Chapter 4: Immortal's Eye (Please add to your library)

"I don't care about any old Sand Barbarians or little Sand Barbarians; right now, I only want Sand Barbarian Yu, be quick, and she must be alive!" General Guan said in a deep voice.

The bearded man approached the pig-eyed knight and whispered: "Brother Changqing, let's summon all the remaining Sand Barbarians. They must be familiar with that Sand Barbarian Yu."

Song Changqing nodded lightly.

He and the bearded man led more than a hundred knights to drive over a group of Sand Barbarians who were either weeping or wailing in pain from all directions.

"Where is Sand Barbarian Yu, who has seen her?" The bearded man shouted loudly.

Tang Monk and his disciples walked from Great Tang to the Liushahe, then to the Tongtian River, and finally reached Lingshan, without bringing a translator along the way, which shows how high the popularity of the Central Kingdom's "official language" is in the Four Great Continents.

The Western Sand Barbarians just had an abnormal accent and didn't create a "foreign barbarian language," so they could communicate normally with the Shu people in the south.

At this moment, hearing the shouts of the iron-clad knights, some "Sand Barbarian talents" who knew the current affairs frowned and thought hard for a while, and exchanged glances with each other.

After a good while, when General Guan and the others were becoming impatient, an old barbarian woman with grey hair and wrinkled skin raised her hand tremblingly, asking hesitantly: "Sand Barbarian Yu... who is that? Never heard of her."

The bearded man glared, shouting angrily: "Able to be named by the Central Kingdom envoy, 'Sand Barbarian Yu' must not be a person of no reputation; how could you all have never heard of her?"

A cavalryman laughed, saying: "We Shu people can call her 'Sand Barbarian Yu,' but the Sand Barbarians themselves won't call themselves 'barbarians.'

Sand Barbarian Yu must be famous in the sand dunes, but her name in the sand dunes must not be 'Sand Barbarian Yu.'

Hmm, according to their customs, with the Liushahe as the surname, Sand Barbarian Yu might be 'Sha Yu'."

Saying this, he turned to the old woman and asked: "Do you recognize the Sand Barbarian headman, the rebel who usurped the title of 'Sand Dune King'?"

The barbarian woman's wrinkled face became a bit strange, humming and hawing: "The Sand Dune King is my son, I am the Queen Mother of the Sand Dune Kingdom... Sha Zhen."

"You are the Queen Mother?"

Old Zhu looked her up and down; she was dirty and messy, even worse than the female beggars in Tianmen Town.

Female beggars in Tianmen Town couldn't afford silk, but at least they had hemp clothes.

This old woman was wrapped in rags of animal skin... hmm, the animal skin seemed to have been torn, and now it was wrapped around her body messily...

Old Zhu's bearded face twisted into a ball, and he turned his gaze to scan the cavalry brothers with an unbelievable look: who was it that was so hungry?

"Since the Sand Dune King is your son, you must know his daughter; Sand Barbarian Yu is his daughter... or," Song Changqing paused, hesitating, "you call her 'Princess Yu'?"

"Ah, that's Yu girl."

"Oh, so it's that 'Brain-Clamping Wind'."

All the Sand Barbarians showed a look of sudden realization.

Sure enough, "Sand Barbarian Yu" was famous in the sand dunes, known to everyone.

Those who were closer called her "Yu girl," and many blurted out "Brain-Clamping Wind."

"What 'Princess Yu,' that Brain-Clamping Wind is not my granddaughter at all, she is a bastard with a father but no mother.

Why are you lords looking for her? She has never left the sand dunes; how could the Central Kingdom envoy know about her?"

Speaking of "Sand Barbarian Yu," the Queen Mother had a look of disgust on her face.

"Don't ask too much, now it's the lords asking you." Old Zhu scolded.

The barbarian woman was submissive and stopped shouting.

"Why is it Brain-Clamping Wind?" General Guan frowned and opened his mouth: "Old barbarian woman, the Sand Barbarian Yu we are looking for is the daughter of the Sand Dune King, Princess Yu.

If 'Yu girl' is not your granddaughter and is a lunatic, then she is not the person we are looking for.

Among your other granddaughters, is there anyone whose name contains 'Yu'?"

An old barbarian man with a bare upper body and a leopard-skin skirt around his lower body first prostrated himself toward General Guan, kowtowing three times before respectfully saying: "My lord, Xiao Yu should be the 'Princess Yu' you are looking for.

In the past, her peers called her 'Xiao Yu,' and elders called her 'Yu girl.'

Because she is the number one freak in the sand dunes, often saying strange things and doing inexplicable things, many people call her 'Brain-Clamping Wind'... she did give herself many names, but none of them used 'Sha' as a surname.

We Sand Barbarians originally had no surnames, because outsiders have surnames and use them, so we all use 'Sha.'

