The Little Rakshasa King did not speak, but merely extended his hand towards Meng Tuoluo.
Meng Tuoluo stepped forward to take it, then stood up.
The Little Rakshasa King rose from his throne, and instantly it was as if wind and clouds surged.
His height of roughly two metres made Meng Tuoluo, at just over one metre seventy beside him, appear petite and alluring.
“Long live the Rakshasa royal family, long live, long live.”
All the guests in the hall shouted in unison.
The Wedding Dance Moon Sacrifice was formally concluded.
Inside the magnificent main hall.
The Little Rakshasa King, plus his principal wife and eighteen concubines, all twenty of his women were inside the hall.
His principal wife Ni Shang was not of the Rakshasa race, but a princess of the Yun’e race.
The Yun’e race, one of the thirteen demon races under the Demon Emperor, liked to live on mountaintops above ten thousand metres altitude, keeping company with thunder, lightning, and accumulated snow year round. They possessed powerful ice-cold energy, and a minority even possessed electrical energy.
Moreover, the women of the Yun’e race had several characteristics. First, they were extremely white, as white as snow. Second, they had snowy white fine fur behind their ears, and tails growing behind their buttocks, like fox tails yet also like snow eagle tails.
The women of the Yun’e race were not only beautiful, but also possessed very elegant temperament, without much demonic aura.
Among the thirteen demon races, the Yun’e race was the one with the most beauties, and also the women most desired by the royal families of other territories.
Of course, the race that could overturn all living beings even more was the Witch race.
However, the people of the Witch race were as elusive as dragons, and never married, as they could reproduce offspring on their own.
At this moment, the Little Rakshasa King’s principal consort Ni Shang was dressed in snow-white fox fur, appearing dignified, elegant, and stunningly beautiful. Her snow-white delicate body was plump and alluring, her skin so tender it seemed it would break with a puff, truly like white snow.
She sat on the Little Rakshasa King’s left side.
Meng Tuoluo wore a purple magnificent long skirt, standing on the Little Rakshasa King’s right side. Compared to Principal Consort Ni Shang, her face was even more gorgeous and dazzling, and her figure even more seductive and devilish.
The remaining seventeen women, including Ninian, all knelt below.
It was truly ironic. As the Little Rakshasa King’s concubine, this was actually her first time entering the Little Rakshasa King’s residence, and it was to attend his wedding.
Moreover, it was also her first time seeing the Little Rakshasa King’s principal consort.
“Greetings Principal Consort, Second Consort.” The seventeen concubines knelt neatly and kowtowed.
Principal Consort Ni Shang said, “His Highness the Crown Prince once had a dream. In the dream there was a woman. He could not remember her appearance, only a vague feeling, only a special energy aura. So he opened a selection meeting, and any woman who vaguely resembled this memory, this feeling, he kept and took as a concubine.”
At this moment, the many women below, including Ninian, finally understood why they had been able to marry the Little Rakshasa King as concubines.
Ni Shang said, “But after truly marrying and making contact, he discovered it was not them. Thus His Highness kept searching, until today, when he finally met this person from his dreams, and it is Princess Consort Meng Tuoluo.”
Meng Tuoluo was actually using her real name.
But if Lanling were here, he would certainly be doubtful of Princess Consort Ni Shang’s words.
That was right, Meng Tuoluo was very beautiful, especially after being embraced and kissed by Princess Na Xue and turned into a vampire demon race. Her beauty was even more filled with magical power.
But she was still not enough to become the person in the Little Rakshasa King’s dreams.
Or rather, the Little Rakshasa King had no reason whatsoever to dream of her.
Then why did the Little Rakshasa King treat Meng Tuoluo so generously, even sacrificing several thousand people to perform a Wedding Dance Moon Sacrifice for her?
This was a mystery.
Principal Consort Ni Shang said, “Since His Highness has found the person from his dreams, the selection stops, and it is also confirmed that you seventeen are not the person from his dreams. Since that is so, you may all go home.”
