Chapter 2: The Tulin Family

The Strange Continent of the Cloud Forest, the City of the Cloud Trick (Note 1). Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"I heard that the daughter of the head of the house ran away with the Terran men. Jerry cautiously looked at the grass around him and said to Orr, who had come out to pee with him.

"Really, who did you listen to?" said Orr, disapprovingly.

"You don't care about that, just listen to it anyway, don't tell anyone else!" Jerry was still checking his surroundings, and he felt a pair of eyes in the jungle staring at him, making him uncomfortable.

"Jerry, if it's a joke, you're really a failure. Orr didn't believe what Jerry said, and said sarcastically.

"You...... Well," Jerry saw that Orr didn't believe what he said, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "I saw it with my own eyes with my cousin in the guards. Originally, it was the daughter of the city lord who was sitting in the carriage, but when she returned to the palace and opened the door, it was her maid who came out. The captain of the guard was dumbfounded, according to what the maid said...... It seems that he followed the young city lord of the human race. ”

"By the way, aren't you in the Guards? That's the Swaye Captain, that's my brother. When Jerry mentions his brother, who is an official, his voice suddenly raises.

"Really?" Orr still didn't believe it.

Jerry hurriedly pulled out his left hand, wiped the urine stains on his clothes, put it on his chest and said, "I swear by the ancient guardian dragon Tuluo Emperor, if what I said just now is a little lying, I will ...... was split into ashes by the thunder breath of Love, and was reincarnated in the next life to ...... to the abyss of death (note 2). ”

For the Phantom Race, Blue Lotte is their faith. Because the Phantom Clan has believed in the Emperor since ancient times, every Phantom Clan is grateful to the Emperor for giving them life, food, and hope. As for the abyss of death...... Jerry's eyes were filled with fear as he finished speaking.

Orr smiled strangely and said, "If that's what you say, it's a big joke." Isn't it not the clan rules of your Tulin Phantom Clan (Note 3) that you don't allow you to marry people outside your family? Now that the eldest lady has eloped with a foreigner, it depends on how you end. Orr said coldly.

"Orr, why are you talking weird?" Jerry suddenly noticed that there was something wrong with Orr's tone.

Although he and Orr met, they only met on the way back to the city after the victory in the Battle of Zhongzhou. In just a few days, Orr didn't say much, it was Jerry who said that day, Orr was the listener most of the time. But his cold words just now clearly have a kind of ...... There is a sense of evil.

Jerry's question was as unanswered as if a stone had sunk into the sea.

Jerry sensed that something was wrong and looked in the direction of Orr, but Orr, who was not far from Jerry just now, actually disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a dark bush.

"Orr, where are you? don't scare me. Jerry whispered tremblingly.

But there was still a dead silence all around.

"What kind of person is this, I won't wait for me to go back by myself. Jerry comforted himself that maybe Orr had gone back early.

Jerry muttered a few words and turned to go back when suddenly there was a rustling sound in the bushes where Orr had disappeared. Jerry remembered that he had always felt something in the bushes before, and suddenly a cold sweat hit his back.

"Who?" Jerry tried to raise his voice, trying to appear confident, but his trembling hands had betrayed him.

Perhaps because of his timidity, Jerry suddenly felt that he was cold. The cold pierced his bone marrow, and although the temperature was low here, he had never felt so cold.

Jerry was thinking when suddenly a white shadow jumped out of the bushes and stood in front of Jerry. The White Shadow was huge, and Jerry looked like a child in front of it.

It was an ethereal wolf covered in white.

Jerry gasped, the beast he had only heard of in stories. When he was a child, his father would talk about it every time he refused to sleep: white cold air surrounded its body, its scarlet pupils seemed to suck people's souls, and the wolf fangs exposed outside its mouth were so sharp that no matter how hard the bones of the prey were, it would bite them. However, this creature can only appear on the eastern border of the Cloud Forest Strange, because it is close to the Ethereal Cold Continent (Note 4), and it is really strange that it suddenly appears in the depths of the Cloud Forest Strange.

Jerry could hear his own nervous heartbeat.

