Shen Luo was rather speechless after listening to the Water Ape's somewhat incoherent account. What on earth was he going on about?
Just then, Wuman'er and Yuan Yuan flew over as well.
"Is the Water Python you mentioned a subordinate of the great demon who seized the Divine Tree for himself?" Yuan Yuan asked.
"That's him. Why?" the Water Ape asked, somewhat puzzled.
"He didn't kill you?" Yuan Yuan asked in bewilderment.
"My cultivation is profound. How could he kill me just because he wanted to? If he dares come again, I'll... I'll skin him alive." The Water Ape puffed out his chest, but his words grew noticeably less confident toward the end.
"Tell the truth," Shen Luo said coldly.
The Pure Yang Flying Sword hovering before the Water Ape's brow immediately edged closer, and the red lotus karmic fire on it began licking at his eyebrows.
"I... couldn't beat him, and he did nearly kill me. But for some reason, just as he was about to deal the killing blow, he seemed to receive an urgent summons. He left me there and ran off on his own," the Water Ape said sheepishly under the flying sword's oppressive might.
"An urgent summons... The one who could summon him was most likely that great demon. What do you know about him?" Shen Luo asked after a moment's thought.
"You mean that one?" The Water Ape shrank back at the question.
He still dared to swagger before the Water Python, but his fear of that great demon ran bone-deep.
"Enough nonsense. Tell me everything you know," Shen Luo said with a frown.
"That one is a fiend with an insatiable thirst for slaughter. When he first came to Cloud Dream Marsh, he killed every demon he encountered along the way, leaving not