"A true hero does not boast of past glories... Let's get back to the weirdness."
Aaron took a sip of tea with the composure of an old sage. "These weird entities... actually have no rankings. So-called ferocious, natural disaster, S-rank, and so on... are all labels imposed by later generations. They cannot fully convey the degree of terror..."
"But since you're already used to them, let's use your conventions... Within the Skyweb Bureau, weird entities are divided into Human Calamity, Earthly Disaster, Great Ferocity, Natural Disaster, and World-Ending grades... Of these, Human Calamity is the lightest, merely killing a few people. A Natural Disaster kills hundreds of thousands... As for World-Ending, it exists only in theory."
"In Buddhism, a complete weird entity is called a 'Heavenly Demon,' which is equivalent to the Natural Disaster grade... Above Heavenly Demons, however, are 'Heavenly Demon Kings'! In other words, World-Ending grade!"
"Basically, all Heavenly Demons are connected to Heavenly Demon Kings. And the Heavenly Demons of this world have three great sources—the three World-Ending weird entities!"
Aaron shook his head as he spoke. "This is a conclusion this old man reached only with the help of those confidantes of mine, after combing through the treasured collections of a hundred schools."
"Three Heavenly Demon Kings?" Xu Yuan looked intrigued. "Which three? Why have I never heard of them...?"
"Hehe... Naturally, it's because They are asleep—or rather... recovering at an exceedingly slow pace... Even Their occasional stirrings have spawned weird entities that turned the human world into hell on earth... If They were to awaken, then I fear..." Aaron shook his head. "As for Their location..."
He pointed at the sky.
"The moon? No wonder you always stare at the moon, Master!" Xu Yuan suddenly realized.
Su Bingbing, however, asked, "Sir... do Heavenly Demon Kings