“I wonder how foster father is doing, whether he has caught the griffin yet.” Dina sighed. “During these days when foster father is away, Du Yan has taken control of the Foreign Race Army’s military power. Constantine is deliberately supporting him. Every day the meat and food distributed have increased by thirty percent, and they are all very fresh. Now the entire Foreign Race Army is praising Du Yan for his capability.”
Lanling truly felt emotional in his heart. Constantine completely did not resemble a barbarian tribe chieftain, but rather resembled a high-ranking figure in a human kingdom, with extremely deep scheming, one small trick after another.
Dina said, “You must quickly become strong, establish prestige in the army, and not be outdone by Du Yan.”
Lanling said in astonishment, “What, you support me inheriting uncle’s position?”
“Of course!” Dina said, “Although you are a scoundrel, you are not an ungrateful scoundrel.”
Having spoken, Dina fiercely rolled her eyes at Lanling.
This scoundrel went to ** every single day, and the things he did grew more and more unbearable, completely overturning her understanding of matters between men and women.
“You are even whiter today.” Lanling said casually.
Dina’s face reddened again. She had already gone four consecutive days without taking her medicine, so her skin colour was gradually recovering.
“Lanling, you must absolutely not underestimate Du Yan. His martial arts are far above mine.” Dina said, “If you want to inherit foster father’s position and command the Foreign Race Army, you must not only surpass him in martial arts, but also in prestige and merit. We demon race people do not care about wisdom or lack thereof. They only acknowledge what they can see.”
“I understand!” Lanling said.
Dina said, “If Du Yan takes control of the Foreign Race Army, he will definitely treat the Foreign Race Army as his dowry, marrying it to Ninian, in exchange for the capital of his glory and wealth. If you take control of the Foreign Race Army, what will you do?”
Lanling said, “Find an opportunity to leave and become independent, then take in homeless barbarian wanderers to develop and grow, annihilate and annex all the surrounding tribes, expand crazily, and finally establish the Flame Demon Empire!”
Dina said in a trembling voice, “You want to restore the Flame Demon Emperor’s great enterprise?”
Lanling nodded and said, “This is my ideal!”
Dina said excitedly, “If that day truly comes, there will definitely be countless demon race people supporting you. Although countless years have passed, the legend of the Flame Demon Emperor still remains deeply rooted in people’s hearts.”
Lanling said, “Once the banner of the Flame Demon Emperor is raised, it will indeed attract many people to come and join. But the gaze of the Modo Empire to the north will also turn towards us, fighting to the death. So before having three to five thousand li of territory, this banner cannot be raised.”
Dina said, “Du Yan’s vision is far too narrow. Every day he only thinks about becoming a high-ranking figure in the Chimera Tribe, wholeheartedly only wanting to marry Ninian.”
Lanling said, “I see that Ninian is not a simple girl.”
Dina said, “Who says she isn’t? Constantine the Second only inherited his father’s sinister ruthlessness, but not his scheming. And this Ninian completely inherited her father’s scheming and her mother’s beauty, completely bewitching all the outstanding young men of the entire tribe until they lost their souls.”
Lanling said in astonishment, “Is it really that serious? Although she is very beautiful, she cannot compare to the second wife, nor to Ali.”
“Hmph, that is in your eyes.” Dina said unhappily, “You and Ali are passionately in love, so of course you feel she is more beautiful. But in the tribe’s rankings, your Ali is only ranked third, and Ninian is ranked fourth.”
“What rank are you?” Lanling asked.
“Boring…” Dina said.
“Fourth?” Lanling said.
“Mm…” Dina casually responded.
Lanling said, “Once your skin recovers its original colour, you will definitely be able to defeat Ninian and seize second place. And I dare say, your buttocks are ranked number one.”
The moment these words were spoken, Dina immediately became angry and said, “Lanling, what do you mean? Are you flirting with me? In your eyes, am I the same as a woman like Ali, casually allowing you to tease and toy with me?”
Lanling was startled, not knowing where he had stepped on Dina’s tail. He quickly raised his hands in truce.
“My mistake, I will never say it again.” Lanling quickly said. He would not attempt to argue about winning or losing with a woman.
Then, Lanling said, “Do you think Du Yan can marry Ninian?”
“I don’t know!” Dina said in a bad temper. But she quickly recovered her normal tone and said, “It is not easy, because Ninian’s reputation is very great, her martial arts are also very strong, and she is the chieftain’s daughter. So there are many outstanding young men who want to marry her. The young chieftains of nearby tribes, especially the young chieftain of the Ankara Tribe. Within the Chimera Tribe itself, the griffin cavalry captain and the tribe’s cavalry great chieftain are all Du Yan’s formidable rivals.”
Lanling said, “All these men, they all like Ninian?”
“More than like? They are simply bewitched.” Dina said, “Ninian’s reputation for beauty has spread throughout several hundred li.”
Lanling said, “This girl plays so many outstanding young men in the palm of her hand. Either she very much enjoys this love game, or she is plotting something not small.”