When these words came out, the seventeen women in the hall trembled, and tears gushed out madly.
Princess Consort Ni Shang said, “Each person may take two hundred thousand gold coins, sufficient for you to return home and live a life of wealth and honour for a lifetime.”
Immediately, the women below wept uncontrollably.
Ninian did not want to cry, but still could not help crying.
After these women married the Little Rakshasa King, although the name did not match the reality, and they were not even as good as a household slave of the Little Rakshasa King’s residence, they bore the title of the Little Rakshasa King’s concubine, with endless wealth and honour, and everyone in Rakshasa City would kneel upon seeing them.
Now, being directly swept out the door, they truly had nothing, apart from the two hundred thousand gold coins.
Princess Consort Ni Shang said, “For the sake of the Rakshasa royal family’s reputation, after you return home you may not marry, nor may you engage in illicit relations with any man. Otherwise, your family, your tribe, including the family and tribe of the man you engaged in illicit relations with, will be exterminated to the last.”
When these words came out, the seventeen women below howled and wept even more.
Not only were they swept out the door, but even their entire lives were ruined.
“Someone come, take these seventeen women away. Three carriages for each person, loaded with gold coins and fine silks, dispatch fifty Rakshasa City cavalry to escort them home,” Princess Consort Ni Shang ordered.
Immediately, seventeen female warriors with powerful martial skills walked in, directly lifting these seventeen women and taking them away like chicks.
Only tears all over the floor and weeping throughout the hall remained.
Meng Tuoluo quietly watched everything. She could easily infer that at least half of these seventeen women could not endure such a huge fall from grace and blow, and would certainly commit suicide on the road.
Previously, although they were not even as good as household slaves of the Little Rakshasa King’s residence, at least the people in their families and tribes did not know, and still thought they had married the Little Rakshasa King and held a lofty status. Now being swept out the door and sent back to their hometowns, who knew how much criticism and ridicule they would face.
Apart from a minority of women, most could not endure it and could only seek death.
Ni Shang said to Meng Tuoluo, “Sister, is this handling appropriate?”
“Very appropriate,” Meng Tuoluo said.
At this moment, a robust female warrior stepped forward and said, “Princess Sha Yan requests an audience.”
The Little Rakshasa King nodded.
A moment later, Princess Sha Yan arrived at the main hall with her fiance Nai Shu, bowed to the Little Rakshasa King, and said, “Greetings royal brother.”
And Nai Shu prostrated himself completely, kneeling on the ground.
“What matter?” The Little Rakshasa King finally spoke. This was the first time he had spoken this evening.
His voice was very strange, like a kind of energy resonance, rather than a produced sound.
Because his voice seemed to resound inside your brain.
Princess Sha Yan said, “A near-human exile named Lanling established the Flame Demon Tribe on Black Devil Banner territory. Nai Shu assembled one hundred and twenty thousand troops from the Silver Alliance to exterminate them, but suffered a great defeat, with the entire army annihilated.”
The Little Rakshasa King’s face still had no expression whatsoever, but he turned his gaze towards Nai Shu.
Nai Shu immediately kowtowed and said, “Reporting to Your Highness, my one hundred and twenty thousand strong army was about to destroy the Flame Demon Tribe. But the near-human Lanling suddenly appeared leading several thousand centaur troops, and exterminated nearly one hundred thousand of our troops to the last.”
At this moment, the Little Rakshasa King’s sculpture-like face finally changed slightly, his eyes narrowing.
Centaurs.
This was the proudest, most cruel, and most selfish race in the southern barbarian world. They would actually obey the command of a near-human?
Princess Sha Yan said, “Royal brother, Nai Shu was sent by me to exterminate Lanling. This matter concerns the dignity of our Rakshasa royal family. I beg royal brother to issue an edict to the Black Devil Banner, allowing Nai Shu to lead a million strong army to exterminate the Flame Demon Tribe.”
