The expansion of the Flame Demon Tribe continued. Every day, hundreds of human refugees came to seek refuge with them.
There was strength in numbers, so the tribe's construction speed kept increasing.
A month and a half after the battle, the Flame Demon Tribe's population exceeded 41,000.
This number was already the same as the surrounding Rakshasa tribes. Luckily, Lan Ling had plundered and obtained vast amounts of food and meat, as well as countless bolts of cloth and clothes.
Otherwise, Lan Ling would probably not be able to provide food and clothing for more than 40,000 people.
Not only that, because the Chimera tribe had already been destroyed, and the Akara tribe's defenses were weak, the Flame Demon Tribe's hunting ground was three to four hundred kilometers around the tribe. Dolong led the hunting team and charged around. Also, his hunting team was getting bigger and bigger, from a hundred people to a few hundred. Every day, his harvest was huge.
The current Flame Demon Tribe was completely thriving with each passing day, changing with each passing day.
Although the new outer city wall was six to seven kilometers long, and its height and width had increased, a month and a half later, all the mud walls had been built. Just the mud walls were four meters thick and more than nine meters tall.
These walls were already comparable to those great cities in ancient China.
But this could not be helped. This world's military force was much stronger, even if they were just ordinary soldiers.
Also, the walls were made of ironwood, which was very sturdy.
More than half of the Flame Demon Tribe's population participated in the construction of the walls. At its peak, there were 20,000 people building the walls every day.
Also, the division of labor was very clear.
Digging, transporting, hammering, chopping, quarrying, sharpening, calcining, and so on.
After the mud walls were built, they already had basic defensive capabilities. Next was to stick stone strips on the mud walls.
This time, the stone strips would be thicker, harder, and larger.
Luckily, the Chimera tribe and the Akara tribe had both lost their fighting strength, so the Flame Demon Tribe could not only gather materials within the tribe. They could go anywhere within a three hundred kilometer radius.
At this time, the flat ground outside the Flame Demon Tribe had already been dug full of holes.
After all, this was a 3,500 meters long, nine meters tall, and four meters thick mud wall. Also, this was a wall that had been hammered with all their might, and its height had been compressed. Just this city wall and many houses would require hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of soil.
However, this time, Lan Ling did not plan to dig a big hole.
Therefore, after digging out a relatively deep reservoir, they used the method of shallow digging.
In the process of digging, they were also cultivating the farmland. As for the planting of grain and flax, they had already begun to deploy.
Also, the carpenters had already built the loom. Once the flax was harvested, they could start weaving on a large scale.
Not only that, the brick yard and the tile kiln had already started firing.
In order to obtain soil suitable for making bricks and tiles, dozens of potters dug through the soil within a radius of over a hundred li. Finally, on a hill thirty li away, they found a suitable location to build a brick and tile kiln.
Therefore, Lan Ling had suspended the use of stones to build houses. He was waiting for the large-scale production of bricks before carrying out intensive construction.
At that time, the houses of the Flame Devil Tribe would surpass any of the surrounding tribes. They would directly surpass the wooden houses and mud houses, arriving at the age of green bricks and large tiles.
Meanwhile, the construction of the first brick house in the tribe had already begun. This house naturally belonged to Lan Ling.
Lan Ling temporarily gave up on the Chimera Tribe's mine.
However, Lan Ling brought all the mining slaves and smelting slaves there to the Flame Devil Tribe.
Apart from the construction of the city gates, these hundreds and thousands of people were all assigned to forge weapons and armor.
The surrounding tribes did not like to wear armor. They felt that it was cowardly and not brave.
Lan Ling, on the other hand, would forge armor and weapons for his elite troops.
Because the population was expanding too quickly, there was indeed a lack of houses. There was no other way. They could only temporarily adopt the method of sharing beds, with over twenty people sleeping in one house.
After having their own homes, these exiles, who were close to humans, erupted with unprecedented productivity and intelligence, pushing the Flame Devil Tribe's construction frenzy to new heights.
Now, the Flame Devil Tribe's army had already exceeded fifteen thousand people!
The original two thousand cavalry was now planned to expand to a thousand. Therefore, warhorses were once again in short supply.
However, the number of griffins had increased to nineteen.
Of course, they did not forget to plunder all the griffins during the previous great robbery of the Chimera Tribe.
And it just so happened that those ten griffins were all in the cave. Moreover, their ankles were chained. Even the two griffins that Suomo had gifted to Constantine were brought back.
Little Ya Ya was overjoyed. Originally, she only had one companion. Now, she actually had three.
Everything in front of her seemed to be developing in a good direction.
The Flame Devil Tribe was developing and strengthening every day. It was full of passion and happiness.
