"Why aren't they attacking? They haven't even said a word."
Before long, the members of the Chu Heavenly Clan had also noticed the strange behavior of the Green Feather Monster Clan.
They could see the hatred on the faces of the Burning Field Monster Clan — the kind of loathing that made it clear they wanted to flay them alive, eyes brimming with killing intent.
They could also see the contempt and disdain that the Green Feather Monster Clan members showed toward them.
But they couldn't understand it. If the Burning Field Monster Clan and the Green Feather Monster Clan had both come to deal with them, why weren't they attacking immediately? Why hadn't they even uttered a single word?
Faced with this bizarre behavior from the Green Feather Monster Clan, the members of the Chu Heavenly Clan only grew more uneasy.
"Look — isn't that Chu Hongyi?"
Suddenly, someone cried out in alarm.
They spotted Chu Hongyi and his two companions flying over at high speed, joining the ranks of the Green Feather Monster Clan and the Burning Field Monster Clan.
"Have they lost their minds?"
The members of the Chu Heavenly Clan were utterly baffled by their actions.
Given the hostile relationship between the Green Feather Monster Clan and the Chu Heavenly Clan, the three of them had just walked straight into the tiger's den — delivering themselves on a silver platter, practically begging for death.
"Wait, look at the tokens at their waists."
However, it wasn't long before someone with sharp eyes noticed the tokens hanging at Chu Hongyi and his companions' waists.
"Those three... they actually..."
At that moment, the members of the Chu Heavenly Clan were both stunned and furious.
They had noticed that the tokens at Chu Hongyi and his companions' waists were no longer the tokens of the Chu Heavenly Clan — they were the tokens of the Green Feather Monster Clan.
This meant that Chu Hongyi and the other two had defected to the enemy. They had betrayed the Chu Heavenly Clan.
"Chu Hongyi! Have you three gone mad?!"
Suddenly, an enraged voice exploded from within the crowd of the Chu Heavenly Clan.
It was Chu Ping.
At that moment, Chu Ping's face was twisted with fury, and his entire body was trembling with rage.
He had long known that Chu Hongyi and the others were despicable, but he had never imagined they would sink this low.
They had actually discarded the tokens of the Chu Heavenly Clan and donned the tokens of another clan. That was tantamount to renouncing their identity as members of the Chu Heavenly Clan.
This was betrayal. This was treason — a capital offense against the clan.
Chu Ping could not accept this. Nor could he tolerate it.
"Chu Ping, we haven't gone mad. If anyone here has gone mad, it's you lot."
"It was you who betrayed me first, so don't blame me, Chu Hongyi."
"Besides, I warned you not to make enemies of the Burning Field Monster Clan, but you refused to listen."
"So if you want to blame someone, blame yourselves. You made the wrong choice, and now you'll have to bear the consequences."
"Everything that happens to you today, you brought upon yourselves."
Chu Hongyi addressed Chu Ping and the others as he spoke.
There wasn't a shred of sympathy in his words — only mockery and sarcasm.
It was as though he could barely contain his eagerness to watch Chu Ping and the others suffer under the hands of the Green Feather Monster Clan.
"You... you..."
"I can't believe I once considered you my own kin. Chu Ping — I truly was blind."
At that moment, Chu Ping's face had flushed crimson with fury. He was beyond enraged — not just enraged, but utterly heartbroken.
If the earlier words of his fellow clansmen hadn't been enough to wake Chu Ping up, then this had done it. He finally understood what kind of people Chu Hongyi and the others truly were.
And the ones who had opened his eyes — who had shown him the true face of Chu Hongyi and his companions — were none other than the three of them.
But faced with Chu Ping's accusations and the resentful, hateful stares of their fellow clansmen, Chu Hongyi and the others couldn't have cared less.
They had never had any genuine feelings toward Chu Ping and the rest. All they cared about was profit. As for so-called kin — so-called family — they were nothing more than tools to be exploited.
Once those tools had served their purpose, or worse, became a source of displeasure, they would destroy them without a second thought.
These were the true scum of the clan, and Chu Hongyi and his two companions were exactly that kind of scum.