“Suo Lun, you don’t even dare to confront me?” Outside, Tu Lingduo’s voice of accusation resounded across the entire battlefield!
Suo Lun walked to the top of the castle, appearing before everyone.
The central castle of the Wind Thunder Fortress defence line was roughly twenty-something metres high. Yet Tu Lingduo’s platform exceeded even this height, so it appeared as if she were looking down upon Suo Lun from above.
Beneath the platform stood a full ten thousand vengeance troops from Luanyang City.
Their gazes were filled with hatred, staring fixedly at Suo Lun several hundred metres away, wishing they could tear him to pieces with their eyes alone.
“Suo Lun, you finally dare to show your face, finally dare to confront me.” Tu Lingduo sneered.
Suo Lun’s gaze fell upon her stomach. “You’re pregnant?”
“Yes, over three months now. This must disappoint you terribly. The Tuli family you so despise has not been extinguished.” Tu Lingduo sneered. “The child in my womb shall inherit the legacy of his father Tuli Yang, carrying forward the spirit of the Tuli family.”
A three-month pregnancy, if one wished to conceal it, would not be visible.
For instance, Gui Qinshao normally wore slightly loose dresses before others, completely hiding her condition, still appearing with a graceful figure. Only before Suo Lun did she enjoy stripping naked and acting spoiled in his embrace, when her protruding belly could then be seen.
Yet Tu Lingduo feared others might not see her stomach, wearing a form-fitting white dress that made her slightly bulging abdomen extremely obvious.
Of course, Tu Lingduo’s pregnancy was fake. Despite being taken by Zhi Li countless times, she had never conceived.
Suo Lun narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping behind Tu Lingduo.
Four hundred and fifty thousand troops, truly a sea of people stretching to the horizon!
Zhi Li sat upon a twenty-something metre high golden throne, protected by several hundred thousand soldiers.
The solitary throne stood upon a tall pedestal, with at least a hundred steps leading up to it. One truly wondered how his army had brought this thing here. It must have been temporarily constructed.
The reason Zhi Li had Tu Lingduo come out to confront Suo Lun was clearly to strike at the morale of Suo Lun’s army, to win sympathy from all, and to inspire a shared hatred amongst the troops.
“Suo Lun, you raped me…” Tu Lingduo’s voice suddenly rose sharply.
Immediately, the entire army erupted in uproar!
The Luanyang vengeance troops below the platform surged with murderous intent!
In their eyes, Tu Lingduo had now become the embodiment of perfection. So beautiful and noble, after marrying the ugly and diminutive Tuli Yang, not only did she not despise him, but was instead incomparably devoted, endlessly gentle.
Most crucially, when Tuli Yang was assassinated, she had actually used her body to shield her husband from arrows.
After that, she, a mere woman, had knelt and crawled for ten li in the royal capital, requesting the royal family to seek justice for the Tuli family. Thus, today’s scene of the world uniting against Suo Lun had come about.
In the eyes of the Luanyang warriors, everything Tu Lingduo did was for Luanyang City. Such an extraordinary woman was rare indeed in this world.
And now, within her belly she nurtured new hope for the Tuli family. At this moment, in their eyes, Tu Lingduo truly existed like a holy mother.
And for such a beautiful and noble woman to have been raped by Suo Lun, how could this not fill them with raging fury and murderous intent?
“You raped me. This I can forgive.” Tu Lingduo’s voice was sorrowful yet holy. “Because during the first Tianshui City battle, I was defeated and captured. As everyone knows, you possess sufficient greed for women. And I have some small measure of beauty. Being raped by you for several days and nights, this is quite normal!”
When these words were spoken, the hearts of all soldiers behind her bled.
Such a holy woman, actually raped by this beast Suo Lun for several days and nights. Truly inhuman. Suo Lun was indeed worse than an animal.
Yet Suo Lun was inwardly filled with admiration.
In the manipulation of people’s hearts, Tu Lingduo had now reached perfection. She knew that to exist as a holy woman, one must not be perfect, but must be filled with sorrow and regret.
Just as now, Tu Lingduo publicly admitted to being raped by Suo Lun. Yet not a single soldier present looked down upon her in the slightest. Instead, they felt Tu Lingduo appeared even more noble and holy.
This was like the goddess Venus, whose broken arms made her all the more memorable!
But…
When the hell did Suo Lun rape you? And for several days and nights?
