Chapter 408: The Demon King keeps screaming
“Miss, something happened!”
Something happened!
It’s over!
…
Foxes roared incessantly around the beam.
However, not long after, the entire hall fell into deathly silence again. Several monsters in the hall who had turned into humans immediately held their breath, lowered their heads, and closed their mouths.
Hu Mu, who was sitting on the side of the golden dragon chair, twitched his brows slightly. His ebony eyes looked up at the Fox clan maid who rolled in from the door. She leaned forward with her paws and pressed her chin tightly to the ground. She didn’t say anything for a long time.
Xu Zhen and the dozens of Ghost Spirit Sect disciples who were in the core formation stage outside the door felt their right eyelids twitching wildly, and a bad premonition arose in their hearts. Although Xu Jie didn’t know who the “Miss” in the maid’s mouth was, he could feel the rage that was gripping the entire body of the Demon Emperor sitting on the golden dragon chair at this moment.
Boom——
A thunderbolt in the night perfectly illuminated the faces of everyone in the square in front of the hall.
Hu Mu closed his eyes and sat upright, holding the armrests of the chair with his hands, and asked with trembling lips:
“Qiao’er… What happened?”
The fox clan maid lay on the ground and looked up. She was so panicked that she could not speak clearly. It was as if she had used all her strength to speak out. The fox’s voice was mixed with human words:
“Your Majesty, just now… I was playing hide and seek with the young lady in the city, but suddenly… a cultivator using poisonous insects appeared… and caught the young lady, and still…”
The cultivator who uses poison…
All the monsters present instantly caught this keyword, and immediately stared angrily at Xu Zhi, who was exuding a strong poisonous spirit aura in front of the hall.
“Hiss–”
Xu Zhen subconsciously wanted to express his innocence. He did not catch that “Qiao’er”, and he did not let his subordinates do it. However, his lips opened slightly but immediately closed them again.
It’s up to him to explain this matter, and the more he explains, the more confusion he will get. After all, the Demon King is only a fox demon close to the middle void realm, so he shouldn’t be reckless…
Hu Mu took a deep breath through his nose, glanced at Xu Zhen, and continued to ask, “Explain.”
The fox tribe maid took several breaths and replied weakly, “The man claimed that his master was Elder Xu of the Ghost Spirit Sect’s Soul Calling Hall, saying…”
“What?!”
Although Xu Zhen knew that he should remain silent now, he was too frightened when he heard this. He couldn’t hold it back and interrupted:
“What?!… The Demon Emperor, this junior will never…”
“Ah——!!”
An evil roar came from the black velvet tail behind Hu Mu, and in an instant, Xu Zhen’s entire face was changed by the sound waves. HU Mu gritted his teeth slightly, took a deep breath, and looked back at the Fox Clan maid:
“Continue……”
“The man said that he wanted to take the young lady as a hostage and asked you to hand over the three cities of Donghuang to the Ghost Spirit Sect and hand over the Nine Dragons Seal, otherwise…”
“…otherwise?”
“Otherwise… I’ll skin the lady and make it into a scarf and give it away…”
Ah——!!
The ethereal fox head appeared from behind Hu Mu, but it did not have the charming expression of the usual fox. Instead, it showed a wrinkled nose and glare like a hungry wolf. In just an instant, Hu Mu moved up from the golden dragon chair and came to the Fox clan maid lying in the main hall.
Seeing the black boots with gold patterns falling in front of her, the fox tribe maid’s face was dripping with cold sweat. She closed her eyes, slowly raised her tail, and took out a broken Gu cup and several pieces of the remnant poison from the tail hair.
“Your Majesty, this is what that person used…”
Hu Mu raised his fingers slightly and put the Gu cup into his hand. He glanced at it and recognized through the carvings and casting techniques that it should be a poisonous vessel produced in the Eastern Domain. The grade was quite high and sufficient. A cultivator who was a Nascent Soul or even a god was used to refine high-level poisonous insects.
With all the witnesses and material evidence in place, what else is there to say…
Hu Mu’s teeth bulged, and he raised his eyes to look at Xu Jie in front of the palace. Last time, the young man protected by the mother-in-law of Xuanxing Sect told him that his former Daoist companion Hu Yulan died at the hands of the leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
The Daoist couple’s best friend, a human immortal cultivator named “Bai Yurou”, died due to serious injuries shortly after escaping from the Eastern Domain.
Xue Tianqiao, who had a very similar appearance and personality to his Daoist companion, and whom he even thought was the reincarnation of Hu Yulan, was captured by a human demon cultivator under his nose. This was not the first time that Hu Mu felt helpless, but it was the most helpless time he had felt in a thousand years.
He was the highest-level void realm demon in the demon clan for nearly two thousand years. He had magical powers, but he couldn’t even protect a young disciple.
“Hiss-hoo… Hiss-hoo…”
Veins grew from his neck and spread to Hu Mu’s forehead, and his chest and abdomen expanded greatly with his heavy breathing. The majestic spiritual energy spurted out from its velvet tail, and in an instant, a huge fox head with a slightly ferocious color condensed into the sky above Tian’an City.
The monsters in the city, whether they were drinking and chatting or strolling around to reproduce, stopped what they were doing, came outside, returned to their original form, kowtowed, and lay on the ground. The sounds of all kinds of beasts came from all over Tian’an City for hundreds of miles around. Even the low-level monsters in the mountains and forests that had not yet developed spiritual intelligence were all facing the direction of Tian’an City one after another at this moment, kowtowing and worshiping.
Xu Zheng outside the main hall also understood at this time that he might not be able to go back. Even if he knew nothing about a kidnapping that “Qiao’er”, how could he prove his innocence now?
Even if he could prove it, would the Demon King be able to listen?
Xu Zhi swallowed, but he had no choice but to pluck up the courage and stand up:
“Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, although this matter was not the intention of the junior sect master, it was the behavior of the junior. If you still care about the safety of your young lady…”
Whoosh——
Before he finished speaking, Xu Jie felt that his stomach was suddenly empty, and the ground in his eyes quickly rose several feet. He couldn’t even see clearly what happened. When he came back to his senses, he saw that the lower half of his body had disappeared, but Hu Mu still stood in place without moving at all. He just stared at him with his angry eyes.
The smell of blood spread along his intestines that were on the ground, and then slowly flowed down the stairs one step at a time to the toes of the first few Ghost Spirit Sect disciples who were carrying jade boxes.
The indifference and composure in the eyes of dozens of disciples of the Ghost Spirit Sect who were in the alchemy stage wearing ghost masks instantly collapsed, their feet began to tremble uncontrollably, and the golden jade box on their shoulders suddenly fell to the ground, containing the countless precious heavenly materials, earthly treasures and elixirs scattered all over the ground.
Xu Zhen’s face gradually turned pale, and he had no choice but to continue:
“Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, if this junior does not return safely… Your young lady will…”
In the blink of an eye, Hu Mu put his face in front of Xu Zhen and yelled:
“Where is she?!”
“Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, junior…”
Xu Zheng gritted his teeth. He felt that the Demon King would probably make him live without seeking death. The punishment within the Demon Clan was comparable to that of a demon cultivator, or even worse. He immediately activated the Gu worms in his body and let them eat their own Nascent Soul and Golden Core.
Hiss——
The disgusting chirping of poisonous insects came from within his body, but within two breaths, Xu Zhi’s remaining upper body turned into a pile of rotten flesh, and within a short while, the compound eyes under Xu Zhi’s eyebrows also exploded. Blood spurted toward Hu Mu, but was blocked by an invisible spiritual energy.
Seeing that he fainted, Hu Mu raised his head and shouted evilly at the sky:
“Hey——!!!”
