The concubine of the Chimera tribe chieftain?
A so-called second wife was simply a concubine.
Lanling (Suolun) could be certain that, as the chieftain of a tribe, he would definitely have married a woman of the same race, after all, every race in the entire barbaric world was extremely conservative and xenophobic.
However, the woman before him was so beautiful that it was obvious she was extremely favoured.
If the chieftain found out that Lanling had once slept with his concubine, he would truly be chopped into minced meat and fed to the griffins, or perhaps something even worse, probably thrown to a pack of werewolves to be **.
Just thinking of such a fate was enough to make anyone shudder with dread.
But Lanling was not worried in the slightest, because the woman before him would never expose her own adultery.
“What is your name, and why did you come here?” Lanling asked.
“What are you asking my name for?” This seductive enchantress cast Lanling a sideways glance: “Could it be, you want to have a second secret tryst with me?”
Lanling shook his head: “You are a human-snake, yet you are not in your own tribe but came here instead.”
The seductive enchantress said: “I have no name, you can call me Second Wife, or you can call me Green Snake. My homeland is in a distant desert, far too bitter and cold. I carry cold poison within my body, so I chased the heat here.”
Lanling said: “Isn’t the desert hot?”
“Not enough.” The seductive enchantress said: “The Chimera tribe has a volcano, and hot springs, they are my favourites.”
Lanling thought of Ah Shi Liren, who also carried cold poison within her body. Lanling had wanted to use demon blood boiled by dragon flames to cure her.
But he had never imagined that, before he could save Ah Shi Liren, he himself had already been killed.
Whether it was the Divine Dragon Temple or Zhi Yan, neither would let Ah Shi Liren go. He did not know if she had managed to escape.
And Ah Shi Yuanba, that likeable child, he did not know what had become of him.
The moment he thought of these things, Lanling’s heart felt as though it were about to suffocate from pain.
He had to grow powerful quickly, he had to return to the human kingdom and kill his way back as soon as possible.
“I need you to help me with something.” Lanling said.
“Impossible.” Second Wife Green Snake teased: “You raped me, and you still want my help? Do you really take me for some ignorant young girl, who would lose both body and heart after being slept with once?”
Then, she turned serious: “Even if I wanted to help, I could not. Although I am the chieftain’s second wife, I am still a foreigner after all, with no power whatsoever within the tribe. If you want me to blow pillow talk beside the chieftain, then you would probably be torn to pieces by Constantine, whose possessiveness is incomparably intense. So the best result for you and me is to never meet again from now on.”
Lanling said: “All I want is the foreign army of the family tribe.”
Second Wife Green Snake said: “Then don’t come looking for me, go participate in the Sky Eye trial.”
Lanling said: “I already have. The little monster shaman priest pushed me into the volcano in order to seize my daughter.”
Second Wife was shocked: “After you fell into the volcanic lava, you actually did not die?”
Lanling nodded.
Second Wife Green Snake’s enchanting eyes lit up brilliantly. She stretched out her jade hand to stroke Lanling’s chest, leaning close to his body, sniffing his scent.
“So you are actually a demon descendant.” Second Wife Green Snake said: “But unfortunately, the Demon Great Emperor has been dead for tens of thousands of years. So-called demon descendants are merely rare and valuable goods.”
“Goods?” Lanling was stunned.
Second Wife said: “Do you know what happens to a demon descendant who is not powerful, and who is alone and isolated?”
“What?” Lanling asked.
Second Wife said: “They will be captured and imprisoned, their blood drained once a month. Because the blood of a demon descendant possesses tremendous power, whether used for selling money or for raising one’s cultivation, it has immense value.”
Instantly, Lanling’s heart gave a violent lurch.
The little monster shaman priest had seized the little girl, could it be in order to drain her blood once a month, to use her blood to sustain himself?
In that instant, murderous intent surged to the heavens within Lanling’s heart.
He had to rescue the little girl, he had to snatch her back.
However, he himself also possessed demon blood, so why did the little monster priest push him into the volcano instead?
Second Wife Green Snake said: “Also, you do not need any help at all to enter the tribe’s foreign army, you have already passed the Sky Eye trial.”
“What do you mean?” Lanling asked.
Second Wife said: “This volcano mouth is the true Sky Eye, the Sky Eye that gazes towards the heavens. All who fall into the volcano and do not die have passed the trial. Because this volcano is the sacred mountain of the Chimera tribe, those who fall into the lava and do not die are souls that have been forgiven by it, and may join the Chimera tribe.”
Lanling was stunned, so that was how it was.
Second Wife Green Snake said: “So, you can now swagger into the tribe with your head held high.”
“Farewell!” Lanling said.
Then, without another word, he quickly left this forbidden valley and charged towards the Chimera tribe.
