"Today, I'd planned to come see the beautiful bride you found for us. But I caught a whiff of those mutts and came in to take a look.💗😈 👤♦"
"Don't worry. You've handled things promptly, and we're quite satisfied with you."
Old Ape glanced at Shen Yi, then leaned close to Song Changfeng's face. "But your official rank is too low. You still have to be ordered around by these fools. It's no fun at all. Today, I'll get rid of him for you and help Brother Shen climb a little higher."
"I didn't kill the dog demon..." Song Changfeng's eyes bulged, nearly popping out of their sockets. He shrieked repeatedly, "I'll resign right now... Don't kill me... Shen Yi! I've never provoked you! Why are you doing this to me?"
At the sight of him, all three ape demons burst out laughing.
Their laughter was shrill and grating, stirring up Shen Yi's irritation. His voice turned cold. "Let him go."
Old Ape's expression changed drastically.
Though it called him Brother Shen, it was only mockery. In their eyes, Shen Yi was nothing more than an obedient lackey.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have gone out of their way to prepare this little show of force.
Since when did a lackey get to give orders here?
Old Ape bared its pale yellow fangs. Its anger subsided, and it looked at Shen Yi with interest. "What do I get if I let him go?"
It had never intended to actually release Song Changfeng, but it was curious to see what kind of grand performance this beast in human skin, Shen Yi, planned to put on today.☞💔 ☠🌷
At that, Shen Yi lowered his eyes to Old Ape. After a moment's thought, he relaxed his brow and offered what seemed like an irresistible deal.
"Let him go, and you can die more easily."
The room fell silent.
Killing intent gradually rose in Old Ape's eyes. "Interesting. What if I don't let him go?"
Shen Yi lifted his head and said earnestly, "I'll flay you until you're nothing but a skeleton."
Before the ape demons could react, Song Changfeng's eyes nearly split with terror. He almost ground his teeth to dust.
He understood now. Shen had never planned to let him walk out of here alive!
Flay him until he was nothing but a skeleton? Which one of them was going to flay whom?
The ape demons of East Mountain were nothing like the Yellow Weasels of the West Suburbs. The dog demons bred like rabbits, and their ranks were uneven. Even seven or eight constables could barely subdue one of the weaker ones.
But there were only ever five ape demons.
Aside from the great demon, who had lived for who knew how long and hadn't shown its face in ages, the other four brothers were each elite fighters. With just those few, they could fight the Yellow Weasels to a standstill.
And now, three of the four brothers had come!
Sure enough, after hearing Shen Yi's words, the scholar-robed ape's gaze turned utterly cold.
It didn't taunt him or roar to intimidate its enemy.
Old Ape simply tightened its grip. Its sharp claws pierced the flesh of Song Changfeng's forehead, squeezing his skull until it creaked, as if it would burst like an overripe watermelon the next moment.🎉💢 ♕🎅
It looked impassively at Shen Yi, hoping Song Changfeng's head would teach him how to speak.
Just then, a trace of confusion appeared in Old Ape's eyes. A moment later, confusion turned to fury!
Shen Yi wasn't even looking at its hand. Instead, he turned and walked toward the doorway, stopping in front of the two bewildered ape demons.
After sizing them up, he chose the one that had broken through the door and killed the man earlier.
Then Shen Yi raised his hand and slammed it viciously into the back of the ape demon's head before it could react.
With a surge of tremendous force, the ape demon crashed to the ground, its face buried in the shattered floor tiles.
The other ape demon finally came to its senses and let out a shrill cry. Even in such a desperate situation, it didn't lose its composure.
Its arms, much longer than an ordinary person's, swung in a perfect arc. Its black-furred hand curled into a fist, dropping like a thousand-jin weight as it aimed straight for the young man's spine!
This was no longer an instinctive attack, but an extremely practiced martial technique.
Its left arm was poised, ready to deliver a fatal follow-up blow after breaking its opponent's back.
"..."
Shen Yi was bent over, pressing down on one ape demon's head. Just as the other's fist was about to crash down, he casually raised his free hand to block it.
The black-furred fist could have easily smashed a spine, but the instant it struck Shen Yi's arm, he effortlessly knocked it aside, and its immense force crumpled away.
Then Shen Yi's long fingers clamped around its throat. With a little pressure, he snapped its neck.
From beginning to end, he never even looked back.
His calm gaze was fixed on the ape's head in his hand, now slowly deforming. Each time it struggled, he increased his grip by a little.
"Argh!!"
Old Ape's hand paused. It couldn't understand why every move of someone it knew so well was beyond anything it could comprehend.
But the death of one of its brothers was enough to shatter its composure.
It instinctively tried to use Song Changfeng in its grasp to order Shen Yi to stop. But before it could speak, it looked at Shen Yi's utterly impassive face and understood.
The one in its hands was its own brother. The one in Shen Yi's hands... had a damn thing to do with Shen Yi.
Enraged, it kicked Song Changfeng away, then leaped off the table. "Stop!"
A scream and a dull, explosive crack rang out at the same time.
Shen Yi withdrew his hand and flicked the sticky red-and-white gore from his fingertips.
He glanced sideways at the figure rushing through the air. His hand rested impassively on the hilt at his waist, ready to draw—then suddenly slowed.
In the scholar-robed ape's bloodshot eyes, black mist rose. The same mist seeped from its fur, forming a chain in the blink of an eye.
The black mist chain radiated a strange chill. It twisted like a swimming dragon and lashed toward Shen Yi!
"..."
Shen Yi furrowed his brow slightly, surprise welling in his eyes. This was the first time he had seen what people called a demon art.
The strange chill pierced to the bone, as if it could freeze a person solid. It also seemed to erode the mind.
He had thought that after reaching the peak of the Mortal Body, nothing below the Initial Realm could threaten him. He hadn't sensed anything transcendent about these three ape demons.
But now, at last, he felt a hint of trouble.
As his thoughts shifted, his draw changed. It was no longer as swift and nimble as before; this time, he drew much more slowly.
His blood and qi surged, their burning heat palpable even through his skin.
The blade slid inch by inch from its sheath. A faint red mist clung to its silver gleam, flowing and pulsing like blood.
Suddenly, the blade flashed through the air!
The scholar-robed ape's eyes widened. The young man was now only three feet away—close enough to tear his face apart with one swipe. Yet its sharp claws trembled, unable to reach him no matter how hard it tried.
Confused, it looked down.
Its scholar's robe had split cleanly, the cut perfectly smooth. From the waist down, its two thick, powerful legs dropped to the ground with a thud, though it was still leaping through the air.
"Clang."
Shen Yi returned his blade to its sheath and stepped over the two halves of the ape demon on the ground.
Chapter complete.
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