Alfonso’s wife led the way in front, Lanling closely followed.
By his side followed Khan Xie Li and death warrior Gou Li, two people, completely sufficient to protect Lanling’s safety.
They walked a full twenty-something li, and discovered a cave.
Walking into the cave, inside there was a dim light, a graceful figure lying on a stone slab, motionless, not knowing if alive or dead.
Lanling stepped forward, gently pushed her.
“Mmm…” this person moaned softly, already somewhat delirious.
Turning her body over, instantly Lanling got a huge fright.
That’s right, it was Yin Ji.
This face had five deep knife scars. Although healed by now, the wounds had not been treated, so they healed very crudely and roughly, bright red twisted scars, looking especially horrifying.
Yin Ji’s face, originally as beautiful as Second Madam Si Si, even not inferior to Meng Tuoluo. Moreover this face carried a kind of innocent and ethereal aura, extremely exquisite and beautiful.
Now actually ruined like this, truly made one sigh with regret.
Then checking her forehead, burning hot.
Because of her constitution, the wounds on her face had not become inflamed. What caused her to be on the verge of death and unconscious was internal injuries. According to Alfonso’s confession, she should have been struck by a palm from Nai Shu.
She was originally somewhat thin, now even more painfully thin.
“During this time, I brought her food, brought things to eat, brought medicine,” Alfonso’s wife said.
Lanling nodded. He believed this statement, but Alfonso’s wife also would not care too much about Yin Ji’s life or death, only doing what little she could, not too hard to save.
From his bosom he took out a snow-white medicinal pill.
This was not the Pill King’s work, but also worth a fortune, a holy healing medicine, Snow Spirit Pill.
This was tribute from Khan Xie Li. When he led six thousand centaur troops to defect to Lanling, he brought all the looted treasures and presented them to Lanling.
And this Snow Spirit Pill was looted by the centaurs from a Yun’e race merchant caravan.
The Yun’e race, most living on mountaintops ten thousand metres high, very skilled at concocting pills and brewing medicines. This Snow Spirit Pill was a top-grade pill of the Yun’e race, worth over ten thousand gold coins.
He stuffed the Snow Spirit Pill into Yin Ji’s small mouth, then poured in a mouthful of cool water.
This medicinal pill was indeed overbearing. After entering her body, it actually rapidly repaired her injured internal organs.
In just a short while, Yin Ji’s body temperature dropped.
Her breathing also became much steadier, from unconsciousness becoming deep sleep.
Next, Lanling took out another Blood Origin Pill, feeding it into her mouth.
This Blood Origin Pill was far less valuable than the Snow Spirit Pill, but could replenish vital energy. After such a long time with serious injuries, Yin Ji’s body was already extremely weak.
Putting her face veil on, he carried Yin Ji out, mounted a griffin beast, and returned to the Ankara Tribe.
Although unconscious, Yin Ji still made a slight struggle.
After returning to the Ankara Tribe, Lanling said, “Give Alfonso a horse, let him follow.”
Alfonso climbed onto the war horse with a complex expression, following behind Constantine.
The two men exchanged a glance, let out a long breath, their expressions becoming even more complex.
“Go, go plunder the next tribe.” Lanling loudly ordered.
Immediately, six thousand centaur troops, three thousand Flame Demon Tribe cavalry, left like a gust of wind, charging towards the next tribe.
Leaving over twenty thousand Ankara Tribe people, not a stitch on their bodies, standing in the open ground, trembling.
At this time, all the Ankara Tribe’s houses were still burning fiercely.
Lanling said, “If you don’t want to starve to death or freeze to death, go to the Flame Demon Tribe, kneel outside the city walls.”
When these words fell, Alfonso’s wife said nothing, carrying her youngest son, holding her two daughters’ hands, said, “Go, go to the Flame Demon Tribe with Mummy.”
With the chief’s wife setting an example, the Ankara Tribe people present followed behind her sparsely, walking towards the Flame Demon Tribe.
Three hours later.
Lanling’s army completely looted another tribe.
Another chief knelt before Lanling and pledged allegiance.
At daybreak.
Lanling once again raided a tribe, and this time Duolong wept uncontrollably.
Because this tribe was the former Wild Horse Tribe, his hometown.
Just like this, Lanling swept all the way, looting all the way.
He had thought Yin Ji would wake up by now, but unexpectedly she slept a full two days and two nights.
By now, Lanling had already destroyed seven tribes, and received kneeling allegiance from six tribes.
His plundering was truly incomparably thorough.
Truly burn all, loot all, and if there were resisters, kill them all.
Not even a piece of clothing was left for people, and houses were burned completely clean. In short, he wanted to force them to have no way out, to go kneel before the Flame Demon Tribe and beg to survive.
Under this crazy plundering, Lanling obtained more and more supplies. Whether salt, iron, gold coins, grain, or cloth, they were astronomical figures.