"You...... Don't come here, I'...... I'm a Phantom Warrior. Jerry was already frightened, and regardless of whether the ethereal wolf could understand his words or not, he could only threaten weakly.

The ethereal wolf stared at Jerry with a mocking look in his eyes. The wolf lunged at Jerry, who felt the air around him plummet, and the cold air suddenly pounced. But after all, he participated in the Battle of Zhongzhou, although he did not have the strength to counterattack, but he practiced a lot of kung fu on the battlefield and dodged. He rolled sideways to the left, dodging the ethereal wolf's attack. The ethereal wolf pounced, seemingly enraged, with a bloodthirsty glint in his eyes. It began to pace slowly, like an arrogant knight trying to figure out how to kill the clown in front of it without difficulty.

Jerry really couldn't resist at the moment, and the air around him was so cold that it could condense into droplets. If he fights hard, he will definitely not be able to fight this beast, and escaping is doomed to a dead end, which is really a dilemma.

Jerry stared at the monster deadly, his red pupils making Jerry a little dizzy. He remembered a sentence in the story describing the ethereal wolf: After encountering the ethereal wolf, don't run away, don't resist, just stare at its eyes, maybe it will think that you have a backbone, and then let you die without pain.

The air suddenly grew colder, and the ethereal wolf didn't want to play cat and mouse anymore, and slowly moved a few steps forward.

Just when Jerry didn't know how to respond, a familiar voice suddenly came out of nowhere.

"Jerry. ”

Jerry was stunned when he heard this sudden cry, but in the next second, the ethereal wolf bit his neck. Jerry felt cold as if he had fallen into an ice cave, but the familiar phrase "Jerry" still echoed in his head. How did it know my name? Why was its voice so familiar? The moment his eyes were about to close, his pupils suddenly converged, and it was Orr's voice!

Jerry should have died without pain, because he didn't even let out a single cry.

The ethereal wolf circled around the dead Jerry a few times, as if to make sure Jerry still had a breath. Then the shape of the body suddenly changed, and the huge body was slowly twisted like a shrinking bone, accompanied by the sound of crackling and shattering bones. If Jerry had seen it, he would have known that it was the Phantom who was transfiguring into his original form (note 5). That ethereal wolf was the embodiment of Jerry's "good buddy" Orr.

Orr, who had returned to his original form, was naked and gasping for air. Maybe the long-term transformation made him a little unbearable, and the thorn picture of an ethereal wolf on his muscular body came to life. Orr came to Jerry's corpse, ripped off his clothes and quickly put them on his body, and without stopping for a moment, he instantly rushed into the depths of the jungle.

The City Lord's Hall is the tallest and most ornate building in the entire Cloud Castle. It is towering, and every wall is carved by top painters. At the top of the building fluttered a flag symbolizing the belief of the Phantom Race, and the ancient dragon Tulan Luodi on the banner came to life. The palace is even more opulent and rich, and even the lighting lamps are replaced by priceless night sapphires. Every place in the hall shows the rights and status of the owner, and the owner who lives here is the Tulin family, known as the "Cloud Forest Guardian".

The council chamber was silent at this time, and the smell of high-end spices could not hide the strong smell of gunpowder. A man who looked like a chief stood in the center of the hall hunched over, facing the people sitting on the upper seat, with a panicked expression and cold sweat.

And the person sitting in the upper seat of the council chamber, with purple curly hair, is none other than the city lord of Cloud City and the current head of the Tulin family: Kerry Tulin. Kerry is the twenty-second head of the Tulin family, and the one who has developed the most power of the Tulin family. In the early stage of the Zhongzhou War, in order to fight together against the "Dark Alliance", Kerry led the Tulin family to unify the Phantom forces scattered in Yunlin, and became the largest family in the Phantom Clan in one fell swoop, and now the Tulin family has even become synonymous with the Phantom Clan. The legend of the Phantom Race was now looking at the man below with a frown, and his son, Joel Tulin, was standing beside him with an equally gloomy face.

"You mean Lan'er is on her way to Qingyun City?" asked Kerry with a smirked expression.

