90: Chapter 90 The New King

While traveling to a hidden mountain stream, the scouts sent by Li Four brought the latest news; they had found Wulu's remnants.

This Young Lord of the Green Wolf Tribe had not been intimidated by Longduota's thunderous methods.

On the contrary, the deep blood feud had made him more resilient and calm.

Leading the remaining three hundred loyal tribesmen, he hid in the depths of the dense forest like a pack of injured lone wolves, licking their wounds and waiting for the moment of revenge.

When the messenger from Panshi Stockade found him, the two sides hit it off immediately.

In a huge cave covered with vines, Gao Feng finally met Wulu.

At this moment, Wulu looked somewhat disheveled, with blood-stained bandages wrapped around his body, but his eyes burned with an inextinguishable flame.

Seeing Gao Feng come in person, he was stunned at first, and then a light of ecstasy and admiration erupted in his eyes.

"Benefactor! You..."

Gao Feng waved his hand and got straight to the point: "Wulu, no need for nonsense. Longduota is performing a blood sacrifice, intending to achieve a Breakthrough beyond his own limits. We must stop him. I need your men to do one thing for me."

"Just give the order! As long as we can kill that tyrant Longduota, the warriors of my Green Wolf Tribe are willing to go through fire and water for you!" Wulu's voice was resolute.

Gao Feng spread out a map he had already memorized on the ground.

It was the animal skin map that Wulu had given him before, the one recording the secret passage to the rear of the barbarian army.

He pointed to an area next to the grain camp on the map and said: "Longduota's blood sacrifice altar is built here. The defense here is relatively weak, which is the soft underbelly of the entire camp."

His finger moved to another place, which was the front camp where the main force of the barbarian army was stationed.

"I need you to lead your men at the third quarter of the Zi hour to launch a feint attack on the barbarian army's front camp from this direction. The bigger the commotion, the better, to attract their attention as much as possible."

"A feint attack?" Wulu was a little confused.

With only his three hundred remnant soldiers, charging into the front camp of tens of thousands, even if it was just a feint, was no different from a moth flying into a flame.

"Yes, a feint attack." Gao Feng's eyes were as sharp as knives, "Your mission is not to kill the enemy, but to create chaos. I will have my scouts cooperate with you and use the 'new gadget' of our Panshi Stockade to give them a big gift. You just need to light the fire and then retreat immediately; I will arrange a retreat route for you."

He paused, his voice becoming cold and filled with killing intent: "The chaos you create will be my best cover. I will personally lead the men along this secret passage to infiltrate the altar and hunt down Longduota!"

Hunt down Longduota!

Hearing these five words, the breathing of all the Green Wolf Tribe warriors in the cave stagnated.

They looked at Gao Feng in disbelief.

That was the King of the Southern Wilderness, an existence as invincible as a demon god!

And this da qian people in front of them actually wanted to... hunt him down?

Wulu's heart beat wildly.

Looking at Gao Feng's calm yet confident eyes, a surge of hot blood rushed to his head.

He knew this was their only chance!

"Good!" Wulu nodded heavily, his eyes flashing with madness, "I promise you! Even if I have to sacrifice the last person of my Green Wolf Tribe, I will definitely light this fire for you, Benefactor!"

Zi hour, the darkest moment of the night.

The defense line of the barbarian army camp seemed strict, but in reality, it was tight on the outside and loose on the inside.

Most of the barbarian soldiers were panicked and low in morale due to the internal strife during the day and Longduota's bloody purge.

None of them expected that the Green Wolf Tribe, which they regarded as stray dogs, would dare to return to die.

Even less did they expect that a death squad from Linhuang City had already quietly infiltrated their hinterland like a poisonous snake.

"Boom——!!!"

A heaven-shaking loud noise exploded without warning from the northwest corner of the barbarian army's front camp!

Immediately after, dozens of black dots were thrown out by catapults from the distant dense forest, accurately falling into the tents where grain and grass were stored!

