A Thorough Beating

Upon hearing that the Demon Race had come to visit, everyone in the Azure Cloud Sect became uneasy.

Azure Cloud Master, in particular, was incredibly nervous!

He looked at Zhang Yang with a complicated expression and asked, "The Demon Race isn't here to cause trouble, is it?"

Zhang Yang was actually a little guilty, because Hu Dali had gone too far this time, but they really couldn't bear to return those benefits.

"Master, let me see them first," Zhang Yang replied.

Then, they invited the Demon Race to come up the mountain.

On the Azure Cloud Sect's side, Zhang Yang was receiving several Demon Race, while secretly remaining on high alert.

The representatives sent by the Demon Race this time were none other than Hu Qiang and Xiong Ba, whom they had met before.

The two powerful demons stared at Zhang Yang with icy gazes as soon as they met, without uttering a single word.

Zhang Yang asked with a puzzled look, "What brings you two seniors from so far away?"

As per our previous agreement, the pills and Law Treasure we've been refining for you haven't been completed yet; it will probably take some more time."

He decided to play dumb; at this point, he had no choice but to pretend.

"Where's Hu Dali?" Hu Qiang asked coldly.

"Huh? Oh!" Zhang Yang seemed to have just come to his senses and hurriedly said, "My brother Hu Dali is currently at the Alchemy Peak, where our Third Uncle-Master refines pills."

As soon as my Third Uncle-Master finished refining the pills, I gave them to him immediately."

Hu Qiang said calmly, "Bring him here!"

In fact, there was no need to call out; Ling Yunzi had already arrived at the Azure Cloud Great Hall carrying Hu Dali.

Hu Dali was completely confused; why had he suddenly been brought to the Azure Cloud Great Hall?

Upon seeing his elders, his eyes lit up, and he happily exclaimed, "Dad, Uncle Xiong, what brings you here?"

"Heh!" Hu Qiang sneered.

His figure flashed over, grabbed Hu Dali, and flew away.

Then came a series of crackling explosions, mixed with Hu Dali's screams of agony.

After a long while, Hu Dali, who had been forced to reveal his true form, collapsed to the ground and was thrown back to the entrance of the Azure Cloud Great Hall.

Then, Hu Qiang walked back into the Azure Cloud Great Hall and said coldly, "When my son left home last time, he took some very important things with him. These things are very important to our Demon Race... My son was originally an honest and law-abiding person, I don't know why he did such a thing..."

He practically pointed his finger at Zhang Yang and accused him of being instigated by the Azure Cloud Sect.

Zhang Yang was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Senior, is that so? Should we hurry to Hu Dali's place and search for them? We can't let any valuables be lost!"

Seeing Zhang Yang's sincere expression, Hu Qiang began to doubt himself.

Could it be that Hu Dali really did this himself?

Or perhaps it was someone else from the Azure Cloud Sect who instigated it?

He absolutely refused to believe that those things were still at Hu Dali's place, because Hu Dali would never have brought them out for no reason.

"We acknowledge that Hu Dali made great progress during his time at the Azure Cloud Sect, and we know that your Azure Cloud Sect has not mistreated him," Hu Qiang said slowly. "However, those things are very important to our Demon Race ... If those things are still available, we want to exchange them for them. Rest assured, we will definitely offer other treasures in exchange for those things."

Those two powerful demons were truly frustrated!

These are clearly our own things, but now we have to exchange them for something else...

Alas, who knew there would be a thief within our own ranks?

Zhang Yang said with a serious expression, "What are you saying, seniors? These things originally belonged to your Demon Race. As long as they are still in my Azure Cloud Sect, of course you can take them all back."

Although our Azure Cloud Sect is poor, we will not covet your things without good reason.

I just don't know what it is...

Zhang Yang acted so decisively that even Hu Qiang began to doubt himself.

Azure Cloud Sect really that easy to talk to?

Hu Qiang's anger subsided, and a glimmer of hope returned. He used his Law Power to conjure an image of a jar of golden blood and asked, "Have you ever seen this before?"

"Huh?" Zhang Yang jumped up, his face filled with astonishment. "It's actually this?"

"What's wrong?" Hu Qiang asked hurriedly.

Zhang Yang shook his head with a wry smile and said, "If it were other things, it would be fine, but this thing... When Hu Dali was in the Azure Cloud Sect, my master and uncles treated Hu Dali very well."

My master, even when Tribulation Realm, personally expounded the Dao to him.

Whatever pills my Third Uncle-Master refines, no matter how few or how precious, I will give him one.

Therefore, Hu Dali said he wanted to bring a gift for his master and several senior uncles.

This jar of blood was the gift he gave to his Third Uncle-Master.

We also inquired with Hu Dali, who is said to have the blood of one of your ancestors.

We figured that since it was the blood of our ancestors, it shouldn't be that precious, so we used it to refine elixirs.

"I gave Hu Dali a few of the pills I refined, so they should all be gone now, right?"

Are you kidding me? How could I possibly return these things?

Hu Qiang's body trembled involuntarily, a surge of anger welling up in his chest, wanting to vent but unable to.

What else could he say?

The gifts his son gave him, the elixirs he concocted, he even fed to his son... Did he go and kill his son?

"What about the rest?" Hu Qiang took a deep breath and asked, "We can't eat everything else, can we?"

He conjured a stone, the very one that Azure Cloud Master had merged into his Dao Domain, and said, "You can't possibly eat this Dao Origin Stone, can you?"

Even if he were incredibly stupid, he would sense that something was wrong.

So this thing Dao Origin Stone?

Zhang Yang muttered to himself for a moment, then shook his head. "This stone was a gift from Hu Dali to my master. My master thought it was very Dao Integration Realm Domain, so he integrated it into the Dao Domain... Senior, is this Dao Origin Stone very precious? Does it have any unique uses?"

Hu Qiang stared coldly at Zhang Yang, offering no answer, and instead asked directly, "Then what about this Demon Bone?"

He then conjured up the image of Root Bone.

"This is a gift from Hu Dali to Uncle Ling Yun. Uncle Ling Yun is a sword cultivator, and this Demon Bone has already been integrated into his Flying Sword!" Zhang Yang looked at Hu Qiang with a helpless expression. "Senior, we really didn't know how precious these things were, nor did we know that the gift from Hu Dali was actually..."

He figured that no matter what, these Demon Race couldn't possibly kill Hu Dali, could they?

The two great demons stared at Zhang Yang, remaining silent for a long time.

They really didn't know what to say.

To cause a major disturbance at the Azure Cloud Sect would not be in their current interest, and they also felt that they were being unreasonable.

Regardless, it was their own people who stole it...

The two great demons remained silent for a long time before Hu Qiang said woodenly, "I don't care what the truth of these things is, but our Demon Race cannot suffer losses like this."

I also don't believe that you really don't understand the value of these things.

"Since that's the case, you need to make amends to our Demon Race!"

"Sigh!" Zhang Yang sighed and said with a wry smile, "Senior, although this is a misunderstanding, I admit we took advantage of you. Why don't you tell me how we can make it up to you?"