After You Gou Li stood up, she looked around blankly for a moment before walking outside. Her movements were swift, yet somewhat stiff.
Passing through the entire Flame Demon Tribe, Gou Li arrived before Lan Ling.
Immediately, Suo Mo, Duo Duo, Duo Long, and the others present were greatly shocked.
Had she not already died? How had she come back to life?
Moreover, why did she seem so strange?
She was still beautiful, even more beautiful than before. Yet she truly looked like a female ghost rather than a living person.
Wherever she walked, the surrounding air seemed to turn cold.
Not only that, her gaze and every movement made her seem completely devoid of life.
“Greetings, Master!” Gou Li immediately knelt before Lan Ling.
Lan Ling narrowed his eyes as he looked at her, then said, “Duo Ning, go and check whether she is breathing, and whether her heart is beating.”
“Yes!” Duo Ning replied, stepping forward to check Gou Li’s breathing and feel for her heartbeat.
“She has no breath and no heartbeat,” Duo Ning said.
Lan Ling said, “Gou Li, cut your arm with a dagger.”
“Yes,” Gou Li replied. She drew a dagger and expressionlessly sliced open her snow white arm.
Bright red blood flowed out.
Earlier, every drop of blood in her body had been drained, yet now she had blood again. Furthermore, without a heartbeat, her blood should not have been flowing.
Then an even stranger scene appeared.
The wound on her arm rapidly disappeared. Even the bloodstains vanished.
Lan Ling said, “Uncle, test her martial arts.”
“Yes!” Suo Mo drew his great sword.
Lan Ling said, “Gou Li, spar with Uncle, but remember, stop before causing serious harm.”
“Yes,” Gou Li replied.
She began looking for a weapon. Eventually her eyes settled upon the slender sword hanging at Duo Ning’s waist.
Duo Ning, Duo Duo’s daughter, removed the slender sword and handed it over.
Gou Li accepted it and immediately attacked Suo Mo.
“Whoosh…”
Everyone felt as though a cold gust had blown past their eyes.
She was incredibly fast.
Then Gou Li struck with lightning fast sword attacks. Her speed increased continuously, and even her sword energy was exceptionally fierce and icy.
Suo Mo repeatedly raised his sword to block. Soon he clearly noticed that a layer of frost had gradually formed upon his great sword.
“Clang, clang, clang, clang…”
The two exchanged ten sword strikes in an instant.
“Slash…”
The sound of cloth tearing rang out.
A cut had appeared in Suo Mo’s clothes.
With his extraordinary martial arts, his clothing had actually been sliced open.
Gou Li had become this powerful?
“Enough,” Lan Ling said.
“Uncle, what do you think?” Lan Ling asked.
Suo Mo replied, “Gou Li’s strength has increased by thirty percent, while her speed has more than doubled. Because of that, her cultivation is difficult to judge. Based on strength alone, she should be around the level of a Seven Star Demon Martial Grandmaster.”
Lan Ling’s eyes widened.
Previously, Gou Li had only been around the level of a Five Star Demon Martial Grandmaster.
Furthermore, Lan Ling had drained all of her blood, only to inject his own demonic blood into her afterwards.
After devouring her blood, Lan Ling’s own strength had increased by three hundred jin. By all logic, Gou Li’s cultivation should have weakened considerably.
Yet not only had her cultivation not declined, it had become much stronger.
The result was astonishing.
What exactly was his demonic blood?
Suo Mo continued, “The key is her speed. It is even faster than mine. On top of that, her energy is filled with an aura of death. It is extremely terrifying. During battle, it naturally erodes the opponent’s body and energy. It is remarkable.”
Finally, Suo Mo concluded, “Overall, her combat ability is no weaker than that of a peak Demon Martial Grandmaster.”
Everyone present gasped.
What kind of magic had the Chief used?
He had turned Gou Li into a stunning female ghost, greatly increased her cultivation, and even given her an indestructible body.
“So incredible…” Duo Long said enviously. “Chief, how did you do it? Turn me into one too.”