That was the last batch of "heaven-shaking thunder" and fierce fire oil cans in the inventory of Panshi Stockade!

Explosions rose one after another, and the sky-high flames instantly tore through the night!

The dry forage and tents were instantly ignited, and the fire, aided by the wind, spread rapidly, forming an uncontrollable sea of fire in the blink of an eye!

"Enemy attack——! Enemy attack——!"

"It's the traitors of the Green Wolf Tribe! They burned the granary!"

The entire barbarian army's front camp instantly exploded in chaos.

Countless barbarian soldiers were awakened from their sleep, rushing out of their tents in disarray, facing the raging fire and chaotic situation, completely losing their footing.

The generals of the Black Tooth Tribe and the Vulture Tribe were cursing while urgently mobilizing manpower to fight the fire and encircle the enemy.

Just as Gao Feng expected, almost everyone's attention was drawn to this sudden fire and riot.

At this time, on the other side, in the secret passage leading to the rear altar, Gao Feng was leading his assault team, moving rapidly like a leopard in the night.

The chaos in the front camp provided them with perfect cover.

The few sparse sentries along the way were silently wiped out by Li Four and his scouts with poisoned crossbow bolts before they could even sound the alarm.

Soon, a huge outline emanating sky-high blood energy appeared in their field of vision.

It was a giant altar built of giant wood and white bones, several zhang high.

Around the altar, there were flags engraved with strange runes, and thousands of captives and slaves were tied to wooden stakes under the altar, their miserable wails covered by the strong wind.

And at the top of the altar, a tall figure sat cross-legged, and under him was a blood pool built of countless alien beast bones, with thick blood slowly boiling in the pool.

That figure was none other than Longduota!

At this moment, he seemed to be at a critical moment of the blood sacrifice ceremony.

He was shirtless, his whole body shrouded in a layer of eerie blood light, and countless streams of blood-colored Qi were being continuously drawn from the blood pool below and the sacrifices, rushing madly into his body.

His aura was rising at a terrifying speed, becoming more and more powerful, and more and more evil!

Around the altar, there were less than three hundred Royal Tent elite guards responsible for guarding.

Their attention was also drawn by the fire and commotion in the front camp in the distance, appearing somewhat relaxed.

A cold light flashed in Gao Feng's eyes, and he made a cold gesture to the people behind him.

The hunt, has begun!

The night wind howled, rolling up a thick smell of blood, as if even the air had become sticky.

Gao Feng's figure was like a fallen leaf blending into the night, silently crawling behind a dirt slope, his cold gaze locked tightly on the figure at the top of the altar through the gaps in the grass.

He could clearly feel that Longduota's aura was climbing madly at an inhuman speed.

That evil and majestic power of blood and Qi even stirred the surrounding power of heaven and earth, forming a faint blood-colored vortex above his head.

With every passing second, the man's strength was undergoing a qualitative transformation.

Gao Feng knew that there was not much time left for him, and he must interrupt Longduota before he completely finished the ceremony and fully digested that huge power!

"Do it."

Gao Feng squeezed out two words from between his teeth, his voice kept extremely low, but it clearly reached the ears of every assault team member behind him.

As soon as his voice fell, the fifty most elite scouts dispersed silently like a pack of hunting wolves, the military crossbows in their hands already drawn, the black steel crossbow bolts gleaming with a faint blue poison light under the weak firelight.

Li Four's gaze locked onto a patrol squad on the left side of the altar.

He raised his hand silently and made a chopping gesture.

"Swish, swish, swish——!"

A dense, almost inaudible sound of breaking through the air rang out!

Dozens of poisoned crossbow bolts, like the precise sickle of the Grim Reaper, instantly cut through the distance of dozens of steps, accurately shooting into the throats and eye sockets of those barbarian guards who were still stretching their necks to look at the fire in the distance.

"Ugh..."

The dull sound of falling to the ground was almost covered by the wind and the noise in the distance.

No screams, no alarms.

A whole patrol squad of ten people was completely wiped out in the blink of an eye.

