When Mengtuoluo visited the Flame Demon Tribe, the vast majority of the centaur army was away. They had gone to join the more than twenty thousand centaur soldiers led by the Red Fire Khan.
The twenty five Death Warriors were also absent. They were deep beneath the water, digesting and absorbing the power of the undead they had consumed.
Therefore, in Mengtuoluo’s eyes, the Flame Demon Tribe appeared especially impoverished.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom…”
Thunderous sounds echoed from the seaside in the eastern part of the Flame Demon Tribe.
More than thirty thousand centaur warriors had gathered here, and they were also going to perform a ceremony of acknowledging their allegiance.
A huge golden throne had been placed by the sea. It weighed at least several thousand kilograms. No one knew how the Red Fire Khan had managed to transport it north.
Lanling sat on the golden throne.
The Red Fire Khan, the Evil Khan, and dozens of chiefs from various centaur tribes all knelt before the golden throne.
“From this day forward, the centaur tribes shall become His Majesty the Demon Emperor’s whip of destruction. His Majesty’s gaze shall determine the direction of battle for all centaur tribes. His Majesty’s expectations shall be our greatest honour, and His Majesty’s commands shall be our eternal sacred decree. The centaurs shall serve my god, my master, my Emperor, for this lifetime and for all generations to come!”
“Long live His Majesty the Demon Emperor! Long live, long live, long live!”
The thirty thousand centaur soldiers knelt in unison and shouted, “Long live His Majesty the Demon Emperor! Long live, long live, long live!”
The ceremony was very simple, yet extremely solemn and sacred.
It meant that all the centaur tribes would abandon their homes and their former ways of life.
They would dedicate their entire lives and ideals to Lanling.
From this day onwards, they would live only for battle.
Bleeding would be an honour, and death would also be an honour.
From this day onwards, all the centaur tribes would have a common master, His Majesty the Demon Emperor.
…
Nai Shu in Black Demon City had just received the latest report.
It seemed that the battle among the centaurs had already ended. The Evil Tribe appeared to have been occupied by the other centaur allied forces.
Furthermore, the centaur army belonging to the Flame Demon Tribe had disappeared.
The three headed Chimera had almost brought complete destruction upon the Flame Demon Tribe. Countless corpses still lay where they had fallen, not even having been buried.
Countless houses within the tribe had been burned into ruins, and all the defensive structures had been destroyed.
In short, whether the information came from Sisi, Mengtuoluo, or his own spies, the Flame Demon Tribe was already in a miserable state and completely incapable of resistance.
Sisi said, “Son in law, the three eyed Chimera has grown impatient. It hopes that you will fulfil your promise as soon as possible and send the people for the living sacrifice. Over the past two days, it has even stopped attacking the Flame Demon Tribe because it says it has expended too much energy.”
“Hahaha…” Nai Shu laughed loudly. “There is no longer any need. The Flame Demon Tribe has already been almost destroyed by it. Without the centaur army, Lanling’s Flame Demon Tribe is completely useless and cannot put up any resistance.”
Sisi said, “Now he does not even have the centaur army anymore. You destroyed them through your strategy. In fact, you did not even need to summon the Mammoth army.”
Nai Shu said, “Yes. In human terms, it is like using a butcher’s knife to kill a chicken. But that is even better. I want the entire Black Demon Banner, and even Rakshasa City, to see just how earth shattering my revenge against Lanling will be.”
Sisi appropriately showed an admiring expression.
Nai Shu looked at Sisi’s figure and said somewhat greedily, “Don’t worry. I will find every possible way to restore your skin and help you shed this snake skin. When that day comes, you can live a life of luxury with me.”
Sisi’s eyes became dreamy. “I look forward to that day every moment.”
Nai Shu said, “This time, take five hundred Gryphon Knights and two thousand prisoners to offer as sacrifices to the three headed Chimera.”
Sisi asked, “Wasn’t it one thousand people a month?”
