Chapter 1158 Rumors
Anada bit his tongue in shock. After confirming that everything that had happened was not a dream, his face turned ashen. His legs gave out, and he slumped onto a nearby chair.
Seeing this, Chen Yang looked at Anada with some confusion. "Are you… scared? It's not that serious, is it?"
The barbarian chieftain had visited once before. In Chen Yang's eyes, the barbarian chieftain was a very reasonable person. Why was Anada so terrified upon learning of his identity?
When Chen Yang asked, Anada looked at him with terrified eyes and asked in a trembling voice, "Young Master, you don't know the deeds of this barbarian chieftain, do you?"
Chen Yang's eyebrows twitched. He had heard a few things about the barbarians from a few people. However, he really didn't know much about the barbarian chieftain.
"Tell me about it? He's going to be the biggest client of our Land of Hope from now on. Tell me what you know."
Anada heard this, calmed himself, and then began to recount what he knew about the barbarian chieftain. The current barbarian chieftain had taken over the barbarian tribe a little over two hundred years ago. Legend had it that when he first took charge, the barbarian tribe was extremely chaotic, with various tribes fighting for scarce resources. Upon becoming the barbarian chieftain, he had used thunderous means to gather all the barbarian tribes. Since then, there had been no internal divisions among the barbarians; they were all unified under the management of Barbarian City. Previously, the so-called barbarian chieftain was actually the lord of Barbarian City, possessing the best resources of the barbarians. Yet, even so, some tribes would gather to fight for Barbarian City's resources before. In the end, they simply didn't take the barbarian tribe, the largest tribe, seriously.
"It is said that on that night, at least three barbarian tribes disappeared, with everyone from top to bottom vanishing." As he spoke, Anada's mind conjured images from his childhood, and his face trembled again. He could even feel a tightness in his throat. "All signs indicate that the current barbarian chieftain used brutal means." While there were many frictions between the major powers of the Earth Realm, they were mostly matters between different races. To be so heavy-handed against one's own kin was probably something only the barbarians would do.
After listening, Chen Yang asked, "That's not right. Not to mention distant events, even in the Demon Capital Prefecture, I heard similar things happened."
Anada froze for a moment, then nodded dumbfoundedly after a long pause. "I did hear some news a few years ago… Perhaps it's because my family always used this to scare me when I was young, telling me not to interact with the barbarians, so…"
After Anada said this, Chen Yang couldn't help but laugh and cry. "In the future, you will inevitably have to interact with the barbarian chieftain, and it might even be you alone. Don't act like this then."
After arranging matters regarding the spiritual fields and spirit stones, Chen Yang went to the pavilion alone. This was where Chen Yang meditated, and it was also the only place from which one could overlook the entire Land of Hope. Reaching the rooftop, Chen Yang pressed a mechanism. The center of the pavilion slowly rose, and the overhead covering also gradually retracted. However, this was not visible from the outside. Gazing at the starry sky of the Earth Realm, Chen Yang took out an ancient coin he had been holding. The ancient coin came from Qin Yi, and based on the information Chen Yang had gathered so far, this item was likely Qin Yi's most important possession. The ancient coin was used for divination, and Chen Yang had learned the art of divination long ago. Later, he learned Qin Yi's unique divination techniques from Qin Yi himself. Chen Yang looked up at the stars, chanted ancient incantations, and tossed the ancient coin into the sky.
"Le Jin Lu Tu!" Chen Yang suddenly opened his eyes, starlight flowing within them. The trajectory of the ancient coin's rotation in space was deeply etched into Chen Yang's heart.
Meanwhile, the barbarian chieftain, who had just returned to Barbarian City, felt a fluctuation in his heart before he could even sit down.
"Someone is spying!" The barbarian chieftain's brows tightened, but he made no move. If someone wanted to see, let them see. He had never worried about anything of his being spied upon. Even the conflict between the barbarians and the Demon Capital Prefecture was not hidden. Moreover, such matters could not be hidden in the first place. Another reason was that the barbarian chieftain was not very familiar with such matters. He only felt a trace of karma now and would have to wait for the other party to reveal more clues to know who was behind it.
The barbarian chieftain's composure allowed Chen Yang to successfully divine some things. The previous events were easy to calculate; Chen Yang indeed saw some shadows of bloodshed. This indicated that this matter occupied a significant place in the barbarian chieftain's mind. However, as Chen Yang continued to look further, a purple mist suddenly obscured the heavenly secrets.
At the same time, everyone in the Land of Hope stopped what they were doing and looked up at the sky in unison. The stars, which had been clearly visible moments before, were suddenly covered by dark clouds. The dense layer of clouds spread across the sky, evoking a chilling fear. And it wasn't over yet. Lightning flickered. Although there was no thunder, the flashing lightning only amplified the terror of the dark clouds, instilling dread in people's hearts. For a moment, even the Human Race's Core Condensation cultivators, who were refining ore, were unsettled. They all knew that the center of the dark clouds was where Chen Yang was cultivating. No one knew what this strange phenomenon was. But Chen Yang absolutely could not be in any danger. All the Human Race's Core Condensation cultivators put down their ores and headed directly for Chen Yang's pavilion.
At this moment, Chen Yang also sensed the situation outside. Wu Min was the first to arrive. When he saw the ancient coins that had fallen in front of Chen Yang, he immediately understood. This was Qin Yi's treasure!
"What did you divine?" Facing Wu Min's question, Chen Yang gave a dry laugh, put away the ancient coin, and whispered a name: "Le Jin Lu Tu."
Wu Min froze on the spot. Le Jin Lu Tu? Who was that? Just as Wu Min was about to ask further, the Human Race's Core Condensation cultivators also arrived one after another.
"Dean Chen Yang, what have you done now? Could it be that you've comprehended your own divine ability?" The last time everyone witnessed such an anomaly was when Qin Yunlan comprehended her divine ability.
Chen Yang chuckled awkwardly. "I wish I could comprehend a divine ability, but I can't!" Looking at the dark clouds that still hadn't dissipated in the sky, Chen Yang also became distressed. He had thought the dark clouds would disappear after he stopped divining, but he hadn't expected them to show no signs of dissipating at all. Not only were they not dissipating, but the lightning within the dark clouds was becoming brighter and thicker.