The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 331 The Unwavering Minister (Final Chapter)
At the age of 22, Ling Chengen completed the unification of the entire Northern Wilderness.

In the same year, the first state in the Northern Wilderness was established—the Xiao State.

The Queen's coronation ceremony was held during the cold season of that year.

For the next three years, she did not launch any wars, but she also did not intend to reduce the number of troops. She always required Chang Tianchen and Su Weihua to lead troops in training, and even frequently engaged in internal military exercises.

Shi Ruoan temporarily serves as the High Priest of Xiao Kingdom, overseeing the Heavenly Terrace.

Chongzhen was the Minister of Finance of the Xiao Kingdom, in charge of its finances.

Yu Shaochen was primarily in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Bai Qingyu's position has been adjusted; he is now in charge of both the public security department and the emergency management department.

Yuheng is nominally the head of the medical department, but in reality, the person in charge of the medical department is the deputy minister Xuanyan. Yuheng is just a minister in name only.

Chang Tianchen is the supreme commander of the three armies of Xiao Kingdom, while Su Weihua is the commander-in-chief of the land battle.

Bai Xi assumed the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Air Warfare, while Hai Xing, born into the Hai Ling tribe, served as Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Warfare.

Ling Chengen spent three years recuperating and rebuilding, and at the northernmost point of the far north, he began to build a city wall that stretched for thousands of miles to defend against the hordes of inferior beasts that kept crawling out from the abyss at the northernmost point.

In the past three years, the Northern Wilderness has also built large cities in the south, east and north. These large cities are often surrounded by three to six auxiliary cities. The City of Ten Thousand Beasts, located in the central part of the Northern Wilderness, was designated as the capital of the Xiao Kingdom.

After the founding of the Xiao Kingdom, Ling Chengen changed the reign title again.

It was named Beiyuan.

In the autumn of the second year of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the sea creatures from the far north came ashore and, through the connections of the lord of Amber City, the most important annexed city in the north, finally led the delegation into the City of Ten Thousand Beasts.

The head of the delegation was Shi Panxing.

It took him nearly six years to finally return from the open sea to the far north and complete the change of power in the far north.

Ling Chengen had no interest in controlling the sea, and Shi Panxing was clearly not someone who wanted to be subordinate to others. So after repeated discussions, Xiao Kingdom established diplomatic relations with the far north sea region and began to trade with them.

At the same time, the plan was finalized in the same year to land in Nanyuan and attack the Huangyan Beast City in Nanyuan in the spring of the following year.

Ling Chengen was determined to obtain Nanyuan.

The land in the northern wilderness is too barren. Only a part of the central region and the southeastern region have large plains that can be cultivated. The southwest is mostly barren mountains and wet forests, with poisonous miasma. The western region is too high in altitude and rarely visited by people. The high mountains connect to the Gobi Desert, and beyond the Gobi Desert is an endless wasteland.

There is simply too little land available for cultivation.

Therefore, Nanyuan must be conquered and carefully protected. Ling Chengen wants to transform the humid Nanyuan into the granary of the entire Xiao Kingdom.

Shi Panxing's alliance with Ling Chengen was entirely driven by selfish motives.

He had endured it for too long. Over the years, he had never forgotten the torture and grievances he suffered when he was kidnapped to Nanyuan, as well as the blood, tears and pain he had accumulated.

He hated the nobles of Nanyuan to the core.

Although their purposes differed, their goals were the same.

To disrupt the situation in Namwon, overturn its existing systems and institutions, and firmly grasp them in one's own hands.

The Battle of Namwon lasted for a full nine years.

Because they were unfamiliar with the weather, terrain, races, and fighting style of the local orcs in the Southern Plains, the Northern Wilderness army still struggled to advance in the Southern Plains at first, even with some exiled warriors serving as guides.

The most troublesome thing is that in the Southern Plains, the lives of the lower-class orcs are as worthless as grass.

During battles, the nobles and royalty of Nanyuan would even drive out the lowly slaves and orcs, and charge unarmed into the Xiao Kingdom's army.

If they are not killed, the army's formation will be broken.

If the enemy is wiped out completely, the soldiers in the army will also suffer a great loss of energy.

This will also put a lot of psychological pressure on our soldiers.

After all, most normal people cannot bring themselves to kill their fellow human beings who have no resistance whatsoever and are filled only with fear and helplessness.

They were like herds of cattle and sheep driven away by herdsmen on the grassland, without direction, without purpose, and with no way out.

It was just a piece of fish placed on a cutting board, at the mercy of others.

According to Su Weihua's incomplete statistics, during the nine years of the Southern War, more than 400,000 orcs were killed or wounded on the Southern Plains.

That's almost a third of the total population of the Northern Wilderness.

For the first two years, the Xiao army was acclimatizing to the Southern Plains.

Chang Tianchen's army only occupied Huangyan Beast City at the northernmost point, and used it as a base to gradually gain a deeper understanding of the situation in Nanyuan.

