World-Ending Demon Emperor-Chapter 2002 - 917: The Tiancha King Kneels and Surrenders to Lanling!

Tang Ren said, "Tell me, if by any chance our Flame Demon Empire wins in the future, we must also chronicle your father Bingren, lest your entire family fall into the abyss of shame."

The face of the Tiancha King slightly twitched, he began to breathe heavily, his face growing paler, his gaze more and more feeble.

The scene from decades ago is truly unbearable to recall, never to be thought of again, yet often revisited in dreams.

The events of decades past truly overturned his worldview, his view on life, transforming him from a hero into a coward afraid of death, a despicable seeker of power.

Only after a while did the Tiancha King slowly begin to speak.

"That day, the former Tiancha King, who was my grandfather, was about to pass away. And the successor to the Tiancha throne was to be my father Bingren, due to his immense prestige, surpassing even that of the prior king. All the banner leaders, all the members of the elders’ assembly, all the Demon Generals supported him. His martial skills were unsurpassed, and none could block his path."

"Father Bingren had grand ambitions; once he ascended to the Tiancha throne, he planned to ally with the Witch Kingdom, to have the Winged Tribe of the Northern Barbaric Lands move south, establishing a united front of the Demon Empire to unify the entire Southern Barbaric Lands in the shortest possible time and establish the Demon Empire. Yet, he only proclaimed himself Regent King, never Emperor, and did not immediately resist the Dragon Temple, even willing to sign some sort of compromise treaty with the Dragon Temple, only seeking to rival the Motuo Empire in the Northern Barbaric Lands."

"However, this was merely a stalling tactic. According to his special calculations, he believed the Master of Yao Xing would soon descend upon the world, perhaps in decades, certainly within a century. I don’t know what calculations he used, but often I saw him day after day meditating in a quiet room, frequently gazing at the sky. Once he unified the Southern Barbaric Lands and established the Demon Empire, he planned to develop Energy Studies, strengthening the Demon Empire greatly, and when the Master of Yao Xing descended, he would directly inherit a powerful Demon Empire without starting from scratch, then, under the leadership of the Master of Yao Xing, resist the Dragon Temple and achieve the great revival of demon civilization."

Tang Ren’s gaze grew slightly heated, once more encountering an idealist, an eternal loyalist of the Demon Emperor.

"Father never shared these ideals with anyone else, only me, fearing he might not live to see the descent of the Master of Yao Xing, hoping I would inherit his ideals and undertakings." The Tiancha King raised his head, holding back tears.

"And then?" Tang Ren asked.

The Tiancha King replied, "No one in the world could stop my father Bingren from inheriting the Tiancha throne. Until the former king, my grandfather, detained my mother, me, and my son Dao, using our three lives to coerce my father to go to his bedside. This was the former king of the Tiancha tribe, the one who repeatedly claimed to be the most tolerant and wise ruler, threatening his son-in-law with the lives of his daughter, grandson, and great-grandson—hahaha..."

The Tiancha King laughed wildly.

After a long while, he continued, "Forced, my father went to the former king’s bed-chamber. However, four elite from the Dragon Temple were already waiting there, making five top-tier elites in total for the ambush on my father Bingren. The former king feigned illness and death beforehand. He exploited father Bingren to make the Tiancha Tribe incredibly powerful, and then mercilessly conspired with the Dragon Temple to eliminate him. This was the former king of the Tiancha Tribe, the most wise and just ruler, hahaha..."

"My father Bingren fought five on his own, still holding the upper hand. Then came the ugliest, most vulgar scene. My grandfather, the former king, used the lives of my mother, me, and my son Dao to threaten my father. I was able to sense my father’s struggle, his ideals and career on one hand, his wife, son, and grandson on the other. He was a great hero, originally supposed to be unhesitant, supposed to be unbound by worldly emotions. Yet... he ultimately compromised, laid down his arms, and surrendered!"

"And then?" Tang Ren asked.

