NOVEL NEXT Chapter 176.2: Traitor
Those who didn’t believe it would think that the royal family was framing the Mo Clan and that the royal family could just find any excuse to make a clan disappear!
Once this perception spread, trust in the royal family would plummet, and their authority would decline even further!
For the highest governing body of a country, this was an absolute disaster!
What could a royal family that couldn’t even gain the trust of the people do?
Would the people listen to what you said in the future, the laws you enacted, the regulations you issued, when they didn’t trust you?
Therefore, until concrete evidence that everyone could see and believe was obtained, the royal family couldn’t take action against the Mo Clan.
But once the Mo Clan did something too over the line and was caught by the royal family, even the Yun Lan Sect couldn’t protect them!
Although the benefits offered by the Mo Clan were very tempting, the Yun Lan Sect didn’t want to have a direct conflict with the Jia Ma Empire’s royal family.
The Yun Lan Sect wouldn’t sacrifice itself for a small family like the Mo Clan.
So he had to find a way to kill Xiao Li, while also ensuring that the Mo Clan wouldn’t be caught by the royal family.
And recently, the head of the Mo Clan suddenly saw the light.
Why did he have to start with Xiao Li?
Ultimately, the reason the Mo Clan wanted to kill Xiao Li was because Xiao Li’s existence was disrupting the slave trade.
The royal family was closely monitoring Xiao Li because Xiao Li had already gained the trust of the snake-people tribe. This made the royal family highly interested in Xiao Li, as they wanted to gradually reconcile with the snake-people tribe through her.
Once reconciliation was achieved, there would be no more slave trade. At that point, the snake-people tribe would become allies of the Jia Ma Empire.
If the Mo Clan continued to secretly traffic snake-people tribe members, the royal family could openly take action against them.
Therefore, the real target to disrupt was the possibility of reconciliation.
If the trust that the snake-people tribe had in Xiao Li could be destroyed, then everything would fall apart.
This was the reason behind the recent attacks on snake-people tribe settlements by unidentified individuals.
According to Yin Ke, the informant within the snake-people tribe, several attacks on snake-people tribe settlements had gone unnoticed by the eight Tribe Leaders.
Upon receiving news that Xiao Li had been taken back to the sacred land by the snake-people tribe, the head of the Mo Clan couldn’t help but grin. It was clear that the snake-people tribe’s trust in Xiao Li was starting to waver.
After all, Xiao Li was ultimately a human, and those attacking snake-people tribe settlements were also humans.
The snake-people tribe couldn’t help but associate the two.
Although none of the Mo Clan members who attacked the Yakachi Tribe returned that day, this made the head of the Mo Clan extremely dissatisfied with Yin Ke, believing that his intelligence must have been faulty.
However, the next day, upon receiving the report of Yin Shi killing Xiao Li’s brother, Xiao Yan, the Mo Clan head’s dissatisfaction from the previous day disappeared instantly.
Beasts, they truly are beasts!
How dare you kill Xiao Yan?!
He’s Xiao Li’s own brother!
Do these snake-people tribe leaders really think that after killing Xiao Li’s brother, Xiao Li would continue to negotiate with them for reconciliation as if nothing had happened?
But soon, the head of the Mo Clan calmed down and carefully examined the report.
After a while, he furrowed his brows.
No— there’s something wrong with this report…
Even if Yue Mei betrayed the tribe, she should have been brought back for public punishment by the Tribe Leaders, not executed privately by Yin Shi and the others.
And that phrase “no remains” made people suspicious.
The head of the Mo Clan was cunning and cautious, which is why he had been able to lead the Mo Clan in committing atrocities for so many years and still dominate Yan City.
His intuition told him that something was wrong.
Therefore, the head of the Mo Clan decided to wait and see, and instructed the Mo Clan envoy who was in contact with Yin Ke in the Tager Desert to stop contacting Yin Ke unless Yin Ke approached them first.
Yin Ke had enjoyed so many pleasures in the snake-people tribe settlements that he wouldn’t want to lose them.
The incident at the Yakachi Tribe had already angered the Mo Clan, and the head of the Mo Clan believed that Yin Ke would ensure that the next piece of intelligence he transmitted would be absolutely accurate and without any problems.
Before that happened, they would wait calmly.
On the other hand, Yin Ke, as a fighter of the snake-people tribe, volunteered to stay on the front lines.
Don’t misunderstand, Yin Ke wasn’t fearless. After enjoying so many pleasures, how could he willingly seek death?
It’s just that based on his judgment, he could better discern whether the report released by Yin Shi was true or false on the front lines.
If he encountered danger, he would run.
Yin Ke was confident in his agility, otherwise he wouldn’t have transmitted so much intelligence without being discovered.
Just then, a snake-people tribe member flew overhead.
It was Mo Ba Si, the tribe leader of the Mo Snake Tribe!
Was Mo Ba Si here to guard the front lines?
Thinking like this, Yin Ke’s trust in the report from Yin Shi increased slightly.
Mo Ba Si, known to everyone in the snake-people tribe, was definitely a resolute and hate-filled tribe leader of the Mo Snake Tribe who despised humans, and even threatened to kill Xiao Li, who he saw as deceiving the public.
Such a person would definitely not do anything to reconcile humans and the snake-people tribe.
On the contrary, Mo Ba Si would do everything possible to destroy it!
At least on the issue of opposing reconciliation between humans and the snake-people tribe, the Mo Clan, Yin Ke, and Mo Ba Si were on the same side.
Then two more snake-people tribe members followed, arriving at the front lines.
Yan Ci, the tribe leader of the Yan Snake Tribe, and Hei Du, the tribe leader of the Hei Snake Tribe.
Both were Tribe Leaders who harbored dissatisfaction toward humans.
This increased Yin Ke’s trust in the authenticity of Yin Shi’s report.
In this case, with three Tribe Leaders on the front lines, were the other four Tribe Leaders all in the sacred land?
Yin Ke squinted his eyes slightly.
Now that all eight snake-people tribe members were gathered here, protecting the snake-people tribe would require at least three Tribe Leaders.
With the queen currently in seclusion to avoid disturbance, she would likely send another tribe leader to uphold the law.
In this case, there would be no Tribe Leaders left to have free time.
Yin Ke’s mind was made up.
When the opportunity arose, he would pass on the news that reconciliation between the snake-people tribe and humans had completely collapsed to the Mo Clan!
However, just as he made up his mind, Yin Ke hesitated for a moment.
No—he needed to confirm it again.
This was his last chance. If something went wrong this time, the Mo Clan would definitely never trust him again.
With this in mind, Yin Ke, under Mo Ba Si’s leadership, suddenly shouted to the snake-people tribe soldiers on the front lines.
“Be on guard!”
Hearing Mo Ba Si’s shout, Yin Ke squinted his eyes and looked into the distance of the yellow sand.
After a few seconds, dozens of dark shadows appeared at the end of the sand sea and gradually approached the sacred land of the snake-people tribe.
As time passed, the appearance of those shadows became clearer and clearer.
Yin Ke didn’t know the others, but he knew the leader.
The Vice-Captain of the Desert Iron Mercenary Corps, the sister of both Xiao Li’s and Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding!