"What a joke!!"
"You Demon People dare treat us Blue Star Human Race as food, so why shouldn't I devour you in return?"
"Even you... heh. Believe it or not, if I wanted to, you'd become nourishment for me right now."
"After all, you're at the Body Tempering Twelfth Level. Devouring you would benefit me far more than devouring the others..."
"You..."
Shi Gan was shocked and furious. He glanced instinctively at the dried-out corpses of his fellow Demon People strewn across the ground and could not help shuddering.
"Spare... spare me."
"Oh?"
"Begging for mercy? Haha, that's new. So you Demon People know how to beg?"
"I thought you'd be as fearless in the face of death as those Weird Beasts."
When Shi Gan heard Li Yun compare him to Weird Beasts, he reacted as though he had been humiliated. His voice shot up, shrill with rage.
"Shut up..."
"We Demon People follow the Devil Master's will. We're herders charged with raising Weird Beasts. How could we be the same as them?"
"Those lowly Weird Beasts don't even have intelligence!!"
"Herders?"
Li Yun curled his lip and said with feigned disdain, "Herders? The Devil Master's will? You really know how to gild your own faces and sing your own praises."
"I'm not boasting!"
"You can investigate it yourself if you don't believe me."
"The great Devil Master created the Beast-Grazing Land to raise those lowly, mindless Weird Beasts. And we Demon People, from the Ancestor onward, have always been the Devil Master's most devout followers."
"We're raising them in accordance with the great Devil Master's will!"
Li Yun could not help feeling startled.
Furious as Shi Gan was, his words contained a staggering amount of information.
In just a few sentences, he had practically explained the origins of both