Instructor Hu grinned, holding his wine gourd as he kept pouring liquor into his mouth, but he said no more.
Some quick-witted people sensed something was amiss and hurriedly changed the subject, praising Instructor Hu again.
Everyone said it was such a rare opportunity to hear Master Hu discuss the state of the world, and that without his permission, no one should dare run their mouth again—or they'd be driven away.
Instructor Hu had easily subdued the whole crowd. After they urged him again and again, he finally began speaking once more.
"Twenty years ago, the Green Demon plotted against the Eastern Sea Demon Domain. He even infected Niu Tongtian, the South Sea chancellor, and devised a cunning scheme to kill the ruler of the Eastern Sea at the time. Of course, I don't know that ruler's name. I only heard that his surname was Long, and that he was one of the greatest powers of his age."
"I heard people discussing the heroes of the world in a teahouse in Holy Radiance City. They said the ruler of the Eastern Sea was a giant demon who surpassed even the true immortals of the Eight Great Immortal Sects, with strength that dominated the world. Among the Four Seas Demon Kings, he was probably the strongest. And yet a figure like him was outwitted and killed by the Green Demon. Though he was a giant among the Demon Race... never mind, never mind. In any case, he deserved to die."
"After the ruler of the Eastern Sea died, the Eastern Sea fell into chaos. Then the Green Demon launched a massive invasion, and the Eastern Sea was almost instantly overrun. The other three great seas rushed to aid it, and so the war between the Green Demon and the Four Seas