Mountain Girl was sick with worry, but everyone else looked utterly unconcerned. Anger rose in her. "I worked myself to the bone gathering this news, and this is how you act..."
Her lioness's roar silenced every Demon King present. One by one, they forced smiles. "Mountain Girl, you know we're a bunch of brutes. We can fight, but anything else is asking too much of us."
"Exactly! Just make the decisions. We're here to fight. Tell us who to cut down, and we'll cut them down!"
Mountain Girl was helpless. She had wanted to discuss serious business with them, but these rascals were so shameless that she could barely speak for anger.
"You fools have no idea how close you are to death! When the Heavenly Court sends a great army to sweep through the Wilds again, we'll see if you can still laugh!" Mountain Girl snapped.
That startled every Demon King. "Surely it won't come to that? Didn't you say that once you told the Immortal Sects, the Heavenly Court wouldn't send an army..."
Mountain Girl said angrily, "I'm not the emperor of the Heavenly Court. How could I command its troops? I only said that informing the Immortal Sects would make us less suspicious.
"But if the Heavenly Court really does send an army deep into the Wilds, do you think they won't sweep us away while they're at it?"
It was not merely possible. They would certainly sweep away these Demon Kings while they were at it.
To the Heavenly Court and the Immortal Sects, they were rubbish. Whenever enough rubbish piled up, it was time for a cleanup.
The time for another cleanup had not yet come, but that death-seeking Ying Tiecheng had barged into the Great Wild Marsh, a place dangerous beyond measure...
It would