As the saying goes, a horse can be ridden to death by gazing at a distant mountain. The sea is the same.
From the sea surface, the coastline ahead seemed very close, but actually swimming there was truly very, very far.
At least over several dozen li!
Sauron had not replenished his energy for months. He had only been catching some fish in the sea to fill his stomach.
So after swimming several dozen li, he felt completely exhausted.
After swimming to the coastline, Sauron lay motionless on the soft sand.
The sand here was extremely beautiful, almost white and very fine. There were hardly any footprints on the beach.
Clearly, this was the edge of the Wilderness Continent, rarely approached by people.
He had to replenish energy quickly, otherwise his bloodline energy would continue to degenerate.
Sauron struggled to stand up and began to venture deeper into this continent!
After the beach, Sauron felt a shock.
Because according to his geographical knowledge, this was a warm tropical zone, close to the sea with abundant rainfall, so there should have been vast forests.
But that was not the case…
It was actually a continent full of scars.
As far as the eye could see, the land was riddled with holes, covered everywhere with massive cracks.
Moreover, there was not much soil on the ground. Instead, there were large stretches of rock, displaying a strange red colour.
This land seemed to have been torn apart, covered in scars and wounds.
Sauron kept going deeper, deeper, always heading west. He never saw a single tree, nor discovered any life. The only things present were the scarred and torn land, large stretches of rock, and fissures and ravines everywhere.
Previously at sea, he could still catch fish to fill his stomach.
But on this barren, torn land, there was nothing. Sauron’s stomach grew hungrier and hungrier.
Before his demonic transformation, Sauron rarely felt hunger. But now, Sauron’s body seemed like a bottomless pit, with an enormous demand for energy.
The hunger grew stronger and stronger, and this body began to absorb energy from the bloodline to maintain the body’s energy supply.
So Sauron clearly felt his martial power degenerating.
He had to find blood to suck quickly, had to find living things to eat quickly.
Sauron quickened his pace, running swiftly.
After venturing over one hundred li inland, he finally began to see green gradually.
Some tenacious moss and shrubs clung tightly to the ground. And occasionally he could see living creatures, though most were rats.
Not to mention that these were difficult to swallow, they were also too small.
Sauron went deeper gradually. Finally, the green vegetation grew more and more abundant, and he gradually began to see trees as well.
But he still had not seen a single trace of human habitation, whether barbarian tribes or demon races, he had seen none.
By this time, Sauron had already ventured into this Wilderness Continent for a full day and night. He still had not found anything to eat, and was truly hungry to the extreme.
His head spun from hunger, his heart incomparably restless.
Just at this moment, Sauron suddenly heard a wolf howl.
Instantly, Sauron felt a wild joy!
This wolf howl was originally extremely terrifying, but in Sauron’s ears it was like heavenly music, because it meant it was time to eat.
Instantly, Sauron ran at extreme speed, charging toward the direction of the wolf howl.
At this time, he was about three or four li away from the sound of the wolf howl.
Drawing closer and closer to the direction of the wolf howl, Sauron soon heard the sound of flowing water. There was a small river here.
His speed was very fast. In just a few minutes, he was already very close to these wolves, only about three hundred metres away. He would reach them after going around the pile of giant rocks ahead.
Sauron held his breath, lowered his footsteps, and approached quietly.
Then, he not only heard the wolf howls, but also the crying of a child.
A person?!
Sauron came to the riverside, hiding behind a giant rock.
He saw them. There were three wolves!
The wolves here were not as large as those on the deserted island, and much thinner. But the bloodthirst and greed shining from their eyes were even more terrifying.
Three hungry wolves, arranged in a triangular encirclement. In the centre of this triangular encirclement sat a little girl, a little girl with skin as white and delicate as powdered jade.
This little girl looked to be only about three or four years old, sitting between two corpses.
The two corpses were one male and one female. The man was extremely handsome, the woman was shockingly beautiful. This beauty even surpassed the level of Gui Qinshao.
However, this man and woman had probably been dead for quite some time, as livor mortis had already appeared.
Both of their bodies were covered in wounds. The man’s back alone had over a dozen arrows stuck in it.
Before dying, the two had desperately protected their child. Their bodies were bent into a circle, surrounding the child in the middle.
What astonished Sauron was that these two people looked no different from humans. The only visible difference was their ears, which were very pointed.
This little girl of three or four years old had a dirty face, but one could still see that her little face was shockingly beautiful, incomparably exquisite.
Especially her two large eyes, as pure and bright as two gems.
Similarly, apart from the pointed ears, this little girl was not much different from a normal human child.
If one had to name a difference, her doll-like little face was something human children could hardly match.
The little girl was barefoot, her little feet chubby.
Sauron found another difference between her and human children. At her ankle position, there was a tuft of snow-white fluff, appearing especially cute.
The little girl had probably been hungry for a very long time. Her crying was already weak and feeble.
