I Caught a Fellow

"All of you, leave!"

The eight elders who had been carried out of the shrine were eventually carried back intact, along with several other collapsed clergy members, all of whom lined up in a row.

The chieftain holds the greatest power, while the elders control the subdivided powers, including the conscription of paladins.

The elders protected the chief but also kept him in check.

Like the old ministers around the new emperor, these old ministers uphold the old system and protect the new emperor, but they will become obstacles to the new system.

Everything that Turcolando faced was no different from what the New Emperor faced.

As long as she adheres to the established rules and serves as the chieftain of the Tuer tribe, these elders will be her most trusted supporters. However, whenever she has any new ideas or initiatives, these elders will be her most troublesome and greatest obstacle.

Despite spending decades together, her intimacy with the elders was indeed limited.

This was the first time in Turcorando's life that he had ever seen eight elders lying in a row at once.

Without the elders' restraint, Turcolando felt as if he had been freed from the heaviest shackles.

She dismissed the paladins and, holding her staff, looked at the palms of the giant statue.

In the center of their palm is the object worshipped by their clan.

Her eyes were wary, and she waved to Turkalando and Ren Anran at the back door.

"This stone axe is 1.2 meters long and weighs 128 kilograms. I don't know what its internal structure is, but the god Tu'er is hidden inside," Tu'er Kolando said. "Now that Anlando's ceremony has failed, Kalando has been disqualified from succession, and I have been punished by the god Tu'er... this..."

"Should we leave here?" Tulcarando asked.

"Once our situation is fully defined, we will not only face the trouble of being controlled by the god Tu'er, but also be hunted down by our own people," Turkorando said. "This is far beyond what Ren faced back then, and it will continue until we are caught and burned to ashes in the shrine!"

"How could this be?" Turcalando exclaimed. "Isn't this inhumane?"

"This is the rule, you can also understand it as custom. Few can interfere; we have nowhere to escape, no country can protect us!"

If Ren Yisheng still has the Scarlet Alliance State as a powerful patron, forcing the Tuer people to act only in other regions, then once Tuercolando and his group are forced into exile, no nation can offer them refuge.

"You mean?"

Ren Anran, searching everywhere for Ren Yisheng, looked surprised and vaguely guessed some of Turcolando's thoughts.

Along with Turcalando's questions, there were also Turcalando's instructions.

"We need to expel the old god, and we also need to welcome the new god. We need the support of that divine messenger and the god behind him," Turcorando said. "Only in this way can we maintain and change the status quo!"

Holding a heavy wooden staff and some footrests, she gestured several times towards Turkalando.

Once she could reach the stone axe with the help of her wooden staff, she struck the axe with the staff, knocking the token representing the god Tu'er down with a thud.

As soon as the stone axe hit the ground, Turkalandor raised an elder's alloy cane and slammed it down on the stone axe.

"One of you is hitting a rock with a piece of wood, and the other is smashing it with a cane. Didn't you have any other preparations?"

Ren Anran didn't have Zhang Xuezhou's experience, nor did she experience the panic and fear that Turkorando and Turkalando felt. At least she was able to think about things normally at this moment.

Watching the mother and daughter react with the same fear they had shown to the stone axe as if it were a snake or scorpion, striking and smashing it with their wooden canes and crutches, she couldn't help but feel a bit troubled.

"If you don't have the tools, you should at least use momentum and leverage, instead of just smashing things around like this!"

She showed no fear, but instead reached out and grabbed the stone axe, then braced herself slightly.

After making a few gestures, she swiftly chopped down with her palm.

As long as one is good at using leverage, performing a one-handed rock-splitting feat is not a remarkable skill, let alone for Ren Anran, a Sequencer.

With a crisp snap, she easily cleaved the stone axe, a symbol of the offerings made by the god Tu'er.

The axe handle was broken, its grayish-white exterior removed, revealing the pale blue interior.

"It's broken!"

"Seal it off! We must suppress it!"

Compared to Ren Anran's composure, Turklando was indeed extremely flustered, and her forehead was covered with layers of cold sweat.

Turkalando's situation wasn't much better. She had only accompanied Ren Anran to search for the Soul Jade, never expecting that her mother, who had upheld the rules her whole life, would cause such a catastrophe when she broke them.

This is the destruction of a sacred object that the Tuer tribe has long worshipped.

No one knows how long this sacred object has been worshipped; in any case, it has been worshipped for generations.

The statues were changed from wood to stone, and then to pure gold, but the stone axe never changed.

Anyone familiar with the shrine knows that the true core is not the statue, but this stone axe.

When Turklando struck the stone axe, Turklando felt the same intense horror.

This mother, whom she had always nagged, rebelled, and disobeyed, and whom she had always felt was old-fashioned, actually took action with far more force than she had imagined. At most, she chose to escape and was unwilling to follow the rules of the tribe, while Turcorando was truly trying to change her own destiny.

Turcolando quickly picked up the broken stone axe.

As if holding a bomb with its fuse ripped off, Turcorando looked like he was saying goodbye, and then quickly ran towards the secret passage behind the shrine.

"Mom!"

Turkalando exclaimed in surprise, then quickly followed.

"Why are you making such a fuss over nothing, all you did was smash a stone axe!"

Ren Anran did not follow closely; her main purpose in coming here was to find Ren Yisheng.

It was obviously better that the two weren't present, so Ren Anran began to call out to them.

"I caught a guy, and this guy is very likely Hongku Xuezhou carrying!"

After a long while, a faint response came from the palm of the statue.

His voice carried a hint of pride, a touch of smugness, and a dash of anticipation.

Ren Yisheng had previously conducted various forms of monitoring on Hongku, intending to explore and research the matter, whether peacefully or not. Now that Hongku was in his hands, his fate was self-evident.

It was rare that he could still restrain his opponent even in such a predicament, Ren Yisheng felt a sense of pride, feeling that he hadn't become a complete waste.

This will not only solve Zhang Xuezhou's physical problems, but also allow him to completely exploit the other party, making him reveal all the information the other party has about 'realm' and 'technique'.

"But if..."

The only thing that puzzled Ren Yisheng was that the Yang Soul Transformation Technique was derived from ' Hongku ', but this ' Hongku ' did not have the ability to transform, which resulted in it being outmatched by him in the Soul Jade.

"Let me go!"

"Get out of my way!"

"Call upon my people..."

Beneath the surface of Ren Yisheng's ideology, the god Tu'er struggled desperately.

Having fought against the extraterrestrial demons for a long time, he was in a stage where his old strength was exhausted and new strength had not yet been generated, so he really needed to recuperate at this time.

But he never expected that when he chose a Soul Jade with the most abundant Spiritual Qi to restore his vitality, he would run into a plague god.

In his prime, he could certainly have surpassed Ren Yisheng, but right now he is far inferior.

What made Tu'er feel even worse was that the connection he had made with the token was extremely weak.

The stone axe seemed to have broken at some point.