Starting in the third year, the army began to move south.

For the next two years, the fighting between them and the warriors of Nanyuan was basically even, with each side winning and losing about half the time.

Chang Tianchen and Su Weihua possess top-tier combat talent. Furthermore, after years of honing their skills on the Northern Wilderness battlefield, they have mastered various military tactics and strategies, and have also developed multiple formations to counter different types of enemies.

As they gradually adapted to the South Plains campaign, they began to gain the upper hand on the South Plains battlefield starting in the fifth year.

The noble army of Nanyuan suffered repeated defeats and had to retreat further south until they reached the vicinity of Beast King City.

Beast King City, as the capital of the Southern Plains royal family, is the most important city in the Southern Plains, with a status equivalent to that of Ten Thousand Beasts City in the Northern Wilderness.

The royal family, which stands above many nobles in the Southern Plains, possesses a noble and powerful bloodline and extremely formidable combat capabilities, making them the toughest obstacle the Xiao Kingdom's army encountered on the Southern Plains battlefield.

Chang Tianchen's army was blocked on the northern front outside Beast King City.

More than a hundred conflicts and battles, large and small, have occurred on this front.

Chang Tianchen and Su Weihua were also wounded on this front.

Ling Chengen ultimately chose to land in Nanyuan and personally lead his troops into battle.

Her psychic abilities had already reached level seventeen by the age of 23.

Later, her mental strength growth reached a point where there were no more bottlenecks or level restrictions, and her strength gradually became unfathomable.

Even when Chang Tianchen fought her, he still lost more often than he won when she didn't use her special abilities.

Therefore, when Ling Chengen appeared on the battlefield of Nanyuan, the morale of the army, which had suffered repeated setbacks, was greatly boosted.

After commanding numerous small-scale battles and using these methods to understand the fighting style and common tactics of the Beast King City, Ling Chengen had accurately identified the weaknesses of the royal family in battle.

Therefore, she wasted no more time and launched a full-scale war.

They decisively defeated the royal commander on the battlefield and beheaded several high-ranking royal generals on the spot.

The battle lasted for twelve days, with flames engulfing the entire Beast King City, leaving smoke and ashes everywhere.

The Beast King City, once hailed as a sacred place, was reduced to ruins by the flames of war.

The statues of the successive kings of Nanyuan who stood on the altar of the Beast God were also destroyed and completely collapsed into ruins.

After breaking through Beast King City, head southeast to reach Trident Whitewater City, which is surrounded by water.

This city was captured by Shi Panxing's troops, becoming the only city in the far north that was occupied by the Southern Plains.

Ling Chengen first conquered Shangqing Forest Valley in the south, then took Fengwu in the west, completely occupying the entire Southern Plains.

After the unification of Namwon, Ling Chengen faced a very thorny problem.

The capital was moved.

She didn't want to move.

Although the Northern Wilderness is barren and cold with a harsh climate, and is constantly ravaged by hordes of ferocious beasts, the orcs living on its land...

Despite her many disadvantages, they are her very foundation.

It is the starting point of the Xiao Kingdom and the pride of all the beastmen of the Northern Wilderness.

After careful consideration, Ling Chengen rejected the proposal to relocate the capital.

Even in the far north, near the Lock Abyss, she dared to build a defensive wall stretching for thousands of miles at any cost.

It doesn't make sense; she can't build a bridge connecting the two places, the Dark Abyss between the Southern Plains and the Northern Wilderness.

Therefore, the capital will absolutely not be moved.

But the Tongnan Bridge must be built.

In the year that the unification of the Southern Plains and Northern Wilderness was completed, Ling Chengen was thirty-five years old.

She is already a mother of five.

The Three Treasures Jade Seal was separated from Yu Heng himself.

Both the Four Treasures and the Five Treasures were nurtured and developed in the incubation chamber.

Sibao is an extremely arrogant red fox cub. His father is Chongzhen, his nickname is Ermao, and his real name is Chonglan.

Ling Chengen had no requirements regarding the child's surname. He gave the child a nickname right after birth, and then only gave him a given name, without giving him a surname.

The surname is usually chosen by the children themselves when they are a little older, around three years old.

However, some children are quite unique and don't want a surname.

For example, his five children include Lang Youjin, whose childhood name is Aman.

Aman is a very opinionated girl. From a young age, she has shown a composure and personality far beyond her peers.

When she was three years old, she was already able to argue with Ling Chengen in a logical and clear way.

When choosing a surname at the age of three, Aman didn't look at her expectant father, Su Weihua, nor did she pay attention to her mother, who had her arms crossed in front of her and was leisurely observing her. Instead, she drew big X's on the two characters "Ling" and "Su" on the blackboard, and then, holding the chalk, wrote a big "wolf" stroke by stroke.

She thought her beast form was cool and powerful.

They insisted on using the character "狼" (wolf) as their surname.

The little girl even proudly stated that she wanted a separate page for the family genealogy from hers in the future.

