On the treetops a thousand feet away, two figures flickered in and out of sight: one human, the other with a tiger's head and a human body.
The tiger-headed figure trembled with anguish. "Just to wipe out the remnants of your human race, nearly every sentient being in our White Poplar Forest has been lost! You want to be ruthless, yet avoid criticism, so you made our White Poplar Demon Race your scapegoat?
"You clearly had countless ways to deal with them. Why drag them all the way here? Why were there two cultivators among them!"
The human remained unmoved. "This was no unnecessary measure! Every being that betrayed the Shan Kingdom must die!
"How stupid would we have to be to let them escape to another country and carry on with their carefree lives? Then, once they were well fed and warmly clothed, they could look back on who had brought them to this point? And then produce a few more little bastards who would make destroying the Shan Kingdom and Quanzhen their lifelong goal?
"White Poplar Forest was the best place to bury their bones. No one would know, and no one would care... yes, I admit there was a slight mishap. Those two minor cultivators were very persistent, and they could fight. I thought they would turn around and leave when they saw things going wrong.
"Two fools... give the signal. Too many living creatures have died. Even I find it a little hard to bear. It's time this ended!"
The tiger-headed figure flew into a rage. "Since so many have already died, we might as well kill them all! Why leave those two alive? They must pay the price! I'll say it right here and now: even if Li Chuping himself came, my answer would be