Lian Chengyu looked at Yi Yun with a scathing look.
“I just need a few days to recover and when that happens, I’ll make sure I’ll get revenge for what happened today! I want to let you know what it means to lead a living death!”
If he had been overwhelmed by an expert, it would be no matter. But now, a person who seemed weaker than him was provoking him and undermining his authority; yet because of his injuries, he could not do anything about it. How could he not be angry?
“Yi Yun!” Lian Chengyu said with reluctance. However, Lian Chengyu knew that he could not do anything. If he fought with Yi Yun, even if he won, it would affect his chances at the Kingdom’s selection that was days away, and that was not a price he was willing to pay.
“My Lian tribal clan has suffered for hundreds of years in the Cloud Wilderness. Our ancestors ate grass roots and tree barks as they slowly developed our clan into what we are today.”
“Finally, in my generation, I have practiced martial arts for a decade and never slacked off in my cultivation, even during the famine years. The only reason was to bring the Lian tribal clan out of the wilderness and into the city, letting the tribe prosper!”
“But now… Just as I have invested all of my assets into saving the tribe, you come out here to spread rumors, to bewitch the people and falsely accuse me. Do you want the people of the Lian tribal clan to live forever in misery?” Lian Chengyu’s words were spat right back at Yi Yun, creating a public debate.
Lian Chengyu and Yi Yun stuck to their own arguments.
Yi Yun said that Lian Chengyu had refined desolate bones that contained toxins, causing the deaths of the people, while Lian Chengyu said Yi Yun was framing him! Both sides were diametrically opposed to each other!
However, in this debate, the people undoubtedly believed in Lian Chengyu; after all, Lian Chengyu had extremely high standing in the Lian tribal clan, while Yi Yun was just a child.
Hearing the speech, Yi Yun could guess the sentiments of the tribe members, and could not help recall a fable from Earth.
During the primitive periods, a group of cavemen worshipped a shadow. The shadow could grow bigger and smaller. It looked like a god, so the cavemen would worship the shadow every day.
However, a clever caveman did not believe in ‘god’. With great effort, he managed to climb to the top of the cave one day. He then realized that the god the people worshipped was just the shadow of a rock being cast by the sunlight.
The clever caveman told his tribe the truth, he did not want them to worship the shadow, because it was just the shadow of a rock and not a god.
In the end, no one believed the clever caveman, but they became scared. The clever caveman was eventually burned at the stake because of his blasphemy against the god. After that, the cavemen carried on worshipping the rock’s shadow.
Yi Yun felt that his current situation was exactly that of the fable.
He was the clever caveman, while Lian Chengyu was the shadow.
The current Lian Chengyu who was trying to save the tribe, had cut all the roads of retreat and had managed to “successfully break through” into the Purple Blood realm, was a god in the Lian tribal clan!
Everyone, be it the Lian tribal clan upper echelon, the members of the warrior preparation camp or the commoners, had all placed their hopes on Lian Chengyu, hoping he will bring change into the tribe, leading them out of poverty and hunger.
People who lived in hardship would tend to be religious. They needed an emotional support, allowing them to escape from reality and believe in a brighter future. Only then, would they have the courage to keep living.
As for Lian Chengyu, he had undoubtedly taken that spot. He was the tribe’s leader, and an idol for many youths in the tribe. He was the perfect dream lover in all the girls’ hearts.
As long as Lian Chengyu passed the Kingdom’s selection, he would be the savior of the Lian tribal clan!
As for Yi Yun, he was just a twelve year old child. He didn’t have much prestige or authority, so it was difficult for him to topple Lian Chengyu.
Besides, Yi Yun had no evidence. Even if he did, it was likely that no one would believe in him because if Lian Chengyu was toppled, it was tantamount to shattering the poor people’s spiritual hope, telling them that they would forever live in darkness. Who would allow that?