"Please, let us go."
"That's right. You're so powerful. Please don't hold this against us."
"We're just pitiful pig-headed people."
I looked at them and said coldly, "A bunch of useless cowards who only bully the weak. You turned yourselves into monsters so you could throw your weight around. In the end, you refuse to admit you're monsters—neither human nor ghost. How laughable."
"Everything you did amounted to nothing in the end. Useless trash like you have no right to beg me for a chance to live!"
"No!" The pig-headed people kept shouting, their faces filled with terror.
But my figure flashed past, and all of them collapsed with a thunderous crash.
Chapter 787: Fighting a Bloody Path Out
I withdrew my long sword and looked at Lei Gang behind me. "You're all such useless trash. You even let these neither-human-nor-ghost things stand on your heads and throw their weight around."
Lei Gang came before me, knelt down, and said, "Please, save us. Save this city."
"That's right. Please, save us." The people around us knelt as well.
Yet at that moment, I said coldly, "I'm sorry, but I have no interest in saving you."
Their expressions immediately turned ugly, but they didn't dare say anything.
I said arrogantly, "However, I will kill that demon, because I vaguely sense that he might be connected to the bloodline within me."
"That's wonderful."
"Yeah, it's truly unbelievable."
The people around us cheered, but I said, "Since that's the case, let's split up. You'll create a disturbance while I take the opportunity to assassinate that demon."
"But I need to know where this demon is."
"That's where the demon is." Lei Gang pointed toward the city center. A pig-headed building stood there, looking incredibly magnificent.
"I understand." I nodded, then pointed at Liu