Dina said, “Do you want to join in too? With your charm, perhaps you could win the beauty’s heart?”
Lanling responded with a cold laugh.
First, he would not walk a similar path to Zhiyan. Second, in the barbarian world, rising through a woman was even more unstable than in a human kingdom.
“I want to bathe and sleep. Do as you please.” Dina said.
Lanling immediately got up and went to his uncle Suomo’s cave to bathe and sleep!
…
At five o’clock the next day, before dawn had broken, Dina awakened Lanling, still holding a leather whip in her hand.
Lanling once again began a new day of hell trials.
Today, the lead blocks on his body had already reached four hundred and ten jin, and the deadwood sword in his hand had also reached four hundred jin. The full body load reached eight hundred and ten jin.
In short, she absolutely would not let him have any relaxation, squeezing his body’s limits every moment.
“Run, run, run…” Dina shouted, whipping the ground with the whip in her hand, driving Lanling to run.
At this time, the Foreign Race Army soldiers should all have been sleeping.
But to watch this spectacle, many people could get up early, then point at Lanling and laugh heartily.
Of course, these laughs were all good-natured.
“Have you heard? This is the great chieftain’s nephew, his biological nephew.”
“Really? He doesn’t look like it. He is far too beautiful, more beautiful than a woman.”
“Look closely and you will see the resemblance.”
“I heard the great chieftain feels his martial arts are too poor and will drag us down, so he is having Third Chieftain Dina desperately train him.”
“Then he is truly miserable. Chieftain Dina is the most ruthless.”
“That is not necessarily so. Any woman who sees this little white face would like him. Perhaps our Chieftain Dina has long since had her heart stirred.”
“Shut up, shut up. Do you want to be beaten with a stick? Who doesn’t know Lord Du Yan’s intentions towards Chieftain Dina?”
“Sigh, look at his delicate skin and tender flesh. No amount of training will help. Besides, he can’t even eat his fill. Where would he get the strength to train?”
“Him wanting to compete with Lord Du Yan? No chance. The gap in martial arts is like heaven and earth, the gap in status is like heaven and earth.”
…
Amidst the various discussions, Lanling ran out of the tribe.
Today, at two thousand three hundred metres, Lanling’s body reached its first limit.
Then, a powerful force gushed out from within his bloodline, pouring into his four limbs and hundred bones, completing today’s first tempering of bones and tendons.
The second painful limit was at three thousand nine hundred metres.
Then he began climbing the mountain. Almost every thousand metres of mountain path, his body reached a painful limit.
Every time he reached his body’s limit, that pain was completely indescribable in words.
It was as if he were carrying a great mountain on his back. Darkness lay before his eyes, dizziness and blurred vision came in waves, and the muscles throughout his body felt as if they were filled with cement. Every movement was a tearing pain.
For many people, this pain was worse than death.
It was also thanks to Lanling’s heaven-defying bloodline. If it were any other demon race person, the probability of sudden death from this terrifying training was very high.
Because the Foreign Race Army was too poor, they could not conduct medicinal baths to temper bones and tendons, nor could they use beast blood baths. They could only use this primitive and direct method.
By the time he climbed to the mountaintop, Lanling’s body had already reached the painful limit seven times, completing seven bloodline power temperings of bones and tendons, transforming into physical power.
But of course, he could not rest at this time. He still had to conduct one thousand five hundred sword exchanges.
Today’s sword was already four hundred jin heavy. Lanling’s arm strength was six hundred and ten jin. Wielding the sword with both hands did not appear strenuous.
But on Earth, this was completely equivalent to a normal man wielding a forty or fifty jin sword to hack, and with a forty or fifty jin load on his entire body.
Every sword hacked out had to use maximum force, and Dina had to feel that force for it to count as passing.
After completing the one thousand five hundred sword training, Lanling’s body reached the painful limit three more times, and bloodline power gushed out energy three more times to conduct bone and tendon tempering.
Half of today’s hell trial was over. The entire body had completed ten temperings, one more than yesterday.
Next came the most wonderful time of Lanling’s day, hunting and blood-sucking!
And this was also the moment when Dina was once again shocked.
Hunting was a very long and arduous task.
First, one had to know where the prey was. Second, the demon beasts of this world moved very fast, usually much faster than humans. The moment you discovered it, it would already have fled like lightning.
But Lanling possessed heaven-defying mental power. As long as he closed his eyes, he could sense all movements within several hundred metres, even internal vision.
And most terrifyingly, he could also mentally lock onto some prey, immobilising them in place, waiting for Lanling to go and kill them.
So every time, when Dina saw those fierce beasts standing obediently in place, even stretching out their necks waiting for Lanling to suck their blood, her heart was truly incomparably shocked.
Once, Dina could not resist asking, “Can you immobilise me?”
Lanling’s answer was not yet, but he should be able to soon.
So, within ten li around the tribe, there was basically no prey left. They had basically all been hunted clean long ago.
