allegiance. It had never crossed his mind that in fact, Turaru had already become a fanatic believer of his.

Just like that, smiling as though they were waiting for the flames to ignite the dry straw, after the 40 battle formations shouted “Life-and-death battle!” loudly, the young man suddenly transformed into a green scaly giant using the wyrmdragon’s power and gathered clouds in midair. “Bite your spear and follow me!”

Then, he rode on the clouds and drifted into the depths of the jungle.

If it was an ordinary aboriginal tribe, carrying out such a long-distance attack in the middle of the night was undoubtedly seeking for its own death. Just by trekking in the dark woodland alone would already exhaust the physical strength of all the warriors and turn them into sheep from a lion.

However, to Tudenan warriors, who were equipped with battle partners, the giant millispiders were extremely fast trekking in the dense jungle, as though they were walking on a flatland, and even had a horrifying endurance that could allow them to trek three continuous days. This allowed the Tudenan warriors to be able to make a surprise long-raid to any target within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

Right now in their minds, it was just natural that they thought the reason the Raider gathered the entire tribal force was to attack one of the three tribes of Samru, Pelungia and Eruya for a battle of revenge.

However, as they lined up to become a snake-like formation, with the wooden stick clenched between their teeth, and walked in the jungle for a while, they were surprised to find that the direction of their trek was completely contrary to the target in their heart. Nonetheless, despite feeling puzzled, due to the reason that the Raider had a prestige similar to a true God in Tudenan, none of the tens of thousands of warriors raised any question.

At the forefront of the battlefield, from time to time, Zhang Lisheng would drive the cloud to elevate to midair to correct his direction and drew a long straight line in the dense forest. After spending nearly an hour, he guided the 36,000 Tudenan warriors to a forest cliff.

He drifted like a cloud and finally landed, like a monster, on a canopy of a giant tree that was more than ten meters tall.

Looking at the Hellfire tribe dwelling, under the steep mountain, that occupied more than square kilometers of land on the coast, the green scales on the young man’s face suddenly trembled, as a ferocious smile appeared. Then, he ordered in a low voice to the Tudenan headman and dispatched warriors riding on the giant millispiders who came up to him, “Wait here! When you see giant waves attacking the tribe under the mountain later, launch an attack with all strength immediately! Remember, don’t save any ounce of energy as the first battle is the decisive battle!”

Then, he soared up into the sky and vanished without a trace.

Upon hearing the Raider’s order, the several dozens of Tudenan warriors, who were in charge of dispatching orders, turned solemn right away. They commanded their partners to spread out immediately. At this moment, Zhang Lisheng had already come to the air above the vast sea in the night sky riding on his clouds.

Overlooking the blue rippling foreign world’s ocean, he mumbled in Mandarin under his breath, “Dominate the water as it wields, soaring the sky as it reigns. Now it’s time for me to see whether the omniscient power obtained by this wyrmdragon’s incarnation really has the ability to dominate the water!” After dispersing his clouds, he dropped into the ocean and set off a series of ripples.

Under the bright moonlight, the rippling waves quickly dissipated. the sea surface became calm as a mirror once again, and sparkled from time to time. However, two to three minutes later, the seawater of the place where Zhang Lisheng had dropped down suddenly began to boil like boiling water, forming a thin water column like a spring.

As time went by, the humming sound of the water column grew louder as the surging water surface expanded rapidly.In the end, it formed a situation in which thousands of dark tides surged when the ocean currents stirred up.