The clouds moved as the sun rose and set.
In a blink of an eye, a few days had passed. While Yi Yun and company were on their way, the people in the Lian tribal clan had a tough time. The Lian tribal clan was really poor now.
Even the ruling class of the Lian tribal clan like the tribal elders had almost no more rice in their houses.
Over the past few years, Lian Chengyu had emptied out the Lian tribal clan. Especially in the last few months, he went even further. Currently, the Lian tribal clan had slaughtered all of their livestock and used up all of their grains.
But, even as the entire village was starving, they still had hope.
They were eagerly waiting, waiting for Lian Chengyu’s return. They were hoping that he would bring them good news that would excite them.
At this time, in the few pieces of farmland the Lian tribal clan had, a few men were doing farm work. Without the cattle, farm work became extra hard. And beneath the trees, women were making arrows. These days, the arrows and armors produced by the Lian tribal clan would only be bought by the Tao tribal clan.
And the Tao tribal clan was not that close to the Lian tribal clan, so if the Tao tribal clan did not come to collect it, they had no way of taking the initiative to exchange their products for food.
It was late in the morning, when the people of the Lian tribal clan were preparing to eat breakfast. As they were already hungry, eating a bowl of rice porridge with rice grains that could be counted with the fingers was insufficient.
Now, the members of the warrior preparation camp were not given preferential treatment. They only ate two meals a day like the commoners.
A few members of the warrior preparation camp that stood guard in the mountains came down to eat. A new shift went up the mountain to replace them.
Why were they standing guard on the mountain? The main reason was because the Lian tribal clan’s elders estimated that the results of the Kingdom’s selection would arrive one of these days.
So everyday in the morning, the elders would send men to the mountain pass to watch. They wanted to see when the tribe’s hope, Lian Chengyu would bring back their tribe’s warriors. That he would now be a official member of the Jin Long Wei, having a triumphant homecoming.
Under extreme hardship, they needed news to excite the hearts of people.
They had been waiting for days, but not a single shadow appeared from the vast wilderness.
Today, just as the members of the warrior preparation camp changed shifts, Zhang Dali was suddenly surprised. His eyes looked into the distance. “You guys look… what’s that…”
Zhang Dali pointed into the distance. People started looking and what they saw was amazing.
In the distant horizon, a dust cloud had been swept up. Seeing closely, they could see huge behemoths running amongst those dust clouds!
They had seen these beasts before. They were the Jin Long Wei mounts!
“Young master Lian… could it be that Young master Lian is back!?” A man said uncertainly.
“It has to be. Looking at the direction those beasts are heading, they are coming right at our Lian tribal clan. It can’t be wrong!” Zhang Dali slapped his thighs. His face was filled with excitement!
Back when Lian Chengyu led the elite members of the Lian tribal clan away, they sat on such behemoths. It was the Jin Long Wei who had sent someone to bring them.
Now seeing those beasts, it was highly likely Young master Lian was back!
And looking at the scale, it was much greater than back then, there were at least… six behemoths!