Demir's soul was directly devoured by Lin Chen.

[Soul Cultivation +50000!]

Unexpectedly, it added 50,000 soul cultivation experience points!

This was a pleasant surprise.

If Lin Chen's level wasn't too low, and his soul experience hadn't been suppressed by half, it would probably be 100,000 experience points!

But Lin Chen didn't regret it.

He wouldn't keep Demir's soul.

The De family, none of them would survive!

Next, Lin Chen cleaned up the battlefield and personally killed Demi Jia, who had been crippled and seriously injured by Kong Yan.

And he devoured his soul as well.

[Soul Cultivation +40000!]

In addition, killing these two also raised Lin Chen to level 158!

Only two levels away, Lin Chen would reach level 160.

However, there was still some distance to level 180.

But Lin Chen still had places to level up.

Once the matters here were settled, he would set off to clear the surrounding Boss nests.

Plus the experience in the Trial Tower, reaching first reincarnation wouldn't be difficult.

At that time, Lin Chen's soul cultivation would be much smoother.

Next, Lin Chen cleaned up the spoils...

This was the biggest gain!

Demir, Demi Jia, and their several sons all had storage rings.

They had all been obliterated.

Therefore, he could directly retrieve the items from the storage rings.

The resources were as follows:

Ten million ordinary soul crystals.

Three million medium soul crystals.

Six million high-grade soul crystals.

Eight hundred thousand superb soul crystals.

Ninety thousand dazzling soul crystals!

These should be all the De family's current assets.

To be honest, even all of this wasn't more than what Lin Chen had.

In addition, Lin Chen also found a total of thirty million gold coins.

And many pieces of equipment... but the quality of this equipment wasn't very good, so Lin Chen asked Zhang Chunlin to collect it and planned to sell it directly to Winter.

Next was naturally rewarding meritorious service.

First, everyone who participated in resisting the De family received at least one thousand ordinary soul crystals and one thousand gold coins each.

Then, those who contributed greatly would be rewarded separately.

Lin Chen spent a total of 300,000 soul crystals and 500,000 gold coins to reward everyone.

Of course, those who wanted to surrender to the De family with Liu Hai and the others didn't receive any rewards.

On the contrary, it was time to judge them.

But at this time, Lin Chen didn't show up, and only said coldly: "This City Lord has said that if you want to stay, you must unite as one. If you can't do it, you can leave. But this doesn't mean that this City Lord can tolerate you defecting to the enemy and helping outsiders to deal with Tianyue City! Today, Liu Hai, Wang Shangfang, Liu Yue, and others will all be handed over to the Deputy City Lord for judgment and adjudication!"

Lin Chen handed over the task of playing the heavy to Zhang Chunlin again.

However, Zhang Chunlin didn't have any resistance, on the contrary, he was very excited and said coldly: "Liu Hai, Wang Shangfang! Do you think I don't know what you've done? These past two days, you first secretly contacted Dela, and then went around trying to persuade people to surrender with you... Since you've decided to surrender to outsiders, then our Tianyue City naturally can't tolerate you!"

"Then let us go..."

Liu Hai, who had just been unsealed, looked at the corpses of the De family members all over the ground. Coupled with the fact that Lin Chen could defeat Demir, he was naturally greatly shocked and devastated. He was already desperate.

Life held no joy for him.

But Zhang Chunlin's words made him rekindle a glimmer of desire to survive...

"Let me go, Zhang Chunlin... we're classmates!" Wang Shangfang also pleaded.

"Classmates?"

Zhang Chunlin sneered: "When you were slandering the City Lord and me everywhere, did you ever think that we were classmates? Also, when you surrendered to Dela and wanted to subvert the residents of Tianyue City for him, did you ever think that we were classmates? And now, you're telling me that we're classmates? Hmph! Precisely because we're classmates, it's even more detestable! Now, I announce the results of the disposition of all the traitors today!"

Everyone looked at Zhang Chunlin.

They didn't know how he would deal with these traitors.

Zhang Chunlin glanced around at everyone, waited for three seconds, and then continued in a loud voice: "From today onwards, anyone who is unwilling to stay in Tianyue City can leave on their own, but if they still stay but betray Tianyue City, then all of them... will be used to feed the Qing Mang (Azure Python) Boss outside the city!"

Boom!

This resolution caused a great sensation among the crowd.

Liu Hai and Wang Shangfang were immediately dumbfounded.

The betrayers were also buzzing in their heads.

On the contrary, the other residents were discussing it...

"Actually feeding monsters?"

"Isn't this too much!"

"Not at all! Do you know how they would treat us if we lost today?"

"That's right, support Deputy City Lord!"

"..."

In fact, the people's thinking hadn't completely changed.

There were even some people who thought that Zhang Chunlin's handling method was too brutal, and even used the word "too much" to describe it...

But even Liu Quan spoke up: "I advise everyone, it is no longer the peaceful era ruled by the Blue Star nations. In this world, if you don't have strength, you are not qualified to talk about any human rights! So, if there are still people who think the punishment is excessive, I advise you to leave Tianyue City now."

Liu Quan was one of the Ten Elders of the Dragon Kingdom era.

He was still the controller of the military!

And now, even he had stood up and said this.

Who would dare to have any objections?

"Don't worry, as long as you are loyal to Tianyue City and loyal to the City Lord, the City Lord will not treat you badly in the future... This time, the City Lord is very satisfied with everyone's performance in defeating the De family, so he will reward you with many things!"

