Chapter 188 The Red-Clad Corpse-Summoning Vulture
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Chapter 188 The Red-Clad Corpse-Summoning Vulture
"Da, da."
The light sound of horses' hooves rang out.
Tang Li rode her gentle little mare and slowly walked out of the ranks of the black-armored guards.
In this devastated, monotonous world of black and white, her blood-red dress became the only color in the world.
Dazzling, alluring, and deadly.
She wasn't wearing a veil, and her exquisitely beautiful face was expressionless, displaying only an almost divine indifference.
She was like a spider lily blooming on a grave, beautiful yet symbolizing death.
Tuoba Xiao was tied to a pillar, staring intently at the woman who was constantly approaching.
He once mocked her for being a burden who only knew how to hide behind men, and he once threatened to take her back to warm his bed.
Now, his life or death hangs in the balance, depending on this woman's decision.
"What...what do you want to do?"
Tuoba Xiao's voice trembled as he looked at the empty hands of Tang Li, and the uneasy premonition in his heart grew stronger.
Tangli stopped ten steps away from the pillar.
She looked at the disheveled Tuoba Xiao, a slight, cold smile playing on her lips.
"Doesn't the Wolf Lord like excitement?"
“Perfect timing. I have some ‘friends’ here who have long heard of the Wolf Lord’s great name. They traveled hundreds of miles on empty stomachs just to see you one last time.”
Friend? Are you hungry?
Before Tuoba Xiao could figure out the meaning behind those words...
Tang Li slowly raised her head, her clear, cold eyes gazing at the gray sky.
This time, she did not take out the tiger bone whistle.
With the breakthrough in her spiritual power and the awakening of the aura of the "Lord of All Beasts," she no longer needed those external objects as a medium.
She merely tilted her head slightly, parted her red lips, and let out a sharp, short, yet extremely penetrating sound—
Whistle.
"call out--!"
The whistle shot into the sky like a sharp arrow, echoing across the vast grassland.
One breath, two breaths.
The sky remained gray, as if nothing had happened.
Just as Tuoba Xiao was about to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Gah—"
A horrible, piercing screech, like a broken gong, suddenly came from the depths of the clouds.
Immediately afterwards, a black dot appeared on the previously empty horizon.
Then two, three, ten...
The black dots multiplied and grew denser, like a dark cloud appearing out of nowhere, rapidly pressing down on the ruins filled with rotting flesh and the stench of death.
As the distance closed, the outlines of those black dots gradually became clearer.
They were a group of enormous creatures with wingspans of two or three meters.
They have bald, nauseating red necks, sharp beaks like iron hooks, and pairs of murky, greedy eyes that are forever filled with hunger.
Steppe vulture.
They are both awe-inspiring and repulsive creatures on this grassland.
They are scavengers who feed on carrion, followers of death, and the most greedy of all on the grasslands—funeral processions.
"Splash—"
The sound of wings flapping was like a raging wind.
Hundreds of vultures, accompanied by a suffocating, putrid wind pressure, swooped down.
Instead of attacking, they landed on the broken walls and charred beams around the ruins.
In an instant, the area around Tuoba Xiao was filled with these ugly and ferocious birds.
They folded their wings, tilted their bald heads, and stared intently at their "prey" tied to the post with their emotionless, dead-fish eyes.
To them, Tuoba Xiao was more than just a person.
His body reeked of pig manure, mixed with the smell of festering wounds, which to the vulture's sense of smell was the most delicious thing in the world—rotten flesh.
"No...no..."
Looking at the drooling beaks of birds so close at hand, Tuoba Xiao finally understood what Pei Yunjing meant by "grassland rules".
This is a sky burial while the person is alive!
"Get out of here! Get out of here!"
Tuoba Xiao struggled frantically, the thick ox sinew rope digging into his flesh, but he felt no pain.
The fear of being devoured alive had completely destroyed his reason.
He could accept being beheaded or torn apart by five horses.
But he couldn't accept being eaten up piece by piece by these hairy beasts like a dead pig!
"Tang Li! Pei Yunjing! You are not human!"
Tuoba Xiao roared at the woman in red, tears and snot streaming down his face:
"Kill me! Give me a quick death! Give me a painless death!"
"Please! Kill me!"
Tang Li watched him quietly as he broke down and begged for death.
She remembered how Pei Yunjing was tormented by the poisonous smoke in the Valley of Broken Souls, bleeding from all seven orifices.
I remembered those Black Armor Guards who died tragically.
Feeling good? You don't deserve it.
"Don't rush."
Tangli stroked the horse's mane, her voice as soft as a devil's whisper:
"The feast... has only just begun."