Chapter 108: No Prisoners, Leave None Alive

Chapter 108: No Prisoners, Leave None Alive

After the Turk on the altar announced the beginning.

He saw the five slaves showed no intention of moving.

The Turk on the altar immediately drew out a whip filled with barbs and walked to the side of the five slaves.

“What the hell are you all waiting for? Move!”

After saying this, he swung the whip in his hand and lashed it once on the body of the old man at the front.

Just one lash. The whip with barbs struck the old man’s body, tearing open his skin and flesh instantly, creating a horrifying gash.

This old man was already skin and bones. After being whipped like this, one could even faintly see the white bone.

The old man gritted his teeth in pain and simply stopped moving, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing desperately to the Turk. “Turk master, please, spare my granddaughter, she… she is pregnant! It’s… it’s the child of a noble Turk prince, I beg you, spare her, spare her!”

The old man said this while kowtowing towards the Turk on the altar.

After hearing the old man’s words, the Turk’s eyes suddenly sharpened.

He looked over the remaining four people on the platform, finally resting his gaze on a girl covered in filth who was now trembling all over.

The Turk walked up to the girl and squatted in front of her. “He was talking about you?”

The girl was shaking violently from fear and nodded.

The Turk continued asking, “You’re quite lucky! Which prince favored you?”

The girl’s face turned deathly pale as she stammered, “It… it was… the third… third prince…”

The Turk nodded, squatting in front of the girl, his left hand pinching her face.

He also saw the girl’s swollen belly!

Immediately, his right hand produced a small knife, which he stabbed into the girl’s stomach and made a horizontal cut.

The girl’s eyes widened in pain as she looked down at her own abdomen.

Then she began to scream in agony. “Ah…”

The Turk had already reached his hand inside, rummaged around in her womb, pulled out an embryo, and yanked it out forcefully.

“How can such a humble body as yours carry our noble Turk bloodline!”

As he said this, he looked down from the altar. “She is already filthy, no longer worthy to be a sacrifice to the Celestial God! Chop her up and drag her down to feed the dogs!”

Several Turk soldiers ran up from below the altar, holding large chopping knives.

The old man to the side, his eyes bloodshot, cried out, “You sons of bitches, you have no humanity! I’ll fight you…”

As the old man spoke, he tried to rise and resist. The Turk on the altar raised his curved blade and swung it horizontally, cutting towards the old man’s legs.

The Turk’s blade was very sharp. The old man’s legs were severed instantly.

Losing his balance, the old man fell straight to the ground.

Seeing this, the Turks below the altar cheered excitedly!

The family members of the tribal chiefs shouted from below!

“You lowly scum, you dare resist! Hurry! Originally, you could have gone honorably to sacrifice to the great Celestial God, to cleanse your filthy bodies and souls! Now, I strip you of that right!”

“Priest, this worthless scum wanted to save his granddaughter, right? Let our dogs go up on the altar and eat his granddaughter!”

The Turk priest heard the words of these chiefs’ family members and respectfully placed a hand on his chest in salute.

Soon after, those few Turk soldiers led six large dogs. These dogs clearly were used to eating such things.

Smelling the blood, their eyes turned red, they opened their mouths wide, drooling nonstop.

The Turk soldiers led the dogs to the girl’s side.

The dogs immediately pounced on her, going straight for the internal organs.

The girl screamed in terror…

The old man whose legs had been cut off cried out in agony, “You beasts, come at me…”

The Turk priest laughed nearby, holding a knife to the old man’s face. “You’re next!”

Then, he looked again at the slaves below the altar!

“You lowly scum of the Xiao Kingdom, being allowed to sacrifice to the Celestial God is an honor for you. Anyone who dares defy our great Turks will end up like them!”

The scenes on the altar were truly horrifying to watch—the girl’s screams and the sound of those dogs gnawing on a living body.

It all filled them with fear.

Compared to being eaten alive by dogs, the sins of the sacrifice seemed like a kind of relief.

The Turk priest raised his knife. “Long live the Turks!”

The Turks below the altar all shouted, “Long live the Turks!”

Xiu!

“Tu… pfft…”

Before the Turk priest could finish speaking, an arrowhead shot straight through his throat.

He looked with disbelief at the arrowhead protruding from his neck.

He opened his mouth to speak but could make no sound, only blood gushing out continuously!

…

Just then, from a few hundred meters away, came the sound of chaotic hoofbeats.

Xiao Ce said to Da Lei beside him, “Nice shot!”

“Everyone, aim at those Turks wearing clothes! Kill them all! Leave none alive!”

Xiao Ce did not know what had happened. They had just arrived when they saw that Turk priest shouting “Long Live.”

So he had Da Lei take him out…

Xiao Ce now stood with both feet in the stirrups, having already taken the compound bow from his back, drawing an arrow and nocking it.

All in one smooth motion.

He wasn’t afraid of hitting the wrong people, because it was easy to tell—the slaves were bare-chested, kneeling on the ground.

While the Turks all wore clothes.

