Chapter 488: Chapter 221: Spectacle, Threats, and Long Mountain’s Intentions (Part 3)
If it weren’t for their desperate fighting style, they wouldn’t have lasted this long at all.
Defeat and demise were only a matter of time, so he naturally wouldn’t bother paying attention.
“The leader should be that young master Li Xuanyan, the left should be his brother, and the four on the right, along with the four who attacked Liu Xian’s men, judging by their age and attire, they should be the Longshan Eight Great Vajra. That’s already eleven Cold Resistance Level fighters, plus the Longyou’s army, indeed Longshan’s strength is very strong, but their strength…”
As he watched, Xia Hong’s gaze gradually became peculiar.
The reason was simple; he could see through the strength of those eleven Cold Resistance Level fighters.
Among the Eight Great Vajra, two were at Eleven Manes, two were at Ten Manes, and the remaining four were at Nine Manes; Li Xuanyan was at Eleven Manes; his brother was at Ten Manes.
In other words, it seemed that the young master Li Xuanling, stood at the very back.
Yet, her strength was the strongest among the eleven.
Xia Hong looked at Li Xuanling’s stunningly beautiful face from a distance, and a playful smile appeared on his face, his expression growing interested.
“Is she deliberately hiding to confuse outsiders, or do even their own people not know? If the latter, that would be interesting!”
Ssss… Crunch…
The sound of a Snake Spear piercing through a body and a blade breaking bones came from the knoll.
Xia Hong didn’t need to look to know that Liu Xian and Wang Hu must be gone.
Sure enough, on the knoll, Liu Xian was impaled through the heart with two Snake Spears, while Wang Hu was struck on the neck with a blade, his head falling to the ground, the two Cold Resistance Level leaders dying in the snow without even a cry of agony.
As the two fell, Peng Bo and Chen Yingyuan shuddered simultaneously, their heads hanging low, their expressions increasingly filled with fear.
“Alright, let’s head east. My second brother’s side should be about done as well. Xiling, White Abyss, and Dongkang came together, let’s settle them early on!”
With Liu and Wang dead, Li Xuanyan spoke up.
His voice was gentle and steady, very much in line with his refined and restrained demeanor, making it impossible to detect any overbearing nature one might expect from the eldest son of Longshan.
“Gentlemen, it’s going to trouble you both to deal with those three families. Since you both are inclined toward Longshan, you surely won’t refuse such a small request, right?”
Li Xuanling also spoke, inquiring with Chen Yingyuan and Peng Bo beside her.
“Of course not.”
“As a member of Longyou, it’s our duty to eliminate traitors!”
Looking at her flower-like smiling face, Peng Bo and Chen’s terror was almost written all over their faces, nodding vigorously in agreement like rattle drums.
Nobody saw that in front, Li Xuanyan, hearing Li Xuanling speak with the two behind, furrowed his brows slightly, but said nothing, continuing to walk eastward.
The rest, including those three hundred Longyou soldiers, all packed up and followed behind him, heading east together.
After everyone left, Xia Hong emerged from the shadows, walked to the top of the knoll, looked at the blood left in the snow by Liu and Wang, and furrowed his brow in contemplation.
“The Alliance Leader Order is indeed to test loyalty, but to strike with such ferocity, killing anyone who doesn’t bring iron ore immediately, this is too… exaggerated?”
A look of confusion gradually appeared on Xia Hong’s face.
If Longshan truly had the confidence to sit firmly in their position, unafraid of the ten camps of Longyou defecting and mixing with Zhaoyang, then they should wait for the alliance meeting, suppress Zhaoyang decisively, and then use the excuse of not respecting the Alliance Leader Order to either punish or directly eliminate those camps without iron ore. That would make more logical sense.
However, by scattering people and guarding only the foot of Long Mountain, as soon as they find someone without iron ore, they immediately strike to kill, which seems a bit strange.
He truly couldn’t understand Longshan’s approach.
“No, this seems like they’re eager to eliminate the unstable factors within the alliance!”
Xia Hong’s complexion suddenly shifted, and as he thought of something, his expression changed drastically, turning his head to glance in the direction of Long Mountain.
“So that’s it, strike first to gain the upper hand, this is striking first to gain the upper hand!”
Yucheng, Changning, and Songyuan, originally inclined toward Zhaoyang, have had their leaders killed so easily;
Yang Lu and Beehive, the two, are scared into going along with Longshan to the end;
So far, five camps have been dealt with.
Even if the remaining five camps do join forces successfully with Zhaoyang, with Longshan’s strength, they could probably handle it with ease, perhaps even have a great chance of winning!
The originally promising momentum of Zhaoyang has actually been so easily resolved by Longshan. If Hou Hu of Zhaoyang is also careless, perhaps even he might be dealt with this time.
This Longshan Camp is indeed clever!
Seeing through Longshan’s intentions, Xia Hong could confirm one thing.
That is, Li Tianhua has definitely encountered a problem!
“Even if not dead, there must be a big problem, otherwise there would be no reason for Longshan to rush against these ten camps, worried that once they join forces with Zhaoyang, it would become an unmanageable force.”
Seeing through Longshan’s actions, Xia Hong’s mind instantly cleared, realizing what he needed to do. Looking at the distant figures in the east, he chuckled lightly and sped across the snow, quickly following.
“Let’s hope that Hou Hu is smart enough. If these ten camps are truly wiped out by Longshan, then our Great Xia, forget extending influence over Pingxi Plain, will probably have to constantly worry about this northern neighbor in the future!”