Zhang Chunlin then came out to give everyone a sweet date.

However, those traitors didn't have such good treatment.

"They would rather be dogs for the De family, and even offer their own sisters. Such scum... really don't deserve any of your sympathy! I once told Liu Hai and Wang Shangfang that if they went to the De family, they could only be slaves to the De family, but if they stayed in Tianyue City, at least you are still human!"

Jiang Tingting also spoke.

This time, everyone discussed endlessly.

"What? They surrendered to the De family to be slaves?"

"I can't stand this, I originally thought they might be excusable, but now... they don't want to be decent people, they let them stand properly, but they choose to kneel and lick outsiders?"

"Just kill them, I really feel disgusted just looking at these people!"

"..."

In fact, all the Blue Star Dragon Kingdom people had a very strong sense of identity.

After Jiang Tingting stood up and said those words, many people who had previously thought that Zhang Chunlin's handling was excessive all changed their minds.

Even, many people directly threw stones at them.

Instantly, they were bleeding from their heads.

"Don't throw them, it won't look good when the time comes, what if the Qing Mang Boss doesn't like to eat them?"

Zhang Chunlin stopped the crowd.

Then, he immediately ordered: "Everyone, help clean up the corpses, and take them all to the Qing Mang Pool to feed the Qing Mang!"

The battlefield was quickly cleaned up by tens of thousands of people.

Zhang Chunlin also led the team out of the city and went to the Qing Mang Pool.

In addition, those who should go mining continued to mine.

At the same time, Liu Mengyao also brought Kong Yan and Kong Lin to Tianyue City.

She was a little worried, and talked to Kong Yan for a long time before Kong Yan reluctantly agreed to come and see.

As a result, she didn't expect that the battle would be over so soon.

Liu Mengyao was very happy to see Lin Chen unharmed.

She even jumped up with joy.

But, before she could even talk to Lin Chen, several airships came from the sky again.

"Congratulations, City Lord Lin, on winning the defense of Tianyue City... However, City Lord Lin, is it a bit too much to kill everyone in the De family without leaving a single one alive? How can this Provincial Governor explain this to the council and the king?"

Jin Qiang's voice rang out in the sky above Tianyue City.

"Did the Provincial Governor come to question us?" Lin Chen asked rhetorically, "If that's the case, then why didn't the Provincial Governor stand up when the De family invaded my Tianyue City?"

"Haha... City Lord Lin has misunderstood! Jin Qiang greets the two seniors of the Bright Saint Maiden Clan!"

Jin Qiang came out of the airship.

It could be seen that behind him were also people from the seven great families.

As soon as he came out, he saw Kong Yan and Kong Lin, and his previous attitude changed instantly.

Jin Qiang took the people down from the airship and came to Lin Chen's front.

"Greetings, Provincial Governor."

Lin Chen greeted him with Liu Mengyao.

"City Lord Lin is truly a young hero!"

Jin Qiang laughed, and then explained: "Just now, this Provincial Governor was actually just joking with you... This time, this Provincial Governor did indeed know about the battle between De Fort and Tianyue City in advance. But, that was due to the rules. De Fort notified this Provincial Governor in advance, and during the battle, they were upright and did not use any underhanded means, then this battle is a legal power struggle! The kingdom recognizes such legal wars, including the results."

"Then what does the Provincial Governor mean by coming here?" Lin Chen asked, puzzled.

Jin Qiang smiled and said: "The De family has fallen, and all the fiefs and many industries of De Fort naturally need someone to take over. According to the rules, their industries should actually be inherited by Tianyue City in part, and then the kingdom will recover part of them... City Lord Lin, should we go into the City Lord's Mansion for a good talk?"

"Please!"

Hearing this, Lin Chen naturally had no objection.

Jin Qiang had acknowledged the results of the war.

Now, it was time to divide the spoils.

But how to divide them?

After all, what was left of De Fort now should all be empty shells.

Jin Qiang sat on the main seat in the City Lord's Mansion, but this time Lin Chen sat next to him. From this seating arrangement, everyone could see that Jin Qiang seemed to be deliberately trying to win Lin Chen over.

It could even be said that Lin Chen, who had just defeated De Fort, not only did not arouse the jealousy of Jin Qiang and the forces behind him, but instead had a tendency to become popular.

"The De family's fiefdom totals thirty thousand hectares, City Lord Lin should not need the land, because... this Provincial Governor's idea is that this time City Lord Lin might as well hand over all the De family's territory to the empire! Of course, Tianyue City can be exempted from taxes for half a year and does not have to pay tribute to the empire. City Lord Lin, are you willing to accept such an arrangement?"

Jin Qiang was also direct.

He wanted to take back all the De family's fiefdoms.

And the benefit Tianyue City would get was that it would not have to pay tribute for half a year.

In the long run, it could save thirty million soul crystals!

This was no small sum!

Even if they bought land, they could buy ten thousand hectares.

It could be said that Jin Qiang's proposal was very reasonable.

"Lin Chen has no objection!" Lin Chen naturally agreed.

However, after Lin Chen agreed, the faces of the other seven families changed drastically.

Even their faces turned dark.

"The fiefdoms were exchanged for our ancestors' great military exploits. Now, can the imperial court take them all back with just one sentence? Today, the De family has met such an end. Maybe one day, it will be our seven families' turn?"

At this time, a patriarch stood up with a very unhappy expression.

He left a sentence and then left directly!

Okay, today I won’t wait until midnight. I will try to update earlier in the future!

(End of chapter)