The Turks at the scene hadn’t yet snapped out of their shock when they heard a chorus of shouts.

They were still looking towards the direction of the sound.

As they looked, over a thousand arrowheads were loosed together, letting out an eerie shriek in the darkness.

By the time they realized they were arrows, it was too late.

Thud… thud… thud…

They wore no leather armor. These high-speed arrowheads pierced straight through their bodies.

“Ah… enemy attack! Enemy attack…”

Some died on the spot; those who survived began to shout.

But before they could react in any way.

The second wave of arrowheads arrived. They looked at these arrowheads in despair!

They saw a group of cavalry like ghosts. They didn’t even see who the attackers were before they died here.

Xiao Ce’s cavalry had surrounded the area. After tightening the encirclement.

Nine out of ten Turks on the scene died from the two volleys of arrows.

Xiao Ce looked at the corpses lying everywhere, and those who were lucky to survive but were seriously injured, now wailing.

Some of them called out to Xiao Ce’s cavalry, “Who are you… which tribe are you from, daring to ambush our Helu Tribe! Aren’t you afraid of retaliation from our Helu Tribe?”

Xiao Ce snorted coldly. “Hmph… This Prince is the Eldest Prince of the Xiao Kingdom, the new King of Northern Desert, Xiao Ce! I am here to slaughter all you Turk dogs!”

As he spoke, Xiao Ce drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and shot, hitting right between the eyebrows.

“Men, quickly clean the battlefield, retrieve the arrowheads, and remember to cut off their ears to claim rewards later! No prisoners, leave none alive!”

Xiao Ce said coldly.

The soldiers excitedly swarmed forward, each cutting off the left ears from the corpses!

Xiao Ce said with a face full of disdain, “Is this the so-called arrogant, invincible Turks?”

Da Lei said at his side, “Prince, it was their Tengri sacrifice that helped us. Gathering all the people of one of their sub-tribes together, surrounding and killing them, wasn’t it just like cutting vegetables?”

Xiao Ce smiled and nodded. “Indeed! Zhang Yunqing, is this all the people of one tribe?”

Zhang Yunqing bowed. “Reporting to the Prince, normally a sub-tribe would have around two thousand people. It seems most of them have been conscripted to attack the Northern Desert!”

Xiao Ce nodded. His attention was now drawn by a series of pitiful, sharp cries from the side of the altar.

His gaze also turned to the slaves at the altar. Over a thousand slaves were now fearfully huddled together.

On the altar were several Turk corpses and a few dogs. These dogs didn’t care and were eating the Turk corpses.

Xiao Ce walked forward, and with Da Lei and the others, they rapidly fired their repeating crossbows, killing all the dogs.

Now these Northern Desert slaves huddled together, looking at Xiao Ce and his men in fear.

Although Xiao Ce called himself the Eldest Prince of the Xiao Kingdom, these slaves didn’t think so.

First, Xiao Ce and his men wore strange clothing.

Also, the face paint Xiao Ce had them wear made them all look like ghosts.

Xiao Ce directly walked onto the altar, searching for the source of the mournful cries.

He saw the old man’s horrifying wounds.

Before Xiao Ce could even speak, just a glance, and Da Lei stepped forward to help treat the old man’s wounds.

Xiao Ce looked at the boiling cauldron on one side, his gaze turning cold, looking at the slaves huddled together below the altar.

“Everyone, don’t be afraid! I am your king. I have come to save you!”

The slaves looked at Xiao Ce with eyes full of fear.

Zhang Yunqing said at the side, “This is the King of Northern Desert. Now, the Four Prefectures and Thirty-Nine Cities of the Northern Desert have all been liberated under the leadership of the new king…”

Zhang Yunqing on the platform boasted enthusiastically about Xiao Ce’s achievements.

However, Xiao Ce did not see even a glimmer of hope in the eyes of these slaves.

What Zhang Yunqing said seemed to have nothing to do with them.

Xiao Ce said to Zhang Yunqing, “Enough, these people are all scared out of their wits… No matter how much you say, it’s useless! There should be more slaves here than just these…”

Zhang Yunqing nodded. “That should be so… There should be several thousand at least…”

At this moment, the old man who had been bandaged by Da Lei trembled as he spoke, “Prince… are you… are you really the new King of Northern Desert? Have you come to save us?”

Xiao Ce listened and spoke to the old man, whose face was pale and body weak. “Old man! Did you not see? Those Turks who bullied and humiliated you, I have killed them all! I came to the Turkic lands to kill all the Turk dogs!”

Hearing Xiao Ce’s words, the old man burst into loud sobs. “My poor, ill-fated granddaughter, it was I who harmed you… If only I had delayed a little longer… waited for the Prince to come, you wouldn’t have had to die…”

The old man dragged his body over to where the girl, now with only half her body left, lay…

From the old man’s weeping account, Xiao Ce learned about the cruel, inhuman scene that had just taken place.

Xiao Ce looked grimly at the old man. “These Turk dogs are not human! Old sir, I’m sorry. This Prince arrived too late.”