"Tsk, tsk. Brother Flame Wave, with your strength now, you must be second only to the ancestors of the top ten lairs, right?"
After a few rounds of drinks, the old man looked at the increasingly valiant lion's face and spared no effort in showering him with praise.
He even said the lion had tremendous potential to become the Ten Thousand Demon Lair's eleventh Demon Ancestor.
"Heh. With Brother Flame Wave's strength, I'd say he's already no weaker than some of the Demon Ancestors."
The woman took great gulps of wine from the vat. Watching the old man heap one compliment after another on the other, she joined in too.
Flame Wave Lion had brazenly snatched the Great Halberd from Yōumíng Dragon Ancestor, which was tantamount to offending Spider Demon Ancestor by proxy.
On top of that, he had originally served under Thunderclap Demon Ancestor and belonged to Spider Demon Ancestor's faction.
Yet earlier, in front of a crowd of demons, he had openly defected to Lady White Bone, once again slapping Spider Demon Ancestor in the face.
For all these reasons, if the lion kept acting so arrogantly without knowing when to rein it in, his death couldn't be far off.
When the two demons had first arrived, they had planned to follow Lady White Bone's instructions and drop a few hints to warn him.
But looking at the lion's perpetually lazy, arrogant expression, they swallowed the words of advice that had nearly left their mouths.
"If he's so utterly clueless, then he can just hurry up and die!"
The two demons each muttered to themselves, then poured on the praise with even more extravagant words.
After all, they had served Lady White Bone loyally for years, while this little lion—who knew where he had come from, but was