The arrival of the Northern Kingdom's envoys in the Imperial City naturally sent shockwaves through certain circles.
Zheng Xiu also sensed something was different in the air.
To the common folk, the Northern Barbarians were all but demonized.
Some said the Barbarians ate their meat raw and drank their blood, and even practiced cannibalism.
Some said the Barbarians had three heads and six arms, with heads covered in eyes.
Some said the Barbarians could tear a live ox apart, bathe in its blood, and gnaw on its fresh, unadulterated intestines.
Some said that wherever the Barbarians passed, they left no living thing behind, and that they would carry off Daqian women to the wastelands to bear children for all the Barbarians.
It wasn't that the common folk were ignorant. Over the years, the Northern Barbarians had invaded repeatedly. The two nations had clashed several times, and the people of Daqian had suffered terribly, developing an instinctual fear of the Barbarians.
