Chapter 50 (1/2)

“What? That’s impossible! That Vigilante A’s merely an awakened martial artist, how could he have seen through their disguises?” Hearing his wife’s words, the middle-aged man exclaimed in surprise, “They had the Elder Ancestor’s treasures on them; even the famous ‘Red-Eyed Celestial Gaze’ Hai Cheng couldn’t see through them, nor could Qiao Zishan, who cultivated Morality for 20 years! They even destroyed his Body of Morality with Dance of the Seraphs! How could a mere country bumpkin be so powerful?”

The middle-aged woman spat in fury, “Well Vigilante A is no country bumpkin, I can give you that! He must’ve awakened with the abilities of a famous hero from another dimension, which meant he already had a strong Morality Cultivation Base. That explains why he smiled like a predator cornering their prey, since he was able to sense their demonic aura.

“D*mn it, the two of us only had our minds set on funding the whole thing this whole time, so we didn’t collect information on him to properly. All we did was look at the Truth Department’s reports on him, which made us think that he was merely somebody from a quaint place that had martial arts abilities awakened in him after a few months. We even thought that the justice serving he does daily wouldn’t be enough to form such a strong Morality Cultivation Base.”

“He only summoned the Celestial Dragon Form in the face of imminent danger, so we completely forgot to remind our three daughters. With Qiao Zishan as a preceding example, they must have let the victory gone to their heads, which caused their defeat! D*mn it all!”

“Calm yourself, my dear wife. Let’s not start blaming ourselves, we’ve worked so hard to care for them; practicing Dance of the Seraphs alone already took a lot of effort. They just weren’t careful enough because they thought that all the men beneath the sky could be taken for granted. Their deaths aren’t worthy of being mourned! However, I’m afraid that this has messed up the Elder Ancestor’s plans.” The middle-aged man’s words were laced with fury, but he was still absolving himself and his wife.

Although this middle-aged coupled were furious beyond belief, their tones carried no hint of familial affection, but rather a frustration at their foiled plans.

“What did I say, Elder Brother? I’ve said before that those three women weren’t good business, so you can only blame yourself for not seeing their true identities. You even said the eldest sister wasn’t all that bad. And that’s not all; we chased them all the way here and gathered lots of information on them before we finally found them hiding out in this small ravine. What surprised me was that they while the two younger sisters died, the eldest and most cunning one had managed to escape, only to also be killed by Vigilante A. I thought you would be able to exact your revenge, too. Maybe I have underestimated that Vigilante A after all.”

The delicate voice of a teenage girl could suddenly came up behind the middle-aged couple. Both their faces dropped in shock at the same time.

They slowly turned their bodies towards the source of the sound. On the hillside by them, two people had suddenly appeared out of thin air. .

One of them was a teenage girl, who was leaning against the other, a middle-aged man that seemed to be in his mid-30s. The both of them were looking down at the middle-aged couple with charming smiles on their faces.

“The Pillar of the North! Qiao Zishan!” exclaimed the middle-aged man, his tone laced with fear.

“I couldn’t bring myself to believe you both to actually be demons. As if that weren’t enough, you’ve both eaten humans! When Zi Jiang told me and I refused to believe it, but now that we have it straight from the horse’s mouth, what do you have to say for yourselves?” The older man’s tone seemed to carry a hint of pain.

The middle-aged woman let out a coy laugh, “What are you talking about, Zi Shan? Why would uncle and auntie be demons 1 ? We were just joking around; eating humans or whatever, how ridiculous. Why would aunty do such scary things?”

Although the words left her mouth, her eyes were suddenly overcome with a shade of glowing red.

Qiao Zishan’s gaze froze before a huge gust of white wind rose up from his body. The white wind shot outwards rapidly, instantly blocking the red light.

The middle-aged woman immediately closed her eyes in pain, before two streams of crimson blood flowed down from her eyes.

Seeing the situation, the middle-aged man spoke up, his voice completely overpowered by fear and disbelief, “How is that possible? Your Body of Morality was destroyed by Shuang Er two years ago. How is it that your Morality is stronger than before now?”

Hearing the middle-aged man’s words made the teenage girl’s eyes flash with vengeance, but it disappeared as soon as it appeared.

“Hmph, you might not believe it, but my brother has a natural talent. He has long since gotten over that Seraph’s Brand your daughter left in his heart. That accident made his Body of Morality grew stronger! Now that those three behind the crime are dead, killing you two would be perfect!” spat the teenage girl.

Qiao Zishan shook his head and patted the girl on her shoulders, “Alright, Zi Jiang. They may be demons, there is no need for you to lie. What she said was a half-truth, I did get over the Seraph’s Brand in my heart, but it wasn’t because of my own effort nor, did I get over it ‘long ago’. But once that monster that left the brand was eradicated by someone else, it disappeared on its own. I must thank that person properly one day.”

“Elder Brother,” the teenage girl wrapped her hand around her brother’s arm and spoke, tone slightly displeased, “I’ve always said myself that these monsters are no good, but those old fellows always say that we can live in peace with them! They even think that the monsters would obey the laws so that we can live in harmony. They don’t know that these monsters only view us humans as food.”

Qiao Zishan shook his head once more, “The leadership has quite a good strategy, but which big tree in the woods are completely spared of a few worms? The strategy from the beginning was to embrace and to unite everything that can be united into a single power to meet the changing of times. Maybe they haven’t necessarily realized their true forms, or maybe they’ve already known the true nature of the demons but don’t want to do anything yet. What we didn’t think of was that they would hide too much from us, even start eating people in secret. Now that is going over the line! That crime is unforgivable!”

Right after he finished speaking, Qiao Zishan’s eyes glinted dangerously.

Hearing what Zishan said made the middle-aged man laugh aloud before he spoke, not a care in the world, “What a joke. So what if we’ve eaten a few humans, we were never a single race in the first place! You humans aren’t any better, killing our relatives as you please. Although they all had potential, they lacked the intelligence to make up for it. You must remember to protect the other weaker ones; you’re afraid they’ll go extinct, but you’re also helpless against them.

Qiao Zijiang was stunned after hearing the middle-aged man’s words. When she spoke up, her eyes narrowed, “Now I know now just demonic you both are…”

The middle-aged man smirked, “Try finding out for real.”