Lan Ling replied, “She is practically dead now. Are you willing to die as well?”
Duo Long immediately shrank his neck.
“Absolutely not. I have not lived long enough yet.”
Lan Ling stood and walked over to Gou Li, looking into her eyes and at her incomparably beautiful face.
There was truly no expression upon that face.
There was no emotion whatsoever in her eyes.
Her martial arts had improved enormously, she obeyed every one of his commands absolutely, and she possessed no will of her own.
In a sense, she was the perfect warrior.
Lan Ling thought for a long while before finally coming up with a name.
Death Warrior.
He knew that the World Destroying Demon Emperor had an incomparably powerful force under his command known as the Hell Knights.
The Gou Li before him was naturally far inferior to the Hell Knights, but she was already exceptionally powerful.
Therefore, she would be called a Death Warrior.
From this day onwards, Lan Ling had gained a new type of soldier, Death Warriors with immortal, indestructible bodies.
“Gou Li, you are now the first member of my Death Warrior Legion,” Lan Ling said.
“Yes,” Gou Li replied.
Lan Ling closed his eyes.
Every chief within the Silver Alliance possessed martial arts at least equal to Gou Li’s.
If he drained all of their blood, injected his own demonic blood into them, and transformed them all into Death Warriors…
Then he would possess more than a dozen Demon Martial Grandmaster level Death Warriors who obeyed him absolutely.
If that happened, just how powerful would the Flame Demon Tribe become?
The very thought of it was overwhelming.
Lan Ling asked, “Gou Li, are you truly immortal and indestructible?”
“Yes,” Gou Li replied.
Lan Ling took a sword.
“Thrust!”
He drove it straight through Gou Li’s heart.
“Ah!” Duo Ning cried out in shock.
Lan Ling observed carefully.
Although Gou Li’s heart no longer beat, energy continued to flow endlessly. A faint yellow glow travelled through every one of her meridians.
The source of that energy was perhaps the tiny amount of demonic blood Lan Ling had given her.
Even after her heart was pierced, Gou Li showed no reaction at all. She merely looked calmly at Lan Ling.
“How does it feel?” Lan Ling asked.
Gou Li replied, “I can feel energy being consumed, as though it is repairing my body.”
Lan Ling withdrew the sword.
Before everyone’s astonished eyes, the wound on Gou Li’s chest healed instantly.
He raised the sword again, preparing to pierce her head.
Piercing her heart had not killed her.
What about piercing her brain?
“Enough, you are not allowed to stab her anymore!”
Duo Ning suddenly rushed over, snatched the slender sword from Lan Ling’s hand, and ran outside.
Lan Ling was stunned.
What had gotten into her?
Duo Duo hurriedly knelt.
“My daughter has behaved disgracefully. Please forgive her, Chief.”
Lan Ling was surprised.
Duo Duo had always been proud and stubborn.
Why had he suddenly become so respectful, even seemingly afraid of him?
“It is nothing,” Lan Ling said with a wave of his hand.
Duo Ning ran a long distance before finally stopping.
Tears streamed uncontrollably down her face as unbearable sadness filled her heart.
She did not know why she had seized the sword from Lan Ling.
She had actually dared to be so bold.
Yet seeing Lan Ling drive a sword through Gou Li’s heart had truly made her miserable.
She realised she never wanted to see such a cold and heartless Lan Ling.
She would rather see the mischievous, flirtatious Lan Ling.
The moment Lan Ling pierced Gou Li’s heart, many of Duo Ning’s romantic fantasies seemed to shatter instantly.
However, the current Lan Ling no longer cared what she was thinking.
…
“Thud, thud, thud…”
The hurried sound of iron hooves pounded against the ground as Khan Xie Li and Xie Li II rushed in.
Xie Li II had already transformed back into a Centaur.
Father and son charged before Lan Ling and immediately knelt.
At this moment, no words could describe Xie Li II’s excitement and devotion.
The Moon Demon God had used His own blood to restore him as a Centaur.
