Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Divine Challenge
Several fast horses galloped towards a halt in front of the Black Armor barracks. The Xianbei knight on the horse jumped down, saluted Kou Xian, who was on duty in the camp, and then said, "Please pass through the commander of the thousand people, and the leader asks him to convene an emergency military meeting." ”
Kou Xian nodded and said to the visitor: "Okay, I know, I will inform the general!" ”
The Xianbei knights nodded, stepped on their horses and galloped away.
Kou Xian explained a few words to the soldiers behind him, turned around and walked to the big tent of Shangji, intending to report to Shangji.
"My lord, just now Nadolland's guards came to report that Nadoland has urgent military affairs to discuss with you, please come over." Kou Xian first saluted Shang Ji, and then reported.
"But what is it?" Shang Ji didn't open his eyes, and continued to cultivate the dragon and tiger roaring over and over again, and asked again. As Shang Ji's cultivation became more and more sophisticated, ordinary cultivation could even be simple and dual-purpose, and it was not a problem to have some simple conversations while cultivating.
"They didn't say it, they just said it was urgent military affairs, and it looked like they were really in a hurry." Kou Xian replied truthfully.
Shang Ji stopped moving, continued to cultivate, and after a while, opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and slowly finished his work.
"Okay, I know, you can step back first!"
"The last will retire!" Kou saluted, then bent down.
As time passed, it became the norm for Shang Ji to go to the Nado clan or Nadoland to go to the Black Armor Army station, and there was no more initial nervousness and uneasiness, not to mention trust, but after getting to know each other, they knew that the other party would not inexplicably assassinate themselves.
Shang Ji cleaned up, rode on the Lilong BMW, and took a few guards to the Nado clan and fell.
The road was unimpeded, and everyone in the Nado clan had long known this powerful and outstanding Han man, and no one came out to interrogate and intercept him.
Several guards waited outside, and Shang Ji entered the Nado tent alone.
As soon as I entered the big tent, I found that there were many people in the tent, including the core personnel of Nadoland, Boko Litong, Nadobabu and other villages.
Seeing Shang Ji coming in, Nadorand immediately stood up and said with a smile: "Brother Gao Xiang, you are finally here, just waiting for you!" ”
"Xiang is rude, please forgive the leader!"
"Where did Brother Gao Xiang say, hurry up and sit down!" Nadorand waved his hand and motioned for the merchant to hurry up and take his seat.
The others did not have the same good face as Nadoland, especially Nadobabu, who had always been hostile to the merchants.
"What a big shelf!" Nadobab muttered softly.
Although he muttered softly, everyone in the big tent heard it lightly, and Nadorand immediately shouted: "Shut up! Then he smiled apologetically at Shang Ji.
Shang Ji waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind. Seriously, if the Xianbei people were all people like Nadobabu who only had muscles but no brains, Shang Ji would be able to wake up laughing when he slept! It's a pity that most of the people in power among the Xianbei are old foxes like Nadorand.
"Chief, I don't know why you invited us?" A Xianbei nobleman asked first.
"I've learned of a huge conspiracy against our Nado!" Nadorand said in a low voice with a calm face.
"What conspiracy?" The other people were immediately aroused with curiosity, and even Shang Ji couldn't help but be curious. The contradiction between the Jiegu clan and the Nado clan is becoming increasingly fierce, and it is not surprising that Chenglu will play tricks to make the scheme, but he doesn't know what the specific conspiracy is.
"Cheng Lu is delusional in trying to force us to expel the Gao Xiang brothers and the warriors under his command on the grounds that the Gao Xiang brothers once served the Han emperor!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Xianbei tent suddenly looked different.
The Sinophobia, led by Nadobabu, looked overjoyed, leaped and tried, and looked at Shang Ji with more and more unkind eyes. However, more of them are like Boko Litong, although they hate the merchants, but they understand that it is absolutely not advisable to expel the merchants at this time.
Nadoland first glared at his son Nadobabu fiercely, warning him not to act recklessly, and then continued: "Although Brother Gao Xiang used to be the minions of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he has now repented, come to the grassland, and fought side by side with us many times, he is our close brother and friend, we can't let Cheng Lu slander him!" ”
Nadorand preemptively spoke up, defining the incident as a ruse to divide Nado's clan and block the opening of Shang Ji's expulsion from Nado's clan in disguise.
Nadorand is very sober-minded, although he is becoming more and more jealous of Shang Ji's strength, but this is definitely not the time for infighting. Nadorand's ideal situation would be to wait for Nado's defeat of Chenglu before considering the issue of Shangji.
"Touren, we know that Brother Gao Xiang is bent on my Da Xianbei and has completely cut off relations with the Han Dynasty, but the other Yiluo don't know, even if we tell them, they may not believe it. If they misunderstand the Gao Xiang brothers and are used by Cheng Lu, our Nado clan will be in danger! Boko said in a deep voice, frowning.
"That's true, I wonder if you have any clever plans to break the poisonous plan of the law?" Nadorand asked the people under his tent, but his eyes kept drifting to Shang Ji himself.
Shang Ji sat upright in his chair, his face unchanged, as if the things everyone was discussing had nothing to do with him.
"Brother Gao Xiang, what do you think?" As a last resort, Nadorand asked Shang Ji directly by name.
"At the orders of the headman alone, if my departure can save the Nados, I am willing to take people away." Shang Ji retreated as he advanced, with an expression that I was thinking about the tribe.
"Ahem, don't mention it again at this time, we definitely won't give up on our friends!" Nadorand felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly when he heard this, but he had to speak out to comfort him.
"What do other people think?" Nadorand looked around in the tent and spoke.
"Touren, why don't we launch a sacred challenge to the Jiegu Clan?" Boko hesitated for a moment, then suddenly spoke up.
As soon as Bokoli's voice fell, the big tent suddenly became like a vegetable market.
The "Sacred Challenge" is an ancient custom among the Xianbei people, just like the prime-aged wolf in the wolf pack challenges the old wolf king to compete for a new king. It's just that this duel is not between individuals, but a big battle between two towns, and the victorious side can settle in the tribe's tent, and the clan leader will naturally become the new marshal, and the other towns must obey the leadership of the marshal, and they can't continue to challenge for at least five years.
However, since Tanshi Huai unified Xianbei and established the Xianbei Alliance, this custom has been gradually abolished. The tribal marshal is either appointed in the Dragon City, or elected by each tribe, and then reported to the Dragon City for canonization. The orthodox "Holy Challenge" has not been held for a long time.
Of course, there is no official decree announcing the abolition of the sacred challenge, so if the Nadeaux wanted to launch a sacred challenge to the law, it would be legally and customarily justified.