Yu girl is different from everyone else, always using 'Yu' as her surname.

Once she secretly ambushed and shot dead an 'Iron-Beaked Golden-Winged Eagle' that had swallowed hundreds of Sand Dune warriors, and she made us call her 'Yu Shenyi' (Feather God-Wing).

A few days later, she called herself 'Feather Asking Dao', and there was also 'Feather Transforming Immortal', saying she was going out to seek immortality and ask for the Dao.

Everyone felt she was indeed a Brain-Clamping Wind and ignored her, still calling her 'Yu girl,' though more people called her 'Brain-Clamping Wind.'

As for the Sand Dune King, he originally had no biological daughter.

Yu girl presented him with a 'Dragon-Slaying Treasure Saber' last year, and also said, 'The headman has no daughter, and I have been lonely and helpless since I was small, with no father or mother; if the headman doesn't mind, I want to support him in his old age.'

The headman was overjoyed and recognized her as his daughter.

Last year, the headman became the Sand Dune King, and Yu girl was triumphant, making us call her 'Princess Yu'... my lord, it was the Lu people who forced the headman to claim the title of King; we border barbarians, where would we have the courage to build a country and claim the title of King?

Please, my lord, be clear!

I beg your mercy, please spare us."

Saying this, he kowtowed continuously, and while kowtowing, he choked with sobs and begged.

None of the other barbarians were unruly; they were all numb and dull, or kowtowed and begged without hesitation... in fact, the Sand Barbarian tribe had always believed in the strong, and didn't have concepts like morality, dignity, or backbone at all.

Saying they fear power but don't cherish virtue is truly correct.

"Shut up!" General Guan shouted, coldly saying: "This general only wants Sand Barbarian Yu! If you dare to say another word of nonsense, I will burn you all."

"Hee-hee~~~" The Red Smoke Steed sneezed, spraying two thin fire snakes from its nostrils.

That pair of eyes like flowing magma was still scanning the Sand Barbarians.

The fire snakes didn't burn anyone, just circled above the heads of the Sand Barbarians a few times, scaring the old barbarian man into trembling and the Queen Mother into covering her mouth and low-crying.

"Yu girl is not in the sand dunes, she is not here."

"Where is she if she is not here?"

The Queen Mother's wrinkled face showed a look of hesitation, but seeing the Red Smoke Steed open its mouth, seemingly about to spray fire again, she immediately said urgently and quickly: "Half a month ago, Sha Long and Sha Gui came back and told about the Central Kingdom slaughtering the Lu Kingdom, and Yu girl's expression changed instantly, shouting loudly, 'The sand dunes cannot be lived in, the tribe must migrate north immediately'..."

Speaking of this, she raised her head and looked at the iron-clad cavalry around her, then scanned the Sand Barbarian tribal land that looked like a hell of raging fire, unable to hold back a look of remorse on her wrinkled face.

If only back then...

She suppressed the chaotic emotions in her heart and continued quickly: "Yu girl said we must leave the sand dunes, because the Thirty-Six Country Alliance was defeated, and also because the Great Qin iron cavalry's methods were cruel and terrifying.

Great Lu once claimed to be the 'Little Central Kingdom,' and they were all buried in pits, hundreds of thousands of people.

In the eyes of the Central Kingdom, our Sand Barbarians must be worse than animals.

If we are targeted and hated, the outcome will be a thousand times more miserable than the Lu Kingdom.

These were all said by Yu girl."

Several cavalry commanders looked at each other, all seeing a look of surprise on each other's faces.

"This Sand Barbarian Yu is not simple; no wonder the Central Kingdom envoy named her for capture." Old Zhu muttered.

The Queen Mother didn't stop, "Yu girl also said that our Sand Barbarians have advantages. That is, we are too weak and too barbarian, not worth the Great Qin iron cavalry coming out in person.

As long as we migrate a few hundred or a thousand miles north, the Shu Kingdom's—"

The Queen Mother paused.

That day, Xiao Yu said "the wine-bag and rice-sack of Southern Shu."

But how dare she say that in front of the "iron-clad devils"?

Sigh, although Yu girl is smart and guessed today's catastrophe, she ultimately lacks experience, actually thinking that the Shu Kingdom is no match for the Thirty-Six Country Alliance, just a bunch of wine-bags, rice-sacks, and clay chickens and pottery dogs.

She really should have let her see the power of the "iron-clad devils."

"She said, the Shu Kingdom lords definitely wouldn't waste too much time in the northern wilderness for the sake of a tiny Sand Barbarian tribe."

"You didn't leave; did she leave the sand dunes alone... or with a part of the people willing to go?"

General Guan asked, then immediately shook his head, muttering to himself: "If Sand Barbarian Yu had left the sand dunes, Little Daoist Qingsong wouldn't have let me come over."

