Grandpa, Spare My Life

Chapter 5: Grandpa, Spare Me [Thanks to "Legal Scholar Li Dakang" Alliance Leader for the reward]

As Yue Wen used the Demon-Slaying Mirror, the ball of ghost fire also smelled the scent of living people. With a whoosh, the flames surged and violently charged over.

Yue Wen instantly summoned his Flying Sword bracelet, drew the sword, and swung it in mid-air.

Swish—

The sword energy extinguished the ball of ghost fire from several meters away, and two pieces of torn lantern skin fell to the ground.

"It'll probably take killing over a dozen of these little things to make one Demon Suppressing Coin," Yue Wen estimated with a casual indifference. "Let's win by quantity."

With that, he continued to walk forward leisurely.

Ghost fires occasionally drifted out from the direction of the woods. It was clear that people hadn't been hired to clear them out for quite some time.

Fortunately, the Lantern Monsters had territorial awareness and kept a considerable distance from each other. No matter how many there were, they wouldn't swarm, and they posed no trouble to Yue Wen at all.

When it came to fighting Lantern Monsters one-on-one, his attitude was naturally the more the merrier.

Wherever he went, he was unstoppable.

This was also why the cemetery management only required cultivators at the Second Realm. Dealing with Lantern Monsters truly didn't require any Supernatural Powers or special techniques. The Lantern Monsters themselves probably never imagined that a cultivator at the late Third Realm would be willing to spend so much time hacking them down.

Was he here to "fish for kills"?

Just as Yue Wen was enjoying a stress-relieving session of hacking, he suddenly detected a different aura with the Demon-Slaying Mirror.

Within the wisps of grayish-white Yin energy, a few strands of faint crimson smoke had infiltrated.

Demonic energy?

Yue Wen immediately became cautious. Nightmares could naturally occur within the cemetery, but demonic creatures were definitely outsiders.

He had to treat this carefully.

He leaped onto a tree branch, concealed his aura, and carefully observed the source of the demonic energy.

He saw three figures sneaking their way over from ahead.

They were all human-shaped and wore clothes, but the exposed skin was more or less covered in fur, they had cat ears on their heads, and long tails sticking up behind them.

Three partially transformed Cat Demons?

Yue Wen pondered their purpose for being here so late at night.

The one walking at the front was a Black Cat Demon. Judging by his face, he looked like a young man. He observed his surroundings as he walked, as if patrolling his territory.

Beside him was a plump White Cat Demon. He appeared somewhat simple and honest, carrying a large sack on his back and wearing a pair of sunglasses.

Following behind the two was an Orange Cat Demon, lithe and slender. Her appearance resembled that of a human girl, with delicate features and blue eyes. She looked quite timid as she walked.

As they were about to leave the wooded area, the fat White Cat wearing sunglasses took out a disc-like object from his embrace and muttered, "To find dragon veins, one must observe the mountains; one mountain is one pass..."

As he was chanting, the Black Cat casually slapped the back of his head.

Slap!

"What are you doing?" the Black Cat asked.

"I..." The White Cat innocently rubbed the back of his head and weakly said, "I saw tomb raiders do it like this."

"Blackie, wearing sunglasses, are you a rapper?" The Black Cat knocked off his sunglasses and then swatted away the object in his hand. "Where did you pry this off from a car's dashboard?"

"I was just afraid of encountering zombies..." the White Cat said, backing away while being hit.

"I think you look like a big fat zombie!" The Black Cat slapped his head again. "Who told you we were here to rob graves?"

"Aren't we?" The White Cat winced in pain.

"We're just here to carry out the Cult Leader's mission, dig open the graves here, find what's inside, and bring it back!" the Black Cat said.

The White Cat asked in confusion, "Isn't that just the definition of grave robbing?"

"Hurry up and go dig!" the Black Cat urged impatiently.

"Keep your voice down, what if you alert the tomb guardians?" the Orange Cat Girl behind them whispered.

"What are you afraid of?" the Black Cat boasted arrogantly. "How strong can the tomb guardians be in a place like this? If anyone dares to stop us later, I'll punch them so hard they'll call me grandpa!"

[Young Cat Demon: Strength is insufficient for complete transformation, but possesses a strong physique and agile movements. Although they haven't comprehended innate Supernatural Powers, be wary of its sharp fangs and claws. Combat power is equivalent to one hundred healthy elderly human grandmothers.]

