The Chaha Tribe could be considered a major tribe. Leaving aside everything else, the fact that it could camp so close to the Supreme Royal Court already put it beyond the reach of ordinary tribes.
But who was Yuwen Duo?
Though he was meek and deferential before Helian Yunyun, and all smiles and laughter before Jiang Wang, he was a True Blood descendant of the Yuwen Clan, one of the steppe's great noble houses!
He had trained at the Azure Feather Patrol Office, tempered himself along the Life-Death Line of the Border Wasteland, and now held a post in the Cangtu Divine Cavalry.
Across the entire Great Mu Empire, among all the young nobles, he was unquestionably one of the finest.
Not to mention that he enjoyed the deep trust of Great Mu's imperial princess, Helian Yunyun, and had Yegai, a peerless talent currently studying at Erdemi, at his side.
For Yuwen Duo, sealing off the Chaha Tribe and wiping out a mere foreign minor sect was no trouble at all. He did not even need to act personally.
Before the operation began, Gao Xingwu had already investigated the Life-less Cult's steppe branch down to the last detail.
A woman calling herself the "Lifeless Mother" had brought eighteen core followers and ventured onto the steppe to spread the faith. Falsely claiming that the Lifeless God Lord was a subordinate god of the Cangtu God, they had swiftly opened up the situation.
It had to be said that this aligned neatly with the current religious policy of openness in the Mu Court, showing the Lifeless Mother's cleverness. Given room to grow, she might truly have been able to establish herself on the steppe.
At first, they had traveled the steppe as Five-Horse Travelers, trading as itinerant merchants, rescuing the distressed and