Time rewound once more, to over a year ago!
Duke Zhi Ting had committed suicide, but before his suicide, he had written several flying kite messages and sent them to the royal capital, telling Ah Shi Li Ren to take Zhi Ning and her child and flee immediately.
However, the entire airspace of Tianshui City had been completely sealed off. His flying kites could not fly out.
After Ji Xiu Ning and the others arrested Suo Lun’s family, they ordered the kingdom’s four great legions to begin an unprecedented great massacre in Tianshui City.
They slaughtered every single citizen of Tianshui main city to the last, regardless of gender or age.
Then they led the Divine Dragon Temple’s aerial legion to pursue the Rock Pirate Legion led by Yan Chuo Er, as a gift for Zhi Yan.
At that time, Yan Chuo Er, following Suo Lun’s orders, had led thirty thousand Rock Pirate Legion troops into the royal capital. They were still over nine hundred li from the royal capital.
In less than a day, Ji Xiu Ning’s tens of thousands of Divine Dragon Temple aerial legion launched an assault on the Rock Pirate Legion’s camp.
This legion that feared death not in the slightest, this legion of incomparable valour, was slaughtered to the last, completely annihilated.
The entire valley was thoroughly dyed red with blood!
And until their deaths, the Rock Pirate Legion knew not the reason. They knew not why they died.
As for the Rock Queen Yan Chuo Er, her martial arts were supremely powerful, but she was no match for Ji Xiu Ning.
After being struck by thirteen swords, she attempted to use her final strength to commit suicide.
She was stopped by Ji Xiu Ning’s spirit condensation technique and became a captive of the Divine Dragon Temple.
While slaughtering the Rock Pirate Legion, Ji Meng Bai led several hundred Sky adjudicators to continue flying towards the royal capital Zhi Du, to kill Ah Shi Li Ren and arrest Zhi Ning and her child.
However, when Ji Meng Bai and the others descended upon the princess’s mansion.
Ah Shi Li Ren and Zhi Ning and her child had vanished without a trace.
They had received no news from Tianshui City, because they had disappeared last night.
Last night, while the great massacre of Tianshui City was still ongoing, Suo Lun had only been dead for a few hours.
Why Ah Shi Li Ren and Zhi Ning and her child had suddenly disappeared became an unsolved mystery.
And at the same time!
The great massacre of Tianshui City continued!
This prosperous city was thoroughly engulfed in blood.
Countless corpses lay strewn across every corner of the city.
Every street flowed with rivers of blood!
All the wealth of the Suo family was looted clean.
Then, with a single order, the Tianshui City Lord’s mansion, passed down for several hundred years, was thoroughly reduced to ashes.
Amidst heaven-shaking wails, amidst blood filling the sky, the Tianshui City Lord’s mansion burned fiercely.
The entire Tianshui main city had thoroughly become a hell on earth!
…
“Ah… ah…” Lan Ling (Suo Lun), in his sleep, suddenly let out a series of piercing, shrill screams, filled with infinite terror.
He dreamed of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He dreamed that the entire Tianshui City had thoroughly become a dead city.
“No, no…”
In his sleep, Lan Ling (Suo Lun) screamed and roared desperately.
In his dream, he saw an incomparably terrifying scene.
He saw Gui Qin Shao and Fu Yan Er, two women with large bellies, being alive hanged to death.
He saw Zhi Ning fallen in a pool of blood, and Zhi Yu’s face covered in blood, sitting in the pool of blood and wailing.
This scene was exactly the same as when Lan Ling encountered the little girl.
“No… no… no…”
Lan Ling struggled desperately, as though caught in a nightmare.
“Papa… papa…” The little girl in his arms called out timidly, with a sobbing voice, desperately pushing his head.
Lan Ling woke up and saw the little girl’s eyes filled with fear, her pretty, delicate little face covered in tears.
Instantly, he fiercely embraced the little girl in his arms.
At this moment, he felt that he was not merely holding the little girl, but also holding his daughter Qin Qin, holding his son Zhi Yu, and also the two children in Gui Qin Shao’s and Fu Yan Er’s bellies.