The Little Rakshasa King did not answer, but turned his gaze towards Meng Tuoluo.
Meng Tuoluo said, “Your servant knows of the Flame Demon Tribe. Over three thousand years ago, an incomparably powerful human descended upon the northern barbarian wilderness, saw all near-humans suffering bullying, and thus established the Flame Demon Tribe, sheltering all near-humans. In just a few short decades, the Flame Demon Tribe became the incomparably powerful Flame Demon Empire, dominating the entire northern barbarian wilderness. However, this person, being human, felt a mission to liberate his own kind, so he went north to the human kingdom, unified the entire human territory with supreme martial power, established the powerful Flame Dragon Empire, and was revered by the world as the Dragon Emperor, the founder of all human civilisation.”
The Little Rakshasa King nodded, indicating for Meng Tuoluo to continue.
Meng Tuoluo said, “This person rebuilding the Flame Demon Tribe clearly intends to inherit the Dragon Emperor’s legacy, awaken the hearts of near-human exiles for their homeland, and hopes to gain the allegiance of all near-human exiles.”
The Little Rakshasa King said, “Then in your opinion, should this Lanling, this Flame Demon Tribe, be exterminated?”
Meng Tuoluo paused for half a second.
In this half second, countless thoughts raced through her mind.
If following her heart, of course they should not be exterminated.
Although she had betrayed her promise and did not go to pledge allegiance to Lanling, she still did not wish for Lanling to encounter the misfortune of destruction.
But for her own interests, for her own position, she should agree to exterminate Lanling and the Flame Demon Tribe.
What was her position? She was the Little Rakshasa King’s second consort.
She must seize every opportunity to deepen her impression in the Little Rakshasa King’s heart.
Because the Little Rakshasa King was the person chosen by Princess Na Xue, the person who was to unify the entire southern barbarian wilderness.
“The dignity of the Rakshasa royal family cannot be violated,” Meng Tuoluo said.
The Little Rakshasa King said, “You think they should be exterminated?”
Meng Tuoluo’s heart tightened, then she said, “Yes, they should be exterminated.”
The Little Rakshasa King nodded and said, “Since that is so, exterminate them.”
Nai Shu bowed once more, kowtowing and saying, “Many thanks to the Crown Prince, many thanks to the Princess Consort.”
The Little Rakshasa King said, “Draft the edict.”
“Yes,” Princess Consort Ni Shang said, then personally went to grind ink and write the edict.
This edict was for the Black Devil Banner Lord. The edict was very simple, ordering all tribes in Black Devil Banner territory to send troops to exterminate the Flame Demon Tribe and behead Lanling.
After the edict was written, Princess Consort Ni Shang knelt down and presented it to the Little Rakshasa King.
The Little Rakshasa King took the brush and signed on the edict, “Rakshasa Crown Prince.”
Instantly, a signature filled with energy marks appeared on this royal edict.
The four characters “Rakshasa Crown Prince” were elegant and mysterious, powerful and domineering, almost seeming to leap off the paper.
Merely seeing these four characters made one feel a powerful energy majesty, and one could not help but feel one’s knees go weak and want to kneel.
This Little Rakshasa King’s cultivation could no longer be described as unfathomable.
Nai Shu knelt prostrate on the ground, both hands raised high, receiving the royal edict signed by the Little Rakshasa King.
With this edict, no one in the entire Black Devil Banner would dare to defy him, and he could assemble a million strong army to exterminate the Flame Demon Tribe and tear Lanling into ten thousand pieces.
Holding the edict, Nai Shu kept bowing and retreating, only daring to turn around and straighten his waist slightly when he reached a place where the Little Rakshasa King could not see him, and carefully examined the edict.
Instantly, the four characters “Rakshasa Crown Prince” were filled with powerful energy rushing towards him, actually making Nai Shu unable to breathe for a full three seconds.
This was not a feeling, but truly an energy that suppressed him so he could not breathe for three seconds.