This time, it was Second Wife Green Snake’s turn to be stunned. This shameless, heartless man was simply shameless and unfeeling, his trousers not even pulled up before he turned hostile and refused to acknowledge her.
If this woman had been the chieftain’s daughter, then Lanling would have stayed behind to be affectionate, to conquer both her body and heart, to become the chieftain’s son-in-law, rising to the heavens in a single step.
Then, he would find ways to seize power within the tribe, continuously raising his own martial power.
Then he would devise an absolutely brilliant scheme to kill his father-in-law the chieftain, and finally take his place!
But this woman was merely the chieftain’s concubine. Getting too close to her would only bring danger to his own life.
But half a minute later, Lanling went back, saying: “Teach me a sentence in the barbaric language: I fell into the volcano and did not die, I passed the Sky Eye trial!”
So infuriating!
Instantly, Second Wife Green Snake transformed into a green snake and coiled around Lanling, opening her serpent mouth with its fangs, and biting fiercely at Lanling’s neck.
After venting her anger, she taught Lanling this sentence.
Then, she transformed into a snake once more, drilling into the hot spring, never intending to come out again.
…
Lanling swaggered up to the great gates of the Chimera tribe.
When he was still several hundred metres away, dozens of arrows were already aimed at him.
“I fell into the volcano and did not die, I passed the Sky Eye trial.” Lanling shouted loudly.
This was the only sentence he knew in the barbaric language.
At this moment, those guarding the tribe’s gates were the foreign army.
Some people opened their eyes and looked, discovering that it was indeed that person who had been pushed into the abyss by the little monster shaman priest. He had actually truly fallen into the volcano and survived.
Then, one of the foreign army soldiers quickly went to report.
After roughly a quarter of an hour, the tribe’s gates opened, and that curvaceous dark-skinned female leader Dina walked in.
She looked Lanling up and down for quite a while, saying: “You truly have passed the Sky Eye trial. From now on, you are a member of my foreign army. Follow me, I will take you to the military camp.”
Things were slightly strange. After Lanling emerged from the volcanic lava completely unharmed, the Dina before him did not show any particular surprise.
Lanling followed her into the tribe, saying: “I want to find and retrieve my daughter.”
Dina turned her head to look at Lanling for quite a while, saying: “She has already been seized by the shaman priest.”
“I know.” Lanling said: “So I am going to snatch her back.”
Dina was silent for a long time before saying: “You are now a member of the foreign army, I have a duty to protect you. Leave this matter to me. After I discuss it with the first leader and second leader, we will come up with a completely safe plan.”
Lanling said: “But, my daughter is in danger at every moment.”
Dina said: “Not for the time being. Your daughter is still too young, her blood cannot yet be drained, so she is temporarily safe. The shaman priest holds an extremely high position within the tribe. Since you have entered the tribe, your every action represents the foreign army. Our foreign army holds a very difficult position within the tribe. Your every action could affect the survival of our foreign army. So, please let me report to the first leader, we will definitely give you an explanation!”
Lanling was silent for a moment: “Very well.”
Dina continued walking forward: “Since you have returned alive from the volcanic lava, it represents your identity as a demon descendant. So you yourself must be careful instead, never be alone at any time, because the blood of us demon descendants is extremely precious.”
“You too?” Lanling was stunned.
Dina said: “I am the same as you, I crawled out from the lava.”
No wonder she did not show extreme astonishment when she saw Lanling return alive.
At this moment, Lanling discovered that this Dina could actually also speak the human common tongue.
This was truly strange. The so-called human common tongue was Chinese, the language brought by the Dragon Emperor three thousand years ago.
How could near-humans of the barbaric world speak it?
“You are also a near-human?” Lanling asked.
Dina shook her head: “In terms of bloodline, I am not a near-human, but in terms of appearance and sentiment, I am a near-human. Because over three thousand years ago, a great leader was born among us near-humans, who united all the near-human tribes and established the powerful Demon Flame Empire. My tribe was once a member of the Demon Flame Empire.”
Lanling understood!
So the Dragon Emperor’s starting point was not the human empire, but the barbaric world.
He had risen in the barbaric world, and before establishing the Flame Dragon Empire, he had also established a powerful Demon Flame Empire.
Dina continued: “At that time, all near-humans had already reached the brink of destruction. Because looking too much like humans was the original sin, and all near-humans were very weak in martial power. So in the barbaric world they became objects of the hunt, called two-legged sheep.”
“Two-legged sheep?” Lanling was puzzled.
Dina said: “It means that any barbarian who sees a near-human may capture and kill them, first raping them, then killing them for meat. Because barbarians have a tradition of mating with sheep, the status of near-humans in the barbaric world is the same as sheep. The Great Emperor established the Demon Flame Empire, saving countless near-humans. The reason we near-humans have not completely fallen into being two-legged sheep is still because of the Great Emperor’s remaining prestige. Because many people worry that the Demon Flame Great Emperor will one day return to kill his way back.”
