CHAPTER 173: CHAPTER 164 OUTSMARTED_1

The Hawk Beastmen and Ape Beastmen launched a night attack!

Yet the entire Swamp Valley remained eerily quiet.

Yuan Dingshan felt something was off.

Ying Zhao shouted loudly, "These selfish and cold-blooded Snake Beastmen must all be aestivating, a bunch of spineless cowards. This is the perfect opportunity to wipe them out once and for all!"

Hawk Beastmen were inherently averse to Snake Beastmen, and they were particularly eager to slaughter them!

A group of Hawk Beastmen spotted an area that seemed to be teeming with Snake Beastmen and swooped down ferociously!

However, upon landing, they only saw a few sparsely scattered Snake Beastmen. These few Snake Beastmen were especially slippery, darting straight into the swamp.

The Hawk Beastmen grasped at thin air.

Ying Zhao’s red eyes blinked.

Yuan Dingshan said, "Ying Zhao, wait a moment, something’s odd."

Ying Zhao did not like Yuan Dingshan and said arrogantly, "What’s odd? Where’s the oddity? It’s clearly just an excuse because your Ape Tribe is too cowardly and sly to fight, deliberately hiding behind."

Yuan Dingshan was also a bit angry upon hearing this; his face flushed slightly as he said, "What about the Fox Clan!"

Fu Bu just happened to run over. "I’m here, I’m here!"

After hearing the commotion from the Hawk Clan and Ape Tribe, the Fox Clan had been ready for a while.

Upon seeing the Fox Clan, Yuan Dingshan’s face darkened.

"Why have you come out? Weren’t you supposed to build a good relationship with the Snake Beastmen? Aren’t you afraid of exposing yourselves by coming out like this?"

Fu Bu sighed deeply. "Don’t even start. You have no idea what kind of days we’ve been having since we came to this valley. Our people haven’t had water to drink for a long time; we’re almost dying of thirst!"

"No water to drink?" Yuan Dingshan said. "Impossible. They must not trust you yet; that’s why they aren’t giving you any water!"

Fu Bu listlessly replied, "Never mind, never mind. Our people are about to die of thirst. I don’t care about being exposed. We’re leaving this place. Let’s quickly finish off the Snake Beastmen, and then we, the Fox Clan, are leaving this place to go somewhere where there’s water to drink!"

Yuan Dingshan was completely furious. "Are you stupid? A group of foxes, yet so foolish!!!"

Ying Zhao looked disdainfully at Fu Bu and his group.

"Useless creatures."

The Fox Clan Beastmen, insulted in this way, were immediately enraged.

But Fu Bu was particularly anxious. "Why aren’t you acting yet? Finish off the Snake Beastmen quickly, so we can leave!"

Fu Bu impatiently said to Ying Zhao, "Hurry up, get a move on! Weren’t you bound by Jie Ling’s mystical contract? Aren’t you Jie Ling’s Beast Husbands? You males of the Fox Clan, listen to the Mistress, quickly kill the Snake Beastmen!"

Ying Zhao glared at him, then suddenly swept his wing and flung Fu Bu away.

What nerve! A mere tool for Jie Ling to use, daring to point fingers at me?

With a flick of Ying Zhao’s wing, Fu Bu fell heavily to the ground and was unable to get up for a long while.

"Elder Ying Zhao, there’s a small lake up ahead!" one gray Hawk Beastman suddenly cried out.

They were exhausted from their flight and hadn’t had water in a long time. Upon seeing the lake, they all rushed to drink, regardless of how small it was or how little water it held.

It was the same for the Ape Beastmen. Whereas the Hawk Beastmen had flown over, the Ape Beastmen had run all the way and were exhausted, so they all ran to drink from the water.

Yuan Dingshan’s eyebrows knit together into a mountain shape.

He felt something was wrong, very wrong indeed.

But he couldn’t articulate exactly what was amiss.

He saw Fu Bu lying on the ground unable to get up, then noticed that when the Fox Clan saw the small lake, only a very few ran to drink; the others all sat down, seemingly losing more and more of their drive.

Yuan Dingshan looked again at the small lake.

Wasn’t it said that this swamp had no water?

Why had a small lake appeared here? Why hadn’t it dried up? And why hadn’t the Snake Beastmen protected it?

Something was definitely not right.

"Don’t drink!!!" Yuan Dingshan suddenly realized. "Don’t drink, there’s something fishy!!!"