On the contrary, it was Tu Lingduo who had offered herself to Suo Lun more than once, only to be rejected each time.
“But what I cannot forgive is, why did you kill my father-in-law Count Tuli Wen, why?” Tu Lingduo said mournfully. “Who does not know, he was an upright and selfless noble. When Tu Lingchen captured your wife Yan Naier and attempted to violate her, it was Count Tuli Wen who stopped my brother Tu Lingchen. He treated your wife with noble etiquette. Otherwise, do you think your wife Yan Naier’s chastity could have been preserved?”
Upon these words, Tu Lingchen inwardly cursed, “Bitch!”
He was cursing his sister Tu Lingduo, of course. This woman, to elevate herself, would step on anyone.
Suo Lun’s gaze trembled sharply. Although Tu Lingduo was already a dead woman in his eyes, he was still filled with raging fury!
This bitch, actually bringing Naier into this.
However, the person in question, Yan Naier, showed no change in expression. She merely felt a wave of nausea.
“Count Tuli Wen being defeated and captured was normal, but why did you kill him? Why did you kill him?” Tu Lingduo shrieked. “Why did you kill such an upright and noble old man?”
Tu Lingduo’s voice appeared incomparably heartbroken, hysterical, as if she still could not come to terms with City Lord Tuli Wen’s death.
This performance made it truly difficult to imagine that she had been the one to send assassins to kill Tuli Wen.
The entire battlefield fell into deathly silence.
Suo Lun made no sound, merely watching Tu Lingduo’s performance in silence.
This woman truly had it hard. Her cultivation had not yet reached the level of a Dragon Warrior. Every time she spoke, she had to infuse dragon power to transmit the sound waves across the entire battlefield. One could see she was truly exhausted.
“My husband Tuli Yang was very ugly, very short, like a monster.” Tu Lingduo’s voice lowered, filled with emotion and tenderness. “This is a world that judges by appearances. So when Father had me marry Tuli Yang, I was filled with hatred, contempt and hostility towards him. Yet one day, a tragedy occurred that completely changed my view of Tuli Yang!”
At this moment, Suo Lun truly wished he could get her a loudspeaker.
She was pretending to be pregnant while also using dragon power to transmit her voice. It was truly too exhausting.
Tu Lingduo’s voice rose several degrees. “At that time in the Rock Islands, I exposed Suo Lun’s ugly true face, exposing the truth that he had committed incest and deceived his own sister Yan Xueer into marriage.”
Speaking here, Tu Lingduo paused, allowing everyone to fully digest this information.
That Suo Lun could be so inhumane, actually deceiving his own younger sister into marriage. This inevitably reminded people of the rumours about him, that he had once raped his own sister Suo Ningbing. Now it seemed, this might not be mere rumour.
Tu Lingduo took a deep breath and continued, “I exposed him, and as a result… was thrown from a cliff several hundred metres high. My bones broke in countless places. My entire body was completely paralysed, becoming a waste lying in **.”
Speaking here, Tu Lingduo’s voice was incomparably sorrowful.
And all present were already stirred to towering rage.
That Suo Lun could be such a beast, actually not sparing even his half-sister.
And after Tu Lingduo exposed his ugly true face, she had suffered such terrible retribution. So this was how she had become paralysed. After Suo Lun committed such an ugly deed, he had actually silenced her with murder!
And at this moment, Suo Lun was completely filled with wonder!
First, not to mention that his wedding with Yan Xueer was fake, forced by the Rock Queen into a sham marriage. The crucial point was that he and Yan Xueer shared no blood relation whatsoever, yet it was described as incest.
That was nothing. The crucial point was, Tu Lingduo being thrown from a several hundred metre cliff, was that Suo Lun’s doing? It was clearly Yan Mo who threw you down. What did it have to do with Suo Lun?
Tu Lingduo reversed black and white, put the hat on the wrong head, making everyone believe that it was Suo Lun who threw her from the cliff, causing her paralysis.
And even more absurdly, she was completely pretending to be paralysed, because she didn’t want to sleep with Tuli Yang.
“After becoming paralysed, I rejected Tuli Yang’s marriage contract, because I was no longer worthy of him.” Tu Lingduo said, “However, Tuli Yang insisted on marrying me. And after the marriage, he cared for me in every possible way. Whether I was a graceful beauty standing tall, or a paralysed waste lying in bed, he loved me the same. No, he loved me even more than before. Never had anyone loved me like he did!”