This clean and neat killing efficiency demonstrated the top combat power of the Panshi Stockade scout battalion.

However, this was, after all, Longduota's most elite Royal Tent guards.

A Centurion responsible for looking out keenly noticed the abnormal sound of his companion falling to the side.

He turned his head suddenly, his pupils instantly shrinking like needles!

"Enemy..."

He only shouted two words of his alarm, and a crossbow bolt shot from a tricky angle, with a "poof" sound, penetrated from the back of his head and came out from his forehead, blocking the second half of his sentence in his throat forever.

But these two words were enough.

"Enemy attack——!!!"

The shrill alarm finally broke the silence around the altar!

The remaining two hundred or so Royal Tent guards reacted surprisingly fast.

They had no panic at all, and almost the moment the alarm sounded, they gave up looking into the distance, but quickly contracted their formation, raised the shields and scimitars in their hands, formed an airtight defensive circle, and firmly protected the entire blood sacrifice altar in the center.

They were all battle-hardened elites who had crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and they had beast-like intuition and response experience for sneak attacks and assassinations.

"Kill!"

Seeing that the sneak attack had been exposed, Li Four no longer hid, let out a low roar, and was the first to leap out from his hiding place.

Fifty scouts followed closely behind, they abandoned their heavy crossbows, drew the hundred-refined steel knives from their waists, and like fifty black lightning bolts, launched a desperate charge towards the contracting barbarian formation!

"Clang, clang, clang, clang——!"

The harsh sound of weapons colliding instantly rang out!

Although the scouts of Panshi Stockade were all good hands who could fight one against ten, they were, after all, at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers.

The opponent's Royal Tent guards were far comparable to ordinary barbarian soldiers in terms of strength and fearless fighting will.

As soon as the battle began, it fell into the most cruel and bloody slaughter.

Every second, scouts fell.

Every second, barbarian soldiers also had their throats cut by sharp steel knives.

But Gao Feng, at the very first moment the battle broke out, chose the opposite direction from everyone else.

His body, like a leopard that had been gathering momentum for a long time, sprang up from the ground, without any pause, along the rough giant wood structure of the altar, launched the most direct impact towards Longduota at the top!

His goal, from beginning to end, was only one——Longduota!

"Stop him!"

A Barbarian Chieftain guarding the base of the altar was the first to notice Gao Feng's intentions.

He roared, his door-sized giant axe cutting through the air with a furious gale as it swept horizontally towards Gao Feng, who was currently climbing upwards!

The power of this axe strike was enough to cleave a tree that would take two people to embrace right in two!

Facing this thunderous strike, Gao Feng was in mid-air with nowhere to leverage his strength. Yet, he merely let out a cold snort, his body twisting in an incredible way in mid-air, and with a backward bend, he narrowly dodged the fatal axe blade.

At the same time, the three-pointed, double-edged blade in his hand struck like a viper leaving its nest, drawing a strange and fatal arc from bottom to top!

Splat!

The Chieftain felt a chill in his wrist, followed immediately by an intense wave of pain. He looked down to see his right wrist, which had been gripping the giant axe, along with half of his forearm, severed completely at the root! Blood gushed out like a fountain!

Ahhh—!

The Chieftain let out a painful roar, his body staggering from the intense pain and blood loss.

Gao Feng, however, had already used the recoil from that strike, tapping his toes once more against a wooden pile of the altar. His body soared like a giant roc spreading its wings, rising several feet higher as he continued to charge towards the top of the altar!

He did not even spare the Chieftain another glance. In his eyes, these so-called elites were merely insignificant obstacles blocking him from hunting his target.

Release arrows! Shoot him to death!

The Barbarian soldiers on the middle level of the altar were terrified by the sight. They hurriedly drew their bows and nocked arrows, the dense rain of arrows descending upon Gao Feng like a swarm of black locusts, covering the sky!