Moreover, surrounded by three hungry wolves, she was very frightened, pushing her papa and mama with all her might.
She was still young and did not know that her papa and mama were already dead. She thought they were just asleep.
“Papa papa…”
“Mama mama…”
In all worlds, in all planes, it seemed the pronunciations of papa and mama were similar.
The little girl pushed her papa’s corpse for a while, then her mama’s corpse. Seeing that neither moved, she began crying again, looking at the three hungry wolves in terror.
The three hungry wolves gazed at the little girl between the two corpses with boundless greed, drooling with desire.
This little girl was white and tender, absolutely delicious to the extreme.
However, there seemed to be something on these two corpses. The energy aura seeping out made the wolves especially afraid, not daring to approach.
“Ow…”
The three hungry wolves let out low growls, their blood-red little eyes shooting out incomparably greedy and fierce light.
Finally, the desire for hunger overcame fear. One of the wolves opened its bloody maw and charged toward the little girl in the centre of the corpses.
Sauron appeared like lightning. With his ebony sword, he fiercely smashed down on this wolf’s skull.
“Boom…”
With a loud noise, this hungry wolf’s skull was directly shattered.
Sauron could not wait. He suddenly opened his fangs, fiercely bit into the wolf’s neck, and began sucking blood.
Wow!
So comfortable! The feeling of being full was so wonderful! The feeling of sucking blood was so wonderful!
A full two months without sucking energy-filled blood.
Sauron madly devoured and sucked blood!
The other two hungry wolves were startled at first, then pounced toward Sauron with extreme ferocity, their bloody maws fiercely biting into Sauron’s neck and stomach.
Instantly, sharp teeth once again bit through Sauron’s neck and belly.
Sauron paid no attention whatsoever, still madly sucking blood, directly sucking the wolf in his hands into a mummy.
After sucking the first one dry, he fiercely tore the wolf biting his neck off, bit into its neck in one gulp, and began sucking blood.
The third hungry wolf had been madly tearing at Sauron’s waist. Now seeing the scene of Sauron madly sucking blood, it finally felt incomparable terror. With a whimper, it tried to flee.
Sauron easily caught it, lifted it up alive, bit through its neck in one gulp, and sucked its blood.
In just a few short minutes, all three hungry wolves were sucked into mummies by Sauron.
And the wounds on Sauron’s body once again healed rapidly, returning to their original state in moments.
Finally, he was full once more!
Sauron sat on the ground comfortably, breathing comfortably.
His body once again felt hot, the feeling of surging power.
Sauron, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly felt two eyes staring at him. He could not help but open his eyes and look.
He saw that little girl with skin like powdered jade, her gem-like eyes wide open, gazing at Sauron.
“Wa yi ya ya…”
The little girl’s tender, childish voice.
But Sauron could not understand what she was saying.
“Yi ya ga ga…”
This little girl, dirty as a spotted cat, waved her chubby little arms, speaking toward Sauron.
Revealing her snow-white little baby teeth, very cute.
Sauron looked at her, and she looked at Sauron.
“Little girl, sorry, I cannot take you with me. You are too small. You would be a burden to me.” Sauron said.
“Yi ya ya…” The little girl.
“I’m leaving. Goodbye.” Sauron said, then turned and walked away.
“Yi ya ya…” The little girl cried out anxiously, crawling with hands and feet, struggling out of her parents’ embrace, actually crawling toward Sauron.
Sauron’s heart panicked. Then he forced himself to be cold-hearted, to harden his heart!
The Wilderness World was incomparably dangerous. In this world, he had to become strong by any means necessary, constantly growing stronger.
This little girl was absolutely a burden.
Why had Sauron ended up so miserably in the human realm? In the end, he nearly died, and could not even protect his family.
It was because of the fetters of emotion!
Because of the fetters of Sauron Ningbing, Sauron was tied to Tianshui City.
Because of the fetters of King Zhi Bian and Zhiyan, he was again tied to the Raging Waves Kingdom.
This led to his eventual death. If not for the Demon Star, he would have been dead beyond dead.
Perhaps the Demon Star had exchanged its own life for his rebirth.
Now his body seemed very remarkable. No matter how deep the wound, it would heal immediately.
This was because of the demon blood. But if his head were truly chopped off, he would certainly still die, because there was no Demon Star to resurrect him a second time.
After coming to the Wilderness World, he was risking his life every moment. He absolutely could not bring a three or four-year-old child along.
So Sauron hardened his heart, turned directly, and walked far away.
“Wah wah wah…” The little girl behind him began wailing loudly.
Sauron’s heart trembled violently!
Then he thought of Qin Qin. This little girl was even younger than Qin Qin.
Then, he also thought of his son Baby Zhi Yu. If… the baby should be about the same size as this little girl before him.
If both he and Zhi Ning had died, and the baby sat in the middle crying, and someone passed by without saving the baby, what would happen?
