827: Chapter 183: The Post-horse Hurries on Amidst Fiery Urgency_3 827: Chapter 183: The Post-horse Hurries on Amidst Fiery Urgency_3 Of course, there was another primary reason: humans were not to be underestimated.
Wherever they went, humans’ understanding and learning abilities were the best.
The weapons of this era had also beco more sophisticated than those of earlier years.
High-ranking warriors and mages among humans being more powerful than Divine Beasts was no longer a rarity—a feat that, in earlier years, only scholarly warriors had achieved.
These human heroes had also established various guilds and sects, more nurous and larger in scope than those of the Divine Beasts, with broader mbership and greater influence.
What amazed Aegean was that Bai Suqing had told him that many humanoid Divine Beasts had joined human sects, which Aegean found utterly perplexing.
Although Aegean had long known that in their history, so ancestors had beco noble human warriors’ mounts, which was rare but understandable, the idea of readily serving so diocre people was absolutely unacceptable to him.
Bai Suqing felt the sa way; their ideas often coincided without prior consultation.
“Lishan Gate” was also considered a major sect.
Its leader, Old Mother Li Shan, was a five-thousand-year-old transcendent Divine Beast, a “Mo Jade Gold Thread Snake.” The tis had changed; when Aegean road the human world in the past, leaders of the Divine Beast sects were mostly just high-level Divine Beasts, but now they were almost all transcendent or near-transcendent; the whole of “Lishan Gate” was nearly made up of snake-type Divine Beasts, with almost five hundred mbers.
A four-thousand-year-old near-transcendent Divine Beast, “Red Fire Poisonous Turtle,” held the second-highest rank in the sect.
The arrival of Bolang Sha Fire Crane, a bane to all poisons, stirred murderous intents among all mbers of “Lishan Gate” upper and lower ranks.
When Bai Suqing and Aegean stood closely together, all the snake-type Divine Beasts of “Lishan Gate” almost bled internally from sheer anger.
Bai Suqing, young and beautiful, was the crush of many young people, especially Vice Leader Red Fire Poisonous Turtle, Fah Jiang, who was the most infatuated with Bai Suqing.
Now, with his love snatched away right before his eyes, it was natural that he was the most enraged.
Humanoid Divine Beasts could be ugly or handso, and from an aesthetic standpoint, all races were the sa; no one would find a girl with chickpox scars and buck teeth beautiful.
A beauty like Bai Suqing was extrely rare and exquisite, fitting the description of “enter with a white knife and leave with a bloody one.”
Additionally, there was another main reason: snakes and cranes were mortal neses, sworn enemies!
Between natural enemies, there wasn’t so much deep-seated hatred to uncover.
Could you ask a cat why it hated a completely unknown mouse so intensely?
A small mouse, upon encountering a cat, could only run or wait to die.
However, if a mouse grew to the size of a rhinoceros, even a leoparding cat could swallow it.
The snake-type Divine Beasts of “Lishan Gate” gathered together; although they were not as big as rhinoceros mice, they were at least as big as tigers.
Compared to them, Bolang Sha Fire Crane was at most the size of a leopard or a wildcat.
Although they harbored murderous intentions, these snake-type Divine Beasts, who had mingled in the human world for a long ti, masked their intentions very well and instead appeared extrely enthusiastic.
They weren’t foolish; after all, Bolang Sha Fire Crane was still Bolang Sha Fire Crane, and Aegean was still a humanoid fire crane.
The warm hospitality moved both Bai Suqing and Aegean, who had initially been troubled by their identity differences.
Happiness ca too quickly, making Aegean feel that those detestable snake-type Divine Beasts suddenly didn’t seem so repulsive anymore.
The ambush began with a smile.
Divine Beast sects were quite wealthy.
For humanoid Divine Beasts, making money was not difficult—looting a few ancient tombs or mining so ore veins was enough for them to live a carefree life in the human world.
Unlike the Magical Beasts of the Aegean Continent, these wealthy Eastern Divine Beasts had also begun to learn from humans and use equipnt.
Money was a wonderful thing; with it, one could buy loyalty anywhere in the world.
From a military perspective, “Lishan Gate’s” ambush on Aegean was very successful but also very unsuccessful.
Their success was due to the fact that these snake-type Divine Beasts of “Lishan Gate” used an incredibly expensive secret human palace dicine, “Return and Departure Dew,” mixed into the wine and tricked Aegean into drinking it, effectively destroying Aegean’s “nding Dew Technique” in one fell swoop.
“Return and Departure Dew” was a ferocious drug secretly crafted by the human palace to counter highly skilled individuals or Divine Beasts.
Colorless and tasteless, it could silently dissipate the target’s elental mana.
The powerless Pri Minister of the Tang Zang Empire, using this secret drug, had once slain a transcendent Divine Beast, “Jing River Flood Dragon King,” making a na for itself throughout the Divine Beast realm.
At the sa ti, snake-type Divine Beasts of “Lishan Gate” also manage to restrain Bai Suqing.
After just a few days together, they clearly recognized Bai Suqing’s deep feelings for Aegean, realizing she would not side with them.
Given that this girl was also one of the few young experts in the sect, they saw no better ti to strike first.
Even though their poison resistance was extrely high, the potency of “Return and Departure Dew” was too overwhelming.
If Aegean’s cultivation wasn’t high enough, he would have been completely deprived of his mana, not just a decrease in his cultivation level.
When he lost his “nding Dew Technique,” the massive body of the fire crane soon appeared over the city, quickly attracting countless human armies.
The military crossbows used by these soldiers of the Tang Zang Empire, even a transcendent Divine Beast would be fearful.
Overall, “Lishan Gate” planned ticulously and acted decisively, utilizing all available forces in a truly experienced manner that showed their habitual engagent in such activities.
They failed because even though they rallied such an imnse convergence of advantageous forces—five hundred mbers from their sect, two major leaders, several hired human mages, coupled with the city defense forces—they still let Aegean sweep through their ranks, killing or injuring nearly a hundred mbers of “Lishan Gate” ……………………
—Bolang Sha Fire Crane reverted to its original form but remained a transcendent Divine Beast that looked down upon the Silk Continent!
Although both sect leaders were transcendent or near-transcendent Divine Beasts, the involvent of the city defense forces made them wary of transforming into their physically powerful original forms, effectively binding their own hands and feet.
They had underestimated how prickly this fire crane was.
With varying levels among transcendent Divine Beasts, rely comparing themselves as benchmarks couldn’t accurately asure the strength of the “Eternal Night’s Northern Lights.”
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