"Then the former king told me that if I killed my father Bingren, I would be the successor of the Tiancha Royal Family, directly inheriting the Tiancha throne. Or I would die along with my father Bingren, but I refused... My father Bingren held my hand and let me kill him, then I inherited the Tiancha throne, my mother took her own life. The former king faked his death, remaining hidden from the world. Years later, I conspired with the Dragon Temple to kill my grandfather, the former king, taking sole control over the Tiancha Tribe!"

At this point, the Tiancha King had already calmed down.

This matter should be the world’s greatest secret, now finally revealed to the world.

Of course, the Tiancha King had some unclear expressions at crucial points, but it was a tragedy against mankind, completely overturning the Tiancha King’s outlook on life and the world.

Meanwhile, the Crown Prince Tiancha was already crying uncontrollably; he was very young and had no memory when all this happened.

"From then on, I reached a conclusion, heroes never die well. If my father hadn’t been a hero, hadn’t cared about me or my mother’s life, the four masters of the Dragon Temple plus the former king would be no match for him; how could he have died miserably? Only by becoming despicable and shameless can one laugh until the end, invincible. Nobility is the epitaph of the noble, baseness is the passport of the base, how true!"

"I killed my own father, already fallen into the dark abyss, unable to turn back. I was born to be the most shameless and despicable one. So I’d rather be a puppet of the Dragon Temple and the Motuo Empire than submit to Demon Emperor Lanling as a free man. The root of my father Bingren’s tragedy was that he believed too much in allegiance to the Master of Yao Xing!"

"After my father Bingren died, my world utterly collapsed. All that remained was darkness, despicability, shamelessness, greed! All the light, all the ideals, all the greatness vanished into smoke and ashes!"

The Tiancha King seemed to age ten years, dejectedly sitting cross-legged on the ground, waving his hand, saying, "Tang Ren, you should go! I hope your undertaking can succeed, but I dare not believe, nor shall I follow!"

Tang Ren did not leave, but sat cross-legged, gazing at the Tiancha King, saying, "Your father Bingren, he is not dead!"

The Tiancha King’s face changed dramatically, appalled, "Impossible, I saw with my own eyes the Zhuma Sword of the Dragon Temple piercing his energy heart, saw the former king and the elites of the Dragon Temple dismember him, severing his energy heart and cerebral domain, he is dead beyond dead!"

Tang Ren replied, "I our Emperor Lanling, in the fourth layer of a certain abandoned laboratory of the Dragon Temple, saw Bingren, frozen by an extraordinarily powerful energy. Before finding a proper method, we dare not act rashly. But one day, the Emperor will figure out a way to revive the senior Bingren!"

The Tiancha King gazed at Tang Ren!

This person truly does not lie, the Tiancha King may not believe Lanling, but he believes Tang Ren. This is also a fool, an idealist, just like his father Bingren.

"Tiancha King, come now... since you can be a man, do not force yourself to be a dog!"

"Listen to your heart, don’t use reason, consider whether Emperor Lanling will really win?"

"I think he will win, because our Emperor Lanling is a madman, a complete madman, a madman constantly creating miracles!"

"Just recently, Huigu went to negotiate with the Emperor, offering Gui Qinshao in exchange for Na Xue’s life. As long as the Emperor killed Na Xue, the Dragon Temple was willing to release Gui Qinshao. But the Emperor refused, despite his patience with Na Xue nearly running out, possibly killing him in a few days, yet he absolutely would not use Na Xue’s life for such a transaction!"

"He is mad, in this world, without madness, one cannot survive!"

"Come, we shall greet your father Bingren together, we shall resurrect your father and fight alongside him; he will undoubtedly be proud of you, proud of all you’ve lived through these years."

The face of the Tiancha King twitched continuously, his entire body trembling unceasingly.

Countless rational thoughts told him, never surrender, definitely not. Ninety percent of his rational mind and will insisted on not surrendering.

But for some reason, his knees softened, he knelt toward the direction of the Flame Demon Empire, kowtowing, "Your Majesty, Tiancha willingly surrenders!"

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