But every day Lanling had harvests, and very large harvests at that.
Lanling sucked blood, Dina took the meat.
Later, when time was slightly more abundant, Lanling no longer only hunted fierce beasts like vicious wolves. He also hunted small delicious beasts like fawns and wild rabbits.
Then he took the tenderest meat, rubbed salt on it, found wild spices from the forest, and roasted them over fire for Dina to eat.
Dina initially refused, because the Foreign Race Army was equal. However much the brothers ate every day, she ate the same. She could not have special treatment.
Lanling said nothing more, pinched open her small mouth, and stuffed the roasted meat into it.
Then, she could no longer stop, eating until her eyes glowed. Especially the spiciness in the roasted meat, it simply made one addicted.
During these years in the Foreign Race Army, the food eaten was poor, let alone any refined cooking. Being able to fill one’s stomach was already a great fortune. Where could one talk about deliciousness?
And Lanling’s delicious roasted meat seemed to open the door to a new world for Dina, making her almost unable to feel her own tongue.
At this moment, the gaze with which she looked at Lanling was hazy.
But very quickly, her gaze turned to anger.
Because Lanling took the fragrant roasted venison to please his lover Ali, that Fox Clan young wife of Goufu.
The two of them took bites one after another, even sharing a single bite.
After finishing the meat, the two of them once again performed the fairy fight!
Similarly, Dina still had to keep watch!
Many times, Dina almost could not resist asking, Lanling, are you really doing this to vent anger for foster father, or are you here to sleep with women?
Is this kind of thing really that interesting? Doing it for an hour every single day.
Every time she heard that vixen’s voice it was as if she were about to die suddenly, but why had she not died yet? Every time she heard the voice it seemed as if she were in great pain. Why was she so happy to do it every day?
But every time after listening to Lanling and the Fox Clan beauty’s spring play, she felt her body was uncomfortably slippery, urgently wanting to rush back to bathe, and her body seemed to have a ball of flame burning, which water could not extinguish no matter how she poured it.
…
Today the Fox Clan beauty was especially unbearable. In merely half an hour, she completely went limp and could not move, sweetly lying in Lanling’s embrace.
A dozen or so minutes later, Ali suddenly spoke and said, “My love, let’s elope, let’s go to the Fox Clan!”
Passionately in love, she no longer wanted to be apart from Lanling, no longer wanted to be with her coarse husband.
Lanling could not help but start, and said, “No, I cannot leave the Foreign Race Army.”
These days, he had already learned some simple barbarian language from Dina.
With his heaven-defying talent, he only needed to hear it once to remember it. His learning progress was incomparably rapid.
“But, I don’t want him to touch me anymore. Looking at his coarse appearance, I feel disgusted.” The Fox Clan beautiful young wife said resentfully, “I just want to be with you, every day together.”
“Then shall we kill him?” Lanling probed.
Instantly, the Fox Clan young wife Ali was startled, and said in a trembling voice, “No… no, after all he is my husband. I ** am already very sorry to him. How could I go and kill him?”
Her reaction actually made Lanling breathe a sigh of relief.
Lanling said, “Then I will find a type of medicine. You secretly rub it on your husband’s ****, so that the thing below him will be ruined forever, and he will never be able to sleep with women again.”
“This, this is also too bad, too vicious…” Ali said, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at Lanling and said, “I truly cannot do it. Let’s elope, we will definitely be happy. Although I am older than you, in the Fox Clan I am considered young. I can still bear children.”
Lanling did not force her. There was still time, and he could continue to bewitch her.
This beautiful Fox Clan young wife could not only be used to take revenge on Goufu, but could also be made to gather information on the movements of the Chimera Tribe’s high-ranking figures.
…
Around ten o’clock in the evening, Lanling completed today’s hell trial.
Then, he tested his trial results.
Six hundred and forty jin. Today’s arm strength had improved by another thirty jin. The speed of improvement had slightly slowed down.
This was very normal. Martial power cultivation was originally something where the further one went, the harder it was to improve.
And this kind of hell trial was too primitive. In the future the effects would grow increasingly less obvious, and the strength increased every day would rapidly decline.
But even so, optimistically estimating, in at most around three months Lanling would be able to break through to the Demon Warrior realm!
This was completely a heaven-defying number. With Dina’s talent, from a Level Three Warrior to Demon Warrior, it had taken her a full seven years.
According to what Dina said, once one broke through to the Demon Warrior realm, this cultivation method would not be very useful anymore. A completely new cultivation mode would be needed.
After bathing and washing up, Lanling lay down to sleep, preparing for tomorrow’s hell trial.
He had only been asleep for half an hour when Lanling suddenly woke up.
A person walked into Suomo’s cave, appearing before Lanling.
He opened his eyes and looked. It was a fiery figure, carrying an alluring fragrance.
It was actually Constantine’s daughter, the flower of the Chimera Tribe, Ninian!
What had she come for? This counted as a secret rendezvous with Lanling!