Chapter 431: Chapter 203: Shock, Prisoner Rules, and What Constitutes Guilt?

Four families, numbering five to six thousand people, gradually flooded in, and the outer wooden house instantly became overcrowded.

“Look, what’s that?”

Someone first noticed the supplies piled on either side of the wooden house, and after speaking in shock, everyone around him immediately turned their heads in the direction he pointed.

At this glance, they were instantly dumbfounded.

“There’s so much beast meat piled over there.”

“So much iron ore, coal stone, Cheng Guo, and what is that…”

“Gasp… how much cargo do those three large carts hold!”

“So many iron tools, how can Great Xia be so wealthy…”

“They’re wearing complete sets of clothing in many different colors, with hairstyles and accessories I’ve never seen before.”

……

With these few people speaking out, the five thousand plus who had just entered and were still shaken now gradually looked at everything inside the wooden house.

The ground was piled high with azure beast meat;

Beside it, forest white beast bones stood like peaks;

Fruits in blue, white, red, purple, green… were dazzling;

Shovels, chisels, saws, axes… various iron tools lay casually on the ground;

Swords, spears, sabers, halberds, lances, staves… weapons they had never seen before, held in the hands of Great Xia people;

On one side of the wooden house, two heaps of iron ore and coal stone rose like mountains, and astonishingly, people were continually loading them into bags, transporting them one after another onto the three iron carts in the middle of the wooden house.

“Gulp…”

“That iron ore must weigh over a million pounds, right?”

“Likely more, the coal stone is even more, it’s already filled half a cart.”

“How can Great Xia be so affluent…”

Seeing everything around the wooden house, the four families’ camps, totaling five to six thousand people, all widened their eyes, faces full of shock and emotion.

Listening to the sounds rising and falling from the crowd, Xiang Liang’s face showed no trace of surprise, for just moments ago, his reaction was the same as these people, if not more so.

“What did you say, this place… isn’t even Great Xia’s real station?”

But Xiang Ping beside him was different; the shock on his face was even greater than others because of what his son Xiang Liang had just shared with him.

“That’s right, father, this is only the Great Xia Camp, a station at Five Ape Mountain, and they named this place Wuyuan. The one named Xu Ning is in charge here. I heard others call him Minister of Defense. His rank in Great Xia isn’t even the highest, there is a minister above him, and a leader.”

“Gulp…”

Xiang Ping turned his head, looking at Xu Ning, just entering from outside the wooden house, eyes wide and face full of disbelief.

“How could this be, how could this be…”

Upon hearing his father’s trembling question, Xiang Liang shook his head with a bitter smile.

His father had already told him how Xu Ning and his men effortlessly defeated them.

All the Earth-digging Realm of the four families were gathered at the Flying Tiger Camp, encountering the fifty men of Xu Ning’s Black Arrow Team.

“Over a hundred Earth-digging Realm, plus more than two hundred Logging Realm from Flying Tiger Camp, couldn’t hold for half an hour, not only were twenty-plus people killed, the rest were captured alive, without even scratching the opponent. This… how is this possible…”

Recalling what his father just said, Xiang Liang found it hard to believe, unable to resist his curiosity, asked: “Father, just how strong is Lord Xu’s power? You surely couldn’t all be unable to defeat even one of his fifty men?”

Xiang Ping turned his head to look at his son, his face full of bitterness.

“It’s not that I couldn’t defeat them, it was Wang Lie, only one person in black iron armor from those fifty came out and defeated Wang Lie.”

Gulp…

Xiang Liang’s expression tightened, but before he could say anything, his father Xiang Ping continued.

“Even after Wang Lie was defeated, he stubbornly tried to rely on numbers and use the camp as a fortress to resist. Yet, in the end, the five-ton heavy iron gate of the Flying Tiger Camp’s cave was cut open by that Lord Xu Ning with four slashes. Those fifty broke in after toppling the door, and we couldn’t resist for long before all being injured and captured.”

……

Even without witnessing it firsthand, Xiang Liang could imagine Wang Lie’s despair at that moment.

No wonder his father couldn’t articulate Xu Ning’s strength. That Minister of Defense only executed four strikes to break the iron gate at Flying Tiger Camp and didn’t take further action.

“Father, you also fought with those people?”

Quickly, Xiang Liang caught the key message in his father’s words.

Seeing his father nod, his expression immediately became clouded.

Hefeng Camp was coerced by Wang Lie and others, that was undoubtedly true.

But having engaged with these people from Great Xia meant a different situation.

“Did all 29 Earth-digging Realm from our camp take action?”

Still unwilling to give up, Xiang Liang pursued further.

Xiang Ping, understanding his son’s intention, his complexion became troubled, nodded, and helplessly said: “We only launched one attack, directed by Wang Lie to shoot arrows. All the Earth-digging Realm from the four families, including some Logging Realm from the Flying Tiger Camp, joined in.”

……

Xiang Liang’s expression instantly turned gloomy, and he remained silent for a long time.

He wasn’t blaming them, as his father and the others were coerced into acting, nothing could be done. It was mainly because he couldn’t predict how Great Xia would deal with these people.

“Father, don’t worry, I’ll go plead with them!”

Xiang Liang said solemnly and walked towards the Great Xia people on the north side of the wooden house, by the cave entrance.