Yang Kai quickly replied, “The reason should be the same as yours for being here!”
Ya froze, and he was dazed for a moment before nodding, “It looks like your village has also been attacked.”
“Why was yours attacked?”
Ya explained with a grim face, “I took some clansmen with me to gather food, and when we came back, the villagers were all taken away. We came here after following the trail.”
“Then, our goals are the same!” Yang Kai grinned, exposing a mouthful of pearly white teeth that ghastly gleamed under the shadow of the moonlight. Ya’s heart jumped in fright seeing this vicious look and quickly continued, “Are you alone?”
“I am the only one left in the village who can fight.”
Ya showed an expression of admiration. If he was in the same situation, and he was the only survivor of his village, Ya was not certain he would have the courage to even track the enemy to their base. The opponent was none other than the brutal and bloody Bone Devouring Clan, so returning alive from such an endeavour was questionable at best.
“Come with me to meet a few of our Seniors!” Ya beckoned to Yang Kai and then led the way.
Yang Kai followed with suspicion, wondering who he was going to meet.
After a short while, a low voice suddenly came from the front, “Ya, what are you doing here?”
Ya replied respectfully, “Shaman Chi, a friend from the South Barbarian Clan has come. It seems his fellow villagers have also been taken captive by them.”
“Oh?” The person called Chi responded in surprise, “Come here.”
Ya signalled to Yang Kai to come forward.
In the dense grass, a man and a woman sat cross-legged, their aura vigorous but well-controlled, blending seamlessly with the surrounding nature.
They were two Shaman Grandmasters! Yang Kai raised his eyebrows in astonishment.
That man should be Chi; he had a tattoo of the Raging Flame Clan on his face, and his aura appeared to be a little hot. He obviously cultivated Shaman Arts and Shamanic Spells related to the Fire Attribute. As for the woman, although she had a big waist and a burly body, she had a sense of elegance and flexibility, which was extremely contradictory to her appearance.
When Yang Kai approached, these two cast sharp gazes immediately at him, watching him with an uncomfortable, scrutinizing gaze.
“Shaman Niu from the Blue South Village, greets two Seniors!” Yang Kai stretched out his hand over his chest.
Chi nodded lightly, and complemented Yang Kai, “A Shaman Master, not bad at all.”
“What? Shaman Master?” Ya was flabbergasted, “Wasn’t Shaman Niu just a Low-Rank Shaman Apprentice? Shaman Chi, are you mistaken?”
Little did he know that at the end of winter, this Shaman Niu had already become a Shaman Master. If only he had known, Ya would probably have complained that the Barbarian God was being unfair.
“How could there be such a skinny clansman? Do you belong to the Nomad Clan?” The woman frowned and did not bother concealing her disgust for Yang Kai.
Before Yang Kai could open his mouth to reply, Ya spoke up, “Shaman Niu is not from the Nomad Clan. He is from the South Barbarian Clan. He is also a generous and righteous man, how could the Nomad Clan be compared to him?”
He recalled the one hundred wild beasts Yang Kai had given him last time as an act of kindness.
“That would be best!” The woman nodded lightly, seemingly having complete trust in Ya’s statement.
“How should I address this Lady?” Yang Kai asked, looking at the woman.
Chi answered, “She is Shaman Zhu of the Fierce Wind Clan.”
Ya spoke in a low voice, “The Bone Devouring Clan raided a total of three villages this time. One of them is your village, another is mine, and the other is of the Fierce Wind Clan. I approached Shaman Chi, and just ran into Shaman Zhu, so everyone is gathered here.”
“There is strength in numbers,” Yang Kai nodded, and said, “If I may ask, what is the plan for the next action?”
Chi simply replied, “We will wait for dawn.”
Yang Kai contemplated and nodded, “Dawn is the time when people are the most relaxed. It is indeed the best time to act, but both of you are Shaman Grandmasters. Are you not confident to take that stone fortress head-on?”
Zhu glanced at him and asked, “How much do you know about this stone fortress?”
Yang Kai answered honestly, “I don’t know anything about it.”
Before this, he was not even aware of the existence of a Bone Devouring Clan fortress here.
Zhu explained, “This stone fortress is only a small sub-clan of the Bone Devouring Clan. There are about seven hundred to eight hundred warriors inside, with more than twenty Shamans. The strongest one is called Yeow, and he’s a Mid-Rank Shaman Grandmaster.”
Yang Kai noticed a trace of fear appeared on Chi’s face when Zhu mentioned Yeow, obviously conscious that he was not strong enough to fight against this Bone Devouring Clan’s Shaman Grandmaster.