44: Go back today

“Revenge is not really the right word!” Wei Xun had no intention of making a move.

“Then why have you come?” The Carp Demon remained vigilant, his spear still firmly in his hand.

“Initially, I was looking for that Big Water Buffalo!” Wei Xun smiled calmly, “But after hearing what you said, I changed my mind.”

“Hmph!” But the Carp Demon snorted coldly, “None of you demons from Black Tiger Mountain are good people. Just tell me directly what you want to do!”

Seeing the Carp Demon’s hostility towards Black Tiger Mountain, Wei Xun frowned slightly, “Don’t get excited. I have no ill intentions. I’m just curious about what’s beneath this lake, so I came down to take a look.”

“Have you seen enough, then?!” The Carp Demon still maintained a rude attitude, urging, “Now hurry up and get out.”

“Actually, I haven’t been in Black Tiger Mountain for long!” Wei Xun wasn’t in a hurry to leave and continued to ask the Carp Demon, “I wonder why you, brother, are so hostile towards Black Tiger Mountain?”

“Heh heh!” The Carp Demon scoffed at Wei Xun’s question, “Why are you pretending to be innocent? So many water demons in our Bi Shui Lake have died these days; wasn’t it all done by you from Black Tiger Mountain?”

“Is that so?” Seeing the Carp Demon so angry, Wei Xun couldn’t help but recall that the Instructor from before had been active in this area for hunting, hadn’t he?

Could it be that they had already had conflicts with the water demons of Bi Shui Lake?

He had been in Black Tiger Mountain for a month now, and he had some understanding of Black Tiger Mountain during these days.

However, the demons in the mountain rarely came to this place, and he hadn’t heard that the demons in the mountain liked to eat river fish.

Moreover, if it was truly as the Carp Demon said and they were at odds with Black Tiger Mountain, Mountain Goat Great Horn or Fox Elder would have surely told him in advance, but clearly, they were unaware.

“Get out!” Seeing Wei Xun motionless, the Carp Demon raised his spear and was about to attack.

And at some point, several other demons surrounded them from other directions.

These demons truly looked like Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, all transformed from fish and shrimp in the lake.

After activating his Spirit Seeking Eyes, Wei Xun found that the Cultivation of these Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals had just entered the Body Tempering Realm, and most of them were only half-formed demons.

The most powerful among them should be the Carp Demon opposite him; Wei Xun estimated he should also have the strength of Body Forging Third Layer.

If they fought underwater, he would certainly be at a disadvantage.

So Wei Xun had to agree, “Alright! I’ll leave now, don’t get excited.”

After saying this, Wei Xun prepared to turn and leave.

But before preparing to leave, Wei Xun’s Spirit Seeking Eyes discovered that there were many stones at the bottom of the lake emitting golden Spiritual Qi light points.

This somewhat surprised Wei Xun, as it was the first time he had seen the existence of Spiritual Qi light points on a non-living entity.

However, facing the expulsion by the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, Wei Xun had no choice but to swim out of the water and onto the shore.

Seeing Wei Xun return, Xiong Er immediately stepped forward to ask, “Big Brother, did you see that Big Water Buffalo underwater?”

“No!” Wei Xun shook his head, then turned to ask the Goat Demon Horn, “Do you know anything about this Bi Shui Lake?”

“Bi Shui Lake?” Horn turned to look at the lake with a puzzled expression, “Does this lake have that name?”

“…” Seeing Horn’s reaction, Wei Xun knew it was pointless to ask; Horn truly didn’t know.

So Wei Xun turned to ask the other demons, “Has anyone here been to this area before?”

“Reporting, Instructor, I have!” At this moment, a demon that looked like a transformed Duck Demon spoke with a hoarse voice, “I came here with other Instructors for hunting before.”

“Then do you know the situation of this Bi Shui Lake?” Wei Xun asked again.

“I’m not very clear about that!” The Duck Demon shook his head, “We actually rarely come here. The Instructor who was killed by the Big Water Buffalo before also came here chasing that Big Water Buffalo.”

“That’s strange then!” Wei Xun scratched his chin, pondering slightly.

The Carp Demon’s attitude clearly showed hostility towards Black Tiger Mountain, but these demons from Black Tiger Mountain had never even heard of it.

And even old members of Black Tiger Mountain like Horn didn’t know the name of this lake.

Clearly, there was something wrong here!

“Forget it!” There’s no hope of finding the Big Water Buffalo. Let’s go back today and look elsewhere.” Wei Xun couldn’t figure it out, so he decided not to think about it anymore.

These demons of Bi Shui Lake were all native to the lake, and he would definitely be at a disadvantage in a water battle.

Moreover, none of the demons he brought with him were familiar with water, so there was no need to provoke trouble.

So Wei Xun said no more and led the remaining demons back, preparing to return to Black Tiger Mountain before dark.

But just as Wei Xun led the demons away, a dark shadow darted out from the grass behind them, and following the dark shadow was a human-like figure.

Although Wei Xun wanted to return to Black Tiger Mountain before dark, because they had gone too far, the sun had already set and they still hadn’t arrived.

At this time, Black Tiger Mountain was still more than twenty li away. If it were just Wei Xun traveling, he would have returned long ago.

The main reason was that the little demons following him lacked stamina and walked too slowly along the way, thus delaying their speed.

At this time, these little demons were all exhausted and collapsed on the ground, insisting on resting.

“Instructor!” Horn rubbed his knees with a troubled expression, “Let’s just not go back tonight. Anyway, we have to come out tomorrow, and going back and forth like this will really kill my old bones.”

Hearing Horn say this, the other little demons also chimed in.

“Yes, Instructor, anyway, it’s not far from our Black Tiger Mountain here. Tomorrow morning, we can just go back and pick up the four brothers who went back yesterday.”

“No need to go back early. I’ll go back tomorrow and bring those four brothers who went back! Let’s rest here tonight.”

Seeing that these little demons were indeed too tired to move, Wei Xun couldn’t say anything more.

In fact, whether they went back or not didn’t really matter. Anyway, returning to the mountain meant staying in that broken cave, which was pretty much the same as sleeping outdoors.

So Wei Xun didn’t say much and casually found a large tree to climb up, then sat comfortably at the junction of the branches and began to Cultivate.

And before climbing the tree, Wei Xun also arranged the night watch.

A night was about four or five hours, with two demons on watch every hour, then rotating.

Although it wasn’t far from Black Tiger Mountain, it wasn’t close either. If there was no one on watch in the middle of the night, it would be quite troublesome if they encountered danger.

After Cultivating for nearly two hours, Wei Xun finally exhaled a mouthful of turbid Qi.

At this time, he opened his eyes and looked down at the tree; the little demons were all sound asleep, lying scattered haphazardly nearby.

Not far away, Xiong Er and Horn were currently on watch. Xiong Er looked quite energetic holding an axe.

But Horn, the old Mountain Goat Great Horn, kept nodding off, his head just lifting up only to fall back down from sleepiness, repeating the motion which was difficult to watch.

Wei Xun yawned and prepared to get some good sleep, but before sleeping, he specifically activated his Shunfeng Miaoe to listen to the nearby movements, but found nothing unusual, so he put his hands behind his head, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

The first half of the night was calm, and the demons on watch were vigilant about their surroundings, not letting their guard down.

In the third watch of the latter half of the night, when it was the Red-Eyed Rabbit Demon and the Duck Demon’s turn to stand guard, both of them fell asleep together.

Especially that Rabbit Demon, who even leaned against a big tree and slept more soundly than Xiong Er and the others.