If he just walked away like this, this little girl would certainly die, either from starvation or being eaten by wolves.
Sauron turned back, looked at that little girl like a powdery dumpling, and clapped his hands, saying, “Come.”
Then, what happened next completely, utterly astonished Sauron!
This little girl opened her arms and pounced over. That was not much.
But the little clothes on her back directly split open, then revealed a pair of cute, tender little wings. She actually flew into Sauron’s embrace.
She probably had not yet learned to fly. Her tender little wings flapped desperately, and she stumbled and crashed into Sauron’s embrace.
Sauron held her, looking at her little face in disbelief, at her little wings.
These little wings were also chubby and tender, covered with a layer of cute fluff.
“You, you can actually fly?” Sauron said. “What race are you exactly?”
“Yi, ya ya…” The little girl responded seriously.
But neither of them could understand what the other was saying.
Sauron came to the side of her parents’ corpses. Enduring a foul stench, he turned over the man’s corpse.
This man also had wings, but they had been pulled out alive. There was a deep wound on his back.
Moreover, they had been pulled out a long time ago.
Then, Sauron turned over the woman’s corpse, lifted her clothes, and indeed she also had wings, also pulled out a long time ago.
What race was this family of three? Why had their wings been pulled out?
Moreover, this was the edge of the Wilderness Continent, desolate and uninhabited.
This couple had fled to the edge of the Wilderness Continent with their child. Clearly, they were hiding from some pursuit.
Perhaps this little girl had a very special identity. Having her by his side would not only be a burden, but also dangerous.
However, he had already picked her up. Could he really put her down again?
“I will just consider it as saving my own baby.” Sauron sighed. “If I save you here, I hope that in the human realm, someone will also save my baby.”
“Wa ya ya…” This three-year-old girl chattered in response.
The two of them still completely could not understand what the other was saying.
Sauron stripped off the man’s clothes, washed them clean in the river water, and put them on himself. It did not look good to be naked all the time.
Then he also stripped off the woman’s outer clothes, washed them clean, picked up the little girl, and at least wrapped up her pair of little wings.
Because Sauron saw that this couple’s wings had been pulled out. Perhaps the little girl’s wings would bring some kind of danger.
Then, Sauron dug a cave and buried this couple.
After burying the couple, Sauron went down to the river to catch fish again. Then he roasted the fish, picked out the flesh, and fed it to this little flying girl.
This little girl was not picky at all. She ate the fish meat without a hint of salt flavour with great relish.
Her tiny body sat opposite Sauron, her dark, bright little eyes gazing at Sauron.
Sauron scooped a spoonful of fish meat, removed the bones, and handed it over. She immediately opened her little mouth and ate it, smacking her lips. After finishing, she gazed at him again, waiting for him to feed her the second bite.
This little appearance was truly well-behaved. Sauron once again thought of the baby, feeling his eye sockets heat up repeatedly.
Half an hour later, Sauron had fed the little girl’s stomach full, then picked her up and continued on his way.
As he walked, he vowed in his heart.
Once he found a demon race settlement area, he would definitely place this little girl in foster care with a family. He absolutely would not keep her by his side.
…
And so, Sauron carried a three-year-old little girl who could fly, continuing deeper into the Wilderness Continent.
As he went deeper, the forests grew denser and denser, and all kinds of fierce beasts grew more and more numerous. Sauron’s food also grew more and more abundant. Every day he sucked more and more blood, and the energy in his body grew more and more plentiful.
But…
Because of this little girl, everything became inconvenient.
When hunting and sucking blood, he could not be so bold and unrestrained. He also had to protect her at all times.
Days passed one by one.
The little girl gradually became less well-behaved, growing more and more mischievous, and more and more adorable.
When Sauron slept, she would crawl all over Sauron, either using her little baby teeth to bite Sauron’s nose, or doodling randomly on Sauron’s belly.
Sometimes when Sauron could not bear it and wanted to give her a beating, her little wings would flap and she would fly onto a tree, leaving Sauron below the tree stamping with frustration.
“You remember this. As soon as I find a family, I guarantee I will throw you away.” Sauron said.
In the following days, the little girl rode on Sauron’s neck, and the two continued deeper into the Wilderness Continent.
Then one day, suddenly…
Sauron climbed over a high mountain, and then…
He saw countless houses, houses built from wood and rock.
All the houses were built around the mountain!
The entire mountain was the entire tribe.
On the mountaintop several thousand metres high, there was a massive house, probably the chief of this barbarian tribe.
After landing on the Wilderness Continent and walking for a full half month, he had finally seen a barbarian settlement area.
Sauron once again felt incomparably excited!
Once again he felt his blood boil. He did not care what this tribe was called, what race it was.
The moment he saw this tribe, he had decided.
His imperial ambitions in the Wilderness Continent would begin from this tribe!
I will conquer this tribe! I will conquer this race!
This tribe is mine! By any means necessary, this tribe is mine!