"Yes...... Yes. According to the report from the Phantom Eagle Intelligence Team, the young lady is now rushing to Qingyun City with the young city lord of Qingyun City of the Terran Race, and she is ...... There is still one day to go. The hunched chief didn't even dare to lift his head. As the captain of the guard, he was responsible for protecting the city lord's favorite daughter back to the city after the victory of the Zhongzhou War. He made great contributions to the Battle of Zhongzhou, and he did not die on the dangerous battlefield, but he messed up such a simple "little thing". If you lose your head because of this incident, it will be a shame for the family.

"Captain Wig, you're such a piece of waste! I can't understand such a trivial matter, if my sister has three longs and two shorts, the abyss of death in the middle state of the Killing Ring is your destination!" Before Kerry could speak, his son Joel next to him couldn't help it.

Joel, who was gentle on the outside, glared angrily at the captain who didn't even dare to raise his head.

"Joel, is it your turn to speak here?" Kerry scolded, a little annoyed.

"Father, forgive me for being rude. Seeing that his father was really angry, Joel lowered his proud head slightly and stopped talking.

"As early as during the Zhongzhou War, I felt that Lan'er and that Terran kid were too close. Because it was an alliance, I didn't think too much about it, but I didn't expect it to dare to ...... Dare...... Okay, I've got a note on that. Kerry said angrily.

Captain Wigg was nervous at the moment, and cold sweat soaked the back of his armor. Just as he was racking his brains about what he could do to save his life, there was a knock on the door outside the council chamber.

"Come in. Kerry seemed a little unhappy with the visit at this time, and said sharply.

An announcer hurried in, walked to the center of the council chamber, and hunched over. "Lord of the City, Viyu Heron, the head of the Heron family, has come to visit, and is now waiting in the meeting room. ”

"Oh?" Kerry seemed a little surprised by the visitor, "you go down first, report it, and I'll be there later." ”

After the announcer finished his salute, he quickly left the solemn hall.

"If this damn old fox still dares to come to our territory, if he hadn't fanned the small forces of the Phantom Clan on the border to become independent, the entire Yunlin Trick would have belonged to our Tulin family, and he would have shamelessly called himself 'Border Guard'. When Joel heard that it was from the Heron family, he blurted out the resentment buried in his heart.

And Kerry said thoughtfully: "The Heron family has always been at odds with our Tulin family, and before the war in Zhongzhou, they also unified some scattered Phantom forces on the Yunlin border. I also talked to the old thing about the merger, and he asked for a marriage, but how could the bloodline of their Viyu family be compared to that of our Tulin family, so I rejected him as 'the clan rules do not allow', and the two families had no contact until after the war. And now that he is suddenly visiting, there should be nothing good, isn't it......" Kerry was a little uneasy, "does he know something?"

"Hmph, it's a dream that their Heron family wants to marry us," Joel said hatefully, "Father, now that this old fox has come to the door, or let me take someone to kill the old fellow's dog." ”

"Wait until you've trained your 'dragon power' to be as powerful as your mouth. Kerry shook his head and walked straight out of the council chamber, leaving Joel with a hateful look on his face.

In the living room, a richly dressed man, with silver hair, was looking seriously at the mural on the wall with his hands behind his back. The above content is the portrait and glorious deeds of each head of the Tulin family. And now he was standing in front of the mural of the current head of the Tulin family, Kerry, looking at the deeds that had just been carved out.

Viyu Heron heard the sound of the door of the parlor opening, and said loudly: "Ten years old transfiguration dragon power, fifteen-year-old transfiguration dragon type, twenty-year-old type power combination...... At the age of forty, he unified most of the Phantom Clans of Yunlin, and at the age of forty-two, he led the Phantom Clan to calm the war in Zhongzhou. The head of the Cree family is really a rare talent of the Phantom Clan, and these achievements will not be surpassed by future generations in a lifetime. ”

"The head of the Viyu family is too modest. Without your 'help', the unifying thing can be removed from the 'most'. Kerry said coldly.

"Oh, the head of the Kerry family is still thinking about that little thing, I'm not here to share your pressure. Besides, those Phantom Clans scattered across the border are all rats and sparrows, and they are not easy to discipline, so how can they work hard for you. Viyupi replied with a smile.