Every centaur warrior carried several thousand jin of supplies on their bodies.
For this reason, Lanling had to dispatch cavalry and centaur warriors to transport the supplies back to the Flame Demon Tribe in batches.
And by now inside the Flame Demon Tribe, meat, grain, cloth, and gold coins were already piled up like mountains.
The third day after being saved by Lanling.
Yin Ji gave a soft murmur, and slowly woke up.
These three days, she slept in a daze, having countless dreams.
And the most beautiful dream was that she found her brother Lan Tu. From then on she was no longer alone. With her brother’s protection, she felt incomparably safe.
And at this moment, she was sleeping in a broad embrace. After waking up, she instinctively snuggled deeper into this warm embrace.
“This, who is this?” Yin Ji shuddered.
Then she raised her head and saw Lanling’s wicked, cold, handsome face.
“Argh…” she suddenly screamed, then covered her face, saying, “Don’t look at my face.”
Lanling was stunned. Why was Yin Ji’s first reaction actually this.
And Yin Ji was also surprised. Why was her first reaction upon waking this.
“Put me down,” Yin Ji said.
Lanling glanced at the sky and ordered, “Make camp, eat, boil a bucket of water.”
A magnificent large tent was quickly set up.
Inside, a bucket of steaming hot water was boiled.
Lanling grabbed Yin Ji, and amid her curses and screams, stripped her clothes bare.
“Bastard, you will die a terrible death.”
“Close your eyes.”
“Plop…” Yin Ji’s naked delicate body was thrown into the bath bucket, floating with petals on top, fragrant.
Instantly, after the panic, Yin Ji felt all the pores in her body opening, incomparably comfortable.
Lanling took a fine-bristled toothbrush, dipped it in fine salt, and handed it over, saying, “Quickly wash yourself clean. These three days I endured for several hundred li of road. You are already about to stink worse than those barbarians.”
This sentence made Yin Ji want to drill into the ground, blushing red with shame.
She loved cleanliness the most. Even if conditions were harsh, she had to wash herself clean and fragrant, and wash every tooth until they were like white jade.
But during those past days, she was unconscious, unable to do what she wished.
“Go out, don’t look at my face,” Yin Ji said.
“I’ve already seen it. As for your body, it’s already so thin there’s no chest and no backside, nothing nice to look at,” Lanling said.
Yin Ji still turned her back, removed the face veil on her face, then began washing her body.
Not an inch was spared. She cleaned her teeth, every one washed meticulously.
“After Alfonso’s wife released you, why didn’t you go seek refuge with the Flame Demon Tribe?” Lanling said.
Yin Ji was silent for a long time, shook her head and said, “I don’t know.”
She truly didn’t know. She had thought about seeking refuge with Lanling, but didn’t know why. Several times she had already gone in the direction of the Flame Demon Tribe, but ultimately still did not go, instead hiding in a cave near the familiar Ankara Tribe.
“Was it because you were disfigured and didn’t want me to see?” Lanling said. “Moreover you are not familiar with the surrounding world. The only thing you are familiar with is the Ankara Tribe, so you fled to that cave nearby? That cave, you often went there?”
More than often went there.
Even when at the Ankara Tribe, Yin Ji could not find a sense of security. She needed a place with no people, a separate space where she lived alone, only then did she slightly have a sense of security.
“There truly lives a little girl in your heart,” Lanling said. “In the human kingdom, what is your name? What is your status?”
Lanling truly found it very strange. This woman looked somewhat familiar to him, but he completely could not recall, and was certain he had never seen her before.
“This is none of your business,” Yin Ji said. After hesitating, she still did not tell Lanling her identity in the human kingdom.
After washing, Yin Ji said, “Give me clothes.”
Lanling threw over a set of red silk skirt.
After receiving it, Yin Ji gave a soft cry. She finally wore silk garments once again.
She had wanted to drive Lanling out, but thinking she probably couldn’t drive him away, she hid behind the bath bucket to change clothes. Fortunately, Lanling had his back turned to her the whole time.
After dressing, she said timidly, “Is there food?”
“Bring it in…” Lanling said.
Gou Li brought in a huge food basin. On it were large pieces of venison, fully two jin. There was also a bowl of fragrant porridge, and a large bag of mare’s milk wine.
At the magnificent dining table, Lanling used knife and fork to eat venison chops, drinking mare’s milk wine in large gulps.
And Yin Ji drank fragrant white rice porridge in large gulps, with some precious tonic medicines on top.
“Not eating meat?” Lanling said.
“Not eating,” Yin Ji said.
Even when eating, she still wore the black silk face veil, so she had to lift the veil to eat.
“You plan to wear the face veil your whole life?” Lanling asked.
“Mmm,” Yin Ji said.
“Why?” Lanling said. “In the Flame Demon Tribe, no one cares that you are human. Even if someone cares, I will make them stop caring.”