However, a trace of haze in the bottom of Lan Ling's heart gradually began to accumulate. He felt that danger was slowly descending. He did not receive any information. It was just a kind of intuition.
…
"Fly, fly, fly …" The little girl clapped her hands and shouted, instructing the three griffins to learn how to fly.
These three griffins were already seven or eight months old and weighed no less than fifty kilograms. Their feathers were also fully grown, but they just could not fly.
The other griffins learned to fly in four or five months.
The one that Little Ya Ya had been raising was spoiled rotten. It was plump from eating and was too lazy to learn to fly.
As for the two griffins that were raised in the Chimera Tribe, because the situation in the Chimera Tribe had always been unstable, no one had taught the two griffins how to fly. Therefore, the three griffins had been delayed.
Lan Ling did not want to raise these three griffins into stupid and adorable pets. Therefore, he found a rare moment of rest and brought the little girl to train the three griffins to fly.
The three little fellows were really very stupid. When they were told to fly, they only flapped their wings. Otherwise, they would run while flapping their wings, but they could not fly at all.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid …" The little girl was flustered and exasperated. Then, she went forward one by one and slapped their butts.
The three little griffins whined and were beaten dejectedly.
"Look at me …" Then, the little girl flapped her wings and flew up shakily.
The three griffins looked enviously at the little girl flying in the air. Then, they also flapped their wings. They did not expect that their bodies would actually leave the ground and learn the first step of flying.
It seemed that the power of an example was indeed infinite.
Lan Ling played with Little Tanuki's buttocks and said, "Fortunately, they have learned to fly. Otherwise, I would find a cliff and throw them directly. They have to fly even if they don't want to, or they will fall to their death."
The scars on Little Tanuki's face had almost completely disappeared. Lan Ling searched for the best ointment and finally used his own blood to smear the scars on her body and face.
Every time she saw the scars on Gou Li's body, Lan Ling would pull Gou Li over and whip her in front of Little Tanuki to vent Ah Li's anger.
The death of her daughter, Gou Li, had brought a huge blow to Little Tanuki.
Although this daughter was a bastard, not only greedy for glory, but also stupid, and for the sake of greed for enjoyment, she even betrayed her biological mother.
But after all, she was her biological daughter.
Di Na was considerate and took the initiative to let Little Tanuki take care of the little girl, so that her maternal love could be entrusted.
Sure enough, A 'Li quickly recovered, and then threw all her motherly love to the little girl. Moreover, Little Ya Ya was much cuter than her daughter, Gou Li, much smarter, kind, and beautiful.
"You're so annoying, don't scare me!" Little Tanuki said.
Lan Ling's hands were getting heavier and heavier, and Little Tanuki was panting. She gently struggled and said, "Don't do this, we're all human."
And at this time, Lan Ling suddenly felt his heart tighten, and then his face changed slightly.
He sensed danger descending upon him.
"Di Na, Little Tanuki, take the little girl back into the cave, and don't come out," Lan Ling said.
At this time, Di Na was looking at the little girl flying in the air while stroking her bulging belly. At this time, after hearing Lan Ling's words, her face turned pale, and then she nodded and asked nothing.
"Ya Ya, come down."
Little Ya Ya was not happy yet, but she just pouted and flew directly into Di Na's arms.
Di Na carried her, and with Little Tanuki, they walked towards the cave in the depths of the tribe.
And the three little griffins followed closely behind.
…
From very far away, Lan Ling felt a very strong and extremely dangerous energy aura.
Usually, his energy sense was not so far away. This time, he felt it from a distance of four to five kilometers.
Because this intruder was very arrogant, and did not hide his energy aura at all. Instead, he released it arrogantly.
This was like a plane that generally had to avoid the country's radar when it wanted to invade the airspace of a country. Therefore, it was either a stealth plane or flying very low. In short, it had to desperately hide.
And this intruder was like a space battleship that came from the zenith planet. Not only did he not hide himself, but he also arrogantly announced: I'm here.
A few minutes later!
A golden shadow appeared on the horizon. A person, riding a griffin, came from the west.
Closer and closer, and closer and closer.
His energy aura became more and more intense, and stronger and stronger.
Finally, he flew above the Flame Demon tribe and looked down at everything below.
This ghost realm's legend was so terrifying, but he actually barged in like this.
This was a very handsome man, but his appearance was very contradictory.
He had a coquettish face, a girly appearance, slanted eyes, but a long and big nose.
The muscles on his body were so good that they could explode.
Moreover, he only wore a black silk robe, and nothing else inside.
His hair was casually draped over his shoulders, appearing especially bold and unrestrained.
He looked at everything on the ground with contempt, and said coldly, "Where is Lan Ling? I've come to take his head! "
His voice resounded through every part of the Flame Demon tribe.
