World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 349 - 193: Refusal! Zhi Ning falls! Zhi Wei spits blood!_2

Chapter 349: 193: Refusal! Zhi Ning falls! Zhi Wei spits blood!_2

"Let’s go..." Gao Yin gently patted the griffin’s neck.

The enormous griffin let out a series of affectionate cries, then flapped its wings, took to the sky, and flew towards Tianshui City.

...

Zhi Wei, in order to rescue Turing Duo and Gui Qinqu, indeed ordered his troops to retreat thirty li.

Retreating an army of a hundred thousand was no easy task and required time.

It took a full four hours to complete the thirty-li retreat. Of course, the majority of time was spent on assembly; the actual march took just over an hour.

After retreating thirty li, Zhi Ning once again sent out messengers to Tianshui City to urge the release of Turing Duo, Gui Qinqu, Nurdan, and everyone else.

However, this time Suo Ningbing made another excessive demand.

In the letter, Suo Lun wrote that he was concerned Zhi Ning would immediately turn hostile and send out troops after rescuing Turing Duo, so, as a sign of good faith, he requested Zhi Ning’s army retreat another thirty li.

Upon receiving this letter, Zhi Ning’s face completely darkened as he directly tore the letter into pieces.

And it was at this moment that Zhi Wei’s camp received a hawk message, with five feathers attached, signifying it as the highest level of secret correspondence.

This message had been relayed from Nu Lang Royal City Zhi Du, a secret intelligence outpost, by fast hawk relay and had taken just under four hours from Zhi Du. The hawks were incredibly swift, covering hundreds of li in an hour.

Zhi Wei’s heart skipped a beat. Such high-level secret messages were extremely rare. What exactly had happened?

He immediately opened the secret message, and although it was written in jumbled code, Zhi Wei easily deciphered its content.

"The King has appeared, seemingly not yet recovered from a severe illness; Suo Lun is suspected to have entered the capital to participate in treating the King!"

After reading the message, Zhi Wei nearly felt his head spinning, blood surging in his chest, nearly bursting forth.

They had been tricked, fallen for Suo Lun’s strategic deception.

Suo Lun, that scoundrel, first used a beauty trap, befuddling Zhi Ning’s mind.

Then, he continually used the hostages Turing Duo and Gui Qinqu, along with Zhi Ning’s love, to stall for time.

On the surface, he seemed to be struggling in Tianshui City with Zhi Ning, constantly pleading.

In actuality, he had secretly gone to the City of Rage Wave to save the King.

Zhi Wei almost burst into Princess Zhining’s tent, for the first time rudely throwing the secret message at her.

Princess Zhining caught the message and read it, her body jolting as if struck by lightning, unable to believe her own eyes.

Fake, everything was fake.

The fallout between Suo Lun and Duke Zhi Ting was false; he had long realized that the appearance of Ashi Luo was a conspiracy by Zhi Li.

His pleas and avowals of love toward her were also false, intended to soften her heart, unwilling to kill him, and just to make her delay Zhi Wei’s army’s attack on Tianshui City.

For this, he even went to the lengths of raping her, becoming her first man, just so she would develop a deep and lasting love for him.

And indeed, he succeeded, for after they parted, she was consumed with thoughts of him.

For an entire day and night, she dwelled on each moment of their frenzied intimacy.

Even the memory of him forcing that filthy thing into her mouth replayed incessantly in her mind, accompanied by a strange and peculiar sense of satisfaction.

She desperately missed him, every inch of her longed for him.

In the last letter, Suo Lun had spoken of trying the legendary ’thrice not as good as one complete circle,’ and she had even been foolishly eager, fantasizing about such encounters.

What did that mean? It meant that she was poisoned, poisoned by Suo Lun’s venom, willing to do even the most degrading of things.

His love letters, his beggarly pleas, all were false.

He was just using her, not only had he toyed with her body, but he had also played with her emotions.

Princess Zhining felt waves of dizziness before her eyes, a surge in her chest, and fresh blood nearly spouted out.

But she fiercely swallowed it back; she absolutely couldn’t vomit blood, couldn’t vomit blood again for that bastard.

Princess Zhining felt an excruciating pain in her heart, unable to breathe, her vision darkening as if she would faint at any moment.

Gathering the last of her strength, Princess Zhining gritted her teeth and said, "The hundred thousand troops, attack Tianshui City, spare not a single soul within!"

With that, her eyes dimmed, and she completely passed out, unconscious.

"Suo Lun, you the most shameless villain under heaven, you who toy with emotions, I... will never forgive you!"

Before falling into unconsciousness, Princess Zhining repeated in her mind over and over again.

After she passed out, the blood she had suppressed welled up from the corners of her mouth.

Duke Zhi Wei was immediately overwhelmed with distress, shouting loudly, "Someone, call the physician."

Then, he shook his head furiously; women were simply unreliable at critical moments, always letting emotions get the better of them.

How ruthless and intelligent had Princess Zhining been before? Yet, facing Suo Lun, she was full of shortcomings.

Just these past two days, claiming she would annihilate Suo Lun without mercy. Yet subconsciously, she always found reasons to delay the army’s advance into Tianshui City, whether it was to rescue Gui Qinqu or Turing Duo.

While all those reasons seemed entirely legitimate, in reality, there was only one reason behind it.

Princess Zhining couldn’t bring herself to kill Suo Lun.

Moreover, though she seldom revealed it, the particular innocence in her eyes and her unnatural walk completely betrayed her.