Yin Ji said, “It is myself who cannot face this ugly face.”
Lanling said, “You cherish your face very much.”
Yin Ji said, “Of course, what girl doesn’t love beauty?”
Lanling said, “Then when you destroyed your face, you must have needed great courage.”
Yin Ji said, “Compared to appearance, a girl’s chastity is more important. Losing purity, better to die.”
Lanling frowned and said, “This tone of yours, very much sounds like someone from the Dragon God Temple.”
“You know of the Dragon God Temple?” Yin Ji said.
Lanling said, “You, you really came from the Dragon God Temple? That country’s monarch’s daughter?”
“None of your business,” Yin Ji said.
After finishing eating, Lanling brought over fine salt water to rinse his mouth.
And Yin Ji used the fine-bristled toothbrush once again to carefully clean every tooth. Then she found some fresh petals, put them in her small mouth to chew, then spat them out with water, so her mouth carried a faint fragrance.
In this kind of environment, still being so fussy, she was definitely the daughter of a human kingdom’s monarch.
“Aren’t you going out? I want to sleep,” Yin Ji said.
“Let’s talk,” Lanling said. “You join the Flame Demon Tribe. From now on, pledge allegiance to me.”
“Alright,” Yin Ji said.
Lanling said, “It must be allegiance from the heart, and treat the Flame Demon Tribe as your own kingdom, serving it with heart and blood.”
Yin Ji lowered her head, then said, “If you want allegiance from the heart, please promise me one request.”
“What?” Lanling said.
“Avenge me, kill one person,” Yin Ji said.
“Who?” Lanling said.
Yin Ji said, “When you are strong enough to a certain degree, I will tell you. He is the monarch of a powerful human kingdom. Telling you now has no meaning. He killed my parents, almost destroyed my country.”
Lanling said, “Anyway in the future I am going to invade the human kingdom, destroying countless countries. Probably won’t miss your enemy’s country either. I promise.”
“It’s a deal.” Yin Ji stretched out her delicate jade hand.
Lanling reached out his hand and hooked fingers with her.
“You rest well. Tomorrow you start work,” Lanling said, then walked out.
Suddenly, Lanling turned back.
“You, what are you doing?” Yin Ji said.
Lanling stepped forward, directly lifting off the face veil on her face.
“Argh…” Yin Ji screamed again, covering her face.
Outside, Duolong heard this and immediately shook his head, saying, “Sigh, being chief is really nice, sleep with whoever you want.”
Then, Lanling’s voice came from inside the tent.
“Gou Li, come help me hold down her hands,” Lanling ordered.
Duolong shook his head and sighed, “Sigh, the chief is such a beast, even someone like me can’t bear to watch.”
Then he said to Constantine, “You, accept my condolences.”
“Shut up,” Constantine said angrily.
Gou Li stepped forward, easily holding down Yin Ji, making her completely unable to move.
“Lanling, you shameless bastard. You use such despicable means to obtain my body. When I regain my freedom, I will commit suicide at the first moment,” Yin Ji said trembling, tears gushing out.
Lanling ignored her, instead gently stroking her face, or more precisely stroking the scars on her face.
“Beast, villain, you will die a terrible death…” Yin Ji wept loudly.
“Lanling I beg you don’t do this. If I am violated and lose my chastity, I truly have only a dead end. You, don’t destroy my fond thoughts of you, alright? Don’t destroy your image in my heart, alright?” Yin Ji’s face was full of tears, her eyes filled with despair.
Lanling used a dagger to cut his own finger, letting blood drip down, then evenly spread it on the scars on Yin Ji’s face.
Yin Ji was stunned. What was wrong with Lanling, was he a pervert? Before forcibly taking her, he had to perform some kind of ritual?
Lanling’s demon blood rapidly permeated into the scars on Yin Ji’s face, disappearing without a trace.
Then…
A miracle appeared.
The scars on Yin Ji’s face were fading at a speed visible to the naked eye, fading…
In just two minutes, the scars on Yin Ji’s face disappeared completely.
Her exquisite and beautiful small face recovered to perfect flawlessness.
The ethereal, innocent quality within her peerless beauty emerged once again.
Even, she was more beautiful than before, revealing dazzling radiance.
Her recovery speed was much faster than Ali’s. Perhaps because her bloodline was much higher than Ali’s?
“Pervert, come on then. Do whatever you want to do. After satisfying your desires, immediately get out. Leave me a separate space, let me bid farewell to this world,” Yin Ji said in an icy voice.
“Release her,” Lanling said.
Gou Li released the restraint on Yin Ji’s body.
Lanling handed her a mirror, saying, “Take a good look in the mirror.”
Having spoken, Lanling left with Gou Li.
Yin Ji took the mirror, summoning great courage to look.
“Argh…” instantly, she screamed once again.