Chapter 1806 - 24.67 Sixth Violet Star - Mu Patriarch’s Decision
Chapter 1806: 24.67 Sixth Violet Star - Mu Patriarch’s Decision
After the whole three hours, the Mu Patriarch, Mu Yao, decided to meet the current marshal, Long Tian and told him about his decision. They once again met at the hall. This time most of the things in that hall were now all cleared up. A maid served some drinks for the guests and the marshal.
The Mu Patriarch, Mu Yao had spoken, "I will agree to any of your requests. This is something that I owe to your family. I will do it. But if it is something that will put my family in danger, I shall do it alone. Even if I use to put all of my remaining lifespan in line I will do so as per you requested."
Mu Liao and Long Tian didn’t expect that such a crippled person would possess such dignity and determination. Mu Liao might have expected his father to agree to the desires of the Long Jia as they are his greatest and only regret in life.
It can be said that him being crippled was the only reason that held him back. It may also be one of the reasons why he had betrayed the old marshal at that time. Mu Yao isn’t as determined as the old marshal. To work for those people who blame them for coming back alive instead of caring for their injuries, Mu Yao had no heart for that.
That’s why at that time when he was feeling the lowest in his life, he had made a decision he is now regretting with all his heart. But the old marshal is different from him, from them. Despite losing his two legs all he had in his head was how to restore everything, especially the relationship with the beastmen race.
At that time, Long Huang already foresaw the shortage of beast eggs once the relationship with the beastmen had gone wrong. He did everything to plan how to communicate and apologize to the Beastmen but the people who had lost their families in that massacre were all against him. It can be said that the old marshal didn’t have someone on his side. Even him, believes that they shouldn’t be thinking of restoring the relationship with the beastmen and instead think of a way to fight against them.
The enemies took this chance to kick down the old marshal and those who got affected by the other people’s words had chosen the ending where they had betrayed the old marshal. At that time, he also felt that he had made the right decision. Only as more time passed after the old marshal had abdicated that things were worse than Long Huang had predicted.
They had completely lost their source of beast eggs from their nearest source, the ancient forest. Not only were they forbidden to enter the land, the humans were also killed upon entering the ancient forest. In short, the ancient forest had become a danger zone for humans to enter. No humans who had entered this ancient forest had come out alive and humans lost their source of the beast egg leading to a huge deficit for it.
This is something the old marshal had foresaw but no one believes him. Moreover, since he had already abdicated, the problem cannot be blamed on him. But to those fools who had voted for him to do so. Thus, to move the hate from the other noble families they placed the old Marshal’s son to that seat in which they greatly regretted after doing so.
This was sometimes what Long Jia had planned. That’s why the moment Long Tian sat in the position of a marshal. In the end, Long Tian’s people had pushed out every spy the noble clans had left in the position under him making it hard for people of their noble family to control him.
Because of the actions taken by Long Tian, being ruthless to his enemies regardless of their standing and welcoming even to those with ordinary origins as long as they have talents, one can hardly move as he has the common people’s backing.
Long Tian asked the Mu patriarch seriously, "Are you sure of your decision?"
"I am sure," Mu Yao responded.
The two men stare at each other’s eyes trying to find weakness and reason from the other’s eyes. However, they seemed to get what they wanted to see and Long Tian who had a serious face finally smiled.
Long Tian said, "Thank god that I didn’t see my uncle wrongly. Though I understand your choice, my father’s feelings were at risk. Please forgive me for my rudeness, Uncle Mu."
Mu Yao and Mu Liao didn’t expect this reaction from the current marshal. They already expected to be treated coldly due to their past relationships.
"Don’t lower your head. The fault is also from our side. What is your plan?" The Mu Patriarch, Mu Yao asked.
The current Marshal told Mu Jia about the plan of the old marshal in going to the barren land with the younglings of the Long Clan. They were surprised that the plan involved both the Long Clan and Killer Pavilion going together as a group to gather as many beast eggs in the barren land.
This is a journey with unknown dangers. However, as long as they are successful in this mission they would be able to provide enough beast eggs to the people under their command.
Mu Yao immediately understood the plan the Long Jia had in mind. Except for the Mu Jia who knew about the current state of the old marshal due to Mu Liao sending Long Juedi and Long Teng back home that day, the people outside only know that the old marshal is a crippled old man. A Gold grade beastmaster who could no longer fight in the frontlines after losing both his legs in the massacre that day in the ancient forest.
He asked, "You want to pretend that the old marshal was sick so he doesn’t have to show himself to anyone who wishes to visit them and at the same time fish for some traitor on your side?"
"Yes. Even though I have purged the people under me once, it won’t be a surprise that there are still some spies that sneak in using ordinary people’s identities. There are still people from the noble family who feared my father’s return," said Long Tian.
Mu Yao and Mu Liao agreed to these words. What those nobles’ fear is that the old marshal would once again gather his connection broken or not if they still fear him. After all, the old marshal had helped a lot of people and most of these people owe him his life like Mu Yao. If they ever gather against it won’t be surprising that the Long Clan will be able to suppress their authority and just become a yes man to the old marshal like before he abdicated.
What they didn’t know was that the old marshal was too hurt by what happened before and he himself no longer contacted any of those connections and chose to be a bystander watching how the power in the human race rose and fell. He left everything to his son, Long Tian.
Mu Liao said, "However, if we fake the situation of the old marshal there should be some who would be desperate to see it for themselves. Have you prepared a substitute?"
"We did. There should be no problem. It is just that it is unknown what those people would do if they learned about this joint mission of Long Jia and the Killer Pavilion," said Long Tian.
Mu Liao said, "The joint mission is not known. However, the fact that the Killer Pavilion wants to head to the Barren Land has already spread in the city. The one who spread it was the Pei Clan."
"It’s the Pei Clan making a move again. This time their target is most likely the Killer Pavilion. The journey you plan to do so will be extremely dangerous," said Mu Yao.
Mu Liao said, "I can send some people to intercept the Pei Clan. However, I doubt I can block them all."
"You handle the Pei Clan, I will handle the rest of the Noble clans," The Mu Patriarch said. "But there is something wrong going on with the Pei Clan, A’Liao should investigate them carefully."
"I will father," Mu Liao said.
Long Tian said, "I will help you with the Pei Clan. I am afraid that the Patriarch of Pei has already been replaced."
"What do you mean?" The Mu father and son asked.
Long Tian said, "There is something weird about the youngest of Pei. The Senior said that his soul might be reborn and the soul in his young body is already one that is at most an adult. However, this is an unsure information."
"Though the Killer Pavilion’s Master said to me something about that young Pei. He said that... Pei Jin is a young devil."
"Reborn individual. Is that crazy thing possible?" Mu Liao questioned.
Long Tian said, "The Seniors are capable of curing my father’s legs which every doctor in this world said to be beyond treatment. Also is regeneration of limbs something that restores one’s missing limb completely something to be normal?"
"So I guess being reborn is not impossible. The fact that a Beast God even appeared in the human city without killing anyone is unbelievable enough."
Thinking about the news about the beast god and two young beast kings appearing in their city scared the hell out of those nobles. However, without anyone’s death this news was immediately forgotten after a few days.
But the fact that Beast Gods and Beast King can pretend to be human in form was a great discovery. Thought in fact left some chaos in the hearts of the humans, whether the humans besides them are real humans or beast god and beast king pretending to be one.