Tears streamed down Tu Lingduo’s face, her voice choked with sobs. “It was also during this time that I completely came to recognise a great yet gentle man. He remained short and ugly, but in my heart he was more handsome and noble than anyone, bright and holy. Suo Lun, you are incomparably handsome, yet you are as sinister and vicious as a poisonous snake, as nauseating and filthy as a maggot. I fell in love with my husband. I fell in love with Tuli Yang. Sometimes I even thank you, Suo Lun. Though you paralysed me, you allowed me to find happiness, and to thoroughly see through a person. From that time on, my husband and I lived a happy life!”
Though she had prepared for a long time, Tu Lingduo had truly used too much dragon power. Her voice lowered somewhat.
Taking a deep breath, Tu Lingduo continued, “Perhaps Tuli Yang’s sincerity moved the Divine Dragon, moved the heavens. One day I rolled down the stairs. He rushed frantically to my side, and I discovered I could actually stand up. My legs had actually recovered. And then… we became the most loving couple, and I became pregnant with his child!”
Tu Lingduo caressed her stomach with blissful happiness.
This moment moved everyone present.
Many men could not help but shed tears, weeping hot tears for this great love, sobbing bitterly for the kind and devoted Tuli Yang.
“We were so happy, so joyful…” Tu Lingduo’s gaze was infatuated, then turned incomparably cold towards Suo Lun, screaming with all her might, “Suo Lun, why did you have to take away our happiness? Why did you assassinate my husband? Because of his righteous heart? Because he would not submit to your ** might? Or because you could not bear that I truly fell in love with him? Why did you kill him?”
Tu Lingduo’s final words, infused with all her dragon power, resounded in everyone’s ears.
Immediately, it made everyone’s souls tremble.
Such a moving love, destroyed by Suo Lun.
Tuli Yang, so kind, righteous, devoted, and great, actually assassinated by Suo Lun!
This person was truly deranged, utterly ruthless and shameless.
The several hundred thousand troops behind Tu Lingduo were filled with bone-deep hatred for Suo Lun, their hearts burning with raging flames of war.
They increasingly felt that they were fighting a war of justice.
Suo Lun was the great demon of this kingdom. Killing him, exterminating the Suo clan, was acting on behalf of heaven!
Actually, the matters Tu Lingduo spoke of, placed against the backdrop of the entire world, were trivial. The death of a single person, a somewhat moving love story, nothing more.
Yet it was precisely this kind of relatively authentic love and hate that could shake people’s hearts all the more.
This was like when “The White-Haired Girl” was performed in the army back then, a soldier filled with righteous indignation could not help but fire at the actor playing Huang Shiren.
Tu Lingduo’s performance caused Zhi Li’s army to blaze with fury, wishing they could tear Suo Lun to pieces.
And when Suo Lun’s soldiers behind him heard this, they could not help but hang their heads in dejection, feeling that they actually served such a great demon, such a despicable and shameless person.
One could say that Tu Lingduo’s performance was no less powerful than several tens of thousands of troops!
Ever since she experienced the power of manipulating people’s hearts, she had become completely addicted to it, even more intoxicated than with martial arts.
Because people’s hearts were too foolish. With slight manipulation, one could play them in the palm of one’s hand. Watching them become foolish, passionate, was truly exhilarating, truly fulfilling!
The final climax arrived!
Tu Lingduo leaned over a coffin, using all her strength, crying blood as she shouted, “Suo Lun, even tearing you to pieces would not relieve the hatred in my heart! Return my husband to me, return my beloved to me, return my Tuli Yang to me!”
This cry, she completely exhausted her voice. The final three parallel sentences all spoke of the same person.
This emotion, this heart, moved heaven and earth!
After shouting, two lines of bloody tears slid down. Truly blood-red tears, falling upon her snow-white face.
Making her incomparably beautiful face all the more shocking to the heart, all the more desolate as snow.
Immediately, the fury of Zhi Li’s several hundred thousand troops was completely ignited.
“Heaven shall punish Suo Lun, avenge our grievances!”
“Heaven shall punish Suo Lun, avenge our grievances!”
“Heaven shall punish Suo Lun, avenge our grievances!”
The shouts of several hundred thousand troops resounded through heaven and earth. The entire heavens and earth changed colour. The entire Wind Thunder Fortress defence line trembled!
