The Steward Demonic Emperor

g mad, “Explain it to me clearly and I’ll forgo your previous transgression.
Or else…”

 

His fingers moved, threatening them with more torture and they panicked, “Steward Zhuo, don’t worry, we know when to be serious.
We won’t ever dare fool you again!

 

Zhuo Fan nodded satisfied.

 

The four looked at each other and Violent Demon was the first to start, “As far as we know, Invincible Scamp Gu Santong’s life is an odd one.
Simply unheard of!”

 

“What do you mean?” Zhuo Fan frowned.

 

Violent Demon shook his head and said, “It’s so damn baffling that even we don’t know the full extent of this oddity!”

 

Zhuo Fan almost fell and his eyes started spewing flames of rage as he cursed, “Cut the crap! Carry on to egg me, and I’ll give you a world of pain!”

 

Zhuo Fan was about to do just that when Sly Demon jumped in, “Wait, Steward Zhuo, eldest bro is serious.
Gu Santong is truly baffling that even we know little of him.
He just sprung up out of nowhere.
With the imperial family, the empire’s three guardian sects, and the seven houses’ power, not even an ant could’ve caused such havoc, least of all a man.
But isn’t it bizarre how Gu Santong just popped up from thin air?”

 

Zhuo Fan’s hand stopped in mid sign.

 

The four demons had some screws loose, most of the time, but Sly Demon was speaking some reason.
It was baffling how an unknown powerful devil just showed up like that.

 

[From the Sacred Domain perhaps?]

 

Zhuo Fan spoke, “Go on!”

 

Violent Demon continued, “The kid always had this appearance, that of an eight year old boy.
But he was only in the 5th layer of Profound Heaven Stage at the time.
But after three hundred years, he is still as young, yet his cultivation increased to the 2nd layer of Radiant Stage, quite slow I might add.
What never changed all this time is him holding the title of Tianyu’s strongest.
Before, he was the strongest beneath the Radiant Stage and now he is the strongest in the Radiant Stage!”

 

“Oh, that baffling?” Raising an eyebrow, Zhuo Fan ‘s heart was filled with suspicions.

 

If this kid was an old monster, did he perhaps use cultivation to keep such appearances? That may also explain why his cultivation went so slow.

 

But who was dumb enough to keep himself as young as a child? They’d usually stop around 16.
This way they could partake in some of the more pleasant aspects of life, he-he-he…

 

This seemed to have made Zhuo Fan recall a veil-covered face and the demure figure.
But Zhuo Fan shook his head at that thought.

 

He was aiming to become an overlord on the demonic path, how could he ever let himself get bogged down by kinship?

 

[Perhaps the kid’s thinking the same thing.]

 

So far, Zhuo Fan could understand him, “Continue!”

 

“He is really queer.
He doesn’t like anything, except eating ingredients.
If it was anyone else, he’d be already blown to bits by the potent ingredients.
But he is unscathed! Steward Zhuo, I’m sure you can imagine by now, which houses’ ingredients are the most appealing when this freak ever ran out of them!”

 

“Imperial family and the seven houses?” Zhuo Fan’s eyes widened and suddenly showed a sly grin, “Could it be..”

 

“Hi-hi-hi, Steward Zhuo sure is evil, thinking about plunging the world into chaos.
Though it is the truth nonetheless.
The kid went to Pill King Hall’s fields and picked them clean of any and all herbs raging from 2nd to 7th grade.
He even gobbled those 8th grade ones that took a thousand years to grow! How could Pill King Hall sit still after that? So their elders chased after him.
The kid didn’t use any martial art, but his fists are insanely powerful.
In just a single move, the elders were wiped out completely! I am sure this old geezer here knows the taste of that fist the best, he-he-he…”

 

Violent Demon mocked Li Jingtian.

 

Li Jingtian nodded, breaking out in sweat just thinking about it.

 

In their clash, Gu Santong didn’t even punch, only threw him like nothing and already gave him a deep wound.
If it were a punch instead, his life would’ve been forfeited.

 

[Such outstanding power!]

 

Taking a deep breath, Li Jingtian shuddered from the memory and fear crawled into his heart.

 

This never happened in all his long years as Mad Dipper!

 

Zhuo Fan understood his state of mind and paled as well.
He patted Elder Li’s shoulder in comfort, and spoke with seriousness, “And then?”

 

“Hi-hi-hi, then Pill King Hall requested assistance from Regent Estate and they sent their elders on the kid’s trail, only to suffer the same fate.
All the while Gu Santong was rampant in robbing ingredients everywhere he went, even attacking the warehouses of the seven houses and leaving them with nothing.
Without a choice, the always squabbling seven houses put aside their differences and worked together for the first time.
They issued the worst and most cruel order since the empire’s existence, the Demon Purging Decree…”

 

[Say what?!]

 

Zhuo Fan’s eyes widened in shock.
He recalled how everyone spoke of this Demon Purging Decree as the most gruesome thing in existence.
And the first use was on Gu Santong.
But how was that kid still alive now?

 

[Just what kind of power does he have? How could he fight against an entire nation and only as a damn Profound Heaven expert…]