From now on, he had not only been reborn, he also possessed an immortal body, and the blood of the Demon God now flowed through him.
What boundless honour.
What immense pride.
Overnight, Xie Li II seemed to mature.
He felt the weight of responsibility upon his shoulders.
From this day forward, he would become the sharpest sword in the hands of the Moon Demon God, Lan Ling, fighting for his master’s will throughout his life.
“Master, after You bestowed the Demon God’s blood upon me, I not only became a Centaur again, but my cultivation has increased tremendously,” Xie Li II said. “Previously, my father could defeat me in three moves. Now I can withstand five.”
Khan Xie Li proudly said, “I did not hold back. In fact, I attacked even more fiercely. Not only has II become stronger, my own strength has also increased because You also granted me the Demon God’s blood.”
Lan Ling was astonished once again.
His demonic blood actually possessed such effects?
At this moment, he became even more suspicious about the true origin of the blood flowing within him.
It was simply too extraordinary.
With this, Lan Ling became even more confident in his Great Annexation Plan.
What was the Great Annexation Plan?
Within two months, Lan Ling intended to completely absorb every piece of land and every inhabitant of the entire Silver Alliance.
He would wipe out every tribe in the Silver Alliance until only one remained.
The Flame Demon Tribe.
He would expand the Flame Demon Tribe’s territory from just over two thousand square kilometres to one hundred thousand square kilometres.
He would increase its population from fifty thousand to five hundred thousand.
He would expand its army from twenty thousand soldiers to one hundred thousand.
…
“Uncle, from this point onwards, the Flame Demon Tribe will expand even faster,” Lan Ling said. “With a city wall seven li long, how many people can the houses accommodate?”
Suo Mo replied, “Based on the houses You designed, around one hundred thousand people.”
What kind of houses had Lan Ling designed?
Three storey brick houses.
Lan Ling now had no shortage of labour or land. As long as they fired enough bricks and tiles, they could produce as many as needed.
There was no concrete in this world, so reinforced concrete floors could not be built.
However, the timber here was much tougher and stronger than on Earth, so thick wooden boards could be used for each floor instead.
Combined with specially designed beams and pillars, constructing three storey brick buildings posed no difficulty.
Therefore, Lan Ling ordered that most houses be built with three floors.
Once all the houses within the city walls were completed, they would be able to accommodate well over one hundred thousand people.
“The flax harvest must begin. The gathering of wild rice, wild wheat, and wild millet must also begin,” Lan Ling said. “The reclamation of farmland must speed up, and the construction of large public toilets must also be accelerated. Uncle, I leave all of this to you.”
“Yes,” Suo Mo replied. “Xiao Ling, while you are away this time, try to recruit several talented administrators. Our tribe no longer lacks military strength, but we are desperately short of capable civil officials.”
“Understood,” Lan Ling replied.
The image of the Priestess Yin Ji appeared in his mind.
Although she was officially Alfonso’s priestess, she actually served as his chief adviser.
It was said that during the past two years, she had managed all of Ankara Tribe’s internal affairs alone, keeping everything in perfect order.
After Wild Horse Tribe had been conquered, all of the work of integrating it had also been entrusted entirely to Yin Ji, and she had handled everything flawlessly.
In this relatively primitive barbarian world, someone like her was a true administrative genius.
He wondered where she was now.
Was she alive or dead?
If he could recruit her, the Flame Demon Tribe’s administration would become far more efficient.
“I wish the Chief complete success on this campaign,” Suo Mo said.
Lan Ling replied, “We will strive to conquer the entire Silver Alliance, expand our territory fiftyfold, increase our population tenfold, and enlarge our army fivefold.”
…
The next morning, as the sun rose…
The Great Plunder and Great Annexation Plan officially began.
Lan Ling led six thousand Centaur cavalry and three thousand Flame Demon Tribe cavalry, assembling outside the city walls.
This expedition aimed to plunder the entire Silver Alliance.
Every tribe would be stripped clean.
Money, grain, cloth, metal, everything would be taken.
When that happened, the hundreds of thousands living across the Silver Alliance would have neither clothes to wear nor food to eat.