"We didn't leave; the sand dunes only have the old and weak left, and they can't walk at all, nor do they dare to walk.

The north is a piece of wild wilderness; who knows how many mountain spirits, wild monsters, wolves, and tigers are there.

Without tribal warriors to protect us, what are the old, disabled, and sick if not food?

Yu girl also understands this.

She couldn't persuade us, and she didn't dare to leave the sand dunes alone.

Hmm, she didn't leave the sand dunes, but she moved her tent to an earth cave seven or eight miles away from the sand dunes."

Speaking of this, the Queen Mother was stunned for a moment, then slapped her thigh, scolding: "What a heartless beast, what a cunning bastard! Today I finally understand; whether it's the iron cavalry of the Central Kingdom or the generals of the Great Shu Kingdom, to come to our sand dunes, they must come from the south.

She hid in the north earth cave, letting us block in the very front, and we are numerous, most attracting attention.

If there is a change in the sand dunes, that little beast can not only immediately perceive it but also retreat calmly.

Such a wonderful arrangement, and she didn't even call this Queen Mother; I am so angry!!!

General, hurry up and capture her, don't let her escape!!!"

With the last shout, the Queen Mother shouted with a ferocious and desperate face.

"Swoosh~~~" General Guan raised his right hand, shaking his wrist lightly, and the "snake flame whip" that had whipped the pig-eyed knight flew out from his sleeve again, like a venomous dragon, wrapping around the old barbarian woman's neck once, then pulling lightly.

Like pulling a radish from the ground, that old head left the neck and flew high into the sky.

"Plop~~" A few seconds later, the Queen Mother's head rolled to the ground.

The ferocious expression stiffened on the old face, gradually replaced by confusion and fear... halfway, and then she died completely.

The Sand Barbarians were silent as cicadas in winter.

"Pfft!" Old Zhu spat on the ground, scolding: "What kind of virtue, a lowly barbarian woman, daring to shout at the General, really thinking she is a Queen Mother?"

Beheading the Queen Mother with a whip, General Guan seemed to have calmed down a bit, saying indifferently: "Where is the earth cave where Sand Barbarian Yu is?"

"My lord, this slave will lead the way for you."

"My lord, this little one knows where the earth cave is, please go this way."

"My lord, I am familiar with the road, I am willing to help you capture Sand Barbarian Yu!"

The old Sand Barbarians scrambled to be the first to volunteer to be guides.

General Guan raised his right hand, lifting his faceplate elegantly.

His face was fair, square, with a full forehead, a nose like a hanging gall, a wide mouth and large ears, and a five-willow long beard fluttering to his chest, with an heroic, upright, and clear-eyed temperament rushing toward them.

That pair of eyes was particularly attractive, extremely clear, like a clear spring; there was divine light in the eyes, extremely bright, as if stars from the sky had been taken and put into the eye sockets.

Also wearing a faceplate, the pig-eyed knight and this General Guan were two complete extremes.

The pig-eyed knight was covering ugliness, while General Guan made people suspect he was hiding beauty.

Some barbarian women stared straight at him.

Even the male Sand Barbarians couldn't help but feel awe, thinking "truly a heavenly man, worthy of being a tiger general of the Central Kingdom."

"Just point in a general direction; no one can escape this general's immortal pupils." General Guan said indifferently.

The Sand Barbarians didn't understand.

The iron-clad knights all showed looks of realization and relief.

"Don't be dazed, Great General Guan has the eyes of an immortal, capable of peering into the Heavenly Palace above and observing the Nine Underworlds below, with a thousand-mile radius like looking at patterns on the palm." Old Zhu shouted loudly to the Sand Barbarians.

The rest of the black-armored knights also said flattering words one after another, but their expressions and demeanor were very sincere.

Clearly, they truly believed in General Guan's immortal eyes.

Only the pig-eyed knight Song Changqing stared fixedly at General Guan's "immortal pupils" for a good while, watching until his body trembled slightly and his mouth began to pant, before lowering his head, with only his fists still clenched tightly, and even drops of fresh blood seeping from between his fingers.

Too much force, his nails had pierced his palms.

"Swoosh!"

General Guan widened his eyes slightly, and golden light as thick as a bowl shot out from his eyes.

The golden light was three zhang long, and as General Guan turned his head, it swept across the sand dune forest.

During the sweeping process, it even brought out a slight "buzzing" sound in the air, as if a Jedi was waving a lightsaber.

Everyone covered their eyes, their bodies shrinking back, completely unable to look directly at the golden light. ===== CHAPTER 5 =====

During the sweeping process, it even brought out a faint "buzzing" sound in the air, as if a Jedi Knight were waving a lightsaber.

Everyone covered their eyes and shrank back, completely unable to look directly at the golden light.