Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 477 - 214: Approaching the Barbarian Tribe Holy City

Chapter 477: Chapter 214: Approaching the Barbarian Tribe Holy City

The wind ceased, the snow stopped, and the ice glacier’s cliff was bottomless.

"Swish swish....."

As a figure in a red robe plunged downward, several piles of snow on the edge of the cliff floated down into the darkness beneath the glacier.

Watching Li Qingyan’s figure disappear into the darkness, Xu Yuan’s eyes swirled with blood, and his gaze, slightly curious, followed her down to the bottom of the icy crevice.

According to what the Wrapped Chest Princess said, there seemed to be markings left by the Northern Border Army at the bottom of this gorge.

An eternal night and extreme cold climate had formed a thick layer of ice reaching thousands of feet deep in the Extreme Black Lands.

As a result, these hundred-foot-deep glacial gorges were actually not uncommon on the boundless ice field.

Some wild beasts hidden deep underground could turn over and break through the earth, creating many fissures on the glacier’s surface.

However, this particular fissure was clearly man-made.

Tens of feet wide, hundreds of feet deep, a long, straight crack with neat and smooth edges, as if... it had been cleaved by a hundred-meter Giant Sword.

Xu Yuan’s mortal transcended body and his newly acquired Spiritual Perception allowed him to observe many things that he couldn’t see as a Soul Condensation expert.

This crevice was heavily marked with Spellcraft, and there were still some remnants of Origin Qi fluctuations that had not yet dissipated.

Images of divine weapons, formed by condensed military formations, lingered in the air.

Thinking this, Xu Yuan’s gaze had already followed Li Qingyan’s figure to the bottom of the glacier’s crevice.

The moment he saw the scene at the bottom of the crevice, his brows involuntarily furrowed slightly.

Corpses.....

The bottom of this fissure was filled with corpses!

At the bottom of the glacial crevice lay countless bodies of the Barbarian Tribes, dismembered limbs piled upon each other, the blue ice eternally capturing the despair in the eyes of these barbarian women and children.

Carnage.....

Looking at the scene below, Xu Yuan subconsciously glanced around.

Beside the glacial crevice was a flat expanse of snow, with all traces of the previous battle covered up by snowfall, but Xu Yuan could still imagine what had happened here over a month ago.

Amidst the cries of countless barbarian women and children, the Northern Border Army, clad in White Armors, carried out a systematic slaughter at this place.

After the killing, they pushed tens of thousands of bodies down the crevice, tumbling them down.....

"Little ghost, is your Imperial dynasty at war with the Barbarian Tribes?"

Luo Xiran suddenly spoke, gazing indifferently at the corpses below, "And, it looks like the Barbarian Tribes are close to being wiped out."

Xu Yuan did not conceal anything, casually explaining:

"You’ve seen the conditions of the Extreme Black Lands. Living in such a godforsaken place, the Barbarian Tribes certainly want to move southward, but we of the Dayan definitely won’t let them, so war is inevitable."

"Inevitable?"

Luo Xiran glanced at Xu Yuan, already making a judgment about the overall situation in her heart, and said:

"In that case, the power struggles within your Dayan Dynasty must be quite severe?"

"If there were no internal struggles, the Barbarian King wouldn’t dare to wager all in such a way."

Xu Yuan knew that there was no use hiding anything from a smart person, and he chuckled lightly, "Unfortunately, the Barbarian King has lost this gamble."

As he spoke,

Xu Yuan’s expression was indifferent as he pointed down at the bottom of the crevice:

"And since he has lost, he must give up all the chips he placed on the table."

Luo Xiran looked silently at the sea of corpses below, her eyes suddenly becoming somewhat complex:

"So the chips are the extermination of his race....."

Seeing her expression, Xu Yuan looked intrigued and asked with a smile:

"Hey, Xiran, don’t tell me you’ve developed sympathy for these foreign women and children?"

"Pfft...sympathy?"

Luo Xiran laughed gracefully, turning back with a profound look in her eyes:

"Little ghost, I’ve seen more dead people than you’ve seen alive ones.

"I was just thinking, if our human race had lost the gamble ten thousand years ago, our fate would probably have been no different from that of the Barbarian Tribes."