Nai Shu said, “It has done an excellent job. I am not stingy with rewards. In the future, I will need it to accomplish even greater feats.”
“Yes, sir!” Sisi replied.
Two hours later, Sisi represented Nai Shu and led two thousand prisoners towards Chimera Volcano to offer them as living sacrifices to the three headed Chimera.
This monstrous beast had been wounded by Lanling’s arrow. Even though it had survived, it had still suffered severe injuries.
Moreover, its vitality had been damaged rather than merely its energy. It needed to consume the vitality and bloodline energy of living people to recover.
Lanling’s counterattack was about to begin. He needed the three headed Chimera to display its full power, so both its energy and vitality had to be completely restored. Therefore, Sisi took the opportunity to give Nai Shu one final blow by sending two thousand living prisoners.
Of course, she did not tell Lanling about this because it was rather cruel. She planned to report it to him afterwards, so that he would not let his soft heart interfere.
Several hours later.
Five hundred Gryphons flew over Chimera Volcano.
Sisi said, “Three headed Chimera, Lord Nai Shu has come to fulfil his promise. He has sent not one thousand living people, but two thousand. From now on, you must serve him completely. Do you understand?”
“Hmph…” The three headed Chimera gave a proud roar.
“Throw them down,” Sisi ordered.
Immediately, five hundred Gryphon warriors threw two thousand living prisoners down like a torrential rain.
Screams once again filled the air.
Countless prisoners fell into the lava, where they were completely burned to ashes and refined into pure bloodline energy.
Beneath the lava, the three headed Chimera devoured it frenziedly.
That wonderful sensation returned once again.
It was truly intoxicating.
It could clearly feel its weakened vitality rapidly recovering and becoming stronger.
…
At the same time.
On the seashore, one Death Warrior after another emerged from beneath the water.
Even in the seawater, they seemed to radiate a faint green glow. Their eyes were especially eerie, like two balls of ghostly fire in the darkness.
As Guli had said, after absorbing the power of the undead, they really did look like undead creatures.
After several days and nights, they had completely digested the undead power they had previously consumed. The twenty five of them had divided more than one hundred thousand units of undead power among themselves.
“Greetings, Master!”
Constantine, Alfonso, and the other twenty five Death Warriors knelt before Lanling.
Lanling asked, “How much has your cultivation improved?”
Constantine replied, “All the Death Warriors have reached the peak of the Demon Martial Grandmaster realm, but none of us has broken through to the Demon Sect realm.”
The Demon Sect realm was the greatest barrier in cultivation throughout the Wilderness World. It was extremely difficult to cross.
However, this round of absorption had allowed all twenty five Death Warriors to reach the peak of the Demon Martial Grandmaster realm. That was already more than enough. They had become an extremely powerful fighting force.
“Tomorrow, half of the Death Warriors will accompany me into battle,” Lanling said.
…
Black Demon City.
When Mengtuoluo left Black Demon City, she had ordered Nai Shu to gather a million troops within three days, launch the expedition within five days, and destroy the Flame Demon Tribe within ten days.
With the Little Rakshasa King’s Consort’s command, the entire Black Demon Banner territory accelerated its preparations. Almost every tribe increased the speed of its mobilisation.
Finally, on the third day after Mengtuoluo’s departure, the armies of more than one hundred and fifty tribes arrived outside Black Demon City.
Nai Shu stood atop the highest castle, looking down upon the enormous plain outside the city.
As far as the eye could see, military camps filled the land.
One million two hundred thousand soldiers stretched across hundreds of kilometres, seemingly endless.
For a moment, Nai Shu’s heart filled with an overwhelming sense of pride.
Fortunately, apart from mountains, the southern Wilderness was mostly vast plains. Otherwise, such a massive army could never have been deployed.
There were still eight days before the ten day deadline Mengtuoluo had given him to destroy the Flame Demon Tribe.
Black Demon City was more than five hundred kilometres from the Flame Demon Tribe, so the army had to set out by tomorrow at the latest.
