Chapter 2289: What You Fear Most Will Come to Pass

“Princess, it’s the princess!” Many of the soldiers on the city walls saw who it was. They all cried out, “Clan master, hurry and find a way to save the princess!”

Princess Suolun was beautiful and kind. She was someone who had often helped the lower level soldiers, so her reputation among the people was really good.

The Suolun Clan Master’s expression was full of bitterness.

Would I not save her if I could?

There was only one last thought left in his head.

It’s over, it’s all over!

After all, Suolun Shi had visited the Rong and Wu clans in secret. Now that she had appeared here, it meant that the Wu and Rong clan had clearly sold her out. His plan to form an alliance with the Rong and Wu clans to defeat the Yun clan was already done for.

He really couldn't understand. The clans had been on equal footing for thousands of years. Perhaps one clan would become stronger than the others for a time, but eventually, fortunes would inevitably rise and fall, and after some time, another clan will end up becoming stronger. That was why there had always been a balance between the four great clans.

Have the Rong and Wu clans gone mad? They don’t want to enjoy their positions as clan masters and just have to live as dogs for the Yun clan?

Once the Suolun clan is finished off, how much longer will the Rong and Wu clans be able to hold on for?

Why aren’t those two old foxes able to think of this simple reasoning?

There were many things he didn’t understand right now, but his attention was quickly drawn by the shouts outside the city.

“Brother Suolun, if you still do not surrender and offer up your loyalty to the Demon Deity, your precious daughter might end up dying," the Yun Clan Master shouted from an elevated platform. With his cultivation, he could make everyone on the battlefield hear his voice.

While he was speaking, troops of soldiers began to pile firewood up beneath the platform. Killing a person was extremely easy, but killing them too quickly would be too boring. In contrast, the shocking sight of slowly burning someone alive would be much more effective in crushing enemy morale.

Additionally, if the Suolun clan changed their mind and surrendered, they could put out the fire at any time and release Suolun Shi. Otherwise, killing her could force the Suolun clan to completely resist to the end.

The Suolun Clan Master had initially tried to lead men out in a surprise attack, but when he saw the Rong clan and Wu clan on the platform, as well as how the three clans’ soldiers surrounded it with layer upon layer, he immediately gave up the thought. He cursed, “Bastard Yun, a battle between armies should be fought through strength and discipline. What kind of heroic deed is there in bullying a young girl?!”

The Yun clan roared with laughter. “Soldiers fight to the death for the sake of victory; when has war ever cared for pedantic rules? Furthermore, our Demon race is known to be cunning. Did you learn this strength and discipline nonsense from the humans?”

When they heard those words, the troops outside laughed too. They all mocked the Suolun clan for being inflexible.

On the city walls, the Suolun clan’s soldiers were all furious. They all shouted that they wanted to fight to the death.

“Don’t fall for their psychological attacks!” The Suolun Clan Master immediately stopped his troops. There was a huge difference in numbers between them and the enemy right now. If they charged out, that would just be exhausting their forces for no reason.

“The Suolun clan used to be famous among the Fiend races for being brave and formidable in battle. And yet today, it seems you're all just cowards!” the Yun Clan Master said with a sneer.

The Suolun Clan Master knew that the opponent was deliberately angering their side and didn’t pay much attention to it at all. Instead, he ordered his subordinates to strictly defend their positions. Without his orders, no one was permitted to leave the city to fight.

As he watched him command the soldiers on the walls, the Yun Clan Master started getting impatient. “Suolun Xing, do you not even care about your daughter anymore? As long as you hand over the White Tiger Stone, Suolun Shi will be your Suolun clan’s saintess, and our four great clans will serve the Demon Deity together and await his blessings. All of us will have our bloodline powers awakened by enlightenment. The Demon race will regain the glory we lost in ancient times. Why must you insist on putting yourself in this kind of situation?!”

The Suolun Clan Master shouted, “Our clan has instructed us about the importance of the Four Symbols Stones for thousands of years, telling us that they absolutely must not be given to an outsider. Rong clan and Wu clan, have you already forgotten that past vow?”

The Rong and Wu clan masters had looks of shame. When they officially became their respective clan masters, they had received the Four Symbols Stones from the previous clan masters. At the time, they had been warned again and again that this matter had to be kept a secret, and that these stones were extremely special. But as the years went on, they hadn’t really found these stones all that useful, so they had gradually come to believe the artifacts weren’t that big of a deal.

The Yun Clan Master harrumphed. “Do you even know what the Four Symbols Stones are? You don’t even know what you're guarding. What meaning is there in such senseless protectiveness? How could some trifling Four Symbols Stones be worth the lives of an entire clan?!”

Sure enough, many members of the Suolun clan on the city walls couldn't help but look at their clan master. They had actually only learned of the Four Symbols Stones’ existence recently. They had been secrets that only the clan masters knew about.

