Swordsman the Wanderer
Ch 266's. Huo Wing's
Zhang En and the beastmen group had traveled for half an hour and entered into the forest atmosphere that looked unnatural.
As they reached the inner side of the Soul Forest, the air around them grew colder, with faint echoes of the surging shrill sounds of unidentified creatures possessing their sense of hearing.
Although Huo Wing and the large group of beastmen remained close to Zhang En, the terrifying spirit cries gave them goosebumps.
"The evil spirit..!"
"That is the evil spirits of the Soul Forest..!"
Suddenly, one of the beastmen shouted in fear.
Everyone quickly looked around and saw some strange creatures whose body parts looked transparent and opaque like human souls with red eyes pouncing on the group from them with their mouths and fangs open.
Just when Tng Li and the other beastmen were about to attack in panic, Zhang En was one step ahead of them. With a simple movement using his hand, a bright flame appeared in the air and in an instant, those monstrous spirits were burnt into a wisp of mist.
The beastmen were stunned to witness this scene.
Those evil spirits were all this time very difficult to kill, they did not have real bodies made of flesh and blood, nor were they afraid of swords or knives. The patriarch of their tribe was once besieged by the two evil spirits and a few hours after doing battle, before their Patriarch was able to kill those evil spirits, he immediately fled and left the forest.
“Let's resume our journey.” Zhang En said and continued moving in front.
Huo Wing and the others also rushed after Zhang En.
Moments later, they encountered another group of evil spirits, and this time Zhang En's actions didn't even do anything excessive. He did not even raise his hand, with just a single glance, those evil spirits that charged towards them were burning in the air, and only left a smog.
Half a day later, when they made it out of the Soul Forest, all of the beastmen looked at Zhang En like someone who could destroy the earth. If they had previously started to feel admiration, now they showed high respect towards Zhang En.
An hour later, the group arrived at the Hundred Tigers City.
The Hundred Tigers City was extremely large, even rivaling some of the imperial cities of the Continent on the Star Cloud continent as well as the Snow Wind Continent.
The people of the city or rather the beastmen, were seen coming and going in and out of the City and coming from all directions.
But some of the beastmen who saw their race group with Zhang En seemed to have strange gazes looking at their existence, it was not every day that these beastmen saw humans walking in front of a group of several hundred beastmen that seemed to show their respect. The surrounding beastmen were unable to take their eyes off this strange sight.
“Hehe, aren't you Hou Wing?” At that moment, a group of beastmen consisting of several beastmen walked towards Huo Wing's group from the front. The one who spoke was a cat-like young beastman who reached two and a half meters in height.
“Huo Wing, I see your life has really turned out to be like a*jing!” The young beastman sneered, "As a powerful beastmen race, how can you follow and walk behind the weak human race, not to mention the disgusting licking expression on your face, worse than a disgusting slave..!"
The few beastmen behind the young cat beastman laughed out loud.
"Bad!" Huo Wing stepped out of line in anger, then punched the young beastman, "Xie Guang, how dare you disrespect Young Master..!"
Xie Guang did not expect Huo Wing to attack him all of a sudden. Despite his surprise, he still managed to raise his arm to defend, but he failed to gather enough strength to block the attack. His body staggered backwards, Xie Guang felt a throbbing pain in his arm.
"How dare you attack me..!" Xie Guang shouted, "Huo Wing, you've gone mad!"
Today, in order to defend the weak human before him, Huo Wing had actually attacked him.
Huo Wing glared at him with a cold gaze, "Xie Guang, get on your knees now and beg your forgiveness to Young Master!"
Xie Guang was stunned as he looked at Huo Wing in disbelief.
"You're crazy!" Xie Guang shouted with all his might. He waved his hand at the beastmen who came with him, "Let's get out of here!" Huo Wing's crazy appearance frightened Xie Guang and he didn't want to stay there any longer.
Seeing that Xie Guang wanted to leave as if nothing had happened, Huo Wing moved forward, wanting to block Xie Guang's path but Zhang En's voice sounded in his ears.
"That's it.. Not responded to."
It was then that Huo Wing had just relented, bowing respectfully to Zhang En, "Well, Young Master ...!"
As the surrounding atmosphere seemed calm, a beastman ran through the crowd right towards Huo Wing, "Brother Huo, this is no good, Miss Shi Mei was taken away by the people from the Tiger Tribe!"
Huo Wing's face turned pale hearing that.
Shi Mei was his fiancee, they were both childhood lovers. While losing the family at an early age, Huo Wing and Shi Mei had relied on each other ever since.
Even Tong Li and the others also turned pale hearing about it.
"Dai Yao, explain what really happened!" Huo Wing urged with a tone of despair in his voice.
Dai Yao replied, "Just now, Ping An from the Tiger Tribe came over and said that Shi Mei had been chosen for this year's Beast God Sacrifice Ritual, after all, that's why he took a group of people and took them away!"
“The Sacrifice of the Beast God!” Huo Wing is currently really furious: “It is not our Hundred Tigers City's turn to sacrifice this year for the Beast God Ritual. Ping An is like seizing a helpless woman from the streets in broad daylight."
"The Beast God Sacrifice Ritual?" Zhang En's interest was triggered and asked, "Explain to me, what happened?"
Hearing Zhang En's question, Huo Wing briefly explained the situation to Zhang En respectfully despite the anxiety in his heart.
Since thousands of years ago, the Beast God tribe would perform the Beast God Sacrifice Ritual every year, and the victim was a young virgin from those tribes.
The Lion Tribe, Tiger Tribe, Wolf Tribe, and the other top ten tribes would choose a young virgin from the cities under their rule. The young girls were sent to the Beast God Temple to be offered as sacrifices during the ceremony.
And the sacrifice of the young virgin for this year had been decided half a month ago, Shi Mei's name was not on the list.
Moreover, this year was not the turn of the Hundred Tiger City to offer sacrifices.
This Ping An of the Tiger Tribe took Shi Mei obviously because she coveted Shi Mei for her beauty, the matter of being a sacrifice was none other than for a reason. Ping An had often done this kind of despicable act, many good young women had been desecrated by Ping An every year.
The thing was, this Ping An was a pure descendant of the Tiger Tribe, his father was the captain of the head of the Hundred Tiger City Guards. Ordinary people who were helpless like them could only endure.
"Young Master, please save Shi Mei!" Suddenly, Huo Wing turned his head towards Zhang En, kneeling down as he pleaded, “As long as Master can save Shi Mei, I am willing to do whatever Master tells me to! Young Master, please, please save Shi Mei!”