“Where is the Mammoth army?” Nai Shu asked.
“Son in law, they are already three hundred kilometres away. They will reach Black Demon City tomorrow,” a Gryphon Knight replied.
What an enormous spectacle it would be when an army of more than a million marched out.
Using a million soldiers to destroy the Flame Demon Tribe truly felt like using the force of a mountain to crush a stray dog.
Nai Shu was eagerly anticipating the moment when the million strong army surrounded the Flame Demon Tribe so completely that not even water could pass through, followed by the Mammoth army charging forward like the collapse of heaven and earth.
What kind of expression would Lanling have then?
…
The next day.
Lanling once again said goodbye to Dina and Yin Ji.
More than twenty Gryphons and nearly thirty thousand centaur soldiers had already completed their preparations outside and could depart for Black Demon City at any time.
“From now on, Little Yaya will study with me,” Yin Ji said.
Lanling nodded. “Good.”
Yin Ji said, “I wish you a triumphant return.”
“Good,” Lanling replied.
Then Lanling suddenly asked, “Mengtuoluo asked you to go with her, but you refused. If your brother, Crown Prince Lantu, suddenly appeared and asked you to leave with him, would you leave the Flame Demon Tribe?”
“Of course,” Yin Ji said. “But did you really have to ask such a question?”
Lanling reached out and gently pinched her earlobe, then gave her a brief kiss.
He left the castle and walked out through the city gates alone.
Above and behind him, thirteen Death Warriors riding Gryphons followed closely.
The Death Warrior Chiyan remained three metres behind him at all times.
Within the city walls, all the people of the Flame Demon Tribe stood silently.
Their eyes were filled with excitement, but also with sadness.
Their great chieftain had once again created a miracle. He had conquered an army of thirty thousand centaurs and was even taking the initiative to attack Black Demon City.
Yet they were saddened because the army of the Flame Demon Tribe itself could not play a role in this battle.
More than one hundred thousand people of the Flame Demon Tribe stared intently at Lanling, their gazes following him wherever he went.
Outside the city walls, the thirty thousand centaur army stood in perfect formation.
It stretched across dozens of kilometres, vast and seemingly endless.
Beneath the city walls, the surviving tens of thousands of Rakshasa prisoners all knelt on the ground, barely daring to breathe.
The thirty thousand centaur soldiers standing in formation looked terrifying.
They were like a raging tide, like a world destroying wave.
They stretched as far as the eye could see, with even birds unable to cross them.
No one present had ever witnessed such a magnificent sight.
“Roar!”
A beam of light appeared on the dark horizon.
A huge ball of flame flew towards them from the distance.
Countless people of the Flame Demon Tribe were startled.
That sound was far too familiar.
The three headed Chimera.
The monstrous beast that had almost brought complete destruction upon the Flame Demon Tribe.
Immediately, all the people instinctively wanted to retreat and flee.
But the warning bell did not ring.
When they saw that nobody around them was moving or fleeing, almost everyone forced themselves to remain where they were despite their fear.
The three headed Chimera, more than fifty metres long and over thirty metres wide, circled once above the centaur army before slowly descending.
The flames covering its body went out.
Then it did something that shocked and astonished everyone.
It actually lowered its enormous body and lay down on the ground.
Lanling gently leapt onto its back.
The sight was truly astonishing.
This monstrous beast had actually become the mount of Chieftain Lanling.
“Roar!”
The three headed Chimera let out a mighty roar before suddenly spreading its wings and soaring into the sky.
Lanling shouted, “Death Warriors, centaur army, march on Black Demon City! Advance!”
Then, riding the enormous three headed Chimera, with thirty thousand centaur soldiers below him surging forward like a devastating tide, Lanling charged towards Black Demon City.
Upon the city walls, all the people of the Flame Demon Tribe knelt in the direction Lanling had departed and shouted:
“Long live the Chieftain! Long live, long live, long live!”