Chapter 226 - Even Sages Are Idiots, Sometimes (1/2)

“Uh… what just… why do I feel so woozy…”

Violent Demon opened his heavy eyelids but his vision was still foggy. He reached to scratch his head but oddly enough, he couldn’t. Looking down, [Dammit! I’m hogtied.]

Turning to his sides, his bros were in the same boat, all strapped around a three meter thick tree. He wailed, “Oy, wake up you fools, we’re strapped here!”

The three were roused and slowly getting their wits about them, what little they ever had. When they saw they were in a very tight pinch, and their cultivation sealed, they started wailing, “Oh bloody hell, who’s the bastard that dares tie us four demons, your grandpas? Release us right now, or I’ll give you a fate worse than death…”

“Ha-ha-ha, these little shits sure are bonkers. Look at them, like lambs to the slaughter yet still so feisty!”

A chuckle announced Zhuo Fan and Li Jingtian’s casual entrance in their field of view, one filled with derision. In response, the four rained curses.

Li Jingtian’s face was dark and was ready to hit them, “You damn mongrels, one more peep out of you and I’ll have your heads!”

The barking halted on the spot, but their beady eyes still glared at the duo.

Zhuo Fan and Li Jingtian only laughed.

These four were blokes, but at least knew to read the mood. They balked under the tiniest threat, making it much easier for what Zhuo Fan had in mind next.

“Cough~, I will now ask you some questions. Be honest, or I’ll make sure you are 6 feet under!” Zhuo Fan coughed dryly.

The four just shook their heads and puffed out their chests, quite brave, or maybe moronic? [Ask away, but I won’t answer one!]

Zhuo Fan brushed past their rash reaction and asked, “I heard you were sealed in Thunder Swarm Mountain. How come you’re out? Who released you?”

“Don’t know!” Violent Demon shouted.

Zhuo Fan snorted, “Nerves of steel I see! Elder Li, waste him!”

“Wait, I really don’t know!” Violent Demon’s courage was deflated on the spot as he pleaded, “I beg you, let us go. We’ve only been out for a few months and hardly played enough. We don’t want to die!”

“Screw you, if you cherish your life so much, what are you doing posing as heroes?” Zhuo Fan glared. [These little shits are only good at putting up an act.] But they didn’t know when to stop and almost fooled even him in thinking they were tough as nails.

Violent Demon heard Zhuo Fan’s demand and nodded, all while his brothers were snickering. But a glare from the eldest brother had them fall in line.

Zhuo Fan rolled his eyes, [I’ve never seen such top notch weirdos in either of my lives.]

But the doubts he had were far from cleared, “You’re saying someone let you out and yet you don’t know? You expect me to buy such an obvious lie?”

“Our lives are in your hands. We’d never dare do anything of the sort. We really don’t know!” Violent Demon was bitter as he tried to painstakingly remember, “Eight months ago, we were still trapped in the Thunder Swarm Mountain, struck by thousands of lightning daily. Then, a sudden crack opened in the barrier. But when we got out, there was no one there. So we went about doing the usual, killing, burning, pillaging, ruining some cities and clans, you know, the works… “

“Hold up, why on earth did you start doing that anyway?” Zhuo Fan blinked.

The four looked at each other and sneered, with Violent Demon growing cocky in his creepy laughter, “I can tell with one look you’re a bookworm and narrow minded. We are demonic heroes. What demonic cultivator out there doesn’t pillage? The more we kill, the evilier we are, the further we walk on the demonic path. And our demonic heroes’ life will thus find its glorious meaning!”

“Four lunatics is more like it!” Li Jingtian mocked.

Zhuo Fan scratched his nose, getting pissed as well.

[You’re the narrow minded ones! I have studied the demonic path my entire life, even becoming the Demonic Emperor. And then here you are telling me I’m the shallow one when it comes to it?]

[At the end of it all, the so-called demonic path comes down to one word only, selfishness! Any and all demonic cultivators are cool headed, working only to further their benefits by any means necessary. In fact, pillaging is against our path. For us, this is only a means to an end, not our purpose.]

But these four blokes turned the method into a purpose. They couldn’t be more wrong. If the demon path goal was this, then the entire world would’ve long turned on them and wiped them out.

[Just why the hell did the Demon Scheming Sect even take them in?]

Zhuo Fan held his head, not bothered to waste anymore time with these blokes. But his heart was in doubt, [Just who released them? And why?]

He thought for a while but found no answer. Zhuo Fan continued, “Why did you attack us then? Who told you to?”

“Uh, dumb luck!” Violent Demon mumbled.

Zhuo Fan shook his head, “Elder Li, waste him!”