Gao Feng, still in mid-air, did not dodge or evade. The crimson-gold Qi and blood within him erupted violently! A layer of pale golden Protective Aura instantly covered his entire body!

Clang! Clang!

Countless arrows struck as if hitting the hardest city wall and were deflected, unable to even leave a white mark on his Protective Aura! The powerful arrows were instead shattered into pieces by the terrifying force attached to the Protective Aura!

Hard-carrying through the dense rain of arrows, Gao Feng's figure did not pause in the slightest. Like a meteorite flying against the current, he broke through the blockade of arrows in an unreasonably brutal manner and landed steadily on the second-level platform of the altar.

Courting death!

On the platform, dozens of Barbarian personal guards were already waiting in full battle array. They roared, waving their weapons from all directions, and charged crazily towards Gao Feng, who had just landed, to slaughter him!

Gao Feng's face remained expressionless. He simply raised the three-pointed, double-edged blade in his hand slowly.

The next moment, his figure moved.

Fast! Incomparably fast!

He seemed to have transformed into a black tornado of death, weaving through the crowd!

The three-pointed, double-edged blade in his hand turned into thousands of cold streaks of light, impossible to capture with the naked eye!

Wherever the blade light passed, blood bloomed like eerie, blossoming roses.

Severed limbs and broken arms flew everywhere, accompanied by terrified, desperate screams!

Those fearless royal tent guards were like paper tigers in the face of Gao Feng's terrifying strength, which had already reached the Peak of the Fourth Stage Great Perfection.

Their strength could not keep up with Gao Feng's speed. Their speed could not keep up with Gao Feng's blade!

Before their scimitars could even touch the corner of Gao Feng's clothes, that three-pointed, double-edged blade, resembling the scythe of the Grim Reaper, had already pierced their hearts and severed their heads.

This was no longer a battle; it was a one-sided, bloody massacre!

In just over a dozen breaths of time, the dozens of Barbarian elites guarding the second-level platform had been slaughtered by Gao Feng alone!

Blood stained the entire platform, slowly dripping downwards like a stream through the gaps in the wooden planks.

Yet Gao Feng remained in his black clothes, completely unstained by dust. He stood there quietly, holding his blade, in the center of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, like a god of slaughter from Hell.

He raised his head, his gaze piercing through layers of bloody mist, and landed once again on the figure at the top of the altar who remained sitting cross-legged, seemingly indifferent to all the slaughter outside.

Longduota did not move. He seemed to have entered the deepest level of meditation, deaf to the brutal slaughter below the mountain.

The blood-red light around him grew increasingly dense. That crazily rising aura was not only uninterrupted but had become even more violent due to the irrigation of this fresh, power-filled warrior blood!

Gao Feng's brows furrowed slightly. He could feel an unprecedented threat of death crazily brewing at the top of the altar.

He could not wait any longer! He exerted force with his feet, his entire body turning into an arrow released from a bowstring, charging upwards once again along the stairs leading to the top of the altar!

However, just as he was about to step onto the last step and rush to the top of the altar, two equally tall figures filled with explosive power appeared silently at the end of the stairs like two silent iron towers, blocking his path. One held a mace covered in barbs, and the other held a giant bone shield as thick as a wall.

They were none other than the Black Tooth Tribe Clan Chief and the Vulture Tribe Clan Chief, whose strength was second only to Longduota among the three major tribes!

These two were also genuine Fourth Stage Peak Barbarian experts! They were Longduota's final and strongest guards!

At this moment, there was not a trace of panic on their faces, only the coldness and killing intent of ten-thousand-year-old ice.

Your path ends here, da qian people.

The Black Tooth Tribe Clan Chief spoke slowly, his voice sounding like two pieces of iron rubbing together, filled with a metallic texture.

Gao Feng's figure was reflected in his turbid eyes, which flickered with a cruel and bloodthirsty light.

He knew that as long as they could hold Gao Feng here, even for just a moment, until the Barbarian King completed the blood sacrifice ritual, then today would be the burial ground for this audacious Da Qian person!

