Following them, Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan arrived outside Darigachi's yurt.
Leng Ruoli casually took out a handful of knockout powder from her sleeve and sprinkled it towards the four guards at the gate. The four guards immediately fainted. Then, Leng Ruoli waved her sleeve and collected the guards into her system space. After that, she transferred these four people to another location through her system space and returned to the outside of Darigachi's yurt.
At this moment, Leng Ruoli pulled Jun Mohan into her system space and moved her system space into Darigachi's yurt.
At this time, the Cold King and his consort, through the spatial penetration mirror, saw Darigachi talking with a man wearing a black hooded cloak and a long black robe in his yurt.
"Darigachi, if you want to achieve great things, you must learn to be ruthless. Otherwise, you will never ascend to the throne of the Nine-Five," the black-cloaked man said coldly.
"Pavilion Master, it's not that I, Darigachi, am not ruthless enough, but the medicine you developed has caused me to lose many cavalrymen!" Darigachi said, frowning deeply.
"Those who can survive are the elites," the black-cloaked man said with a cold smile.
"But those cavalrymen are the young men of my tribe. They have fathers, mothers, wives, and children. If their families discover that their sons or husbands died at my hands as their leader, how can I gain the trust of my people? They might even rebel," Darigachi said earnestly.
"Don't worry, those who survive tonight will not die so easily afterward," the black-cloaked man said again.
"Alas, alright. I'll trust you one more time and give my cavalrymen another strong dose."
For the sake of his ambition, Darigachi finally agreed to the black-cloaked man's request and used his cavalrymen to test the medicine.
This was because he wanted to overthrow the royal family of Beichen Kingdom and become the ruler himself, which required him to train a powerful cavalry.
"Darigachi, don't worry, you won't regret it. After tonight, you will have an invincible cavalry," the black-cloaked man comforted Darigachi again.
"Then please, Pavilion Master, follow me!" Darigachi said after a moment of deep thought.
Afterwards, Darigachi led the black-cloaked man out of the yurt. Neither of them noticed the disappearance of the four guards outside the yurt, and they hurried to a towering ancient tree outside the tribal settlement.
Leng Ruoli pulled Jun Mohan out of the space and closely followed the two. They crouched in the dry grass near the ancient tree, cautiously observing the actions of the two men under the ancient tree.
Earlier on the road, Barmis had introduced to Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan that there was an ancient tree in her tribe. It was lush with foliage, shading the sky, and looked like a giant green mushroom. The trunk was so thick that it would take twelve adult men to surround it. This ancient tree was worshipped like a god by the herders in Darigachi's tribe and was their spiritual sustenance. Normally, the area around this ancient tree was a forbidden zone.
Now, Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan saw Darigachi bringing a man to the ancient tree and didn't know what they were going to do.
But just as the two were confused, Darigachi pulled open a hidden door within the tree, and they both walked into the thick tree trunk one after another, and then closed the door.
After Darigachi and the black-cloaked man went inside, Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan rushed to the ancient tree. They searched for the door leading into the tree trunk.
After fumbling for a few minutes, they finally found the switch to open the tree door on a small branch. They opened the door and walked in, seeing a passage leading to a basement in the middle of the tree trunk. They descended the stairs and saw a shocking scene: beneath the ancient tree was a very spacious underground chamber.
A main path led deep into the depths, with rows of separated iron cells on both sides, but they were all empty. The two continued to walk towards the depths of the underground palace and heard the painful wails of a group of men from afar. They ran quickly towards the source of the sound and then hid in a corner of the corridor.
Looking up, they saw a large circular black water pool deep within the basement. Around it were bound young, tall, and strong men. These men seemed to have lost their minds, their faces contorted, like a pack of maddened wolves, constantly wailing.
Moreover, these men were all bound by thick iron chains to their hands and feet, tied to iron pillars as thick as Leng Ruoli's thigh.
Leng Ruoli recognized from the clothes of these men that they were the cavalrymen from Darigachi's tribe. She never expected them all to be tied up in this basement. Some of the bound cavalrymen even seemed to have died, which explained why she and Jun Mohan hadn't seen them on night patrol.
At this moment, the black-cloaked man took out a bulging black cloth bag from his sleeve. He quickly took out small bamboo tubes filled with medicinal liquid one after another and forcibly poured them into the mouths of these young men.
After drinking the medicinal liquid forcibly poured into them, these young men went completely mad. They became agitated and restless, their bodies twisting non-stop, their hair disheveled, their veins bulging, their eyes turning scarlet, their hair changing from black to white, their ears becoming pointed and elongated, their mouths growing sharp fangs, and their once fair hands growing black, sharp, and long claws...
Darigachi stood far away, watching his cavalrymen slowly mutate. Although he felt a pang of reluctance in his heart, for the sake of his grand ambitions, he had to make up his mind.
"Damn it!"
Leng Ruoli widened her eyes and cursed.
"This black-cloaked man is actually feeding these young men wolf poison! How venomous!" Leng Ruoli exclaimed, her voice a little loud due to excitement.
Unexpectedly, Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan's movements were quickly detected by the black-cloaked man. He darted out like lightning. Leng Ruoli immediately grabbed Jun Mohan's hand and entered the space, causing the black-cloaked man to miss and leaving him looking bewildered.
"Huh? There were clearly two people hiding in this corner just now, how did they disappear so quickly?" the black-cloaked man muttered to himself.
"You must be mistaken. This place is empty, there's no one here," Darigachi said, walking out behind him, looking speechless at the black-cloaked man.
"I wouldn't be mistaken. Two people followed us into the underground chamber just now," the black-cloaked man said with a firm tone.
"It doesn't matter. If someone followed us, let them," Darigachi replied indifferently.
This was because he suspected that the person who followed them was likely his daughter, Barmis, so he didn't want the black-cloaked man to search further.