28: Chapter 28 If it doesn't work, then fight!

Shifty eyes, lacking the confidence to look him in the eye—there's definitely something wrong.

Just as I thought.

"You actually dared to sneak a snack, and you even drugged me."

Kang Dalei grabbed Ruan Mi's hand and, as if seeing through everything, pulled a packet of laxatives from her bosom.

"Speak up. How should I punish you?"

"I guess I'll just have to accompany you one more time."

"Alright."

"Kang Dalei, what are you doing? Don't you dare try anything perverted."

"Didn't you say you'd accompany me one more time?" Kang Dalei asked, confused.

Ruan Mi rolled her eyes, giving him a 'what are you thinking' look, and said:

"Bullshit. I meant I'd eat with you to prove I didn't drug it."

"Tch." Kang Dalei instantly lost interest.

"Do you take me for a fool? Obviously, you'd eat the antidote first and trick me into eating the laxative so you could carry out your evil schemes."

With her intentions exposed in public, Ruan Mi looked awkward. She wondered when Kang Dalei had become so smart, but then she heard him add:

"Give some to the coachman first. After he eats it, then I'll eat."

Seeing that the coachman was fine, Kang Dalei swallowed the orange Ruan Mi was holding in one gulp, but less than two minutes later, he had to go.

"Ruan Mi, damn you, you treacherous villain."

Ruan Mi scolded him impatiently: "Kang Dalei, you bastard. Do you have any idea how many oranges you've eaten along the way? Don't you have any self-awareness?"

Just as Kang Dalei ran out of the carriage to find a spot to relieve himself, a middle-aged man's voice behind him made him shudder instantly.

"Hey handsome, busy doing your business?"

"Who are you?"

Kang Dalei turned his head and saw a balding, middle-aged pervert looking at him with a grin.

Upon seeing Kang Dalei's full face, the middle-aged man pulled out a portrait and said:

"Kang Dalei, cultivation at the Wulou Realm. This must be you, then."

"Who the hell are you? You pervert! You…"

Kang Dalei was so angry he laughed at this old bastard.

He had seen plenty of perverts in his life, but this balding old man really redefined his understanding—he was actually comparing him to the portrait.

The point was, if he was going to compare, what was with the 0.03-inch gap between his thumb and index finger?

"Old thing, speak clearly. What are you gesturing at?"

"Oh? Young Master Kang, you don't know what I'm gesturing at? Then why are you so angry? Angry enough to want to hit me, right?"

"Screw your grandfather," Kang Dalei cursed directly.

"Wait until I'm done, I'm going to beat the shit out of you."

"Young Master Kang is truly angry, but you won't have the chance to beat the shit out of me."

The balding, bald-headed man walked toward Kang Dalei step by step, raised his massive, muscular fist, and smashed it fiercely toward his head.

"Young Master Kang, goodnight."

As the giant fist descended, a shriek rang out. Ruan Mi's figure appeared in front of Kang Dalei at some point, and she casually handed him a roll of paper and said:

"Hurry up and clean yourself up. We've been surrounded by the Heavenly Demon Sect."

"Oh? Isn't this our Heavenly Demon Sect's Da Mimi? What's this? Have you become Young Master Kang's dog? Looking at your flushed cheeks, you must have been getting intimate with this kid quite often."

The balding, bald-headed man, whose attack had been blocked, was not angry at all; instead, he teased Ruan Mi.

Ruan Mi recognized the man immediately.

"So it's Hall Master Murong. What's wrong? Is staying in the Heavenly Demon Sect not good enough that you have to come out and throw your life away?"

"You little girl, you've got a sharp tongue. But today, you alone cannot protect him."

The balding, bald-headed Murong You looked at Ruan Mi with an arrogant expression. With his peak Demon General cultivation, he looked down on the little girl in front of him.

He thought she was still just that tiny Tuotai Realm assassin from before.

But the very second he finished speaking, he paid the price for his contempt and arrogance with a severed arm.

"Since I can't hit that bastard right now, I should thank you all for giving this lady an outlet to vent."