The next moment, the tiger-headed monsters outside the main hall square poured in one after another, rushing towards the Core Formation disciples of the Ghost Spirit Sect who were dumbfounded on the spot and started feasting on them with their tiger claws and sharp teeth.
The “Ghost Crying and Wolf Howling” of the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples resounded throughout the entire hall.
Hu Mu just glanced at it, then turned around and walked back to the main hall. Several demon clansmen with roc-headed heads immediately knelt on one knee in front of him:
“Chirp!! Chirp chirp—!!”
It means petitioning for an eastern expedition and leading the demon tribe to take down the Ghost Spirit Sect in the Eastern Domain. But the fox demons in uniforms on one side all had troubled expressions on their faces. Your Majesty was furious now. They all knew that the demon clan had absolutely nothing left to provoke a war with the Ghost Spirit Sect.
Although there were many monster clans, most of them were middle and lower-level little demons with low intelligence. There were only a handful of monster clans like them and Hu Mu. This was also the reason why the monster clan had been in decline for thousands of years since the dragon clan was destroyed by the human race. The territory occupied was getting smaller and smaller.
Probably seeing the troubled faces of those fox demons in civil robes, the anger in Hu Mu’s heart was suppressed a little. For the sake of Xue Tianqiao, putting the entire demon clan into a situation that will never be restored is not the way of a wise king. When the Holy Emperor of the Immortal Family enlightened him, he taught him the so-called Immortal Lord Daoism.
But the monster race was a monster by nature, and those demon cultivators from the human race touched his fox fur again and again…
Hu Mu ignored the Peng Yao who came forward to remonstrate and sat back on the golden dragon chair. He turned to look at the shivering Spirit Fox lying on the carpet:
“Go find it.”
“…Hm.”
It softly agreed, turned around, and stepped on the blood in front of the palace with four paws, leaving behind a series of small blood-red paw prints heading out of the palace…
…
Rumble——
Dark clouds gathered above the night, and after a muffled thunder, raindrops pattered on the mountains within a hundred miles of Tian’an City. The hare was hiding from the rain and accidentally found a small grotto to take shelter from the rain. But as soon as it got in, it seemed to be frightened by something. It turned around and rushed into the forest against the rain and disappeared. Ye Anping walked out of the shadows on the other side of the grotto, raised his hand to change the hood on his head, then grabbed Xue Tianqiao in his hand and raised it to his eyebrows.
In the game, he was just a little spirit fox, but the shape of this transformed fox was as if it had not yet been weaned, and its body was about the same length as one of his arms.
Xue Tianqiao didn’t resist or make a fuss. On the contrary, after entering the secret passage, her eyes were bright, as if she had found something interesting, and she looked left and right. At that moment, when one person and one fox looked at each other, Xue Tianqiao winked at him:
“Hmhmhm…..”
Ye Anping led her out of the secret passage and spoke without giving in. After thinking for a while, he decided to listen, then he untied the rope from her mouth and asked, “What do you want to say?”
Xue Tianqiao blinked his eyes and said innocently, “Brother Liang is so powerful! My sister was fascinated just now.”
Ye Anping was expressionless: “…”
“Three times, five times, and two times five times, we eliminated the guards arranged by my sister’s master and brought out sister fox without any injuries. My master must be very angry~.”
Ye Anping immediately regretted untying the rope around her mouth. He picked it up with his sword and quickly tied the demon rope back.
“Boing-boing~~~.”
“Shut up.”
“Boing-boing…”
Ye Anping ignored it. He just had to take good care of her and return her to the Demon King when the matter was over. He looked up at the head of the ethereal fox standing in the sky above Tian’an City in the distance and let out a faint breath. Then, he threw Xue Tianqiao onto his collar and let her hold it. He took out a rain hat from the storage bag, put it on his head, walked out of the cave, and disappeared under the rain in the forest, in the forest full of water vapor.
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