Capítulo 1536: Chapter 673: The Little Girl’s Birth Father! (Part 2)
“Moren, because I completed the Queen’s training task ahead of time, my seclusion ended early,” said Ashi Li. “Sister, how have you been recently?”
The leader of the Winged Tribe’s female warriors replied, “Not very well. With your generous support, the Winged Tribespeople have not faced much difficulty surviving. However, our Majesty’s injuries are getting worse and worse, and our Crown Prince has completely lost his vigor and become very lethargic. This pains me greatly.”
Ashi Li said, “I am just about to visit the Wing King and His Highness the Crown Prince. By the way, accompanying me is Princess Di Nie of the Tiancha King!”
The Winged Tribe female warrior leader named Moren frowned at the mention of the Tiancha tribe. However, upon seeing Princess Di Nie’s wings, she put aside all hostility and bowed, saying, “Greetings, Your Highness the Princess.”
Princess Di Nie merely acknowledged with her gaze, without returning the courtesy.
Then, led by the female warrior leader of the Winged Tribe, Ashi Li and Princess Di Nie flew into the majestic and ancient Winged Tribe Royal City.
The Winged Tribe Royal City was enormous.
It spanned over a hundred massive Stone Mountains, and their architecture was filled with the artistic beauty of antiquity.
Delicate, yet not ostentatious.
Magnificent, yet not grandiose.
Inside the main hall of the royal city, Ashi Li and Di Nie met the Crown Prince of the Winged Tribe.
He was an extremely handsome man, his entire being exuded the aura of an artist, dressed with exquisite taste, and every move was incomparably elegant.
But just as the leader of the Winged Tribe’s female warriors described, he was very languid and despondent, as if struggling to maintain his composure, his inner spirit already drained away.
Typically, any man seeing the unparalleled beauties Ashi Li and Princess Di Nie would be utterly captivated, unable to take his eyes off them at the very least, and many would be frozen in place.
Yet the Crown Prince of the Winged Tribe, upon looking at them, only revealed a slightly impressed expression before saying, “My great friends from the Witch Kingdom, is there anything I can do to serve you?”
Princess Di Nie said, “On behalf of the Tiancha King, I invite the Winged Tribe to join the unified front of the Demon Empire.”
The Winged Tribe Crown Prince said, “Unified front of the Demon Empire? For what purpose?”
Princess Di Nie said, “To unify the Southern Barbaric Lands, establish the Demon Empire, and march north to eliminate the Mo Tuo Empire and the Human Kingdom.”
The Winged Tribe Crown Prince’s eyes brightened, then he sighed, “You are twenty years too late!”
Then, he waved his hand, saying, “Prepare a banquet to entertain our distinguished guests.”
Next, the Winged Tribe Crown Prince personally accompanied Ashi Li and Princess Di Nie to drink at the banquet.
Princess Di Nie did not touch even half a chopstick’s worth of food, while Ashi Li politely drank a few cups.
And the Winged Tribe Crown Prince continued to drink heavily on his own, soon becoming drunk and silently weeping!
Just as Moren mentioned, the Crown Prince’s resolve had completely withered, and he had no interest in negotiations at all.
Moren, the Winged Tribe female warrior leader and the Winged Tribe Crown Prince’s cousin, flew with Ashi Li and Princess Di Nie over the Winged Tribe Royal City.
“Why is the Crown Prince ? Is it because of the defeat in the Northern Barbaric Wilderness, or because of the Winged Tribe’s division?” Ashi Li asked.
Moren hesitated for a moment before saying, “The woman he loved most, his fiancée, is the daughter of the Northern Wing Pretender King and fled with her tribespeople to surrender to the Dragon Temple.”
The division of the Winged Tribe, with the ruler who fled to the Southern Barbaric Lands known as the Southern Wing King, and those who sided with the Dragon Temple being called the Northern Wing Pretender King.
Ashi Li frowned and said, “Is it really just because of feelings that he is so dispirited?”