As she spoke,

Luo Xiran exhaled a light breath and suddenly reminded him:

"There are nearly a hundred thousand corpses here, and you’re not dealing with them but instead concentrating them here—aren’t you afraid they’ll create a ghost fog? Yin Ghosts, in a way, are even more dangerous than foreign ghosts."

"This place is not within Dayan Territory."

Before Xu Yuan could answer, a voice came from below the crevice.

It was Li Qingyan.

Li Qingyan leaped back to the trio’s proximity and, looking towards Luo Xiran, calmly said,

"If the mass grave here truly starts to generate ghost mist, with the current national power of the Barbarian Tribes, it would be difficult for them to deal with it."

"Though the lower-level Yin Ghosts lack intelligence, they need to devour living beings. Just create several more ghost mists and let them fight over living space with the remnants of the Barbarian Tribes. If they struggle with each other, the Northern Frontier will be safe for a few hundred years."

Xu Yuan, too, smiled lightly as he chimed in,

"The Extreme Black Lands are the ancestral lands of the Barbarian Tribes. What we need to do is to break their racial backbone in a single strike and completely destroy their war potential."

"...."

Luo Xiran, appearing slightly surprised, glanced at the youngster and seemed not to have expected such words to come from him. However, her voice, as gentle as flowing water, soon carried a hint of caution,

"Your extermination plan sounds good, but it’s also easy to play with fire and get burned."

Li Qingyan’s phoenix eyes remained calm as she replied,

"We won’t trouble our elder to worry about this, our Dayan Empire has its own considerations."

If the Yin Ghosts truly replaced the Barbarian Tribes and flourished in the Extreme Black Lands, ultimately turning the entire region into an icy Ghost Domain, this threat would indeed be much greater than the Barbarian Tribes.

But there is a hierarchy to such matters; right now the Dayan Dynasty needs a Northern Frontier that can stabilize for a century.

The Emperor’s critical illness has exacerbated the internal conflicts within the Dayan Empire to a degree that cannot be shifted outward.

"Heh... I suppose I, this old relic, have overstepped," Luo Xiran said quite liberally, with a graceful smile, "Your Highness, the Princess, have you found anything on this trip? Judging by the timing of these corpses’ deaths, we should be catching up, right?"

"The encrypted message below has been there for a month, and its content is rather simple...."

As she spoke, Li Qingyan lifted her gaze towards the northwest direction, her voice turning ethereal,

"Seven hundred li from here lies the Barbarian Tribe Holy City. This message is for the various tribes to uproot their camps and gather."

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The eternal night that never changes shrouded the glacier above.

Less than a day after the four traveled through space, a tall figure abruptly appeared on the ice-encased ravine above.

The figure, tall and burly, with eyes emitting a cold, bluish glow, quietly stared at the bodies of his kinsmen below.

In the days since escaping the Underground Palace, Chi Su had already visited several large tribal encampments of the Holy Race.

But without exception,

they had all vanished.

The women and children who had been bustling about to see them off when his tribe moved south had all vanished along with the tribal encampments.

Their bones had either been cruelly piled up into mounds, carelessly thrown into pits, or dismembered to decorate the capital....

Just like the mass grave before him.

As Chi Su looked down at the eternal despair frozen in the eyes of his clansmen in the ravine, his expression remained calm, desolate as far as the eye could see.

Because here, it was very close to the Holy City.

So close that he could arrive within half a day.

In other words,

the great general of the Dayan military had already discovered the Holy City.

In other words,

the Holy City had already fallen.

In other words,

the hundreds of thousands of tribespeople who had just left the bitter cold and entered the Holy City had already been slaughtered by those humans.

The snow fluttered down, and the ice was desolately silent.

Looking towards the direction of the Holy City, Chi Su stood quietly, like a statue that had died.

Suddenly,

without any words,

the tall figure vanished from beside the ravine as abruptly as he had appeared.

Right after his figure disappeared, the glacial ice shattered as if struck by a formidable force of nature. The ancient, thick ice broke apart in an instant like tofu crust, completely burying the remains of the Barbarian Tribes below.

At the same time,

in the sky veiled by darkness, a quiet, bluish streak shot towards the northwest like a meteor.....