Chapter 108: Raise an Army
Large fiery clouds rose high into the air. Si Wen Ming held the badly wounded Pu Lian in his hand, and rode on Pu Lian’s fiery dragon. He took the tens of guards and flew towards the South. Soon, the fiery clouds disappeared in the rolling dark clouds. Ji Hao, who had been standing on a mountaintop and seeing them off, was unable to see any trail of them.
Ji Zhuo and Ji Xia were standing behind Ji Hao. Both of them had intentionally tried to keep a calm face, however, they had failed to hide the excitement that had filled their pupils.
“Hao, did this lord invite you to go to Pu Ban City?” After a long while of silence, Ji Zhuo finally said with a slightly trembling voice.
“Yeah, uncle Wen Ming said that Pu Ban City is a nice ce. When he goes back to that city, he wants me to go with him,” said Ji Hao while gently patting Mr. Crow, who had been huddled in his arms. Mr. Crow had taken a few healing-pills given by Si Wen Ming and had been in a deep sleep during these couple of days.
“Indeed, Pu Ban City is a really nice ce,” said Ji Zhuo while raising his head, seemingly recalling his own experience, “That city is the main capital of our human-kind, the center of the world that has people gathered from every different n. Compared to Pu Ban City, our Fire Crow n, and even big-scale ns like the Bi Fang n, Rosefinch n and Fiery Dragon n, are all small as ants.”
“Pu Ban City is an amazing ce.” Ji Zhuo pped hard on Ji Hao’s shoulder and continued, “When the baby eagle grows up, it should leave the nest and fly into the higher sky. As long as the strong wind is not breaking its wings, it should try its best and reach a higher altitude. Hao, you have always been different from the other kids in the n, you have an unimaginable future.”
Ji Hao looked at the South, where the legendary Zhu Rong country, the country of gods, was located.
He thought of Po, that generous, passionate and amiable friend of his; he had promised Po, that when Po came back to the South, he would go with him and be one of his tutor, Taoist priest Yu Yu’s students.
However, Si Wen Ming and the Pu Ban city he had been talking about, had thrown Ji Hao into a dilemma.
The rainy season showed no sign of ending yet. The endless rain made Ji Hao feel as if his whole body was about to go moody. It had been half a month since Si Wen Ming had left the Cold Stream Valley. During this period of time, the only good news was that both Ji Xia and Qing Fu’s injuries hadpletely been healed.
What had healed them was not only Qing Fu’s powerful medicine, but Si Wen Ming had left a few pills before he had left and those few pills were the real reason that Ji Xia and Qing Fu had recovered so quickly.
The Cold Stream Valley was peaceful and quiet as always. Tens of thousands of mining ves were working hard every day and night, digging out high-quality gold and jade from under the ground. Another newly opened storage-cave had been filled with gold and jade pieces. Each day, Ji Zhuo and Ji Xia had to count the newly acquired wealth by themselves.
The transportation system of the Southern Wastnd jungle had never been convenient, together with the floods that was caused by the endless rain, the Cold Stream Valley had almost be an isted ce. Even the connections between the nearest few Fire Crow branch ns and the Cold Stream Valley had been broken.
Fortunately, Ji Zhuo was an elder of the Fire Crow n, therefore, every three days, a Fire Crow would fly to the Cold Stream Valley from the Gold ck Mountain, and bring Ji Zhuo a beast bone that had messages carved in it. This was how Ji Hao received news from the outside world. From these messages, he had also heard that beneath this peaceful appearance, how dangerous the Fire Crow n was at the moment.
Jiang Yao’s death hadn’t cause any effect, both Jiang Bo and Ji Shu seemed to havepletely forgotten this woman.
Three days after Si Wen Ming had left the Cold Stream Valley and headed to the South, Jiang Bo imed that he had received the will of their ancestors’ souls, and gained the support of part of Bi Fang n’s elders and Magus Priests, after which they passed the decision of starting a war against the Water Ape n.
The Water Ape n was also called the Blood-eyes Water Ape n. The Blood-eyes Water Ape was a powerful ancient creature that was born naturally with the power to control water, and lived at the bottom of the water. Their body was shaped simrly to apes, and their bones were as hard as iron. They also possessed iparable great strength. They were born with a pair of blood-red eyes, which had the magical power that was able to control others’ souls, added with their powerful bodies, the Blood-eyes Water Ape had be a very scary creature that was extremely hard to deal with.
Simr to the rtionship between the Bi Fang n and the Fire Crow n, the ck Water Serpent n was one of the dependent ns of the Water Ape n.