Next, Lan Ling would capture every tribal chief in the Silver Alliance, drain the blood of every expert above the Demon Martial Grandmaster level, then inject them with his demonic blood and transform them into Death Warriors.
Once these chiefs became Lan Ling’s slaves, their tribesmen would naturally follow.
To survive, to avoid starvation, every Rakshasa within the Silver Alliance would have only one path.
They would kneel before Lan Ling, swear loyalty, and join the Flame Demon Tribe.
Of course, many people would die during this Great Annexation Plan.
However, so long as the plan succeeded, and Lan Ling successfully annexed the entire Silver Alliance, he did not care how many died.
After all, these people were not yet members of the Flame Demon Tribe.
“Brothers, follow me. We will seize everything in the Silver Alliance!” Lan Ling roared.
“Long live! Long live! Long live!”
Every Centaur shouted.
Every Flame Demon Tribe cavalryman roared in response.
“Charge!”
With Lan Ling’s command…
The six thousand Centaur cavalry and three thousand Flame Demon Tribe cavalry surged out of the tribe like a flood, charging towards the lands of the Silver Alliance.
…
After his defeat, Nai Shu did not stop anywhere.
He did not even land within the territory of the Black Demon Banner.
Instead, he flew directly to Rakshasa City.
He had sworn that he would return with a million soldiers and completely exterminate the Flame Demon Tribe.
The Black Demon Banner alone could not provide such power.
Although the combined forces of every tribe under the Black Demon Banner exceeded one million soldiers, the Black Demon Banner, like the Silver Alliance, was only a relatively loose alliance.
He had the authority to order the Silver Alliance to gather its forces against the Flame Demon Tribe.
He did not possess the authority to command every tribe within the Black Demon Banner.
The Rakshasa Royal Family, however, did.
As long as the Rakshasa King issued a decree, or even the Little Rakshasa King did, it would be more than sufficient.
Alternatively, Princess Sha Yan herself could personally travel to the Black Demon Banner, because throughout these lands, the Rakshasa Royal Family remained the supreme authority.
Landing in Rakshasa City, Nai Shu took a deep breath, wiped away every trace of defeat from his face, and once again wore his usual wild and carefree expression.
Then he entered Princess Sha Yan’s manor.
By coincidence, Princess Sha Yan was practising swordsmanship.
Her figure was simply too breathtaking.
As she practised, the curves of her full chest and rounded hips were so captivating that they seemed ready to set one’s blood ablaze.
Nai Shu stripped off his clothes and rushed towards her completely naked.
Immediately, all the maids withdrew and closed every door.
He threw Princess Sha Yan onto the ground and tore open her clothes.
Nai Shu had been away for a long time, and Princess Sha Yan had long felt lonely. With only the slightest provocation, her desire flared intensely.
The two of them then wrestled passionately together in the courtyard under the open sky.
After a full two hours…
Princess Sha Yan’s alluring body rested in Nai Shu’s embrace.
She asked, “Is everything finished? That man called… what was his name…”
“Lan Ling,” Nai Shu replied.
“Yes, that Lan Ling. Did you bring back his head?” Princess Sha Yan asked. “I planned to make a wine cup from his skull.”
“Wouldn’t a chamber pot be even better?” Nai Shu laughed.
Princess Sha Yan replied, “That would be letting him off too easily.”
Nai Shu smiled.
“Then your finest nectar should be enjoyed only by me.”
“You pervert,” Princess Sha Yan said with a playful glare. Thinking of certain memories, her face immediately flushed red.
Pretending to speak casually, Nai Shu said, “I did not bring back his head because I was defeated. He somehow gained the support of several thousand Centaurs and annihilated my army of one hundred thousand. Every soldier of the Silver Alliance was wiped out.”
Although he deliberately spoke in a relaxed manner, his voice still trembled.
Princess Sha Yan’s expression changed dramatically.
She immediately stood up from Nai Shu’s embrace and slapped him across the face.
“Get out, you useless thing!”