He was a peak Demon Martial Grandmaster, only half a step away from Demon Sect, yet he was suppressed by the Little Rakshasa King’s four characters to the point of being unable to breathe.
How powerful was the Little Rakshasa King’s cultivation? Only heaven truly knew.
Returning to the princess’s residence.
Nai Shu wanted to climb into Princess Sha Yan’s bed, using his body to repay her kindness.
But he was pushed down by Princess Sha Yan.
“Bring me that near-human’s head. If you fail again this time, you should know the consequences,” Princess Sha Yan said coldly.
“Yes,” Nai Shu knelt humbly.
If he failed again this time, what would the consequences be?
There was no need to even think about it. Consequences more terrible than death. Falling directly from the peak into hell, never to be reincarnated for all eternity.
The catastrophe in the Silver Alliance territory continued.
Compared to the Chimera Tribe, the Ankara Tribe’s resistance was somewhat fiercer.
At least, they fought.
Chief Alfonso led over two thousand soldiers and over twenty thousand tribal people, bravely resisting the invasion of the centaur legion and the Flame Demon Tribe cavalry.
However, this resistance lasted only a few minutes.
A single charge by the centaur tribe completely shattered the Ankara Tribe’s defences.
In just a few short minutes, they killed over ten thousand Ankara Tribe people.
They killed until all the Ankara Tribe people wailed like ghosts and howled like wolves.
Then came another round of plundering, looting all the Ankara Tribe’s grain, all their steel, all their cloth, all their gold coins clean.
Like the Chimera Tribe, all the clothes on everyone’s bodies were stripped off.
Finally, a fire burned all the Ankara Tribe’s houses clean.
And Chief Alfonso was held down and made to kneel before Lanling.
Alfonso was very brave, and his martial skill was also very high.
But his resistance was easily pressed to the ground by Khan Xie Li.
Then, his three sons and three daughters were brought before him, and Gou Li’s sharp sword was placed across their necks.
“I will ask you three times in total. The first time I kill one child, the second time two, the third time three,” Lanling asked. “First time, Alfonso, are you willing to surrender?”
The expressionless Gou Li directly placed the sharp sword on Alfonso’s youngest son’s neck.
He was only five years old this year, Alfonso’s youngest son.
Alfonso wanted to curse loudly, wanted to fight to the end, but seeing his youngest son’s frightened face, he immediately burst into tears and said, “I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender.”
Then he directly collapsed to the ground.
“Where is that female priestess Yin Ji under your command?” Lanling asked.
Alfonso said trembling, “She, she ran away. I gave her to Nai Shu, she resisted, and destroyed her own appearance. Nai Shu was furious and locked her in the dungeon. But in the middle of the night, someone released her.”
Lanling said, “Where did she run?”
Alfonso said, “I don’t know, I really don’t know.”
“I know,” a thin woman rose and said. “Lord Lanling, Yin Ji was released by me. If I tell you, can you return my child to me?”
Lanling loosened his hand.
That five-year-old boy immediately rushed into his mother’s arms.
However, he had just wandered around the gates of hell, yet he did not know fear at all, instead looking at Lanling with curious eyes.
His eyes were very large. Although not handsome, he looked sturdy and brave.
Lanling immediately made a funny face at him.
“Giggle.” The boy laughed without a care in the world.
Alfonso’s wife said, “Yin Ji escaped on my horse. I originally thought she would flee to the Flame Demon Tribe, but she actually ran to a cave near the Ankara Tribe and stayed there. When I found her, her whole body was burning hot and she was on the verge of death. If she had not seen my horse, she would have died long ago.”
Lanling said, “Take me to find her.”
“Yes,” Alfonso’s wife said.
Then, she handed her son to a servant beside her, mounted a horse, and rode towards the southwest.
Lanling closely followed.
He had not expected that this Yin Ji would be so stubborn, preferring to die of illness outside rather than go to the Flame Demon Tribe.