Dragon Tamer

Chapter 585: Chapter 587: Bloodbath of the City-State
 

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The army barracks, obscured by a swarm of birds, loomed like a black mountain peak—cold and terrifying.

Flight in this area would likely be very difficult; even a dragon of the Dragon King Level, should it linger above this military fortress, would be devoured by those witch birds, bones and all.

When Li Yunzi reached the vicinity of the barracks, there were hardly any guards left by her side.

The Three Elders and the two mighty ones from the Absolute Ridge Chengbang had hindered her progress. The experts with Li Yunzi had been held back accordingly, and now, only an elderly woman in a black robe remained, wearing a set of armor and closely following to Li Yunzi’s left and right.

Having reached the top of the barracks, Li Yunzi raised her head and saw a man and a woman seated high on the fortress summit. The man wore a half-cape, and the arm revealed was red as if belonging to a Ghost Hand.

The woman, dressed in a bright and luxurious silk robe, had pale cheeks and fiery lips, mature and enchanting. However, her eyes—long and narrow like a fox’s—bore an air of arrogance and cunning, even mocking Li Yunzi who had come alone.

“Yunzi, I heard a rumor not long ago. They say you have developed a tender relationship with that little beggar who served you in the dungeon. Your mother once called me lowly—I wonder, if she knew what you have become, would she turn into an evil ghost in the netherworld?” The woman in the red silk robe laughed, her fox-like eyes provocatively fanning the flames of inner rage!

Li Yunzi lifted her sword and suddenly chopped backwards. A dazzling sword light shot out in a thread-like beam, mercilessly piercing through a Ghost Soldier who attempted to sneak up on her. The Ghost Soldier looked at his own chest in disbelief, not understanding how he could be killed by a single strike when the opponent’s cultivation base seemed not that high.

“You are not a tenth the power of your mother, and she was no match for me. Do you really think you can contend with me? In light of some kindness that your family has shown to me and my tribespeople, I did not utterly annihilate you and your sister. You should have been content as my puppets, but you just can’t seem to stay in your place!” the woman in the red robe spoke down from her position, her tone becoming more forceful and cold.

Wu Wen!

One of the Dual Chakravarti of the Absolute Ridge Chengbang!

And the mastermind behind the Sect Palace!

The one who poisoned the gruel and threw Zhu Minglang into the dungeon… Although she was killed by Luo Xiao a while ago, Li Yunzi had found out that the woman was an illegitimate daughter of Wu Wen, one of the Dual Chakravarti of Absolute Ridge Chengbang.

Kong Tong, the young mistress of the Li Family?

A woman with schemes but no wisdom, Li Yunzi understood from the start that her real enemy was not Kong Tong; she was just a puppet.

The one who truly sought her complete downfall was Wu Wen.

It was her who Curse killed Star Painting and Yu Suo, leading to the death of her own mother.

“As your sister, take good care of them for me.”

That was the last sentence Li Yunzi heard before her soul was consumed by flames, holding her mother’s cold body in her arms. The bewildered girl couldn’t even understand why her mother had fallen into such a deep sleep, one from which she couldn’t awaken.

She had thought the nightmare would gradually fade with the long years, but the conspiracy in Eternal City made Li Yunzi understand even more clearly that the nightmare that had been haunting them was still there. Moreover, she could not fall, for if she did, the same would happen to her sister…

Without striking down the enemy, there would be no peace!

With every campaign, Li Yunzi’s heart was utterly calm. She couldn’t share the joy and celebrations of the soldiers who had conquered new cities, no matter how much the territory expanded or how large the army grew, none of it could bring a trace of a smile to her face. The reason was clear: a thorn was lodged in her throat, and unless it was pulled out, she would never feel the tranquility of the years or the peace of the present world.

This time in battle, however, Li Yunzi felt an emotion—that with every person from the Absolute Ridge Chengbang she killed, some of the bitterness in her heart was cleared away, and only by utterly annihilating this selfish, disgusting, shameless clan of Absolute Ridge could she completely quell the rage that had been smoldering in her heart for years!!

“Twenty years ago, I saw a group of people fleeing for their lives, being pursued. Among them was a woman, curled up in the snow like a dog…”

“Mother asked me, ‘Shall we save her?'”

“That day I made the most terrible mistake,” Li Yunzi said, addressing Wu Wen, one of the Dual Chakravarti, who sat above her.

Li Yunzi remembered that scene clearly.

It was not mother who was kind then, but herself.

She had nodded to her mother, although at that time she was very young, too young to understand the human heart or the concepts of good and evil, moved purely by the wish not to see someone suffer such humiliation and torment.

“Do you mean to say that you are the one I should be most grateful to?? Hahaha!” Wu Wen suddenly burst into laughter.

“Mother hesitated for a reason back then, and it has been proven that your kind don’t deserve to live in this world. It is because of me that you have survived till now, and it will also be me responsible for your annihilation today!” Li Yunzi pronounced.

Twenty years ago, with just a simple shake of the head, Absolute Ridge Chengbang would have ceased to exist, and Wu Wen, along with the entire clan of Absolute Ridge Chengbang, would have perished in that cold winter.

Twenty years later, they have proliferated like mosquitoes and rats. Although it’s not as simple as nodding or shaking my head to decide their life or death, my resolve to eradicate them is unshakeable!

Breaking through, seizing power, waging war, constantly making oneself stronger and impenetrable, all were for the sake of making up for that year, all for today.

To avenge my mother!

To avenge the shame of Eternal City!

Absolute Ridge Chengbang must be cleansed in blood!!!

The howling wind grew fiercer, and the snow on the distant towering mountains was whipped into the sky, turning into white Ice Fluff that drifted towards the silver mountain range, dancing above the city like cotton.

Giant statues collapsed one after another, and those hiding in the Triangle City Camp, one by one, were chopped down, their blood flowing, and no amount of snowflakes drifting from the mountain peaks could hide the glaring red.

War is cruel, yet Li Yunzi’s heart had never had a trace of pity. From a young age, she had understood a principle: those who are to be pitied also have a detestable side, and excessive benevolence only leads to disaster for those who truly desire a better world.

The Triangle City Camp was breached successively, and the head of the City-State General, standing atop his perch, was severed…

Despite his sneering and scorn, Wu Wen had to admit that this Li Yunzi, whom he had once tormented cruelly, was slaughtering her own people. The people of her clan, painstakingly built over twenty years, were now few and far between.

Wu Wen was seething with anger, regretting not having killed Li Yunzi outright back then!!