However, his warning seemed to go unheeded, as the Ape Beastmen and Hawk Beastmen, desperate with thirst, bent down to lap up the water from the lake.

Yuan Dingshan, furious, stepped forward, yanking back an Ape Beastman from his tribe with one arm. "Don’t drink, there’s something off about this water, nobody drink!!"

The Ape Beastmen looked towards Yuan Dingshan, bewildered.

It’s just water, how could there be anything strange about it?

However, at this moment, both Hawk and Ape Beastmen saw the Fox Clan Beastmen nearby suddenly go limp and collapse, THUD, THUD, one after another.

The Ape and Hawk Beastmen were alarmed, and Yuan Dingshan quickly stepped forward to lift the arm of a Fox Clan Beastman.

Limp. Probably not dead.

He then felt for breath.

Still breathing. Not dead.

They weren’t dead, no, but they’d all collapsed?

Then, Yuan Dingshan saw the Ape and Hawk Beastmen who had drunk the water start to weaken.

"I feel so weak."

"I want to sleep."

"It seems like I can’t move."

Next, Yuan Dingshan saw his own people collapse, THUD, THUD, one by one onto the ground.

Ying Zhao was shocked. At this moment, he also believed Yuan Dingshan’s hunch and hurried over to him. "What’s going on?"

"There’s something wrong with the water," Yuan Dingshan stated with certainty.

"How could there be something wrong with the water?"

Water is from nature! We’ve been drinking it for years and never had any trouble!

And this water looks so clear and clean!

Yuan Dingshan angrily retorted, "Your lack of experience doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in this world! Do you know how powerful some dark Witch Doctors are? With just a dose of their powder, they can strip thousands of male Beastmen of their ability to fight!"

Ying Zhao looked around blankly. "Just like now?"

We arrived in a great procession, thousands of Beastmen... but now, the Fox Clan must have drunk some water before they got here, and almost all of them have collapsed.

And our own people just drank from that small lake.

And all the Beastmen who drank that water... THUD, THUD... they’ve all collapsed.

The problem is, the ones who managed to get to the water first were usually the strongest Beastmen from our tribes. Those who couldn’t get any, the weaker ones, are the ones who’ve been spared.

"Caught in a trap?" Ying Zhao asked urgently. "What do we do now?"

Yuan Dingshan replied, "Run! Get as many out as you can. Those who stay will be sitting ducks!"

Ying Zhao clenched his teeth. "I’ve only seen a few of these Snake Beastmen. What if it’s not a trap? Let’s not run yet!"

Yuan Dingshan exclaimed in frustration, "Ying Zhao!! Do you not have a brain?!!"

However, at that moment, White Eagle Bai Feng, Yin Hong of the Silver Wolf Clan, and She Ying, along with a host of other Snake Beastmen, appeared as if from nowhere, surrounding them from all sides!

Their numbers were vast, and they didn’t even bother to give a second glance to the Hawk and Ape Beastmen who lay weak and collapsed on the ground!

They arrogantly walked over, encircling the Fox Clan, the Red Hawk Tribe, and the Ape Beastmen.

Bai Feng twirled a large leaf in her hand—it was from Si Yan and contained paralyzing powder.

Before the Fox Clan set off, there was a small lake by their cave entrance, filled with distilled water and sprinkled with the paralyzing powder personally made by Si Yan.

Just like the small lake nearby, it too had been sprinkled with the paralyzing powder personally made by Si Yan.

They didn’t even stop to think: during these scorching Flame Sun Days, when water was more valuable than beast hides, how could so many small lakes suddenly appear?

Of course, these were small lakes they had filled with distilled water and sprinkled with paralyzing powder, all in preparation for this very moment!

They had hidden nearby, watching them drink the paralyzing-powder-laced water, watching them lose their ability to fight, one by one.

The white-feathered male stood there, his pure white twin pupils gleaming mysteriously under the moonlight, as dazzling as a god.

"Great Shaman Bai Feng?!!" Ying Zhao exclaimed in astonishment. "How could the Great Shaman be here?!!!"

Yuan Dingshan was even more surprised. "Great Shaman Bai Feng, White Eagle from White Eagle City? Why? What is happening?!"

Then, the god-like male spread his wings and soared high into the air. He arrogantly gazed down upon everything below him, majestically declaring, "By the will of the Beast God, eradicate all evil. Kill!"