His energy aura suppressed every inch of this place.
"Where is Lan Ling bastard, I've come to take his head!"
He was alone, without a single soldier or soldier by his side.
Barging into the Flame Demon tribe to take Lan Ling's head single-handedly like this, truly arrogant to the extreme!
…
Back to two years ago.
Zhi Li and Ashita Liren escorted Zhi Ning and her son, and Fang Qingzhuo and her daughter left the royal city of Fengdu overnight, heading north to the Dongli Kingdom.
Along the way, everyone slept during the day and went out at night, trekking for more than 20,000 miles. After walking for more than a month, they finally arrived at the royal city of the Dongli Kingdom, Lijing.
The royal city of the Raging Wave Kingdom was called Fengdu, and the capital of the Yelan Principality was called Landu.
Only the Yan Empire was called Yan Capital, and the Dongli Kingdom was called Lijing.
From this, it could be seen that the status of the Dongli Kingdom and the Yan Empire were almost equal. However, the Dongli Kingdom was still loyal to the Fire Dragon Empire, and to His Majesty the Dragon Emperor, so it was unwilling to call itself an empire, and was still a kingdom.
After entering the Dongli Kingdom, it was as if they had entered another world.
The buildings here were very simple, and had a special charm. The clothes of the people here were not as complicated as those in other countries.
In short, the tradition of the Fire Dragon Empire was still followed here.
Not only that, statues of His Majesty the Dragon Emperor could be seen everywhere.
The flag of the Fire Dragon Empire was flying everywhere.
That's right, even the flag of this country was the Fire Dragon Empire, not the Dongli Kingdom.
Whether it was on the city wall or on the flags of the army, the royal flag of the Fire Dragon Empire stood tall first, and the royal flag of the Dongli Kingdom was a little shorter.
Not only that, but there were slogans everywhere.
To celebrate the 3,200th anniversary of the Fire Dragon Empire.
His Majesty the Dragon Emperor, may you live a long life!
In short, after entering the Dongli Kingdom, there was a strong feeling that His Majesty the Dragon Emperor was not dead, and that the Fire Dragon Empire still existed.
Now, Lan Ling finally understood why the Dongli Kingdom was so powerful, but it felt like it was isolated from the rest of the world.
First, the Dongli Kingdom felt that the other countries had betrayed the Dragon Emperor, so they cut off all ties with them.
The other countries were under the control of the Dragon Temple. In the Dongli Kingdom, the power of the Dragon Temple was very small, and it was like a pure land. Of course, they didn't want the people of other countries to enter the Dongli Kingdom and feel all this.
Suppressing and even eliminating the influence of the Dragon Emperor had always been the highest goal of the Dragon Temple.
Outside Lijing City.
"You are safe now. I will send you here," Zhi Li said. "Then, goodbye!"
Then, Zhi Li turned to leave.
"Wait …" Zhi Ning shouted.
Zhi Li listened and stood still.
Zhi Ning asked, "Can I ask, who are you?"
For more than a month, Zhi Li had been quietly escorting them to Lijing City. Not only did he not speak, but he also kept a certain distance.
"Hell Knight, the follower of His Majesty the Demon Emperor Søren!" Zhi Li said.
Zhi Ning said, "Then … then he is still alive?"
Zhi Li said, "He will come back to life. You are safe in the Dongli Kingdom, waiting for the return of His Majesty the Demon Emperor."
Zhi Ning bowed to him and said, "Thank you."
Then, she grabbed the baby's chubby little hand and said, "Goodbye, Uncle!"
"Goodbye, Uncle …" Baby Zhi Yu said in a childish voice.
Zhi Li's skinless face slightly twitched. He first looked at baby Zhi Yu, then at his two daughters.
The two little girls ate and slept in the open all the way. Their little faces were bright red, and at this time, they looked at him with curiosity and attachment.
Zhi Li really wanted to cry, but he had no tears.
When he was a father, the two girls were not close to him at all. Later on, they even hated him because he hit Fang Qingzhuo. The girls, of course, stood on their mother's side.
But now, the two little girls actually had feelings for him.
He instinctively reached out, wanting to touch baby Zhi Yu's little face, and the two little faces of his two daughters.
However, he could not.
After being touched by his hand, human skin would directly melt.
"Goodbye …"
Zhi Li said in a hoarse voice. Then, he rode the skeleton horse and headed east.
He wanted to go to the East Sea to see Faceless to get the Devil's Tear and undergo the second transformation.
Time was very tight!
…
The Headless Knight!
After he left Royal City, he did not immediately resurrect Aslo.
Instead, he went to the southeast region of Fengdu City.
He went there to save a person, the aunt of Demon Emperor Søren, and also one of his wives in name, Queen Yan Chuo 'er!
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