"It's not that I can't believe it. Shen Nishang spoke, not looking at anyone else, just looking at the second patriarch opposite, "I can trust both of them, but the less you know about some things, maybe it's better." Maybe one day I'll tell them, but it's not necessary now. ”

"How many companions do you have?" the second patriarch suddenly asked, "Are there any other border clans?"

Shen Nishang exchanged glances, and Luo Cai spoke the truth: "There are eleven people in total, five of us here, and two of them, one is on the other side of the river, and the other is at the foot of Tianzhu Mountain." At first, we always thought that your clan land was in Tianzhu Mountain, but later when we encountered the snow mountain, we got angry, and some of our companions were injured, so we withdrew here to recuperate, and left people on the side of Tianzhu Mountain. It's just that I didn't expect your clan land to be here, and I haven't had time to inform them there. The border tribes are all here, and the rest of the companions are Middle-earthese, but they are all trustworthy. ”

Elder Gatso had a look of distrust on his face.

Luo Cai smiled lightly: "I've always had a thing to say, although there are only three of us border clans who come today, but we haven't been with our companions for a day or two, I couldn't trust the Middle-earth people before, but later I found out that there are also people in the Middle Earth who can be trusted." You're not the first of the Snow Clan, this girl-"

Luo Cai pointed at Shen Nishang and then at Ling Fei: "...... Tong Ling Fei had entered the clan land of the Companion Beast Clan half a year ago, and lived for most of the month, and in the first two months, she sent a batch of supplies to the Companion Beast Clan with her own money, and later she also went to my Qishan clan land with her fellow Middle-earth people - even if the Middle-earth people want to make up their minds, it will be your Snow Clan's turn in the end. The patriarch and priest of the companion beast clan will look away, and the old patriarch of my Qishan clan will not look away, what else do you have to worry about?"

Luo Cai's words really surprised the other party.

"You ...... Have you ever been to the Companion Beast Clan?" the second patriarch asked in a stiff Middle-earth dialect, and his gaze was at Ling Fei.

"Been there. Ling Fei seemed to be a little distracted, and only raised his head after a while, and nodded lightly, "I went in July this year." ”

"Companion Beast Clan, now, how are you?" the second patriarch asked again, still looking at Ling Fei.

"It's not very good, there are many people but there is not enough arable land in the places where they live, there is not enough food to eat, and there is a shortage of salt and wire. Ling Fei replied calmly, paused and added lightly, "But the people are very nice, simple and hospitable." ”

The second patriarch slowly bowed his head thoughtfully.

Elder Gyatso's expression on the side also became a little different, and he lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

The atmosphere in the cave fell silent for a while.

Luo Cai calmed down after speaking, saw the other party's looseness, and now only waited for the final speech.

After a moment of silence, the second patriarch sighed softly: "Dunzhu, take out the things." ”

Dunzhu placed two things on the stone table.

It was the codex and the ebony box that they had taken from Shen Nishang.

Dunzhu opened the box.

The second patriarch took out the parchment inside, slowly opened it to reveal the blurred handwriting inside, the expression on his face became a little strange, and he looked at the parchment for a moment before raising his eyelids: "The guests are from outside, I wonder if there is a way to restore the content on it?"

The Middle-earth dialect used by the two patriarchs.

The four of them were stunned, and they all shook their heads.

With this shaking of his head, not only the two old men of the Snow Clan on the opposite side, but even the three young Snow Clan men on the side, including Dunzhu, showed extremely disappointed expressions.

Shen Nishang was a little surprised.

The parchment scroll was Gongga's last words, but it was clear that they were more important to the Snow Clan than they had anticipated.

A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Shen Nishang tentatively spoke: "Ling Wen's predecessor's codex said that the Snow Clan has encountered an unprecedented crisis, and Gongga went to Cuowenbu Lake for this reason, but you want to find a solution from the words left by Gongga-Could it be that the crisis of the Snow Clan is still there?

Gyatso glanced at Shen Nishang in silence.

This glance made Shen Nishang firm in her own guess.

"Gongga is the brother of the patriarch, I don't know what the relationship is with the two patriarchs?" Shen Nishang looked at the second patriarch and asked softly.

"Gongga is the elder brother of the patriarch and my own brother. The snow-white bearded elder of the second clan looked at the void with long eyes, and said slowly, "We are three brothers, I am the second, Gongga is more than ten years younger than me and my eldest brother, and he is our youngest brother. My eldest brother is the real patriarch of the Snow Clan, eighty years ago the Snow Clan was divided into two, half of the clan followed me out of their original clan land and came here, and the rest of the clan stayed with my eldest brother, and Gongga was among them—from that day on, I never saw my two brothers again, nor did I see any of my other clansmen. The brothers are separated, and the Snow Clan is falling apart...... For thousands of years, the Snow Clan has always been one...... I'm a sinner of the Snow Clan!"

The second patriarch didn't shed tears, but the look on his face looked more uncomfortable than tears.

The second patriarch, who didn't have much emotion from beginning to end, said such a thing all at once, and there was a touch of loneliness and sadness all over his body, which made Shen Nishang and the others stunned for a while.

This stunned was not only because of the expressions of the two patriarchs, but also because of the information revealed in the words.

"Second Patriarch!"

"The ...... of the Second Patriarch"

Gatso and Dunzhu spoke in unison, their faces all looking the same sad.

The Snow Clan split in two?

Could it be that this is what Gonggar is referring to when he speaks of crisis?

It should be, but it won't be that simple.

After the shock, Shen Nishang thought deeply in her heart, the division of the Snow Clan into two is just a result, and the reason for the result is the key.

So what caused the Snow Clan, which had been harmonious for thousands of years, to fall apart?

Shen Nishang recalled some of the things related to the Snow Clan mentioned by Sai Gelang.

Although there are exceptions to the position of the patriarch of the Eighteen Border Clans, most of them are hereditary.

The same goes for the Snow Clan.

And most of the eighteen border tribes also have the position of priest, and most of the priests have a very high status in the clan, but compared to the position of the patriarch, some of the priests in the border clan have a higher status, like the soul clan, and some priests have the status below the patriarch, like the ghost clan and the Qishan clan, while some have the same status, like the companion beast clan she has seen.

The Snow Clan is the same as the Soul Clan, and although the status of the priest is not as supreme as that of the Soul Clan, it is also higher than the position of the patriarch.

For the hereditary position of patriarch, only the priest has the right to convene a council of elders, and when the patriarch is incompetent, he will remove the title of the current patriarch and elect a new patriarch.

Wangdui did not recognize his true patriarch of the Snow Clan, that is to say, he was not recognized by the priest, and said that he was a sinner of the Snow Clan, it seems that the split of the Snow Clan should be directly related to Wangdui, and the priest did not side with Wangdui - eighty years ago......