When Suo Lun was killed, these two children had not yet been born.
If… Gui Qin Shao and Fu Yan Er were still alive, these two babies should have already been born. The older of the two babies should already be over a year old.
Lan Ling held the little girl tightly, greedily sniffing the scent on her body.
Perhaps he was superstitious, but at this moment he truly felt that the little girl in his arms was a symbol of his several children.
It was as though as long as he protected the little girl in his arms, in exchange, heaven would protect his several children.
“Papa, papa…” The pretty little girl used her chubby little hand to wipe away the tears on Lan Ling’s face.
Lan Ling kissed the little girl’s forehead and gradually calmed down.
“I swear, I must return as soon as possible, lead millions of demon race troops, destroy the Divine Dragon Temple, rescue my family, rescue my children. If they are all still alive… no, they must still be alive. Even if I die, they are still alive.” Lan Ling held the little girl, murmuring to himself.
And at this moment, the dozens of barbarians around him all gazed at him in terror, fearing Lan Ling would go mad once more.
Just a few hours ago, Lan Ling had alive sucked a Wolfman much more powerful than himself into a dried corpse. At that time, his entire body was covered in blood, howling at the sky. It had truly frightened all the barbarians in the cell.
All the barbarians looked at him with the same gaze one would look at a devil.
Perhaps because the energy in this Wolfman’s blood was too high, after sucking the blood, Lan Ling had fallen into a coma, as though he had fallen asleep.
Although Lan Ling was unconscious, all the barbarians in the cell still dared not approach him.
Now that Lan Ling had woken up, all the wounds on his body had disappeared, and he felt that the power throughout his entire body had grown much stronger.
…
Seeing the terrifying things in his dream made him feel incomparable urgency.
He had to conquer this Chimera tribe. At any cost, by any means, he had to conquer the Chimera tribe.
“Mu Long, there are several hundred barbarian prisoners in this prison. At most only ten can join the Chimera’s foreign army. What about the rest?” Lan Ling asked.
“All executed!” Mu Long said.
Lan Ling said, “Then how can one join the Chimera’s foreign army? Through martial competition?”
“No.” Mu Long said, “It is through the Heavenly Eye Trial of the shaman priest?”
“Heavenly Eye Trial?” Lan Ling was puzzled.
“Yes, Heavenly Eye Trial.” Mu Long said, “Once one passes the Heavenly Eye Trial, they can smoothly join the Chimera tribe and receive protection. And once one fails the trial, they are thrown into magma and alive burned to death.”
Lan Ling said, “When being thrown into the magma, does no one resist?”
Mu Long said, “Resistance is useless. At that time, in the great pit, surrounded by over a thousand Chimera warriors. Moreover, the Chimera shaman priests are very powerful.”
Lan Ling asked, “When is the Heavenly Eye Trial conducted?”
“Tomorrow.” Mu Long said.
Lan Ling said, “What are the standards of the Heavenly Eye Trial? What does the Chimera tribe’s shaman priest rely on to judge who stays and who is burned to death?”
“I don’t know. No one knows.” Mu Long said.
Lan Ling said, “Is there an advantage in the Heavenly Eye Trial for those strong in martial arts and high in talent?”
Mu Long shook his head. “No. Every time in the Heavenly Eye Trial, those most powerful in martial arts are often the ones thrown into the magma and burned to death.”
Instantly, Lan Ling’s heart wavered.
The most frightening thing about any matter is having no standard.
This Heavenly Eye Trial filled with superstitious colour became a tiger blocking his path.
To return to the human kingdom one day sooner, he had to continuously grow stronger, stronger, stronger!
Only by unifying the Barbarian Continent and becoming the king of ten thousand races would he have the chance to lead millions of demon race troops to sweep across the human continent and destroy the Divine Dragon Temple’s power.
Conquering the Chimera tribe was the most important step.
Smoothly joining the Chimera tribe’s foreign army was the threshold for all plans.
No matter what, he could only succeed, not fail!
“Lord Lan Ling, may heaven bless you to smoothly pass the Heavenly Eye Trial tomorrow.” Mu Long performed a ritual that Lan Ling could not understand.