The battle between the two began silently.

Kerry didn't want to entangle with him any longer, and said, "What can the head of the Viyu family do for you, isn't it because you're here to admire our family's murals?"

"Haha, okay. Originally, I wanted to catch up with the head of the Kerry family, but since the head of the Kerry family is in such a hurry, then I will say it directly. The purpose of this visit is simple," Viyu paused and continued, "marriage. ”

Hearing these two words, Kerry visibly felt his body tremble, and it really made him guess the purpose of Viyu's trip. It must have been the old fox who knew about his daughter, but how did he know about it? Few people except the guards and him knew about it.

"Lord Viyu, it seems like we've discussed this issue a long time ago, right? Kerry replied pretending to be calm.

"Master Kerry, you and I are both understanding people, so we don't have to go around in circles. Your family has a clan rule, saying that it is to ensure the purity of the bloodline and refuse to marry, and our Phantom Clan guarding the border can be considerate," Viyu's tone suddenly changed sharply, "But you sent your daughter to the arms of the Terran men, do you think that our bloodline is so low that even those skinny Terrans can't compare?"

I have to say that this Viyu family master is really not a simple character. Just what he said was enough to start a war that started because of intra-ethnic discrimination. If his words spread in the treachery of the clouds, then Kerry's supporters would be greatly reduced, and who would want to follow a leader who looked down on him.

Kerry frowned and said, "The Viyu family master is really well-informed, but you are only half right. ”

"Do you really think that our bloodline is even better than that of the Terrans?" said Kerry, smirking.

"Hmph, I mean my daughter is indeed in the Terran army. However, it was not my will, it was taken by them. "Kerry cleverly shifted the blame onto the Terrans.

"Yo, this Terran is really bold enough now, thinking that so many masters would dare to provoke our Phantom Clan," Wei Yu gently walked to the mural and touched the words on it with his hand, "But the head of the Kerry family won't just leave it at that, right? ”

"I just found out about this when you came, so I haven't had time to think about it yet. But I'm not going to give up, and I'm sorry for you. Looking at Viyu's arrogant appearance, Kerry's unhappiness was already written on his face, but helplessly, he couldn't do anything to Viyu.

Wei Yu took his hand back from the mural, slowly turned to look at Kerry, and said, "Why don't I go to Qingyun City with the head of the Kerry family, what do you think?"

Kerry didn't expect to be put on a stand by Viyu, and his face turned pale.

"We understand your kindness, and the affairs of our family still don't bother the Heron family. Kerry refused.

"It's not just your family's business. The behavior of the Terrans is too arrogant, obviously they don't take us phantoms seriously, and the phantoms on our border have to do their part, right?"

Kerry looked at Viyu, his eyes inadvertently revealing murderous intent, fleeting.

"In that case, I also want to see which one who does not know whether he is alive or dead dares to oppose me. Kerry said meaningfully.

Note 1: The Strange of the Cloud Forest is a continent located in the southwest of the Dragon Atlas world, and the entire continent is surrounded by a towering forest. The City of Cloud Trickery is the main city of the Tulin family, the most powerful of the Phantom Clan, and the city lord is the Phantom Cloud Tulin of the Tulin family.

Note 2: The Abyss of Death is located in the middle of the Dragon Atlas world, in the middle of the Killing Ring, and it is full of killing and death.

Note 3: The Phantom Race is one of the ancient races of the Dragon Atlas World. The clansmen who have the ability to transmogrify in the Phantom Clan are called Phantoms, and different families have different transmog abilities. Among them, the Tulin family, as one of the oldest families, has the ability of a phantom dragon. In order to ensure the purity of the bloodline, the Tulin clan rules do not allow marriage with people outside the family, but intermarriage within the family. The remaining family forces of the Phantom Clan are scattered in other areas of the Cloud Forest.

Note 4: Ethereal Cold is a continent located in the southeast of the Dragon Atlas world. The entire continent is covered in snow and ice, which is also the domain of the Ice Elves.

Note 5: Transfiguration refers to the transformation of the illusionist from his or her original form, and his abilities and form return to normal