World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 466 - 247: Zhi Li heard the terrible news! Horrified!

Chapter 466: 247: Zhi Li heard the terrible news! Horrified!

Watching Turing Chen kneeling on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.

Yan Nai’er could hardly believe her eyes. Was this still the unrestrained and carefree Liu Chen from before? Was this still the dashing young noble who regarded power and wealth as worth no more than dirt?

To beg for his life while kneeling on the ground in such a way?

Was it that she never truly understood him, or had Liu Chen changed?

In any case, Turing Chen’s act of kneeling had a profound impact on Yan Nai’er, even giving her a sense of upheaval.

But what he said was true. When they had taken risks together in the past, Liu Chen’s martial arts skills far surpassed hers, and he had saved her life numerous times, protecting her by putting himself in harm’s way.

Indeed, Yan Nai’er owed him a debt of gratitude for saving her life many times.

By all rights, and considering their past, she ought to let him go.

Yan Nai’er, looking at Turing Chen kneeling on the ground, said word by word, "You have saved my life many times, and for that, I should repay you. However, public matters are public, and personal matters are personal. How can I confuse the two? Therefore, the idea of sparing you is absolutely impossible."

Upon hearing these words, Turing Chen couldn’t help but shiver, his whole body turning cold as ice, and said, "Yan Nai’er, are you really so callous and unfeeling, completely disregarding the life-saving grace I showed you?"

Yan Nai’er replied, "I will beseech my husband not to kill you, to consider it as repaying the debt I owe you for saving my life."

After that, Nai’er no longer paid any attention to Turing Chen and coldly said, "Samurai of the Tuli Family, will you surrender without resistance, or shall I be forced to slaughter you all?"

At that moment, the family samurai who were escorting Tuli Ming and Turing Chen were only a little over two hundred in number, and they were all wounded.

Yan Nai’er, on the other hand, was leading several thousand cavalrymen, leaving no chance for a fight.

Count Tuli Ming slowly regained consciousness, his face ashen. Recalling the destruction of the more than a hundred thousand soldiers at his command, he vomited blood yet again.

"Surrender. Count Suo Lun will treat me with the respect due to a lord."

After finishing his sentence, he spat out several more mouthfuls of blood and Count Tuli Ming once again fell into unconsciousness.

With their lord’s command, the family samurai from Luan Yang City laid down their weapons and knelt to surrender.

And with that, Count Tuli Ming and Turing Chen were both captured!

...

Unlike Count Tuli Ming’s stubborn resistance, Gui Xingfu was undoubtedly cunning!

In the vote on whether to enter Devil’s Bay, Gui Xingfu and Hai Wuyan did not raise their hands.

Unlike Turing Chen’s indecisive behavior, Gui Xingfu always had a feeling of unease.

However, in this four-family Allied Army, he contributed the least number of troops, merely five thousand naval soldiers and a few dozen ships.

The other fifteen thousand troops were still stationed at the border between Linhai City and Tian Shui City, and they would not move south until after the Alliance Army of Extinction had landed.

Therefore, in this Allied Army, Gui Xingfu did not have much say, and he could only watch as the massive army of more than a hundred thousand entered Devil’s Bay.

Upon seeing the sea surface littered with a hundred and two hundred abandoned ships, he already felt foreboding.

When countless barrels of oil rolled down from the cliffs at the entrance of the bay and were then utterly ignited, a wall of fire thousands of meters long was driven by the tide, charging towards the shore like a thundering stampede, Gui Xingfu felt a chill all over.

At that moment, he knew it was over!

The demise of the Alliance Army of Extinction, more than a hundred thousand strong, was sealed!

No one knew Count Suo Lun better than Gui Xingfu.

From breaking off the engagement and tricking Chaos Stone Island away to making a hundred thousand Gold Coins in half a year, these two occasions involved him personally confronting Count Suo Lun, and the bone-deep pain was still vivid in his mind.

Later on, Suo Lun, through Yan Nai’er, secured fifteen thousand of the Silver Wolf Legion. Then, with fewer men, he recaptured Tianshui City.

Although Gui Xingfu was not directly engaged with Suo Lun in these matters, he saw them clearly. To overestimate Count Suo Lun’s cunning was impossible.

Thus, even though it had not yet happened, the moment the tide drove the wall of fire, Gui Xingfu was certain that the doom of the Alliance Army of Extinction was fixed!

He even had a premonition that those large abandoned ships on the sea were filled with terrifying amounts of oil.

Despite not knowing how this world could have such an abundance of that oil!

After seeing through Count Suo Lun’s scheme, rather than seeking out Tuli Ming, Gui Xingfu took his son, Gui Qinzhong, and escaped by jumping into the sea without a second thought.

It was just father and son who abandoned the ship and fled without informing their own soldiers aboard the Gui Clan’s fleet.

After hesitating for a moment, he passed by the flagship of Hai Wuyan and Hai Na’er and transmitted a message with dragon power, saying, "Quickly abandon ship, escape over the sea, quickly..."

He informed Hai Wuyan and Hai Na’er because of the strategy of befriending the distant and attacking the near.

With Lord Luan Yang so close and the Hai Family of Yingzhou so far away...

If Luan Yang City’s naval main force were to be annihilated, it would be beneficial to the Gui Clan without any downside, with the Gui Clan even being able to replace many of their trade interests.

After informing Hai Wuyan and Hai Na’er, Gui Xingfu took his son and without looking back, dived underwater, using all his dragon power to desperately flee.

Furthermore, he didn’t flee towards the shore.

Because of the tide and the strong wind, all the fire would be driven ashore, and running towards the beach was tantamount to following a path to certain death.

Thus, Gui Xingfu escaped towards the vast open sea, running towards the entrance of Devil’s Bay.

Hai Na’er, A Shi Zhuo, and Hai Wuyan reacted a bit slower.

But when the first ship loaded with crude oil exploded.

Hai Wuyan also immediately knew that the end of the Alliance Army of Extinction was at hand and beyond redemption.