Lanling said: “Then why did the Demon Flame Great Emperor leave the barbaric world?”
Dina said: “He went north to the human kingdom, saying he was going to save the humans there. So in the hearts of many near-humans, humans are considered their close kin. Over these thousands of years, near-humans have constantly tried to flee to the human kingdom to live. But, humans do not seem to treat us as close kin, the moment they see a near-human, they immediately treat them as barbarians to be hunted and killed.”
Lanling could now be certain that the Demon Flame Great Emperor was the Dragon Emperor.
He had not only established a powerful human empire, but had also established a powerful near-human empire in the barbaric world.
Dina brought Lanling to the back of the mountain, where many flat areas had been carved out, with a cave behind each flat area.
That’s right, they were all caves, not a single house.
In the Chimera tribe, the higher one’s status, the higher one lived. Only those of the lowest status lived at the foot of the mountain.
And the foreign army, they did not even qualify to live in houses at the foot of the mountain, they could only live in caves behind the mountain.
So, the foreign army was the absolute lowest level of the entire tribe.
At a single glance, the entire foreign army camp was flat ground and caves.
After Dina brought Lanling into the camp, countless whistles sounded, and countless foreign army members saluted Dina, greeting her warmly.
In short, the atmosphere of the entire foreign army was extremely intimate, giving the feeling of being as close as family.
“After coming to the foreign army, you must remember one thing: we are family.” Dina’s eyes fixed on Lanling: “In this cruel world, only by uniting as one can we survive, and this is even more true for the foreign army, because we are all homeless exiles.”
“Very well.” Lanling nodded forcefully.
“Where is the first leader?” Dina said.
“He went to see the new recruit Mulon.” A foreign army soldier said.
Dina said: “Mulon was injured by the shaman priest in order to protect your daughter, his life hangs by a thread! You must remember, he almost lost his life in order to honour his promise to you.”
Lanling said: “I will remember this debt of gratitude.”
Then, Dina brought Lanling to the wounded soldiers’ camp!
The moment they entered, there was an intense stench of rot. Dozens of wounded soldiers lay inside, wailing in agony.
Some had lost hands and feet, some had wounds that had completely rotted away. Most of those here would die.
“The chieftain has set very high hunting quotas for our foreign army, so casualties are heavy.” Dina said.
Walking to the end of the wounded soldiers’ camp, they saw a stalwart man crouching beside Mulon’s bed.
Mulon’s face was the colour of gold paper, his breath barely perceptible.
He was too frail, so it was difficult for him to withstand that roaring blow from the shaman priest. It looked as though he could not preserve his life.
If he died, it would be for Lanling’s sake!
This stalwart man should be the first leader of the foreign army.
Lanling could not see his face, only his back.
But, with merely a back view, he gave people the feeling of being as stalwart as a mountain.
Then, he let out a deep sigh and stood up. After hesitating slightly, he took out a dagger and stabbed it into his own heart.
Seeing this scene, Lanling was completely horrified. What was he doing?
“Father.” Dina rushed forward.
The first leader of the foreign army pulled out the dagger, then took out a bowl, catching the blood flowing from his heart, then poured it into Mulon’s mouth.
His blood was incredibly miraculous, or rather, the blood of a demon descendant was incredibly miraculous.
The dying Mulon, after drinking this small half-bowl of blood, actually had his complexion return to a rosy red, his breathing becoming smooth and strong.
Lanling was completely shaken by this scene!
He was completely won over by this man as stalwart as a mountain!
In order to save a complete stranger who was weak and frail, he had actually stabbed his own heart, letting half a bowl of his incomparably precious demon blood flow out.
He had actually used the blood from his own heart to save a weak and frail stranger.
Instantly, Lanling felt the weight of those words Dina had spoken: We in the foreign army are family!
“Father…” Dina wept: “Why did you not let me do it? Why did you not use my blood?”
“Haha…” This man laughed heroically: “I am strong, I have plenty of blood.”
Then, he turned around to look at Lanling, saying: “This, is our new fourth brother?”
At this moment, Lanling clearly saw the handsome face of this middle-aged man.
Instantly, it was as though he had been struck by lightning!
His entire body was numb, trembling.
His scalp tingled in waves, as though he could not believe his own eyes.
Because…
This face was almost exactly the same as his father Suolong’s!
Although, after becoming Suolun, he had never seen Count Suolong. But after his sister learned to draw realistic sketches, she had painted an incredibly lifelike portrait of Count Suolong.
The stalwart man before his eyes and the father Suolong in the portrait truly looked almost exactly the same!
“Father…”