Everyone who heard the shouting looked at the approaching Yan Mo.
Yan Mo was surprised by the shout, but when he noticed that it was Huhu yelling, he decided that he could start to fret after he had asked what exactly had happened. Because this guy’s pet phrase was “terrible”. The guy heard him use this word this one time, and probably thought it sounded funny, since after that basically all of his sentence would have the word “terrible” and “terribly”.
Huhu slid over in no time using sticks and the wooden board on his feet, reaching the front gate of the wall in no time. Some of These A’wu warriors have unlocked the skill to ski on the snow using the wooden board without teacher. They’re not that skilled because of the lack of techniques and tool limitations, but they don’t have problems when sliding on flat ground.
“Lord Priest! Call Lord Priest, quick!” Huhu didn’t come inside, he shouted at the gate front. The residence didn’t have piles of snow, he’d hav to remove his equipments if he wants to go in. In his hurry, he didn’t notice Yan Mo who was blocked from view behind the two warriors.
“I’m over here.” Yan Mo walked up to Huhu, “What happened?”
He no longer needed to put his hand on someone’s forehead in order to make them understand him. And since the other party will hear him speaking in Jiuyuan, they can instantly get what he wants ti say, after hearing him say it a few more times, to his surprise he sped up the language learning process for them. This was particularly obvious in the kids he taught himself.
After Yan Mo found out it was helping them learn the language, he would use his ability intentionally or unintentionally when talking, hoping that the A’wu people could master the tribe’s language as soon as possible.
Seems like Huhu didn’t use the wrong words this time around, his expression was really anxious. “Lord! Quick! Follow me! The chief is fighting with the merpeople! Real fight! There’s really tall water!”
How can that be? He knew that Yuan Zhan often went to fight with merpeople, but their fight was more like exchanging knowledge. He had gone with Yuan Zhan and watched them fight. Those merpeople had nothing to do and was too idle, even if Yuan Zhan didn’t come looking for them, they’d come over themselves to pester Yuan Zhan. They had also started gambling on the fights, using food to bet with each other.
But no matter who was looking for who to fight, it had been friendly matches, friendly first and match second. Were they finally getting provoked with the fighting now?
“Tell me what happened from top to bottom first. Speak slowly.”
Huhu didn’t speak slowly, but the meaning still got through. “Lord Chief was digging the hole, we were making bricks. We were very far from the lake, but suddenly the water moved over and buried everything, chief was in the hole, he almost drowned.”
“Why did the merpeople suddenly submerge you in water?”
Huhu’s eyes darted away.
“Huhu!”
Huhu stiffly smiled and finally spoke the truth: “Sometimes the merpeople will come looking for Lord Chief or look at us making the bricks. Before only the men would come, but today, several woman Mer came. They’re… so beautiful, like flowers, so terribly beautiful!
Huhu even made a perverted gesture of something bulging on his chest. “So white, snowy white, round and puffy.”
Hearing Huhu repeating such words to describe the mermaids’ appearance, to the point that he still showed admiring gaze even after seeing the merpeople almost drowning their Lord Chief, Yan Mo could almost picture how beautiful the mermaids were.
“What did you do to other people’s girls?”
Huhu lowered his head, “No-nothing, just surrounded and watched them. then one of the mermaids yelled, saying someone touched her tail, the merpeople got mad.”
“What else?” Yan Mo crossed his arms in front of his chest. These lecherous barbarians! What’s the difference between touching other tribe’s mermaid’s tail and touching other family’s girl’s thigh? This was because they’re dealing with the physically strong merpeople, too. Otherwise, Yan Mo thought, I don’t think it’d stop at just touching her tail, would it?
“One of the merman was talking with Lord Chief, but they suddenly quarrelled, and then… they started fighting, everyone ran up to catch the merpeople, and it gets bigger and rougher as it went on, and then…”
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“They were still fighting when you ran back?”
“Yes.” Huhu’s voice became very small.
“Any of the people or merpeople got hurt?”
“There are.” Huhu’s voice became even smaller. “Lord Chief even caught one of the mermaids, he said he will roast and eat her.”
“…” Yan Mo who’s at a lost for words turned to instruct one of the warriors, “Wu Qiang, go get that woman with healing ability.”
“Yes.”
When Dofie heard that Lord Priest was looking for her, she felt a little excited.
Finally! It had been almost half a month since she came here, but the teen priest didn’t look for her even once.
These A’wu people are weird too. The injured and sick people would rather go to that priest for ointment and medicine and heal slowly than come to her who can heal them much quicker. Only people who have actual missing body parts would look for her.
