Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 118 - 16 He Chases It, It Chases Him [New Book Seeking Monthly Tickets!]_1

Chapter 118: Chapter 16 He Chases It, It Chases Him [New Book Seeking Monthly Tickets!]_1

In the attic of the rear courtyard of Ten Thousand Beasts Hall, in the grand hall.

A beautiful woman in red is seated on a chair, her expression cold, her eyes glowing like torches. On her left stood a middle-aged man exuding dignity, and on her right was an old man with a long beard.

"Uncle, where did you go earlier?"

She examined him for a while before speaking, her tone was as if she was making small talk, but it also seemed like an interrogation.

The middle-aged man in a robe chuckled, "Hong Qiu, you must also know that our Ten Thousand Beasts Hall business is always booming. It’s inevitable for me to mosey around Taotie City for social purposes. You came so suddenly, I just received the news and rushed back."

A wind came through the hall, causing the candle flames to flicker.

"Oh, our beast hall business is booming?" The red-clad woman gave a light start, "why then does the harvest you’ve submitted become less and less over the years?"

"Hehe." The middle-aged man chuckled again, "You still don’t understand the matters of business, even if it’s run well, profits fluctuation is..."

"Ahem." The elder with the long beard on the side coughed lightly, interrupting the middle-aged man’s words. He spoke in a deep voice, "Xu Nanling, you should know who you are talking to. Miss is now traveling around with the Guild Master’s arrow order, say what you should say, and be more respectful about what you shouldn’t ..."

The middle-aged man seemed to show some respect for him. Upon hearing his words, he immediately nodded slightly, "Elder Cang Xing’s reminder is correct."

The three people in front of the hall were none other than Miss Xu Hongqiu of the Four Seas Whale Guild, Elder Cang Xing of the Northern Whale Guild, and Xu Nanling, the person in charge of the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall in Taotie City.

The election for the master of the guild is imminent. It’s customary to send envoys with the Guild Master’s arrow order to tour the Four Seas. The goal is to find if the Four Whale Guild has any misdeeds, which can provide some advantage in the upcoming re-election.

The current Guild Master Xu Baishan’s primary support comes from the Northern Whale Guild. He gave up being the Gang Leader of the Northern Whale Guild to run for Guild Master.

The several shops in Taotie City are important industries for the Northern Whale Guild, one of which is the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall. It has always been run by Xu Baishan’s cousin, Xu Nanling.

That’s why Xu Hongqiu came to this place.

When Elder Cang Xing finished admonishing Xu Nanling, Xu Hongqiu slowly spoke, "Uncle Nanling is ultimately my uncle. Whether he’s polite to me in private or not doesn’t matter. But in public, I hope Uncle can give a serious answer."

"Ah." Xu Nanling sighed frustratingly, "Profit fluctuates in business, that’s normal. In the past two years, more and more shops in Taotie City have been selling spirit beasts. We’ve had to lower our prices for competition, I’ve been working tirelessly..."

"I understand Uncle’s hard work, why not bring out the book of accounts for Ten Thousand Beasts Hall for me to see, then everything will be clear at a glance." Xu Hongqiu suddenly said.

Xu Nanling’s face changed, he raised his brow and said, "Do you suspect me?"

"This is the property of our guild. My investigation of the accounts while holding the guild master’s arrow is reasonable. Why are you saying this, Uncle?" Xu Hongqiu stared at him coldly without any hesitation.

"Every year at the end of the year, I send the accounts to the Guild Master for review, and there have never been any problems. You suddenly come here wanting to check the accounts, it’s obvious that you suspect me..." Xu Nanling revealed some signs of anger.

"Yes." Xu Hongqiu nodded indifferently.

The meaning was very clear...

I suspect you, so what?

Her frank admission without saving any face surprisingly halted Xu Nanling’s anger momentarily, leaving him stupefied, struggling to utter a word.

"Huh?"

...

A beast’s roar suddenly shook the long street!

There was already a Black Wind Leopard escape incident in the daytime that caused a stir. But the local cultivators didn’t mind, after all, such slip-ups would be unlikely at the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall.

But this time, a more terrifying surge of demonic aura overflowed from the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall, shocking the whole city in an instant.

Boom——

The demonic beasts detained at Ten Thousand Beasts Hall range from First Realm to Fifth Realm beasts, and occasionally even Sixth Realm beasts are brought here for sale. Counting all together, there are at least several hundred.

No one could have guessed that on this night, all the demonic beasts in Ten Thousand Beasts Hall would escape! It was as if it had been premeditated. With a nearly two-meter-tall hissing wind beast, covered in sharp scales, breaking through the main gate, countless shadows could be seen fleeing in all directions!