Lan Ling thought to himself, “May I smoothly pass the Heavenly Eye Trial!”
…
Early the next morning!
Inside the cave prison, all was quiet!
Even the most ferocious Wolfmen had stopped ** the Near-Humans.
All the cells appeared orderly, as though the sins that had occurred here before were but a nightmare.
However, the piles of corpses in the corners of the cells, and the bones of those half-eaten, all showed that this was the most sinful place under heaven.
All those eaten were dead Near-Humans!
Because they resembled humans too much, this was their original sin. They had to suffer the ** of other foreign races.
They could not endure this ** and died, then became food in the Wolfmen’s bellies.
Why had this hell returned to normal order today? Why had it returned to quiet?
Why had the Wolfmen stopped killing?
For only one reason. The Heavenly Eye Trial!
The moment that would decide the fate of all barbarians had come!
All barbarians locked in this prison had come to this path of near-certain death because they had nowhere else to turn.
They were either homeless because their tribes were destroyed, or they had been exiled.
Today’s Heavenly Eye Trial would decide their fate.
Those who successfully passed the Heavenly Eye Trial would stay and receive the Chimera tribe’s protection.
And those who did not pass would be alive burned to death!
When fate arrived, even the ferocious and cruel Wolfmen appeared heavy.
Everyone sat quietly on the ground praying, begging heaven to let them pass the Heavenly Eye Trial.
Perhaps this was what they called clutching at straws in the last moment.
Lan Ling also sensed the nearly frozen atmosphere, but he did not pray.
Because he did not know whom to pray to. To the Divine Dragon? To the Demon? To heaven?
No, better to pray to himself!
Fate had already nearly destroyed everything he had.
…
Around nine o’clock in the morning.
All the cells were opened. Several hundred barbarians began to line up in orderly formation. Under the supervision of Chimera warriors, they walked out of the cave in orderly fashion, left the mountain where the tribe was located, and headed north.
The Heavenly Eye Trial was conducted at a volcanic crater in the north!
And this volcano was the Chimera tribe’s holy mountain, named Mount Chimera.
Beneath the volcanic crater, there was always an ocean-like sea of magma, but it had never erupted.
Several hundred Chimera warriors escorted several hundred barbarian prisoners up the thousand-metre-high Mount Chimera.
And this Chimera warrior troop was the legendary foreign army, containing all manner of races.
As for Near-Humans, there was approximately only one!
Even Lan Ling did not know if she was a Near-Human. Her skin was very dark, like black people on Earth.
Her face could not be called beautiful, but her figure was extremely fiery, even more so than those black women on Earth. Especially her two super long legs, and her astonishingly round and pert bottom. Her entire body was filled with power.
Moreover, she seemed to be a leader of the foreign army!
From head to toe, she had no differences from humans. Her only difference was her tail. She had a tail.
Several hundred foreign army troops escorted several hundred barbarian prisoners to the summit of the volcano!
Then, these foreign army troops began to hold the high ground, guarding every critical position.
The entire volcanic crater was approximately several hundred square metres in area. Below was bottomless magma that could devour any life.
Above the volcanic crater, a stone platform extended out, approximately over ten metres long and over one metre wide!
A strangely shaped shaman priest, leaning on a walking stick, stood at the end of the stone platform.
Lan Ling discovered that this shaman was not of the Chimera race. Lan Ling also could not tell what race he was. He was like a monster.
He was only about one metre tall. His entire body was covered in long white fur. Except for his eyes, almost no facial features could be seen.
Seeing him, Suo Lun could not help but think of the wise one in “Star Wars,” the leader of the Jedi Knights, Master Yoda, who was similarly very short.
However, this shaman priest before him, shrouded in white fur, appeared especially strange.
And this monster-like shaman priest would decide the fate of everyone present, including Lan Ling.
“Begin!” With the order of the foreign army leader of the tribe, the Heavenly Eye Trial officially began!
The first barbarian prisoner walked across the ten-plus metre platform, came before this shaman priest, knelt on one knee, and awaited his Heavenly Eye Trial.
Pass, and smoothly join the Chimera tribe.
Fail, and be alive burned to death!