"Sun Wukong!"
Just as they were speaking, a voice came from outside, rolling in like a tide. It made the monkeys inside and outside Water Curtain Cave clutch their ears, scream, and roll on the ground, wails rising everywhere.
"Hmph!"
Sun Wukong gave a cold snort, canceling out those waves of sound. With a flip, he arrived at the cave entrance, and with a wave of his right hand, he split the waterfall before him down the middle as if it truly were a water curtain.
He saw that the distant mountain peaks were indeed covered with demons as far as the eye could see, and before the mass of demons stood three figures, their demonic aura soaring to the heavens.
One was Peng Demon King, holding a Sky-Painting Halberd. One was Shi Tuo King, with a lion's head and a human body, clad in armor and carrying a great chopping saber. And there was Macaque King, a staff resting across his shoulder.
"Sun Wukong!"
Shi Tuo King shouted, "Of the Seventy-Two Caves of Flower Fruit Mountain, seventy-one have long since submitted to us. Only the monkeys of your Water Curtain Cave fail to understand the times. Today, I ask you one thing..."
"No need to say it."
Sun Wukong waved a hand. "I agree."
"Mm?"
The moment Sun Wukong said this, not only did Shi Tuo King, who had been calling out, freeze, even Macaque King and Peng Demon King looked at one another.
This was not how they had planned it.
From their two previous probes, they had learned that this Handsome Monkey King of Water Curtain Cave was also a hard bone to gnaw, not someone who would bow that easily, so they had already prepared their terms.
If Monkey did not agree, then they would make