At this moment, Chu Liang was outside the gate of Ten Thousand Beasts Hall. He happened to witness a black figure dashing out, followed by the hissing wind beast breaking the wall and beasts escaping in all directions. He couldn’t help but think to himself.

Bad.

My Human-faced Mandrill!

He immediately released his Divine Sense to search, luckily one of the hundreds of fleeing shadows was a grayish-white figure which was almost the fastest and was found by him at a glance.

"Stop!"

Chu Liang shouted, then hurriedly chased after. He didn’t care about the other beasts, but you can’t leave... I paid the down payment for you!

The human-faced mandrill was notoriously difficult to catch, something Chu Liang had experienced firsthand. In complex terrains, even Fang Ting of the Golden Core Realm could not keep up. So, as soon as Chu Liang began to move, he initiated the flight mode of the Flying Leaf Sharp Knife.

Whoosh—

Back then, Chu Liang could only keep up with the human-faced mandrill by relying on the Spirit Cat Leaping Talisman. Now, standing on the green leaf, he was able to closely follow behind the mandrill.

From above, three shadows moving faster than the rest were obvious.

The first was a black figure that bolted forward the fastest. This person seemed to be connected to the chaos caused by Ten Thousand Beasts Hall, but Chu Liang wasn’t concerned with other people’s affairs.

The second was the gray and white human-faced mandrill, this ghost was truly cunning.

Unlike other demonic creatures that scampered aimlessly, it seemed to believe that the path taken by the black figure was the safest and followed closely behind it.

It seemed its judgment was correct. While other demon beasts were intercepted by the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall and the law enforcement team, only the mandrill, pursuing the man in black, managed to fly far away.

The third was Chu Liang’s green radiance. He fixed his gaze on the body of the human-faced mandrill, refusing to let go.

After a period of focused training, he had undoubtedly improved. Controlling the green leaf to fly at full speed, dashing and maneuvering within the city, although slightly strenuous, he never faltered.

On a "micro-operation" level of Divine Sense, he had advanced far ahead of his fellow cultivators at the same realm.

Even after flying for a while, he wanted to multitask, manipulating his Flying Sword to launch an attack on the human-faced mandrill!

As the sound of strong winds roared past his ears, he was not able to use the complex Talisman Sword Technique. Instead, he pointed two fingers forward, sending his sword flying towards the human-faced mandrill, like a shooting star.

Unfortunately, he kept missing his mark.

The three of them raced like the wind, he chased it, it chased the other.

Chu Liang’s focus was solely on the human-faced mandrill, he paid no attention to the black figure. Yet the black figure ignored the mandrill, and only took notice of Chu Liang.

The man in the lead, dressed in black, had no time to observe what was unfolding behind him. He could only rely on his Divine Sense to sense that someone was following him. He could not fathom why Chu Liang was exerting so much effort just to capture a human-faced mandrill and assumed he was being pursued.

So, when passing a crossroads, the man in black suddenly yelled to both sides: "Stop him!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

Several figures flashed out from the intersections, two of them raised their hands, releasing a large golden net. The third person manipulated the golden net into the air with his hands.

Whoosh—

With a flash of golden light, a large net suspended in the air, instantly separating the man in black and the "pursuers" behind him!

The human-faced mandrill let out a weird scream and quickly flipped in mid-air to avoid crashing into the golden net. But, it was too late to change direction.

Though there had always been some distance between the three of them, relative to their speed, the gap was insignificant. As the mandrill paused, Chu Liang’s green radiance instantly caught up with it.

"Go!"

To avoid another failed attack, Chu Liang unleashed all of his Magical Treasures in an instant.

Hundred Swords Technique!

The flying sword scattered into a sky full of sword light, covering everything overhead.

Demon Binding Rope!

A red light shot out like a snake.

Flying Leaf Sharp Knife!

A half-moon arc vanished in an instant.

The human-faced mandrill flipped around to see that there was no escape. It revealed its grimacing face to Chu Liang. Whether it remembered him from the encounter earlier that day or not, it lunged at Chu Liang.

But the next second, Chu Liang’s attack swept across the area like a heavy downpour. Chu Liang now was nothing like the version of him at Zhennan Region’s mountain. With the mandrill having no advantages aside from its speed, how could it possibly resist?

Hiss—

In a blink of an eye, this monstrous ghost was turned back into a wisp of ghostly aura by the Hundred Swords Technique and dissipated.

Finally...

Just as Chu Liang relaxed, a familiar terrifying scream sounded not far away.

"Aah—"