Mo Hua led Danzhu and the others in an "owl taking over a magpie's nest," seizing the Shugu Tribe's branch tribe stronghold.
Among this branch tribe, the highest cultivation level was only Golden Core Early Stage.
Its strongest chieftain and a war general had died in the previous ambush. One Elder had escaped.
Two Golden Core cultivators had been stationed here. One of them had also died at Danzhu's hands.
The other had surrendered.
But with a sweep of his gaze, Mo Hua saw those sinister eyes and knew the surrender was false. After surrendering, he likely intended to secretly contact others, ambush and assassinate Danzhu, or raise another rebellion.
So Mo Hua found an excuse and had Danzhu execute him as well.
With that, the Golden Core cultivators of this Shugu branch tribe had practically been "wiped out."
Meanwhile, Mo Hua's side had no fewer than four Golden Core cultivators.
Those four Golden Core cultivators, along with several hundred elite troops, were enough to intimidate an entire branch tribe of nearly ten thousand Shugu Barbarian Cultivators.
Some other Shugu Barbarian Cultivators resisted during this time, and Mo Hua had them killed as well, hanging their corpses over the tribe's gates to warn the others.
Mo Hua sighed.
Back in the Dao Court, he had been a good cultivator who obeyed the laws and followed the rules, treating others kindly and generally never doing such "indiscriminate killing." But here in the Great Wilderness, there truly was no other way.
Tribal warfare was a fight to the death.
In chaotic times, harsh laws had to be used.
Even so, resistance within the Shugu Tribe continued. Batch after batch of Shugu tribespeople emerged and openly defied Mo Hua's orders.
Mo Hua could only have them all killed.
Naturally, such matters did not