Next, Mo Fan flew to the foot of Black Wind Mountain and saw the other two Wang family members lying unconscious in a huge crater.
“These two really can’t take a beating. I barely used any strength and they just passed out!”
“The human physique is indeed frail!”
Mo Fan could not help curling his lip at the sight.
His words made Bai Tian Tian, who was beside him, roll her eyes. She could not resist retorting, “Your current physical body is probably comparable to that chi dragon in the true dragon lair. You’re practically a humanoid monster.
Apart from those body cultivators who specialise in tempering the flesh, the bodies of other human cultivators cannot be considered strong at all.
So within the same realm, I’m afraid no human cultivator could remain unharmed after you get close.”
“Heh heh, are you praising me?”
Mo Fan scratched his head in slight embarrassment, then swooped down, grabbed one unconscious Core Formation cultivator in each hand, and shot back into the sky towards Black Wind Mountain.
By now, the spiritual fire barrier over Black Wind Mountain had been withdrawn. All the high-ranking demon cultivators had already emerged from their caves and were standing on the martial training square, waiting respectfully for a long time.
Mo Fan looked down from above and saw every familiar face present, not a single one missing. His heart immediately settled. This meant the human sneak attack had caused no real losses.
He had genuinely worried that every time he left, someone would raid his home.
If that kept happening, wouldn’t the foundation he had worked so hard to build eventually be whittled away?
Fortunately, although the mountain had been raided again this time, not one demon was lost!
Otherwise, he would truly have marched to Three Saints Island and devoured the entire Wang family from top to bottom to vent his rage.
“My children, this king has returned!”
Mo Fan let out a mighty shout that echoed throughout Black Wind Mountain.
“We respectfully welcome the great king’s triumphant return!”
“We respectfully welcome Lady Bai’s triumphant return!”
On the training square, under Master Pig’s leadership, the crowd of greater demons shouted with high spirits, excitement written across every face.
They all knew that when the great king came back, good days were ahead!
Hadn’t he just captured three great human cultivators?
There was bound to be a demon-king-level banquet very soon!
“Enough, enough. We’re all family here, no need to be so polite!”
Mo Fan waved his hand with a smile, then descended from the sky with Bai Tian Tian and landed on the training square.
Although Bai Tian Tian felt a little gloomy about the demons calling her “Lady”, she said nothing. She had long grown used to it.
She instinctively glanced at Mo Fan beside her and saw the fellow grinning shamelessly, clearly very pleased with the title.
At the sight, Bai Tian Tian’s cheeks inexplicably flushed. She hurriedly lowered her head a little, afraid the other demons would notice her embarrassment.
“Great king, where on earth did you go this time? You were away for over a month!”
“Yeah! You don’t know how much Old Rabbit and I missed you!”
The first to rush forward and greet Mo Fan were, without question, the attention-seeking duo of Red-Eye the rabbit demon and Chatter the sparrow demon.
Though their cultivation was not outstanding among the demons, they were Mo Fan’s most loyal followers and could absolutely be called his trusted confidants.
“Bloody hell, it’s only been a month and you already want this king dead?”
Mo Fan raised an eyebrow and immediately started cursing playfully.
“Huh?”
“Great king, that’s not what we meant…”
The two demons instantly looked close to tears, but when they saw no anger on Mo Fan’s face and instead a wide grin, they realised the king was just teasing them. Their faces turned glum.
“Come on, it’s only been a month. Surely you can take a little joke?”
Seeing the pair looking dejected, Mo Fan winked at them, then chuckled, “This king made a huge haul this time. There’ll definitely be benefits for you two!”
“Really?”
“Great king is so handsome!”
“Great king is mighty!”
The moment they heard about rewards, the two demons instantly beamed with joy and excitement.
Mo Fan waved a hand, swept his gaze across the assembled demons, and finally looked at Huo Ling. In a deep voice he said, “King Black Cloud, you’ve worked hard these past days!”
“Being valued by the great king makes everything worthwhile!”
Huo Ling immediately grinned, then his smile faded and he sighed. “Luckily Lady Bai set up the spiritual fire barrier. Otherwise I’m afraid even I couldn’t have stopped those human cultivators!
But at least I did not fail the great king’s trust. No bloodshed occurred this time!”
“Well done!”
Mo Fan gave Huo Ling’s shoulder a heavy, approving pat, then turned his attention to the two generals.
They were He Feifei and Lang Xiongxiong.
“Nothing else happened on the mountain this past month, right?”
“Great king, rest assured. Apart from some demons secretly sparring now and then, there were no major incidents,” He Feifei replied with a smile.
“Good to hear!”
Mo Fan nodded.
“Great king, did you forget to ask me?”
At that moment, a small fatty suddenly squeezed his way through the crowd to the front, panting as he looked up at Mo Fan.
“You are…”
Mo Fan stared at the fellow. He looked somewhat familiar, but for a moment Mo Fan could not place him.
The little fatty froze, then put on a bitter expression. “Great king! It’s me! Take another good look!”
“You… you’re human?”
Mo Fan quickly sensed the distinctly human aura on the fatty, but immediately after he also detected a faint trace of dragon qi. His eyes widened in realisation. “You Er?”
“Great king, you finally recognised me!”
You Er let out a huge sigh of relief. He had genuinely feared that now the fellow had grown stronger he might disown his old acquaintances. At the same time he was inwardly shocked.
He realised this toad demon’s cultivation speed was simply monstrous!
How long had it been?
He had actually broken through to Demon King again, and judging from the battle just now, this fellow was ridiculously strong!
Thinking of this, You Er’s spirits fell. He understood that in this lifetime he probably wouldn’t be able to leave Black Wind Mountain.
Since he couldn’t escape, he had to try to become a useful demon under this toad great king and fight for some status!
“You Er, I clearly remember you being skinny as a rail. How have you turned into a pig in just one month?”
Mo Fan stared in disbelief at the absurdly fat You Er.
“Great king, I suspect you’re insulting us!”
Master Pig, backed by his five burly swine, immediately protested loudly.
“Er… slip of the tongue! Slip of the tongue!!” Mo Fan hurriedly touched his nose.
“Ahem… it’s just that the food on Black Wind Mountain is too good… I couldn’t control myself and ate a bit too much,” You Er explained with an embarrassed chuckle.
“Great king, the reason Black Wind Mountain escaped disaster this time is largely thanks to Brother You Er’s help. He divined in advance that danger was coming, so we promptly evacuated the little demons and activated the spiritual fire barrier. That’s how we truly kept those human cultivators outside the mountain protection array!”
Lang Xiongxiong spoke up, putting in a good word for You Er, then glared viciously at the two unconscious Wang family cultivators in Mo Fan’s hands. In a grave voice he continued, “Great king, these human cultivators were audacious enough to attack our Black Wind Mountain. We absolutely cannot let them die easily! They must be severely punished!”
“Oh? And how do you suggest we do that?”
Mo Fan looked at Lang Xiongxiong with interest.
“First flay them and pull out their tendons, then have the enforcement team’s butchers slice the flesh from their bodies piece by piece and send it to the kitchen camp to be made into dishes!
And during the whole process I suggest feeding these three some spiritual medicine to ensure they don’t die from the pain, forcing them to watch their own flesh being cut away!
Finally, take whatever bones are left, boil them thoroughly, render out the bone oil to use as lamp fuel!
Then toss the remaining bones into the oil cauldron. All those fellows with strong teeth love gnawing on nice crunchy bones!” Lang Xiongxiong said with a sinister chuckle.