Yue Wen used the Demon-Slaying Mirror to scan the strength of the three Cat Demons again. He found that they were all within the mirror's observation range, and the strongest Black Cat only had the combat power of a hundred grandmothers. He felt slightly relieved.

He continued to lurk in the trees, wanting to see what these three little demons were up to.

Logically, his mission was to clear out Evil Spirits. Usually, there were only Lantern Monsters here, but if anything else appeared, he would be responsible.

At most, he'd get paid extra later.

If these little demons acted maliciously, Yue Wen wouldn't mind acting for free and accumulating more Demon Suppressing Coins.

He watched as the three Cat Demons went to a grave with newer tombstones. The Black Cat examined it and said, "The bodies that arrived recently should be buried here. Let's start digging."

The sack they brought contained pickaxes. The Black Cat and White Cat began swinging them, the clanging sound echoing as they broke through the cement ground and dug out the corpses.

The Orange Cat Girl stood guard nearby, looking around fearfully.

As demonic beings, they naturally feared not corpses or ghosts, but human cultivators.

During their time surviving in the city, they had always avoided the light, fearing discovery by powerful cultivators. After all, no law protected innocent lesser demons, so they lived in constant trepidation every day.

Of course, even so, it was much better than life in the Wasteland outside.

The black cat and white cat threw themselves into it, digging up three tombs in succession. After each one was opened, the black cat would carefully inspect it. If it wasn't the target, it would move on to the next.

Yue Wen watched for a while, confirmed there were no other demonic beings around, and then decided to act.

If he let them keep digging like this, the graveyard would be a mess by tomorrow, and he wouldn't be able to account for it.

The Orange Cat Girl was looking around when Yue Wen landed directly behind her and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Of course, I'm afraid there are..." the Orange Cat Girl replied instinctively. As she turned her head, she saw a top-quality human with no demonic aura, clearly a show-quality specimen. Her pupils dilated in shock, "Humans--!"

Yue Wen raised his hand in a knife chop, striking her neck and knocking the little Orange Cat Girl unconscious.

Hearing the shriek, the black and white cats on the other side immediately looked over.

Upon seeing a human appear and knock out their companion, the black cat's expression instantly turned ferocious. Its face contorted, and it crouched down, hissing at Yue Wen.

The white cat was even more direct. It swung the pickaxe in its hand and charged forward, shouting, "Let her go!"

To deal with these lesser demons, Yue Wen didn't use his Sword Control Art, as it would easily kill them with a single sword strike.

Cultivators generally practiced three types of techniques: cultivation methods, martial arts, and Supernatural Powers.

Compared to Supernatural Powers, martial arts had a lower barrier to entry. When his cultivation was still weak, Yue Wen had also bought a martial arts technique called "Dragon Wandering Loose Hand."

It was more than enough to deal with these few lesser demons.

Facing the white cat charging with its pickaxe, Yue Wen moved like lightning. He took a step forward, deflected with his left hand, and struck with his right. Bang!

A strike as agile as a swimming dragon!

It was powerful and heavy. Even though the white cat was large and plump, it was knocked unconscious with a single blow.

"Haa!" At the same time, the black cat darted forward with sharp speed, its movements almost leaving afterimages!

Judging by its momentum, its strength was indeed much greater than the white cat's.

However, it was still insignificant in the face of the huge cultivation gap. Yue Wen twisted his waist and threw a backfist punch, hitting the black cat squarely in the face, as if the black cat had run into it itself.

Bang--

This punch sent the black cat flying back more than five meters! Two streams of blood instantly spurted from its nostrils!

But this black cat was quite spirited and didn't even cry out in pain!

It wiped the blood from its nose with its paw, stared directly at Yue Wen with bright eyes, raised its claws, and suddenly, with a thump!

It knelt down...

After its lightning-fast slide, it still held its head high and proud, a fierce look on its face, and shouted, "Grandpa, spare my life!"

Thank you to my good brothers for the tips.

Based on past experience, I won't make empty promises about extra updates for Alliance Leader pledges.

However, I plan to feature some netizen IDs in this book and will put an Alliance Leader ID on the wall.

I also thank my male and female brothers who are following the updates. I will work hard, thank you all.

(End of this chapter)