The Southern Wastnd was the native territory of the Zhu Rong family. The Blood-eyes Water Ape n’s territory was not exactly in the Southern Wastnd, instead, their territory was located at the northeast of the Southern Wastnd, on anothernd ten-thousand miles away from the Southern Wastndnd. The ck Water Serpent n was only ying the vanguard role for the Water Ape n’s to invade the Southern Wastnd.
The Bi Fang n had decided to start a great war against the Water Ape n. As one of the powerful dependent ns of the Bi Fang n, and a n that had to interdigitate territories with the ck Water Serpent n, and had been seeing the ck Water Serpent n as their archenemy for generations, the Fire Crow n had started the preparation right after they got the message from the Bi Fang n. With Ji Shu’s order, all of the Senior Magi, Junior Magi in and above the seventh-level, and half of the peak-level Novice Magi, from thousands of different scale Fire Crow branch ns, started gathering at the Gold ck Mountain.
The Southern Wastnd instantly became noisy. Birds, which were used for sending messages for the Bi Fang n, had been flying all around the jungle, delivering the irresistible orders to tens of different scale Bi Fang n’s dependent ns. The me Horse n and the Fiery Tiger n, which were also Bi Fang n’s dependent n, and were located nearest from the Fire Crow n, had already gathered all of the elite warriors of their ns, and were sendingrge amounts of warriors towards the Gold ck Mountain.
Even the Rosefinch n, which was as powerful as the Bi Fang n, and had a border in the Southern Wastnd, had responded to the Bi Fang n’s request by transferring a troop of elite warriors to reinforce the Bi Fang n’s army.
A few days after Ji Xia and Qing Fu hadpletely recovered from injuries, Ji Xia received an order from the Gold ck Mountain and had sent all of the gold and jade there was in storage, as well as all of the fire essence crystals, to the Gold ck Mountain.
ording to the news from Ji Zhuo, this wealth was traded forrge amounts of high-quality armours and weapons, and distributed to the Fire Crow n’s warriors.
Once the new weapons and armours had arrived at the Gold ck Mountain,rge groups of Fire Crow n’s warriors instantly headed to the ck Water Serpent n’s territory, andunched surprise attacks from every direction. In the first day after the war had started, the Fire Crow n had taken the advantage of surprise attacks, quickly eliminating over a hundred different scale branch ns of the ck Water Serpent n, and seized hundreds of rich hunting grounds and hundreds ofrge mines.
However, the ck Water Serpent n had been fighting against the Fire Crow n for centuries, this time, they reacted extremely fast, quickly gatheringrge amounts of warriors, and started fighting against the Fire Crow n with all of their powers; after this, the Fire Crow n’s injuries and death toll rate began rising rapidly, even tens of Senior Magi had fallen in the battle during the past couple of days.
“Idiots!” yelled Ji Zhuo in rage when he received thetest battlefield report, and couldn’t help but stamp his feet hard against the ground.
Ji Hao nodded his head and agreed. Starting a war against the ck Water Serpent n in the raining season, how stupid was this?!
The most powerful fighting force of the Fire Crow n were those gigantic Fire Crows; these Fire Crows flying speed would lower by half during the raining season, additionally, the down pouring rain wouldrgely weaken the Fire Crow n warrior’s fire-power rted special abilities. On the contrary, both the ck Water Serpent n’s warriors and their battle beasts all possessed water-rted power, fighting in the raining season was just like being a fish in the water to them, even their power improved by many times in this season.
In this situation, the Fire Crow n, which had taken the absolute advantage, soon fell into a difficult situation.
Although the me Horse n and the Fire Tiger n had been continuously sending elite warriors as reinforcement, facing those rivers in flood and mountain torrents that burst out from time to time, these three ns, who mainly possessed the fire-rted power, had been terribly defeated by the ck Water Serpent n.
Especially when those horned serpents of the ck Water Serpent nunched sneak attacks, Fire Crow n’s Senior Magi were lucky to have the Fire Crows to help, and could fly into the air and flee away within a few seconds. Compared to them, the Senior Magi from the me Horse n and the Fire Tiger n hadpletely no flight abilities, therefore, within the past seven to eight days, nearly a hundred Senior Magi from the me Horse n and the Fire Tiger n had been killed in the battle, while the Fire Crow n only lost a few Senior Magi.
Ten days after the war had started, in the morning, when Ji Hao just had woken up, a high-pitched rion sound came from outside of the Cold Stream Valley.
Three banners that had totems painted on them were fluttering outside of the valley, one horned serpent, one vicious water serpent and one armoured turtle. These three banners rose into the air from the jungle surrounding the Cold Stream Valley simultaneously.
The Cold Stream Valley had been encircled byrge groups of elite warriors, who hade from unknown paths.