“Hurry up!” Wu Qiang urged the woman who was in a daze.
Dofie immediately threw away the pelt she was tanning and walked over to the warrior. She had had enough of living like a slave! She would’ve been too hideous to look at by now, if not because of her ability that allows her to take other creature’s life’s force.
Yan Mo didn’t say anything when he saw Dofie, just had her follow him.
When Yan Mo and his group of people finally reached the scene of the incident, two hours had nearly passed from the time Huhu found him. If you add the time Huhu took to run back, then almost four hours had been spent on the trip back and forth. If this was actually urgent, they might have to wait until their hairs start shedding.
Have to come up with a faster way to travel, otherwise they won’t be able to finish much work with most of the time spent walking around.
Yan Mo put this idea aside for the time being and looked at the scene of the incident.
At present, the two sides seem to be in a state of temporary truce, but clearly divided into two opposing factions. One side in the water, one side on the shore, both had their eyes locked on the other party, obviously pissed.
In the water? Yan Mo thought that something felt off.
When Yan Mo got there, A’wu people were the first to shout, “Lord Priest is here!” The shouts quickly spread, they sounded happy that the priest was finally here.
Yuan Zhan’s head turned, he walked over to Yan Mo, his tall burly build was covered with mud and his face was more malevolent than usual. “Why did you come?” Then glared at Huhu behind Yan Mo.
Huhu’s head shrank back. You guys fought to this point, can I not fetch Lord Priest?
Dofie’s eyes widened when she saw the merpeople. She had heard of the merpeople tribe, but this was the first time she had seen them with her own eyes!
The merpeople were extraordinary beauties, just like in the legends, the men have powerful bodies, while the women have enticing curves.
Yan Mo found the mermaid who was trapped with the mud mixture.
The soil that had been mixed with the mud was as hard as granite. That poor mermaid, she can’t move with the mixed soil trapping her entire body. The only thing free was her long tail that keeps flapping on the ground.
Yan Mo paid close attention to the mermaid’s eyes, but while she cried, her tears didn’t become pearls, when he saw it he couldn’t help feeling a bit let down.
Then he checked the status of everyone’s Injury with his eyes. Many of them were wounded, but none of them lost an arm or a leg. Did the merpeople held back?
When he checked the merpeople in the water, he saw that they were also injured, but the wounds were not too serious, at least no one died in the Mer clan.
Seeing all this, Yan Mo secretly let out a sigh. That’s good. Even when fighting, they didn’t lose all reason. There’s still a lot of leeway to turn this around.
Yan Mo faced the approaching Yuan Zhan and pointed at the mermaid in captivity, “Why are you bullying other people’s girl? Still not letting go?”
“Can’t let her go. They have to take out the water they poured in the hole first! You told me that both sides and the bottom have to be strengthened before water can be poured in. They haven’t got strengthened.” Yuan Zhan ground his teeth together. There goes all those days of hard digging!
Yan Mo examined the hole, then his eyebrows raised with surprise, “You’ve already got to the big lake?”
“Haven’t. I was going to dig that part last. But those big ass fish just had to mess it up!” Yuan Zhan scornfully sneered. “I was doing fucking okay digging on my own, but they just had to add trouble here.”
“Nonsense! We were helping out!” Lamen who was originally in the water slid up the shore.
When Yan Mo saw Lamen, he smiled and asked, “Weren’t we going to meet at the old place at noon today? Why did you run all the way over here? Fortunately I didn’t go, or I would’ve gone to the lake for nothing.”
Lamen was a little embarrassed. “Isn’t it because we started fighting here… So I couldn’t make it to the lake in time.”
“Old place? The lake?” Yuan Zhan’s face look even worse now, he stared at Yan Mo and Lamen back and forth with questioning eyes.
Yan Mo ignored him. “Lamen, can you tell me what happened here? I think there might be some misunderstanding here.” He said while poking Yuan Zhan. Let her go, now!
Yuan Zhan coldly humphed, Yan Mo didn’t see him make any special movement, but the mixed mud on the mermaid on the ground broke apart all of a sudden.
The mermaid flipped over to the deep pool that was a deep pit before the moment that she felt the thing restraining her disappear. She quickly swam to her companions while sobbing, her companions also swam over to meet her in the middle and comforted her.
Yan Mo gave Yuan Zhan an approving look.
Jiuyuan is not trying to make an enemy out of the merpeople with this fight, so it’s way better to release her now than releasing her only after the ins and out had been discussed.
This way Yuan Zhan would have proven that he’s capable of dealing with the merpeople, and could even kill them, but also shown that he can be magnanimous and let things go. Now if Yan Mo can just say the right things, he might be able to turn this fight into a minor scuffle.
