Origin Xia, Northern Unfinished Way.
Yi Wu was teaching cultivation methods to several of the few clansmen who had gained intelligence when he suddenly heard that clan leader Yi Junzi had summoned him on urgent business. After telling the clansmen to cultivate on their own, he hurried over.
When he arrived at the main hall, he saw Yi Junzi seemingly reading through a document. Stepping forward to salute him, he said, "Clan leader, why have you summoned me?"
Yi Junzi handed over the letter in his hand and said, "A message has just arrived from the two halls. Take a look."
Yi Wu took it and read it, rage flaring in his heart. It said that in a little over a year, they would clash with Celestial Xia again, and people from Northern Unfinished Way were to be conscripted into service.
And this was no ordinary conscription. From the contents, it was plain that they wanted to send their clansmen to their deaths.
It also included records of the clansmen they had continuously sent to Celestial Xia over the past few years. This could not have been concealed in the first place, but attaching it here made the threat all too obvious.
He sneered. "Do the two halls think they can seize us by the throat with this? On what grounds? The clansmen we sent over had never gained intelligence. The two halls may treat our clansmen like oxen and horses, but they will not allow us to trade our own kind for benefits?"
Over the years, they had sent clansmen to Celestial Xia so that Celestial Xia could help them gain intelligence. Yet nominally, they had exchanged these mindless clansmen, no different from wild beasts, for fine goods.
Though those things had in fact been supplied by them, merely