Because of the slave contract, Ruan Mi hadn't been able to rashly attack Kang Dalei these past few days. Instead, she had to satisfy his unreasonable demands, which had frustrated her to no end.

She was just fretting about not finding an excuse to vent the humiliation Kang Dalei had brought upon her, and unexpectedly, the Heavenly Demon Sect showed up.

One punch. Just one punch, and this fierce warrior who had weathered many storms and galloped through the Heavenly Demon Sect for years, died just like that.

That's right, even Murong You hadn't reacted in time. He had clearly only taken one punch from Ruan Mi, so why did the surrounding bones instantly shatter into powder, leaving him without even the strength to stand up?

"How on earth did you do that?"

But the only response he got was a cold sentence from Ruan Mi.

"Useless. You were supposed to have a body comparable to a God Venerate, so why are you so fragile? I haven't even had my fill of fun yet."

After Murong You was taken out in one move by Ruan Mi, the rest of the Heavenly Demon Sect members were so terrified that they lost their wits, not even daring to run away, and naturally, the whole lot of them were wiped out.

I'm afraid even the person behind the scenes who wanted to test Kang Dalei would never have imagined that the Heavenly Demon Sect branch hall master he dispatched—the number one person under the God Venerate level—would be killed so easily.

And even less would they have imagined that the thirty-plus core members of the Heavenly Demon Sect brought along would all vanish into smoke in less than a quarter of an hour, turning into punching bags for Ruan Mi to vent on.

Actually, the most shocked person at this moment was the protagonist, Ruan Mi. She simply couldn't believe she had become this strong. Not only did she one-shot Murong You, but the other Heavenly Demon Sect disciples also collapsed and died after merely grazing her fist.

"Is this the power of a God Venerate?"

After her shock, Ruan Mi started to doubt it.

Because all of this was simply too absurd; she even thought she was dreaming, until she picked up Kang Dalei, who was scavenging for loot nearby, and realized she really was that powerful.

"Damn it, if you're doubting it, bite yourself! Why are you biting me?"

Kang Dalei pushed away Ruan Mi, who had been biting his lip, and cursed indignantly.

"And you're still straddling me! Ruan Mi, what are you trying to do? Let me tell you, I'm a decent man, and I will never submit to your lewd power."

"Kang Dalei, I've discovered that your skin is truly thick."

Wiping her lips, Ruan Mi glared at Kang Dalei.

If she were in a good mood, she would definitely beat this bastard up.

"By the way, how did the Heavenly Demon Sect know our route?"

Ruan Mi withdrew her gaze, looked at the corpses of the Heavenly Demon Sect members on the ground, and suddenly thought of something.

Kang Dalei was humming a tune lazily while scavenging for loot.

"It's very obvious. Our route was leaked."

The Dongning Prefecture Demon-Slaying Conference was never a competition between the two prefectures from the start; it was a mutual scheme between several forces.

Yuyang Palace of Dongning Prefecture is one, the Bai Family is one, the Yun Family is one, and the Meng Family is one. Aside from these four God Venerate Families, there is also the Heavenly Demon Sect.

Now the Leng Family, the Mo Family, the Xining Prefecture forces, and Yuanchu Mountain have been added to the mix.

It can be said that the chessboard of the East-West Joint Demon Slaying Competition already has as many as six God Venerate powers involved.

"But we clearly avoided the main roads and took small paths, and we even had Xiahou La and the others providing cover. How could they know our location so specifically?"

Ruan Mi still didn't quite believe it.

Although Xining Prefecture and Dongning Prefecture are only two hundred miles apart, there are dozens, if not more than ten, small and large mountain paths and dirt roads in between.

With so many routes, the fact that the Heavenly Demon Sect could accurately find them was clearly not simple.

"I'm telling you, why think so much? You're a God Venerate now, at least. If all else fails, just fight."

"That's easy for you to say. I've only just entered the God Venerate level. What if I run into a powerful, veteran God Venerate? Furthermore, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Demon Sect has unfathomable strength. I'm afraid…"