As expected, the merpeople’s expression looked better Now that their clan member had safely returned to their side.
While Yuan Zhan found Yan Mo looking at him with a very warm(?) and approving gaze, his face slowly turned from cloudy to sunny.
By now, Lamen had found out that the teen was the priest of the tribe that had just appeared here. They normally stay clear from priests of other tribes for fear of what they could do. At the same time, they felt some reverence to them, not to mention Lamen had always had a good impression of Yan Mo.
For Lamen and the other merpeople, Yan Mo, a teen priest they have frequent contacts with, was clearly different from the Mer clan shaman. He’s not very sombre, he had a very innocent face, seemed like a very kind person, and he was easy to talk to.
So it was only after seeing Yan Mo appear that Lamen moved ashore, he had to tell him exactly what happened here.
“We didn’t make trouble,” Lamen first clarified.
Yuan Zhan rolled his eyes. The mud on his body shook and fell down from his body until nothing was left. He extended his left hand and brought it down to Yan Mo’s shoulder.
Yan Mo gave him a glance. “I’ll listen to his side first, then listen to your side.” The other side is their guest, hosts naturally have to give way to their guests.
Yuan Zhan didn’t make a peep. He’s just using his actions to tell this merman that looked better than him that Yan Mo is his priest.
What damn good looks do men need, men should be good at fighting!
On the other side, Lamen also felt that Yuan Zhan’s hand on Yan Mo’s shoulder looked unpleasant to the eye, but he didn’t think deeper about why. He felt like Yuan Zhan is a bit too much. Yan Mo had smaller build compared to him, but this big guy just had to put down his heavy hand on the little priest.
But he can do this because Jiuyuan’s little priest had a good temper. If their chief dare do the same like Yuan Zhan and put his hand on their clan shaman, shaman would definitely fling him off to the lake abyss with his tail.
“So what happened was…”
According to Lamen’s story, they didn’t know why Yuan Zhan was digging a pit on the lands. Yuan Zhan Then told them he wanted to make a big river around the tribe’s territory. It’s even better if it can be connected to the big lake.
~ read first at Chrysanthemum Garden ~
In the beginning, Lamen and the others felt worried, they felt like that this river could bring threat to their territory. But when they went back and report it to the Clan Head, he didn’t think like they did, he smiled and said that everything had its advantages and disadvantages. This newly made river can allow them to reach lands farther away from them.
The head agreed to Yuan Zhan’s request to connect the moat with Qingyuan lake. Qingyuan lake is the name of the huge lake they live in.
Due to that, they’d often come over to look at Yuan Zhan at work. Then, they found out the entire moat could only be dug out by Yuan Zhan, and wanted to help out. Yuan Zhan would be digging his pit from one end, and they’ll hit the soil with water on the other end. All that brings them to today. On the surface, the Qingyuan lake might seem like it’s still clearly separated from Yuan Zhan’s pit, there’s actually a hole under the ground, only separated from his pit with a thin layer of earth.
Today they came over to tell Yuan Zhan this good news, and had even brought more of their companions, wanting to ride on the wind of this good news to go out and get a look at the lands they had never seen before.
What they got was instead was A’wu clan insulting their own clan member. Lamen proudly told Yuan Zhan his contribution to the work, only to get Yuan Zhan’s ire. He scolded that he was meddlesome, that Lamen was messing things up.
Two sides started shouting, racing to get more words in. No polite or kind words were thrown out in that flurry. to add to that, both the merpeople and Yuan Zhan was more in favour of talking with their fists than their mouths, when they can’t get their ideas across, naturally fists started flying.
Lamen felt that his clan’s good intention turned to bubbles and popped into the air, in a fit of pique, him and several other merpeople used their abilities break through the last layer of earth and even deliberately added to the force of water to hit Yuan Zhan who was in the pit.
When the A’wu warriors saw them drown their chieftain, they raised their weapons and attacked the merpeople.
Yuan Zhan was buried in the water for just a moment before he shot himself out of the water by making an earth pillar under him. In one action, he also grabbed the mermaid nearest to him. That was how the matter exploded and became tense like this.
Padam: I noticed later that 2km² is not 2 km x 2 km ahhh
Anyway it’s almost as big as Melbourne CBD.
Thank you for the chapter!
“There are.” Huhu’s voice became even smaller. “Lord Chief even caught one of the mermaids, he said he will roast and eat her .”
Istg I laugh so hard.. The note was so funny
The picture 💀
I’ve always thought of Yuan Zhan as basically an earthbender so the sample image is so accurate. 👌😂