Chapter 569 – Demonfolk (1/2)

Xiao An’s voice rang out in Li Qingshan’s head. Li Qingshan continued forwards like nothing had happened at all. “Then are you supposed to show some kindheartedness?”

“Tricks and guises won’t be able to fool him. This is fine, but I can find some opportunities to use some buddhist techniques and dismiss his worries.”

“Alright!”

Li Qingshan nodded. So far, Xiao An had yet to fight. Since she wanted to demonstrate some techniques, it obviously had to be on opponents that were powerful enough, so they had to continue onwards!

Along the way, basically everyone they came across was male, who rushed over crazily as soon as they saw Xiao An. They basically came across no females. According to Duoge, females were too weak, so most of them had already been eaten. As for him, his father was already doting on him very much by only eating him now.

Li Qingshan was unable to comment on this form of doting. They turned around another corner, and an indigo man lunged over with a swift gust of wind. The power and speed behind this lunge was so startling that it had already reached the level of Steel Plate corpses, and his target was Duoge leading the way at the front.

Duoge cried out. Li Qingshan twisted his right arm and created a vortex-like sucking, drawing Duoge over. Afterwards, he pushed out conveniently, and the vortex turned into a water tornado with a whistle, piercing the man and tearing him to pieces. Flesh and bone scattered everywhere.

It had been quite a few years since Li Qingshan began fighting and killing. He had claimed countless lives with his hands.

However, rarely had it been more hardcore than the time he had spent in the Demon Suppression hall. His strength was far too great now. A casual strike of his could tear bodies apart, sending organs flying everywhere. It was an extremely bloody sight to behold.

However, the thin, dark-skinned Duoge, only seven or eight years old in appearance, would cheer every single time with a face filled with excitement.

Li Qingshan forbade him from taking corpses with him, so he scooped up the flesh messily and shoved it into his mouth, eating away happily like he was snacking.

There was nothing Li Qingshan could do either. He could not be bothered with stopping him.

The child was born with a demonic nature. He had absolutely no concept of good and bad, right and wrong. Or perhaps, all the people here were like that, bearing no resemblance to those who grew up in human society.

However, if they were savages that grew up in the wilderness, they should not have been capable of such clear thought and language. And even wild beasts were not so savage.

He really had no idea where the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga had found these people. He did not mind judging people in the most pessimistic manner possible, but the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga was still an orthodox buddhist sect after all. Surely they would not go as far as to capture these people and then turn them into something like this!

Duoge raised his head and looked at Li Qingshan in veneration. “Venerable, are you a Demon General? You’re so powerful even without demonifying!”

Li Qingshan said, “I’m a human. What’s demonifying?”

“You’re a human!” Duoge took a step back in fright. He had always thought Li Qingshan was no different from him.

“What’s so scary about humans?” Li Qingshan was stumped. This child was not even afraid when he saw Li Qingshan massacre his clansmen, yet he actually became afraid when he heard he was a human.

“This…”

“Tell me!”

“I heard… I heard that humans are extremely lowly and kindhearted. They like to do foolish things like helping others selflessly, and they feel no shame in that, taking pride in it instead. They constantly attack us under that belief. They want us to become as foolish and lowly as them.” Duoge faltered.

Why was kindheartedness grouped with loneliness, turning it into a word of negative connotation?

Li Qingshan rubbed his head. He found it rather painful to understand. This was no longer merely evil, but a complete reversion of right and wrong, as if under their ideology, anyone who did good and made personal sacrifices would be extremely disgraceful and foolish.

He vaguely understood the meaning behind the Demon Suppression hall now. If these people were not suppressed here, every single one of them would be beings of great wickedness outside.

“Didn’t I just save you earlier? Isn’t that taking pleasure in helping others? Doing what’s righteous?”

“No, no, no, definitely not. I can help you lead the way, and I can help you fight. If you’re hungry, you can even eat me. This is all within your calculations. This is definitely not taking pleasure in helping others. You’re very clever and very powerful, a demon among humans of great wickedness and evil!”

Duoge paled in fright as he trembled in fear, justifying himself in a hurry. In the end, he even extended his thumb and gave Li Qingshan the honourable title of a “demon among humans.”

The feeling was like someone asking you, “You think I’m a bitch, an idiot, and a piece of trash?” It was very difficult to not take that as an infuriating threat.

The corner of Li Qingshan’s lips twitched, and he forced out a happy expression. He sucked in a deep breath and raised his head, yelling at the ceiling.

“Release me! I’m completely unqualified to be in this Demon Suppression hall!”

Compared to this child, he felt like he could be considered as a peerless well-doer—oh wait, that was a curse here.

The Unraging monk laughed aloud, while the Dauntless monk shook his head. “These demonfolk are as dense as always. They don’t know they should repent and mend their ways. Even this little demonfolk is filled with wickedness.”