The demon kings received their orders, and all left the cave estate to attend to their own duties—those studying letters studied, those cultivating cultivated.
Shi Tuo King smiled with some envy. "Big Brother Bull's good fortune is truly immense. To think you were fated to find such a treasured immortal mountain."
"The spiritual energy of this Flower Fruit Mountain is so abundant that even compared with the Daoist sanctuaries of those immortals and Buddhas, it is more than a match. My Shituo Ridge cannot compare to even one ten-thousandth of it."
"It makes me not want to leave once I've come. If I stay too long, Big Brother Bull, you absolutely mustn't drive me away!"
Bull Devil King and Peng Demon King looked at each other, then suddenly burst into hearty laughter.
Their laughter left Shi Tuo King rather baffled, and he looked toward Macaque King beside him.
This Macaque King was his friend.
After receiving Bull Devil King's invitation to visit Flower Fruit Mountain as a guest, Macaque King had happened to be at his place, so he had brought him along as well.
"Big Brother Bull, Brother Peng, why are you laughing?"
Shi Tuo King asked in confusion.
Bull Devil King laughed loudly. "Haha, if Brother Shi Tuo doesn't want to leave, I, Old Ox, would be happy before anything else. How could I drive you away? If you don't want to leave, wouldn't it be nothing for me, Old Ox, to give you a mountain peak?"
Shi Tuo King thought he was joking, so he deliberately laughed and said, "Is that true? Big Brother Bull, you know me. I'm an honest man—the kind who'll climb the pole when you give me a snake. You mustn't fool me. I'll believe it."
Bull Devil King burst out laughing. "Isn't