Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2652: Chapter 70: The Fierce Beast Takes the Throne (Part 3)

Across the entire history of the Danque Tribe, and even the Great Wilderness, there is no shortage of young heroes, uniquely gifted individuals, prodigies who were held in high regard, yet during their first battlefield campaign, before they could make any contribution, they met their demise on the spot.

Destiny is cruel, and sometimes, it is even absurd.

While alive, people differ greatly, categorized as either mediocres or geniuses.

But when it’s time to die, everyone dies the same.

Having battled on the battlefield for years, the Great Chief Dan Lie knows this better than anyone else.

Back in the day, his comrades who fought alongside him, many with greater talent, higher cultivation, and superior intelligence, all without exception met their end scattered across the battlefield.

Some even died in baffling ways.

Only he, seemingly ordinary, survived and became the Great Chief.

Therefore, he never dared to let Dan Zhu take risks easily before.

Dan Zhu’s talent is indeed exceptionally high.

But once on the battlefield of conquest, there’s really no way to know what terrifying things one will face.

Open blades, hidden arrows, wicked paths, ghost arts, witch miasma, corrosive toxins, curses, divine punishment...

The most terrifying are some sinister curse skills.

According to the Ancestor, such curse skills involve intangible causes and effects, incomprehensible to those without profound understanding of their principles.

If one is ”cursed” to death through cause and effect, then any fatal factor with probability would be magnified to the extreme.

A knife might suddenly sever your hand.

An arrow might suddenly pierce your eye.

A long spear may accidentally stab through your chest.

Poison might penetrate your heart, causing you to die as a fallen demon.

Miasma might bewilder your divine sense, leading you to seek your own death.

Some dangers that could originally be avoided would ”queue up” around you, seeking to kill you.

Your fortune would be deemed zero.

Any factor in the surrounding environment that could lead to your death would suddenly appear and kill you.

And on the battlefield, where blades and swords have no eyes and dangers abound, it is the perfect place for ”cause and effect curse killing”.

Of course, cause and effect spell is a type of forbidden magic, rarely learned by anyone.

Learning this type of curse skill requires decades, even centuries of time and effort.

Executing such curse skills also demands an extremely high cost.

Generally, cultivators are not even worthy of being ”curse killed”.

But to achieve Foundation Establishment at ten, Core Formation at twenty, being the most stunning genius of the Danque Tribe in hundreds of years, surely many tribes would be willing to pay a high price, even at all costs.

Therefore, the Great Chief previously dared not let Dan Zhu venture out.

Yet now, there’s no other choice.

The situation has already become so acute that many matters are beyond the Great Chief’s control...

The Great Chief looked far ahead toward his beloved youngest son Dan Zhu among the ranks of barbarian soldiers, his heart filled with emotions.

Then his gaze naturally shifted to Mo Hua beside Dan Zhu.

The Great Chief’s eyebrows knitted more deeply.

The reason he allowed Dan Zhu to go on the expedition against the Shugubu, besides hoping to temper Dan Zhu, was mainly because of this seemingly seasoned but actually younger ”Mr. Witch” than Dan Zhu himself.

With this ”Mr. Witch”, he agreed to let Dan Zhu undergo trials outside.

But his greatest concern is exactly about this ”Mr. Witch”.

This witch frequently stayed with Dan Zhu, indoctrinating him with some ”outrageous” speeches, spreading ”equality of all beings” talk that sounded like religious con men, attempting who knows what.

Dan Zhu, incidentally, believed it all.

According to the Great Chief’s opinion, such ”liable to stir unrest” figures, disrupting his son’s mentality, naturally should be killed to prevent future troubles.

Yet the Great Chief didn’t dare to act rashly.

Because this seemingly religious con man ”Mr. Witch” did indeed reveal things to him that were unknown to others that day.

Moreover, when this witch stood alongside Dan Zhu.

The Great Chief’s mind inadvertently conjured up a prophetic saying derived from the exhaustive effort of the Danque Ancestor long ago:

”Fierce Beast as Lord, Vermilion Bird Flourishes.”

The Great Chief silently muttered this sentence, his gaze stern.

He still did not quite understand how amidst the current situation of the Great Wilderness, where the Taoist Court encroaches, the Royal Court wages war, tribes drift apart, and dangers lurk everywhere, it is a sign of ”end time decay”, how could the Vermilion Bird ”flourish”?

Moreover, what does it mean for the ”Fierce Beast” to assume lordship?

Fierce Beast is supposedly the ancient beast that brings calamity?

The rule of the Fierce Beast historically leads to the great disaster of the heavens and earth shattering, how could there be flourishing?

Furthermore...

The Great Chief looked at Mo Hua beside Dan Zhu, possessing a face like white jade, with refined features, unable to understand any aspect.

”Where is the Fierce Beast? Where is the Fierce Beast?”

...

The Danque Tribe’s young master, the heavens’ favored first genius, Dan Zhu, with the consent of the Great Chief, personally set out to attack the enemy.

This stirred quite a commotion within the Danque Tribe.

Openly and secretly, quite a few eyes were fixated on Dan Zhu.

Many secretly gossiped, while others harbored alternative thoughts, scheming something unknown.

Dan Zhu’s mood was also not tranquil.

This was his first time leaving the Danque Tribe, commanding troops to fight the enemy on his own.

His heart was filled with excitement, fervor, anxiety, unease, and nervousness, a complex intermingling of emotions.

Just by looking at Mo Hua beside him, who appeared calm and composed, Dan Zhu unknowingly seemed to be influenced, settling his mood gradually, revealing a measure of calmness quite similar to Mo Hua’s.

Barbarian General Chi Feng silently observed from behind, his gaze showing a trace of surprise.

Afterward, the group marched forth, saying nothing all the way.

Dan Zhu and Mo Hua, leading over a hundred elite barbarian soldiers, proceeded northwestwards according to the direction.

After about four hours of travel, night fell, and they arrived at a small tribal settlement in the northwest of the Danque Tribe within a desolate mountainous area.

This was a stronghold of a small tribe within the Danque Tribe.

At this moment, it was already reduced to ruins.

The camp had collapsed, ashes scattered everywhere, and the ground was littered with dismembered bodies, permeating with a stench.

The useless elderly and children were slain, while the youth capable of being barbarian slaves were captured, all valuables plundered.

Upon witnessing such atrocities, the people of the Danque Tribe were filled with anger.

Mo Hua’s gaze also turned icy.

Especially when he thought of those dead children.

He was the ”Gentleman” of the Great Wilderness; those children who had died should have grown up under his tutelage, flourishing into talented individuals.

Yet amidst anger, Mo Hua’s heart suddenly felt an anomaly.

He seemed to sense an unspeakable familiarity from this occurrence...