Chapter 1940: Surrender and Pay Tribute

Tuomu Qianglei also felt as if he were sitting on a bed of needles; several times he sent envoys to negotiate with Ye Liuyun, and they were all killed outright by Ye Liuyun, with only one person allowed to return with a message.

And each time the report that came back contained the same eight characters: "Surrender, pay tribute. Otherwise, annihilate the clan!"

Having no choice, Tuomu Qianglei could only go to the Witch again.

"The Demon Race looks like this now; are you satisfied?" the Witch asked him directly.

"How could I have known before that Ye Liuyun was this powerful!" Tuomu Qianglei defended himself.

The Witch replied helplessly, "You still haven't recognized your own problem! It is your greed that has turned the Demon Race into this state! A great opportunity for development has been buried by your hand! You are a sinner of the Demon Race!"

Do you still want to negotiate with Ye Liuyun now? What do you have to negotiate with him? What right do you have to negotiate? If you want to negotiate, go by yourself!

I won't negotiate for you! I have no face to go. He saved me once, and didn't kill me the last time, so that was enough gratitude. If I go again, he will kill me outright!

Can you still not see the current situation? He has already begun to sack the city, and has mobilized two hundred thousand troops! That means you have no room for choice at all!

He gave you a chance, but you repeatedly failed to cherish it! You deserve the fate you have now!

"How can you say that about me? I am your father!" Tuomu Qianglei shouted.

"Go outside the city and see the homeless civilians with your own eyes, go to the battlefield and see the soldiers hung on weapons, then look at the cities reduced to ruins, and you will understand naturally!" After saying this, the Witch turned and walked away, unresponsive to any calls.

Tuomu Qianglei thought for a moment and made up his mind: "I'll go see with my own eyes what it actually looks like."

So he directly found a Demon Race artificer, borrowed the fastest Warship, took a few guards, disguised himself to leave the city, and rushed straight to the battlefield.

He had already seen the civilians outside the city. He had always thought that these people were not only timid but also failed to understand his intention to secure welfare for the Demon Race.

He bypassed Ye Liuyun's massive army, arrived at the previous battlefield, and was left speechless at the sight. Even his own attendants were horrified. City after city lay in ruins, with countless corpses buried within.

Both inside and outside the city, soldiers were hung on weapons.

On any battlefield where large troop resistance occurred, the soldiers' corpses were hung tens of miles away. From afar, it truly resembled a human hell.

Especially battles involving hundreds of thousands of people, the scene was even more terrifying. Crows and Bald Vultures circled the sky, while wild dogs and Demon Wolves roamed the ground in packs.

This was no longer the Demon Race they had imagined before; it was outright a human hell.

Only when they saw, from a distance, Ye Liuyun's fleet of two hundred thousand reinforcements did they flee back to the Royal City as if running.

In their view, a hundred thousand men could already slaughter the Demon Race into this state; another two hundred thousand would truly mean the Demon Race's annihilation!

"Surrender, pay tribute!"

Tuomu Qianglei said nothing the whole way, and after returning to the main city, the first words he uttered were those four characters.

He dared not wait any longer; if he waited further, the Demon Race would be completely doomed!

The moment he announced this decision, cheers erupted both inside and outside the city.

Tuomu Qianglei simultaneously sent messengers to Ye Liuyun with a request to halt the attack, and gathered several important figures of the Demon Race, taking them aboard a Flying Boat to personally witness the battlefield's horrific scene.

After these people saw it, they all unanimously agreed to surrender.

It turned out that those who had objections to Tuomu Qianglei this time also surprisingly reached a consensus.

They all decided that Tuomu Qianglei himself would go to surrender to Ye Liuyun.

"Alright! I'll go! The crimes I committed should be borne by me." Tuomu Qianglei agreed.

He had never fought such a large battle before, nor had he any personal experience. Only after seeing it with his own eyes did he realize how terrifying Ye Liuyun truly was.

"I'll go with you!" the Witch volunteered this time.

All the various factions also sent representatives, following Tuomu Qianglei to rush toward Ye Liuyun's massive army.

Ye Liuyun's army was now stationed just outside another city. The corpses outside the city could be seen from far away.

Ye Liuyun sat before the army, riding a mid‑stage Sixth Layer Demon Wolf, quietly waiting for Tuomu Qianglei.

Behind him stood a hundred thousand black‑armored soldiers, lined up neatly. After this stage of continuous slaughter, these black‑armored troops exuded a murderous aura, making even the faint‑hearted feel uneasy just by approaching.

"This is a demonic army! They are the true Demons!" some members of the Demon Race thought to themselves.

"Leader Ye!" Tuomu Qianglei set aside his airs and politely greeted Ye Liuyun.

"Tuomu Qianglei, getting you to be so courteous in greeting me is truly not easy!" Ye Liuyun said with a hint of sarcasm.

"It was my arrogance and greed before! Please, Leader Ye, forgive me!" Tuomu Qianglei said with a forced smile.

Ye Liuyun merely smiled, then spoke seriously: "There's no need for politeness any longer! We've already killed to this extent; words are useless. I gave you a chance before, but you kept resisting! Now let's get to the point. I'll propose conditions; if you can accept them, that's best. If not, I'll lead my troops to keep killing until you agree!"

When Ye Liuyun finished speaking, the hundred thousand troops behind him suddenly shouted in unison: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Each "Kill" rang like a muffled thunderclap in the minds of Tuomu Qianglei and the others! Though their cultivations were not low, they seemed insignificant before the hundred thousand army.

Like a small boat on the sea, they could not withstand the stormy swaying.

Those of lower realms even felt dizzy and unsteady on their feet.

Ye Liuyun waved his hand, and someone immediately took a document and began reciting.

"The Demon Race unconditionally surrenders to President Ye Liuyun, pledging never to cross the Broken Demon Pass. The Demon Race will pay President Ye Liuyun a one‑time war‑reparation of five hundred trillion Magic Crystals, and each year will pay … The current Clan Chief of the Demon Race, Tuomu Qianglei, from this day forth, transfers the chief position to his daughter Tuomu Xingya …"

Demon Race unconditionally surrenders to Ye Liuyun, the Grand Leader, promising never to cross the Demon-Sealing Pass. The Demon Race pays a one-time military reparations of five thousand trillion Magic Crystals to Ye Liuyun, the Leader, and annually pays…… The current Clan Chief of the Demon Race, Tuomu Qianglei, effective immediately, will hand over the clan chief position to his daughter Tuomu Xingya……

"You have one hour to consider!"

Ye Liuyun said this and, without waiting for their reply, rode the Demon Wolf and left directly.

Opposite them, the soldiers of the Hundred Thousand Death Legion stared at those few people like tigers.

Behind the hundred thousand troops, twenty hundred thousand reinforcements were lining up. Horns and commands blared incessantly.

Ye Liuyun merely pretended to leave, going to chat with Pei Yong.

Pei Yong this time thought a battle was imminent, had the Reinforcement Troops settled, and personally led two hundred thousand soldiers to rush over.

He believed that fighting alongside Ye Liuyun would surely be safe.

Along the way, he and his subordinates were all terrified.

They never expected that the Death Legion, at full strength, would turn Moyu directly into a hell.

They never expected that the Death Legion, when it gave its all, would actually turn Moyu directly into hell.