The Suolun Clan Master remained quiet for a while before saying, “That’s right. I don’t know what the Four Symbols Stones are good for, but since the great clans have passed them down from generation to generation, there must be a reason for it. What I must do is to continue to pass down this mission so as to not become a great sinner of the Demon race.”

“Hmph, you don’t know the use, but the True Demon and the powerful Demon Deity do. Only when our Four Symbols Stones are gathered together can they display their real use,” the Yun clan master continued.

The Suolun Clan Master harrumphed. “That True Demon’s background is suspicious, and the Demon Deity is also something that might not even exist. What if they're just fooling us? Do you understand what kind of consequence there will be if we hand over such important Four Symbol Stones then?”

“How audacious! You dare to speak disrespectfully about the Demon Deity and the True Demon?!” The Yun Clan Master was furious.

The Rong Clan Master also tried to say, “Brother Suolun, do you think that we're all fools, that we can’t distinguish between a real and a fake at all? All of us feel that they are trustworthy, so do you think you're smarter than all of us?”

The Wu Clan Master also said, “Other things can be falsified, but there's no way the True Demon’s enlightenment and awakening of bloodline power can be faked, right? How else could he accomplish that, if not through the power of the Demon Deity?”

“Shi’er has said in the past that the alien monsters have a similar ability. The Second Prince and Little Golden Peng King were also enticed by the monsters, and their strength was able to increase explosively. However, the price they ended up paying was their very lives,” the Rong Clan Master said coldly.

“Don’t try to delude the people with lies!” The Yun Clan Master was now getting a bit angry. “That is nothing more than what the winners want everyone to believe. If not for the regent’s interference, the Second Prince and Little Golden Peng King would still be alive and well. They might even have been more powerful than the late Fiend Emperor! Could it be that you don't wish to possess that kind of power?”

“Even though I want to become stronger, I don’t want us to become slaves of the monsters,” the Suolun Clan Master said coldly.

“You are already beyond saving. You are now completely someone who has disgraced God.” The Yun Clan Master shook his head. He said to Suolun Shi next to him, “Niece, hurry and tell your father to change his mind. Do not let him lead the entire Suolun clan into destruction.”

“Father!” Suolun Shi took a deep breath. Tears could be seen in her eyes.

Suolun Xing was also crying. “Your father is useless and cannot save you. Shi’er, are you scared?”

“I am.” Suolun Shi’s voice became quiet, but she quickly raised her head again. “But what I am more scared of is the Suolun clan being consigned to eternal damnation. Father, do not worry about me. As a daughter of the Suolun clan, I will only die standing, and not pitifully while wagging my tail!”

“You’re courting death!” The Yun Clan Master was furious. He grabbed at the platform, and a torch in a soldier's raised hand was drawn down toward the pile of firewood below, quickly starting a raging fire. Surging heat rushed into the air. The Yun Clan Master looked coldly at the city wall and said, “Suolun Xing, this is your final chance. If you surrender now, you can still save your daughter and keep the life of your clan. Otherwise, this charming daughter of yours will be burned alive, and your Suolun City’s end will be the same as hers.”

Suolun Xing gripped the city wall so tightly that it actually left a hole. His lips continuously trembled. He wanted to say something, but he discovered that he couldn't say anything at all.

Just then, Suolun Shi shouted from the platform, “Father, hold on. The regent will eventually sense the strangeness happening here. He will save the entire Suolun clan.”

“The regent?” The Yun Clan Master sneered. “That pretty boy is already in a drunken stupor in the human capital. By the time he finds out what happened here, the entire Suolun clan might not even have ashes left to save.”

Suolun Shi became silent when she heard this. She knew he was speaking the truth. Once the regent found out, he would rush over to help them, but by then, the other clans and the True Demon, and perhaps even the Demon Deity, would already have run off to who knew where. No one knew what they would do with the Four Symbols Stones too. Perhaps they would even become so strong that not even the regent would be able to stop them.

More importantly, how much longer could the Suolun clan even hold on for? At the very least, she definitely wouldn’t be able to last until then.

When she remembered what the regent had been like when they first met, and then how he had saved her in the sealed land, his handsome smiling face appeared in her mind and she was filled with reluctance.

I really want to see him one more time.

Just then, the Wu Clan Master exclaimed mockingly, “That guy really is too much. He actually dared to even publicly defile the Second Empress! He hasn't treated us Fiend race elders with any importance. Once the Demon Deity descends, he will finally understand that there are heavens beyond the heavens!”

The Wu clan had always enjoyed the glory of sharing the same surname as the royal family. Zu An’s actions had made him feel extremely humiliated.

𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

The Rong Clan Master also spoke up in agreement. “That’s right. Rather than hoping for the regent to save you, you might as well look forward to the descent of the Demon Deity.”

Just then, a voice suddenly called out, “Oh? Is that so?”