Facing the obstruction of the two Fourth Stage Peak Barbarian experts, Gao Feng's upward charging figure came to an abrupt halt.

He stood quietly at the bottom of the stairs, the tip of his three-pointed, double-edged blade pointing diagonally at the ground. The Barbarian soldiers' blood dripping from his body gathered along the blade's edge, finally forming a single bead of blood at the tip, which fell to the ground with a plop.

He did not show the slightest surprise or seriousness because of their appearance. His deep eyes just calmly swept over the two Tribe Clan Chiefs, who could be called the top combat forces of the Southern Wilderness, his gaze as indifferent as if he were looking at two stubborn stones blocking the road.

Get out of the way, or die. Gao Feng's voice was very soft, yet carried an unquestionable domineering air.

Arrogant!

The Black Tooth Tribe Clan Chief was completely enraged by Gao Feng's nearly contemptuous attitude.

His mouthful of signature black teeth gnashed together with a clatter due to his anger.

He stopped talking nonsense, let out a sudden, explosive shout, and leaped down from the stairs like a cannonball fired from its chamber!

His burly body traced an arc full of oppression in the air, and the mace in his hand was raised high, the dense barbs on the mace flickering with a hideous cold light under the firelight, aimed at Gao Feng's head, smashing down with the force of ten thousand tons!

With this strike, he used all his strength!

The terrifying power even pulled out a visible white air wave in the air behind him!

He was confident that even a war elephant clad in heavy armor would be instantly smashed into a pulp of flesh under this strike!

At the same time, the Vulture Clan Chief on the other side was not idle. He did not choose to attack together but instead slammed the giant bone shield in his hand heavily onto the center of the stairs with a thud. That shield, polished from the skull of an unknown giant beast, almost completely sealed off the entire staircase passage.

His sinister eyes, like a viper lurking in the dark, locked tightly onto all of Gao Feng's retreat routes, ready to deliver a fatal blow at any moment.

Both offensive and defensive, their cooperation was tacit. They were clearly not fighting together against an enemy for the first time.

However, what they were facing was Gao Feng, who had already pushed his own strength to the Fourth Stage Great Perfection Peak.

Facing the Black Tooth Clan Chief's earth-shattering strike, Gao Feng did not even blink his eyelids.

He did not retreat, nor did he dodge, but instead chose the most direct and, to the two Barbarian Clan Chiefs, the most inconceivable way of responding—a head-on clash!

Just at the moment the mace was about to reach his head, Gao Feng moved.

The ground under his feet suddenly sank, and spiderweb-like cracks spread outwards with him as the center!

The crimson-gold Qi and blood within him, like a dormant volcano, erupted instantly!

A terrifying power, even more violent and pure than that of the Black Tooth Clan Chief, flowed along his arm and poured into the three-pointed, double-edged blade in his hand!

Clang—!!!!!

A terrifying loud noise, like a great bell, suddenly rang through the entire altar! The sound was so great that it even drowned out the shouts and killing sounds from the distant battlefield!

The blade edge of the three-pointed, double-edged blade and the hardest barb on the mace collided with extreme precision!

A visible shockwave exploded from the center of where their weapons met! It blew the surrounding Barbarian soldier corpses away, causing them to roll out!

The hideous smile on the Black Tooth Clan Chief's face instantly froze. It was replaced by a look of unbelievable horror!

He only felt a terrifying power, like a landslide or tsunami, which simply did not seem like something a human could possess, coming from the opponent's weapon, which did not look thick!

That power was so brutal, so domineering, that it instantly destroyed all his self-confidence!

Crack... crack...

A tooth-aching sound of shattering rang out. The Black Tooth Clan Chief watched in horror as his mace, which was made of hundred-refined fine iron mixed with exotic beast fangs and was capable of smashing city gates, actually developed several fine cracks!

Yet that three-pointed, double-edged blade remained as bright and new as ever, without the slightest damage!

Impossible! the Black Tooth Clan Chief let out a terrified roar.