"Evil demon, release our Great Shaman at once!"
Though the Shaman Folk were all wounded and captive, they still had plenty of backbone, struggling and refusing to submit.
Especially when they saw their Great Shaman propped up there at death's door, the lower half of his body pulverized and his magic power sealed by shackles fashioned from malign wood, their eyes blazed with fury, and they fought back with almost frenzied desperation.
"Stay put! Keep struggling and I'll start killing!"
Old Hong and the others were tense beyond measure, with battle threatening to erupt at any moment.
They could not understand the Shaman Folk's language at all, hearing only unintelligible local chatter, but they could tell that the sight of the wounded Great Shaman had stirred them deeply.
Li Chen turned his palm upward. With a metallic ring, a sharp blade extended from it, and he pressed it against the Great Shaman's neck.
"Move again, and I'll kill your leader!"
"You..."
The Shaman Folk could not understand Li Chen's words either, but they suddenly realized that their shaman truly was in danger.
As though someone had triggered a mechanism, the entire scene instantly fell so silent that not even a crow could be heard.
Li Chen nodded in satisfaction. "That's more like it."
Then he looked at the old man. "You stay put too, or I'll slaughter your people one by one!"
Qi Maigu, Yu Feng, and the others were stunned by Li Chen's shameless tactic of squeezing one side and then the other, but they had to admit that using the bond between the Shaman Folk to threaten each side with the other and restrain their impulses was extremely effective. Both the Shaman Folk and the Great Shaman settled down, no longer daring to act rashly.
Then he looked