"Why didn't you first say something touching, like you were willing to die for me and would have no regrets even if you died today?"
Fei looked at Old White Ape with some amusement and spoke softly.
Demon aura surged, and the rhinoceros horn in Old White Ape's hand fell to the ground. Old White Ape himself regained his ability to move.
"It is my honor to die for you."
"Nothing more needs to be said."
Old White Ape took a deep breath and spoke earnestly.
His voice was firm.
Watching Old White Ape, Fei chuckled without saying anything, and silence returned to the mountaintop.
Old White Ape remained kneeling throughout, his back ramrod straight even on his knees, completely disregarding his injuries.
Time ticked by.
Old White Ape's face grew increasingly pale.
Yet Fei kept his eye closed, as though asleep.
Not until noon, with the blazing sun high overhead.
Only when the rocks beneath Old White Ape had been completely stained red with his blood did Fei suddenly speak. "What do you think of Ji Hong's assessment of you just now?"
"Everything Deputy Mountain Lord Ji said was right!"
"I do have my schemes, but everything I do is simply to survive."
"Or rather, to find a king worthy of my allegiance!"
"Gu Diao was brutal, and Dragon Python had petty cleverness but lacked true wisdom."
"But you, Mountain Lord, possess great wisdom, yet willingly endured and lay low. With no more than a wave of your hand, you took control of the Thousand-Li Demon Plain and went with the tide to claim the Ten Thousand Demon Forest."
"Looking back now, every one of your arrangements leaves me in awe!"
"You are the wise lord I have always sought. A warrior dies for one who understands him. As