Rakshasa Army Camp.

"Reporting to the Queen, our soldiers have exceeded ten thousand!" White Sand reported to the Rakshasa Queen.

"Good, good, good. Everything is proceeding according to plan. Continue stockpiling troops." The Rakshasa Queen no longer relied on Gold Sand or Silver Sand to convey her decrees, speaking personally instead.

Ever since the Ancient Elegance Royal Advisor was captured, the morale of the Rakshasa Country's army had been unsettled, and this Queen of theirs had also lost her former composure and dignified bearing.

The overall grand strategy of the entire Rakshasa Country had shifted from its previous bold and aggressive advancement to becoming more conservative.

"Has Dorm 200 shown any unusual movements?" the Rakshasa Queen asked.

"No."

"Good. By the way, has Great Elder Haran awakened yet?"

"Queen, I will inform you the moment Great Elder Haran awakens."

After replying, White Sand's expression became hesitant, as if she had something to say but was holding back.

"If you have something to say, just say it," the Rakshasa Queen said softly.

"I think, my Queen, you don't need to always focus solely on Great Elder Haran. You could also win over some other Sages and generals." White Sand gritted her teeth and spoke frankly.

She felt the Queen was placing too much hope on Great Elder Haran. Although Great Elder Haran was the strongest Sorcerer in the history of the Rakshasa Country, his mere appearance wouldn't lead everyone to victory; he would still need the assistance of other commanders.

Inside the great tent, a long silence fell.

White Sand felt a terrifying pressure descend, not daring to even breathe heavily.

The Queen had never been one to humbly accept advice.

Gold Sand and Silver Sand's faces were tense, their snowy-white peaks heaving, equally nervous to the extreme.

"Then do you have any good ideas?" After a long while, an inquiry laced with suppressed anger came from behind the bed curtain.

White Sand breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said, "Rescuing Great Elder Gu Ya would stabilize the army's morale, and your prestige, my Queen, would also reach its peak."

"How do we rescue her? Do you think you can kill that rat hiding in the dormitory?" the Rakshasa Queen asked again.

Rat... White Sand felt a pang of bitterness in her heart.

The Queen hadn't witnessed the scene of Xu Lang's transformation back then. If she had, she wouldn't be saying this.

That kind of annihilating large-scale sorcery, only Great Elder Haran could perform it.

"We could negotiate," White Sand's mind raced, offering a solution.

The Rakshasa Queen laughed in anger, saying, "Surrendering sovereignty and humiliating the nation..."

Before she could finish her sentence, a great commotion erupted outside the camp tent!

The ordinary soldiers of the Rakshasa Country all obeyed the Queen's orders. Without the Rakshasa Queen's command, they wouldn't cause such a ruckus. Something major must have happened outside!

White Sand hurried out to check and saw, under the bloody sky, a massive fiery lotus phantom blooming in mid-air, raising the surrounding temperature by several degrees.

"It's the Blazing Heaven Saint awakening!" White Sand was startled, thought of something, and was overjoyed. She hurriedly ran back into the tent.

Not long after, a golden palanquin emerged from the tent, heading towards the direction of the tombs.

The generals and Sages of the Rakshasa Country also left their tents, converging towards the tombs.

...

The tombs of the Rakshasa Country resembled a giant burial pit, with tombstones arranged in a ring formation.

At the very center was the Rakshasa Queen's super-giant tombstone. Currently, the tombstone was damaged, the burial mound empty. The Queen and her soldiers had risen from their coffins on the very first day.

Further out were three giant tombstones.

At this moment, one of the giant tombstones shook incessantly. After it cracked and collapsed, an elderly man with crimson eyes, draped in magnificent robes, walked out from the burial chamber.

He glanced up at the bloody sky, a smile playing on his lips. Raising his hands, figures dressed in fiery red religious robes rose from the earth.

These devotees had their heads covered by hoods, their faces unclear.

But the surrounding soldiers looked at them with great wariness, even fear.

The Sacred Flame Cult was the state religion of the Rakshasa Country. Formal devotees who joined had undergone extremely terrifying trials of torture. Each possessed a power that was both insane and formidable.

These hundred or so devotees here could match an army of five thousand.

And their leader was none other than Blazing Heaven, one of the three Saints of the Rakshasa Country.

"Queen." Blazing Heaven lifted his head, looked towards the palanquin, then shook his head. "You are not the Queen I am familiar with."

Blazing Heaven's voice was very magnetic and also very amiable, like a benevolent and wise old man.

"Greetings, Saint. I am the thirty-seventh Queen of the Rakshasa Country, Ayiguli." The Rakshasa Queen's figure was obscured by semi-transparent golden gauze, but it could be seen that she half-rose, sitting up with utmost solemnity.

"Thirty-seventh?"

Blazing Heaven repeated it, sighing. "You have already done very well. It is not what you, this final monarch, have done. We likely would not have this chance of resurrection... A great catastrophe must have occurred, leading to the destruction of the Rakshasa Country, right?"

The Rakshasa Queen nearly cried, feeling a warm glow in her heart.

Besides Saladin, Blazing Heaven was the first ancestor to be so gentle with her.

"Yes, that day, a blood mist drifted over the great desert..."

"The reason for your resurrection is also because I made a contract with an elusive existence..."

"Saint, please come with your devotees to the main camp. I have already arranged accommodations for you and your followers..."

...

Charm is not an objective attribute, but a subjective one.

For devotees, their idol is supreme. If ordered, they would willingly die on the spot.

But for non-believers, deities are just stinking idiots, frauds.

While the Rakshasa Country camp was in turmoil, the player side also received the news.

There were many extraordinary individuals among the players. Almost every well-established dorm had an information specialist. Detecting the movements in the Rakshasa Country camp wasn't difficult, and everyone was willing to share such information.

When Xu Lang heard that a fiery lotus had risen over the Rakshasa Country camp, he knew Blazing Heaven had awakened.

This old man was one of his favorites.

He had charm skills to bewitch followers, and also fire-element skills. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

He wanted both types of skills.

However, his strength was truly formidable. Xu Lang had fought him in the simulated dream. If not for the Teleportation Cloak, winning would have been very difficult.

There was even one time when he was caught off guard and blown up.

Those Sacred Flame Cult devotees could all explode, and the blast power could affect an area half a corridor long.

Xu Lang tidied his attire and headed home. Passing by the doorway, he casually put the Soul-Herding Wolf back into the Grave Pasture.

"Xu Lang, the Rakshasa Country side is probably about to make a big move!" Wang Yazhi came out of the Training Room and looked at Xu Lang, saying.

"Mm, it should be soon," Xu Lang responded.

Blazing Heaven was an impatient person.

Tong Qi and Xu Ruyan, who were out sweeping floors, had also returned.

Although going out was dangerous now, Tong Qi and the others were, after all, highly skilled and bold.

Everyone gathered together, analyzing the situation, when the mutation occurred.

The sky cracked open. A crimson stream of fire descended from the heavens, flames enveloping a giant rock, like a burning meteor!

As it fell, its size also increased, finally reaching a diameter of over ten meters!

Players still in the corridor were dumbfounded, as if witnessing a natural disaster.

"Is this also the monsters' doing?" One player's mind went blank, staring blankly at the direction where the meteorite was falling. "That's... the Great Demon King Xu Lang's home!"