Chapter 2202: Battle Between Two Clans!
After swiftly killing the powerhouses in two small towns, Xiao Zheng quickly departed.
He truly achieved the realm of "when the matter is done, brush off your sleeves and leave, hiding your merits and fame."
At times like this, Xiao Zheng couldn’t help but miss the days when he still had avatars. If his avatars were still around, he could definitely keep magnifying the chaos, maybe even kindle the flames of war across the entire Ancient World.
Unfortunately, once his cultivation stepped into the Derivation Realm, his avatars and true body fused in spirit and flesh, and he could no longer summon them.
Shortly after Xiao Zheng left, the news reached Jiang Yi, who had just returned to his clan.
When he learned that two small towns, including Qingfeng Town, had been attacked, he was instantly furious beyond measure: "Damn Li Gang! You’ve gone too far! We just parted ways, and you’re already striking at our Human Clan again! Do you really think our Human Clan is that easy to bully?"
It’s a proven fact that when people are angry, they simply can’t maintain calm judgment.
Jiang Yi never even wondered whether there might be a conspiracy behind these incidents; he directly piled all his hatred onto Li Gang’s head. With people constantly whispering by his ear, he completely lost his ability to judge and to think.
"Pass down my order: assemble the army and strike at the Witch Clan immediately!"
"They dared kill our people—today we’ll make them pay in blood!"
Jiang Yi’s orders spread through the entire clan at once. Everyone already had a fire of anger pent up inside; now, with his command, it erupted completely.
In barely half an hour, the army was assembled.
In the Human Clan’s army, even the lowest cultivation realm was the Grandmaster Realm. The number of experts at the Martial Saint Realm and Supreme Realm was far from small, and as for Transcendent Realm and Creation Realm powerhouses, together they numbered over a hundred!
Such an army, if placed on Earth, could absolutely sweep aside any force!
Even in the Ancient World, it was terrifying!
Once the army finished assembling, Jiang Yi ordered everyone to depart at once!
Their objective was clear: split into three routes and march straight toward the three Witch Tribes nearest to Human Clan territory. Although each of those three tribes had Creation Realm experts sitting in town, in the end they still couldn’t escape death.
And unlike Xiao Zheng, they were the type to "cut the grass and pull up the roots"!
Anything alive in the tribes, whether people or domesticated fowl, was spared not at all!
In less than half a day, the three Witch Tribes were slaughtered to the last!
As this news gradually spread, the entire Ancient World exploded!
Old Elmer and the others had never imagined that the conflict between the Human Clan and Witch Clan would escalate into such a war! If there was still any chance of negotiation before, then now, negotiation had become utterly impossible!
The relationship between the two clans had from this point completely deteriorated!
After this incident, Xiao Zheng was definitely the happiest person. At first he’d worried his plan might fail; now, failure no longer even crossed his mind.
What he cared about more was how things would develop next.
The Human Clan army had already begun their offensive, and Xiao Zheng was eager to see what kind of response the Witch Clan would make.
The next day, the Witch Clan gave their answer.
When Li Gang received the news that three tribes had been wiped out, he erupted into unending rage.
He had never thought that Jiang Yi would be so unreasonable, directly assembling an army and pressing down on their borders. Faced with such provocation, the battle-hungry Witch Clan naturally couldn’t endure it.
Early the next morning, the Witch Clan’s great army also finished assembling, and then marched straight for the front line.
The two armies finally met at the Jishui River, and the great battle erupted!
Because the main forces on both sides were high in cultivation, and even Li Gang and Jiang Yi joined the battlefield, the scene of battle was incredibly shocking—"heaven collapsing, earth shattering" was no exaggeration!
Even Xiao Zheng, hiding more than ten li away, could sense the berserk aura spreading from the battlefield!
It was his first time seeing a battle of cultivators on such a scale; even Xiao Zheng couldn’t help but be secretly shocked. Even though this war between the two clans had been orchestrated by his own hand, he felt no guilt at all—on the contrary, there was a faint thrill in his heart.
Hiding above the clouds, his gaze fell toward the battlefield over ten li away.
Every time he saw a powerhouse from either clan die in battle, Xiao Zheng would clap and cheer.
In his view, the more Ancient Clan people died, the better; only that way could he weaken the Ancient Clan’s strength as much as possible!
"What a splendid show!"
"To think I only tweaked things a little, and it actually triggered such a war. Looks like the Witch Clan and Human Clan have been holding a lot of resentment toward each other all along!"
"I really hope Li Gang and Jiang Yi end up mutually ruining each other—then I can step in and give them a grand finale!"
Xiao Zheng’s gaze then shifted to midair.
Where he was looking now was precisely the battlefield where Li Gang and Jiang Yi were crossing blows.
That area was blanketed by countless dazzling lights; even Xiao Zheng could hardly catch sight of their figures, only sense from afar the terrifying power unleashed as they fought, enough to make one’s heart tremble.
"As I expected, the leaders of the five great clans are all in the Derivation Realm!"
"Good thing I wasn’t too reckless before and instead used a stratagem of sowing discord. If those five joined hands, then even with my Derivation Realm cultivation, it’d be hard to gain any advantage over them!"
A cold glint flashed in Xiao Zheng’s eyes as his heart grew more wary.
He had to admit, coming here today had been the right choice.
Not only did he witness the outbreak of a great war, he also probed the cultivation realms of the five clan leaders. For Xiao Zheng at present, that was absolutely the most crucial piece of information.
As the saying goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you’ll never lose a hundred battles!
Even in battles between cultivators, intelligence gathering is just as important!
The fighting continued; both sides were locked in a deadly struggle!
They fought straight from morning till night, with no sign of stopping!
As for the corpses lying in pools of blood, they were now too many to count!
Viewed from high above, the entire battlefield was like a hell on earth!
Boom!
A terrifying explosion sounded again from the void. With a twist in space, Li Gang and Jiang Yi staggered, stumbling back into their respective formations.
Their faces were somewhat pale—they were clearly both injured.
Li Gang glared at Jiang Yi from afar, then ground his teeth and said, "Pull back the troops for now—we’ll withdraw first!"
As his voice fell, the Witch Clan army instantly retreated like the tide.
Jiang Yi made the same choice as Li Gang!
The great battle finally fell silent!