Moren said, “Five years ago, his fiancée secretly crossed the Aurora Gate to meet with him privately. The two eloped, living and hiding everywhere, and even had a child, enjoying what happiness they could. But… the good times didn’t last long. On the day his wife gave birth, our Demon King Majesty and the Northern Wing Pretender King found them and forcibly separated the two. His wife was taken back to the Dragon Temple, and his daughter was… burned alive!”
With these words, Ashi Li’s body trembled.
This… this is truly a human tragedy; no wonder the Winged Tribe Crown Prince is so devastated!
“What about your Demon King Majesty?” Ashi Li asked.
“Gone for treatment,” Moren said. “More than ten years ago, he was injured by Prince Dichacha of the Mo Tuo Empire and has yet to recover. He goes to the Holy Land for treatment every year and should return the day after tomorrow. Will you wait?”
Princess Di Nie nodded.
The Winged Tribe Crown Prince was entirely incapable of administering affairs, so they could only wait for the Winged Demon King’s arrival!
In the upcoming unification battle planned by the Tiancha King, even though the Winged Tribe numbers are few, they hold a very important weight.
Everyone knows that the Winged Tribe is an absolutely elite air force, and having them join the unified front of the Demon Empire is not just a simple matter of adding wings to a tiger.
In the Tiancha King’s military schema, the Winged Tribe holds an indispensable strategic position, and in some sense, is even more important than the Witch Kingdom, at least equally important.
With two days left until the duel with the Black Demon Flag Master, Lanling returned to the Flame Demon Tribe!
Over a month had passed, and the outermost seventy-li city wall had completed its earthen walls and had begun laying stone bricks upwards.
Excluding prisoners from the Rakshasa Tribe, the population of the Flame Demon Tribe had already surpassed two hundred seventy thousand.
The construction of all buildings in the inner city was basically completed.
All defensive structures were also fully constructed.
Various types of farmland, spanning over one hundred thousand mu, had been dug, and the first season’s crops had been planted.
Moreover, dozens of ponds had been dug within the territory, and various fish species had been successfully raised artificially.
Diverse workshops were sprouting like bamboo shoots after rain.
The Flame Demon Tribe’s Human Cavalry had expanded to thirty thousand, while the infantry expanded to seventy thousand.
The rarest Gryphon Knights had also grown to over four hundred.
After harvesting the wild flax, the first batch of flax had been planted, and even linen cloth had been produced.
Additionally, following Lanling’s orders, the people of the Flame Demon Tribe had discovered cotton and wild silkworms, intending to plant cotton on a large scale and begin raising wild silkworms.
In summary, even in Lanling’s absence, the Flame Demon Tribe developed in an orderly fashion, truly undergoing rapid change day by day.
More and more from the Near-Human Tribe realized that with the Chieftain acquiring a Centaur Army, the war and expansion would temporarily not rely on the Near-Human Tribe’s army. To avoid appearing useless, all from the Near-Human Tribe worked desperately hard to demonstrate to Lanling that they were valuable.
And indeed, they were valuable.
In the Barbaric Wilderness, all construction, learning, and cultural areas could only be entrusted to the Near-Human Tribe for completion because their minds were the sharpest.
After Lanling defeated the million-man army of Nai Shu, the surviving one hundred thousand Rakshasa Tribe captives thoroughly pledged their loyalty to Lanling, becoming a part of the Flame Demon Tribe, cutting off their tails, and even undergoing reorganization, with thirty thousand joining as the Flame Demon Tribe’s secondary corps.
Yin Ji, with clear articulation, reported the progress of the Flame Demon Tribe’s work.
After the report was over, the two sat in silence!
Yin Ji then lowered her delicate face, great tears falling like pearls.
Lanling approached, gently holding her in his arms, sitting her on his lap. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ ɴovelfire.net
A moment later, Yin Ji asked quietly, “Do you love me?”
She asked if she would be cherished, not loved.
“Will you cherish me?” Yin Ji asked.
“Yes,” Lanling replied.
Later that evening, while Yin Ji remained busy, Lanling left to watch the preparations of three Chimera Beasts and rode them to Black Demon City.
He was there to face the duel with the Black Demon Flag Master.
A duel that would decide the fate of the Black Demon Flag and the destiny of the Flame Demon Tribe!
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