"This morning, two massive yellow weasels came to the village, each bigger than a dog, grabbing people as soon as they entered.
After grabbing people, they didn't leave; they just started eating in the village. They kept grabbing and eating until they were full and then departed leisurely. The entire village was scared stiff..."
Tian Qi spoke with a look of fear on his face.
"These demon fiends deserve to die..." Hu Qing gritted his teeth. "Don't worry, Chief Wei will definitely make these fiends pay a heavy price."
Tian Qi looked grateful, "Thank you, sirs. When Li Shen was the arrest officer, even when demon fiends came to the village eating people, he ignored it, saying they couldn't handle demons. He's just worthless."
Hu Qing said, "Li Shen colluded with demon fiends. Don't compare that scoundrel with our Lord Wei."
"Yes, yes, I misspoke. Lord Wei is young and promising. Li Shen is not fit to be compared to Lord Wei!" Tian Qi said with a conciliatory smile.
A quarter-hour later, Sanlitun appeared in view.
This village had dozens of households, similar in size to Five Miles Village.
"Lords, please follow me into the village. The villagers have prepared food and wine for you. Eat a little before investigating the demon fiends."
Under Tian Qi's guidance, they quickly reached the entrance of Sanlitun.
"You all are quite considerate!"
"After traveling for a while, I am indeed hungry, so let's eat first."
Upon hearing that food was available, both Hu Qing and Liu Chengzhou showed interest.
"No need for that, call out your companions now!"
A sound of a blade rang out as Wei Fan's sword was already at Tian Qi's neck.
Hu Qing and Liu Chengzhou were taken aback, hurriedly placing their hands on their sword hilts, still not quite understanding why Wei Fan drew his sword. Was there something wrong with this Tian Qi?
Tian Qi showed a frightened expression, "Lord Wei, please don't joke. I'm timid and can't stand such scares."
Wei Fan remained expressionless, "If you don't call, you won't have another chance to speak!"
With a light press of his sword, a wisp of sword qi was emitted, immediately lacerating Tian Qi's skin, and the oozing blood smelled like dead rat decay.
"Demon fiend?"
Hu Qing and Liu Chengzhou's faces changed drastically, swiftly drawing their swords and tensing their bodies.
This Tian Qi turned out to be a demon fiend.
Had Wei Fan not discovered it, they might have eaten the meal prepared by the demon and would be dead without knowing how.
Seeing his disguise exposed, Tian Qi dropped the pretense, asking with a sinister look, "I thought I performed excellently with no issues. How did you see through it?"
He didn't have the typical demon stench on him, nor did he exhibit any problematic behaviors throughout the journey. By rights, he shouldn't have been exposed.
Moreover, he didn't just randomly transform into someone. This Tian Qi was a real person from Sanlitun, who was eaten by him that morning, and he absorbed that person's memories.
Could it be that inviting them to eat the food and wine gave it away?
"Your act was indeed flawless, but from the first moment I saw you, you appeared to me as a weasel walking on all fours."
No matter how perfectly a demon fiend acts in front of Wei Fan, it's pointless because as soon as a fiend appears before him, a prompt appears on his panel.
He didn't speak throughout the journey, only revealing Tian Qi's identity upon entering the village.
These demon fiends are truly hard to handle; without the panel's reminder, he wouldn't have thought this was a weasel turned human.
"Squeak..."
At this point, Tian Qi let out a sharp cry, and soon, three or four stinking demon fiends appeared, carrying a massive sedan, on which sat a weasel with a lower body draped in a robe, looking like a small water buffalo.
"Be careful, it might be Huang Daxian himself!"
Seeing this display, Hu Qing's face turned pale. One of the strongest demon fiends in Yun City, he's been dominating even longer than the Tiger King.
[Huang Daxian: Second Grade of the True Realm demon fiend, commanding hundreds of fiends, eats humans and drinks blood]
[Killing him can grant 100 years of power!]
"He's Huang Daxian!"
Hu Qing was still speculating, but on Wei Fan's panel, Huang Daxian's name was directly marked out.
Commanding hundreds of fiends, it's no wonder even the Yun City Government Office fears these demon fiends.
And this is just under Huang Daxian; there are still more formidable ones like Hu Meiniang and the Bear Demon. Though their numbers might not match Huang Daxian's, they wouldn't be much weaker.
"It seems we're going to become demon fiends' fodder today!"
Upon hearing it's Huang Daxian, Hu Qing and Liu Chengzhou's faces turned even whiter.
"Ancestor, he saw through me!"
Huang Daxian appeared, and "Tian Qi" explained.
Huang Daxian lazily sat on the sedan, propping his chin with one claw, slightly squinting his eyes as he said, "To see through your disguise, he does have some skills, but it doesn't matter. As long as he's here, he's dead."
His demeanor surprisingly exhibited some elegance.
Wei Fan remained expressionless, "Are you here to avenge the Tiger King's family?"
Upon hearing this, Huang Daxian showed a disdainful expression, shaking his head, "The waste deserved to be killed; he's not worth lamenting over. Though he deserved it, he was part of the demon race, and our dignity cannot be challenged. If I don't kill you, what if everyone imitates you and kills my demon tribe descendants?"
This is to set an example by making Wei Fan into a deterrent. Wei Fan calmly said, "You indeed speak with some grit.
However, as far as I know, the Demon Suppression Bureau has killed more and more ruthlessly; why haven't you gone after them?"
On the sedan, Huang Daxian's demeanor couldn't hold anymore. He angrily said, "I dare not go to the Demon Suppression Bureau, but killing you is within my power. Besides, just because I haven't gone doesn't mean no one from the demon race has gone to trouble the Bureau."
Standing up, he released a suppressive aura, looking down at Wei Fan, "Release him, and I'll leave you a complete corpse, only killing but not eating you."
Splat!
The blade flashed, and Tian Qi's head rolled off his neck like a ball, quickly turning into a weasel the size of a puppy.
Wei Fan directly responded to Huang Daxian's words with his actions, "Now, you don't have to leave me a whole corpse, because I won't leave one for you either. After killing you, I'll gut you, fetch your demon pouch, and stir-fry it as a drink side dish to make it fairer."
"You're courting death!"
Seeing his offspring beheaded by Wei Fan, Huang Daxian was initially stunned, then furious, "Overestimating your abilities, thinking you're invincible just because you killed that waste, the Tiger King?"
He stepped off the sedan, swirling up rolling demon qi, and soon his body, like a calf, was suspended in mid-air.
In an instant, strong winds kicked up around, with sand and rocks flying.
In terms of momentum, indeed, the Tiger King was far from matching Huang Daxian.
"You two, step back!"
Wei Fan's True Qi erupted, sending Hu Qing and Liu Chengzhou flying backward, as they couldn't help in the battle.
In such a high-level fight, staying too close would mean getting killed by the aftershock, just like Lu Tianming and his son.
In mid-air, Huang Daxian opened his mouth and spewed a large cloud of foul-smelling black smoke that surged towards Wei Fan, enveloping his body instantly.
This black smoke was terrifying, as the moment it touched the ground, it behaved like it had encountered a strong acid, with the ground quickly dissolving, and stones and soil rapidly disintegrating.
"Wei Fan!"
"Lord Wei!"
Hurled away, Hu Qing and Liu Chengzhou screamed in horror.
"Is this all you can do? Not much better than the Tiger King!"
Wei Fan's voice came from within the black smoke, and then a huge sword gang pierced through it, striking Huang Daxian.