Without any hesitation, Ling Chengen slapped her on the bottom, giving this arrogant little girl a serious warning.

Changing the surname is possible, but creating a separate family genealogy... well, that's absolutely impossible.

The family genealogy must begin with her mother.

Because she was the founding empress.

No matter how successful the little one becomes in the future, she will still be her mother.

……

At the age of thirty-six, she had her last child.

The child's nickname is Lanlan, and his formal name is Lingyu.

My father is Yu Shaochen.

The child was born to Yu Shaochen himself. His personality is somewhat like his father's. However, the little one has been very easygoing since he was a child, and he is also very sleepy. He is a genius little sleepyhead who can fall asleep whether he is standing, leaning, or sitting.

Because of his inability to wake up, Ling Chengen was initially worried that he might have narcolepsy.

This refers to a congenital selective loss or dysfunction of hypothalamic orexin neurons.

However, Yuheng's multiple examinations all indicated that the child was perfectly normal, with no brain problems, and simply loved to sleep.

Ling Chengen was still not quite convinced, after all, this child was the kind of person who could even fall asleep while squatting to use the toilet.

Fortunately, Er Mao was there to hold him back, otherwise the child would definitely have fallen into the latrine.

It wasn't until Lanlan was five years old that Yuheng and Ling Chengen finally discovered the reason for his excessive sleepiness.

This child has mental problems, and they're quite terrifying.

The reason he fell into a deep sleep was because when he was awake, he would unconsciously release his spiritual energy. He had no control over that enormous power and was almost constantly observing the things around him and listening to all kinds of sounds.

Because of the excessive consumption of superpowers and the brain being overloaded with information, a lot of sleep is always needed to repair itself.

He didn't turn himself into a little idiot, probably because his ancestors in the underworld were so powerful, they almost knocked his head open.

However, after he gradually learned to control his mental powers, the kid showed a side of being almost supernaturally intelligent.

Lazy is quite clever. Although he is the youngest of six siblings, his beast form is a cute and cuddly little panda from the forest. However, he is actually quite cunning and can even use his superpowers to silently manipulate the people around him, including his older brothers and sisters, just to achieve his own little goals.

This child is the most difficult to teach. Beneath his gentle and harmless exterior lies a calm yet extreme madness, and he even lacks empathy.

He has certain antisocial personality tendencies.

A typical example is that when they went south on an inspection tour, the child was only six years old when he was kidnapped by a small group of remnants of the nobility in the Southern Plains.

When his elders and the army found him, the boy had already manipulated the remaining noble forces to kill each other.

The scene was extremely bloody.

His father was so shocked by what he saw when he went in that he vomited.

Because there were almost no intact corpses in the cave.

Since then, Ling Chengen has kept Lanlan by his side and devoted a lot of time to teaching the child.

Ling Chengen had no idea what kind of person he would become in the future.

But she hopes her child won't be someone who can't even distinguish between good and evil.

All we ask is that he doesn't actively do evil or harm others.

This was her only requirement of him, and also her bottom line.

……

Ling Chengen has had six partners, all of whom have held marriage ceremonies.

She never held a ceremony with Chang Tianchen, and the two had no children. They maintained a delicate relationship.

In fact, Chang Tianchen was her lover.

They had deeper physical contact, but each time they spent together was short, and their intimate relationship was infrequent.

She had actually considered marrying him. After all, the grudges between them had long faded with time, and she trusted him and didn't mind spending time with him.

He was also her most trusted and trusted advisor.

After all, she entrusted him with the highest command of the three armed forces; without sufficient trust, such an appointment would have been impossible.

However, the two ultimately did not hold a ceremony because it was Chang Tianchen's suggestion.

He felt it was no longer necessary.

What he ever needed was not the title of partner.

Ling Chengen has already given him what he wanted.

He willingly submitted, kneeling and kowtowing beneath her swaying skirt.

He was willing to go through fire and water for her, to eliminate all enemies and obstacles in his path.

He will be her invincible and indispensable minister.

She will also be His Majesty's most intimate and understanding lover.

He was happy to accept all of this.

(End of text)

That's about it for the main text.

I will write some side stories later, but I'm not sure how many there will be yet.

The editor was actually urging me to finish this book in early December because the results weren't very good. However, because the main plot was progressing too slowly, I wrote for another three months, hoping to finish it according to the initial outline.

The last two chapters were indeed rushed; if they had been written in detail, they could probably have been several hundred thousand more words long.

However, I've been incredibly busy lately. This month has been spent renovating my home, running around every day. I usually sit on my bed with my laptop at night to write, but I write very slowly, and sitting for so long really hurts my back. I also got sick because of the late spring cold snap, and I have to squeeze in time to get an IV drip every day. Sometimes I'm sleep-deprived, and I fall asleep while writing, only to wake up suddenly with a start. When I see that I haven't finished the draft, I frantically try to keep writing, even though my mind is a complete mess...

The reasons for speeding up the completion process will be explained here.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement over the past eleven months.

See you in the next chapter.