The Divine Deer Tribe's territory lay atop Ten Thousand Fiends Mountain, closer to the Eagle-Fighting Tribe's Sky Island than any other.
Lin Mo rode the Heavenly Horse with Gongsun Fu and Shi Lan, while Ying Tianxiao brought a dozen or so attendants. The party soared off the edge of Sky Island and landed on the mountaintop moments later.
They had barely landed and steadied themselves when two demon soldiers with deer heads and human bodies rushed up to them, demanding warily, "What are you people from the Eagle-Fighting Tribe doing barging into our Divine Deer Tribe's territory?!"
Lin Mo considered how the Eagle-Fighting Tribe's soldiers all wore wooden armor, while those of the War Bear Tribe mostly wore stone armor.
Yet these soldiers of the Divine Deer Tribe all wore Antique Bronze Armor, and their weapons were Bronze Spears as well.
Even the Divine Deer Tribe's settlement was unlike the Eagle-Fighting Tribe's collection of thatched houses and cave abodes.
Instead, it was a towering fortified city, with walls built from cyan stone bricks that stood a full ten feet high. A Bronze Gate loomed before them.
Such plainly superior craftsmanship was presumably thanks to the Divine Deer Tribe's chief, Lin Yang.
"Please don't misunderstand, you two."
Ying Tianxiao cupped his fists in a friendly gesture and said with a faint smile, "I have always held Lord Lin Yang in the highest regard. Nor does our Eagle-Fighting Tribe harbor any intention of invading the Divine Deer Tribe."
"The reason for our unannounced visit today is that this gentleman, Lin Mo, has an important matter to discuss with Lord Lin Yang. I am merely accompanying him."
The two deer soldiers paused, then turned toward Lin Mo in unison.
Upon seeing Lin Mo, Shi Lan, and Gongsun Fu on the Heavenly Horse's back,