Endless fury was about to completely bury Suo Lun!
…
“Hahahahaha…”
Suddenly, a burst of laughter rang out. It was Suo Lun’s wild laughter!
He was like a legendary villain, laughing so crazily and unrestrainedly, laughing until he squatted down, directly clutching his stomach.
Laughing until the several hundred thousand troops blazed with even greater fury.
He laughed for several minutes. Suo Lun infused his voice with dragon power, “Foolish people beyond measure? People, your other names are stupidity, weakness, and short-sightedness!”
Suo Lun raised his chin, **ly expressing his contempt and disdain for the several hundred thousand troops present.
“Yan Mo expressed his contempt for me by urinating on the ship’s bow. To express my contempt for you, I also wished to stand on the wall and urinate.” Suo Lun laughed wildly, “Pissing a zhang against the wind, how heroic a deed. Unfortunately my wives wouldn’t allow it. They said my ** belongs to them, and cannot be seen by others. So I had to shelve this grand plan!”
These words stunned everyone present. Suo Lun could actually be so arrogant?
Suo Lun smiled, “Since I cannot urinate upon you, then please allow me to use a gesture to express my greeting to you.”
Suo Lun raised his head, facing the several hundred thousand troops, and suddenly thrust up both middle fingers.
Inexplicably, this gesture felt incredibly satisfying!
Thrusting middle fingers at several hundred thousand troops!
Then, Suo Lun enunciated each word, “This gesture means, I f**k your mother! I f**k all of your… mothers!”
When this gesture came out, Princess Zhi Yan both loved and hated it.
Because Suo Lun’s wanton wickedness was indeed captivating to women.
But as the future regent, the de facto ruler of the Raging Waves Kingdom, was it necessary to humiliate the kingdom’s nobles, lords, and vast numbers of soldiers in this way?
As a politician, this was truly too immature, too irrational.
Yet at crucial moments, Suo Lun was always never rational!
Suo Lun’s gesture did indeed enrage the several hundred thousand troops under Zhi Li.
“Kill him, kill him, tear Suo Lun to pieces!”
“Trample Tianshui City, exterminate the Suo clan!”
Countless soldiers roared in fury, their gazes turning towards Zhi Li, waiting for his command. The several hundred thousand troops would surge towards the Wind Thunder Fortress defence line like a tidal wave.
And right at this moment!
Suo Lun said lightly, “Tu Lingduo, let me correct several of your claims.”
“First, I did not rape you, because I find your chest too flat. I am quite picky in my tastes. Look at my women, which one is not an unparalleled beauty? Want me to sleep with you? You probably don’t qualify.”
“Second, you were thrown from a several hundred metre cliff by Yan Mo, then pretended to be paralysed. This has nothing to do with me.”
“Third, you asked me to return your father-in-law City Lord Tuli Wen, return your husband Tuli Yang…”
Suo Lun paused here, looking at Tu Lingduo’s face. He did not speak, but revealed a strange smile.
Seeing Suo Lun’s smile, Tu Lingduo only felt a chill down her back, filled with an extremely ominous premonition.
“I promise you!” Suo Lun laughed wildly, “City Lord Tuli Wen, your daughter-in-law misses you. Young Master Tuli Yang, your devoted wife summons you!”
“Clap, clap, clap…”
Suo Lun clapped three times!
Two figures walked out from the steps!
One tall, one short!
One was City Lord Tuli Wen, one was Young Master Tuli Yang!
Especially Tuli Yang!
Under one metre fifty in height, an ugly face. There was no second such person in the entire world!
In an instant…
Tu Lingduo’s eyes widened sharply, truly as if she had seen a ghost!
How was this possible?
This, how could this be possible?
Tuli Wen was clearly already dead, killed by the assassin she had sent!
Tuli Yang was even more dead than dead, also killed by the assassin she had sent, and died right before her eyes.
And now, this father and son pair were actually standing perfectly fine before everyone!
Tu Lingduo truly seemed as if struck by lightning, her entire body completely paralysed, completely unable to move.
At this moment the sun shone brightly, yet she felt no warmth whatsoever. She only felt piercing cold.
Looking again at Suo Lun’s smile, it was clearly like a demon, filled with danger, filled with ferocity, filled with evil!
Tu Lingduo felt endless cold, endless darkness closing in upon her.